$1.50 for a 1/4lb. hot dog and unlimited drink at Costco. That's how I roll...
My family left Manhattan (rent controlled 2 bed on CPW!) back in '63 for the greener grass of Connecticut. No memories of Coney Island, my dad would instead take us to Lake Compounce in Bristol, CT. I think it had the oldest wooden coaster in New England. Roller coaster, train ride around the lake and skee ball are my strongest memories. I grew up way too fast.
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The local "news experts" are so dumb they can't even get a link right on the video they have to share it. Instead the link takes us back to the story page. There are 4 pictures: the 4th one is a video.
In the video it shows the minivan (Chrysler corp) on flatbed. The studs are all gone on the left front wheel. When loose lug nuts cause the wheel to come off, do all the studs get broken down below the face of the brake rotor?
My question that I wanted to ask earlier in my first post, was is the driver of the minivan responsible for the damage from the separated wheel. She may have recourse in the courts against a shop who put on the wheel improperly or a friend who put the wheel back on the van , but isn't it ultimately she who bears the responsibility for not maintaining a safe vehicle? And that wheel had to have loosened and have been giving symptoms before it came off. She should have slowed and gotten off the road to find out what was causing the vibration.
Curiously, news reports have said little about the 21-year old driver. I wonder if she's politically connected...?
Assignment complete. Please send my plastic trophy for participation! LOL
Without finding some lug nuts or lug nuts still attached to the rotor studs that snapped off, it's going to be pretty hard to determine what happened. Kinda like what came first, the chicken or the egg. I'm sure they found the wheel and maybe a stress expert can determine from that what happened upon examination. Like examining the wear pattern around the holes in the wheel but again pretty tough to pin down, IMO. And to complicate this, it could have been a combination of a lug nut or two coming off which imposed added stress on the remaining studs which caused them to snap.
As for getting a trophy, we don't give trophies for incomplete assignments here at Edmunds. Read the bylaws. :@
jmonroe
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The local "news experts" are so dumb they can't even get a link right on the video they have to share it. Instead the link takes us back to the story page. There are 4 pictures: the 4th one is a video.
In the video it shows the minivan (Chrysler corp) on flatbed. The studs are all gone on the left front wheel. When loose lug nuts cause the wheel to come off, do all the studs get broken down below the face of the brake rotor?
My question that I wanted to ask earlier in my first post, was is the driver of the minivan responsible for the damage from the separated wheel. She may have recourse in the courts against a shop who put on the wheel improperly or a friend who put the wheel back on the van , but isn't it ultimately she who bears the responsibility for not maintaining a safe vehicle? And that wheel had to have loosened and have been giving symptoms before it came off. She should have slowed and gotten off the road to find out what was causing the vibration.
Curiously, news reports have said little about the 21-year old driver. I wonder if she's politically connected...?
Assignment complete. Please send my plastic trophy for participation! LOL
I would think the van owner would be directly responsible since it was her car that caused the death. She in turn could sue the shop (assuming there was one) to recover damages due to poor work.
Here in NY the lawyers would sue everyone from the car owner to the shop to the car manufacturer and recover from the deepest pockets.
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Sometimes.. you just have to do happy hour! Dropped off the boss to get his car and bailed out a little early. Car related he is about to dump his Passat. Wife is meeting me for a quick one before heading home to the kids and grandma! I got a jump on her though!
Sometimes.. you just have to do happy hour! Dropped off the boss to get his car and bailed out a little early. Car related he is about to dump his Passat. Wife is meeting me for a quick one before heading home to the kids and grandma! I got a jump on her though!
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whoa, lol
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Sometimes.. you just have to do happy hour! Dropped off the boss to get his car and bailed out a little early. Car related he is about to dump his Passat. Wife is meeting me for a quick one before heading home to the kids and grandma! I got a jump on her though!
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That’s how I like my martini’s - as many olives as will fit in the glass - usually 4-5 depending on the glass. By the way, I hate martini’s - it’s the olives I like!
Just spoke with my brother - he sold his 2017 S Coupe. And you guys thought I was bad. One of the most gorgeous cars built in this world and he sells it with 4800 miles on it. He’s worse than me!
Just spoke with my brother - he sold his 2017 S Coupe. And you guys thought I was bad. One of the most gorgeous cars built in this world and he sells it with 4800 miles on it. He’s worse than me!
Just spoke with my brother - he sold his 2017 S Coupe. And you guys thought I was bad. One of the most gorgeous cars built in this world and he sells it with 4800 miles on it. He’s worse than me!
Hard to believe, huh?
jmonroe
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Greetings from the Philly suburbs. Coming up on the 1 year anniversary of my health scare, so spending the weekend with my Dad since I was decidedly indisposed for his birthday last year. Flew in to Newark on the redeye, which seemed like a good idea at the time, and then took the train to 30th street. Then working a full day on my usual west coast hours.
Car related? My Dad left me his Cayenne Turbo to tool around in today.
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Just spoke with my brother - he sold his 2017 S Coupe. And you guys thought I was bad. One of the most gorgeous cars built in this world and he sells it with 4800 miles on it. He’s worse than me!
What is the replacement??
Remember, last month he bought a GLC 300 SUV. That won’t last long. We ought to start a lottery on what his next car will be.
Just spoke with my brother - he sold his 2017 S Coupe. And you guys thought I was bad. One of the most gorgeous cars built in this world and he sells it with 4800 miles on it. He’s worse than me!
Hard to believe, huh?
jmonroe
No, jmonroe, it isn’t. When you have the resources to buy anything you want, you just do it! Sort of like the Nike motto.
My guess is that he’ll end up with an S Class Sedan. But with him, nothing is for sure.
Sometimes.. you just have to do happy hour! Dropped off the boss to get his car and bailed out a little early. Car related he is about to dump his Passat. Wife is meeting me for a quick one before heading home to the kids and grandma! I got a jump on her though!
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Sometimes it’s nice to unwind with your favorite drink. Gin and tonic for me! May you and your wife have a nice time before returning to real life!
Hope you guys will indulge me for a bit, but we’re all friends here, right?
For a little over a month, there’s been this lady trying to connect with me on Linked IN. For those of you not familiar with Linked In, it’s a business web site that allows other business people to connect with you.
Anyway, I usually turn down requests to connect to people that I don’t have at least a passing interest that aligns with my business (tech). She was persistent, so I connected with her. Next think I know, she’s emailing me wanting to talk about how our companies can work together. I hope I’m humble, but my company has a long history in the tech field (as long as HP, INTEL, etc). We have ~$5B in annual revenues. If there’s something we don’t know how to do in our field (which ain’t much), we sometimes listen to outside sources for some tech we can synch with. But, we don’t normally buy what we can create.
I explained all this to her.
She was persistent, to the point where she contacted my boss stating she just wanted to talk, but I was being dismissive (I wasn’t very interested, but far from dismissive....I listened to her intently).
My boss, wanting to push her off his plate back onto mine, states I should have one meeting with her. If it isn’t worth our time by my estimation, he said he’d consider the issue dead.
Well, her office is in CA, so maybe it won’t be too bad. But, she can only meet today (Friday) before she jets off to somewhere in Europe. Not wanting this to linger, I flew to CA today to meet. Took an early flight that got me in to LA just before noon for a luncheon.
I land and turn on my phone to hear a voice mail from her stating something came up and she couldn’t make lunch, but could meet mid afternoon. I’m not feeling good about this.
She wants to meet at her office which is above a florist shop in Westwood. But this isn’t in an area that speaks to me how she’s successful.
We meet. She’s 26, newly minted Harvard grad (so she says). She immediately went into how she just closed $20M in funding (so she says) to develop an app that has little, if anything, that would interest us.
I politely dig a little to see why she thinks we would be interested and why she contacted me. Somehow or another, she knows someone I know on Linked in. Followed his contacts and got to me. Long and short of this, she’s calling as many people she can, to try to drum up money.
Perturbed, I let her know, nicely but firmly that this was a collassal waste of my time. I felt she was deceptive. And it cost my company a $500 flight, a day of my time, $50 in food, $20 parking.
Huffily, She reminded me of her Harvard grad status and that she had $20M in the bank (neither of which passes the smell test). Not saying another word, I left. Got an Uber.
I just got to the airport, only to find out my flight home is cancelled And 11 p.m. is the next flight out, which means it’s a red-eye.
Hope you guys will indulge me for a bit, but we’re all friends here, right?
For a little over a month, there’s been this lady trying to connect with me on Linked IN. For those of you not familiar with Linked In, it’s a business web site that allows other business people to connect with you.
Anyway, I usually turn down requests to connect to people that I don’t have at least a passing interest the aligns with my business (tech). She was persistent, so I connected with her. Next think I know, she’s emailing me wanting to talk about how our companies can work together. I hope I’m humble, but my company has a long history in the tech field (as long as HP, INTEL, etc). We have ~$5B in annual revenues. If there’s something we don’t know how to do in our field (which ain’t much), we sometimes listen to outside sources for some tech we can synch with. But, we don’t normally buy what we can create.
I explained all this to her.
She was persistent, to the point where she contacted me boss stating she just wanted to talk, but I was being dismissive (I wasn’t very interested, but far from dismissive....I listened to her intently).
My boss, wanting to push her off his plate back onto mine, states I should have one meeting with her. If it isn’t worth our time by my estimation, he said he’d consider the issue dead.
Well, her office is in CA, so maybe it won’t be too bad. But, she can only meet today (Friday) before she jets off to somewhere in Europe. Not wanting this to linger, I flew to CA today to meet. Took an early flight that got me in to LA just before noon for a luncheon.
I land and turn on my phone to hear a voice mail from her stating something came up and she couldn’t make lunch, but could meet mid afternoon. I’m not feeling good about this.
She wants to meet at her office which is above a florist shop in Westwood. But this isn’t in an area that speaks to me she’s successful.
We meet. She’s 26, newly minted Harvard grad (so she says). She immediately went into how she just closed $20M in funding (so she says) to develop an app that has little, if anything, that would interest us.
I politely dig a little to see why she thinks we would be interested and why she contacted me. Somehow or another, she knows someone I know on Linked in. Followed his contacts and got to me. Long and short of this, she’s calling as many people she can, to try to drum up money.
Perturbed, I let her know, nicely but firmly that this was a collassal waste of my time. I felt she was deceptive. And it cost my company a $500 flight, a day of my time, $50 in food, $20 parking.
Huffily, She reminded me of her Harvard grad status and that she had $20M in the bank (neither of which passes the smell test). Not saying another word, I left. Got an Uber.
I just got to the airport, only to find out my flight home is cancelled and 11 p.m., which means it’s a red-eye.
I’m livid!
I thought you were going to tell us that she was pestering you on LinkedIn because she was interested in a relationship or at least a few dates. I hear that is its main use these days.
I have been on it since near the beginning. It was useful back then but now I get requests from strangers in Mumbai and other places I cannot pronounce to "connect". I might just delete my account there because it is approaching joke status.
Bit the bullet today and upgraded my 5 year old iPhone 5 to an iPhone 7 along with a new carrier. The 7 (and maybe the iOS version that it comes with, which is more advanced than what the 5 could deal with) is surprisingly different from what I was used to. Not dramatically so but lots of little thing that I suspect I may never use. Nice phone though.
Mike, I think it's great that your brother has been successful enough in life to afford anything he wants. Am sure he worked damn hard to be able to do this, like I'm sure you did. And that's what I think makes America great. One can work hard and be paid nicely for doing so. When they see something they want, they purchase it, end of story!! I guess many might get a bit green with envy with his spending but I think it's great. After working so hard, one deserves to be happy and you guys derive great happiness from your automobiles, just like the rest of us in here do. Our budgets to do this just aren't in the same league. But congrats to him and hope he has many more years to enjoy his toys!
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Bit the bullet today and upgraded my 5 year old iPhone 5 to an iPhone 7 along with a new carrier. The 7 (and maybe the iOS version that it comes with, which is more advanced than what the 5 could deal with) is surprisingly different from what I was used to. Not dramatically so but lots of little thing that I suspect I may never use. Nice phone though.
For those who drive the left lane, it can have its hazards. Yesterday morning a person in a Mustang! in the left lane was killed by the wheel from an oncoming minivan that came off, jumped the concrete wall, hit a van, and then hit the windshield of the Mustang.
Terrible.
I'd love to hear the follow up on why that wheel came off. Was it a structural failure of some sort or did a tire shop forget to tighten lug nuts.
I seriously doubt that the lug nuts were loose; professional technicians never make mistakes...
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I thought you were going to tell us that she was pestering you on LinkedIn because she was interested in a relationship or at least a few dates. I hear that is its main use these days.
I have been on it since near the beginning. It was useful back then but now I get requests from strangers in Mumbai and other places I cannot pronounce to "connect". I might just delete my account there because it is approaching joke status.
I haven't deleted my account on LinkedIn, but I have reached the point where I ignore all messages from there.
Bit the bullet today and upgraded my 5 year old iPhone 5 to an iPhone 7 along with a new carrier. The 7 (and maybe the iOS version that it comes with, which is more advanced than what the 5 could deal with) is surprisingly different from what I was used to. Not dramatically so but lots of little thing that I suspect I may never use. Nice phone though.
I'm strictly an android man myself, I won't touch anything Apple. Which all stems from a cuss fight I had with Steve Jobs more than 30 years ago. Yes, I am the sort to hold a grudge.
Mike, I think it's great that your brother has been successful enough in life to afford anything he wants. Am sure he worked damn hard to be able to do this, like I'm sure you did. And that's what I think makes America great. One can work hard and be paid nicely for doing so. When they see something they want, they purchase it, end of story!! I guess many might get a bit green with envy with his spending but I think it's great. After working so hard, one deserves to be happy and you guys derive great happiness from your automobiles, just like the rest of us in here do. Our budgets to do this just aren't in the same league.
But congrats to him and hope he has many more years to enjoy his toys!
The Sandman
Thanks, Sandy. He is so out of my league as well. But he’s a great grandfather to his grandchildren. His daughter’s girls are in college and my brother subsidizes their tuition, room and board, and sends them spending money every month. His two sons don’t need any financial help - his oldest is Chief of Cardiology at a large hospital conglomerate in the Raleigh/Durham area. His other son is the owner of a huge plastics manufacturing company and is out of my brother’s league, financially.
Unfortunately, my kids don’t have much so I help out whenever I can.
As for our love of new cars, what can I say? At least I am in this car for at least another 28 months because it’s leased and I am buried in it. Best thing I ever did to end my constant car-buying habit.
I thought you were going to tell us that she was pestering you on LinkedIn because she was interested in a relationship or at least a few dates. I hear that is its main use these days.
I have been on it since near the beginning. It was useful back then but now I get requests from strangers in Mumbai and other places I cannot pronounce to "connect". I might just delete my account there because it is approaching joke status.
I haven't deleted my account on LinkedIn, but I have reached the point where I ignore all messages from there.
Bit the bullet today and upgraded my 5 year old iPhone 5 to an iPhone 7 along with a new carrier. The 7 (and maybe the iOS version that it comes with, which is more advanced than what the 5 could deal with) is surprisingly different from what I was used to. Not dramatically so but lots of little thing that I suspect I may never use. Nice phone though.
I'm strictly an android man myself, I won't touch anything Apple. Which all stems from a cuss fight I had with Steve Jobs more than 30 years ago. Yes, I am the sort to hold a grudge.
In the early days of the IBM PC and the clones thereof, device drivers were rather hard to come by. They had to be written in 8086 assembly language, and almost no one spoke that. I taught myself 8086 assembler by studying the source code for the IBM PC BIOS (which IBM had published), just so I could write a device driver for something that I wanted to connect to my clone PC.
This was before the internet, but we did have BBS (Bulletin Board Systems), which talked to each other and passed things around. I released that device driver, and then did a couple more by request. Next thing you know, Microsoft contacts me, wants me to fly up and interview. They were trying to get one of the very early versions of Windows off the ground, and one thing they needed very badly were device drivers.
I interviewed, but didn’t take their job offer. Looking back, I really should have, I would have become rich off the stock options. Hindsight is always 20/20. Apple of course had spies at Microsoft, and they contacted me and asked me to interview with them, which I did. During the course of my interview at Apple, they took me in to meet Steve Jobs. We got into a discussion of the Motorola 68020 versus the Intel 80386 microprocessor.
Steve Jobs was the type of person, whatever he was doing, whatever he was using, was automatically better than the rest. I admitted that I liked the flat memory model of the Motorola, but really preferred the Intel. When you’re trying to write assembly language, a complex instruction set (CISC) is so much easier to work with than a reduced instruction set (RISC).
To make a long story short, he really didn’t care for me disagreeing with him, called me an “ignorant ___”, so I responded in kind, and things got bad in a hurry. The guy who was walking me around the place hustled me out, took me straight to the airport. Warned me that Steve Jobs might very well cancel my return ticket (which he didn’t, thank goodness).
@graphicguy I think it is absolutely ridiculous you flew somewhere to meet with someone you knew nothing about or what she was offering. Skype, my friend, look into it. ;b
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I just got to the airport, only to find out my flight home is cancelled. And 11 p.m. is the next flight out, which means it’s a red-eye.
I’m livid!
Ugh. That's horrible. I don't fault your boss for his take on the situation, but I am really surprised that a flight to CA was the way to go on this one. Maybe Facetime or a Google Hangout? If she's 26, then it sounds like she's about the right age to be absolutely entitled to wasting your time in this way. :@
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graphicguy Hope you guys will indulge me for a bit, but we’re all friends here, right? For a little over a month, there’s been this lady trying to connect with me on Linked IN. For those of you not familiar with Linked In, it’s a business web site that allows other business people to connect with you.
GG, I am surprised you would be sent out on this one in a million wild goose chase. If she was so sure of her product she should be glad to go to you to present it. If I wanted to sell someone something, I will kill for an appointment with the right person who will make it happen.
I thought at first it was a young lady who was pursuing you, but, these days that doesn't always end too well either. Maybe your company was testing you....to see how you handled it....what a colossal waste of time and money.....and a late flight which is aggravating too.
OTOH, sometimes the best deals happen from some fluke....but, it would almost never happen chasing down someone with no real credibility.
Bit the bullet today and upgraded my 5 year old iPhone 5 to an iPhone 7 along with a new carrier. The 7 (and maybe the iOS version that it comes with, which is more advanced than what the 5 could deal with) is surprisingly different from what I was used to. Not dramatically so but lots of little thing that I suspect I may never use. Nice phone though.
I’ve had my 7+ for 19 months now and I love it.
I have my E400 for just over 15 months and my friend with a 2015 Audi RS A8 asked me when I was getting a new car? I said, there is nothing I would like better, and I got the color I want, so why trade? He said, he feels the same way about his Audi.
I had a bit of an interesting day as well. Not nearly as intense or amusing as the @graphicguy and @henryn stories, though!
I received a call from a previous supervisor who now lives in Tennessee, and he offered me a job down there. I'm trying to take him seriously, but I am just not the type of person who takes anything seriously enough to want to move many thousands of miles for a job.
I was looking at cost of living information, though, and his offer basically doubles my current salary. I need to research this more in terms of taxes, property values, etc. Honestly, I don't see myself fitting in down south. I'm too independent-minded.... The first thing I did was take a look at land for sale in the area to see where might be a nice place to start building a small house. Hahahah
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@henryn ....great story. Jobs arrogance is legendary. I cut my teeth on RISC processors, albeit via Unix OS.
Thanks for the empathy everyone. I didn’t want to go. I had already had Skype meetings, con calls, emails, etc. She wanted a “face-to-face”. My boss and I will have a “review” of the meeting on Monday. He and I have a good relationship. He’ll probably say something like....”sorry your Friday was ruined.....we’ll make a point of sending out a blanket email instructing everyone to ignore any further requests from her”....or something to that effect.
Yes, she did have that 26 year old “I’m entitled” attitude.
Anyway, I’m drinking Delta’s libations in the Sky Club for another 4 hours as consolation.
I'd love to get that kind of call. I was contacted last week by a former coworker from 10 years ago who is now managing director of an agency. She asked if I'd be interested in a VP level scientific job. Unfortunately, its still in NJ.
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I'd love to get that kind of call. I was contacted last week by a former coworker from 10 years ago who is now managing director of an agency. She asked if I'd be interested in a VP level scientific job. Unfortunately, its still in NJ.
I am just not much of a mover. I've been here for 23 years straight, and at my current property for 17 years. The inertia is strong! If I was flyin' solo, I would probably at least go check it out. With a family in tow, it somehow seems irresponsible.
Plus, he's been sort of prodding at me every since he left to come help him out, yet he first went to southern TX from here only two years ago. We certainly have a synergistic working relationship, but I have no interest in making a career out of following him around the country.
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My family left Manhattan (rent controlled 2 bed on CPW!) back in '63 for the greener grass of Connecticut. No memories of Coney Island, my dad would instead take us to Lake Compounce in Bristol, CT. I think it had the oldest wooden coaster in New England. Roller coaster, train ride around the lake and skee ball are my strongest memories. I grew up way too fast.
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As for getting a trophy, we don't give trophies for incomplete assignments here at Edmunds. Read the bylaws. :@
jmonroe
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Here in NY the lawyers would sue everyone from the car owner to the shop to the car manufacturer and recover from the deepest pockets.
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I wasn't going to be that rude but it looks more like a snack than a drink. In any case he's going to pay for the head start.
jmonroe
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2024 Genesis G90 Super-Charger
2025 Ram 1500 Laramie 4x4 / 2023 Mercedes EQE 350 4Matic / 2022 Icon I6L Golf Cart
What is the replacement??
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jmonroe
'15 Genesis V8 with Ultimate Package and '18 Legacy Limited 6 cyl
Car related? My Dad left me his Cayenne Turbo to tool around in today.
2024 Genesis G90 Super-Charger
My guess is that he’ll end up with an S Class Sedan. But with him, nothing is for sure.
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My favorite.....eviscerated cows lips on a huge piece of white bread!
It reminds me of Homer Simpson, his favorite dessert.....canned peaches in heavy syrup!
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Pretty darned tasty.....
For a little over a month, there’s been this lady trying to connect with me on Linked IN. For those of you not familiar with Linked In, it’s a business web site that allows other business people to connect with you.
Anyway, I usually turn down requests to connect to people that I don’t have at least a passing interest that aligns with my business (tech). She was persistent, so I connected with her. Next think I know, she’s emailing me wanting to talk about how our companies can work together. I hope I’m humble, but my company has a long history in the tech field (as long as HP, INTEL, etc). We have ~$5B in annual revenues. If there’s something we don’t know how to do in our field (which ain’t much), we sometimes listen to outside sources for some tech we can synch with. But, we don’t normally buy what we can create.
I explained all this to her.
She was persistent, to the point where she contacted my boss stating she just wanted to talk, but I was being dismissive (I wasn’t very interested, but far from dismissive....I listened to her intently).
My boss, wanting to push her off his plate back onto mine, states I should have one meeting with her. If it isn’t worth our time by my estimation, he said he’d consider the issue dead.
Well, her office is in CA, so maybe it won’t be too bad. But, she can only meet today (Friday) before she jets off to somewhere in Europe. Not wanting this to linger, I flew to CA today to meet. Took an early flight that got me in to LA just before noon for a luncheon.
I land and turn on my phone to hear a voice mail from her stating something came up and she couldn’t make lunch, but could meet mid afternoon. I’m not feeling good about this.
She wants to meet at her office which is above a florist shop in Westwood. But this isn’t in an area that speaks to me how she’s successful.
We meet. She’s 26, newly minted Harvard grad (so she says). She immediately went into how she just closed $20M in funding (so she says) to develop an app that has little, if anything, that would interest us.
I politely dig a little to see why she thinks we would be interested and why she contacted me. Somehow or another, she knows someone I know on Linked in. Followed his contacts and got to me. Long and short of this, she’s calling as many people she can, to try to drum up money.
Perturbed, I let her know, nicely but firmly that this was a collassal waste of my time. I felt she was deceptive. And it cost my company a $500 flight, a day of my time, $50 in food, $20 parking.
Huffily, She reminded me of her Harvard grad status and that she had $20M in the bank (neither of which passes the smell test). Not saying another word, I left. Got an Uber.
I just got to the airport, only to find out my flight home is cancelled
And 11 p.m. is the next flight out, which means it’s a red-eye.
I’m livid!
2024 Genesis G90 Super-Charger
I have been on it since near the beginning. It was useful back then but now I get requests from strangers in Mumbai and other places I cannot pronounce to "connect". I might just delete my account there because it is approaching joke status.
2017 Cadillac ATS Performance Premium 3.6
2017 Cadillac ATS Performance Premium 3.6
But congrats to him and hope he has many more years to enjoy his toys!
The Sandman
2023 Hyundai Kona Limited AWD (wife) / 2025 VW GTI (me) / 2019 Chevrolet Cruze Premier RS (daughter #1) / 2020 Hyundai Accent SE (daughter #2) / 2023 Subaru Impreza Base (son)
2024 Genesis G90 Super-Charger
Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport-2020 C43-1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica
Wife's: 2021 Sahara 4xe
Son's: 2018 330i xDrive
I'm strictly an android man myself, I won't touch anything Apple. Which all stems from a cuss fight I had with Steve Jobs more than 30 years ago. Yes, I am the sort to hold a grudge.
Unfortunately, my kids don’t have much so I help out whenever I can.
As for our love of new cars, what can I say? At least I am in this car for at least another 28 months because it’s leased and I am buried in it. Best thing I ever did to end my constant car-buying habit.
2024 Genesis G90 Super-Charger
This was before the internet, but we did have BBS (Bulletin Board Systems), which talked to each other and passed things around. I released that device driver, and then did a couple more by request. Next thing you know, Microsoft contacts me, wants me to fly up and interview. They were trying to get one of the very early versions of Windows off the ground, and one thing they needed very badly were device drivers.
I interviewed, but didn’t take their job offer. Looking back, I really should have, I would have become rich off the stock options. Hindsight is always 20/20. Apple of course had spies at Microsoft, and they contacted me and asked me to interview with them, which I did. During the course of my interview at Apple, they took me in to meet Steve Jobs. We got into a discussion of the Motorola 68020 versus the Intel 80386 microprocessor.
Steve Jobs was the type of person, whatever he was doing, whatever he was using, was automatically better than the rest. I admitted that I liked the flat memory model of the Motorola, but really preferred the Intel. When you’re trying to write assembly language, a complex instruction set (CISC) is so much easier to work with than a reduced instruction set (RISC).
To make a long story short, he really didn’t care for me disagreeing with him, called me an “ignorant ___”, so I responded in kind, and things got bad in a hurry. The guy who was walking me around the place hustled me out, took me straight to the airport. Warned me that Steve Jobs might very well cancel my return ticket (which he didn’t, thank goodness).
I think it is absolutely ridiculous you flew somewhere to meet with someone you knew nothing about or what she was offering. Skype, my friend, look into it. ;b
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '98 Alfa 156 2.0TS; '08 Maser QP; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '11 Mini Cooper S
Hope you guys will indulge me for a bit, but we’re all friends here, right?
For a little over a month, there’s been this lady trying to connect with me on Linked IN. For those of you not familiar with Linked In, it’s a business web site that allows other business people to connect with you.
GG, I am surprised you would be sent out on this one in a million wild goose chase. If she was so sure of her product she should be glad to go to you to present it. If I wanted to sell someone something, I will kill for an appointment with the right person who will make it happen.
I thought at first it was a young lady who was pursuing you, but, these days that doesn't always end too well either. Maybe your company was testing you....to see how you handled it....what a colossal waste of time and money.....and a late flight which is aggravating too.
OTOH, sometimes the best deals happen from some fluke....but, it would almost never happen chasing down someone with no real credibility.
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
I have my E400 for just over 15 months and my friend with a 2015 Audi RS A8 asked me when I was getting a new car? I said, there is nothing I would like better, and I got the color I want, so why trade? He said, he feels the same way about his Audi.
it is nice to reach the stage of contentment.
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
I received a call from a previous supervisor who now lives in Tennessee, and he offered me a job down there. I'm trying to take him seriously, but I am just not the type of person who takes anything seriously enough to want to move many thousands of miles for a job.
I was looking at cost of living information, though, and his offer basically doubles my current salary. I need to research this more in terms of taxes, property values, etc. Honestly, I don't see myself fitting in down south. I'm too independent-minded.... The first thing I did was take a look at land for sale in the area to see where might be a nice place to start building a small house. Hahahah
Thanks for the empathy everyone. I didn’t want to go. I had already had Skype meetings, con calls, emails, etc. She wanted a “face-to-face”. My boss and I will have a “review” of the meeting on Monday. He and I have a good relationship. He’ll probably say something like....”sorry your Friday was ruined.....we’ll make a point of sending out a blanket email instructing everyone to ignore any further requests from her”....or something to that effect.
Yes, she did have that 26 year old “I’m entitled” attitude.
Anyway, I’m drinking Delta’s libations in the Sky Club for another 4 hours as consolation.
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '98 Alfa 156 2.0TS; '08 Maser QP; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '11 Mini Cooper S
Plus, he's been sort of prodding at me every since he left to come help him out, yet he first went to southern TX from here only two years ago. We certainly have a synergistic working relationship, but I have no interest in making a career out of following him around the country.