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

Scotty Con Queso said:

I hate state inspections.  $180 plus labor for rear brake pads to pass.  I told the guy on the phone no thanks and he was PISSED and then hung up on me.  I had to call him back to ask when my car would be ready to pick up again.  $30 for rear pads from the jungle people that will be here tomorrow.  I understand that for some, the money is worth the time, but not me.  

Geesh, sounds like a sucky mechanic.  I took my truck in for inspections (MD requires them when you purchase a used vehicle to reg it) and the rear brakes failed.  The mechanic (who I've used for about a decade) quoted it would be over $500 for him to do the brakes, and I could pick it up and do it myself, and bring it back for retest.  Pads and rotors ended up being about $250 for the DIY job- I got good parts, this was for a 3500 truck I use for towing.  

llysgennad said:

When a picture isn't worth a thousand words but it is worth a few very choice words. 

Is there no one in this world that is capable of doing their berkeleying job? I have damn near $100/hr standing around cooling their jets because your berkeleying people can't listen and take an order correctly. Laminate glass is not the same as plexy you dumb twats. One of them can be used in a door and won't scratch. The other can't. 

Come on people, none of us make money when everyone is either berkeleying up their parts or not listening. I am perfectly capable of berkeleying up my own stuff without the rest of you screwing it up even worse. 

Added rant. You want me to buy from you. I'd love to buy from you. You are local and it saves me on freight costs. You are also regularly 20%-50% higher than everyone else I deal with. Every time I call you for pricing, it takes forever to get. I'm sorry, that just doesn't work for me. I don't have the time to wait, and the prices you charge are higher than the freight costs from out-of-state businesses. 

And...now I have COVID.

And now you have managed to cut the laminate glass the wrong berkeleying size? Seriously. I've pissed away $200 waiting and your berkeleying people can't manage to read a measuring tape? I know workers are hard to find but damn, maybe you should pay a little more and get some quality people. 

Some days I berkeleying hate this industry and I'm really getting tired of the constant race to the bottom. I'm trying to do quality work and everyone else is perfectly happy doing E36 M3 work. It's getting exhausting. 

Toyman! said:

Some days I berkeleying hate this industry and I'm really getting tired of the constant race to the bottom. I'm trying to do quality work and everyone else is perfectly happy doing E36 M3 work. It's getting exhausting. 

It's all construction fields sadly. I somewhat recently lost a little block wall job by a small figure because I was going to actually build a block wall with mortar, niceness and such. The lowest bid literally Liquid Nailed dry stacked blocks together for whatever reason.

It fell apart almost instantly.

I'm actually happy I don't get those jobs though and I am very happy I'm not the cheapest too

"Rich man bad!"

nothing new under the sun. 

Underwood's BBQ in Brownwood TX has this legendary aura around it.  I was in town today and got an $8 sliced brisket sandwich for the road.  Sliced brisket is the Texas BBQ staple for a restaurant. 

This.... was not good. 

No smoke flavor.  No smoke smell outside the restaurant really, either.  It was just a bland roast of some tough meat (cut across the grain at least).  Coated in sauce before it was wrapped and shipped with ~ 6 oz. of extra sauce.  Maybe they have great stuff on the rest of the menu but, for BBQ, don't bother stopping there.

In reply to Crxpilot :

It's always disappointing when a place is no longer what it once was.  

In reply to Crxpilot :

I say that all the time - if you can't smell the BBQ awesomeness driving up I'm not going in. 

Less than 60 miles on the rebuilt front end, wheel bearing on the passengers side front starts roaring. 

berkeleying mazda5. Hopefully it'll hold till after Thanksgiving cause i don't have time to do it before we leave. 

2 weeks out from the craziest athletic event of my life. Had to drop 14 year old son somewhere so figured I'd do my run downtown. 
have to fight rush hour traffic which I never deal with working from home anymore- leave space, move at constant  speed - 

I can see her coming in my rear view and she's not slowing. Check the sides and I'm walled in. Plenty of space to the front so I'm good there. Debate half applying brakes to lesson the blow because holy Berkeley she is moving fast. 
 

I did not halfway apply brakes. I did not resist the urge to tense my back. She did total her new Corolla. My back is sore and the ordeal took two hours and I didn't get to run. 
 

I'm most annoyed that I'm annoyed I didn't get to run because I was in an accident. Who have I become?? Also, sucks to have an accident in Florida in a car you've had payed off for years but still like quite a bit- I know I'm about to get screwed.  

barefootcyborg5000 said:

"Rich man bad!"

 

nothing new under the sun. 

Yeah.  Two threads on this in short order.  Just say you hate someone because of their politics and get it over with.  Or you know, don't say anything at all and move on with your life. 

If thanksgiving is Pumpkin pie season, why does everyone discontinue their pumpkin flavored thing in October? I'm not talking pumpkin SPICE, I'm talking actual pumpkin. No Cow makes a pumpkin pie flavor protein bar. I want it. And they quit making it a month ago because why would I be allowed to have the thing I want in the most appropriate season for it. 

In reply to Mndsm :

I buy my swimming trunks in February. My winter coats in July.  Christmas decorations in September.  None of those things are available when I actually need them.  It's stupid.

I remember walking into a Columbia store (the outdoor company) in January one year and asked where the face coverings and winter hats where located.  The lady at the counter laughed at me.  Long gone. 

I've had my deceased father's phone calls forwarded to mine while the process of settling his estate continues.

Apparently it's open enrollment season for Medicare Advantage plans. 

When quite a fair number of the calls roll in under fraudulent caller IDs, I've got to wonder how much scamming is going on associated with this.

In reply to Karacticus :

All. The answer is All. 

In reply to Karacticus :

It's disappointing, but not surprising, that huge, profitable industries have grown up around simply interfacing with the government's various programs that were originally aimed at supporting individual citizens.

Duke said:

In reply to Karacticus :

It's disappointing, but not surprising, that huge, profitable industries have grown up around simply interfacing with the government's various programs that were originally aimed at supporting individual citizens.

 

Unfortunately it will likely always be that way.  Scammers are a moving target, and most individuals have nowhere near enough time to stay educated on the scams and on the ways the bureaucracy reacts to counter the scams.

Signal to noise when it comes to grassroots motorsports on grassroots motorsports has been getting pretty berkeleying staticky lately.

Should I be annoyed that a bike I bought on eBay over a week ago, after the seller gave a limited time offer, is still stuck at "A UPS label has been created"?

Scotty Con Queso said:

In reply to Mndsm :

I buy my swimming trunks in February. My winter coats in July.  Christmas decorations in September.  None of those things are available when I actually need them.  It's stupid.

I remember walking into a Columbia store (the outdoor company) in January one year and asked where the face coverings and winter hats where located.  The lady at the counter laughed at me.  Long gone. 

ODDLY- I can buy a north pole level columbia jacket in orlando, today. I'm NEVER going to use that. There's also a Ski shop not too far from me. Figure that one out. 

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ said:

Signal to noise when it comes to grassroots motorsports on grassroots motorsports has been getting pretty berkeleying staticky lately.

 I was just at the Space x/Osha thread, pondering the whole wave/particle duality paradox thing and I see what you mean. 

At this point, we know I've lost about 25% of me. That's not the rant. 

I have to replace all of my clothing. THAT'S not the rant. 

THE RANT- I have no berkeleying idea what my size is anymore. I have not tried on clothing in 15 years. I always bought the same size. It always worked. I, like an idiot, assumed all my shirts were were stretched out from being double fat and that's why they looked like tents. I bought a new shirt the other day because I liked it. It's pretty tough for me to find a shirt I like these days- so when I find one I grab it. I bought it in the size I usually do, assuming it would be fine. It's WAY too berkeleying big. I apparently am not that size anymore. This means not only do I have to try on shorts and pants (an activity I loathe) I apparently have try on SHIRTS now too. I might as well just go berkeleying naked. This is dumb.