What Irked You Today?

[espo]

2 minutes ago, PierreR89 said:

No worries, i could have said it was a 4x4 in my first post.
If i had asked something about that job on my C20 then you would have been a great help as it is a 2wd.

Yeah we are forced to unless we shop parts from US and then do the work ourselfs. even with shipping and customs here the parts are still cheaper to get from the US then they are to get from Sweden
Yes and now i have 7 of them 3 jeep XJ,s (89-90). 1 Jeep ZJ -93. 1 Chevrolet C20 -82. 1 Chevrolet K2500 -94 . 1 Suburban -97
For some reason the chevys are all diesel v8,s, c20 is a 6.2 and the others are both 6.5td. XJ,s are all 4.0 I6 engine and the ZJ is a 5.2 v8
 

I guess you're just like some of the people here that refuse to own a domestic car. LOL

[PierreR89]

5 minutes ago, espo said:

I guess you're just like some of the people here that refuse to own a domestic car. LOL

Haha yes probably.
Why have something that everyone else drives?
I also think they are rather boring to drive now when i am used to US cars, the seats in us cars are much better to sit in for a long drive.
4 hour drive is nothing in my suburban but a 20minute drive in a mercedes kills my back completley.
If i compare those seats to eachother the suburbans is like a armchair and the mercedes one is a parkbench covered with fabric...

I have lost count on how many thumbs up i have got while driving my ZJ but that because i have 33"tires that sticks out from the wheelwells + 3" exhast with highflow cat and flowmaster so it it easy to tell it has a v8 in it
The suburban everyone looks at because 1: its big,  2: i am the only one i this town that has one. 3: because of a k&n conefilter the turbo is very loud when it whissles while i am driving + even louder when the wastegate opens and dumps the pressure.
It used to scare people when it did that before but now everyone knows it does that

[NYLIBUD]

Again,I once mentioned that there are a lot  of new dogs in my neighborhood.It was never like this.Again,I love dogs,but it seems like everyone has one,two,3.Or even more..They're barking all the time.I feel like I live in a kennel.

[ranma]

My one package came from a ebay seller and was missing items that were supposed to be in with it. Missing are the Corvette and all the parts shown inside the boxes plus the decal's Included are photo's of what I got in the mail from the seller.

[crazyjim]

Being sick.  Me & Marcia think we're suffering from food poisoning.  Nasty and we've been sick since Sunday.

[Snake45]

35 minutes ago, crazyjim said:

Being sick.  Me & Marcia think we're suffering from food poisoning.  Nasty and we've been sick since Sunday.

Doesn't food poisoning pass (no pun intended) in about 24 hours? My whole family had it once but we were all fine a day later. 

[espo]

4 hours ago, ranma said:

My one package came from a ebay seller and was missing items that were supposed to be in with it. Missing are the Corvette and all the parts shown inside the boxes plus the decal's Included are photo's of what I got in the mail from the seller.

I guess that's a good way to get ride of all your old spruce, sell it on E Bay. I would be having "speaks" with this guy and also notify E Bay about what happened. 

[Tom Geiger]

Ha!  My morning!   I had a job interview scheduled for today.  As I got ready, and was shaving I noticed small hairs on the outer rim of my ears and gave them a quick swipe.  I must've nicked my left ear because suddenly I was bleeding. And it wouldn't stop!  I figured it would stop while I showered, but it was still dripping, and this went on for about an hour.

 I'm looking for Band Aids, and not finding them.  I look my my bathroom, my wife's bathroom and the kitchen closet, all while holding one hand on my ear and searching cabinets with the other. I check our guest bathroom that's between our two guest bedrooms and guess what? That's where my wife keeps Band Aids! Finally I gave the wound a dab of CA cement, put a Band Aid tight over it and waited 15 minutes.  Bleeding stopped! I move forward with just a small red spot on my ear.

That was enough to put me off my game. I was leaving the house later than I had wanted to leave. So I quickly dressed and left the house.  I got a block away and realized I left my suit jacket at the house. I had put a coat over my white shirt in case my ear started bleeding again and forgot my jacket.  Turn around, got the jacket.  Then I got about halfway there and realized that my tie wasn't on the hanger with the jacket!  Too far to turn around but I remembered there was a Walmart across the road from the office park.  I always plan on being an hour ahead and sitting in the car to wait, so I had time to stop in Wally's to buy a tie.  Guess what?  Walmart doesn't sell ties!  After fudding around the store maybe 10 minutes I came to that conclusion.  

I get back in the car and remember my wife always shops at Kohls... so I put that in my Waze program.  It comes up as 3.8 miles away... so we head to Kohls.  I run in the store directly to the men's department. I pick out and grab a tie.  I get to the sole register and there's someone finishing up, and a lady ahead of me with a full basket of stuff... I tell her I'm late for a meeting and ask if I can go ahead of her.  She agrees! (Thank you nice lady!)

I take the store tags off the tie and put it on standing next to the car.  I put on my suit jacket and race back to the office park for my interview.  I get there with 10 minutes to spare!   Whew!

The interview did go rather well.  I'm hoping for a job offer.  It would be interesting to have a job working for a company after 8 years of consulting.

I get home and I find the tie I left behind... and notice it's exactly the same tie that I had bought!   Imagine that!   

Edited March 21, 2019 by Tom Geiger

[Snake45]

2 hours ago, Tom Geiger said:

I get home and I find the tie I left behind... and notice it's exactly the same tie that I had bought!   Imagine that!   

That happens to me at least once a month, but with model tools or paint. Sometimes with magazines, too. 

[Mark]

Do people still wear a suit to a job interview, or is that making a comeback?  I guess it comes down to the position.  I didn't wear one last time around, in 2005.  I'll be finding out again soon...

[Snake45]

47 minutes ago, Mark said:

Do people still wear a suit to a job interview, or is that making a comeback?  I guess it comes down to the position.  I didn't wear one last time around, in 2005.  I'll be finding out again soon...

I think it would depend on the job. It might actually hurt in some cases. But in general,  "Dress for the job you want, not the job you have" is pretty good advice--even for interviews. 

[Rob Hall]

No doubt it depends on the company, the type of position, the industry.  I know in my biz (software engineering) it's pretty casual..I've felt overdressed in khakis and a dress shirt at interviews w/ startups and small tech companies..had an interview in a bar once, on someone's front porch, in an airport lobby, riding in a Honda Prelude etc.  At large Fortune 500/50 type companies or municipal departments, I've tended to dress up for tech interviews in a suit and tie.  

With my current client (which I've been at 4 1/2 years),  I never had a face-to-face interview.. a 30 min phone call w/ a manager, then show up the next Monday to start...the funny thing is, this is the only company I ever had to wear a tie at work--they had a dress code part of the year that was business formal, and business casual during the AZ summers..which they eventually did away with after I'd been there a year or so.  Now that I work for them remotely from home,  I wear sweats and a hoodie in winter and shorts and t-shirts in summer..

[Mark]

Things have definitely changed over the years; I guess I'll be finding out again.  In 1978, you "had to have" a resume that stretched into two pages, even just out of business school.  Now, it's "keep it brief" at all costs. 

Last time around, I had people at employment agencies telling me that giving two weeks' notice was an "outdated" concept.  That wasn't one place, which I would have considered unusual.  If I need to do so, that is definitely still happening, as I've got a number of benefits that don't kick in unless proper notice is given.  Too, as far as I'm concerned, it's just the right thing to do.

[russosborne]

17 hours ago, ranma said:

My one package came from a ebay seller and was missing items that were supposed to be in with it. Missing are the Corvette and all the parts shown inside the boxes plus the decal's Included are photo's of what I got in the mail from the seller.

 

Maybe he had two boxes on ebay and got them confused?

Russ

[crazyjim]

14 hours ago, Snake45 said:

Doesn't food poisoning pass (no pun intended) in about 24 hours? My whole family had it once but we were all fine a day later. 

Not for us.  Finally starting to get over it but still tired - like somebody beat the livin' daylights out of me.  Being old probably doesn't help either.

[Rodent]

3 hours ago, russosborne said:

Maybe he had two boxes on ebay and got them confused?

Russ

I have been selling some stuff on eBay lately and I am deathly afraid of doing the same thing 

Been writing what the item is on the outside of the box.

[OldTrucker]

4 hours ago, russosborne said:

Maybe he had two boxes on ebay and got them confused?

Russ

I've had that happen to me before!

Did you contact the seller about it?

[Tom Geiger]

3 hours ago, OldTrucker said:

I've had that happen to me before!

Did you contact the seller about it?

Ditto.  Seller was apologetic and extremely grateful that both parties understood the situation and agreed to mail the packages to the other at his cost.

[ranma]

9 hours ago, OldTrucker said:

 

Did you contact the seller about it?

Yes ,And  he shipped the missing parts and Corvette out today. Now if USPS don't screw up like last time and have Columbus Oh ship it to Detroit again

[Rusty92]

On 3/20/2019 at 8:09 PM, Mark said:

Do people still wear a suit to a job interview, or is that making a comeback?  I guess it comes down to the position.  I didn't wear one last time around, in 2005.  I'll be finding out again soon...

I do. I’m 23 and wear a suit very often. It looks nice. My last job interview I wore one, it was for a staff auditor at an accounting firm. I got the job too! I thank the suit!

[HomerS]

A couple nights ago, I pulled in the driveway and there is a patrol car coming down the street the opposite way I came and it pulled over across the street.   A minute or so later the cop knock on our door asking if we have a little brown dog.  Apparently our dogs (plural) were running back and forth along the back fence with the neighbors dogs (plural) when their unattended son (around two years old) came down the yard and got into the middle of fiasco and (per the officer) the kid thought it was okay to reach through the fence to pet one of mine and got bit.  Didn't break the skin but the officer needed the vet records to show he was up to date on his shots.  No problem...e-mailed the vet that evening and they e-mailed them to me first thing the next morning.  The officer said several times we did nothing wrong.  The wife is cheesed they called the cops instead of just coming over to ask as we live in small town America and we all know each other.  My question is where were the parents??  Our dogs (both houses) have done this for years so it was known they get amp'ed up and we both let the dogs run back and forth.  We each only do it for short periods of time as the noise is unreal.

[cobraman]

I may have posted this before but my irk is while I was searching on line for a possible car for my wife every site I go to has a pop up every 10 seconds.  Can I help you ? I delete it because I am just looking and doing some research. Sure enough 10 seconds later there is that pop up again. Maybe its just me but I find it frustrating.

[HomerS]

2 hours ago, cobraman said:

I may have posted this before but my irk is while I was searching on line for a possible car for my wife every site I go to has a pop up every 10 seconds.  Can I help you ? I delete it because I am just looking and doing some research. Sure enough 10 seconds later there is that pop up again. Maybe its just me but I find it frustrating.

Just type in that you were searching the Internet for a solution to your explosive diarrhea and you must have typed the wrong thing in the search bar.  That should give them nightmares for a while.

[PierreR89]

12 hours ago, cobraman said:

I may have posted this before but my irk is while I was searching on line for a possible car for my wife every site I go to has a pop up every 10 seconds.  Can I help you ? I delete it because I am just looking and doing some research. Sure enough 10 seconds later there is that pop up again. Maybe its just me but I find it frustrating.

What browser are you using?
I am using firefox and have added adblocker to it = adfree surfing even when watching youtube videos
Only downside is some sites recocgninse that and shows you a popup with "you are using adblocker and this is why we have adds on here please turn it off"
Beg about if being turned off and it will stay on forever..

I am sure other browswes have that addon to.

[Snake45]

10 hours ago, HomerS said:

Just type in that you were searching the Internet for a solution to your explosive diarrhea and you must have typed the wrong thing in the search bar.  That should give them nightmares for a while.

I've discovered that the phrase "painful rectal itch" (hat tip to Saturday Night Live) can bring almost any conversation to a quick and merciful end.