Just need to vent...

I order two cones for me and the wife at the drive thru lane at the ice cream parlor. The car in front of me apparently ordered dinners and desserts for the entire softball team....

 

Skip the drive-in....
I don't use them myself because fast food has gotten HORRIBLY expensive in today's economy - which makes local eateries and food trucks the baller move.
Every now and again I will get my sweet wife a "cookie in a cup" decaf from the Mac Shack.
If there are more than 3 cars in line I park and walk in, and more often than not I will beat the last car in the drive through out of the parking lot.
AND I get to exchange pleasantries with an actual human being rather than talking to a drive through board.
It's a Southern thing.

IYKYK.

 

Nothing like the window for those awkward conversations though.

 

Mainly rural area. No Sonic or similar drive-in within 40 miles. Not wasting that much fuel for an ice cream...

 

I think I'd have done less 'restoring', if I could get it to do the job and still look 95 years old.

And shellac on the handles. "Gloss urethane"? Fie.

 

+1

 

Self checkout devolves into a whole new level of horror during international events.

I was in two stores today, both had self-checkouts. Every single kiosk/shopper pair was having a problem, and this poor kid was just sprinting between stations. He'd scan some barcode that identified himself as an administrator, punch a couple of buttons on the touchscreen, and run off to the next. It seemed to take two visits for me to get checked out. My credit card is the old chip kind (no NFC) and apparently this causes the system to demand a signature on paper, which is exceptional enough that it stalls out the entire process.

Not that I was made to sign anything, the kid just ignored that demand and told me it was okay. Or at least I think that's what he said.

A second store I went to had a similar problem. At that one, a few shoppers had abandoned their checkouts partway through, but the kiosks needed staff attention to reset them for the next customer in the queue

None of this was made any easier by the fact that all of the shoppers (including me) were tourists from all over the world, not many languages in common.

 

Anyone locally posting about which stores work and which ones don't?
Gotta love it when the community has debuggged the tech before the big event instead of after it.

 

i hope it works for you mendel, we've been dealing with mice for 20 years,and several professional exterminators tried everything in the book at great expense to no avail.

 

You sir, are my hero. I really really dislike the dealer system. I had the oil on our 24 Prius changed at that first 'free' service, 5000 miles. Cost me $164.00. What a rip off.

 

Wow a KISS cat

 

I figure if they are going to give me a senior discount on a coffee, the least I can do is go in.
Plus, I've met some interesting people inside.

 

I call the auto dealer's Free coffee "The world's most expensive coffee"

JeffD

 

I'm diggin it....

Same.

Naaaaht even close.
I'm older and have made a lot more mistakes.

 

Most expensive service center from our experience was at the Range Rover folk's place. However, not only do you get untold numbers of Fufu coffee, you also get with your coffee - scones, or donuts, or warm cookies. Warm! Can you believe it? Oh - and there K-Cups have some mechanism whereby you don't even have to pull out the used plastic container. It disappears all by itself into trash in some other place !!

 

To quote John Wayne, "Life is hard. It's harder when you're stupid"

A vehicle purchase is the 2nd most expensive item most of us make, after buying a home. Yet many treat their vehicle like a disposable necessity (not even bothering to read that Owners Manual sitting in their glovebox!) "What, I have to change the transmission fluid? But isn't it lifetime fluid?" Or, better yet, "How long has that Check Engine light been on?" "Oh, I don't know, a month or two" ARGH!!

Anyway 30% of folks don't even bother with responding to a recall!!! Some folks really are stuck on stupid....

Vehicle owners slow to address recall alerts for potentially deadly issues | Fox Business

 

Dang, called my dealer to see if they have a 12-volt battery for my wife's 2017 Prius 2. He said there's 3 kind listed on the parts website so needs me to give him the numbers from the top of the battery to ensure I get the right one....the three range from $201 to over $400....WHAT? (The battery in the car is now testing at just 70% so going to go ahead and replace before we give the car to our daughter...also got new wiper blade refills ordered so she won't have to worry about those for a few years.)