What Irked You Today?

[JollySipper]

14 minutes ago, Mark said:

I once encountered a guy who left an empty cart in a checkout aisle, then went off to do his shopping.  

I moved it out of the way, then put my stuff on the checkout.  Guy walks back with an armload of stuff, and expects me to let him in front of me. 

I explained to him that you take the cart around the store to put items in as you find them.  Then, once you have everything you want, you go to the register.  Incredible...

I bet he puts his milk in the bowl first, too........

[Ace-Garageguy]

Notification that I'm losing the storage of four cars I had to move away from MY OWN PROPERTY when some neighborhood Karen-car-counter called the county...because a recent tenant in the industrial area I've been storing them at (they're in the parking lot of a huge vintage car shop that I subcontract with) has some kind of Karen-esque problem with "cars with no tags".

Kinda like moving to a neighborhood next to an airport that's been there for decades, and complaining about the noise from the nasty loud airplanes going over OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!

Unfortunately, the vintage car shop rents their two huge buildings, and the new tenant, rather than dropping by and asking US about the "dead scary cars that make our customers uncomfortable" (a Neon, a Jag XJ6, a PT Cruiser that needs paint, and an '89 ASC Celica convertible, all clean on aired-up tires) went to the PROPERTY OWNER, who went to one of the shop managers, who is apparently too nadless to talk to me directly and got another manager to call ME.

I'll deal with it, but dambety ding dang dumb, I'm getting sick of getting hosed pretty much every time I turn around.

There's a lot more to this situation that I'm not going to go into, just because, but it's really starting to suck to be me.

[Ace-Garageguy]

9 hours ago, JollySipper said:

I bet he puts his milk in the bowl first, too........

Unless he forgets to put the bowl out, and then pours the milk on the counter while wondering why his feet feel wet and cold suddenly.

[stavanzer]

I knew a guy who would take a huge handful of Cap'n Crunch, shove it is his mouth and then take a swig of milk and chew..... He could eat half a box that way in 15 minutes...

Truly Gross. And, he was in the Air Force!

 

[TonyK]

A missing part in a model kit. Wasn't on the "tree" in the bag so I know I didn't lose it. Must've fallen off before even making it in the box. I'll reach out to Round 2 and see if they're willing to send the part.

I got a reply from Round 2 and not happy about it.

A long request form and must include a store receipt and UPC code. I would've purchased the kit online and it may have been a year ago so not gonna hunt down a receipt which I may or may not have. Also a copy of the UPC is not accepted so that means I need to download a form and send the UPC cut from the box. Then there was some more things to read and looked like shipping charges because I don't have a sales receipt, etc. Really?!

It's not like I'm trying to scam anyone here. I bought a kit and there was a part missing. Could you take care of me as a customer of your product?

In the last couple of years I can remember Revell and Salvino's sending me replacement parts that were damaged or missing without a hassle. I've got plenty of model kits to keep me busy and won't be buying any more Round 2 kits.

Edited Thursday at 02:35 PM by TonyK

[Ace-Garageguy]

6 hours ago, TonyK said:

...It's not like I'm trying to scam anyone here. I bought a kit and there was a part missing. Could you take care of me as a customer of your product?

In the last couple of years I can remember Revell and Salvino's sending me replacement parts that were damaged or missing without a hassle. I've got plenty of model kits to keep me busy and won't be buying any more Round 2 kits.

Times are changing, in part because today world IS full of scammers.

Still, "customer service" nickel-and-diming people doesn't go very far to engender repeat business.

Which is the reason I tend to expect less and less of anyone I have to do business with, and am pleasantly surprised when a company gets it right. 

[Ace-Garageguy]

Today's gripe, more of the dumbifying of everything, everywhere. 

One of my e-mail services used to be searchable several ways, including alphabetically by sender and subject.

Very useful.

But apparently the entire concept of alphabetization is almost unknown today, and emails can now only be searched by date. 

Close to useless. If I knew when the thing came in...

I'm so sick of global stupid dragging everything into the lowest-common-denominator hole along with it.

 

[Cool Hand]

A fellow forum member critiquing how others post too many walk around style pictures in their under glass threads.

I find that absolutely laughable when said member has never contributed a build in the under glass section.

The walk around is the best way to show case all the details of the build and show the styling and shape of the vehicle from different angles.

Standard display photography is front, front 3/4, side, rear and rear 3/4 and there can be left and right variants of those profiles.

Edited Friday at 10:03 AM by Cool Hand

[stitchdup]

On 8/21/2025 at 1:35 AM, Ace-Garageguy said:

Unless he forgets to put the bowl out, and then pours the milk on the counter while wondering why his feet feel wet and cold suddenly.

the only time you should have the milk in before the cereal is when you have a second bowl

[peteski]

7 hours ago, Cool Hand said:

A fellow forum member critiquing how others post too many walk around style pictures in their under glass threads.

I find that absolutely laughable when said member has never contributed a build in the under glass section.

The walk around is the best way to show case all the details of the build and show the styling and shape of the vehicle from different angles.

Standard display photography is front, front 3/4, side, rear and rear 3/4 and there can be left and right variants of those profiles.

You might be referring to me.  What you mentioned above is perfectly acceptable, but some members insist to literally take and post walk-around photos in what seems like 10 degree increment, resulting in a flood of not very different photos. Then the photos they post are huge size to boot.  As for not having anything in under glass sections, is not laughable. Some modelers just don't do that, or have their models featured  elsewhere.  Some of my "under glass" models are featured in http://classicplastic.org/pete-w.html

 

[stavanzer]

16 hours ago, Cool Hand said:

A fellow forum member critiquing how others post too many walk around style pictures in their under glass threads.

I find that absolutely laughable when said member has never contributed a build in the under glass section.

And some of us can't post pictures.

Are you coming to Bakersfield to show me how to post pics?

 

[Cool Hand]

2 hours ago, stavanzer said:

Are you coming to Bakersfield to show me how to post pics?

Yeah sure I can, if you pay for me to get a passport, airfares, accommodation and a rental car. That should cover the cost of my time to educate you on how to post pics. 🤣

😁

[stavanzer]

I've got a spare bedroom and an extra car. 

Everybody should have a Passport.

That just leaves the Airfare.

[Ace-Garageguy]

My copy of Open Office has been glitchy lately, losing documents I've put a lot of effort into, and scrambling them when it does its "recovery" thing.

Knowing how unethical and devious some business entities can be, I'm kinda wondering if a bug hasn't been introduced along with one of the frequent TinyLimp updates.

Kill the competition when nobody's looking, so to speak.

Guess it's time to switch, maybe to LibreOffice.

Edited Saturday at 08:02 PM by Ace-Garageguy