I screamed FUCK!!! the other afternoon.  I had the back seat bottom out of CherryBomb trying to dry it out.  It was lying in the driveway, cuz the driveway was nice and warm.  I went around back for something and came back just in time to see Popdigr back across the seat bottom with his Jeep.  Both axles.

Wasn't his fault.  I put the thing in the driveway, behind his Jeep.  I came home that evening to Pop scrubbing my seat w/carpet cleaner, trying to get the tire tracks outta m'seat.



ETA:  The seat is molded on a wire frame.  It took me twenty minuteas to bend it back to some semblance of it's proper shape, and get the brackets to line back up.  A headache, but, no real harm done.

Last edited by Gravdigr (3/06/2021 1:42 pm)

Gravdigr wrote:

I screamed FUCK!!! the other afternoon.  I had the back seat bottom out of CherryBomb trying to dry it out.  It was lying in the driveway, cuz the driveway was nice and warm.  I went around back for something and came back just in time to see Popdigr back across the seat bottom with his Jeep.  Both axles.

Wasn't his fault.  I put the thing in the driveway, behind his Jeep.  I came home that evening to Pop scrubbing my seat w/carpet cleaner, trying to get the tire tracks outta m'seat.



ETA:  The seat is molded on a wire frame.  It took me twenty minuteas to bend it back to some semblance of it's proper shape, and get the brackets to line back up.  A headache, but, no real harm done.

Thank God you didn't leave the baby in the car seat. Oh, wait, we got that Blood - Be - Gone. Still... Close one!

lol, the thought of not having to look behind your vehicle is bizarre to this cat-slave in suburbia

Maybe I am negligent, but I never walk around to look behind my vehicle in my driveway before I back out.  I can see the driveway from the front door as I walk to the car, but not the 3 feet or so immediately behind the car.  Angles are wrong for that.

When we had little kids, we were walking all around the car, getting them strapped in, so the area was checked, but now that there are no little kids, what could be back there?  A squirrel?  A cat?  Those will get out of the way.  We don't live in an age where toddlers wander around the neighborhood unsupervised.

Is that what they're calling that these days?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbKgrbN6cGA

Re:  A Closer Walk

I genuinely enjoyed that, Jim.  Very nice!

Last edited by Gravdigr (4/26/2021 7:37 pm)

That kind of thing is my bag.

It would be really cool to have a gtg one day.

Gonna be in VA for a few days in July for dad's 80th.  Just west of Waynesboro...

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The company we use to validate and repair accidental damage to drains and underground services. 

They have delegated authority to manage the claim entirely up to a certain value. But  if costs go above that value they have to seek cost approval from the claim owner and ownership of the claim stays with us - and we are supposed to step in if the claim goes off the rails or hits a point of contention.  Technically, we are supposed to redirect customer enquiries to the drainage co. in the first instance. But technically, we are also ultimately responsible for making sure the customer journey isn;t a total fuckfest .... despite having no access to their diary system for appts or any access to their portal. Sometimes they deign to remember to pop a note on our update system 

So I have like 15 claims in my name that I am unable to manage, ultimately responsible for, getting called and emailed like 5 times a day by the same pissed off people whose lives are being upended by a company who cancel appointments without notice, show up unexpectedly, give conflicting messages to customers about what will or won't be covered and randomly close the claim down without informing the customer. 

These claims are supposedly being fully managed by another company, but they take up about 30 % of my workday. By comparison - once meetings, specialist general categories of claim that dont sit in individual workbuckets like subsidence, training and development, are taken out, I have about 40% of my workday left for  the other 45 claims that I do have to manage entirely (up to and including project managing major restoration and repair) 

I literally screamed on Thursday. 

I work from home and had ended the call so the only person I troubled was Carrot .....but still.

 

Last edited by DanaC (5/01/2021 10:14 am)

I mean it shouldn't cot extra money to file your taxes.....   It's so ridiculously complex it's untrue.

no wai!   I just need to find some ruby slippers and click my heels together........ or something.  I wonder where amethyst shoes would get me?

I filed the fucking extension.  The USPS guy who was serving me was chatty while we waited for all the certified mail thingies to go through and said he used to do taxes and my conclusion about what I need to file was right -but that given I had to do that, I could also claim expenses for all the miles I drove. Bless his little polycotton uniform.   I will -won't save me anything because yeah, but fuckitfuckers.

oh sorry, was I ranting rather than screaming?