What Irked You Today?

[iamsuperdan]

My personal rule is not to park within 5 spots in any light post for that very reason.  I may have to walk a little farther to get into whatever place I'm going to but I do not have to clean bird exhaust off my car. A fair trade-off as far as I'm concerned.

We've never had a bird issue here before. The odd magpie or crow, but never anything else. We have a major gopher infestation on the front lawn though, so it was only a matter of time before the birds of prey rolled in. Especially considering that our resident coyote hasn't been around for a while. 

 

No sign of the flying poop demon so far today.

[Greg Myers]

Several years back the new post office at 19th ave and Union hills was the envy of the Post Office, it had covered parking for all the employees.

A few weeks later the word got out about the pigeons that roosted under the covered lot.

[Crazy Ed]

Not today, but yesterday, mother nature and her birds irked me.

 

Here's my Tahoe. And what happens when a hawk or falcon or pterodactyl or whatever has a steady diet of gophers. This is one bird, one dump.

You can see the little bugger sitting on top of that lightpost. 

      Kinda make you wishfor a BB Gun huh   FWIW you're gonna want to get that off sooner than later or you'll have reminders of the encounter as long as you own the truck.

[Pete J.]

People who say something rude or highly inappropriate and they try to cover it up with a tag line at the end of "Just Kidding".  It is just an underhanded way of being rude and it really doesn't work.  Pseudo-humor is no excuse for being verbally rude to someone.  Rude is rude.  You can't put chocolate sauce on "stuff" and pretend like it is OK! 

[slusher]

Not today, but yesterday, mother nature and her birds irked me.

 

Here's my Tahoe. And what happens when a hawk or falcon or pterodactyl or whatever has a steady diet of gophers. This is one bird, one dump.

You can see the little bugger sitting on top of that lightpost. 

 

 

Man, i would park some place he can't sit. Mine was under a power line and my windshield looked similar but I was thinking Vulture... 

[charlie8575]

My car catching on fire today irked me a bit, and the kick to the you know what was losing what I had just bought a Hobby Lobby topped it all off ( not in the car, at McDonalds waiting for a ride home)

That blows. Wasn't this a fairly new car, too?

Charlie Larkin

[花火]

I swear to god i hate mosquitos!!! I really really really really hate mosquitos!!!!!!!

Edited June 26, 2016 by Harry P.

[花火]

and even i bought some anti-mosquitos tools from market, alright no mosquitos in house, but outside, i tell you guys, i am a BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH moving-mosquitos'-cake, it seems all mosquitos crazy to me!!

[Agent G]

and even i bought some anti-mosquitos tools from market, alright no mosquitos in house, but outside, i tell you guys, i am a BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH moving-mosquitos'-cake, it seems all mosquitos crazy to me!!

So mosquitoes like Chinese food? 

G

[Tom Geiger]

My wife wants to move back to New Jersey, the mosquito capital of the world.  Two hours west here in Pennsylvania we are seldom bothered by flying insects at all.  Makes life downright pleasant!

[SfanGoch]

I swear to god i hate mosquitos!!! I really really really really hate mosquitos!!!!!!!

This should be pinned on page 1.  

Edited June 26, 2016 by Harry P.

[Ace-Garageguy]

My wife wants to move back to New Jersey, the mosquito capital of the world.  Two hours west here in Pennsylvania we are seldom bothered by flying insects at all.  Makes life downright pleasant!

I lived just inland of the Jersey shore when I was a kid. We'd go to the beach a lot, and I remember when the wind was off the land, the biting flies on the beach would drive you crazy. Of course, when the wind was off the ocean it was heaven. We had mosquitoes inland, for sure. I used to love the smell of the spray from the trucks that came around in the summer, and I'd ride my bike as close to the billowing white clouds of the stuff as I could get. Probably why I have three eyes and 15 toes now.  

[cobraman]

I have been looking for a roll top desk for awhile to use as my work bench. They may not be ideal but I like the idea of rolling down the top and hiding my mess. Anyway, I found on Craigslist one that is the ideal size for me. So I drive out to Scottsdale to look at what I was told  is a desk in excellent condition. It's about a 35 to 40 minute drive for me. I see the desk. It was not in what I would call excellent condition. More like good or fair. Since the desk was at least the size I wanted I made a deal and brought it home. After some reconditioning and bracing it should be fine.I guess beauty really is in the eye of the seller. : )  Looked good in the little photo.

[Ace-Garageguy]

The aftermarket parts situation in this country is really getting to be pretty bad. I deal with vintage cars and hot-rods almost exclusively now, and most EVERYTHING that's sourced from "overseas" or "south of the border" is garbage, pure and simple.

In the last few months, I've had brake master cylinders come in with the seals installed backwards. The wrong threads on "OEM replacement" hydraulic parts. Electric fuel pumps that failed in a week. Mechanical fuel pump diaphragms that dissolve in gasoline. Carburetor kits missing half the parts, and others that were labeled right but the contents were just flat wrong. Radiators that had the brackets in the wrong places. "Custom fit" disc-brake kits that required entire re-engineering (but were supposed to be "bolt on"). Temperature sending units that weren't even close to the temp range they were supposedly spec'd for. Water pumps that started leaking in a week. And on and on and on and on.

It's frustrating enough getting cars in that have had nothing but jacklegs and chimps working on them most of their lives and having to undo all the "expert" repairs all these morons have done over the years, but now we're having to re-do our OWN work because the "offshore" absolute crapp that's getting pushed off on the American consumer is trash. Either that or we have to re-engineer stuff that just doesn't fit or work as delivered.

There's something wrong. I've been doing this stuff off and on for over 40 years, and I've NEVER experienced such a high rate of JUST PLAIN JUNK getting sold as replacement parts ever before.

[cobraman]

Kind of takes the fun out of the whole thing I would imagine.

[dieseldawg142]

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Edited May 10, 2018 by dieseldawg142

[SfanGoch]

"Pure Quality" and "Made in China" is an oxymoron and should never be used together.

[bobthehobbyguy]

Problem is when the trend to go overseas for stuff most people didn't want to buy American. Becuase they could say a few dollars.  The manufacturing went away.vwe are now paying the orice for that stupidity.

[High octane]

Problem is when the trend to go overseas for stuff most people didn't want to buy American. Becuase they could say a few dollars.  The manufacturing went away.vwe are now paying the orice for that stupidity.

"Corporate Greed" is what took manufacturing out of the United States, nothing else.

[dieseldawg142]

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Edited May 10, 2018 by dieseldawg142

[blunc]

don't you have to use "special" off shore cleaner on those new wheels?

[dieseldawg142]

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Edited May 10, 2018 by dieseldawg142

[plastic-mechanic]

Problem is when the trend to go overseas for stuff most people didn't want to buy American. Becuase they could say a few dollars.  The manufacturing went away.vwe are now paying the orice for that stupidity.

indede (sic)

[dieseldawg142]

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Edited May 10, 2018 by dieseldawg142

[blunc]

IMHO, the problem is that we perpetuate the problem by not paying the prices to people that sell "quality stuff". 

Even in the model building arena, when we don't avail ourselves of aftermarket sellers, they tend to stop making the things we thought were so amazing at one time.

It seems to be a really unfortunately huge snowball of reduced personal "disposable" income, rising cost of living and rising cost of producing "quality" products.