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Just found out that the issue we sent the car in for this morning and expected to pay a few hundred dollars to have fixed is going to cost us a few hundred dollars, but when they looked at it, they found like fifty other things wrong that'll keep it from passing inspection and will cost approximately $3000 to deal with. Life is hosed.
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tell them no thank you to the other stuff and off you go
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Dec 21, 2015 20:05
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Allen Wren posted:Just found out that the issue we sent the car in for this morning and expected to pay a few hundred dollars to have fixed is going to cost us a few hundred dollars, but when they looked at it, they found like fifty other things wrong that'll keep it from passing inspection and will cost approximately $3000 to deal with. Life is hosed. At that point, if you've finished paying on it you might as well start saving up for a new used one instead of biting the bullet on that. That sucks. Def never pay more than the blue book for a car in repairs on a car.
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Kashuno posted:tell them no thank you to the other stuff and off you go That's what we're doing, but it does make the 340-mile drive we're planning on in the next few days seem especially risky. And also the fact that some of these things are things that may just make the car take five shits and die at any moment, such as the degrading serpentine belt... Authorman posted:At that point, if you've finished paying on it you might as well start saving up for a new used one instead of biting the bullet on that. That sucks. Def never pay more than the blue book for a car in repairs on a car. We got it cash on the barrelhead used like three years ago, so that's not an issue, but our cash situation is pretty explosively lovely. (Which is why my Mafia Secret Santa gift is probably going to be late. It is nearly entirely assembled, but...ugh.) hexwren fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Dec 21, 2015 |
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Allen Wren posted:Just found out that the issue we sent the car in for this morning and expected to pay a few hundred dollars to have fixed is going to cost us a few hundred dollars, but when they looked at it, they found like fifty other things wrong that'll keep it from passing inspection and will cost approximately $3000 to deal with. Life is hosed. Awful mechanics do this all the time. You need to find a non-awful mechanic, friend. I recently had a friend who had to bring a mechanic to small claims court because they, according to the other mechanic, literally twisted off an essential pin in a part of the car so they could force my friend to pay for the expensive repair of that. In addition, dude was using plastic zipties in an engine lmao. A lot of them are crooks and its possible that those things aren't actually wrong, that they are now that hes seen your car, or that they really are wrong and you need to get them fixed. Good luck, friend.
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Dec 21, 2015 20:12
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BabeLiker90 posted:Awful mechanics do this all the time. You need to find a non-awful mechanic, friend. I recently had a friend who had to bring a mechanic to small claims court because they, according to the other mechanic, literally twisted off an essential pin in a part of the car so they could force my friend to pay for the expensive repair of that. In addition, dude was using plastic zipties in an engine lmao. A lot of them are crooks and its possible that those things aren't actually wrong, that they are now that hes seen your car, or that they really are wrong and you need to get them fixed. Good luck, friend. This is our first time with this mechanic, because we moved some time ago and got tired of driving across town to our usual joint, and the reviews and word of mouth from people we trust were really good. We may need to get back to the usual joint.
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Dec 21, 2015 20:18
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a small little man with an adidas sports jacket over his shirt and tie told me today that job stands for "journey of bankruptcy" as he tried to add me on facebook on his cracked screen phone luckily he wasn't able to add me so i just gave him the name of front man of sonic youth
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Dec 21, 2015 20:25
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mr.capps posted:a small little man with an adidas sports jacket over his shirt and tie told me today that job stands for "journey of bankruptcy" as he tried to add me on facebook on his cracked screen phone I told you that in confidence, Capps. 
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Dec 21, 2015 20:39
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Mafia thread I am studying for a professional test and I have forgotten most elements of the theory behind engineering except for "always ask for more time and more money" and "make the vendor do it for you" and I really wish I could just put those two as the answer to pretty much all questions
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Dec 21, 2015 20:40
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measure with micrometer mark with chalk cut with axe
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Dec 21, 2015 21:01
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Measure once, cut twice.
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Tell the vendor to measure and cut. Include fines and compensation for time line issues if the vendor doesn't deliver. Clap hands, problem solved.
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Dec 21, 2015 21:14
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I'd probably just write down hide in the bathroom until someone who knows what they are doing does it for me because I am fearful, incompetent, and brutally honest about both. I have never been hired for any job in which they asked me a question first.
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Dec 21, 2015 21:24
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HE CAME BACK IN THE LIBIARY OH gently caress!
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The answer is clear dog. Become his bestie forever and destroy capitalism, side by side. I don't know why you didn't do this before.
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Dec 21, 2015 21:27
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mr.capps posted:HE CAME BACK IN THE LIBIARY OH gently caress! quick pretend you are masterbating
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Dec 21, 2015 21:49
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JakeP posted:quick pretend you are masterbating one up that and actually masturbate while staring at him
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Kashuno posted:one up that and actually masturbate while staring at him Don't forget to lick your lips.
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Dec 21, 2015 22:00
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Thank you Secret Santa! I've been wanting this game. I got Codenames!
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Dec 21, 2015 22:12
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I got my secret Santa!!! That you so much Samfucius for the coolest looking hobbit poster ever!! I am deff framing this. (I would post a photo of it but I can't figure out how to do that from my phone, so here's a link to the image: https://www.etsy.com/listing/116760804/the-hobbit-art-print-tolkien-lord-of-the) The card games look super fun too and I'm excited to try them out!  Thank you again sam, you are a super Santa!!!!
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Adventures is cleaning up a hoard, Day 2 (it's been many days since D1, but this is the first day I've had the opportunity). Today's cleaning adventure has been an emotional rollercoaster. The first day I was emptying bags of clothes and today I went through 5 giant blue tupperware bins. Of those bins I've kept a small pile of paperwork with sensitive information that will need to be taken to my mom's work to be shredded, and some various useful items. The best find in those bins was 7 unopened sticks of deoderant. They were not in a bag, but scattered within the bin, so I have no explanation. Other things in those bins include old high school notes of mine, about 300 unopened pieces of mail (most were bank statements), actual bags of garbage, and a couple of socks. After the bins were done though I seem to have moved beyond the garbage phase of the hoard and reached actual important things. This is where things got tricky and the emotions kicked in. First I found a box of a couple of hundred unorganized photos, which is nice but also annoys me since one of the gifts for my mom this year was me going through a huge effort to get maybe 50-75 photos developed and then here also I found all these already developed in a box. I've hidden this box and after she unwraps my gift I'll give her the box, so I am co-oping it into my gift. After that was a box marked "! Video Games !" which contained about a dozen old Atari games. Nearby were a couple of Atari joysticks, and I can see the actual system up on a shelf near the ceiling, so that was super awesome. Then I found a couple of boxes of my mother's teenage years. There was a box full of little keepsakes (and one little ringbox full of hair, which was extremely weird), but also a box of letters she had received and notepads with drafts of the letters she sent out. These were from when she was 18 and moved across the country for about 4 months but wrote her friends at home. I am a bad person and read some of these letters but really, absolutely every single one of you would have done the same, do not judge me. I learned that my mom was a bit of a slut, which is awesome. She had two boyfriends at home she wrote letters to, plus urged her BFF not to hit on one of those boyfriends because she knew he would cheat, but then also hooked up with guys while she was away. GJ mom. She also lamented at one point that the thought of being a mother was disgusting to her, which I knew I'd find in there if I looked, but she was 18 so whatever. Then I found a birthday card from my step-father to me wherein he signed it off as "One day I'll be your Dad" and then wrote his name, and I just started crying uncontrollably, so I've stopped for the day. That has been my update you can't unread it etc.
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I just watched the space battle movie, it was really good, and JakeP is a piece of poo poo for spoiling it.
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Oh poo poo I forgot I also found this thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNk1XM7xk0Q
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Asiina that box of hair may be your baby hair. Locks of hair weren't really an odd keepsake in the older days.
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EccoRaven posted:I just watched the space battle movie, it was really good, and JakeP is a piece of poo poo for spoiling it. I agree it was really good.
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merk posted:Thank you Secret Santa! I've been wanting this game. I will buy it from you.
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TMMadman posted:Asiina that box of hair may be your baby hair. Locks of hair weren't really an odd keepsake in the older days. Maybe, but the rest of this box seems older than that. It's full of stuff from when my mom was a teenager.
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Asiina posted:Maybe, but the rest of this box seems older than that. It's full of stuff from when my mom was a teenager. Then it may be a lock of her baby hair. You should ask just for fun. As I said, keeping a lock of hair as a keepsake was not that uncommon.
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Asiina posted:Adventures is cleaning up a hoard, Day 2 (it's been many days since D1, but this is the first day I've had the opportunity). Glad I skipped to the end first!
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TMMadman posted:Then it may be a lock of her baby hair. You should ask just for fun. As I said, keeping a lock of hair as a keepsake was not that uncommon. Nah, I won't tell her I went through her secrets.
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TMMadman posted:Then it may be a lock of her baby hair. You should ask just for fun. As I said, keeping a lock of hair as a keepsake was not that uncommon. Yeah, Keane has a whole room full of locks of baby hair
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EccoRaven posted:I just watched the space battle movie, it was really good, and JakeP is a piece of poo poo for spoiling it. lol I don't know how anyone can read these forums and not see the name of the second forum on the forum list. I haven't seen the movie or talked to anyone about what happens in it, so thats the only thing I was going on.
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In fact I would go as far as to say that your legitimizing my "spoiler" as real is way worse than me spouting off a forum title
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JakeP posted:lol I don't know how anyone can read these forums and not see the name of the second forum on the forum list. by using the User Control Panel like a normal person you gently caress.
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It is exactly 4:15pm. How long will it take me to travel 10 blocks? From 63rd to 73rd on Cicero Ave in Chicago.
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TMMadman posted:It is exactly 4:15pm. How long will it take me to travel 10 blocks? about 15 minutes, 10 if you hurry.
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EccoRaven posted:about 15 minutes, 10 if you hurry. See my ninja edit. And I'm driving.
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probably faster to just do it than asking the internet.
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EccoRaven posted:probably faster to just do it than asking the internet. It's more like a game because I'm in the middle of doing it now.
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