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Plankton · 03-08-2016, 10:52 AM

Today the x-GF is trying to get me to buy tarps for my equipment so I can go bike riding instead of practice tonight (it'll be raining tomorrow if I load in to our practice spot then... I have no idea why she wants me to do this) while a friend is trying to convince me to go to a concert 5 hours away in August (Full Terror Assault 3-day show) that I'll have to use my vehicle to haul everyone to/from and probably end up paying for most of the beer/food/supplies, all while I try to finish up some structural drawings that need to get out by the end of today.

**** all that ****. I just wanna sit in the sun and drink a beer. It's nice out.

You know what? **** it. Phone's gettin shut off, and I'm outa here. Let the ****ers in the shop figure the rest of this **** out.

Chula Vista · 03-08-2016, 11:31 AM

Because of a gutter issue we got some water damage around the sliding door in our upstairs master bedroom. Last Friday they came in a ripped out a bunch of drywall, sanded the wood, and then sprayed it with a mold killing solution.

They removed the entire wall around the door and then 4 feet back of the ceiling and adjacent walls.

They put up a wall of plastic with a zipper so that the area is sealed off from the rest of the room.

Today and tomorrow they'll be installing new drywall, patching it, and painting. Then a rug cleaners coming in to remove the stains near the door and clean the rest of the rug. Fun fun fun. Fortunately the homeowners association are covering 100% of the costs.

**Frownland** · 03-08-2016, 11:35 AM

At least the HOA isn't 100% of a customer hating piece of **** organization.

Chula Vista · 03-08-2016, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

At least the HOA isn't 100% of a customer hating piece of **** organization.

Nah, they're one of the good ones. Right after we bought our place we noticed a crack in the hardwood kitchen floor. They installed an entire new floor for free.

**Frownland** · 03-08-2016, 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

Nah, they're one of the good ones.

I consider this a paradox.

Plankton · 03-08-2016, 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Plankton

You know what? **** it. Phone's gettin shut off, and I'm outa here. Let the ****ers in the shop figure the rest of this **** out.

Didn't even make it out the door. I got pulled over by a shop foreman saying we need to set up for a live burn test. I'm the only one that knows how to run the RTD system. Friggin work natzi's.

Paul Smeenus · 03-08-2016, 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Plankton

Didn't even make it out the door. I got pulled over

...and you were still in your house?

Plankton · 03-08-2016, 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Paul Smeenus

...and you were still in your house?

I'm at work, gazing longfully at the beautiful sunny day outside my window.

Aux-In · 03-09-2016, 04:53 PM

I had an interesting morning, to say the least. Normally, I like to get to my laundromat early in the day, but today I was later than usual. Things started off no different than they ever have. I mean, it's a ****ing laundromat. What can go wrong?

While loading my laundry, I cracked open a new bottle of detergent, and as I was in the process of transferring the contents of the old bottle to the new, I spilled some of it on a machine (there's excess around the opening of the bottle sometimes). I don't have any kind of contingency plan for these types of disasters. Normally, I would use a piece of clothing to wipe off any spills. However, all of my clothing was in-cycle. My laundromat doesn't have any kind of paper towels or rags for these types of incidents, either. All they have is toilet paper from the bathroom, and that was my game plan.

At this point, I walked to the back where the bathroom is, and I noticed that the door was closed. No big deal, "I will check back in a few when it's no longer in use," I thought to myself. A few minutes after that, I looked out of the window and saw an ambulance pull up to the front of the store. "Okay, someone at the exercise joint next door probably hurt themselves," I thought to myself, yet again. Next thing I know, an EMT comes in and asks me if I called an ambulance. I'm all like, "Um, no," as I didn't hear any sort of commotion in the laundromat that would have caused me to do so. "Maybe he's in the bathroom. Sometimes they OD in the bathroom," the EMT said. Apparently, this is not a first-time occurrence here.

It turns out that there was indeed a guy in the bathroom, and he was the one who called for an ambulance. I'm now back at the front of the store during this, so it was hard to see what, specifically, the guy was on and/or using. But, I could hear the EMTs talking to him, and one of them said to the guy, "What, are you trying to kill yourself?" as he held up what looked like a metal can of paint or cleaner (an item not sold within the laundromat). Once they determined the nature of the guy's issue, they brought in the stretcher and loaded the guy into the ambulance.

After all that happened, an older guy in his 60s and I got to talkin' about the incident and other matters, which involved the following:

He was divorced.
He was a former salesman who made $180,000, but was laid off in 2000. Assume the tech crash.
He had another job: selling cellphones, where he was made the employee of the year multiple times.
As a result of being employee of the year, he won tickets to spring-training games for his favorite baseball team. It cost him more to travel to the training camp than he made in that week's salary. Irony extant.
His other jobs: working at Walmart, other sales jobs, and he now does motivational speeches for several different companies.
We talked about all the bars he went to in the '70s.
We talked about the seedy parts of town that he's scared to go into.
We talked Social Security, Medicare, women/marriage, his travels.
He had a heart attack at the same laundromat in 2010, according to him.

I think the moral of the story -- the great takeaway -- is that the laundromat is the place to be.

~ Aux-In, reporting from the frontlines.

Chula Vista · 03-09-2016, 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Aux-In

I think the moral of the story -- the great takeaway -- is that the laundromat is the place to be.

I swear to ****ing God that I will stay at least 1/4 mile away from you as I age. We good?

03-08-2016, 10:52 AM	#36341 (permalink)
Plankton Just Keep Swimming... Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: See signature... Posts: 7,765	Today the x-GF is trying to get me to buy tarps for my equipment so I can go bike riding instead of practice tonight (it'll be raining tomorrow if I load in to our practice spot then... I have no idea why she wants me to do this) while a friend is trying to convince me to go to a concert 5 hours away in August (Full Terror Assault 3-day show) that I'll have to use my vehicle to haul everyone to/from and probably end up paying for most of the beer/food/supplies, all while I try to finish up some structural drawings that need to get out by the end of today. ** all that . I just wanna sit in the sun and drink a beer. It's nice out. You know what? it. Phone's gettin shut off, and I'm outa here. Let the ers in the shop figure the rest of this ** out. __________________ See location...

03-08-2016, 11:31 AM	#36342 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Because of a gutter issue we got some water damage around the sliding door in our upstairs master bedroom. Last Friday they came in a ripped out a bunch of drywall, sanded the wood, and then sprayed it with a mold killing solution. They removed the entire wall around the door and then 4 feet back of the ceiling and adjacent walls. They put up a wall of plastic with a zipper so that the area is sealed off from the rest of the room. Today and tomorrow they'll be installing new drywall, patching it, and painting. Then a rug cleaners coming in to remove the stains near the door and clean the rest of the rug. Fun fun fun. Fortunately the homeowners association are covering 100% of the costs. __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

03-08-2016, 11:35 AM	#36343 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	At least the HOA isn't 100% of a customer hating piece of **** organization. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

03-09-2016, 04:53 PM	#36349 (permalink)
Aux-In Wrinkled Magazine Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: In Time Posts: 467	"Huffing Laundry" I had an interesting morning, to say the least. Normally, I like to get to my laundromat early in the day, but today I was later than usual. Things started off no different than they ever have. I mean, it's a ****ing laundromat. What can go wrong? While loading my laundry, I cracked open a new bottle of detergent, and as I was in the process of transferring the contents of the old bottle to the new, I spilled some of it on a machine (there's excess around the opening of the bottle sometimes). I don't have any kind of contingency plan for these types of disasters. Normally, I would use a piece of clothing to wipe off any spills. However, all of my clothing was in-cycle. My laundromat doesn't have any kind of paper towels or rags for these types of incidents, either. All they have is toilet paper from the bathroom, and that was my game plan. At this point, I walked to the back where the bathroom is, and I noticed that the door was closed. No big deal, "I will check back in a few when it's no longer in use," I thought to myself. A few minutes after that, I looked out of the window and saw an ambulance pull up to the front of the store. "Okay, someone at the exercise joint next door probably hurt themselves," I thought to myself, yet again. Next thing I know, an EMT comes in and asks me if I called an ambulance. I'm all like, "Um, no," as I didn't hear any sort of commotion in the laundromat that would have caused me to do so. "Maybe he's in the bathroom. Sometimes they OD in the bathroom," the EMT said. Apparently, this is not a first-time occurrence here. It turns out that there was indeed a guy in the bathroom, and he was the one who called for an ambulance. I'm now back at the front of the store during this, so it was hard to see what, specifically, the guy was on and/or using. But, I could hear the EMTs talking to him, and one of them said to the guy, "What, are you trying to kill yourself?" as he held up what looked like a metal can of paint or cleaner (an item not sold within the laundromat). Once they determined the nature of the guy's issue, they brought in the stretcher and loaded the guy into the ambulance. After all that happened, an older guy in his 60s and I got to talkin' about the incident and other matters, which involved the following: He was divorced. He was a former salesman who made $180,000, but was laid off in 2000. Assume the tech crash. He had another job: selling cellphones, where he was made the employee of the year multiple times. As a result of being employee of the year, he won tickets to spring-training games for his favorite baseball team. It cost him more to travel to the training camp than he made in that week's salary. Irony extant. His other jobs: working at Walmart, other sales jobs, and he now does motivational speeches for several different companies. We talked about all the bars he went to in the '70s. We talked about the seedy parts of town that he's scared to go into. We talked Social Security, Medicare, women/marriage, his travels. He had a heart attack at the same laundromat in 2010, according to him. I think the moral of the story -- the great takeaway -- is that the laundromat is the place to be. ~ Aux-In, reporting from the frontlines. __________________ Reviews l YouTube Playlist: Another Dimension "All over a bowl of bitter beans."