youngolddude
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Waiting on buddy to call saying he's ready to come home after colonoscopy. Should be anytime.
yes, the prep one takes the day before sucks, and tastes horrible, but i asked my doctor, and he said, "just mix it with water"' '"the gatorade is to replace electrolytes".....It's something you do as you age. It helps detect colon cancer. My wife lost a sister due to that because she didn't get screened.
Done for the day at 1030. Too damn hotIt is Thursday, chainsaw day, still cleaning up windfalls from the May storm
Hope you & Maggie have a great day.Having the first cup wondering what I will do today. Maggies birthday is today and want to do something special for her 7th. Maybe a ride to the mountain for a nice walk where it's cool. Yes I know she's a dog but she is my pal.View attachment 63062
personally i laugh at the d-bags with huge mortgages, and NEED to work....being retired, we have a small mortgage and very affordable with no real need to work, to pay it off.Just finished having a frank conversation with a resident in a neighborhood I’m working in. It’s a large, upper scale neighborhood with several cul de sacs in it. Almost all of which are currently full of concrete guys and concrete trucks who are tearing out and repaving. And here I am, tasked with changing gas meters. So my rig, Freightliner M2-24’ float + trackhoe is parked out of the way of traffic, but in a place very inconvenient for me. So I’m doing a lot of walking with meters and equipment in my hands.
Enter entitled D-bag who thinks he has money ( he doesn’t have a runway in his backyard and is no doubt about 800k in debt so no, he doesn’t have money). Throwing a hissy fit like a 6 year old because he has to drive slowly and carefully on his way out. You know, at 10 AM So I asked him how much complaining he would do if the roads never got fixed and no one ever came to service his gas meter and meter set ( we secure the set if necessary and paint everything besides just changing the meter). Dude just looked at me and sped off.
Strange, all my customers yesterday loved me. Said what a great representative I was for the company and several asked for my name so they could contact downtown and tell them how helpful and polite I was.
Ridiculous people.
These days, with most people it is all about “ME” and to hell with anyone else. I work with lots of them.Just finished having a frank conversation with a resident in a neighborhood I’m working in. It’s a large, upper scale neighborhood with several cul de sacs in it. Almost all of which are currently full of concrete guys and concrete trucks who are tearing out and repaving. And here I am, tasked with changing gas meters. So my rig, Freightliner M2-24’ float + trackhoe is parked out of the way of traffic, but in a place very inconvenient for me. So I’m doing a lot of walking with meters and equipment in my hands.
Enter entitled D-bag who thinks he has money ( he doesn’t have a runway in his backyard and is no doubt about 800k in debt so no, he doesn’t have money). Throwing a hissy fit like a 6 year old because he has to drive slowly and carefully on his way out. You know, at 10 AM So I asked him how much complaining he would do if the roads never got fixed and no one ever came to service his gas meter and meter set ( we secure the set if necessary and paint everything besides just changing the meter). Dude just looked at me and sped off.
Strange, all my customers yesterday loved me. Said what a great representative I was for the company and several asked for my name so they could contact downtown and tell them how helpful and polite I was.
Ridiculous people.
Working with the public can be a pain in the azz, I can’t deal with those types of idiots, now some may or may not believe me, but when I worked at my country jail, I got along better with the inmates then the public!!!Just finished having a frank conversation with a resident in a neighborhood I’m working in. It’s a large, upper scale neighborhood with several cul de sacs in it. Almost all of which are currently full of concrete guys and concrete trucks who are tearing out and repaving. And here I am, tasked with changing gas meters. So my rig, Freightliner M2-24’ float + trackhoe is parked out of the way of traffic, but in a place very inconvenient for me. So I’m doing a lot of walking with meters and equipment in my hands.
Enter entitled D-bag who thinks he has money ( he doesn’t have a runway in his backyard and is no doubt about 800k in debt so no, he doesn’t have money). Throwing a hissy fit like a 6 year old because he has to drive slowly and carefully on his way out. You know, at 10 AM So I asked him how much complaining he would do if the roads never got fixed and no one ever came to service his gas meter and meter set ( we secure the set if necessary and paint everything besides just changing the meter). Dude just looked at me and sped off.
Strange, all my customers yesterday loved me. Said what a great representative I was for the company and several asked for my name so they could contact downtown and tell them how helpful and polite I was.
Ridiculous people.
damn, my eyes are still blurry from my nap..I'm taking a break from the yard work and found this awesome forum yesterday, now I started posting on it and maybe I'll become a very active member, will see
it was the same thing in my mechanic days...dumbazz customers telling me they wanted thier car fixed, but could they pay me next month, or to give them a discount, or to get the car done in an hour...Working with the public can be a pain in the azz, I can’t deal with those types of idiots, now some may or may not believe me, but when I worked at my country jail, I got along better with the inmates then the public!!!
My house will be paid off in a couple months. So will the wife’s car. I own the house next door to me outright.personally i laugh at the d-bags with huge mortgages, and NEED to work....being retired, we have a small mortgage and very affordable with no real need to work, to pay it off.
won't be too long before that d-bag's house in under water.
that's the thing, many of us "old timers", not calling you old, are way ahead of the payments or done.. we only put a small mortgage on ours to do a few things.....those that buy homes today, at todays prices have a long way to go, and all things being what i have witnessed over the decades, those with large mortgages can and might be under water in thier future.My house will be paid off in a couple months. So will the wife’s car. I own the house next door to me outright.
They can keep their big house in the suburbs that was slapped up in a month, balloon framed and has zero actual plywood on it anywhere.
I often told my officers who encountered Adam Henry's on the job, you get to go home at the end of your shift, but that guy will be an Adam Henry for the rest of his life.Just finished having a frank conversation with a resident in a neighborhood I’m working in. It’s a large, upper scale neighborhood with several cul de sacs in it. Almost all of which are currently full of concrete guys and concrete trucks who are tearing out and repaving. And here I am, tasked with changing gas meters. So my rig, Freightliner M2-24’ float + trackhoe is parked out of the way of traffic, but in a place very inconvenient for me. So I’m doing a lot of walking with meters and equipment in my hands.
Enter entitled D-bag who thinks he has money ( he doesn’t have a runway in his backyard and is no doubt about 800k in debt so no, he doesn’t have money). Throwing a hissy fit like a 6 year old because he has to drive slowly and carefully on his way out. You know, at 10 AM So I asked him how much complaining he would do if the roads never got fixed and no one ever came to service his gas meter and meter set ( we secure the set if necessary and paint everything besides just changing the meter). Dude just looked at me and sped off.
Strange, all my customers yesterday loved me. Said what a great representative I was for the company and several asked for my name so they could contact downtown and tell them how helpful and polite I was.
Ridiculous people.
its not just in your neck of the woodsJust finished having a frank conversation with a resident in a neighborhood I’m working in. It’s a large, upper scale neighborhood with several cul de sacs in it. Almost all of which are currently full of concrete guys and concrete trucks who are tearing out and repaving. And here I am, tasked with changing gas meters. So my rig, Freightliner M2-24’ float + trackhoe is parked out of the way of traffic, but in a place very inconvenient for me. So I’m doing a lot of walking with meters and equipment in my hands.
Enter entitled D-bag who thinks he has money ( he doesn’t have a runway in his backyard and is no doubt about 800k in debt so no, he doesn’t have money). Throwing a hissy fit like a 6 year old because he has to drive slowly and carefully on his way out. You know, at 10 AM So I asked him how much complaining he would do if the roads never got fixed and no one ever came to service his gas meter and meter set ( we secure the set if necessary and paint everything besides just changing the meter). Dude just looked at me and sped off.
Strange, all my customers yesterday loved me. Said what a great representative I was for the company and several asked for my name so they could contact downtown and tell them how helpful and polite I was.
Ridiculous people.
Have one for me.