What Irked You Today?

[blunc]

I've told my friends to please NOT EVER just drop in on me.

I do stuff that sometimes can require concentration and timing, especially composite work that I simply CAN NOT walk away from in the middle of the process...without ruining the part or mold.

DO NOT DROP IN doesn't mean call me from the driveway either, and announce "I don't want to bother you (but I'm here so you're a mean person if you don't drop your life and pay attention to me)".

I CARE about my friends. They're good people and I enjoy seeing them, but what's so hard about understanding "do not drop in"?

maybe you should change your "do not drop in on me." request to a warning....

"if you drop in on me I will lock you in a room with an angry badger."

[martinfan5]

Being tired today really irked me.

[High octane]

While it didn't irk me, it made me very sad as I attended a wake for my neighbor's son today. He was only 23 years of age and I can't imagine how my neighbors feel at the moment. It's gotta be a very tough loss.

[Tom Geiger]

I hope they we still edible cause they sure looked good in fact they looked so good I went out to the kitchen and made deviled eggs for our Easter dinner and they dissappeared really fast. But thanks Tom for the inspiration to make them.

vince

Thanks Vince!  I'm honored       My eggs were kinda / sorta edible with a spoon.  You saw one of my Tupperware egg trays in my photo, the eggs each sit in their own little indent.  When I had to slam on the brakes, the cooler never moved... the egg tray never moved but the eggs all hit the side of the tray at 65mph!  

[Ace-Garageguy]

maybe you should change your "do not drop in on me." request to a warning....

"if you drop in on me I will lock you in a room with an angry badger."

Excellent idea. 

[slusher]

My Easter Day Irk... Holiday Drivers!   Today I drove both the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Turnpikes and found my share of idiots going 50 on roads with a 65 mph speed limit that normally travels at 75-80.  And these idiots don't stay to the right either.  

Numpty of the day award goes to the genius that got into the high speed E-Zpass lane, got halfway through the toll reader, got confused and jammed their brakes! Which led to a big chain reaction of the same, about a dozen cars.  I stopped but the guy behind me nearly hit me.  AND my large cooler in the trunk got jostled and my two trays of Deviled Eggs hit the sides of their boxes. Big mess! 

Then on the way home where the PA Turnpike is only two lanes, we had dueling idiots... two of them going 50 mph side by side for the last 3 miles of my ride!

TN just passed a law that slow traffic and those trucks that take 5 miles to pass must stay in the slow lane or be ticketed. Jan 2017 no more cell phone and driving.  

[High octane]

TN just passed a law that slow traffic and those trucks that take 5 miles to pass must stay in the slow lane or be ticketed. Jan 2017 no more cell phone and driving.  

We have that law of no hand held cell phone and driving. What a JOKE, and what's the use of passing laws when they're not enforced??? A lot of our traffic laws are only obeyed by people who want to obey them, the rest of the drivers couldn't care less what the speed limit is, whether to stop at the stop sign, use their turn signals, etc. etc. etc.

[slusher]

The highway patrol here sets so many miles over the speed limit you cross it you have a big fine. The city i live in is always enforcing seat belts, speed limit, and they will enforce the phone law. One reason is if there are too many wrecks and or deaths the county will lose grant money so most counties and towns keep it safe...

[Tom Geiger]

Carl, those laws exist in this area too.   In fact trucks are not allowed in the left lane on the NJ Turnpike. In trucker slang they call it the $100 lane.  

Still the keep right / pass left laws are ignored.   And I'm not sure if there is a minimum speed for these roads. There should be.  Both the NJ and PA Turnpikes,  NJ Garden State Parkway etc,  all move along at 75-80 mph.  And it works fine during the week.  On weekends the amateurs come out and that's a problem even with a small fraction of the traffic we see during the week on rush hour.

[cobraman]

Driving home from San Diego on Sunday a guy on a crotch rocket passed us like we were going backwards. I swear he was doing over 100 easy. My irk changed to pleased when about 20 minutes later I saw him pulled over on the side of the road by the CHP !

[bismarck]

Driving home from San Diego on Sunday a guy on a crotch rocket passed us like we were going backwards. I swear he was doing over 100 easy. My irk changed to pleased when about 20 minutes later I saw him pulled over on the side of the road by the CHP !

Had a guy do the same thing to my dads funeral precession. Cut right through the middle of it entering from an onramp doing about a buck twenty or so. State trooper nailed him about 5 miles further up the road.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Had a guy do the same thing to my dads funeral precession. Cut right through the middle of it entering from an onramp doing about a buck twenty or so. State trooper nailed him about 5 miles further up the road.

Cutting through a funeral is pretty damm rude, and going a LOT faster on a bike than the rest of the traffic is a recipe for disaster, but I know a fair number of riders who intentionally exceed the speed of the rest of the vehicles for what they perceive as their own safety.

Face it...most car drivers aren't particularly engaged in what they're doing, a lot of them are either talking on the phone or texting, and small things like bikes tend to go largely unnoticed. Riding faster than the traffic stream puts the rider more in control of his own fate, cutting through the herd like a shark through a school of mindless minnows, and better managing his own spacial relationship to nearby vehicles.

The strategy works equally well while driving something tiny like an original Mini or Lotus 7 that's easily overlooked by the typical dozy commuter.

Edited March 29, 2016 by Ace-Garageguy

[bismarck]

I was pretty miffed about it when it happened, but I got over that pretty quick when I saw the lights and one VERY agitated Ohio State trooper ripping that guy a new one. 

[oldcars]

Been trying for over a week to PM Gregg. They(my PM's) don't go any further than my message box. Don't know what I'm doing wrong(not good on the computer). All I want is tell him that My magazine(#200) never arrived, and beginning to get worried. Getting very frustrated. Richard

[Tom Geiger]

Driving home from San Diego on Sunday a guy on a crotch rocket passed us like we were going backwards. I swear he was doing over 100 easy. 

Pennsylvania is a helmet optional state, which I just don't get.  Last summer on the Turnpike we got passed by a couple on a bike that passed me like that and I was going 80. Incredibly  neither of them were wearing a helmet, both wearing t-shirts and shorts and the woman was wearing flip flops!  There will be no survivors and probably no harvestable organs from that potential accident!  No cops on this one, they just disappeared ahead never to be seen again. 

[Crazy Ed]

   Back ~'90 a Friend and I went for a ride from the South SF Bay area to Alices Resturant in Skylonda for breakfast then a ride down to the Coast, left to Hwy 9 and Home again. He brought along his 12 year old son so we stopped in Bolder Creek for an Ice Cream Cone before returning home. While sitting on the Bench a guy with his <guessing> Girlfriend were headed towards us on Hwy 9 in heavy traffic. It was commented that that guy wasn't very bright wearing just Blue Jeans. No Shirt and not even Shoes and it looked like Girlfriend had settled for shorts. As it turned out, all she was wearing was a Smile (and a big one at that). I thought friends son was going to drop his Ice Cream!

[Joe Handley]

Scumbags, absolute scumbags........

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-video-shows-thieves-stealng-boy-with-down-s-syndrome-s-easter-eggs-20160330-story.html

 

Then again, Mom and I are both dealing with upper respiratory tract infections..........so I may not be too forgiving right now............

[dieseldawg142]

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Edited May 10, 2018 by dieseldawg142

[Joe Handley]

Well, this is a family friendly forum, after all

[Mike_G]

I had lunch down by the college today and when I got back to my car there was a blue Maserati parked in front of me that was filthy.

 

[Joe Handley]

What ever it was I started coming down with on Sunday, another coworker had it hit him on Saturdqy,  Mom came down with it on Tuesday, now both of my bosses have it as well as one of our teenage employees (and yes, I believe him).  We only have one adult, who happens to be the only other keyholder besides the owners and myself who hasn't caught it yet!

[Harry P.]

I have never been more disgusted with our government than I am right now.

Follow along closely, this gets a little complicated.

I had my taxes done the other day. I have three separate IRA retirement accounts–let's call them accounts A, B, and C. Each account is made up of many smaller pieces... I'm invested in many different companies, stocks, bonds, securities, etc. In other words, I'm not invested in only A, B, and C... but rather my accounts A, B, and C are each comprised of many smaller bits and pieces. It's all about diversification, or not putting all your eggs in one basket (or in my case, three baskets).

So it turns out I have to pay taxes on several thousands of dollars of capital gains, even though each of my three accounts (A, B, and C) lost value in 2015. Let me say that again. I have to pay taxes on GAINS, even though my accounts all LOST value overall in 2015.

Here's why: Some of the individual investments contained within my three "umbrella" accounts (A, B, and C) actually made money. So there were capital gains in those isolated cases. But most of my individual investments lost value, the bottom line being that my accounts A, B, and C all lost value overall in 2015.

Yet the IRS doesn't look at it that way. They see the individual investments that gained value and tax me on those. They don't see the many more individual investments that lost money.

Bottom line: I lost money on my investments overall in 2015. I had less money in December 2015 than I had in January 2015. Yet I owe tax on the "gains" I made (but in reality never saw).

It' about enough to make me want to pack up and move to Canada.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Harry, I think you may want to get another opinion on your little IRA problem. I don't claim to be an expert by any means, but my understanding was that you don't pay any taxes on IRA gains until you take cash out. What you're saying amounts to government double-dipping, and I really don't think that's how it's supposed to work.

Again, I could very well be wrong...but you owe it to yourself to check this one out very carefully before you send them a check.

"Stock gains within an IRA are taxed as ordinary income when they're withdrawn"...at least, that was the rule in 2000.

More...http://finance.zacks.com/pay-capital-gains-traditional-ira-4110.html

QUOTE FROM THE ABOVE LINK:    "Any money you contribute into an IRA is fully sheltered from taxes while it remains characterized as an IRA asset. This sheltered status means that any stock trades you make in your IRA aren’t subject to gains taxes ..."

Edited April 1, 2016 by Ace-Garageguy

[Harry P.]

My guy is a CPA and a licensed investment advisor. I have to assume he knows his business.

And speaking of government double-dipping... you work all your life to try and save a little bit of money for retirement and maybe to pass on to your kids. Every dime you earn is taxed, and if you're lucky enough to be able to put some of what's left aside, your kids will be taxed on it when it goes to them. They will be taxed on money that you have already been taxed on. The government screws you every way it can.

[cobraman]

No argument here.