Bluetooth supposedly connected my "Beats Audio" ear bugs/my Bose AE 2 headphones! NOT = ! = WTH

Bluetooth supposedly connected my "Beats Audio" ear bugs/my "Bose AE-2 Soundlink" headphones! NOT happening, I have to connect via System-->Bluetooth, it may take more than two (2), I say again, 2 attempts. 
Unsatisfactory, link to laptop should have occurred w/o my having to do it, via the System menu!

I have had both of my Bluetooth 'items' connect before (devices are found & listed), now I don't trust the system to connect... Is this the 21st century, or what the $#@* is the matter?!!

Whose testing this 'SNAP'?!!