Last month I went into my bank a TD Canada Trust. I had a problem, I was getting charged 30 bucks a month in usage fees. I have a student account and that gives me 20 free transactions but apparently I need more and 30 bucks a month was killing me. I didn’t expect the bank to care but I decided to try and I was right initially  no one did care. I was blown away and I was pissed off but I’m not a yeller. I don’t believe in making a huge stink to get my point across. I’m somewhat naive in the sense that I’m a nice person and I’m willing to listen and communicate to solve a problem and I expect the same treatment back.

I decided to take another crack because not all banks could be so cynical right? I went to a different TD and they cared. (see below for some exerts from my eamil)

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I recently read Seth Godin’s blog post on “Be what a loser calls a loser” peep it here.

I didn’t realize it until after I read it but I’ll be dammed that’s what it means to be remarkable. Not just a one shot wonder remarkable but the every day kind of amazing. To take what seems normal and turn it on it’s head and to say and do things that the people around you cringe with embarrassment and shoot out comments like “That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard” and “Dude, seriously you’re being a homo”. When I hear my buddy’s say that I know what I’m doing is bang on.

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“Do you want to dress up and look ridiculous because we’re trapped in the middle of no place and there is a grad going on?”  “Yes, yes I do.”  Before we get into this story lets take it back a bit.

Recently I heard Julien Smith speak at a local social media event. He was the author of a New York Times best seller the book trust agents he also has a blog here.

His most important point in this Pecha-Kucha style presentation was to be or not to be that first domino. Now what’s a domino? It’s the key to well the ‘Domino effect’. That first domino has to take a triumphant leap good or bad it has to do it or rather someone has to do it.

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Yet another amazing Ken Block vid. This thing is totally sick.

The wedding DJ has put on Shania Twain Man I feel like a Woman the duh duh duh begins to come on the sound system. You quickly glance around to see who else’s head has popped up. You judge their line dancing abilities by a quick nod and take the floor with your grade 7 line dancing skills and share in some honest fun with 20 odd shameless strangers. Ahhh Awesome!

Where can you find a list of other truly awesome things? Things that happen some place between every day and every once in awhile that legitimately make you stop and be like “dang… that was great”. Now what makes this list unique is that it isn’t cliché. It’s not winning the lottery…Awesome!, Seeing a hot girl…. ahh Awesome!. No, the website 1000awesomethings.com finds the little things, that make your day just a little more awesome. They’re on number #652 now and counting down to number 1.

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So late last week Canada finally got Google street view in 12 major Canadian cities. Google street view is exactly what it sounds like a view from the street of where you’re going. Unlike most parents who raced to their computers to look at their house on street view The Poutine took a different approach. We looked for images, well found websites that had images of you in embarrassing situations, being sketchy or just telling the Google car your feelings towards it.

Source. Streetviewfun

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