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teddybear.ac4_0 · ‎02-17-2018

Hi we were looking for a dump trailor on Craigslist and found a 2013 griffin dump trailor a woman who said she was Barbara Reid and her husband died his trailor gave her pain and she was being deployed and that's why ebay would handel the transaction gave me an order# and everything was suspicious anyway so I called the ebay customer service not the number on the email and they had me to report this to the Ic3.gov web site and did PLEASE BE WARNED!

legitimate_bidder · ‎02-21-2018

I complain about the youngest generation in my fambly- young men- teens and early 20's- who can't change a set of brake pads on the cars they drive. Instead, they take it to a franchise place, where it is uber-expensive (Is Uber expensive? What about Lyft?) and just put the several-hunnert-dollar bill on a CREDIT CARD (I didn't get my first credit card till I was 39- and only so I could order stuff on the interwebz!).....so I look upon them with disgust...and then I see their fathers...men my own age, who also can't change a set of brake pads!!!!! How did these people get in my fambly?

Utterly helpless and hopeless. The day the smartphones cease working....they will just sit in a corner and ramble on to themselves incoherently..... (But their mothers were on Facebook bragging of how their kids got all of these awards in school, and did all of these fabulous things. One could lift 400 lbs. on the weight machine. 'course he can't lift 100 lbs. in a shop...)

sockmonkeydave · ‎02-22-2018

@legitimate_bidder

Bar maid told me her car had went all wobby.

I ask what work she had done on the car.

She said new front tires.

I said jack the car up and tighten the lug nuts.

She has a "mechanic" look at the car.

He drives it, and both front tires fall off.

I made my girl change a tire before she started drivers ed.

sockmonkeydave · ‎02-22-2018

There was a guy in my aircraft mechanics class way back when.

He did not know how to change his oil.

We all said why in the **** are you here.

He said he was not going to be a grease monkey.

He was going to be management.

Great someone who can't do the job, in charge of the people who can do the job.

legitimate_bidder · ‎02-22-2018

@sockmonkeydave

Wow, SeaMonkeyDave, that guy what couldn't change his erl.....he was sure misguided wanting to go into management! Guys like that are supposed to go into TEACHING!

mr.elmwood · ‎02-22-2018

When I was managing I said "I would never ask someone to do something I can't do".

sockmonkeydave · ‎02-22-2018

@mr.elmwood

My boss hired a guy for my shop ( with no input from me )

So I told him to clean the gunk tank.

He said "why do I have to clean the gunk tank"

well, because I am the boss and you are not.

He never became a mechanic

I hired a 13 year old kid.

first job was sweeping the floor.

( I had no clue what he could do )

He is now in his 30's

and he has his own business.

ripsmc · ‎02-22-2018

The story from sockmonkeydave reminds me of an ex brother-in-law of mine. This clown went to aircraft school and got his A & P license. I have no idea in the world how he did this unless he paid the examiner off. He had the IQ of a box of turnips.

He couldn't change the oil in his cars (always had it done at a fast lube) and anytime repairs were needed he brought them to me; even for the very simple stuff.

At one point he moved to Texas and got a job at General Dynamics building F-16s............

pentecostal01 · ‎03-19-2018

Wow , I just got done emailing the same person about the 2013 dump trailer.........she said it was in Omaha Nebraska waiting to be shipped.........lol I figured that was a scam......got my hopes up for nothing

mr.elmwood · ‎03-19-2018

Back to the hi-jacked version of this thread. My electric furnace was not working correctly. One or more elements were staying on in the off position. I traced it to a burnt sequincer. Sunday morning, late winter, no-one here wants to work, nowhere to get what I need. Except.

I put on my galooshes and go down the street and see Barry. Barry is an electrician. He has the part on hand and will only take $20 off of me. I go home, take out the old, put in the new, make a new connecting wire to replace the burnt one.

Up and down, $20, twenty minutes.

atikovi · ‎03-19-2018

Electric heat in one of the colder places to live? That's gotta cost ya.

jr-41ford · ‎03-20-2018

@atikoviwrote:
Electric heat in one of the colder places to live? That's gotta cost ya.

No doubt.

mr.elmwood · ‎03-20-2018

Not really. House is insulated good enough. Manitoba has the lowest or second lowest electricity rates in North America.

This is not my forever home. To switch to gas, I would never make the cost back.