Official bored at work / just shooting the shit / no rails to derail thread

[DakAttack]

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That's pretty bad, but I think I've had worse luck. To sum up all my adventures with my old Eagle Vision: I get one hour on the road and it's dead. Even less on hot days. One hour later it's back up and running again, but it's shaky and needs to sit parked somewhere. It finally died, and I bought a used Chevy Lumina. I paid $1700 for a car I knew would need a little extra work, but it turned out to need $2300 worth. I waited a month for the title number to register it, and now there's another problem with it and I'm taking it in tomorrow.

The worst time I had with the Eagle was when the transmission died, and I spent an hour driving down highway 70, usually a half-hour drive, in second gear because it was locked into safe-mode. I don't think I got about 40MPH on a highway with a speed limit for 65, where people routinely go 80. Once I got off of it, it died, still a half-hour from my house on any other day, and it cost me $50 to get it towed to the shop.

Cars, man, what the fuck.

[TheGrandMom]

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Time to provide TGM with more entertainment and hours of side splitting laughter!

Awwww dear, I wouldn't laugh at you freezing your ass off! I live in Wisconsin and I know the feeling of being stranded in freezing weather and it is NOT fun! What I did find amusing is the Russian tow truck driver! LOL I'm part Russian so I can imagine the cultural/language difference and it brings a smile to my face. ^^

Ok I'll add one in with both you and Dak's "lucky" days. First the groudwork. I am NOT a morning person. When I get up in the morning I need a minimum of 30 minutes to wake up and be coherent. I've been married for nearly TWENTY EIGHT YEARS now (will be Feb. 14th) so you'd figure my husband has this 30 minute "buffer" down........right? WRONG!!!! asshole...

On with the story.....So yesterday I'm sleeping and my husband always gets up about 2 hours before me. Since its dog ass early (3-4amish), he sits on his computer usually. Well he was making a lot of noise banging stuff around, crunching stuff, walking around, etc. Finally, he comes over and says "Are you up?" >< No, not really and if I were I'd want 30 minutes to myself so WTF!!? "Do you know where the paperwork is for the stove? I opened the cabinet today and dropped some olives on the top of it and broke the glass." (Glass cooktop electric stove) YOU DID WHAT!!? You broke the glass on the stove that I need to bake Christmas goodies with and I start in TWO DAYS?? Make Christmas dinner on!? And its EIGHT DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS!?

To top it off.......why did I need to be woken to be told this? Why couldn't I have my 30 min buffer? Would it have made any difference if I was told 30 mins earlier about this? And why in the hell do you need the paperwork!? The stove is EIGHT YEARS OLD....it doesn't have a damn warranty! You pull it out, get the model number off the tag on the back, get on your handy dandy computer and get the service number off there......TA DA!!! you don't even need me! asshole...

/sigh Day ruined. Then to boot he makes an appointment for someone to come out and fix it. They told him they would come out for $75 and tell him how much it will cost him to fix it and if it was too much then he would just owe them the $75. JFC! $75 just to tell us the price of a piece of glass....thats something you can do over the phone! So as usual, I had to take the reins and call up a couple places until I got someone to call back with an estimate. Seems it would cost $550 to fix it and the stove is 8 years old...........screw that. So Christmas cookies are in peril now.......and we might have frozen pizza for Christmas dinner. /fume!

/em goes off to crawl into bed and pull the covers over her head!

[Jarre]

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/comfort TGM *huggs* How the F did he break a heat resitant glass stove top with olives?, To be honest TGM a new stove top would be cheaper than replacing the glass by the sounds of it. in todays throw away society its cheaper to replace then to fix.

My mothers in teh same problem, main oven of her cooker went so now all we have is the 4 rings and a combination microwave oven that the turkey crown can only just fit into, so no roasties on xmas day as theirs no room.

[TheGrandMom]

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/sigh Jarre

The olives were in a glass jar. I guess it must have hit the stove top just right. Smashed it pretty darn good too. There are 2 large burners in the front (which you use the most) and 2 small burners in the back (which I rarely use). Of course, the glass across the 2 front burners is smashed to bits. He says "Well the burners still work!" Ya.....and if the potatoes boil over I could electrocute myself or my grandchildren..........good call there ace!!!! Sorry to hear you mom is having similar kitchen issues! What is it with things going out in the kitchen around the holidays!? Don't use ladies have enough stress!?

[Yellow Mage]

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So, on the way back from a visit with family, this song comes on the radio:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1etR5uRpnE]YouTube - Hollywood Whore - Papa Roach (Official video)[/ame]







So, yeah . . . a more interesting question would be, how do you make that song not sound like it's about Britney Spears (as was the general consensus in the car)?

How the girl on the floor in the video looks like does not help the case against that conclusion much.

[Feba]

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in todays mass production economy its cheaper to replace then to fix.

fixed.

[Jarre]

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Cars, man, what the fuck.

Yeah I have my MOT first week of Janurary (in the Uk any car older than 3 years old you have to pay to be inspected against a set list for defects, if you fail you have to get it fixed within 2 weeks. You can't get insurance or your road tax without a valid MOT.

see wiki on it

My cars been drinking oil lately and i think its due 2 new front tyres soon so I will ahev to dig deep, probably cost me £300+ and typically just after christmas....

[Durahansolo]

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Speaking of car troubles.

Mine has been leaking coolant causing a almost overheat every once in awhile. A couple of weeks ago I had to refill the power steering fluid because it was making a whining sound when I turned. The cold is uber draining my battery, it was at 9V yesterday and wouldn't start. Thursday my gas tank cap froze shut so I had to pry it open to put gas in it, now it won't close because the lock mechanism is frozen.

Good news is I only have to work today and tomorrow and then I'm off for 12 days.

[Aksannyi]

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I had to add some coolant to my truck this past weekend, myself. It's old and has nearly 200k miles on it, so if that's all that's wrong with it, I consider myself quite lucky.

[TheGrandMom]

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Our van keeps defying logic. (knocks on wood) We go in for emissions tests and it keeps passing without fail. I've never had to take it in to get it fixed. But now the brakes are failing and I wasn't told so they are really bad. I don't drive the dang thing so I didn't know. So instead of being a $500 fix, it's probably going to be more like $800-900.

Now my poor GTP is another story. My son got his license in November so this is his first winter driving. Well I've been out driving with him and he drives too fast for conditions, follows too close, turns corners too fast, and doesn't brake when he should. Basically, he's an accident waiting to happen........and its gonna be in my GTP. And I'm not being over critical either, when you are driving to the store and back with someone and you nearly hit THREE DIFFERENT CARS along the way....ya you need to re-evaluate your driving skills.

[Raydeus]

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It completely depends on the driver. If the driver is good and treats the car well (as in not forcing the engine or doing sudden manuevers all the time) the car wont suffer much decay.

But if they drive it like they are playing Wipeout...







PS > Of course they forget the little detail about cars actually having tires touching the road instead of floating over the track.

[Durahansolo]

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Well I've been out driving with him and he drives too fast for conditions, follows too close, turns corners too fast, and doesn't brake when he should. Basically, he's an accident waiting to happen........and its gonna be in my GTP.

You bought him Burnout: Revenge didn't you.

I might need to add this to my RL pet peeves, but I hate when people think that just because their SUV/Truck is a 4x4 that they are invincible. We got almost a foot of snow here on friday, and the road crews didn't really clear the roads well, and if you have a small car like mine you will most likely get stuck somewhere if you don't judge the grooves in the road correctly. Anyways, yesterday my mom and I had went to church together and decided to grab a pizza on the way home. We took a back way to Pizza Hut and of course there was still alot of snow on the ground since there were alot of sidestreets the way we went. We pulled up to the traffic light that just turned red. Some idiot in a Jeep Cherokee pulled up next to us and when the light turned green he stomped the gas. The tires just repeatedly spun and eventually he sped through the snow for about 100 yards only to make a hard right turn around a corner, and almost took out a man blowing snow in his driveway when he fishtailed 2 times. Were you really in so much of a hurry to go wherever the hell you were going to almost injure somebody or yourself?

[Raydeus]

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How can someone possibly play Gran Turismo and not want to drift till the tires blow up the moment they get on the wheel?




...or is it just me? <_<;

[Aksannyi]

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Fishtailing is only fun when I'm the only person on the road.

Glad I don't have to deal with that shit anymore. LOVE YOU FLORIDA!!!

(Bet it starts snowing in less than ten minutes.)

[TheGrandMom]

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You bought him Burnout: Revenge didn't you.

My husband and I burst out laughing when we read this. (He's reading the forums with me today.) I will say this, when my son first started driving 9 years ago (he was 16) he said something along the lines of "this won't be so hard because I've played a lot of driving video games". Shortly thereafter, my husband was driving him to school one morning and the car was broadsided on his side. There ended his wish for a drivers license. Fast forward, 9 years. He remembers saying that statement about video games and he now says "real life driving is FAR from playing a video game and a lot more scary". LOL But yes, at times I think he's driving like he's playing a video game.


Oh and hubby agrees with you about drivers in trucks/SUV's too. LOL

And whats up with all this snow lately hey? Dang! That early Friday morning foot of snow cancelled school so I had to drag not one but two grandkids along for grocery shopping and grocery shopping in a foot of snow with 2 kids IS NOT FUN! (Especially when the drifts and snowbanks are taller than they are! lololololol)