Cheap-ass  Re-Gifters

Quote from: Ducatamount on October 16, 2012, 11:12:53 AM
Cheap-ass  Re-Gifters

Re-gifted egg poacher for a wedding gift.   

Thanks Blaine! 

Quote from: IZ on October 17, 2012, 08:51:04 PM


Re-gifted egg poacher for a wedding gift.   

Thanks Blaine! 

try a 1970's era Avacado Green NOS Cheese Fondue Pot with the original gift receipt from a long dead department store chain

I've been avoiding this thread as much as the Walmart thread.

So here's just a few things that irritate me, right now:

the hours I've spent in lines that were wasted because of the minimum wage gatekeeper's inability to use some common sense.  "SO WHAT IF MY DAUGHTER IS 1/32" SHORTHER THAN THE REQUIRED HEIGHT TO RIDE THIS RIDE!!!!  IF THE F'N LINE WASN'T SO LONG I'D GO OVER TO THE GIFT SHOP AND BUY A PAIR OF THICKER SOCKS AND COME BACK!!! 

a local pizza place, they make some of the best and some of the worst pizza in the same kitchen.  it's like pizza Russian roulette, are you going to get great pizza today or pizza you wouldn't give to the dog?

the lack of common sense

the drivers at my local post office, the post office had to install 10" diameter concrete filled bollard 36" on center because people kept driving into the building.  my demise will come at the post office parking lot.  I can see it now , police interviewing an 86 year old woman, "as soon as I hit the brake the car lunged forward, the more I applied the brake the faster the car moved and then I heard lots of cursing and a loud thud?"

Quote from: RAT900 on October 18, 2012, 01:22:14 PM
try a 1970's era Avacado Green NOS Cheese Fondue Pot with the original gift receipt from a long dead department store chain

Actually that would be pretty kickass. Just sayin'.

Quote from: Speedbag on October 18, 2012, 02:03:12 PM
Actually that would be pretty kickass. Just sayin'.

+1

Quote from: Speedbag on October 18, 2012, 02:03:12 PM
Actually that would be pretty kickass. Just sayin'.

I've got one in "burnt orange" (without the receipt) if you want it.

Hmmm. 

The bottomless pit that exists under driver side car seats. 

God forbid you drop your keys or cell phone between the seat and the arm rest. 

Auto manufactures can make cars with state of the art climate control, bluetooth, heated and cooled seats, 7 speed transmissions, etc......   But they have yet to create a sloped floor beneath the seat so that if you drop something it'll slides out. 

Prius drivers. 

This effing blackberry....  A less user friendly device is hard to imagine $?!:/$

Quote from: ungeheuer on October 20, 2012, 04:55:33 PM
This effing blackberry....  A less user friendly device is hard to imagine $?!:/$

I liked the controls on mine. It just never worked well. Too many dropped calls!
I hate my new iphone. The touch screen keyboard and the auto spell SUCK!

Smart phones ..............with dumb battery's

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Quote from: ducpainter on October 04, 2012, 12:51:45 PM
along with...

people that ask professional advice from everyone and then do it completely differently and screw it up.

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Similar situtation: Engineer recommends to home owner that an engineer design a few beams.  Home owner and builder have a local hardware store design the beams because the engineer was too expensive.

Now the home owner has spent 4 times what the engineer originally priced on another engineer to be told the beams are undersized plus the cost of two attorneys plus the cost of my office and the cost of the original engineer to design the proper beams.  Not to mention the cost of the construction corrections.


Best part of this was when the original engineer turned to the home owner and the builder (at a meeting with attorneys and insurance reps) and said "so how much money did you save?"    Priceless

Quote from: ducrider45 on October 22, 2012, 07:39:06 AM
I liked the controls on mine. It just never worked well. Too many dropped calls!
I hate my new iphone. The touch screen keyboard and the auto spell SUCK!

My Blackberry (Blackberry Torch - so called because it isnt one) is all touch screen and its frustratingly shite.  Although once I do successfully negotiate its fickleness it almost never drops a call.  Pretty much the opposite of your experience.