Thoughts and ideas that hold forever true..........

[mk11]

On 6/20/2025 at 4:00 PM, Ace-Garageguy said:

Another of life's most aggravating frustrations is dealing with women who actually mean "you need to center your life around me and forget about your own aspirations, goals, and sense of ethics" when they say "I love you".

EDIT: I thought when I hit geezer status I wouldn't have this kind of problem anymore. Well sporty, guess again.  

Reminds me of an old classic story I just finished rereading; 'Leave Her to Heaven'.  

[JollySipper]

Good people aren't always nice, and nice people aren't always good..............   

[Ace-Garageguy]

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. (if this was posted earlier...oh well)

Edited July 3 by Ace-Garageguy

[thatz4u]

Joe told me that his wife is an Angel...always up in the air & harping about something....

[Ace-Garageguy]

You can't change the nature of reality by trying to forcibly bury everyone else's head in the sand.

              

[Tim W. SoCal]

If you desire something, don't just wish for it, WORK for it. When you save up enough cash to buy, go get it.

[Ace-Garageguy]

A wise starship engineer once said "the more you over-think the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drains".

[slusher]

The eyes are the gateway to the soul..

[Tim W. SoCal]

There are 3 options for any kind of repair or product building service: CHEAP, FAST, and GOOD. If you want it cheap and fast it won't be good, If you want it good and cheap it won't be fast, If you want it fast and good it won't be cheap.

[Ace-Garageguy]

10 minutes ago, Tim W. SoCal said:

There are 3 options for any kind of repair or product building service: CHEAP, FAST, and GOOD. If you want it cheap and fast it won't be good, If you want it good and cheap it won't be fast, If you want it fast and good it won't be cheap.

Pretty much what I've always told my clients. There's cheap, fast, and good. Choose two.  

[FoMoCo66]

48 minutes ago, Tim W. SoCal said:

There are 3 options for any kind of repair or product building service: CHEAP, FAST, and GOOD. If you want it cheap and fast it won't be good, If you want it good and cheap it won't be fast, If you want it fast and good it won't be cheap.

Like this chart.

[Ace-Garageguy]

"I'm not smart enough for so many people to be stupider than me."

[Ace-Garageguy]

"Lotta people go through life doing things badly."  Steve McQueen in Le Mans

[mk11]

In an ancient letter to friends in Greece, a man wrote

'Whatever is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable -if anything is excellent or praiseworthy - think about such things'

[Ace-Garageguy]

11 minutes ago, mk11 said:

In an ancient letter to friends in Greece, a man wrote

'Whatever is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable -if anything is excellent or praiseworthy - think about such things'

Today's version often seems to be "Whatever is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable - if anything is excellent or praiseworthy - tear it down, ridicule it, try to discredit it and then destroy every trace because it might oppress somebody".

Edited July 25 by Ace-Garageguy

[Ace-Garageguy]

No one in jail ever sings: “my bologna has a first name, it’s O-S-C-A-R” when they serve Bologna sandwiches

[JollySipper]

or that they wished they were a wiener...................     

[Ace-Garageguy]

Many people who can't make anything think that people who can make anything should do it for the same wages as a Walmart greeter.

[sidcharles]

it's a well known fact that my time is worth what i charge.

 

yours? perhaps not as much

[JollySipper]

4 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

Many people who can't make anything think that people who can make anything should do it for the same wages as a Walmart greeter.

I'm sure you've heard the story about the electrician who charged Henry Ford something like 10K just to fix a generator that had went bad...... He had to give Ford an itemized list for the bill. He wrote '$1 to fix generator, $9,999 for knowing how to fix it'.........

[Ace-Garageguy]

1 hour ago, JollySipper said:

I'm sure you've heard the story about the electrician who charged Henry Ford something like 10K just to fix a generator that had went bad...... He had to give Ford an itemized list for the bill. He wrote '$1 to fix generator, $9,999 for knowing how to fix it'.........

Yeah, there's a few versions of that parable going around, one having to do with smacking something with a hammer, and when the outraged client screamed "ALL YOU DID WAS HIT IT WITH A HAMMER!!!!! I DEMAND AN ITEMIZED INVOICE !!!!!!" 

The invoice stated "Smacking the whatzit with a hammer, $1. "Knowing where to smack it, $9999".

[sidcharles]

labor ............... $25 @ hour

if you watch ... $35

if you help ...... $75

[Tim W. SoCal]

2 hours ago, sidcharles said:

if you help ...... $75

If you worked on it first $200

[Ace-Garageguy]

2 hours ago, sidcharles said:

labor ............... $25 @ hour

if you watch ... $35

if you help ...... $75

If you've already tried to fix it yourself, or had it in a chimp shop.....$200/hr.

If you tell me there's nothing wrong with it because another shop fixed everything but it just won't run now....$1500 for a priest to drive the demons out, then $400/hr after they're gone.  

Edited yesterday at 02:40 AM by Ace-Garageguy

[Ace-Garageguy]

3 minutes ago, Tim W. SoCal said:

If you worked on it first $200

You beat me to it.