Self checkout is not rocket science. And your team of whiny children wandering around the vicinity of your bewildered ass is REALLY in everyone elses way.
Self checkout is not rocket science. And your team of whiny children wandering around the vicinity of your bewildered ass is REALLY in everyone elses way.
To the young lady in the blue Tiburon:
OK, I've got a full size truck and you didn't see me doing 50 mph when you pulled out in front of me.
I didn't make black lines in the road, but my coffee is no longer in the cup.
You pointed the rear view mirror at your face so you could adjust your {eyes - hair - lips} couldn't tell, but your speed control was erratic, without the mirror you wouldn't know how close I was.
Get to the 4 way stop and you hold 5 ft. short so you can finish you hair. I was patient when three cars wen through, but your turn came and went, I tooted the horn.
Yes, nice smile, DRIVE THE CAR!
At the next light three miles up, you went straight, I turned left. A car coming from the opposite direction was turning left.
You almost made it through the intersection, I turned left; THEN you decide you really want to go left!
Thank you for not planking into the side of my truck.
Cutting through a gas station to skip the red light is illegal, I hope your focus and driving skills improve with age.
I doubt it ....
Cheap aftermarket wheels with 8/10 holes for 4/5 lug cars.
Just looks cheap. And silly.
I understand it's cheaper to make them that way. I also believe putting 8 holes on a 100mm or so diameter makes for a really weak wheel center.
If you must buy cheap wheels with too many lug holes, at least get ones with lug covers, so we don't have to see how cheap you are.
Why do people decide to ALL come for service one hour before we close?
We did next to nothing all day, we close at 4, and 3pm rolls around and we have six damn tickets!
it's ALWAYS either right before we close or between 11 and 1 or 2 pm.
So we either can't clean up at the end of the day or we can't eat lunch..
Yes, of course I'm going to say something when you sneak 40 items ( I counted and so did the guy in front of me) in to the 20 or less lane at the supermarket.
Was your husband mad cuz I was mean-mugging him? I hope he was.. I like to waste my 30 min lunch break waiting in line behind you while my hot pockets de-frost in my hand.
corytate wrote: Why do people decide to ALL come for service one hour before we close? We did next to nothing all day, we close at 4, and 3pm rolls around and we have six damn tickets! it's ALWAYS either right before we close or between 11 and 1 or 2 pm. So we either can't clean up at the end of the day or we can't eat lunch..
Start telling people you close at 1:00 pm. 
corytate wrote: Why do people decide to ALL come for service one hour before we close? We did next to nothing all day, we close at 4, and 3pm rolls around and we have six damn tickets! it's ALWAYS either right before we close or between 11 and 1 or 2 pm. So we either can't clean up at the end of the day or we can't eat lunch..
Love it when some moth breather shows up at 5:55 PM (we close at 6) and they are pissed because we say 'it'll be tomorrow'. Hey, we have families, PTA, porn etc too.
If your kids are throwing rocks into the stands at a football game - you can't be pissed at me for throwing them back. It's not my fault your 10 yr old can't throw as hard or well as I can. Maybe you should be beating the E36 M3 out of him instead of yelling at me. Because I still have a few rocks left.
Dear roadside assistance service:
I have you as a last resort, and when I need to use you, especially since I'm paying for the "plus" service, I kinda need you to get things right the first time.
So when I specify that my car is stuck in gear and has no power, and I need a wheel lift, I expect you to send me the correct equipment. I even understand the first screwup, but four screwups is a bit much.
Then when you have the audacity to suggest that I'm just being difficult, and they all could've loaded my car up with "skates". I get hostile, because both of the flatbed trucks I turned away and both the ones I called (since you only sent the text with the tow companies info 2 outta 4 times) all said they didn't have skates, and my car would be drug onto the bed and back off the rollback at my buddy's shop.
Furthermore, when you tell me that I can pay for the service out of pocket and use whomever I like, and can pay you an extra 25 dollars to submit a claim for possible reimbursement, and that even if I'm awarded my claim, I still don't get my 25 dollar claim fee, I'm more than a little miffed.
Sorry it took me threatening to spend all day today calling and making your life a living hell to get you to send the service providers you sent Saturday morning to tow my car.
In reply to EvanR:
This, especially when you're trying to work from 4x114mm/4.5" bolt spacing. Lots of cheap-ass Hahnda reems with multiple bolt pattern configurations out there.
Why the hell do you post Craigslist ads if you are never going to respond to the damn thing?!?!?! I have emailed people's who didn't post phone numbers within a day sometimes hours of it being posted and nothing. Jesus. 
Stupid selfish people.
My sister is in Belgium baking bread. When she got the job, she and her ex agreed that their 3 year old daughter would spend the middle month of the three month stay in Belgium with my sister. They applied for the passport together as state law says they have to because they're both on the birth certificate. After she leaves he decides it's too much trouble. She forces a court hearing. The court says he needs to keep his promise, draft up a paper and sign it and then take her. He gets the paper, waits the legal maximum of time to respond, responds that he doesn't like the agreement. Need to force another court date which will take another 3-4 weeks if they're lucky. Then he can wait the legal maximum time again by which point the three months will be over. Now my sister has to fly back from Belgium to spend a weekend with her daughter because he's a lying lazy ass.
Oh, and he's not working and is on food stamps because he wants to make sure that he's making less than my sister is so he can file for child support from her. I hate that guy.
Curmudgeon wrote:corytate wrote: Why do people decide to ALL come for service one hour before we close? We did next to nothing all day, we close at 4, and 3pm rolls around and we have six damn tickets! it's ALWAYS either right before we close or between 11 and 1 or 2 pm. So we either can't clean up at the end of the day or we can't eat lunch..Love it when some moth breather shows up at 5:55 PM (we close at 6) and they are pissed because we say 'it'll be tomorrow'. Hey, we have families, PTA, porn etc too.
exactly!
same deal today. we were dead til 5.
5 o clock rolls around and there are 6 cars in the lane, and only myself and my buddy mike working.
One of the writers (who is an idiot) writes up a ticket with 1.5 hrs of labor, 45 minutes before we close. There are three cars in line in front of this guy.
idk how his maths are working, but at average 20 minutes per car, we're already past six pm not counting the damn 1.5 hrs he just added.
I cannot wait to start my new position there so I don;t have to deal with this BS
on the plus side I got approved for $10k from Cornwell @ the best interst rate they offer (7% better than my snap on acct) with payments of only 1% of balance/week. Yay! more tools! 
I wasted 4 hours of my precious Saturday last weekend. I took my van to Midas - even has an appointment that I made last week. The tailpipe and muffler were no longer connected. I looked under there and neither was all that rusted out. I dropped it off with the specific question asking if they could repair what was there. The van is customized with a 6" lowered floor and a wheelchair lift under the vehicle so the exhaust is not made up of factory Ford pieces. After 4 hours the van is ready. The guy says it could not be welded because too much rust. They don't have either the muffler of the tailpipe and it is too late to get it on a Saturday. Guy says, I should've brought it in earlier in the day. I reminded me that it was his idea I bring it in at 1:00.
I told him I made the appointment and had the car there the previous Saturday - they certainly could've taken a look last week and had the parts this week. The guy removed the tailpipe so it would not rattle anymore. Now instead of 30% of my exhaust exiting under my son in his wheelchair, all of it does. Thanks guys. I wasted most of my day and got nothing but my tailpipe cut off. The only good news is that I did not end up having to pay a dime for them taking 4 hours this weekend and an hour the weekend before just to make my car worse, not fix my problem, and waster my time.
All the good exhaust shops around here are closed on Saturdays. 50+ hour work weeks make ever getting to one of them difficult.
The following is abridged but is 100% true. It happened this afternoon about 5:15 PM EDT.
Phone rings. Curmudgeon answers '_______service, Curmudgeon speaking, how may I help you?'.
Other end: 'I can't get in my car!'.
C: 'What kind of car, and what's it doing?'.
OE: '2007 ____, I keep pushing the buttons but it won't unlock!'.
C: 'So you can't get in your car because it won't unlock?'.
OE (obviously pissed at 'trained to repeat as active listener' dumbass on the other end): 'That's right! I push the button on my key and it won't unlock! I'm going to be late for work! What are you going to do about it?'.
C: 'Does your key have a metal blade on it?'.
OE: 'A metal plate? What the hell are you talking about?'.
C: 'Not a plate. A metal blade sticking out of the end, it's the piece you put in the ignition switch so you can turn it.'.
OE: '(unintelligible mumbling), then, 'Yes! So what?'.
C: 'Can you see the driver's door handle?'.
OE: 'Yes! What's this got to do with anything?'.
C: 'Do you see a small round hole with a slot in the end of the door handle?'.
OE: (more unintelligible mumbling) 'Yes! What is this all about?'.
C: 'Stick the metal 'blade' of your key in that slot, please.'.
OE: (more unintelligible mumbling) then 'It went in. Now what!?!'.
C: 'Please turn the key to your right'.
OE: 'What the f... uh, it's unlocked.'.
C: 'Now you can get to work. Please bring your car in at the earliest opportunity so we can check that key for you.'.
OE: '..........'
Jesus jumped up Christ in a sidecar with ketchup. I cannot WAIT for Skynet to take us all out. We friggin' DESERVE it.
In reply to Curmudgeon:
The worst part: I believe this 100%
I've spent over 20 hours at this point trying to sort out phone issues with Sprint. I've been hung up on, fed huge lines of bullE36 M3, been told i'd get supervisor callbacks from people who never call, etc etc etc...
Today was icing on the cake.
Sprint won't replace my phone, they say it's Samsung's problem. Samsung won't replace my phone, they say it's Sprint's problem.
WHAT THE berkeleyING berkeley I JUST WANT A berkeleyING WORKING PHONE THAT I'M PAYING $150/MONTH FOR YOU berkeleyING berkeleyS.
92CelicaHalfTrac wrote: I've spent over 20 hours at this point trying to sort out phone issues with Sprint. I've been hung up on, fed huge lines of bullE36 M3, been told i'd get supervisor callbacks from people who never call, etc etc etc... Today was icing on the cake. Sprint won't replace my phone, they say it's Samsung's problem. Samsung won't replace my phone, they say it's Sprint's problem. WHAT THE berkeleyING berkeley I JUST WANT A berkeleyING WORKING PHONE THAT I'M PAYING $150/MONTH FOR YOU berkeleyING berkeleyS.
You need to find yourself a ghetto goblin to go up to the store with you.
"Aw hell no! You tellin me my man aint gon get a phone he paying you people good money fo! what kinda E36 M3 is that! awww hell naw! ima give you bout five motha berkeleyin seconds to give my boo his phone fore i put hits out on all yall honky mah fahs!"
lol.
Curmudgeon wrote: The following is abridged but is 100% true. It happened this afternoon about 5:15 PM EDT. Phone rings. Curmudgeon answers '_____________service, Curmudgeon speaking, how may I help you?'. Other end: 'I can't get in my car!'. C: 'What kind of car, and what's it doing?'. OE: '2007 ____, I keep pushing the buttons but it won't unlock!'. C: 'So you can't get in your car because it won't unlock?'. OE (obviously pissed at 'trained to repeat as active listener' dumbass on the other end): 'That's right! I push the button on my key and it won't unlock! I'm going to be late for work! What are you going to do about it?'. C: 'Does your key have a metal blade on it?'. OE: 'A metal plate? What the hell are you talking about?'. C: 'Not a plate. A metal blade sticking out of the end, it's the piece you put in the ignition switch so you can turn it.'. OE: '(unintelligible mumbling), then, 'Yes! So what?'. C: 'Can you see the driver's door handle?'. OE: 'Yes! What's this got to do with anything?'. C: 'Do you see a small round hole with a slot in the end of the door handle?'. OE: (more unintelligible mumbling) 'Yes! What is this all about?'. C: 'Stick the metal 'blade' of your key in that slot, please.'. OE: (more unintelligible mumbling) then 'It went in. Now what!?!'. C: 'Please turn the key to your right'. OE: 'What the f... uh, it's unlocked.'. C: 'Now you can get to work. Please bring your car in at the earliest opportunity so we can check that key for you.'. OE: '..........' Jesus jumped up Christ in a sidecar with ketchup. I cannot WAIT for Skynet to take us all out. We friggin' DESERVE it.
that is so awesome.
I've seen a ticket for a 12 altima (push button start, no mechanical key switch whatsoever) with customer complaint: "loose ignition switch"
The guy working on it put "no ignition switch", put some cloth tape under the edge of the push button trim ring to hold it in place better, and sent it out. lmao
In reply to Curmudgeon:
I literally LOL'd!
I'm convinced that Chevy's are made of shattered glass, razors, and broken dreams.
I went to help a buddy replace a clutch on a 95 S-10 4x4. Never-berkeleying-buy-one. Ever! It took us 4 hours to remove 3 bell housing bolts. 4 hours. Thanks god I'm skinny. There's no way he'd have gotten his ham hocks in there.
My hands are bleeding.
This has happened on every Chevy I've ever worked on.
In reply to Appleseed:
Heater core on a late 90's blazer.
If you don't know, wait until you have to do one.
Really freaking sick of messed up alignment on my Mazda2. It's only a few degrees off, and nobody else seems to think it's an issue, but not being able to hold the wheel straight gets pretty old on longer drives.
Don't borrow my car and leave it beyond empty please.
I don't like going 8am-8pm with no lunch break let alone time for dinner. 8-11 was class, 11-3 work, 3-6 lab, 6-8 exams. Yay. Remind me again why I am in engineering even though I hate the math and theory and would rather stick with practical applications.
Its cold. Below freezing when I had to leave for class Monday morning and I think my window leaks.
Stay off the bike path. And don't bike at walk pace.
fritzsch wrote: I don't like going 8am-8pm with no lunch break let alone time for dinner. 8-11 was class, 11-3 work, 3-6 lab, 6-8 exams. Yay. Remind me again why I am in engineering even though I hate the math and theory and would rather stick with practical applications.
Engineering (in my mind) barely makes sense to do for 4-5 years in Canada. If I had to pay $100k in tuition total? berkeley no!
I like working hard. I like things that are interesting. A schooling program that is designed to make you miserable and fail makes no sense to me. Every once in a while I get this idea about going back to school to be an engineer, and then it dawns on me I like earning money and racing and doing whatever the hell I want versus missing 4 years of income and hating my life.
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