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roadburner · December 2022

oldfarmer50 said:
Supermarket shenanigans.

I’ve mentioned before my pet peeve about people who just leave their shopping carts blocking parking spaces and just drive off. While I have some sympathy for people who do that in handicapped spots there’s just no excuse anywhere else.

Today at the supermarket there was a car directly behind me loading groceries. I finished and brought my cart back into the store rather than use the corral. When I got back I see that the woman had just dumped her cart and the wind had blown it into the front bumper of the car next to me scratching the bumper cover. The cart corral was about 15’ away. I brought that cart back in too.

Why are people so selfish. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr! 🤬🤯😤👹

Years ago I walked out of a supermarket and the wind was blowing a cart directly at my pristine 535is; I ran as fast as I could across the lot and grabbed the cart a nanosecond before it hit my car. My wife said I almost got hit by at least 3 cars- but in my eyes it was Mission Accomplished.

henryn · December 2022

Long ago in a galaxy far away ... Wait, does 1976 count as "long ago"? It certainly seems like it to me. A friend and co-worker bought a new 76 Trans-Am. He left the dealership and headed to work in his brand new car (we were both working the evening shift, 4 to midnight). Along the way he stopped at a supermarket, Safeway if I recall correctly. When he came out of the store, a shopping cart had rolled into the front fender skirt, causing extensive damage. His brand new car was in the shop for nearly a month, and had an immediate downtick in the resale value. A true bummer.

tjc78 · December 2022

@roadburner said:
Years ago I walked out of a supermarket and the wind was blowing a cart directly at my pristine 535is; I ran as fast as I could across the lot and grabbed the cart a nanosecond before it hit my car. My wife said I almost got hit by at least 3 cars- but in my eyes it was Mission Accomplished.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gA6EL0FPZHA

oldfarmer50 · December 2022

driver100 said:
I saw a good one on Hot Bench the other day. A guy says he was in an automatic car wash and the car behind him hit his car and caused $9000 worth of damage. He showed his airbag was deployed and there were scratches and dents on his car. The police seemed to believe his story when he first reported it.

However, the mother and and the daughter who was driving the car were pretty sharp. They got security video frsom the car wash and they showed the guy lied about everything, the car was damaged before it went into the car wash. It shows there was no contact between the cars. The guy was a total scammer.

2 parts, about 5 minutes each:
https://youtu.be/aJ9nhy6iqUc

https://youtu.be/N7KOBBi_-ms

Wow, what a not nice fellow (I removed my own non permissible content), and to try to take his scam on TV. He wasn’t as smart as he thought he was.

venture · December 2022

kyfdx said:

venture said:
Remember I opened a savings account with Vanguard at 3.5% about a week or two ago?

They sent an email today that it has increased to 3.9% Now I'm losing money slower.
Is that an annual yield, or the actual APR? Do you know?

APY

jmonroe1 · December 2022

@roadburner said:
Years ago I walked out of a supermarket and the wind was blowing a cart directly at my pristine 535is; I ran as fast as I could across the lot and grabbed the cart a nanosecond before it hit my car. My wife said I almost got hit by at least 3 cars- but in my eyes it was Mission Accomplished.

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Wives just don’t get it.

jmonroe

sda · December 2022

Some years ago I bought my first new car, an 88 VW Fox GL. I had it less than a week and found a shopping cart resting against my front fender. It tore the pinstripe and put a minor dent at that spot. Very minor but I was ticked. I had some touch up paint and lightly filled in the scratch and was able to get some replacement pinstripe to cover the torn area. The damage was so minor I think I was the only one to notice it.

driver100 · December 2022

oldfarmer50 said:

driver100 said:
I saw a good one on Hot Bench the other day. A guy says he was in an automatic car wash and the car behind him hit his car and caused $9000 worth of damage. He showed his airbag was deployed and there were scratches and dents on his car. The police seemed to believe his story when he first reported it.

However, the mother and and the daughter who was driving the car were pretty sharp. They got security video frsom the car wash and they showed the guy lied about everything, the car was damaged before it went into the car wash. It shows there was no contact between the cars. The guy was a total scammer.

2 parts, about 5 minutes each:
https://youtu.be/aJ9nhy6iqUc

https://youtu.be/N7KOBBi_-ms
Wow, what a not nice fellow (I removed my own non permissible content), and to try to take his scam on TV. He wasn’t as smart as he thought he was.

I really like the way they find the liars, and this guy was really good at it. For one thing, his lie was so big that you have to tell yourself, "No one is going to make up a story like this". And the mother was really smart checking out the surveillance video and putting it all together. I think that without the video he would have got away with it. And these days, if the guy was that smart, he would assume the chances are he is being recorded if he is in a place of business. Quite a story though!

roadburner · December 2022

My first assistant was working out an assault case and the defendant's attorney was asking for probation or HIP(house arrest) because her client said she had a 4 month old baby and was breastfeeding. Her victim told us that was a lie because the baby was stillborn. We looked up the defendants FB page and-sure enough-there was a link to the obituary and the funeral home. We told the attorney and she was furious; she immediately called and confronted the defendant and the defendant said, "But, I AM breastfeeding a friend's baby." The attorney said, "Don't tell me any more BS." The defendant's response? "Well, I could."

snakeweasel · December 2022

driver100 said:
I saw a good one on Hot Bench the other day. A guy says he was in an automatic car wash and the car behind him hit his car and caused $9000 worth of damage. He showed his airbag was deployed and there were scratches and dents on his car. The police seemed to believe his story when he first reported it.

However, the mother and and the daughter who was driving the car were pretty sharp. They got security video frsom the car wash and they showed the guy lied about everything, the car was damaged before it went into the car wash. It shows there was no contact between the cars. The guy was a total scammer.

Wait, he gets hit from behind and his air bags deploy?

driver100 · December 2022

snakeweasel said:

driver100 said:
I saw a good one on Hot Bench the other day. A guy says he was in an automatic car wash and the car behind him hit his car and caused $9000 worth of damage. He showed his airbag was deployed and there were scratches and dents on his car. The police seemed to believe his story when he first reported it.

However, the mother and and the daughter who was driving the car were pretty sharp. They got security video frsom the car wash and they showed the guy lied about everything, the car was damaged before it went into the car wash. It shows there was no contact between the cars. The guy was a total scammer.

Wait, he gets hit from behind and his air bags deploy?

Yeh, no one asked about that and I thought about that too. I think a lot of people think the airbags do go off when you are hit from the rear. I got asked that a few times after we were hit by the big truck......and though the car was destroyed the airbags didn't go off.

jmonroe1 · December 2022

@snakeweasel said:
Wait, he gets hit from behind and his air bags deploy?

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Most judges wouldn’t know how to judge the technicalities of air bag deployment so they backed away from that statement. The guy had more than enough rope to hang himself on the other parts of his story.

jmonroe

henryn · December 2022

The arctic cold front has arrived here in Houston. The wind is whipping, and the temperature is falling like a rock.

kyfdx · December 2022

henryn said:
The arctic cold front has arrived here in Houston. The wind is whipping, and the temperature is falling like a rock.

We're supposed to get a 40 degree drop overnight. It's currently about 43 F.

oldfarmer50 · December 2022

Old school sales techniques are still in force.

Today I was in a Honda dealership waiting to pick up cars and I couldn’t help but catch some of the transaction between the salespeople and a customer. First, I think they were using the old four square on her to confuse her. Then I could catch snippets of their pitch which included claims that “that other store” is dishonest and will give you a different price if you go there and they couldn’t guarantee the price after today. Then it sounded like they were playing games with the trade. This woman was no push over so they brought in the closer and finally a second closer to high pressure her. I don’t know if she bought the car but I would have walked as soon as they pulled out the 4 square.

While waiting for the cars we came for I wandered around looking at window stickers. One CRV had an “market adjustment” of $1500 and enough mop&glo add-on to raise the price from $34k to $37k.

After all that it came as no surprise that after waiting two hours they had screwed up the paperwork and we left empty handed with our $100k check.

Sandman6472 · December 2022

Drove a newer CR-V on Wednesday and was amazed at how smooth the auto tranny was, it was really remarkable! Shame the CR-V is too big for my needs as I did like the way it drove.
We'll be getting down to 41- 44 the next three nights which is cold for us. My kid outside Orlando said it'll be in the mid 30's for them. Got asked to work Saturday so agreed as we're short handed this weekend. Won't mind the extra days pay to be honest as I've been dollar cost averaging on a few of my stocks the last few weeks so can use the extra. Not sure if they're going to ask me for Sunday but since it's not my holiday, have no problem coming in if needed. We're open the next two Mondays though...luckily Monday is an n/s day for me.

snakeweasel · December 2022

henryn said:
The arctic cold front has arrived here in Houston. The wind is whipping, and the temperature is falling like a rock.

Well it's -1 out there (-18 for our Canadian friends) with a windchill of -23 (-31 again for our Canadian friends) and I was outside clearing up the snow. They were forecasting 8-12 inches of snow and we have snow drifts as deep as 3 inches so I ask myself why do I listen to snow forecasts?

They are saying that it will be -10 (-23 for those buddies up north) tomorrow morning.

Do you wanna trade?

Michaell · December 2022

The temperature at the airport in Denver dropped 30 degrees in only 10 minutes last night.

Never got above 0 today, though the sun was out. Got 3-4" of snow, so not as bad as some of y'all.

Stay warm and safe this holiday weekend.

Sandman6472 · December 2022

Think I'd like to change for a week or two, haven't seen snow since 1978.

explorerx4 · December 2022

Curse of the just paid off vehicle.
On Monday, my son in law told me he sent in his last payment on his 2017 Explorer.
Wednesday he said someone across the street backed into his left front fender.

roadburner · December 2022

That is so aggravating!

oldfarmer50 · December 2022

snakeweasel said:

henryn said:
The arctic cold front has arrived here in Houston. The wind is whipping, and the temperature is falling like a rock.
Well it's -1 out there (-18 for our Canadian friends) with a windchill of -23 (-31 again for our Canadian friends) and I was outside clearing up the snow. They were forecasting 8-12 inches of snow and we have snow drifts as deep as 3 inches so I ask myself why do I listen to snow forecasts?

They are saying that it will be -10 (-23 for those buddies up north) tomorrow morning.

Do you wanna trade?

It’s supposed to be in the mid 50s here all morning with heavy rain and wind which will melt all the snow and wash away the salt before it drops into the 20s and they spread the salt again.

kyfdx · December 2022

kyfdx said:

henryn said:
The arctic cold front has arrived here in Houston. The wind is whipping, and the temperature is falling like a rock.
We're supposed to get a 40 degree drop overnight. It's currently about 43 F.

Now down to 21 F.. By 9 AM, it's supposed to be 9 below...

roadburner · December 2022

I have a new battery in the Wrangler and it's parked in the heated garage along with both chainsaws. Hopefully I won't lose any trees...

stickguy · December 2022

my daughter is sweating it out. she is supposed to fly from Albany to Chicago at about 3 tomorrow. right about the time the rain is supposed to stop but temps falling toward freezing. with winds in the mid-upper teens. Between that and the plane having to get out of O'hare to get to Albany, could be a long shot it happens. guess we will know by lunch time. Lucky me, I am on taxi duty!

roadburner · December 2022

My son is supposed to fly home from Charlotte(CLT) tomorrow afternoon. I think It's 50-50 as to whether his flight is cancelled or delayed.

kyfdx · December 2022

stickguy said:
my daughter is sweating it out. she is supposed to fly from Albany to Chicago at about 3 tomorrow. right about the time the rain is supposed to stop but temps falling toward freezing. with winds in the mid-upper teens. Between that and the plane having to get out of O'hare to get to Albany, could be a long shot it happens. guess we will know by lunch time. Lucky me, I am on taxi duty!

To Chicago? Yikes.

kyfdx · December 2022

kyfdx said:

kyfdx said:

henryn said:
The arctic cold front has arrived here in Houston. The wind is whipping, and the temperature is falling like a rock.
We're supposed to get a 40 degree drop overnight. It's currently about 43 F.
Now down to 21 F.. By 9 AM, it's supposed to be 9 below...

7 below at 7 AM. Heading for a high temp of 1 F, today

Michaell · December 2022

kyfdx said:

kyfdx said:

kyfdx said:

henryn said:
The arctic cold front has arrived here in Houston. The wind is whipping, and the temperature is falling like a rock.
We're supposed to get a 40 degree drop overnight. It's currently about 43 F.
Now down to 21 F.. By 9 AM, it's supposed to be 9 below...
7 below at 7 AM. Heading for a high temp of 1 F, today

I think the worst is past, for us.

-5 right now, but a high of 18.

Predicted 59 on Tuesday, which is when I've scheduled to get our carpets cleaned.

stickguy · December 2022

kyfdx said:

stickguy said:
my daughter is sweating it out. she is supposed to fly from Albany to Chicago at about 3 tomorrow. right about the time the rain is supposed to stop but temps falling toward freezing. with winds in the mid-upper teens. Between that and the plane having to get out of O'hare to get to Albany, could be a long shot it happens. guess we will know by lunch time. Lucky me, I am on taxi duty!
To Chicago? Yikes.

might work. Even though my phone app says at O'Hare it is -6 with blowing snow and winds, the 6:15 AM flight left Albany on time today and is on schedule into ORD. And the plan for her afternoon flight left Boston for ORD on time too. So as long as they can turn that one around and send it back out to ALB there is a chance. As long as they can get it in the air before it gets too icy here!

snakeweasel · December 2022

kyfdx said:

kyfdx said:

kyfdx said:

henryn said:
The arctic cold front has arrived here in Houston. The wind is whipping, and the temperature is falling like a rock.
We're supposed to get a 40 degree drop overnight. It's currently about 43 F.
Now down to 21 F.. By 9 AM, it's supposed to be 9 below...
7 below at 7 AM. Heading for a high temp of 1 F, today

We are at 9 below and might not hit zero today. But tomorrow we are supposed to warm up.

laurasdada · December 2022

I seem to have lost most of my sense of smell and taste. Yet, I still crave pizza and ice cream...

55 degrees currently, to be in the teens tomorrow. Rain, wicked wind here, it blew our courtyard furniture around like leaves. Guess I should have brought it in earlier, which I did an hour ago. I got blown around pretty good, but at least it's a warm, wet wind!

roadburner · December 2022

imidazol97 · December 2022

snakeweasel said:

henryn said:
The arctic cold front has arrived here in Houston. The wind is whipping, and the temperature is falling like a rock.
Well it's -1 out there (-18 for our Canadian friends) with a windchill of -23 (-31 again for our Canadian friends) and I was outside clearing up the snow. They were forecasting 8-12 inches of snow and we have snow drifts as deep as 3 inches so I ask myself why do I listen to snow forecasts?

They are saying that it will be -10 (-23 for those buddies up north) tomorrow morning.

Do you wanna trade?

The local "forecasters" over-hyped on the snow amounts. They seem disappointed this morning after the overnight snows are 2 inches maybe... Wind blowing really hard. -9 F this morning will continue through the day about like @kyfdx's forcast. I'm in Dayton OH area.

I noted the 30 deg for central Florida @sandman6472 mentioned. I hope the fruit crops won't be hurt...

benjaminh · December 2022

Surviving the polar vortex so far—although we're not actually planning to drive anywhere today unless we have to. But glad to have those Michelin three-peak mountain snowflake tires on both vehicles, just in case. Current temperature: -4

roadburner · December 2022

For those who don't follow the CCBA topic, I replaced my M235i with a 2020 Mercedes-AMG C43; full details can be found here.

snakeweasel · December 2022

roadburner said:

I'll do that once the Canadians come here and get their geese.

sda · December 2022

I picked up my daughter at the Charlotte Douglas airport last Monday night around 7pm. She had flown to Tulsa to visit a friend. It took over an hour to retrieve her luggage. When I was finally able to pick her up, after waiting over an hour in the Cell Phone parking area, which was packed with cars, no spots available, she made an interesting comment. She said everyone at the Tulsa airport were helpful and friendly but those in the Charlotte airport were not helpful and quite rude. Oh boy. The airport was super busy Monday night. I can only imagine how busy it will be in the next few days, especially with all the holiday travel and weather cancellations.

carnaught · December 2022

roadburner said:
For those who don't follow the CCBA topic, I replaced my M235i with a 2020 Mercedes-AMG C43; full details can be found here.

I hate when I’ve gotten a new ride, then the rain hits 😠. Sorry.

roadburner · December 2022

carnaught said:

roadburner said:
For those who don't follow the CCBA topic, I replaced my M235i with a 2020 Mercedes-AMG C43; full details can be found here.
I hate when I’ve gotten a new ride, then the rain hits 😠. Sorry.

It looks like it won't be leaving the garage for at least 3-4 days.

explorerx4 · December 2022

Weather show currently -5 outside right now.

benjaminh · December 2022

An 11-minute dive into the engineering needed for tires for EVs. This is sponsored by the Korean tire company Hankook, but it has some good info. One of the things that cuts down on gas savings with an EV is that you need to buy expensive tires, and also buy them more often. That alone seems to cut the gas savings almost in half. This video says tires wear down 20% faster with EVs, or something like, but anecdotally it seems like EV owners are getting more like 30k-40k out of their tires, instead of the 60k-70k that some can get on tires on ice vehicles. This guy's smile is somewhat annoying in the pic, but again he has some good info.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pM9o2Ifcro

jmonroe1 · December 2022

@roadburner said:
For those who don't follow the CCBA topic, I replaced my M235i with a 2020 Mercedes-AMG C43; full details can be found here.

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I saw that.

I have to admit I was kinda surprised you bought a Benz. However, I would have been even more surprised if you said you bought a minivan.

jmonroe

oldfarmer50 · December 2022

Michaell said:

kyfdx said:

kyfdx said:

kyfdx said:

henryn said:
The arctic cold front has arrived here in Houston. The wind is whipping, and the temperature is falling like a rock.
We're supposed to get a 40 degree drop overnight. It's currently about 43 F.
Now down to 21 F.. By 9 AM, it's supposed to be 9 below...
7 below at 7 AM. Heading for a high temp of 1 F, today
I think the worst is past, for us.

-5 right now, but a high of 18.

Predicted 59 on Tuesday, which is when I've scheduled to get our carpets cleaned.

Sarah n’ Tuned uses dry ice to clean some of her cars, maybe it’s cold enough to use that on your carpets.

https://youtu.be/l8M759oaMsI

oldfarmer50 · December 2022

benjaminh said:
Surviving the polar vortex so far—although we're not actually planning to drive anywhere today unless we have to. But glad to have those Michelin three-peak mountain snowflake tires on both vehicles, just in case. Current temperature: -4

I hope you sprayed some lubricant on the door seals so they don’t freeze shut.

benjaminh · December 2022

oldfarmer50 said:
I hope you sprayed some lubricant on the door seals so they don’t freeze shut.

I didn't. Darn. However, my wife's CR-V has a full tank of gas and remote start, which runs for ten minutes. Probably if I clear the windows first of the so far powdery snow, and then cycle through the remote start three times it should be enough to warm things up? I do plan to drive Christmas morning to go pick up a relative.

roadburner · December 2022

explorerx4 said:
Weather show currently -5 outside right now.

-1F on my side porch. No trees down.

roadburner · December 2022

Greg Lake performs his 1975 classic "I Believe in Father Christmas" filmed live at St. Bride's Church, Fleet Street, in the City of London with Jethro Tull' s Ian Anderson on flute, David Arch on keyboards, Florian Opahle on acoustic guitar and the church choir.
A beautiful performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-PAKOt7sM

venture · December 2022

oldfarmer50 said:

Michaell said:

kyfdx said:

kyfdx said:

kyfdx said:

henryn said:
The arctic cold front has arrived here in Houston. The wind is whipping, and the temperature is falling like a rock.
We're supposed to get a 40 degree drop overnight. It's currently about 43 F.
Now down to 21 F.. By 9 AM, it's supposed to be 9 below...
7 below at 7 AM. Heading for a high temp of 1 F, today
I think the worst is past, for us.

-5 right now, but a high of 18.

Predicted 59 on Tuesday, which is when I've scheduled to get our carpets cleaned.
Sarah n’ Tuned uses dry ice to clean some of her cars, maybe it’s cold enough to use that on your carpets.

He's not dragging them outside to be cleaned, I hope.

stickguy · December 2022

update on the Princess's attempt to get to Wisconsin (at least O'hare where someone will pick them up).

was looking good until late morning when they decided to cancel the flight for a "technical" problem with the plane. Of course, just a little too late to get on the 11:30 flight (which left right on time). so rebooked on a flight to Dulles and connection through to Chicago. so far, those are supposed to happen. crossing fingers.

hopefully they at least get to Dulles. a lot more flights from there to Chicago, even if it ends up being tomorrow (there were no options for that out of Albany). and if they get stranded, my sister lives 5 minutes from Dulles so they are covered!

mother nature had really bad timing this year.

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