What did you do today?

[Incognito]

Talk about a bad day. I had some shrubs removed from the front of my daughters house[my] and today my stepson came to help remove the stumps. Hooked onto it with a tow strap and after 3 or 4 pulls the stump came out traveling about 70 feet through the air and bang right into the side door of the daughters car. Nice dent into the door of her new to her car Now it is to find out who covers it, homeowners or car insurance. ****!!!!!!

Isn't that really a bad day for the insurance company?

Apparently you're covered.

 

[Incognito]

Gonna be hell raised when I tell the daughter it comes under her car insurance-comprehensive, kind of like getting a rock in the windshield I guess.

I have $500 deductible so yeah, that kinda sucks. THEN they raise your premiums! Body shops are like the health care industry in that they're milking the **** out of our economy through the insurance rackets. Comprehensive is optional if you own the vehicle free and clear. When I drove a 25 year old small truck with 250K miles in beat to **** condition it made ZERO sense to pay Comprehensive/Collision premiums. We own two basically brand new vehicles free and clear but we HAVE to pay for "full coverage" because auto body repairs are so OBSCENELY corrupted by the insurance rackets.

 

[highup]

I have $500 deductible so yeah, that kinda sucks. THEN they raise your premiums! Body shops are like the health care industry in that they're milking the **** out of our economy through the insurance rackets. Comprehensive is optional if you own the vehicle free and clear. When I drove a 25 year old small truck with 250K miles in beat to **** condition it made ZERO sense to pay Comprehensive/Collision premiums. We own two basically brand new vehicles free and clear but we HAVE to pay for "full coverage" because auto body repairs are so OBSCENELY corrupted by the insurance rackets.

I switched from one company to Safeco 40 years ago. One month after switching I ran into a slow speed crash with another pickup it ended up being each of our faults. We hit headlight to headlight on the driver's side. It buckled my hood ruined a fender and an inner fender and the core support plus of course the headlight and grill.
Safeco forked out I believe about $1,600 for my 1973 pickup.
My rates never changed.
That said over the next 30 years they slowly increase the monthly rate. I had no driving offenses and no other accidents but my race kept slowly creeping up. I called the company up to ask him if they could reduce my rates because my driving record was flawless and I've had two accidents in my life. The first one was when I was 16 the second one was I when I was 40. I was transferred to a gentleman and he explained to me that their rates are based on statistics and my rate was what it was and couldn't change it.
I switched over to progressive with the same coverage and right now my rates are half of what I paid with Safeco over 10 years ago. They keep reducing my rates.
When I switched from Safeco to progressive it was for the same insurance company.
When I stopped in to start my new coverage, the owner of the company came over and told me that they had never spoken with someone that high up in the Safeco company.

 

[Floorist]

Just sitting here looking at the collection of short stories I wrote a couple of years ago. I wrote twelve of them, had them published on Kindle and then pulled them after a few months. Almost seems like someone else wrote them. I have not been able to get interested enough to write any more. The people who read them liked them, but who knows.

 

[MikeAntonetti]

That is why insurance companies own body shops.

 

[DarisMulkin]

Well we find out it comes under the comprehensive part of the car insurance. Now it is a case of filing a claim and getting it fixed. Daughter is peobably going to be pissed hearing that fearing her insurance will go up.

 

[MikeAntonetti]

Awaiting National Flooring Equipments live YouTube demonstration today and tomorrow starting at 11:00 est, 9 MST I was 2 hours early wondering why it wasn’t on. Not easy to find. This link was from the CEO from LinkedIn.
https://lnkd.in/e5KetRP
I might be watching it on my Big r screen tv. Who knew I was a techie!

 

[highup]

That beats the hell out of watching it on a phone.

 

[highup]

That is why insurance companies own body shops.

You listen to Coast to Coast Live too?

 

[MikeAntonetti]

No, had a buddy that did all my auto body,welding and worked for and knew all surrounding counties. He used some racist words for a prolonged time and I don’t talk to him anymore.

My wife sells Real Estate “Coast to coast” in Florida if you’re interested. We have Global hot and Raining here.

 

[highup]

No, had a buddy that did all my auto body,welding and worked for and knew all surrounding counties. He used some racist words for a prolonged time and I don’t talk to him anymore.

My wife sells Real Estate “Coast to coast” in Florida if you’re interested. We have Global hot and Raining here.

Not enough money in the world to pry me from the west coast. The low last night was 49 in the high today is going to be probably 72. I'm going to be working 50 mi away and it's probably going to be closer to 90. That's way too hot for me. On the bright side the humidity will probably be fairly low.

 

[C.J.]

Not enough money in the world to pry me from the west coast. The low last night was 49 in the high today is going to be probably 72. I'm going to be working 50 mi away and it's probably going to be closer to 90. That's way too hot for me. On the bright side the humidity will probably be fairly low.

I’m just the opposite, there wasn’t enough money in the world to get me to stay on the west coast. That’s alright though, different strokes for different folks. We can still get along can’t we?

 

[MikeAntonetti]

So far!

 

[C.J.]

So far!

I wonder if this is what it’s like working in an old folks home. Breaking up squabbles between Betty and Ned then it starts all over again tomorrow because they can’t remember ****.

 

[havasu]

There's something to be said about chains.

With a huge blanket draped over the chain!

 

[MikeAntonetti]

Chains have SnapBack too? I’ve been lucky with rope, I kinda duck down when I hit the gas. Come to think I’ve seen some tailgates with indented chain marks. I get my not to do list from AFV.

 

[Incognito]

Just sitting here looking at the collection of short stories I wrote a couple of years ago. I wrote twelve of them, had them published on Kindle and then pulled them after a few months. Almost seems like someone else wrote them. I have not been able to get interested enough to write any more. The people who read them liked them, but who knows.

Is there a link or something I could read your writings. I would be interested, especially now that I'm three nights a week at a greasy motel.

 

[Floorist]

Is there a link or something I could read your writings. I would be interested, especially now that I'm three nights a week at a greasy motel.

Sorry, they aren't copyrighted. So if they would get out, I lose rights. I know you would not do anything, but there are people out there who would.

 

[highup]

I’m just the opposite, there wasn’t enough money in the world to get me to stay on the west coast. That’s alright though, different strokes for different folks. We can still get along can’t we?

Absolutely.
Mike, I just don't like change. Up until a year ago I've had the same phone number since I was four and a half years old. I was born six and a half miles away from where I live now.
I think it's like anything else, music or whatever you like what you grew up with. I live in a small community and within 15 minutes I'm at the beach and with one half hour I'm up the river.....without a paddle. Hey I don't own a canoe.
It's 20 minutes to the sand dunes. If I want to watch a 650 foot ship come in through the jetty, that's also about 15 minutes away. It takes about an hour for it to make it into dock and I can follow it and watch it the entire way. I actually rode on one of the pilot boats one time when they went to remove a pilot from a ship on its way out. That was one bay cruise I will never forget.
I'm a downside, the water temperature really gets much above 60°. Not good swimming at the beaches here.
.......and the bikinis here are a lot larger. Daris would not approve.

 

[Jon]

So today I became a victim of climate change..... or something.

Why is it that when your concrete heaves at a saw cut that was filled with elastomeric epoxy not less... and causes your concrete to buckle and shift and makes a bubble in the flooring, it's somehow my problem?

We had historic temperatures a few weeks back and would you believe these showed up right after? weird!

So, alas, I have now fallen prey to the effects of climate change, for shame.

Years ago here the guy who cut the concrete was meant to discuss where to place the cuts so that the layer could place his joins of vinyl over the cuts then heat weld the joins which of course would never happen as nobody knew what type of flooring was going down in what areas at the time. But did give the layers a good out because the cuts were never discussed with them