If you’re going to be anal retentive you can’t outsource that kind of thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by riser4
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If you’re going to be anal retentive you can’t outsource that kind of thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by riser4
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Originally Posted by paulster2626
Everyone having close calls while driving, I highly recommend a dash cam. For less than $100, it’s great insurance.
I was hit a few years ago by a guy who ran a red light. He claimed to his insurance that he had the green light. Without the dash cam footage, it would’ve been my word against his. Thankfully, I was 100% not at fault.
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Careful there buckaroo.Quote:
Originally Posted by plugboots
I know you're thinkin' it's the ladies, but are you so sure you're the gold-standard reference gender? :)
*I* used to be the one always too warm.
But I'm in the back end of my 50's now and the last several years have really seen my feet get cold. I sit at a desk most of the day, and if it's 70 or below, my feet and ankles get really cold. I don't know why. And I'm not some unfit bastard who never does anything. (Estimated VO2 was in the low 60's earlier this summer, and I rode ~2500 miles since May.)
I'm now that person with the space heater. :)
I have a lot more sympathy for the people who say they're cold. (And which makes me cringe a bit for when I had the "WTF is your problem, it's not that cold" attitude.)
^^^^^
Same
One of the first signs of the degradation of the human race is the consistent “on ramp, failure to yield syndrome”….
Jesus…..it’s becoming laughable. People merging onto the highway really now expect the driver that’s already on the highway driving at 65+ mph to slow down/slam on their brakes so they can merge onto the highway.
No yielding whatsoever anymore.
I have sympathy for people who are cold at reasonable indoor temps if they are attired for warmth (sweaters, hat, long underwear, etc). I have no sympathy if they're dressed too cold for their environment, because it's much more reasonable for chilly people to put on more clothes than to have people who run warm walking around the office like it's a beach day.
How has online ordering become such a shitty experience? With technology constantly improving it should not be hard to maintain or improve it. Instead it seems to continuously and universally get worse.
I placed an order for bike parts a week ago that is supposed to have expedited delivery based on order value. I heard nothing until yesterday when I got an automated email saying one of the items that was shown as in stock is actually backordered and they'll ship it whenever it arrives. No info about when the rest of the order will ship. Called during business hours, no answer. The phone message suggested emailing instead. We'll see how long it takes to get a reply.
I ordered tires last week too. Online, they showed as in stock and ready for install at my local tire shop. I got an email 2 hours later refunding half the order because apparently only two tires were available. I called the local shop who said all tires get shipped to them after you order, and to try re-ordering two tires since they could be in stock at a different warehouse. Or call customer service who could check inventory by location. No answer, so re-ordered 2 tires since the website still showed them as available. Nope, cancelled. Not gonna get just two tires installed or a mis-matched set so I cancelled and ordered somewhere else. Charges hit my card immediately but they claim it can take up to 5 business days for my refunds to be processed. :fuckyou:
My current laptop is on its last legs so I ordered another one yesterday. Of various shipping options available I selected one with delivery scheduled between Dec 4-6. Had planned to leave today on a week-long road trip until I got an email from the vendor today saying the laptop will be delivered tomorrow afternoon. I have doubts about that but we all know what will happen if I leave town tomorrow morning. UPS has an option to change delivery but of course it doesn't work, and being a holiday no one was picking up the phone at UPS or the vendor.
It seems like a lot of vendors take days to ship things out compared to years past when shipments would go out same day or day after an order was placed. And none of the shipping companies seem able to hit estimated delivery timelines anymore. USPS gives an estimated date and often delivers a day or two early. The other ones are often a day or days late. Amazon has cancelled a number of my orders outright after estimated delivery date was revised back multiple times. Guess the items went missing? None of them except USPS can consistently find my front door. Instead they leave packages at random neighbors' doors. Early or late delivery isn't a big deal if you're around, but it always seems to happen when you're away or leaving soon. I don't want a package sitting on my porch, and definitely not on an unknown neighbor's porch.
Trying to buy locally in person isn't much smoother. Selection is usually limited. If you check online, half the time what the website says is in stock, is not. So you're stuck ordering. Do you ship to your home and deal with all of the above, or ship to the store and have to make a trip to pick up? We can't seem to win.
On that note, I ordered a pair of skis on-line last week that were prominently displayed on the web page, credit card was charged, only to be informed 24 hours later that they have never carried that specific ski. Full refund, but still. ..... phantom skis???
I work on the premise that the person further in front always has the right of way, regardless of speed. Change lanes if possible, but if not then definitely slow down to allow merge. This also takes into account the blind spot in the mirror of the merging vehicle. Annoying, perhaps, but degraded? I think not.Quote:
Originally Posted by BC.
you think wrong...
fact.
Me too! I’m always cold these days and usually rock a sweater or a vest (for which I become the butt of many hilarious jokes).Quote:
Originally Posted by gregorys
I don’t actually mean it. I do follow up with discussion about how if there are 20 workspaces in a building and 19 of them are running space heaters all winter, the thermostat is set too low. While they aren’t state of the art, these aren’t old drafty warehouses either. The message is “that heating system can make it too warm for everybody, get back to me when less than 100% of staff feel like they need a heater.” I’m just asking that the managers of those groups get us on the other side of the endless loop of heating the whole space with space heaters. Setting the thermostat on the low side isn’t pinching the pennies they think it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by frorider
I got shot at on Wednesday.
That's funny. People who speed off to block people trying to merge on to the freeway annoy me. If you see a car getting on well ahead of you, hopefully they will accelerate hard so you don't have to slow down (but most people don't), but you might consider slowing down or changing lanes. You know, don't be a jerk. Because when you force the merging car to brake, now they're getting on the freeway going too slow, which fucks up whoever was behind you. I'm especially annoyed by people who try to pass me in the same lane--after the dashed line or the dart between the right hand lane and the on ramp is gone.Quote:
Originally Posted by BC.
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Originally Posted by BFD
did it go something like this?
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Yep….drivers being assholes/basically trying to have an accident on purpose (just to “beat/race the cars around them”) whether it’s on the highway, or the on ramp….or any street for that matter….There has always been assholes, there is just a lot more of them these days….lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
Twice today on the NY thruway people passed me and immediately pulled into the right lane in front of me and slowed down so. I had to pass them
Around here that happens so often it's hardly worth mentioning. People take a car in front of them as a personal challenge that has to be dealt with.
I annoy myself--putting the car in adaptive cruise control to mellow things out, and then overriding with the gas pedal.
I think retailers don't give a shit anymore cause they know no matter how shitty the customer experience, the customer is just motivated by cost so why provide a good experience if it costs the company more? Why pay employees enough to give a shit? As long as a retailer can offer the lowest prices, which means cutting costs, the customer comes back. And the customer isn't loyal based on the customer experience, they're only motivated by cost and shipping times. That's why amazon has a hold on the marketplace.Quote:
Originally Posted by evdog
This annoys *and* amuses me.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...c995990a24.jpg
Yeah, I bet that was annoying.Quote:
Originally Posted by BFD
Yes, the right lane on an expressway is bad place to be for anyone who wants to actually drive the speed limit and not hit the brakes from merging morans constantly. Oh, you mean I'm actually supposed to accelerate to highway speed on the ramp? What a concept!Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
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Who the fuck does this? Lazy ass people.
There's a reason the right lane is often relatively empty. Most people prefer to not have to deal with merging traffic. Some people try to bypass the crowded traffic in the other lanes by speeding by in the right lane. If you do that you have to be prepared to be slowed by entering traffic. And the traditional 5-10 over doesn't really work in the right lane--yes people should accelerate in the onramp but expecting them to get up to 5 or 10 over is unrealistic, especially with some of the short on ramps around here.Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
Metered onramps when traffic is light and moving at the speed limit annoy me. Impossible to get up to speed when the metering light is near the end of the onramp. It was bad in Midtown Sacramento when they first put in the metering. It seems like the metering is off more than it used to be so maybe the traffic engineers have figured it out.
At least they’re in a mall parking lot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Supermoon
Here in Aspen tourists will push a cart blocks into residential neighborhoods and just leave them in a snow bank.