NickD wrote: Just had a lobster taco and a sweet & spicy orange chicken taco from a food truck. I can never have tacos anywhere else any more. They just won't match up. * cue post-coital sound effects *
I'm eating food truck fish tacos as I read this.
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All of the cars I'm interested in owning are in Jacksonville, Houston, or Atlanta. It's like there is a force field around New Orleans that keeps interesting cars at least 400 miles away. I'd like to test drive a bunch and start narrowing the field, but done properly, that's a bunch of weekends, and thousands of miles of driving.
Garbage truck took down my FTTH connection, won't get fixed 'till Tuesday.
Hold on, is it a first world problem if a cable was hanging low enough for a truck to drive into?
I dislike working in an air-conditioned cubicle with a nice comfy chair, fridge to keep my lunch, free coffee and tea, etc.
I hate having to answer to audit and compliance all the time. I hate the work that I do; it isn't challenging, but it is tedious and in theory you need someone with my "qualifications" to do it. In reality, it is grunt work and it is rather pointless other than to check a regulatory box. If our new parent company has any sense, they'll take the responsibilities from me--I don't know what that would leave me doing, but I probably won't like that either.
I left my ice cream in the freezer to long, now it has ice on top of it.
The club rented a 2017 F-250 this weekend and I was the designated driver/trailer puller. Some issues: The 6.2 gasser got a bad 13.5 MPG unloaded and a truly abysmal 7.8 towing a 9,000 lb box trailer.
The little screen between the speedo and tach insists on showing me a short Ford ad EVERY TIME I STARTED THE berkeleyING TRUCK. I mean, I'm driving it already guys, I don't need reminding.
The headrest forced my neck forward uncomfortably, I may never buy something with seats that do that to me. Seriously OEMs give that "safety" feature a rest already.
SYNC felt necessary (I tried it, why not) to tell me it was connected AND that I had chosen to turn off the 911 assist every single time I started the damned thing. Cute tech, but STFU already unless I ask for something.
With a whole 12,000 miles on the clock it was very much a new truck. Why then did it have such a piss-poor weak AC system? My 18 year old suburban with 240K on the clock was colder.
It felt like Ford really missed the mark with this truck. Big and powerful sure, but thirsty, unwieldy, and obnoxious.
In reply to GameboyRMH:
I'm in the 'first world' (if Alaska counts), and I have personally taken down a telephone line to someone's house with a delivery truck
I forgot my phone today, so I have to use moderately less convenient means of communication to get in touch with people.
I could drive home and get it, but I don't want to.
KyAllroad wrote: The headrest forced my neck forward uncomfortably, I may never buy something with seats that do that to me. Seriously OEMs give that "safety" feature a rest already.
When I was with State Farm corporate, I'd have to travel by car pretty frequently for work. SF has its own rental fleet for corporate so they don't have to deal with any rental agencies. We had Hyundai, Ford, and Chevy. I hated the Fords for that reason--the Fusions would force your head forward in an uncomfortable manor; my neck was always killing my by the end of the trip.
In reply to KyAllroad:
The 13 Elantra has head rests like that. At least on the Hyundai they can be turned around.
As soon as I sat in it the first time, I wanted to know why they wanted me to break my neck in a crash. Was more fun with a helmet on, felt like the hunchback of Notre Dame.
My 300 horsepower 6-speed manual BMW has noisy tires.
mtn wrote:KyAllroad wrote: The headrest forced my neck forward uncomfortably, I may never buy something with seats that do that to me. Seriously OEMs give that "safety" feature a rest already.When I was with State Farm corporate, I'd have to travel by car pretty frequently for work. SF has its own rental fleet for corporate so they don't have to deal with any rental agencies. We had Hyundai, Ford, and Chevy. I hated the Fords for that reason--the Fusions would force your head forward in an uncomfortable manor; my neck was always killing my by the end of the trip.
I hated driving my mother in law's Flex for the very same reason until I figured out the headrests were tilt-adjustable. To be fair the adjustment process isn't obvious. I drove it on multiple occasions before figuring that out. I don't know if the Fusions and trucks are the same way.
My first world problem: Sprint cell data had a hiccup so we had to stop at McDonalds so we could use wifi to download directions to our next job. So now I have a milkshake and we're a bit behind schedule.
monknomo wrote: In reply to GameboyRMH: I'm in the 'first world' (if Alaska counts),
Technically, yes, practically, no 
My 12 focus company car is having ac issues, and im too busy to drop it off at the dealer this week to have it fixed again.
In reply to GameboyRMH:
Yeah, I know people without plumbing
Turns out after driving around the state of Indiana all morning we couldn't do the job because the truck full of materials never shipped but no one bothered to tell us so we spent the day waiting around. Now I'm in a motel 4 hours from home to do the job tomorrow. At least I got to clock a 12 hour day for doing basically nothing. I wasn't sure if this counts as a rant or a win so I'll put it here
mtn wrote: If our new parent company has any sense, they'll take the responsibilities from me--I don't know what that would leave me doing, but I probably won't like that either.
In today's world?
Filing for unemployment while you look for another job.
Went to get a fasting blood test.
The lab was closed.
The head rests in my '13 Fiesta are adjustable
Free healthcare. How is this possible?
z31maniac wrote:mtn wrote: If our new parent company has any sense, they'll take the responsibilities from me--I don't know what that would leave me doing, but I probably won't like that either.In today's world? Filing for unemployment while you look for another job.
No, little worry of that. We're understaffed in my department, and the company is growing and will continue to grow for the foreseeable future. We were a major player in the Chicago market, but really only in the Chicago market. A Canadian company about 30 times the size of us bought us to use as their platform in the USA. So there is virtually no risk of me losing my job.
But the resume is always out there, as they say.
EDIT: Oh, and my old job responsibilities were absorbed into the team that I'm still with, while I took on "new" responsibilities because we couldn't find anyone qualified to hire. I'm not qualified for this position, but I'm the best fit we have.
Wrongly posted this in the rants thread, while aggravating it is a first world problem:
CNN has sharted a million travel articles all over my RSS feeds overnight. Each one has the practical relevance of a supercar review and is vastly less interesting. I think I'll have to unsubscribe from their catch-all feed and subscribe to each of the sub-feeds I want to see.
I want to go play in the mud legally.
I don't know anyone with a farm, and the handful of legal places I can find in the state are for ATVs or purpose built rigs, neither of which I own or can afford.
RevRico wrote: I want to go play in the mud legally. I don't know anyone with a farm, and the handful of legal places I can find in the state are for ATVs or purpose built rigs, neither of which I own or can afford.
You said "state" but that sounds just like Ontario.
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