Minor rant thread. Post your rants o' the day here!

Adrian_Thompson said:

NickD said:

I had a 2015 truck come into work two weeks ago for a noise. Rear end was screaming and it turned out the rear pinion seal had been slinging oil for an indeterminate amount of time and the rear axle had 2 or 3 tablespoons of fluid in it, tops. So I order all the parts I'm going to need, every bearing and a ring and pinion. Two weeks later, still no parts. Ask the parts guys when I'm going to see them, as the guy is in one of our dealership rentals and was supposed to be leaving for Florida. Parts guys call GM and tell me it will be another 2-3 weeks before the parts are even manufactured, with everything still being berkeleyed up from the strike. My boss calls the GM zone rep to get approval to throw a whole axle assembly in it instead, then learns that the GM catalog lists a complete rear axle as being "Discontinued". How the berkeley is the axle discontinued when there are still trucks rolling off the assembly line using that very part?!

My guess it got 'discontinued' for the same reason you wanted one.  lack for parts.  I bet if you check when the backlog from the strike is over you'll find it available again.  

No, if it was just from lack of parts, it would be listed as "Backordered" in the system. 

Nail in the side of a six month old tire. Sonofabitch...

slefain said:

Nail in the side of a six month old tire. Sonofabitch...

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Hit it with the ol' Flex Seal

Not sure if I somehow forgot to tighten 3 of the 4 lug bolts on my E30 or if someone really hates me....but when trying to go 40mph around a bend and you start to hophophophophop, it's no longer fun.

Bright side is that one lug nut was somehow tight enough to keep the tire on until I got back home and I just got 5 more in the mail for $9 shipped yesterday evening.

Lets try again tomorrow...

NickD said:

slefain said:

Nail in the side of a six month old tire. Sonofabitch...

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Hit it with the ol' Flex Seal

You joke, but if my Dad's tire store was still open I sure as hell would have dismounted the tire and done a vulcanized patch from the inside. But the shop closed 20 years ago and this is the van my wife drives the kids in, so it gets a new tire. At least it is a $117 tire and not a $300 one.

One of the women in the office here has "BJ" marked on various days on her calendar.  

In reply to volvoclearinghouse :

Pics or it didn't happen 

Dusterbd13-michael said:

In reply to volvoclearinghouse :

Pics or it didn't happen 

I'm...._not_getting caught taking pictures of someone's calendar.  

volvoclearinghouse said:

Dusterbd13-michael said:

In reply to volvoclearinghouse :

Pics or it didn't happen 

I'm...._not_getting caught taking pictures of someone's calendar.  

He just doesn't want us to see that his name is also penciled in on one of those dates.

*long grumbling rant deleted, I don't need to fill a whole page...*

My family and the Dancer's are very different. For the most part mine being the easier to deal with and less stressful to spend time with- but we're also much less... 'close' isn't the right word, 'dependent'? may be better. I talk with my parents once a month or so at most, and only generally more if something really important comes up on either side of things. My brother and I rarely text or talk on the phone- neither of us really like phones, and with the 15 year age gap and my only being around on holidays from when he was old enough to really comprehend anything we've just never been THAT close (ironic at times since we have at least a modest overlap in interests). Contrast with the Dancer who texts with her sister and mom almost daily, and usually talks to her mom at least once a week and whenever anything of the slightest interest happens either there or with her. 

Correspondingly, my family never knows what to get for us and depends on us providing something to help out- for the longest time this has been in the form of my Amazon wishlist. Which I'm now in somewhat hot water about because she thinks that it's too impersonal and we shouldn't just be 'getting each other things we know we're going to get'. Which I get- I love finding the perfect gift for people that is a complete surprise. But, we just don't have that luxury when it comes to my family- we just don't spend enough time around them to be able to really effectively come up with these things, and likewise them with us. And given how many times we've gotten really bizarre things from them (usually my brother's presents to me...) you'd think that them having a solid framework from which to get us presents of things that we know we need/want... but no. :/

In reply to Ashyukun (Robert) :

Sounds exactly like me and my wife, albiet I talk to my family even less.

I just prefer no presents, because then I feel like there's an obligation that I need to use said present.

FuzzWuzzy said:

In reply to Ashyukun (Robert) :

I just prefer no presents, because then I feel like there's an obligation that I need to use said present.

I got one of these from my sister-in-law one year "because I like to work on cars".  Nope. 
 

I have a tight schedule at lunch. Im cruising the news, something I don't do often.

I learn a 7 year old lost his fight with cancer, sports cars lined his funeral procession per his request.

There's a video link, supposed to show this. A lot sad I click the link.

POLITICAL BS FLOWS onto my screen, ...  E36 M40ing   A' E36 M40's

I went from almost teared up to 100% completely pissed off.

In reply to Datsun310Guy :

"I wanna get them something to show that I have an idea of what they like, buuuttt I don't wanna spend more than $10."

That's how we get gifts like this that no one actually likes and uses willingly. It'll get the lifeless. "Thaaannkksssss" and then thrown in to a random spot in the garage or a closet, to only get thrown away/donated a year or two down the road.

Here's a helpful tip:  Anytime a product is marketed as "a great gift idea!", never, ever, ever, ever, ever consider buying it.

"Great gift idea!" Translation: "E36 M3 you'd never buy for, or use, yourself".  

In reply to NickD :

I really want to write "VCH" next to one of them.  

In reply to FuzzWuzzy :

We're moving towards 'no presents' for the adults in our families and just getting them for the kids- but our parents and grandparents (well, hers- all but one of mine are gone, and she's in a care facility in the early stages of alzheimer's...) are always going to insist on getting something for us, so we try and direct it toward useful directions.

We've never felt any real obligation to use things we don't want/need though... at least once a year we have a tag sale fundraiser for The Dancer's non-profit, and anything we get for Christmas that we don't have any use for gets put in the pile and sold at that.

Though just getting presents for the kids does kind of suck since it means WE don't get any benefit beyond enjoying seeing them be happy about them since we don't have any ourselves (yet) and between us we have 8 nieces and nephews to shop for. We do enjoy shopping for them though, and at least a few of them actually seem to appreciate the presents (several are brats and never seem to actually appreciate it).

Dusterbd13-michael said:

We are up to a berkeleying THOUSAND DOLLARS , and thats WITH warrenty parts.... 

Ugh. Sorry to hear that- horrible time of year for it to happen, too.

Ashyukun (Robert) said:

Which I'm now in somewhat hot water about because she thinks that it's too impersonal and we shouldn't just be 'getting each other things we know we're going to get'. 

Remind her that the gifts are not about the buyers, they are about the person getting the gift and what brings them the most happiness. 

The world is a wide and vaired place, and there can be many correct ways of doing something- and they remain correct, even if (you, I, they) don't agree with it.

Presents for adults that may seem lame, but will never go unappreciated in the long term:

• Socks
• Cash
• Checks
• Money Orders
• Certified Checks
• 10mm sockets
• Booze, assuming you know the person well enough to know that they're not on the wagon
• Portable Chargers
• Charging cords, if you know what kind of phone they have
• Gift card to gas stations, assuming they don't own a Tesla
• Good coffee, assuming they're coffee drinkers

In reply to mtn :

I like this game.  I'll add 'Dark Chocolate' to the list.

I have a standing gift to Mrs. VCH every year: 2 bags of coffee, 2 bottles of red wine, and 2 bars of dark chocolate.  It's a guaranteed win.  

mtn said:

Presents for adults that may seem lame, but will never go unappreciated in the long term:

• Socks
• Cash
• Checks
• Money Orders
• Certified Checks
• 10mm sockets
• Booze, assuming you know the person well enough to know that they're not on the wagon
• Portable Chargers
• Charging cords, if you know what kind of phone they have
• Gift card to gas stations, assuming they don't own a Tesla
• Good coffee, assuming they're coffee drinkers

Speedway gift cards can buy you all sorts of stuff, like food, gloves, and roller hot dogs.  (Not qualifiable as food)

Why is there a subset of society that feels like its acceptable to pour out your ultra sugary coffee/soda/any other bodily fluids all over the Kwik-E-Mart parking lot?

Thanks for that, I love that "walking thorough a movie theater" feeling when I'm just trying to get a drink to function at work.

In reply to Tactical Penguin :

It helps get your better 60ft times launching out of the parking stall.

I curbed one of the wheels on the FoRS pulling out from a side street.

Stupid curb was bumped out for ramps and I just kissed it.

I'm really angry at myself about it.

Now I really want to find some smaller diameter wheels to reduce this issue in the future, except they are all stupidly expensive (18" 5x108 PCD wheels don't exactly grow on trees).

Sigh....