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EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:Wow that's amazing. Like why is it so bothersome to you that someone else parks in front of your house?! E: Content. quote:Parents want to take out a half a million dollar mortgage in my name. Credit freeze a good idea? (self.personalfinance) Why do they want the loan in OP's name, you ask? quote:They want me to take out the mortgage because I have an income now, from my new job. They said they wouldn't be approved for it since neither of my parents have steady incomes. Haifisch fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Nov 30, 2016 |
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MrKatharsis posted:I had a neighbor like that once. They put up a sign that said "you take-a my space, I break-a your face." They had a hideous new 600k square house on a 400k bungalow street and two European cars. my mom had a friend with an alcoholic husband, who decided to slash the tires of someone who parked in front of their house. not sure if he got in trouble or not but lmao at protecting your lovely federal way suburb house.
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Haifisch posted:It's the same impulse that makes them raise hell if too many cars drive down their neighborhood. I'm like this, but only because it's a residential street and people speed down it to cut through to the highway. It's maddening because people go 45-50mph during rush hour on a 25mph back street.
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hanales posted:I'm like this, but only because it's a residential street and people speed down it to cut through to the highway. It's maddening because people go 45-50mph during rush hour on a 25mph back street. I live on a cul-de-sac and people still blast up and down in like crazy people.
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That's not surprising since most American streets are designed to make you wanna go fast. "It's shocking to me that people go excessively fast on this very very wide road the city built!" said no urban designer ever.Hyrax Attack! posted:GWM: Costco sells 24 Hour Fitness memberships. One year is $399 ($33 a month) and two years is $649 ($27). Good value if it fits your schedule and location.
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Cicero posted:That's not surprising since most American streets are designed to make you wanna go fast. "It's shocking to me that people go excessively fast on this very very wide road the city built!" said no urban designer ever. It's because of bullshit Waze that redirects people through smaller neighborhood roads in order to shave 45 seconds off of their commute. It's time that ultimately becomes lost anyway once the route says to turn left at an unprotected intersection in the middle of rush hour traffic.
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Cicero posted:That's not surprising since most American streets are designed to make you wanna go fast. "It's shocking to me that people go excessively fast on this very very wide road the city built!" said no urban designer ever. This is a two lane road. I now park a car on the street that forces everyone to slow down in front of my house. Yes, I'm that guy. Teeter posted:It's because of bullshit Waze that redirects people through smaller neighborhood roads in order to shave 45 seconds off of their commute. It's time that ultimately becomes lost anyway once the route says to turn left at an unprotected intersection in the middle of rush hour traffic. There's no question this way saves some people time, so I don't fault them that, the problem is the speeding. It's not long enough of a road that speeding can make up any significant amounts of time (we're talking 3/4 of a mile between stop signs). When I pull out in front of speeders I tend to go 10-15 mph below the speed limit just so I can see them screaming at their lattes in my rear view mirror. 
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 I don't care that the cars are there, only that they're going too fast. https://np.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/5fn0vm/texas_what_can_i_do_employer_fired_me_a_month/ quote:(Texas) What can I do? Employer fired me a month before Christmas over something they did incorrectly. Should I contact corporate to ask for lost pay, or a lawyer? (self.legaladvice) What was he going to do? Fill sandbags? Write facebook posts for his mom? https://np.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/5fj11g/my_exwife_is_opening_credit_cards_in_my_name/ quote:CreditMy ex-wife is opening credit cards in my name. (self.personalfinance) Bad With Money: Commit credit card fraud because you feel like your ex-husband's court ordered child support payments are insufficient to also cover the living expenses of your unemployed boyfriend.
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canyoneer posted:
Yeah so that's grand theft and forgery right there, felonies.
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Not BWM, but still funny:quote:Open a Bank Account for Pizza? (self.personalfinance) quote:The gotcha is that they will likely send you a 1099-Int for the value of the pizzas that you will need to file with your taxes. So really you'll be paying your marginal tax rate on those pizzas. Bad With Money - You'll be paying your marginal tax rate on those pizzas
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hanales posted:When I pull out in front of speeders I tend to go 10-15 mph below the speed limit just so I can see them screaming at their lattes in my rear view mirror. I'm with you on parking in front of your house, kind of. But this is pants on head retarded behavior that will end in a road rage incident.
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Haifisch posted:Not BWM, but still funny: I'm sort of interested in this bank, hot drat sounds like a good deal. e: nevermind. Mellow Mushroom has a pretty decent beer selection but only moderately OK pizza. it's also expensive for how mediocre it is. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/first-green-bank-partners-mellow-130100103.html FormatAmerica fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Dec 1, 2016 |
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FormatAmerica posted:I'm sort of interested in this bank, hot drat sounds like a good deal. Sounds like a good... delicious... cheesy... hot deal... Maybe I am just hungry.
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Never do your banking when you're hungry.
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Haifisch posted:Not BWM, but still funny: I'm going to be very disappointed when this doesn't become the new title. Switching banks for signup bonuses (real dough, not pizza) is pretty GWM. Unless you mess up and forget to switch automatic bill payments and get hit with late fees, then it is less GWM.
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EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:Wow that's amazing. Like why is it so bothersome to you that someone else parks in front of your house?! Neighborchat: When I walk my dog around my house, one particular neighbor sits out on his porch all day to yell at everyone who has a dog. If you hesitate for a moment on his property, or any property near his, he will yell at you until you are outhe of earshot. One time my dog peed in his yard and he followed me around the block yelling at me. Naturally I have taken to collecting my dogs poop on my late night walks and dumping it on his yard.
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JohnGalt posted:Neighborchat: The tenant down the hall from me was unemployed for a while and him and his two cats would find all sorts of ridiculous poo poo to rage about to externalize his own self-hatred. Once I parked crooked (but still within the lines) next to his car for all of 30 minutes and came back out to find he left a super angry note about THE loving IDIOT WHO DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO loving PARK HOW ABOUT NEXT TIME I GIVE YOU A NICE DENT FUCKER. Neighbors with issues are the best. e: also he printed it out rather than hand-writing it, so presumably in 30 minutes in the middle of the day when I ran home during my lunch break he came out, raged at seeing my car slightly askew, ran up to his apartment, hastily typed out this giant angry rant, printed it, ran back down and left it on my car Shame Boy fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Dec 1, 2016 |
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What kinds of notes did the cats leave
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baquerd posted:I'm with you on parking in front of your house, kind of. But this is pants on head retarded behavior that will end in a road rage incident. Nah. There is a highway exit here where it goes from 65mph to a 40mph city street pretty quickly. I always slow down to 40mph, and I have twice had someone behind me veer into the left lane to pass me and.... hit a car there that is going 40mph in their blind spot.  This is the view from cars coming in at 40mph. The right lane is coming in at 65mph and slowing down. You have to change lanes from the 65mph merging lane at least one over to the left to continue downtown, the rightmost lane ends in a u-turn soon. I come in from the right lane, change lanes to the middle lane, and slow down to 40mph, and the angry people come up behind me and run into people in the left lane because they are too busy yelling at me in front of them to check for someone in the leftmost lane which they are changing into. That feel when I look in the rear view at them both pulling over to exchange insurance info. EIDE Van Hagar fucked around with this message at 06:42 on Dec 1, 2016 |
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A friend told me about his cousin, a chiropractor. When the guy was growing his practice, one of his clients asked him to do an adjustment on his horse. A polo horse. He agreed to, looked up some horse anatomy online, and did a horse chiropractic adjustment that he was making up as he went along (kinda like chiropractors for people, but whatever) Dude had the best polo game of his life, and told all his friends at the polo club. Now he sets aside a morning every month to go be a horse chiropractor at the polo club, and makes many hundreds of dollars for every 8 minute "adjustment" he does. Smart man.
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canyoneer posted:A friend told me about his cousin, a chiropractor. When the guy was growing his practice, one of his clients asked him to do an adjustment on his horse. A polo horse. I can't even be mad at this. Guy is a genius.
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OK I've got a BWM story for the thread, or maybe this is just a human brains are bad with getting old story. A few months ago I get messages from my mom and sister: "how could you hit up grandma for thousands of dollars, what are you doing in Chicago, why are you in jail", etc. Whaaaaaaat I'm totally confused because I'm an expat working in SE Asia right now, my entire extended family knows this, that's why I Skyped with them for Thanksgiving last year. So either (1) they are loving with me or (2) something went wrong somewhere. Turns out they were loving with me, but something did almost go very wrong. My mom explained once I had sufficiently freaked out. Mommy VitalSigns posted:Just got a call from Grandma & her neighbor. So yeah anyway good on those Wal-Mart bank tellers for strongly suggesting that maybe a Chicago Public Defender wouldn't be asking for bail money to be wired overseas. Brains are weird, it's pretty amazing how someone with an air of authority plus fear for a loved one can short circuit our reasoning like that. Having a monkey brain evolved for avoiding predators on the savannah and handling social relations with < a dozen other monkeys: BWM.
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I bet that Wal-Mart employee was properly congratulated for Doing the Right Thing and then promptly fired for breaking the rules
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She lives in old-retired-people-ville in Florida where this scam is common so I wouldn't be surprised if the store was telling employees how to go right up to the line when warning people without actually violating the letter of the policy. I assume Wal-Mart doesn't want the enraged families of old people coming in and yelling at them every day about how if you see this all the time why aren't you warning anyone before they wire a grand to some scammer.
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BraveUlysses posted:my mom had a friend with an alcoholic husband, who decided to slash the tires of someone who parked in front of their house. not sure if he got in trouble or not but lmao at protecting your lovely federal way suburb house. Hey now, that's Federal Way. The capital letters are what makes it a city.
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EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:Wow that's amazing. Like why is it so bothersome to you that someone else parks in front of your house?! Just to offer another side to this, before we got married, my wife lived in a townhouse. She had two parking spots assigned to her, so if a neighbor parked in one of her spots, people visiting her would have nowhere to park. Eventually she got annoyed enough with it to just park diagonal across both of her spots, only moving if she knew someone was coming over. It gets obnoxious after a while, so I can understand someone that's had to deal with it for years or decades flipping the gently caress out over it. I'm not saying I agree with it, but I understand.
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VitalSigns posted:OK I've got a BWM story for the thread, or maybe this is just a human brains are bad with getting old story. My grandmother almost fell for the same scheme about me. She called my mom before going to the bank. Thanks for ratting me out, grandma!! 
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Ornamented Death posted:Just to offer another side to this, before we got married, my wife lived in a townhouse. She had two parking spots assigned to her, so if a neighbor parked in one of her spots, people visiting her would have nowhere to park. Eventually she got annoyed enough with it to just park diagonal across both of her spots, only moving if she knew someone was coming over. It's obviously dramatically different when the parking is assigned to you! But curb street parking unassigned seems kind of stupid to get worked up about. I realize it annoyed me when I was, like, 8 years old (or when someone was dumb enough to actually park up ON our lawn) but jeez.
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VitalSigns posted:She lives in old-retired-people-ville in Florida where this scam is common so I wouldn't be surprised if the store was telling employees how to go right up to the line when warning people without actually violating the letter of the policy. Fun Fact: in florida all voter registration information is public record so if you register to vote anyone can then get your address, phone number and age and know you're a vulnerable old lady who lives alone and can be reached via phone The only way to get it sealed is if you're a certified victim of stalking (which is only done AFTER the information goes public and the internet archives it forever so it's completely worthless) or if you're, surprise, certain high-ranking government officials. I found this out because my SO suddenly got a call from her estranged alcoholic abusive dad where he said a bunch of literally insane poo poo that freaked her out a ton. Thanks Florida!
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Have yearly dementia tests on your elders and make sure you get power of attorney the moment they start fading before some scammer gets a windfall.
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I thought that was the whole point of thanksgiving, to see how far they've slipped.
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ate all the Oreos posted:I bet that Wal-Mart employee was properly congratulated for Doing the Right Thing and then promptly fired for breaking the rules This is actually pretty common practice at any place that does wire transfers now. The employee was likely trained to do exactly this. ate all the Oreos posted:Fun Fact: in florida all voter registration information is public record so if you register to vote anyone can then get your address, phone number and age and know you're a vulnerable old lady who lives alone and can be reached via phone A/T: [ASK] me about dating Florida Man's daughter
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Day Man posted:My grandmother almost fell for the same scheme about me. She called my mom before going to the bank. Thanks for ratting me out, grandma!! Apparently us goons are a seedy bunch, or our relatives wouldn't fall prey to those so easily. EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:It's obviously dramatically different when the parking is assigned to you! But curb street parking unassigned seems kind of stupid to get worked up about. I realize it annoyed me when I was, like, 8 years old (or when someone was dumb enough to actually park up ON our lawn) but jeez. In the northeast, and I assume anywhere else where it snows heavily, parking in someone's shoveled out spot is a no-no. You will probably return to it having been keyed, shoveled back in, etc. I don't condone that, but it's a dick move, especially if it's at someone's home. As far as irrational anger, I sometimes find myself having revenge fantasies about the parking situation across the street. It's a Starbucks parking lot, with spots lining the front of the building, and the opposite is a sidewalk with two way traffic in between. All day, people park up against the sidewalk turning that in to one way traffic, and it's super busy, so it's just impatient people laying on their horns all day. It's mostly a pain in the rear end when I'm trying to nap for my night job since I my room is at front of the house. If I had a paintball gun..... Anyways, here's content. Mom wants me to co-sign for a car posted:I'm 20, in college and my mom wants to get a car for my sister. However, my mom can't do it on her own and she needs me to cosign as I already have good credit because I've owned two previous cars. Don't do it!
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Moneyball posted:In the northeast, and I assume anywhere else where it snows heavily, parking in someone's shoveled out spot is a no-no. You will probably return to it having been keyed, shoveled back in, etc. I don't condone that, but it's a dick move, especially if it's at someone's home. I was about to make a comment about how bad this gets in Boston, but looks like you're aware of it.  People sure do get livid about their snowspots, I think last year we had some tire-slashings and a full-on fight because of people poaching spots.
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Ashcans posted:I was about to make a comment about how bad this gets in Boston, but looks like you're aware of it. I live up on the north shore in the more sparsely settled 'burbs, and at worst, you can find a free public lot around here. I never saw how bad it gets until I was driving through cities closer to Boston, and now I completely understand why they do it!
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The whole concept of dibs and feeling entitled to a spot on a public road for the entire winter because you spent 10 minutes shoveling it is so stupid. Taking that the next step to damaging someone else's property because they had the audacity to park in "your" spot is neanderthal behavior. https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/5fuzk5/thinking_about_taking_out_a_loan_for_honeymoon/ quote:Hey guys and gals. So my fiance [24] and I [30] are getting married come July next year. Generally speaking we are in good financial shape. No debt for either of us. My credit score is 723. All in all I think we are doing ok. OP wants to take a $10k loan for a "pretty reasonable" honeymoon.
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Ornamented Death posted:Just to offer another side to this, before we got married, my wife lived in a townhouse. She had two parking spots assigned to her, so if a neighbor parked in one of her spots, people visiting her would have nowhere to park. Eventually she got annoyed enough with it to just park diagonal across both of her spots, only moving if she knew someone was coming over. Maybe a traffic cone would work.
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Moneyball posted:Apparently us goons are a seedy bunch, or our relatives wouldn't fall prey to those so easily. quote:Here's a back story, I'm in military, shipped off to basic training at 17yrs. Couldn't open my own bank account at the time, so my mom opened me a checking account on her bank. During basic I saved 4K dollars plus an extra 2k I got from suing a company for racial discrimination. My mom took all of my money, instead of using it for bills she used it for a trip to see my family in the Bahamas. At basic I had no money and I blamed the military for not paying me. I couldn't buy any hygiene items at the time. Even before I went to basic training I told my mom not to touch my money. She went against my word. So I came home with only $700 at the end of basic training.
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