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cosjobs said:
I noticed a few tiny dents on the hood of my SUV. Looked closer and there were lots. Also on both my sedans. Adjuster came this morning and diagnosed hundreds or hail dents on each of the cars. Very tiny, I hardly noticed on the SUV and had to really squint at the right angle to see them on the sedans. I have no idea when it happened, but it certainly happened in my driveway, since all three cars got damaged.

Anyway, the adjuster is writing up an estimate and says they'll use "paintless dent repair." Is that legit? 
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An hour later he finished and left me with three checks for 1700, 2900 and 3400. Take the money and run or go to a repair shop and try and milk out a higher number?

 
shuke said:
DA RAIDERS said:
My daughter left me a note asking for help with this problem. 

"What is another way to write this expression?"  15x + 10y  

i suck at math am struggling to see another way to write it. :bag:  
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5(3x + 2y)
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10y + 15x

Commutative property of addition.  Because the terms are each moving to another place, like a commute.

Really, I'm just trying to keep this going because I know GM loves the math talk in here.

 
El Floppo said:
I mentioned Floppinho's Rosie's Theater thing (in-school theater program set up by Rosie O'donnell's foundation, with scholarship opportunities that can continue on through high school). Today was their performance- song and dance of Jerome Robbins (west side story and tons of other stuff)... very musical theatery, with each 5th grade class (6 classes) doing their own number on stage along with several grade-wide ensemble performances. 

floppinho's group was the last to go, but while they're getting on stage, a bunch of professional looking tv/video cameras move themselves to the front of the auditorium. I know floppinho is internationally known, and his class crushed don't rain on my parade about as well as that miserable song can be crushed, but seems excessive. film crews are getting shots of the audience, kids... wtf is going on.

when they finish, the principal gets up and gives a more emotionally charged speech than normal about how important the arts are, and then introduces a special guest. James Cordon (sp?) walks up and gives a very nice speech to the kids and parents... OMG I WAS TWO FEET AWAY FROM HIM. no idea why he was at our school, but I heard he was also going to read to the kindergarten classes. 

sorry furley, no video for you.

we're still waiting to hear about the scholarship for Rosie's... would be a great thing to get for the kid.
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Who is James Cordon?  

NM, I'll google. 

Who the hell stays up that late?

 
Dan Lambskin said:
Guess who's wife just backed into the neighbors car?  Bonus points if you can guess how new our van is
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The lady that lives across the street from us we affectionately refer to as Loony Toons Lisa because as sweet as she is, she is nuttier than a fruit cake.  She also is a brain cancer survivor who lost a lot of her cranium and probably should not be operating a motor vehicle, but she does and it's not safe for society.

About a year ago, she backed into my dad's car coming out of her driveway.  Not completely crazy as my dad was parked on our side of the street and I could see how one might have missed seeing his shiny red car in the rearview mirror during the brightness of the day if one wasn't inclined to look out for such things.  However, her backing into vehicles doesn't stop there.  She has twice now backed into the cars of her neighbor who lives immediately to her left.  Said cars were parked on their side of the street.  Now I never took physics and I've avoided the lovely math question in here for a reason, but I'm still not sure how she backed into a car coming out of her driveway that was parked on her side of the street.  Twice.  She has done this twice.  
 

TL;DR Loony Toons Lisa should not be driving.  She's not even Asian.

 
General Malaise said:
Just how many late shows are there now?  Jimmy, Jimmy, Seth, Conan, this Cordon guy....am I missing any?
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I dunno. I turn on ABC's overnight world news to see if - in case we blew up ourselves and/or the rest of the world overnight - I actually need to go to work. Seems like there's a lot of 'em, though. 

 
General Malaise said:
Can we talk toll roads in here?

They don't have them out west.  I went back to Dallas last month, rented a car and followed my GPS to get around town.  It routed me on to some toll roads, but I never had a chance to actually, you know, PAY THE TOLLS.  So yesterday, I get a letter in the mail from the rental car agency and they say I didn't pay all of $3.48 in tolls.  They were kind enough to pay it on my behalf with an extra $30 'convenience' charge and because they're super friendly, they went ahead and billed my CC that I used for the rental.

What is this sorcery?  I wasn't even given a chance to pay the tolls.  How is one supposed to know?  QUESADILLA???????
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They all do it now.  It's either pay the $15 dollars a day for the EZPASS or take it in the backside with the "convenience fee".  God forbid they are really out to get you and sell it to a collections agency because they are too lazy to figure out who was driving the car.  

 
Sammy3469 said:
They all do it now.  It's either pay the $15 dollars a day for the EZPASS or take it in the backside with the "convenience fee".  God forbid they are really out to get you and sell it to a collections agency because they are too lazy to figure out who was driving the car.  
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WHAT???  $15 a day??  You mean weekdays when you go to work?  Or everyday whether you use it or not?

Either one is insane.  Where do you live?

 
General Malaise said:
The lady that lives across the street from us we affectionately refer to as Loony Toons Lisa because as sweet as she is, she is nuttier than a fruit cake.  She also is a brain cancer survivor who lost a lot of her cranium and probably should not be operating a motor vehicle, but she does and it's not safe for society.

About a year ago, she backed into my dad's car coming out of her driveway.  Not completely crazy as my dad was parked on our side of the street and I could see how one might have missed seeing his shiny red car in the rearview mirror during the brightness of the day if one wasn't inclined to look out for such things.  However, her backing into vehicles doesn't stop there.  She has twice now backed into the cars of her neighbor who lives immediately to her left.  Said cars were parked on their side of the street.  Now I never took physics and I've avoided the lovely math question in here for a reason, but I'm still not sure how she backed into a car coming out of her driveway that was parked on her side of the street.  Twice.  She has done this twice.  
 

TL;DR Loony Toons Lisa should not be driving.  She's not even Asian.
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ask lesa if she knews indian janets llo

 
Binky The Doormat said:
WHAT???  $15 a day??  You mean weekdays when you go to work?  Or everyday whether you use it or not?

Either one is insane.  Where do you live?
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* Dollar and Thrifty’s “All‐Inclusive Tolling” package is a daily or weekly fee paid by the consumer that covers all tolls during the rental period. Because tolls vary significantly from state to state, the cost for consumers may vary. The daily fee quoted here—$21.49—is for a NYC rental of up to four days. For “weekly” rentals (5‐7 days), the cost is $107 total.
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The other's are more "reasonable", but I've been butt raped by Thrifty before.

https://comptroller.nyc.gov/wp-content/uploads/documents/Fast_Fees.pdf

 
El Floppo said:
I mentioned Floppinho's Rosie's Theater thing (in-school theater program set up by Rosie O'donnell's foundation, with scholarship opportunities that can continue on through high school). Today was their performance- song and dance of Jerome Robbins (west side story and tons of other stuff)... very musical theatery, with each 5th grade class (6 classes) doing their own number on stage along with several grade-wide ensemble performances. 

floppinho's group was the last to go, but while they're getting on stage, a bunch of professional looking tv/video cameras move themselves to the front of the auditorium. I know floppinho is internationally known, and his class crushed don't rain on my parade about as well as that miserable song can be crushed, but seems excessive. film crews are getting shots of the audience, kids... wtf is going on.

when they finish, the principal gets up and gives a more emotionally charged speech than normal about how important the arts are, and then introduces a special guest. James Cordon (sp?) walks up and gives a very nice speech to the kids and parents... OMG I WAS TWO FEET AWAY FROM HIM. no idea why he was at our school, but I heard he was also going to read to the kindergarten classes. 

sorry furley, no video for you.

we're still waiting to hear about the scholarship for Rosie's... would be a great thing to get for the kid.
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They were on Entertainment Tonight in a short piece about Corden. Explains the cameras.

 
General Malaise said:
Who is James Cordon?  

NM, I'll google. 

Who the hell stays up that late?
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I’ve never seen Corden’s tv show but I’ve seen the YouTube clips of his Karaoke in cars thing.  

Iff you haven’t seen them, check them out.  

1. Kinda cool seeing mega stars singing along to their own stuff in a car.

2. James can sing.

3. If you don’t know anything about him and you listen/watch him sing you’d be somewhat surprised to find out that he is married...to a woman.

 
I live in a place where there are way more cars than street parking spots.  Every street has a wall of cars on both sides.  Years ago there was a big hail storm and every car for as far as the eye could see looked like golf balls.

 
You know what's neat? Having a friend who is bipolar and alcoholic. Wait, not neat...exhausting.

She was in a manic phase, working three home-health aide jobs totaling 104 hours a week. She was making $7K a month and was thrilled about it. Of course, it was unsustainable, and she blew a gasket. Sunday night she apparently drank a full bottle of Bailey's and terrified her roommate, and her son took her to the ER. I agreed to pick her up after work on Monday, but she called a cab and went home. Not before having the cab stop at 7-11 so she could pick up several four-packs of those little Sutter Home wines, however. :mellow:  

I didn't find any of this stuff when I stopped by to see her Monday evening. I thought the detox phase was underway, and I went home. She called me at 4:08, 4:11 and 4:15...AM. The first time the phone rang, I thought oh ####, she's dead. The second one was to apologize, and I was pretty salty for the third. One night's sleep wrecked. I go back over there on Tuesday night and find all the empty bottles where the crafty little drunk had hidden them. Her roommate was sure she would kill somebody trying to get more booze, so as a favor to both of them, I stayed there that night. No, I didn't get any, perverts.

Worked Wednesday on essentially no sleep. She wanted me to come back over that evening; I refused. It's a fine line between supporting someone and enabling them, sometimes. I've seen this movie before.

Just talked to her this evening and she sounds completely normal. She went almost a week without solid food and is probably under 100 pounds, again. Yet in 48 hours she drank more booze than I would attempt in a week. We had a talk about giving up the overnight job and just keeping the day job and the weekend job. Fingers crossed.

tl;dr My friend is a  :tfp:

 
kevzilla said:
You know what's neat? Having a friend who is bipolar and alcoholic. Wait, not neat...exhausting.

She was in a manic phase, working three home-health aide jobs totaling 104 hours a week. She was making $7K a month and was thrilled about it. Of course, it was unsustainable, and she blew a gasket. Sunday night she apparently drank a full bottle of Bailey's and terrified her roommate, and her son took her to the ER. I agreed to pick her up after work on Monday, but she called a cab and went home. Not before having the cab stop at 7-11 so she could pick up several four-packs of those little Sutter Home wines, however. :mellow:  

I didn't find any of this stuff when I stopped by to see her Monday evening. I thought the detox phase was underway, and I went home. She called me at 4:08, 4:11 and 4:15...AM. The first time the phone rang, I thought oh ####, she's dead. The second one was to apologize, and I was pretty salty for the third. One night's sleep wrecked. I go back over there on Tuesday night and find all the empty bottles where the crafty little drunk had hidden them. Her roommate was sure she would kill somebody trying to get more booze, so as a favor to both of them, I stayed there that night. No, I didn't get any, perverts.

Worked Wednesday on essentially no sleep. She wanted me to come back over that evening; I refused. It's a fine line between supporting someone and enabling them, sometimes. I've seen this movie before.

Just talked to her this evening and she sounds completely normal. She went almost a week without solid food and is probably under 100 pounds, again. Yet in 48 hours she drank more booze than I would attempt in a week. We had a talk about giving up the overnight job and just keeping the day job and the weekend job. Fingers crossed.

tl;dr My friend is a  :tfp:
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That doesn’t sound neat 

 
kevzilla said:
You know what's neat? Having a friend who is bipolar and alcoholic. Wait, not neat...exhausting.

She was in a manic phase, working three home-health aide jobs totaling 104 hours a week. She was making $7K a month and was thrilled about it. Of course, it was unsustainable, and she blew a gasket. Sunday night she apparently drank a full bottle of Bailey's and terrified her roommate, and her son took her to the ER. I agreed to pick her up after work on Monday, but she called a cab and went home. Not before having the cab stop at 7-11 so she could pick up several four-packs of those little Sutter Home wines, however. :mellow:  

I didn't find any of this stuff when I stopped by to see her Monday evening. I thought the detox phase was underway, and I went home. She called me at 4:08, 4:11 and 4:15...AM. The first time the phone rang, I thought oh ####, she's dead. The second one was to apologize, and I was pretty salty for the third. One night's sleep wrecked. I go back over there on Tuesday night and find all the empty bottles where the crafty little drunk had hidden them. Her roommate was sure she would kill somebody trying to get more booze, so as a favor to both of them, I stayed there that night. No, I didn't get any, perverts.

Worked Wednesday on essentially no sleep. She wanted me to come back over that evening; I refused. It's a fine line between supporting someone and enabling them, sometimes. I've seen this movie before.

Just talked to her this evening and she sounds completely normal. She went almost a week without solid food and is probably under 100 pounds, again. Yet in 48 hours she drank more booze than I would attempt in a week. We had a talk about giving up the overnight job and just keeping the day job and the weekend job. Fingers crossed.

tl;dr My friend is a  :tfp:
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brutal kev, sounds like you are a good friend.

 
I’m just glad that I live in a state where they rape you at the gas pump all civilized and stuff instead of toll roads.

 
McJose said:
I’m just glad that I live in a state where they rape you at the gas pump all civilized and stuff instead of toll roads.
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Our gas taxes built one of the nation's finest road systems, especially considering the vast distances involved. But our cities have exploded over the last 25 years, far beyond any public will for raising taxes or floating bonds. So these smooth talkers swoop in, and as I explained previously, Governor Goodhair was (and remains) at least one taco short of a #2 dinner.

 
kevzilla said:
So the word you spell correctly is quesadilla? Would've been a long time before I guessed that.

Yes, toll roads are an abomination. You're supposed to pay with an electronic tag affixed to your windshield. There's been all kinds of issues related to that. If you don't have one, there's a camera over every lane that takes remarkably good photos of your license plate as you speed by. There are some traditional booths, but not many; the fleecing is quite automated. All the money goes to some Spanish conglomerate. This was all rammed through by our beloved governor, who is now, hilariously, Secretary of Energy.

We may need @bentley, our resident pillar of the community, in here to explain the upside. I have never driven on a toll road and never will. 
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Usage-fee based transportation. The purest of all highway models. Used them today to get from downtown to The Mill 70% faster than it would have been on the free lanes. I'm pretty sure that Cintra (the Spanish conglomerate) is only a partner in the 130 projects, not 183A/290E/Mopac.

 
kevzilla said:
Our gas taxes built one of the nation's finest road systems, especially considering the vast distances involved. But our cities have exploded over the last 25 years, far beyond any public will for raising taxes or floating bonds. So these smooth talkers swoop in, and as I explained previously, Governor Goodhair was (and remains) at least one taco short of a #2 dinner.
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The gas tax has been 20 cents per gallon since 1993. Considering inflation, the gas tax only covers 58 cents on the dollar for what it did back then. But, our political heroes continue to refuse to raise the gas tax, while also trying to do away with all alternate funding mechanisms (tolls/managed lanes). So, we're absolutely ####ed on getting new infrastructure, but Abbot/Patrick/etc can keep getting reelected because Tea Party douchebags hate both taxes and the fundamentals of math.

 
kevzilla said:
You know what's neat? Having a friend who is bipolar and alcoholic. Wait, not neat...exhausting.

She was in a manic phase, working three home-health aide jobs totaling 104 hours a week. She was making $7K a month and was thrilled about it. Of course, it was unsustainable, and she blew a gasket. Sunday night she apparently drank a full bottle of Bailey's and terrified her roommate, and her son took her to the ER. I agreed to pick her up after work on Monday, but she called a cab and went home. Not before having the cab stop at 7-11 so she could pick up several four-packs of those little Sutter Home wines, however. :mellow:  

I didn't find any of this stuff when I stopped by to see her Monday evening. I thought the detox phase was underway, and I went home. She called me at 4:08, 4:11 and 4:15...AM. The first time the phone rang, I thought oh ####, she's dead. The second one was to apologize, and I was pretty salty for the third. One night's sleep wrecked. I go back over there on Tuesday night and find all the empty bottles where the crafty little drunk had hidden them. Her roommate was sure she would kill somebody trying to get more booze, so as a favor to both of them, I stayed there that night. No, I didn't get any, perverts.

Worked Wednesday on essentially no sleep. She wanted me to come back over that evening; I refused. It's a fine line between supporting someone and enabling them, sometimes. I've seen this movie before.

Just talked to her this evening and she sounds completely normal. She went almost a week without solid food and is probably under 100 pounds, again. Yet in 48 hours she drank more booze than I would attempt in a week. We had a talk about giving up the overnight job and just keeping the day job and the weekend job. Fingers crossed.

tl;dr My friend is a  :tfp:
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You're a good man. 

What did did she go to ER for?  Horrid gas?  I could drink a bottle of baileys and 12 little sutter home wines and barely be drunk.  I would however, have the most rancid gas Imaginable . :eek:   

Eta:  Actually, i would be pretty hammered, since that's 3 bottles of wine. But.....the farts would probably act like smelling salts and continually jolt me into a state of quasi sobriety. 

 
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bentley said:
Usage-fee based transportation. The purest of all highway models. Used them today to get from downtown to The Mill 70% faster than it would have been on the free lanes. I'm pretty sure that Cintra (the Spanish conglomerate) is only a partner in the 130 projects, not 183A/290E/Mopac.
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I thought the French owned a bunch of our roads?

 
mr. furley said:
technically,  i think you can as young as 55 but at a seriously reduced percentage compared to if you wait until 70 1/2
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From what I've been reading, normally this is correct, but it all depends on how the pension is written by the company. 

I have to talk to the right people within HR to find out for sure. 

 
shuke said:
This is odd. When I’ve gone on toll roads in Texas, National charges my credit card when they get the pay by mail bill.  Have never had a convenience fee.  

What rental company?  I would call and ##### up a storm. 
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Enterprise always charges me a convenience fee

 
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