ttj - Tom Jones

The rubbish collection folk at my new place seem pickier than at other places on Guernsey. Last week, they removed some card packaging that I'd included in the card and paper (plastic) clear bag, and left it on the lane.  This week, they have attached a rejection label entitled "Polite Notice".  Just like modern software-engineered error messages (see attached tag "extremely_general_error_handling"), this does not give a specific reason why the bag was rejected, but instead lists miscellaneous possible "reasons", leaving the victim guessing, or perhaps trying to follow a process of elimination. In this case, some possible reasons, which the label does not claim to be exhaustive ("was most likely because ..."), and of which none apply, are: (i) "did not have the required payment sticker" -- no, I applied to 90 litre sticker; or  (ii) (a) "too heavy" -- no, I estimate it was 3kg, and I easily supported the bag's weight o...

Emirates' web site seemed nice, until after payment, including the SMS challenge, "something went wrong" and "we have a technical problem at the moment", as pictured above.  No tickets resulted.  I don't know if the payment was taken. Note the extremely general error handling.  The customer is not told what went wrong with the payment.  It's a mystery how these planes seem to pootle about full of passengers, when most airline web sites are unable to sell tickets.