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aprazer402 wrote: »Many Home Depots are the same way with a lot of items now. PIA!
Tom
My brother is a mgr. at a local HD. They've been locking up power tool cartons in cages for a couple of years. He said the thieves knew where the Li-Ion batteries were placed inside each product box. They would simply slice the box open and steal the expensive battery and leave the box untouched on the shelf. He said he's already seen one person with wire cutters trying to cut open the cage fencing. He said the cages have definitely limited losses for the stores.
His store is in a safe suburban area. Nowhere is safe anymore it seems. He has hundreds of theft stories.
He gets so very upset that he can't do much. Each store has a few specialized personnel that are the only ones allowed to apprehend a suspected thief. They must know they have taken something and they must be stopped within the building. So very much is still lost, it's just sad!
It has gotten bad. The other day, I had to pick up materials for a couple of houses. First locked cage? I went to the pro desk and had them announce that help was needed on isle "X". I waited 15 minutes.
Then, I looked on the HD app to look for attic stairs......wasted time tracking down 4 or 5 employees who didn't know where they were. Finally sent my employee back to the pro-desk to have them physically take them to the attic stairs because all HD associates had no clue where they were. Another wasted 20-25 minutes.
By the time I got to the electrical section to grab a 15' roll of Romex, I see that it's now locked up too.
This time, I didn't bother to track down an associate. I stood there, in the middle of the isle and literally yelled, "is their an associate in electrical?". Within a minute, someone came by and gave me the Romex.
Time is money and these damned criminals are wasting my time. I will no longer walk up to the desk. I will stand there in the isle and become my own personal broadcast system for the store. I know my voice is loud enough to hear from one side of the store to the other, so it is what it is.
I don't have all day to shop and I'll no longer be "polite" about it. I simply don't have the time, nor do I have the patience anymore.
At least they let me get a Red Bull (that story on another post) without paying for it first. I had a professional but very stern talk to them about that BS. They were hesitant but eventually made an exception when I told them my spending over the decades and why I should not be treated as a criminal. After our talk, they understood fully where I was coming from and agreed with me.
Tom
Tom, Sorry to hear about your struggles in the store. My brother that's been with The HD about 20 years is always telling me about the employee turnover. It's not that they're treated badly, it's the younger ones
having no idea about any type of building materials etc. Many just do not want to work! The work can involve some heavy lifting but usually, not all day, every day. They had one employee, an old man in his eighties that outworked a lot of the young ones, He died recently. He's also had to warn several of the younger employees to "put your phone away" while working. He gives them maybe three warnings then
they are let go. It's difficult to find workers all over right now. The Omaha MSA unemployment rate was projected to be 2.2% for May 2023, April's rate was 2.0 actual. -
ahem.
Since when?
Meanwhile -- O. Henry would be so pleased...
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^^^^ I had to Google that. Interesting. Thx.
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Many years ago I had an experienced off roader, having seen my FJ40 Land Crusier, ask me if I knew the different between it and a CJ Jeep. I replied in the negative, so he says it's like this. Say they both cost $15,000. The FJ40 has $10k worth of engine/drive train and a $5k body. The CJ has a $5k engine/drive train and a $10k body. I could not find fault in his assessment.
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I wish Toyota still made a Land Cruiser or even the FJ Cruiser.
Not sure what this is going to be. \/ A Hybrid.
https://www.hotcars.com/hotcars-rostislav-prokop-new-toyota-fj-cruiser/#:~:text=The Toyota FJ Cruiser isn,could be under another name. -
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When I detail a car in the garage I listen to music
So do my neighbors. It goes to 11 😂
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aprazer402 wrote: »^^^^ I had to Google that. Interesting. Thx.
In all seriousness, it's a marvelous sounding instrument, and not all that commonly seen/heard. We happen to know someone who plays one.
Absolutely gorgeous!
I was so freaking tempted to buy that sucker last summer. The asking price didn't seem outrageous ($22k).
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Makes me think of the demon child that used to live across the street from me. He hurled one of those at my dad's groin. -
You may think you're cool but you'll never be cooler than Spock driving around The Bangles.
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The late Mr. Nimoy, born in (or near) Boston, narrated the remarkable IMAX demo film in the Mugar theater at the Boston Museum of Science -- seeing it, many years ago now, was my first IMAX experience. It's... remarkable.
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Well, if we're talking about which can fall over on its side faster, you win
In all "seriousness", for as serious as this topic could be, which is to say, not very, I'm really only talking about the 80s Toyota 4wd Pickup on up through maybe the 2004 Tacoma. I have an 87 and an 02 Tacoma. I prefer the 87 for "duties" for a number of reasons, but the 02 is a better daily driver. I don't like its electronic 4wd engagement, though. It's slow. Give me manual hubs and two shifters any day.
To me, the 2004 Tacoma was the last year of the Toyota 4wd truck form, though some would argue it ended well before that, when the solid front axle went away.
Not to say I haven't seen some nicely built out "overlanders", as they're calling things these days, but it seems like there wouldn't be a lot of wheels-to-seat feedback in a lot of these newer vehicles. They seem plasticky and foofy, though I'm sure are more comfortable as dailies.
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“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
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It’s a fact Tom,the criminals are running the show.
This is yet another prime example of the law protecting the criminals. This is illegal to do and the criminal has a right to sue you when they break bones (which they will) trying to hit your mailbox with a bat.
On the flip side, if you have a brick or concrete mailbox, no worries. But, as I understand it, in some jurisdictions, if a vehicle hits your brick mailbox with their vehicle, you assume responsibility for damage to the vehicle. Even though they hit a stationary object.
We live somewhat out in the country and have a mailbox on the other side of the road from the house. Luckily for us, I believe the mailbox we have has been standing since the home was built in 1982. It's an oversized, well built, custom looking mailbox that appears to have never been hit with a bat. That said, if I went through mailbox after mailbox living in an area where this kind of activity (sport for teens) was prevalent, I'd do the same thing as the photo depicts.
Damned the consequences and I would have zero empathy for the person who got hurt.
Tom
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ken brydson wrote: »When I detail a car in the garage I listen to music
So do my neighbors. It goes to 11 😂
I tried like h3ll to buy one of those back in the day!
I love it. Use it for music, amp for my electric drums, occasionally a guitar amp. They screwed up marketing it as a "gaming monitor". Hope it never dies.
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ken brydson wrote: »…
Who says Polk never made speakers with horn tweeters🤣
I saw that and I thought you put a “polk” logo on some Walmart speaker! 😳😂 First one of those I’ve seen! 👍
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"Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"Harry / Marietta GA
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Yup.
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A pair of great shoes for the entire village.Main Rig:
Krell KAV 250a biamped to mid/highs
Parasound HCA1500A biamped to lows
Nakamichi EC100 Active xover
MIT exp 1 ic's
Perreaux SA33 class A preamp
AQ kingcobra ic's
OPPO 83 CDP
Lehmann audio black cube SE phono pre, Audioquest phono wire (ITA1/1)
Denon DP-1200 TT. AToc9ML MC cart.
Monster HTS 3600 power conditioner
ADS L1590/2 Biamped
MIT exps2 speaker cable -
That sure would curtail my swimming for a while!Main Rig:
Krell KAV 250a biamped to mid/highs
Parasound HCA1500A biamped to lows
Nakamichi EC100 Active xover
MIT exp 1 ic's
Perreaux SA33 class A preamp
AQ kingcobra ic's
OPPO 83 CDP
Lehmann audio black cube SE phono pre, Audioquest phono wire (ITA1/1)
Denon DP-1200 TT. AToc9ML MC cart.
Monster HTS 3600 power conditioner
ADS L1590/2 Biamped
MIT exps2 speaker cable
