Random Rants
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Car repairs suck so much. I pulled in too close to a curb when parking the other day. Then when I backed out, the front bumper cover snagged and pulled completely off. It's just a big piece of plastic that clips onto the car, but it costs over a thousand dollars to replace it.
No big deal. I didn't really need to pay rent this month…
An after market part really costs that much? My sideview mirror got clipped a couple months ago by a snowplow and my insurance didn't cover it. Cost me about $25 and some change to get the part. I still have to do it myself though via some youtube videos. Any way you could do it yourself for a fraction of the cost?
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Not just the air dam- everything from the headlights down. From the front, it looks like something out of a Mad Max movie.
I might have been able to buy the part and do the work myself, but there were other, miscellaneous parts that were damaged in the process, or afterwards, when I drove and there was no bumper cover to block the airflow. Lots of plastic bits rubbed against the wheels, or blew off, or maybe both.
And my wife was not in favor of duct tape on the newer of our two cars. It might have been different if we had a vehicle where that would match the aesthetic, like, say, a Land Rover Defender.
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Riding your bicycle on a roadway is not a leisure activity!
I mean, thank you for doing your part to save the environment and all, but that doesn't make it okay for you to ruin traffic for the rest of us. Seriously, if you can't maintain a reasonable speed for an extended period of time, you should reconsider your mode of transportation.
I used to mountain bike quite a bit in my 20's, now not so much. I'm constantly amazed at how cyclists here in town disobey the rules of the road. About a month ago some guy on his bike was run over and killed by the light rail train because he thought he could beat it, even though the warning gates were down. I read his obituary in the paper the following week and it said, "he died doing what he loved." Yep, he sure did ???
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These bear repeating.
If you can't fix it with duct tape you are not using enough
If duct tape is not the answer, you asked the wrong question
Gorilla tape holds even better.
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These bear repeating.
If you can't fix it with duct tape you are not using enough
If duct tape is not the answer, you asked the wrong question
Gorilla tape holds even better.
I will concur.
Gorilla tape is my standard.
I was doing some field training in the Army once, and my uniform pants ripped open. At the end of the day when it was time to hunker down in the tent, I turned the pants inside out and taped the rip closed with gorilla tape. Went on about my business for about another week, and it was a SOLID repair… totally unnoticeable. After training was done, I got back home and washed all of my dirty field clothes, and the gorilla tape repair survived a hot cycle through the washer and drier. I wore those pants for another 6months - 1 year before retiring them.
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Riding your bicycle on a roadway is not a leisure activity!
I mean, thank you for doing your part to save the environment and all, but that doesn't make it okay for you to ruin traffic for the rest of us. Seriously, if you can't maintain a reasonable speed for an extended period of time, you should reconsider your mode of transportation.
I used to mountain bike quite a bit in my 20's, now not so much. I'm constantly amazed at how cyclists here in town disobey the rules of the road. About a month ago some guy on his bike was run over and killed by the light rail train because he thought he could beat it, even though the warning gates were down. I read his obituary in the paper the following week and it said, "he died doing what he loved." Yep, he sure did ???
Trains look slow. . Underestimating the speed of locos seems common. People go around gates on a street near work to beat the trains. Cars have been hit and near misses are frequent. Ive had the same situation happen at work and been asked "why didn't you stop?" Mass and weight, for openers. If it's bigger than you, wait. ??? ::)
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i scrape majority of entrances into underground and multi story carparks and kerb verge when parking on them i just gave up trying to baby it.
that said, i almost ripped out the rear bumber when it got caught on a random chain. thankfully i managed to hit it back in place although the loop holding the screws are broken..
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Lowlife
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Really dreading taking my son to his friend's bday party tomorrow. I'll be surrounded by a bunch of other parents I don't know for 3 hours. I know, I know, this should be about my son having fun at his friend's party but i'm an old curmudgeon and these types of social gatherings are really uncomfortable for me.
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Just stare at the internet on your phone for 3 hours…..trust me I have experience.
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Yep. A full charge on your phone and you're good. I, too, have much experience with this.
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There was a portly, gnome-like, backwards trilby wearing hippie next to us at Paul Simon the other night creating his own light show by constantly shaking his phone in video mode right in front of his face. It was a new form of smartphone ADD for me.
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Just stare at the internet on your phone for 3 hours…..trust me I have experience.
Looking forward to awkward silence.
My phone can't hold a charge worth a damn. It'll be dead within an hour
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I've got experience at this too but I take the opposite approach, I mingle. Better than sitting there staring at the phone cause dammit that's what's wrong with society today, now get off my lawn. Plus there's usually single mom's there…never know....might meet the next mrs gaseous.
