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Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by Mendel Leisk, Jul 6, 2022.

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  1. Prius Maximus

    Prius Maximus Senior Member

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    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....
     
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  2. ETC(SS)

    ETC(SS) The OTHER One Percenter.....

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    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.
     
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    Nothing like the window for those awkward conversations though.

     
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    Prius Maximus Senior Member

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    Mainly rural area. No Sonic or similar drive-in within 40 miles. Not wasting that much fuel for an ice cream...
     
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    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.
     
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    ETC(SS) The OTHER One Percenter.....

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  7. Leadfoot J. McCoalroller

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    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.
     
    #1907 Leadfoot J. McCoalroller, Aug 10, 2024
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    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.
     
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    We've had an ongoing problem with mice in the house. At first figured one had scooted in through a door left open. We'd eventually catch "it", and another would show up. Kind of like bailing out the water, but not finding the source of the leak.

    We did have a pro in, maybe a couple of years back, and he opined they were getting in at this one corner in the crawl space, but didn't elaborate. Thinking about that lately I remembered there's a gap in the perimeter wall, between the house and garage. Then looking around, I noticed significant voids in the perimeter wall beyond the crawl space, bordering a slab on grade in the garage, I could see sand spilling through the voids, realized they went right through.

    Anyway, long story short: I blocked off off the gap in the perimeter wall (with 12'X12" concrete blocks), extended the sill plate (to close off a gap at the top, and put concrete patch in the voids.

    Hopefully that's THE entrance way, and it's effectively shut now. Still haven't figured out their crawl space to main floor of the house routes, and it's maybe impossible to find-and-seal them all.

    The video is right after completion of the blocking of the voids in the garage perimeter wall, and backfill with lava rock.



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    My gripe I guess: where the heck was the city of Coquitlam, when the house was being built; they really dropped the ball on concrete inspection.

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    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.
     
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    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.
     
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    Wow a KISS cat
     
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    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.
     
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