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Post by bunbun / Hank on May 1, 2011 12:24:21 GMT -5
So what did they change the company motto to, "TOYS THAT FALL APART IN A COUPLE O' YEARS?" Boy, that'll garner ya a lot of customers.
That's a great company motto. "We make crap, and it's dirt cheap!"
That's why I never take the lowest bidder on anything. Just how many corners are you cutting anyway? Try and get FIVE bids on anything. Throw out the highest and the lowest, and of the three remaining in the middle ones pick the company you are most comfortable with. You'll probably get a decent job at a fair price.
HANK.
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Post by Sir Trevor on May 1, 2011 16:55:16 GMT -5
Well, I just checked. And the current motto is "Get Up and Grow"
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Jul 26, 2011 5:09:43 GMT -5
I go into Home Depot in Chardon yesterday to buy some chalk I need for a couple of projects around the house, and what do I see the moment I walk in the door? Snowblowers on display! There they sit in a pile of simulated snow. Da ya think you're rushing the season a tad bit? Maybe ya could start out first with leaf blowers and rakes and progress to snow removal equipment AFTER Labor day. I don't even want to think about snow just yet.
HANK.
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Post by Lady Catharine on Jul 26, 2011 15:32:38 GMT -5
WTF? Say it ISNT so...Good ole retail...sell, sell, sell...
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Post by Sir Trevor on Jul 26, 2011 16:09:42 GMT -5
Worst part is, bet you couldn't find an air conditioner in the place. Something they could actually sell right now.
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Jul 26, 2011 17:55:03 GMT -5
Well, Since I wasn't looking for an AC unit, can't tell ya, don't know. But I would be willing to bet that you are probably correct. I'm surprised they did not have Christmas decorations up. I know ya gotta kinda "lead" the season, but this is ridicules! If you want an air conditioner you probably need to hit the store in December or January. I swear Sprawl Mart had back to school stuff on the shelves about a week after school let out in June. HANK.
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Post by Lady Catharine on Jul 26, 2011 18:55:35 GMT -5
Hank, Soon after the 4th of July, craft store JoAnne ETC had fall, & Thansgiving decorations out !
Straw fall stuff out...Not even READY for it....
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Post by Sir Trevor on Jul 26, 2011 21:57:52 GMT -5
The craft places make sense. You need to get the supplies early enough to actually be able to do some projects and have them done for the holiday. So I don't have a problem with that. If I had time right now, I would be working on some Halloween props now so I could have them done. Only 3 months to the holiday, and about 2 months until the decorating begins.
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Sept 16, 2011 15:08:09 GMT -5
Why the Hell is it you cannot get a simple answer to a simple inquiry?
As you probably know I just went thru Hell with a Volvo flywheel. An since I am helping a friend with a 95 Dodge pick-up that he just picked up the engine from the machine shop, therefore the flywheel is off of it I thought maybe I should see if the problem I had with the Volvo applies to his Dodge.
SO! I get the Dodge manual and look up flywheel in the index, and it says see chapter 2C, page 19. So I go there and what does it tell me? "Refer to Chapter 2, part A Section 15 for this procedure.
You MORONS couldn't uv told me this in the index? Sometimes I feel like Mr. Spock in an insane asylum. I'm the only logical person on the planet. And those of you who know how damn nuts I am that ain't sayin' much for the rest of humanity.
HANK.
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Post by Sir Trevor on Sept 18, 2011 2:29:52 GMT -5
Why do Ohio's road signs suck so bad? That point was really driven home to me this weekend. Friday night I drove back from Pittsburgh. All the signs on I79 were nice and bright, and easy to read. Tonight, I drove home from Eastlake. Almost all the signs on I90 sucked at night. For some reason they don't reflect light evenly. So, with the shadows on them, you can't read them until you are almost on them. And while I am at it, the paint on the road isn't nearly as reflective either. And Ohio is also pretty stingy with those reflectors in the road as well.
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Sept 19, 2011 13:27:23 GMT -5
Trevor. If you think Ohio is bad don't EVER go to Massachusetts. Unless things have drastically changed since I was last there you'll be lucky to find a road sign in the whole damn state.
They're probably afraid the residents would leave that over priced Hell hole if they knew how to get out.
HANK.
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Post by Sir Trevor on Sept 20, 2011 19:35:01 GMT -5
While we are talking about highway idiocy. Have you been on RT 2 lately? My god, it's even worse than I90.
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Sept 21, 2011 20:56:24 GMT -5
I hear ya about route 2. Because of all the construction I try to avoid it like the plague. When they widened Mayfield Rd. by 271 a few years ago I avoided that area for 3 years till they finished. What a clusterf**k that was.
Hell, I damn near need a helicopter to get anywhere from my house. Chardon-Windsor is still closed East of me. That project started July 2ND and was suppose to take 60 days. Which would be, oh I don't know, Sept 2ND maybe. Then 2 miles West of me on Chardon-Windsor they are repaving. That section is still open, but expect delays.
Oh well, Winter is coming, so construction season will be over soon.
HANK.
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Post by Sir Trevor on Sept 22, 2011 17:10:58 GMT -5
I hear you. For the longest time, just about any main road going west from me was under construction. RT 531 was closed in Ashtabula RT 20 had major delays while they did bridge work at the RT11 overpass. RT 84 down to 1 lane for long stretches for road construction. I 90 is still a mess. I don't mind the construction so much, or even the crossing over to the other side where they are doing bridge work. But these split construction zones are just strange and don't make any sense to me.
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Post by Sir Trevor on Oct 3, 2012 20:31:35 GMT -5
Other drivers!
For some reason, today has been full of drivers that do nothing but really annoy me. I can count at least half a dozen that had to come to a complete stop to make a right hand turn at intersections where they had the right of way. Of course, they had to be all the way to the left of the lane to make the turn as well, so you couldn't even go around them while they took their good old sweet time.
Then, of couse, there were the obligatory idiots that have to drive slow in the passing lane. Usually while being beside other vehicles so you were stuck behind them, for miles until they either finally passed someone, or moved over.
The best though, had to be in the construction zone. You know, one of those new fangles split lane things, so even though there are 2 lanes going the same direction, they are divided. And I got behind some moron doing 45 in that zone. To make it even more fun, every time we came to a bridge, where there were concrete barriers on both sides of the lane, he would hit his brakes and slow down to like 35. So much fun being behind him, while there was a semi riding my ass, like there was anything I could do about it.
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