The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[Figgy1]

Our old car had a manucfacturer's issue that made the doors freeze and you couldn't open them from the inside, only from the outside. I had to crawl out of the window one time because that time it wouldn't even open from the outside like usual. Pain in the patootie..every winter!

among other places!

 

[Songbird76]

What a........... insert mr donkey jf 2

He can be that, for sure. It really just made me so sad because if I had the money, I would have just bought them and then I'd have the dishes anyway. It was more about sentimentality for me, but my brother is not sentimental. So he asked for all the valuable things he could sell, like the silver, and crystal, etc, and I asked for things like doilies my grandmother had crocheted. The one big thing I asked for was the piano because my mom played while I sang. I have a video of us singing Silent Night in German together...anyway, I had lots of memories of my mom at the piano with me singing, so that was the one thing I really wanted, and since my brother doesn't play or sing, he couldn't very well make a case for that one so I got it and brought it to the Netherlands with me. I love it. When I moved here, I got someone to tune it for me once a year and then the guy called me up one day and he said he had a buyer for my piano. I said great, but it's not for sale. He tried to get me to change my mind. What kind of insane person tries to sell someone ELSE's property? I never called him again to tune my piano.

 

[Goofyernmost]

They deliver and you can buy an extended warranties up to 4 years if I remember correctly. Installation depends on the appliance bought.

I had such good luck with Kenmore stuff that it completely made me think that the extended warranty was a waste of money. Originally, I just couldn't afford to buy it. After a few years I started to feel like if nothing goes wrong in the first year the automatic one year warranty would be fine. Fortunately, that is how it worked. Had I bought the warranty I would never have had to use it. So, I guess that is were building quality didn't pay off for them as far as I was concerned.

 

[betty rose]

I understand the calorie cutting thing...but...but...but...shot of Tequila is ONLY about 64 calories. I'd leave that one 'snack' stand.

I thought it was much more, it's going back then...Doctor would approve. thanks for the information! Happy dance, now I can with my afternoon pain killer. It also raises your good cholesterol. Yipee!

 

[Figgy1]

I thought it was much more, it's going back then...Doctor would approve. thanks for the information! Happy dance, now I can with my afternoon pain killer. It also raises your good cholesterol. Yipee!

I'm sorry to tell you this but the calorie count is per shot not per bottle

 

[betty rose]

The Hilton across for Disney DTD Springs? If so, I love love that hotel. Real nice if it is chilly at Disney.

Yes, that's the one. Since it's just hubby and I we wanted a quiet place to relax.

 

[Goofyernmost]

@Goofyernmost , that is excellent news about your eye. Initially, many people who have that procedure tend to panic during the first week post-op. But it does get better and better; and everyone I know who has had that procedure was very happy with the results, in due course. I'm glad you're feeling better overall.

Thank you! I have to admit that I was starting to get a little discouraged by the pace of healing as well as the results. More so when the infection (which btw I don't think really was an infection, but, just a precaution against one) set in. But, now I am feeling really good about the results and am anxious to get my other eye taken care of. I truly believe that I will have the equivalent of bionic eyes when it is all done. Probably be able to see though walls. To bad I'm to old for that to be of any real benefit anymore.

 

[betty rose]

Is that like a sales tax? Our local sales tax rate is 6.5%.

It's been a long time since our sales tax was 6.5 %.

 

[Figgy1]

Thank you! I have to admit that I was starting to get a little discouraged by the pace of healing as well as the results. Then when the infection (which btw I don't think really was an infection, but, just a precaution against one) set in. But, now I am feeling really good about the results and am anxious to get my other eye taken care of. I truly believe that I will have the equivalent of bionic eyes when it is all done. Probably be able to see though walls. To bad I'm to old for that to be of any real benefit anymore.

Maybe but you just put a big smile on a slightly younger woman's face

 

[Figgy1]

It's been a long time since our sales tax was 6.5 %.

At least I don't pay taxes on clothing or food. Food tax in any amount would be for us

 

[betty rose]

Last night we had snow, then slush snow and then more snow. I cleaned up the first two rounds but by the time the 3rd round came I was in my Jammies and had enough.

This morning I get a call from my DD. She can't get either door of her car open. I pick her up, take her to work and will go back and fetch her in a couple of hours. After I dropped her I went to her apartment with a snow brush and cleaned the top layer off and then could see the slush had sealed the crack completely between the car door and body frame. The wipers were even worse. For 30 or so minutes I lightly chiseled away with my plastic scraper and finally got the door to unseal but not open. I hit the door with my hip to close hard and then it opened. Boo-ya!!! Turned the car on, both defrosters on high. Started on passenger door eventually getting it open and one of the two rear doors. No such luck with trunk or door number 4. I went up to her apartment to thaw out and watched her running car from her desk, didn't close the door just close since it was still running, that is all I'd need. Went back down in 20 minutes got wipers really going and scraped all the windows and cleaned off the car. Till she got her apartment her car always lived in the garage with mine.
So freak'n cold.
So sorry for the extreme cold. And DD car. We need to win the lottery, I want to move the whole family to Florida.
I still am cold and keep pushing up the thermostat. Currently it is 8 degrees. FLORIDA FLORIDA FLORIDA

 

[betty rose]

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Sigh, oh to be somewhere with beautiful flowers.

 

[betty rose]

hah! not at all, I'm extremely fragile myself XD

Im lucky I didnt get a cold.
I usually get a cold or stomatch issues right before or after the trip (stress mid planning mostly, and after the trip.. because of tiredness)

But I'm ok right now, just tired and sleepy

Yea, you missed the Disney bug!

 

[betty rose]

I'm sorry to tell you this but the calorie count is per shot not per bottle

Funny, but I wouldn't be able to do my puzzle with a whole bottle. Then hubby would call me a puzzle, gussle (r)!

 

[betty rose]

Thank you! I have to admit that I was starting to get a little discouraged by the pace of healing as well as the results. Then when the infection (which btw I don't think really was an infection, but, just a precaution against one) set in. But, now I am feeling really good about the results and am anxious to get my other eye taken care of. I truly believe that I will have the equivalent of bionic eyes when it is all done. Probably be able to see though walls. To bad I'm to old for that to be of any real benefit anymore.

Your never too old, looking doesn't cost a thing either. Saves on the dating bills.

 

[betty rose]

At least I don't pay taxes on clothing or food. Food tax in any amount would be for us

We don't pay tax on food either, but we do on clothing. I misspoke yesterday our sales tax is 7.8%. I was thinking Disney's tax of 12.5%.

 

[betty rose]

I had such good luck with Kenmore stuff that it completely made me think that the extended warranty was a waste of money. Originally, I just couldn't afford to buy it. After a few years I started to feel like if nothing goes wrong in the first year the automatic one year warranty would be fine. Fortunately, that is how it worked. Had I bought the warranty I would never have had to use it. So, I guess that is were building quality didn't pay off for them as far as I was concerned.

We like Kenmore too. Much better than G.E. Those didn't last very long.

 

[betty rose]

I grew up in an Urban area, not hunters but my Dad and his buddies did before I think I was born and obviously wasn't his thing. Along with his golf clubs and bowling ball there were always two rifles. I always heard they were broken down (whatever that really means) but I knew where they were, I could have picked one up and walked out with it. We were told never to touch, same for the golf clubs. We didn't. My uncle a collector of rifles has them now for a while. Though well into his 80's he has a much better system for storing rifles than do not touch. I learned to shoot a rifle in church camp and I was very good at it and won in my age group. We shot targets and clay. I could never ever shoot an animal, I'd never get that out of my head.

I used to have to go hunting with Mom and Dad, and I hated it.

 

[Gabe1]

Do the extended guarantees are for Sears?

speaking of extended guarantees..
There was a report in NBC when I was at Universal.
Talking about scandals of these forced and pushy "extended" guarantees on cars and other stuff.
Most of the times they were bait and switch on the cars... They even called it "American branded guaranteed Greed" or something.

We ran into this when my DS was up to buy a car last year looking at the year before models to save some money. He'd find them on website, call and make sure they were available and when we'd get there they were not available or he didn't meet the criteria of a trade in or financing with them to purchase the 'ghost' auto. Finally he contacted a girl he grew up with, her Dad/Family owns a dealership. He wasn't looking for a deal just someone to deal with that didn't play bait and switch kinda game. The car he was looking at was there. They let just him and I go off on our own and drive it. Came back, he wrote a check for the whole thing and off he drove off the lot with it. I hate buying cars.

 

[Figgy1]

I used to have to go hunting with Mom and Dad, and I hated it.

I never went hunting. I don't eat it and they're way too cute.