Recon1342 said:In reply to EvanB :
A knife isn’t really yours until it makes you bleed...
Replace knife with Chevy and it's still true.
Recon1342 said:In reply to EvanB :
A knife isn’t really yours until it makes you bleed...
Replace knife with Chevy and it's still true.
In reply to Appleseed :
Huh. Sure is...
In reply to Knurled. :
Build it and then donate the engine to me, I'll put it in my XR7.
Just because the town makes sure to overlight it's streets to the point where you cannot see your headlights does not mean you need to drive around using your high beams, especially when you are in a large pickup with LED headlights and are right behind me in my little car.
My eyes are trending towards gray at the moment and bright lights really hurt them.
It's only "unusually high call volume" when it doesn't happen every day.
I've never been charged a convenience fee to use a payment system that was actually good enough to be considered convenient. "I plugged my turd into a phone jack! Gimme eff'n money!"
I responded to a call today and the driver was born on 1990. It took a minute to accept that this is correct and that were not hiring 10 year olds.
Wally said:I responded to a call today and the driver was born on 1990. It took a minute to accept that this is correct and that were not hiring 10 year olds.
Wally, I was born in 1990. I've been posting on this board since 2006 or 2007.
21 days from now I will turn 30.
A 21 year old now drinking alcohol legally probably doesn't remember 9/11.
Wally said:I responded to a call today and the driver was born on 1990. It took a minute to accept that this is correct and that were not hiring 10 year olds.
Jonathan Coulton, "Good Morning Tuscon," said it best: "and I am still sort of amazed that you can be born in the nineties."
Gdit all.
Make a few comments stating that something MIGHT happen and it's taken as gospel. I hate people. Read what I write not act on it without asking. Grrrrr....
Have a customer with a Civic who had one of those stock-caliper big-rotor kits and it got deconverted because the rotors were so worn out that the grooves were gone. Sweet, free 4x100 rotor hats! So I grabbed them from the scrap bin and zipped the bolts out.
Something seemed "off"... have never seen ferrous rotor hats before.
Let's look a little closer...
Yep, it is a one piece rotor with eight Allen headed screws in it for looks.
The bolt circle is 8 by 6 16/17ths, almost but not quite 8x7 like real two piece rotors use, so I may not even be able to use the lathe to turn them into hats.
I mean, I'm gonna try, mind you...
Dear FLAPS.
If you aren't going to even try to stock the little parts because there are too many of them, I'm going to leave the expensive parts on your counter and go somewhere that at least makes the effort.
There's something on TV right now called The Weapon Hunter. They're rebuilding a WW2 era flame thrower. They needed to test the tanks to 700psi. They accomplished this by installing a gauge on the tank then slowly raising the pressure all while standing with their faces practically touching the tanks. Dramatic music played. I changed channels.
In reply to Wayslow :
That's spectacularly stupid. The local dive shop or gas supplier could have done that for them with zero danger. DFTV at its best. (Dumb F'ing TV)
In my current car search, I'm 2 for 2 on used late-model Mazda3 hatchbacks, with clean Carfaxes, in my price range...that have been owned by smokers. That and other issues over the last two days are reminding me why I tend to either buy cars new, or near fully depreciated.
In reply to eastsideTim :
Helping teen daughter find a small used car. Lady has a Civic on CL and tree air freshener hanging. I email asking details. You a smoker? She says yes and how would I know that she questions?
Sorry - kid has allergies.
In reply to Datsun310Guy :
Yeah, I kind of wish there was a "non-smoker" search on Autotrader, but I'm sure the dealers would game it. Even after they are cleaned up by the dealers, I can still smell the smoke pretty easily, although the second one hadn't been prepped yet, and as soon as I opened the door, the wave of stench hit me. I don't have asthma or allergies, but I do have a very strong sense of smell.
Trying to find a job in a completely new field while waiting to see if I need another back surgery is driving me insane. I'm about too apply to McDonald's just to hve something to do.
Cleaning surplus computer equipment off the shelves and selling online, so I'm going though multiple iterations of "is it still for sale" to "I'll buy it" to ghosted.
got to watch one of my co-workers do a complete panic melt down tonight. We had Bert Kreischer in our venue tonight. As the deck electrician on duty, I sit on stage in case of issues and then start the clean up afterwards. While I was on stage striking the up lights and all the associated wiring, I kept wondering where my co-worker and the one casual we had in were. I actually finished cleaning up, and put everything away before they showed.. pushing a big cart with all the decorative lights we had out front in the "prefunction" area.
I set those lights up on Dec 20 for the annual employee christmas party and we were going to leave them up till New Years. Somehow, in the last week, my co-worker never got the message. It's not a big deal, our boss was not going to find out and I was probably going to get a little creative anyway. So, 10 minutes before our shift is due to end, he and the casual go running out to put them back. I tried yelling to and at him to stop, saying I would take care of it tomorrow, but it was to no avail. My other co-worker and I looked at each other and went "nope" and got out of dodge.
The panicked one is like this, he is so afraid of getting yelled at, he makes more work trying not to attract attention to himself. When it all falls down, he goes utterly blind with panic and there is no reasoning with him. I feel bad for the casual
As a shift worker, I swear to the FSM that the next feckless idiot that rings my doorbell repeatedly while I'm sleeping will be met with extreme violence.
After getting 3 hours of sleep before shift on Friday night, I was pretty much a zombie when I got home Saturday morning. I immediately went to bed when I got home around 0800 and fell asleep before my head hit the pillow. At 1220, said feckless idiot rang my doorbell 5 berkeleying times and knocked 4 times before leaving. By the time I hauled my dead-to-the-world self out of bed, all that was left was a sales card stuck in my door jamb for a local company selling concrete driveway sealing. It took me 2 hours to fall back asleep before my alarm went off at 1645.
How many berkeleying times do you really need to ring someone's doorbell? I had a Sheriff deputy wake me up one day responding to a 911 call hangup and he only rang the doorbell and knocked twice. Dispatch had given him the wrong address but he was apologetic at least.
Future solicitors will be met at the door by me wearing only a berkeley off face and carrying my Remington 870.
In reply to stanger_missle :
I think a "no soliciting - this means you. Shift worker." Sign would be more effective than the Remington. The Remington only keeps people from coming back.
eastsideTim said:In reply to Datsun310Guy :
Yeah, I kind of wish there was a "non-smoker" search on Autotrader, but I'm sure the dealers would game it. Even after they are cleaned up by the dealers, I can still smell the smoke pretty easily, although the second one hadn't been prepped yet, and as soon as I opened the door, the wave of stench hit me. I don't have asthma or allergies, but I do have a very strong sense of smell.
I feel your pain, if I open a car door and ANY whiff hits me I just shut the door. I don't try to explain or anything, I just walk away. If they find out the smoke smell is what killed the deal they will try to game it to sell you a car anyway. Looked at a new car for Pyro and the plastic outgassing was so strong it made me ill.
We were shopping and this guy reeked so bad you could smell which isles he had walked down. Headed to a different part of the store then smelled him before I saw him there.
Had a dream last night where I had a panic attack.
I can't even remember what happened in the dream, now, that caused it.
dculberson said:In reply to stanger_missle :
I think a "no soliciting - this means you. Shift worker." Sign would be more effective than the Remington. The Remington only keeps people from coming back.
That assumes a certain level of literacy on the side of the solicitor, though.
Started networking too look for a job last week, all 3 recruiters that have emailed or called me want me for an automotive tech position. The job my back surgeon says I should no longer be doing.
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