In reply to Rodan :
I posted a detailed ad about a very crusty ATV that hadn't run in years, didn't know if it could run, and I'd opened the engine and never closed it. Lady asks:
"does it run?"
Go away.
In reply to Rodan :
I posted a detailed ad about a very crusty ATV that hadn't run in years, didn't know if it could run, and I'd opened the engine and never closed it. Lady asks:
"does it run?"
Go away.
In reply to P3PPY :
"Do you read?"
A grain truck just went by using the jake brake for no reason with no muffler. You stupid piece of E36 M3. I just had a chat with a Hardeman Co. deputy who it just so happens has a friend who is a TN State Trooper. They are going to show us some love around here. Jake brakes = legal. No muffler = ticket. I hope they get you and write your stupid ass for everything they can think of. Berkeley that E36 M3 pisses me off. Rant over.
Fun coworker that has an awesome, sarcastic edge just became my boss.
need to book a hotel room in munich for work a couple weeks from now, unfortunately all of them are either nonrefundable or you have to cancel 14 days in advance due to oktoberfest, and the work trip is entirely up in the air right now, about 50/50. I could probably get it reimbursed even if it's cancelled, but that would be its own struggle
English language needs a term for your spouse's brother/sister in law. I've tried "brother in law in law" out and only received confused reactions, and "wife's brother in law" is too much of a mouthful and still raises some confusion
NermalSnert (Forum Supporter) said:A grain truck just went by using the jake brake for no reason with no muffler. You stupid piece of E36 M3. I just had a chat with a Hardeman Co. deputy who it just so happens has a friend who is a TN State Trooper. They are going to show us some love around here. Jake brakes = legal. No muffler = ticket. I hope they get you and write your stupid ass for everything they can think of. Berkeley that E36 M3 pisses me off. Rant over.
We've got at least one guy hauling livestock that really likes to do that going by our place around 4:30 AM
In reply to Karacticus :
I have a friend who, one night in his early teans, tied an old upright Hoover to a black ski rope. Put the Hoover by a mail box and then hid across HWY 7 in some bushes. The first car that came by just creamed it. Turns out it was a state trooper 
. He still cracks me up with the story. Anyhoo, back to the truck. Try something like that. Maybe the jackass will flinch enough to roll it 
.
Our dog is very anxiety ridden and scared of a great amount of things, boxes, generator, any sound whatsoever etc. He is a massive dog, 31 inches at the shoulder and over 100lbs, he looks like he has Irish Wolfhound in him, but DNA tests say he has almost 50/50 Poodle and Maremma so he's a big hairy Yeti of a dog.
So when we came in after our walk he hit our fireplace screen and knocked it over, the ensuing freak out from that had him knock down 2 kitchen chairs, leap over his Mastiff mix brother ( code name: War Potato), go thru a 24 pack of DrPepper, leap over the whole couch and land on his face.
I have no idea why he's scared so much, he plays very rough with The War Potato, and the Potato Built For War is about 170lbs, so you'd think it would show him that he's not exactly weak. Last week I was outside and he heard a sound near me outside the fence, so he stood on it to his near 6 ft tall self , stared down whatever he saw ( it was dark) and growled viscously so he's protective at times too.
But berkeley me, fireplace screens are apparently the end of days
NermalSnert (Forum Supporter) said:A grain truck just went by using the jake brake for no reason......
Chevrolet gives you one - I want to go bop, bop, bop, bop on the off ramps.....
In reply to Datsun240ZGuy :
Now add several hundred cubic inches and remove the muffler and you too can do it. All the cool kids are.
In reply to Datsun240ZGuy :
Erm...not quite. Exhaust brakes are typically butterfly valves that choke off the exhaust system. Jakes open the exhaust valve when a cylinder is on the power stroke so that the energy stored on the compression stroke gets wasted out the exhaust system rather than returned to the crank.
I love the sound of a Jake brake, but there's a time and a place. The world is, very unfortunately, full of people who equate consideration with weakness. It's beyond tedious.
I have a cyst on my thyroid in my neck. It's hasn't bothered me for 25 years but my doctor wanted me to have an endocrinologist take a look at it. The endocrinologist did a needle biopsy on it yesterday. Nothing like having someone stab a needle into your neck, poke it around a few times and then repeat the process 4 more times. She said it would probably be sore and may swell. berkeley me running. Maybe it was because of the blood thinners I'm on but the cyst swelled up about 5x it's original size. I iced it all day but that didn't seem to help too much. It felt like someone had punched me in the throat. It hurt to swallow and my entire neck and head hurt all damn day. The only saving grace is that I didn't sleep well on Monday night so I was exhausted last night and slept like a rock. Thankfully today it's about 1/2 the size it grew to and doesn't hurt unless I press on it.
I'm cash-poor right now, so you know what that means, don't you? Automotive bargains are popping up all over the place! Right now I've got access to three great cars for under market value: A Volvo 544, a low-windshield Datsun 1600 convertible, and a one-of-a-kind vintage sports-racer. The gods, they tease!
I'm beyond proud of Little Monohue. He's barely five and he's been reading for half of his life. He's clever, funny, creative, thoughtful, and empathetic. Handsome, even.
But.
But would you please. Just. Stop. Talking.
Put down the Calvin and Hobbes anthology and just finish the got-dang chicken nuggets. Before I die of old age, ideally.
My dad had 6 kids like the Brady Bunch - 3 girls and I have one.
Now I know why he walked to a dudes truck late one evening in his boxer shorts and pulled my oldest sister out.
A customer who happens to be a mechanical engineer (like a vegan, he let me know right away) dropped his quad off for repair a couple days ago.
He had the stator cover off and now he can't get it to stop leaking oil.
He also adjusted the valves and now it's making a tapping noise.
As of 9:00am today, I've received three texts from him about what he thinks might be causing the tapping sound. Everything from piston slap to an ignition module.
I don't have the heart to tell him that I'm going to start by checking the valve lash.
In reply to DarkMonohue :
Remember the part in Jedi where Yoda gets so tired of answering Luke's questions that he just dies?
In reply to ShawnG :
I would tell them immediately.
In reply to Appleseed :
I like handing things back, working perfectly and explaining what I found.
wae said:Gee, sir, I'm sorry that I inconvenienced you by asking relevant questions about the thing for which YOU put out an advertisement.
There are sellers who subscribe to a school of thought that goes something like this: "If they're serious about it, they'll come and look for themselves."
It doesn't matter if you're hours away- if you're serious, you'll come and look at it. Don't waste their time. They don't care that they might get more serious buyers actually showing up if the buyer has all of the information they need.
In the past, when somebody was posting their "1968 Cougar: red/red, lux inter, pwr str, dsk brk, v8" in the classifieds or want ad digest, you know they spent money to put it there and were serious about getting rid of it.
As previously stated, there are also buyers who ask hundreds of questions about everything, even if they're written in the ad. They could live *next door* and they won't show up until they have all of the information they want.
Selling or buying anything is a nightmare these days. I listed my boat for sale a few days ago. I'm dreading the whole process.
Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) said:wae said:Gee, sir, I'm sorry that I inconvenienced you by asking relevant questions about the thing for which YOU put out an advertisement.
There are sellers who subscribe to a school of thought that goes something like this: "If they're serious about it, they'll come and look for themselves."
I decided that my strategy was to first arrange a time to come and look at it. Once that was on the books as it were, I'd then go back to my questions and send them one at a time and see if I could get any answers. So I messaged him thanking him for the video and asking if we could arrange to come up some evening next week. That was 14 hours ago. No response, despite having read it. I'm not too torn up about this, honestly. It's a little too far away to go just to see what one looks like and this one has some appearance issues for sure. Nothing that I couldn't fix, but he's about $2,500 over the jd power "average" value. To get to "average" on the appearance would probably take about $4k and if the tires are aged out, that's another $1k in value that I'd have to figure in if we assume that an average coach would have tires halfway through their lifespan. So if everything else on the coach was 100% perfect, I'd be asking him to take a $7,500 haircut on his asking price before I'd consider it.
The other thing that really surprised me was that as he did his walkaround video, he would open some of the outside compartments and instead of gently lowering them, he'd just let go and let them slam shut. To me, that's a sign of someone who doesn't care about their things and doesn't have the kind of mechanical empathy that a big ole house-box-on-wheels really needs.
Rant 1: I dropped my wife off at the Hospital at 6 am this morning. This was her second trip there this week.
Rant 2: I am expecting to need to go pick her up in about an hour and I just discovered my neighbor is having his roof replace and the roofers have scattered depris and nails all over my driveway. Is it unreasonable to expect some more care in not covering a neighboring driveway with nails? I am now trying to simmer down a a bit before I talk to them about it.
You are going to fine me $36 for parking in your parking garage every time you call me to repair a door at your building? Did I hear that correctly?
Did your company think this all the way through before they made this decision? Have you heard of cause and effect? How do you think that's going to work out for you in the long run?
Let me lay it out for you in the simplest terms.
You are going to hand my guys a $36 parking ticket on the day of the service call. Keep in mind that this is before I invoice this particular service visit.
When I invoice that call, I'm going to double that amount and invoice your company $72. Hell, just for E36 M3s and giggles, I'll triple it just because I really like smart people. So I'll invoice you $108 on every service call I do.
Then, just because working with idiots is so tedious, I'm going to go ahead and raise your hourly rate another $10/hr just for having to deal with stupid E36 M3 like this.
So, what it boils down to, is you charge me $36, and that $36 is going to cost you $128 per call.
Because berkeley you. Did you get your MBA out of the Cracker Jack box?
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