What Irked You Today?

[Baugher Garage]

Irked that it's Monday.

[Tom Geiger]

I just don't like jail food.

That's why I avoid Boston Market!

[1930fordpickup]

My Jerk neighbor that insists on parking her BMW in front of her house on the street for days at a time when she knows its going to snow, so everytime I shovel mine and my elderly neighbors driveway, the plow comes along, has to tip the blade and puts 3 ft of hard packed snow at the end of our driveways, just our 2 adjoining driveways that I shovel...................Township has signs clearly posted up and down all the streets about Winter parking regs. "No parking on City Streets, November-April, 5PM-9AM"

Unfriggin believable

Nick

Just pack a bit of snow under her car. She will go no place fast.

[Greg Myers]

Ah, I see Casey just moved one of my posts from a current thread to a year old thread just to illustrate his point.

and from Harry :

The problem is that some of the "information" in that thread was over six years old.

If you want to start a new thread about the Daytona with new information, that's fine. No need to be combing through 8 pages of a 6 year old topic trying to find current info, that's why I locked it.

Oooops, it's an old thread http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=78462&hl=%2Bmpc+%2Bnascar+%2Bkits#entry997358

[Nick Winter]

Just pack a bit of snow under her car. She will go no place fast.

One of those X5 4WD V8's...................

[charlie8575]

True Jim, there are pros and cons with refinancing. One of the factors is that we don't know how long we will hold onto this house so it's unclear if that will be long enough to realize enough savings to make it worthwhile.

I've been reading up, and found that this company doesn't own the loan, they are just the servicing company. And they have a Better Business Bureau rating of "F". The sites I'm reading say that if I can determine who the actual lienholder is, I can request a change in processors. The big risk in a refi is that I could wind up with them as the servicer again. So I'm hoping to get past this bump in the road, set my on-line banking to pay them every 14th and be done with it.

And the big laugh.. as I researched them I found out who their parent company is, and it is one that contacted me about a Facility Manager position last summer. Guess I dodged that bullet!

Sounds like the morons my father has for the mortgage. After two years of "okay, we'll fix your mortgage" because he was getting screwed, they're finally (supposedly) sending the forms.

No matter, if I have my way, we'll be out of this house in the next year or two anyway. My folks can head back to Greater Boston, I can either head out to WMass, New Hampshire or, maybe, if I can find the right deal, stay in Central Mass, with a NH escape hatch.

Charlie Larkin

[cobraman]

Tiny parking spaces. What's the deal with these little parking spaces I see all over ? Do the people who do the layout think everyone drives a Honda Civic ? I drive a F-150 Super Crew which is by no means the biggest vehicle out there but so many parking spaces seem so narrow nowadays . When I go to my doctors office at a nearby hospital you need to park in a parking structure and although I find open spaces which are near the elevators if I pull in them I won't be able to open my door and the poor person on my right would have the same problem.

[Agent G]

Tiny parking spaces. What's the deal with these little parking spaces I see all over ? Do the people who do the layout think everyone drives a Honda Civic ? I drive a F-150 Super Crew which is by no means the biggest vehicle out there but so many parking spaces seem so narrow nowadays . When I go to my doctors office at a nearby hospital you need to park in a parking structure and although I find open spaces which are near the elevators if I pull in them I won't be able to open my door and the poor person on my right would have the same problem.

When the police department closed the nine districts and consolidated into three "super" stations the braintrust laid out the parking lot. They used a current patrol car, a Celebrity, for the size of the parking spaces. Management was stunned! "LOOK how many parking spaces the lots have! everyone gets a space!"

Yeah right, we transitioned to full size '90 Caprices the next year. Couldn't get out of the car.

G

Edited March 4, 2014 by Agent G

[Greg Myers]

Years ago The Post Office built the new Sierra Adobe office with covered parking for everyone, great, get out of the HOT Phoenix sun. The pigeons did too.

Edited March 4, 2014 by Greg Myers

[Modelbuilder Mark]

Tiny parking spaces. What's the deal with these little parking spaces I see all over ? Do the people who do the layout think everyone drives a Honda Civic ? I drive a F-150 Super Crew which is by no means the biggest vehicle out there but so many parking spaces seem so narrow nowadays . When I go to my doctors office at a nearby hospital you need to park in a parking structure and although I find open spaces which are near the elevators if I pull in them I won't be able to open my door and the poor person on my right would have the same problem.

Not only is in the small parking spaces that kill me, it is the way people use them. Not pulling straight into the spaces, or leaving the front wheel turned making walking between the cars all the more difficult, OR literally parking so close to you, that you can not even open the door. Common courtesy is not all that common anymore .

[Ace-Garageguy]

Common courtesy is not all that common anymore .

Nor is common sense.

[bobthehobbyguy]

Tiny parking spaces. What's the deal with these little parking spaces I see all over ? Do the people who do the layout think everyone drives a Honda Civic ? I drive a F-150 Super Crew which is by no means the biggest vehicle out there but so many parking spaces seem so narrow nowadays . When I go to my doctors office at a nearby hospital you need to park in a parking structure and although I find open spaces which are near the elevators if I pull in them I won't be able to open my door and the poor person on my right would have the same problem.

The reason for the tiny spaces is that there is a requirement for so may spots depending on the size of the business. Making smaller spaces means they can meet that requirement using less space. Makes sense but not practical if you are driving a larger vehicle.

[High octane]

Bob, that's plain BS as you need spaces in any parking lot to accommodate the vehicles that will be using those spaces. It's plain and simple, and everything else is BS.

[Greg Myers]

Tell that to the people that lay them out.

Edited March 4, 2014 by Greg Myers

[Rob Hall]

I guess they make the spots narrower to encourage people to drive smaller cars. I've noticed the trend in newer parking lots...and the cars I drive aren't all that large (Grand Cherokee, Cadillac STS and DTS)..

[Draggon]

I went to Smart and Final today. So Im standing in line and the lady in front of me has a Drumstick ice cream cone. Quick and easy, right? Well the price comes up $3.89. So the lady complains, and the cashier goes to check. He comes back and says that is the price. She complains again. He goes a second time to the shelf, comes back, and again says its $3.89. She asks for the manager. He comes, does his thing, and says Yep, thats the price, and no, its not for a six pack of them. Neither of those morons bothers to acknowledge that in no way can one single Drumstick ice cream cone really cost that much. All of this lasted about 7 minutes. I only blew a few of my corks. And she left without her ice cream.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Greg, where'd you get all those shots of my last ex's parking techniques??

[Tom Geiger]

Bob, that's plain BS as you need spaces in any parking lot to accommodate the vehicles that will be using those spaces. It's plain and simple, and everything else is BS.

But that's the truth of it. Local. Codes dictate number of parking spaces required and also the percentage of the lot that can be covered by impervious surface. Easy solution is to reduce standard 10x20 spaces for 8x18 ones. The other solution is parking undera building or parking garages.

[cobraman]

Tell that to the people that lay them out.

Oh man, thanks Greg. Those made my day ! : )

[Greg Myers]

Makes you wonder how they happened.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Makes you wonder how they happened.

My last ex was driving.

[Ace-Garageguy]

So, I hit the ground running this AM, thinking I'd get the last car moved, an old 450 SL. Naturally from sitting for 15 years, all the tires were too rotten to hold air, but I'd prepared for that. I'd snagged a set of 16" takeoff tires from a friend a while back, thinking I'd have them mounted on the "16" inch alloy AMG rims another friend had brought me that would fit the car.

Turns out the "16" inch AMGs were 15 inchers (yes, I SHOULD have checked myself) and I'd used the last of my 15s on the trucks. The 16" tires I have are now useless. The old Merc rides on 14 inchers stock, and the first 14 OLD takeoff I mounted on an OEM rim popped shortly afterwards. Okay, I buy some 14 takeoffs and get them mounted, come back and get them on the car. She's on her feet, but the brakes are locked, so I deal with that.

Finally b'out ready to move the old girl, but it seems my neighbor to the south, who seems to have more money than Croesus to spend on questionable "upgrades" to his house, decided for some unknown reason to move his septic tank. The work, apparently, is running long, and the street in front of MY house is blocked with earthmoving equipment and a rather huge honey truck. Absolutely impossible for me to get either a rollback in, or a trailer out, or even to pull the Merc on a towbar. To top it off, the whole neighborhood smells strongly of gooey brown stuff.

Typical day.

Edited March 4, 2014 by Ace-Garageguy

[Harry P.]

To top it off, the whole neighborhood smells strongly of gooey brown stuff.

Cinnamon frosting? Mmmmmmmmm....

[Greg Myers]

[Ace-Garageguy]

I wish.

Oh well. The street is still entirely blocked. Guess I'll just have to work on something else and see what can go wrong elsewhere.

Edited March 5, 2014 by Ace-Garageguy