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HEB self checkout. 8 out of 10 times I use this, I get some weight mismatch or bagging error which requires me to have an attendant come over and clear the error. Either open the system up so it can work as intended, or shut it down completely. How the fuck is placing the item you scan on a scale supposed to stop shoplifting?  If I want to steal something, I just won’t scan it and just take it. 

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6 hours ago, Dbeasy said:

There is nothing more annoying than buying a pair of shorts off the internet and realizing the pockets are so shallow the iPhone falls out easily. 

Academy sells these pants/sweats that work for me in all seasons but damn if their pockets are too shallow and suck.  Have to watch out for phone, keys, etc... from falling out when I get in the car and such.  

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On 8/3/2022 at 6:42 PM, DigglerontheHoof said:

SWA.

This used to be a well-run airline.  It’s now dog shit.

3rd trip in the last 3 weeks with multiple flight cancellations, no crews and incompetent employees.

Flew home from Jersey yesterday and felt like playing roulette. Crew barely made it to flight in DFW and were 30-45min late- no fucks really given as long as they didn't cancel our flight. .It was American.

About 800 things had already happened in Newark to put in this thread. What a world class shithole. I was just grateful to get home.

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There is nothing more annoying than buying a pair of shorts off the internet and realizing the pockets are so shallow the iPhone falls out easily. 

Have a pair of shorts that I won’t put anything in the left pocket because of exactly this. Got in the car once and my phone was in that pocket. Well as I’m shutting the door I heard something fall but it was too late. Perfect timing made me shut the door on my phone.

Wife bought me shorts from target that I can’t keep my wallet in the back pocket. It’s so shallow my wallet fell out in the car(luckily) without me realizing.
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HEB self checkout. 8 out of 10 times I use this, I get some weight mismatch or bagging error which requires me to have an attendant come over and clear the error. Either open the system up so it can work as intended, or shut it down completely. How the fuck is placing the item you scan on a scale supposed to stop shoplifting?  If I want to steal something, I just won’t scan it and just take it. 

One time at Central Market, I put my bag down and scanned some prime ribeyes, it dinged, I put them in the bag and then noticed that the message had popped up if I had placed a bag down. Hit yes and kept going. Didn’t realize until I got home that I got the steaks for free.
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On 8/4/2022 at 8:31 PM, elfenix said:

pasta comes in 1 lb packages, but every goddamn recipe is for 12 ounces of pasta. 

buy 3 packs of pasta, take a quarter of the pasta out of each and make 4 recipes.

or increase recipe by 1/3 on other ingredients?

Either way, some math is staring you right in the face...

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1 hour ago, Cheeseweasel said:

People who have to come to a complete stop to make a right hand turn.

Not to mention the ones who have to swing out to make a right turn.

This isn't the Indy 500, Brenda, your Lexus RX can make the turn without you needing to cut into the lane to your left. 

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2 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:

Those are the same people who got a $360 ticket from the Frisco police department for rolling through a stop sign while turning right.

Sorry, I should have been more clear. Assholes who come to a complete stop making a right hand turn where there is no stop sign or light. 

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2 hours ago, Cheeseweasel said:

Sorry, I should have been more clear. Assholes who come to a complete stop making a right hand turn where there is no stop sign or light. 

There is a yield sign near my house going into a right hand turn with a clear field of view to the left.  At least 75% of the folks turning right treat the yield sign as a stop sign.

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When I lived in Center, Deep East Texas, there was an old lady in her 80s who would come to a complete stop in a 45 mph zone on one of the busiest streets in town and wait until there was no oncoming traffic before turning right into her driveway.  It was common to have to wait 5 or even 10 minutes for her to get off the street.  The whole town breathed a sigh of relief when her son took her keys.

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5 minutes ago, 52-80 said:

That black hole between the car seat and the center console where your french fries fall to turn irretrievably stale 

Not just French fries. Business cards. Credit cards. Keys. Cash. Anything important. 

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I am disgruntled when my email delivery is "delayed." 

Fuck you, email postal worker.  You say you will keep trying for 24 hours but we both know you won't  You will take the lazy way out and come back in a day and say "Sorry, we couldn't deliver this email."  You knew the truth all along.

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13 hours ago, Js1 said:

Not to mention the ones who have to swing out to make a right turn.

This isn't the Indy 500, Brenda, your Lexus RX can make the turn without you needing to cut into the lane to your left. 

That would be my wife. She actually got pulled over for it once. I can't count the times we've been leaving a parking lot or something and I need to tell her she's turning right from the wrong lane...

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Got a quote to repaint the outside of our house for… $9000.

I was expecting the cost to be at least $8000 (with astronomical paint prices, shortage of labor, and speaking to some neighbors), but still a punch the gut to see it on paper.

The HOA only asked us to repaint the eaves, garage doors and trim, but that by itself would have been over $4500.

 Time to break the piggy bank that intended for out trip to the waterfall in South America. 

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Minecraft stopped working for the kids, so I bought the upgraded version of it.

Back when it was owned by Mahjong Studios, buy it and logging on was a breeze.

Now that Microsoft owns it, it is a beating to even buy the damn thing. Gotta create a X-box account, put in my address 2x, and donate a skin sample. Now that it's finally installed, my kids can't use their original log in to play the game because it's already taken.

Maybe it's user error on my part but I'm going to blame MS anyway.

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2 hours ago, Superhero said:

Minecraft stopped working for the kids, so I bought the upgraded version of it.

Back when it was owned by Mahjong Studios, buy it and logging on was a breeze.

Now that Microsoft owns it, it is a beating to even buy the damn thing. Gotta create a X-box account, put in my address 2x, and donate a skin sample. Now that it's finally installed, my kids can't use their original log in to play the game because it's already taken.

Maybe it's user error on my part but I'm going to blame MS anyway.

Tell those punk kids to get a job 

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3 hours ago, Superhero said:

Got a quote to repaint the outside of our house for… $9000.

I was expecting the cost to be at least $8000 (with astronomical paint prices, shortage of labor, and speaking to some neighbors), but still a punch the gut to see it on paper.

The HOA only asked us to repaint the eaves, garage doors and trim, but that by itself would have been over $4500.

 Time to break the piggy bank that intended for out trip to the waterfall in South America. 

Get multiple quotes.

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Have a box of gallon-sized Ziploc bags in the pantry. Picked them up, and see that there are "19 bags" in the box. 19? I understand inflation/shrinkflation, but holy hell. Charge an extra quarter and just put 20 in the box.  

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57 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

I went through the self-checkout lane at the store. My bill was $10.28. I put 28¢ in the coin feeder and $20 in the bill feeder expecting $10 in change. But one of my pennies wasn’t accepted by the coin feeder and it dropped unnoticed into the change receptacle. So I got that penny back plus $9.99 in change. 

An odd entry for your journal.

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7 hours ago, BonzoMontreaux said:

People that don't under stand the left on yellow\red concept when there is no arrow.  

Assert your presence and pull forward into the intersection on the green light you fuck face.  You have the right of way when on coming traffic stops.

I never knew that.  So if the intersection is small then the one car that fits in the intersection gets to go through when the light turns?  But not others following him, right?  

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1 minute ago, HouTex said:

I never knew that.  So if the intersection is small then the one car that fits in the intersection gets to go through when the light turns?  But not others following him, right?  

I believe it's technically running a red light either way. But I stand by what Bonzo said. 

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Minecraft stopped working for the kids, so I bought the upgraded version of it.
Back when it was owned by Mahjong Studios, buy it and logging on was a breeze.
Now that Microsoft owns it, it is a beating to even buy the damn thing. Gotta create a X-box account, put in my address 2x, and donate a skin sample. Now that it's finally installed, my kids can't use their original log in to play the game because it's already taken.
Maybe it's user error on my part but I'm going to blame MS anyway.
They bought Skype some time ago and I travel abroad frequently. After they bought it, it was such a pain in the ass to to do anything with the app. You now need a Microsoft account to use it and they constantly require you to change your password which is a pain.
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23 hours ago, Cheeseweasel said:

Have them paint the house. Two birds, one stone.

When my kids were in high school, I got the bright idea that we would all work together to stain our fence. Family bonding.

Rather than use a sprayer I gave each of us a brush to do it by hand. After awhile it became obvious that the wood was absorbing the stain pretty badly so we kept having to add coats and it was taking forever. I was also using up stain like crazy. 

But we couldn’t quit because the fence was partially done and it would have looked terrible if I switched to a sprayer for two thirds of the fence. So, a 125 foot fence took four people three full days to paint, with something like 8 five gallon drums of stain. It was exhausting  the neighbors were laughing their ass off at us. 

We moved a year later. It’s been 13 years and I occasionally drive by the house. The same stain is still on there and it still looks incredible. Interesting lesson for the kids about hard work, and also a cautionary tale about coming up with half ass ideas. 

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