Things That Stick In Your Craw

I hate upgrading to a new phone, so I just replaced the battery last time. I bought the battery on Amazon for about 20 bucks and did it myself. Phone manufacturers don't make it easy to replace the battery, so it's kind of like performing surgery. I think a small tool kit and pry bars were included. Probably took me 30 minutes or so, but it worked great once I got the new battery installed.

I agree and I am certainly not judging how anyone chooses to address situations like phones or car insurance with their kids.

Heck, YE is on here so it's obvious I failed at the "not raising an a-hole part....."

After getting Spam Risk calls, they stopped for the longest time. No here in the last month they picked back up...

Spam Risk

Saint Cloud, MN

Spam Risk

Red Wing, MN

And today, both time they left a "butt dial" type msg. of nothing for over a minute.

My Pixel 6 can screen spam calls which is nice so I don't even see it pop up.

I was on my parents for quite some time, but it made sense as the as bill split three ways was cheaper for everyone than having two plans, one with two phones and another with one. I paid my third. Eventually a much better deal through a different provider presented itself to my wife and me, along with her sister's family. So, I made the switch. My parents are adults and can pay their own way.

Be careful [mention]Greyeagle[/mention] or [mention]YoungEagle[/mention] will not have you at HIS cabin.

Mr Flip Phone waves at all of you.

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Mr Flip Phone waves at all of you.

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Something about apples and trees ?

Be nice to your mom.

Oof… that’s ice cold. Good thing she’s not on here! You would be in massive trouble! :club:

He’s always in massive trouble. It’s called being married

Why would they even make bathroom sinks without overflow drains, let alone someone installing them in their bathrooms?!?!?! Both the bathroom in our basement and master bath have sinks without overflow drains. Just adds to my project list that feels like one step forward, two steps back.

My 3 year old has been in his Daycare for a total of 7 days in the last 5 weeks. It’s been a challenge to say the least

Twice in the last week I was walking into a store behind a Boomer age person who stopped directly in the entrance door with their cart and blocked the whole thing. What makes it crappier is they are the biggest offenders for complaining about younger generations but they’re usually the worst.

I don't think any generation has a monopoly on being unaware of their surroundings.

Way to miss the point.

…or I guess probably make it

:censored: cancer. Just found out that a friend passed away. Younger, just this past week she decided to only receive treatment to relieve the pain, not to fight the disease.

:censored: cancer

:censored: cancer. It took my dog today. ???

Porter? Even though he hated my arse, man.

Yeah. Found a chest full of cancer yesterday and he gave up on his walk today. It was sudden, unexpected and the hardest thing we’ve had to do to look your dog in the eye while he wags his tail at you and know in an hour he will be gone. But we chose to say goodbye before anything more emergent happened so he didn’t suffer.

Hockey games won’t be the same when we score and nobody comes running to give a high five and get a treat. We taught him that last year when we played ASU…he got 20 treats that weekend I think. ?

Damn

My sincere condolences.

So sorry. Dogs are so much better than humans.

So sorry to hear that. Losing a dog is a brutal kind of pain.

We lost a dog to cancer a few years ago and it still hurts.

[mention]Cowgirl[/mention] so sorry to hear about your fur baby. I am an emotional person, kids and dogs make me tear up in an instant. Having to say goodbye with that amount of time is unfathomable for me, at this point in my life I haven’t had to do it that quickly.

One bit of advice I have received on this planet about pets is that we hold onto them longer than we should because of how we want to feel without regard for how they feel. Sounds like you did the right thing for your pooch.

Thank you for the kind words. I’ve reminded many a client that you would rather be a week too early than a day too late when saying goodbye to a pet, but somehow when it’s your own those words don’t really bring much comfort and you still second guess if you could or should have eked out one more night.

[mention]Cowgirl[/mention], Sorry to hear about Porter. Pets are so much a part of our lives.

A friend of mine and a campus pastor at one of the churches I go to passed away yesterday. Leaving a wife, a Fr. in college and a Fr. in HS.

I’m sorry to hear that @[mention]gator[/mention].

It’s been a rough time for a lot of people lately both losing people and pets. Some of the difficult parts about getting older for sure.

Cowgirl, I’m so sorry. You did the right thing, you showed love.

Sorry to hear this but glad you were able to say goodbye on about the best terms you could.

Our Westie just turned 12 in December and although he's still about 90% I don't look forward to that eventual decision.

Why in the Twin Cities when there is a car accident and a light pole or stop light gets knocked down and needs to be replaced they replace the knocked out of service item with a new one but they leave the damaged item on the ground for months for someone else to remove the broken item, I have seen multiple damaged items left on the highway on the right side of road out of traffic but left for months for someone else to pick up

:confused2:

My head hurts.

Trying to quietly keep book during my daughter's 6th grade basketball tournament while the mom next to me screamed TAKE IT, TAKE IT, TAKE THE BALL!!!!!!!! over and over while we were on defense.

At least she wan’t screaming it when you were on offense!!

Since the pandemic began we've been ordering a lot of stuff from WalMart.com and we always buy $35 worth so we get free shipping. It drives us nuts the way they spread out the delivery. Today FedEx brought us one can of Cream of Chicken soup. I don't know how a company can provide free shipping while sending FedEx out here to the middle of nowhere with a can of soup.

Target does this all the time. It’s become a joke to see how small of items we get in these massive boxes

It's all math behind it and you can be assured they're doing it in the cheapest way possible for them overall.

Yep, third party ordering, etc. I build lists before I order from Amazon, but I also don't really care when I get those items, as long as shipping is free. If I need something THAT bad, I'll go to a brick-n-mortar.

Amazon willingly takes a loss on a lot of items. It's a proven model because Prime members spend infinitely more and their losses on shipping are more than made up for by total sales revenues.

It's definitely true for me.

Yesterday I purchased a slide to digital converter at 9 am and it was at my door by 2 pm. Didn't even have to put pants on.

I am watching a training video for work titled “Responding to an Armed Attack.”

I work from home.

??

Can’t be too careful! I have to watch videos like that too. I work from home and the workplace harassment one makes me laugh. My kids harass me in the workplace, but HR (my wife) blames me for it. Seems legit.

Ha, you beat me to the harassment joke. The only “Armed Attack” I worry about in my home office was when my cat sat on my keyboard. Or maybe THAT’S harassment? The little :censored: did have a smug look on their face.

Mine seemingly know every time I have a video meeting and make their presence known :lol:.

Pet guest appearances are always the highlight of the video meeting monotony

Try having birds. They love to start squawking at inopportune times. Chirp chirp mother fucker!

Did they teach you how your air fryer can become a defensive weapon of choice?

No thanks!