Tell her to fuck off. Seriously. You'll be saving yourself a lot of trouble and pain.
Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!
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Cajungal
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Oof. That's obnoxious. Tomorrow she'll call and have a dramatic decision to make about what type of earring best reflects her personality.
Over the past two years we have had three cars. Two of which we still have and are functional, one of which was a POS that imploded in spectacular fashion. During this time we have had to replace FOUR alternators (though we only paid for three, as the second alternator died within the warranty period), with the latest one occurring yesterday. While not the worst (that would be the alternator that went out and stranded me on the side of the freeway at 6 AM in the middle of a Michigan January), that was $450 I did not want to have to spend on top of the wife's $200 rabies vaccine.
If you are offering, I would gladly accept (since there's a risk the wife's may go out within the next 30k miles). I have never done anything with my car because I've never had any guidance on properly fixing cars, and it seems like I'd be much more prone to breaking something else if everything wasn't perfectly fixed.
If you are careful and willing to take cautious risks, you can repair just about anything on your own vehicle that doesn't require heavy equipment (engine/transmission work) or specialized equipment (electrical/calibration/tire balancing).
If you can build your own computer, you can fix your own alternator. Also, the reverse is pretty much true. I have replaced spark plugs & wiring, serpentine belt, air conditioning fan, idler pulley, changed my own oil, air filters, replaced a heater blower, installed a car stereo, all without any training. It's not that I'm magical or anything, just that I knew I wouldn't be able to afford paying someone to have it done. It's a great motivator.
--Patrick
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Yeah; I know it's more of a mental block, but living paycheck to paycheck for a long time and being heavily reliant on a functioning car, I just didn't want to take the risk of doing it myself and breaking something else given I have zero experience tinkering with a car. It's kind of the "unknown unknowns" that scared me, and--while I wanted to learn--the cost-benefit analysis seemed to favor letting a good garage I'd found handle it.
When you find out exactly how much of the bill is pure labor, the equation tilts a bit.
--Patrick
GasBandit
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Unless you drive a Mazda MX-6 GT Turbo which has the alternator mounted behind the engine and down low. SO irritating.
I hurt my neck and shoulder. I don't know how. Even lifting the coffee pot to pour myself a cup this morning was painful.
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Be careful. You're dealing with @stienman. You're likely to wind up getting pregnant.
Well, @BErt, @PatrThom, @DarkAudit and I all met him and, to my knowledge, have no additional children to speak of...unless there's something I'm horribly unaware of...
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I've been to his home, and I can confirm that no creation or transaction of babies occurred. Of course he didn't go anywhere near my alternator so YMMV.
We should get "I met @stienman and didn't have a baby" shirts made.
Oh, let me tell you about our "boss". She has no idea what a library does. She's on a different campus, 20 miles away. Her entire career has been spent setting up non-credit classes - SafeServ for fast food, other quick and easy certificate-based programs that cost little and get charged a premium for, etc. She doesn't understand things that don't bring in revenue and sees them as pointless. When my direct supervisor asks her a question about policy, she refuses to answer since any ramifications of setting a policy either way could be traced back to her. When our department asks her about getting something we need or want, even if it effectively costs nothing, she not only refuses, but then takes something else away ("We need another part time worker." "No, and now we're cutting your current part-timer's hours." "Can I use some of the leftover paint from the renovation to repaint my office? The white on white under white flourescent lights is giving me migraines." "Well, now you don't have an office anymore.")
On top of that, she tries to micro-manage (again, without knowing what we do) and butts in to give just blatantly wrong answers to questions she wasn't really being asked.
See, on top of all that shit, while restoring things, the fucking morons in IT didn't restore our ability to save or modify anything on the network's O: drive. Before we couldn't even see it; now we can look at it AND THAT'S IT. I can't imagine that an IT professional, when redoing permissions, would actually think "Hmm, do they want access to actually use the files on the drive they explained that they require for their daily work? Nah, they probably just to look at them but not be able to save or modify." I mean, if you found that you had to re-do permissions for a group, wouldn't you automatically go through and make sure all applicable permissions were set correctly?
So naturally, my direct supervisor reported that problem. And the slime-encrusted human nightmare that is technically head of our department jumps into the loop and says, "Lisa, you're supposed to be using the V: drive, not the O: drive." There is no V: drive on our network.
Dun dun dunnnnnn!
Anyone who fails to get this will never be able to justifiably describe themselves as "happily married." Ever.
Also, I've probably been trying to preach this longer than you have, and I have to say the uptake rate is probably just as dismal as what you've experienced.
--Patrick
I think that one of the Pastors at our church summarized this very well, "Relationships are messy."
doomdragon6
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I just don't see how people let their emotions run away with them like that.
Then again I'm an emotionless robot who barely reacts to stimuli, so.
Then again I'm an emotionless robot who barely reacts to stimuli, so.
The northern lights may be visible here tonight!!!! Oh yeah....rain and clouds.
As I always say "I love her enough to put work into staying together, even when it's rough and it would be easier to just strangle her".
Sparring MMA tonight (medium contact), I threw a leg kick, as I am wont to do. I'm a pretty big, powerful guy and I have solid kicking technique, so there was... a bit of power to it. Unfortunately, my sparring partner checked it perfectly (unfortunately for me, I mean, he did precisely what he was supposed to do, kudos to him). My shin therefore connected VERY solidly with his rather pointy knee. Holy FUCK that hurts. I didn't Anderson Silva myself or anything, but still... OUCH!
I swear, there are days I feel like I'm the last person on the planet whose favourite superhero is Superman. Or the last person who gets what makes the character so great.
That includes those at DC and WB.
That includes those at DC and WB.
Goddamn, that's truer than truth.
@ThatNickGuy, I think you need to go out and re-watch Superman I and II with Chris Reeves.
The next time they are raiding your house, they will steal only one shoe and the keys to the garage.That's right, I hugged you despite your cold. This better buy me some goodwill amongst the doomweasels.