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

Spearfishin said:

Sarah Young said:

If you're borrowing someone's car, don't mess with the preset radio stations.

I'll go a step further: if you're close enough to my size to fit and/or reach the pedals, if you're not going far, don't mess with the seat!

Coworker took my work truck 500ft and back and somehow felt it necessary to adjust both the slider and the recline. We're within 2 inches of each other, height-wise. 

This is one reason I would be happy if we do end up getting The Dancer a new truck- most of them these days have preset seat adjustments so we could hit a button and pretty much everything except the rear view mirror (and likely the steering wheel, don't think that's power-adjusted yet...) would go to where we each need it.

Though ironically (given the nearly foot in height difference between us...) the only adjustment we need to make to the seat is that I need it reclined a fair bit more than she does- otherwise the driver's seat can stay in the same spot. It's weird- you'd think that with as much shorter as she is that I'd have to slide the seat seat backward... but nope, just need to recline the seat back. 

If you go to a gas station that's regularly packed and park at the pump to go shopping for 20 minutes, I hope you get an impossible to find leak in your tires in perpetuity.

Am I just blind, or is there not going to be a GRM New Years exchange/game this year? I've looked everywhere and not seen a thread on it and it's usually been up for a week or two at this point. Not that I really need yet another thing to be worrying about getting done, but at least that's something fun to be doing.

iansane said:

If you go to a gas station that's regularly packed and park at the pump to go shopping for 20 minutes, I hope you get an impossible to find leak in your tires in perpetuity.

AKA the Buckee's model.  berkeley that place.  They opened a monster one somewhere between Florida and VA, and I figured, "Sure, used these in TX, it's fine" while driving my FD home.  10 minute traffic jam to get off the highway and into the pump queue, which was full of the people you described.  No problem, I'll park in the back of the lot and go in and buy my 2stroke oil to premix, surely a pump will have cleared by then.  Inside is the loudest walmart equivalent I have ever seen.  I walked the whole store, twice, looking for oil before stopping an employee, "Oh, we don't sell oil"....."You are a gas station, right?".....back outside, now furious.  Another 10 minute traffic jam to get back to the highway, where three exits later I found a Mobil with 2-stroke and no wait, and a Burger King right next to it for lunch.  Not that I'm still bitter about it or anything :P

In reply to Flynlow :

In a pinch, the Burger King could probably also have supplied some of whatever they use as passable two-stroke oil. I mean, you've seen the blue smoke rolling out of those places in the morning, right?

Ashyukun (Robert) said:

In reply to wae :

Some friends who stayed at our cabin one time were shocked that we didn't (at the time, another friend ended up leaving a bag of it there) have coffee there for the guests (though there is a coffee maker), but we were like, "We don't drink it, and figure that anyone who does and needs it that badly would think to bring their own with them."

Flynlow said:

iansane said:

If you go to a gas station that's regularly packed and park at the pump to go shopping for 20 minutes, I hope you get an impossible to find leak in your tires in perpetuity.

AKA the Buckee's model.  berkeley that place.  They opened a monster one somewhere between Florida and VA, and I figured, "Sure, used these in TX, it's fine" while driving my FD home.  10 minute traffic jam to get off the highway and into the pump queue, which was full of the people you described.  No problem, I'll park in the back of the lot and go in and buy my 2stroke oil to premix, surely a pump will have cleared by then.  Inside is the loudest walmart equivalent I have ever seen.  I walked the whole store, twice, looking for oil before stopping an employee, "Oh, we don't sell oil"....."You are a gas station, right?".....back outside, now furious.  Another 10 minute traffic jam to get back to the highway, where three exits later I found a Mobil with 2-stroke and no wait, and a Burger King right next to it for lunch.  Not that I'm still bitter about it or anything :P

I can't imagine going to Buckee's for anything. I do not understand willingly subjecting yourself to that kind of commercialism. The only advantage to them would be the gas stations around them will be less crowded. 

To Brett_Murphy, Spearfishin, Appleseed, danO, and anyone else I might have missed.

I use a Wahl cordless trimmer with a No-2 attachment on both my head and beard so I have no personal need for conditioner.

SWMBO on the other hand sports an impressive mane that requires considerable maintenance...basically, we've got a Miata & Biturbo sharing a garage.

DarkMonohue said:

In reply to Flynlow :

In a pinch, the Burger King could probably also have supplied some of whatever they use as passable two-stroke oil. I mean, you've seen the blue smoke rolling out of those places in the morning, right?

For sure.  Dammit, now i'm hungry and have to find a BK for lunch! ;)

RX Reven' said:

To Brett_Murphy, Spearfishin, Appleseed, danO, and anyone else I might have missed.

I use a Wahl cordless trimmer with a No-2 attachment on both my head and beard so I have no personal need for conditioner.

SWMBO on the other hand sports an impressive mane that requires considerable maintenance...basically, we've got a Miata & Biturbo sharing a garage.

 

I've got a Wahl cordless that gets used sans guard on the gourd. 

this year wants to end with a middle finger. Covid in October, cold in November, and now a root canal.

Warner Brothers (WBN) is up 13% today on news that they're splitting into two business units.

Fun fact...two weeks ago I played a round of Foosball using the table from FRIENDS....shoulda', woulda', coulda' made better use of the time buying me some WBN.

BTW, the table was ostensibly destroyed in the last episode (S-10, E-18) but it was a double to preserve the original set.

I'm dealing with my father and getting him signed for medicare/social security. He's 70 and too much of a clod to do it himself. He was working full time and doing well but had a stroke. Totally took out his right side.

I need a form filled out by his now previous employer. They said they needed a doctor's note before they could terminate him. A doctor's note for a stroke? I understand procedure and such but come on...

My last week of work could have been an easy cruise... but NO.

Ashyukun (Robert) said:

Spearfishin said:

Sarah Young said:

If you're borrowing someone's car, don't mess with the preset radio stations.

I'll go a step further: if you're close enough to my size to fit and/or reach the pedals, if you're not going far, don't mess with the seat!

Coworker took my work truck 500ft and back and somehow felt it necessary to adjust both the slider and the recline. We're within 2 inches of each other, height-wise. 

This is one reason I would be happy if we do end up getting The Dancer a new truck- most of them these days have preset seat adjustments so we could hit a button and pretty much everything except the rear view mirror (and likely the steering wheel, don't think that's power-adjusted yet...) would go to where we each need it.

Though ironically (given the nearly foot in height difference between us...) the only adjustment we need to make to the seat is that I need it reclined a fair bit more than she does- otherwise the driver's seat can stay in the same spot. It's weird- you'd think that with as much shorter as she is that I'd have to slide the seat seat backward... but nope, just need to recline the seat back. 

When the potato fairy borrowed my Volvo (she is decidedly more than a foot shorter than me; we describe the opposite ends of the height bell curve) she made a comment about me being upset about her moving the seat and mirrors.

I proceeded to move everything around a lot at random, smiled, and then hit the memory button and everything moved back to my preset.

Sometimes, modern tech is great.

FedEx, not only were you a day late, but when you delivered the package you were late on, you left it in the snow, instead of going the extra 8 inches to the clean and clear doormat.  Top shelf effort all around.  

Why do people spend so much time videoing a live show vs just enjoying it?  We are on vacation, and have been at a lot of show- every one, people are videoing the show as if watching it again is just like seeing it live. These shows are done more than once- see it more than once. 
 

The worse part is the morons who don't know the light is on, which we are told many times to not do that for the safety of the performers. They are doing a hard act that is dangerous already. 

In reply to alfadriver :

I get frustrated with people taking pictures of everything at a tourist destination. There are better pictures of this online in 1,000 places. 
 

Be Michelob man instead. 

In reply to mtn :

The Michelob man is the one who will need the pictures. He's drunk by the 3rd hole. 

In reply to Toyman! :

Some would say that it might be the best way to spectate at a golf game...

Trying to get registered for classes. I'm reminded why I have always breathed such a huge sigh of relief after each semester I've completed. I had an appointment scheduled for today for academic advising. I signed up for email AND text reminders, and they were to send me a link for zoom because there are no in-person appointments anymore. Here we are, two hours past the scheduled appt, and crickets. Nothing. Can't get anyone on the phone. Stuck at work so I can't get over there in person to actually make a human actually talk to me. 
 

spring semester starts in a few weeks and so far I can't really make any progress. 

In reply to barefootcyborg5000 :

I'll trade you advisors.  Mine is constantly trying to get me to set up meetings with her.  I've been ignoring her since the first time.  I finally made an appointment and she kicked it off with asking me what I wanted to talk about and didn't seem to understand at all when I replied that I didn't want to talk about anything - she had been hounding me for a month to set up a meeting!

In reply to wae :

Classic sales fail - always have something new to discuss or a valid reason to be there.  Even if are digging up an old/new product to be excited about.   

Can't sell the steak? Sell the sizzle.

All the commercial buildings I can afford are in neighborhoods I might not survive in.

I live on a dirt road and while it is maintained by the county, it's actually " maintained" by the county. 

The road finally got graded but before then well...... remember The Tank Trap? Not so bad but nearly as unpassable. Literally pot holes over a foot deep in clusters of hundreds all over the road. I was crawling along at idle or lower the whole 5 ish miles.

So guess who just replaced yet another upper ball joint? This guy! Last one was just under a year ago.

The silver lining is it came out pretty easy since it's been barely in there very long.