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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Monday, April 14, 2008 - 1:59 am
Nyheat said: "I find that the worst speed traps are the ones entering a small town." I believe that's become a GREAT boon/source of income for the small towns, which is why they enforce so much (plus deliberately reduce the speed in a very short length of roadway). Most out-of-towners simply prefer to pay the tickets (because they don't want to spend time/expense of coming back to argue before a Magistrate or hoping their insurance doesn't get wind of the out-of-state ticket). So, that ticket fills the small town's coffers, pays the Police salaries most likely. If a "local" were to get pulled over, probably they would get a Warning - or rather the locals would be smart enough to know whereabouts SpeedHits Will Likely Happen & avoid them in the first place. ETA: It's called "Creative Financing 101" I believe.
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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Monday, April 14, 2008 - 3:43 am
LOL Biscottii, I am well-familiar with that concept. When I used to live out west on an acreage I would leave for town driving 100 then as you enter the town you had to slow down to 60 for (and I am not kidding you) less then 1/2 mile then the speed limit went to 80. Guess where the RCMP were always parked? LOL I was always griping that it shouldn't even be legal to have to brake that drastically on a straight highway, if they ever have a population boom that is going to be the biggest crash-site in the area. I was being paranoid about sticking right around the limit because I was out of country. Didn't know and didn't want to find out what they would do to ensure payment from someone they knew was leaving the state (as in holding the vehicle hostage LOL).
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, April 14, 2008 - 7:44 am
Coming back from Vegas, when you hop off the freeway in, actually I'm not sure if you get off in California City or Mojave, but anyways there's a stretch where the speed limit is still pretty high, then when you get to Mojave it suddenly drops to 35mph. Same thing, they usually wait right there and pull over tons of people. Darren's always pretty careful there, he works out there and sees people getting pulled over daily. My bil though, everytime they come back from Vegas they get stopped in the same dang spot, lol. Last time they went, they took my minivan and sis called as they were getting off the freeway to let me know they'd be here in half an hour, I told her to tell bil to be careful. Couple minutes later she calls again, "Where's your registration and insurance card?" Funny thing is as the cop was standing there waiting for it and bil was checking all my compartments, she took a few minutes to gripe to me because she'd just told him to slow down, lol.
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 6:05 pm
I've spent the last several hours ON A WEEKEND formatting our custom publish efforts for a text book. One woman, who wrote three sections, insists on using line breaks instead of paragraph breaks for some unknown reason, and puts everything in 14-point bold font. Yo, honey, I think it's time you got some READING GLASSES.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, April 21, 2008 - 7:57 pm
{{{Prisoner}}} Hope your weekend ended up better than it started! This was "Errand Day From Hell." What should have been a 2 hour errand trip turned in to 4; and that was after I got a 3 hour late start cause I had a dead car battery that I needed to put on the charger before I could even leave the driveway. As I'm leaving the driveway, I'm thinking rather wryly that I'm finally getting away about the time I was hoping to be back home and in bed. Like any other night, I was up all night with Mom. But on errand day, I stay up and get errands done, then come home and nap a bit until she gets up (yes, Mom's a night owl, but then so am I). 1st stop: Wal-mart, to pick up Mom's meds. 3 of 4 are ready, cause the insurance said I can't have the 4th one yet cause they said she only needs it every 59 days (its a 30 day supply). I know why it happened, cause Mom was off the eye drop in one eye while she had her cataract surgery, and she had a myriad of other drops for the surgical eye instead. So naturally the last bottle lasted longer. Pharmacist puts it back through, changes it back to a 30-day gig, and the insurance takes it. I'm told to have a seat and they'll call me....tick...tick...tick...everyone and their cousin comes in to fill scripts....tick...tick...tick...everyone and their cousin leaves with their scripts. 3 of us are waiting and waiting and waiting. The other two go up and check a few times...."still working on it." After more than an hour has passed, I go up and check on mine, and its HANGING up in the FREAKING WAITING area for when people call their scripts in! I ask her, "how long has that been hanging there?" Answer: "<giggle> I don't know. It’s been so busy <giggle giggle>." I say, in a tone meant to show I’m frustrated and trying very hard to be good natured, "well gee, I guess its a good thing I checked, or I might have been sitting over there for another hour." The response? "<giggle, giggle>" I wasn't telling you a joke, honey. No apology, nothing. Just a light hearted giggle that it was soooo freaking funny that I sat there for over an hour. 2nd Stop: Pets-Mart. Dog food pick up (one of the two major reasons I had to do the trip today, and the Boy was out of food...other reason was Mom's meds). Went off with no hitch thank God. 3rd Stop: Grocery store. No major hitches while shopping. But my legs are starting to fall off, there's a few things I can't find, and I'm just too tired to care and look further for them, so I put them on the list for next time and give up. The shopping was ok, but what a mess they made of bagging everything..... As a caregiver, I long ago got into the habit of bringing in the perishables first, just in case I walked in the door to a surprise issue. The first few years of caregiving, there were a few times I'd come home and Mom was on the floor. So if I came in the door and ended up having to help her up and stuff, at least the perishables were in the house, and I could deal with the rest of the groceries later. I even put the bags with perishables in a part of my car so I can grab them first/easier. There was no way I could do that this time. I had 2 bags of perishables, but I knew there was more. So I rummaged around in the cart trying to put the perishable bags in one spot. HAH! I ended up having to bring the whole mess in, and rummage and sort through it all right away. Here's how they bagged some of the perishables: Bag 1: chicken wings from the deli, mayo and bacon bits from the grocery aisle. Bag 2: Redi-whip, Half/Half from the refrigerated area, shrimp from the freezer, and nuts from the grocery aisle. Bag 3: mac salad from the deli, 1 of two small packages of egg rolls from the freezer, a package of ground beef, a can of nuts, and thrown on top of that a box of crackers from the grocery aisle (good thing I looked under that box of crackers!). Bag 4: the other package of egg rolls, a box of rice, a jar of olives, and a chocolate bar. Where in the heck did they learn to bag stuff! And 3 different items I bought in quantities of two were not bagged together. I had to go rummaging around to find the pairings so I could put them away together. Finally.....I walk in the door just in time to hear my alarm clock upstairs going off (from when it was set yesterday)! So I have to run up there right away to turn it off, or it will keep going for over an hour. Great, that means now I've officially been up 24 hours, and Mom hasn't even gotten up today yet!
Its going to be a loooonnnggggg night!
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Lancecrossfire
Animoderator
07-13-2000
| Monday, April 21, 2008 - 9:20 pm
Who, you need a break!
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Oldtex
Member
03-06-2006
| Monday, April 21, 2008 - 9:23 pm
I'm exhausted from just reading about your day! Hope you can catch some quality zzzzz's and tomorrow will be better.
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - 2:45 am
I hope you're napping now, Who! I very carefully put like items together on the belt when I check out -- frozen, refrigerated, non-perishable, and non-food. Inevitably I need to stop the teenage checkout kid from putting the oven cleaner in with the frozen french fries. I'm still working on the textbook. I finally had to call it quits since I was getting bugeyed. I had hoped to finish it today, but no such luck. Still need to write about study skills and problem-solving, but the rest is formatted. And today I have meetings all morning, and then class tonight, so not much will get done.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - 7:18 am
Into my 36th hour. I did get two naps in on the couch (which is just wide as me, if not a bit narrower). One half hour nap while I waited for Mom to finish up putting in her teeth and come out to the living room. Then, after we ate, I put on a movie I'd already seen, and during the last hour of it, I laid back down on the couch (and now don't remember the ending, so I must have gotten up to another hour nap). Mom is sitting on the edge of her bed getting ready to be tucked in (probably about a half hour from now). So it won't be long till I'm officially in my bed! I'm tempted to say I won't see the lot of you till tomorrow. I figure after 36 hours, I deserve to spend the next 24 in bed. LOL. But I'm sure I'll be up this afternoon/evening to start off a brand new day. The groceries are all out of their bags (multiple items all paired up again), and sitting stacked up on the kitchen counter. Right now, I could care less if they find their way to the cupboards in the next 24 hours or not! At least I know all the perishables are where they need to be. At least I won't have to drive somewhere!! ever notice how hard it is to type when you can't see straight?

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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - 8:40 am
(((((((((((((((((Who))))))))))))))))))
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - 4:54 pm
G'morning! 
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - 5:59 pm
Update: UPS Store called me one week ago to tell me my "check" had been approved and they were waiting for it to arrive. I went by there today, and still no check. 
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - 8:16 pm
Urgrace, I would call and tell them to FedEx the check to you!
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - 8:37 pm
LOL Bob! FedEx ain't much better. I've had my share of run-ins with them too (notice the plural)!!
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - 9:08 pm
LOL Bob, that's a great idea!
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 6:14 am
ROFL BOB!!! Good one!
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 9:00 am
Who, I'm lost for words at your predicament. "Sorry" is the only thing that comes to mind.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Monday, April 28, 2008 - 6:14 pm
So I've just waited in all afternoon for a UPS delivery, despite having my mum here visiting and wishing I was out somewhere with her. So at 5.30 I get nervous and check the door and it's got one of those stickers on it, saying delivery was attempted at 4.09 and no one was home. Where was I at 4.09pm?? About five feet the other side of the door waiting for a knock or the bell to ring. Sooooooooooo annoyed. So I have to go through the same rigmarole tomorrow. The person I spoke to on the phone suggested I put a note on the door telling him to ring the bell. And here was me thinking it was obvious that if you wanted someone to answer the door you'd ring the bell. Silly me. Grrrrrrrrr.... Just needed to vent! And swear lots. But I'll save you the latter.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Monday, April 28, 2008 - 7:17 pm
That sucks, Kitt.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Monday, April 28, 2008 - 9:20 pm
Thanks. Luckily we have discovered the pick up place isn't too far off dh's route to work, so he's going to pick it up tomorrow. Urgrace, did the check ever arrive??
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Monday, April 28, 2008 - 10:15 pm
Aw, Kitt. Right now, I'm freaking out and not sure if this is the right place. But venting feels like a good thing to do right about now, so here I go. For the past week, I've been working on a print project at work. It's not even MY print project, a client pawned it off to us as he went on vacation for two weeks. Part of the project was to collect advertisements from HIS vendors for placement in HIS print piece we're working on. The files went to print this morning, after HE, plus his colleague, plus THREE people in my office proofed it. EIGHT HOURS after sending it to the press, he calls to tell me that one of the vendor submitted ads has a typo on it, and he's furious with me for not catching it. Keep in mind this is 36pt font, whereas the rest of the ad was 8pt. (The white-ish scribbly bits is where you can see I removed most of the text in an attempt to hide the origin of the ad)
Now my boss is furious with me because we're already on eggshells with this client, and I didn't pass a final, approved ad for sumbission, to our copy editor to proof (who by the way is the boss' wife and was out of town for the majority of the duration of this project. ) I know its one of those so very obvious, how did I miss it mistakes. But it's also one of those, so very obvious, of course I missed it. Its not like the newspaper gets in trouble if they print an ad with a typo... it came to me as a final approved ad. Excuse me for assuming it went through a thorough review before being sent to a 3rd party for submission.
When it rains, it pours.
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 8:36 am
I think it's ironic it is the word "chaos" that got screwed up. Try telling the client it was done on purpose to get the point across.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 9:14 am
UGH, my neighbors dog starts barking at about 5:30 AM and doesn't stop until I leave for work at 7:15. I hate it, I can't open my bedroom windows because of it. I wish there was something I could do, it's the nicest dog and I know she's just lonely for my dogs to play with her, but sadly she's on the other side of the fence. My dogs don't bark and sleep inside at night. I just want the barking to STOP so I can get an extra hour of sleep.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 5:10 pm
Karen, I'd have to say something to him about having thought that after so many people had worked on it you assumed the proofing was already done. It's not your fault alone! Escapee, just after Christmas the neighbour's dog was barking every night from midnight to 2am. I called the city and they sent them a letter and they stopped it really quick - the dog now sleeps inside, and although it barks occasionally we can hardly hear it. I've had friends tell me I should have spoken to the neighbours first but my feeling is if they're not considerate enough to realise that a dog barking for two hours every single night might affect other people then how are they going to respond to me asking them to do something about it. I'd report the barking dog. Unless you have a good relationship with the neighbours and can talk to them without feeling nervous about it. Losing sleep sucks real bad...
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 5:21 pm
Kitt, still no word on that check here. It's only been another week since I last asked. grrrrrr
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