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Originally Posted by Zeke

I had one of those. At the time they had an out-of-control 3 YO and a 1YO. I could see the stair walls paint lasting a week. Yet these nouveau riche pukes wanted perfection.

I saw $18,000 spent on oak floor repair and refinishing and a slew of plastic toys and crap spread out all over on a subsequent visit. I never did like working for new money. Worst customers you can have.

Old money was a pleasure, mostly.

Yup. Back in my uni days I worked summers for Buster Crabbe pools. The nouveau riche were absolute alpha hotels. Our best customers were blue collars fams that saved for years to get a pool installed. The biggest difference? The blue collars had coffee and buttered rolls for us every morning. The nouveau didn't and *****ed about everything. Where we parked our trucks, the noise of the mixer, our music, how long we took for lunch.

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[GH85Carrera]

Look at the evidence!!!!


The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day:
In 1940, the fastest speed limit anywhere in Texas was 45 mph. In that era, most cars would not go much faster than that.






At one of my former jobs we had a skinny chick that wore thin summer clothes and was pleasant to look at, but always cold. She would tun the AC up and all the men in the area were cussing her. One day, I suggested to do more than sit there waited for customers to walk in, get up and run the vacuum cleaner on the foyer carpeting. She tried that, and was all warmed up, and we had a better looking foyer! Win Win.

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[gregpark]

Originally Posted by Zeke

I never did like working for new money. Worst customers you can have.

Old money was a pleasure, mostly.

Yep, old money customers only for me anymore. New money people are not realistic, treat you like they're doing you a favor by hiring you and think every contractor is out to rip them off. I love dealing with my old money customers who trust my advice and trust me so much that money is never even discussed. I take care of these people

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maybe worthy of its own (non-pic) thread

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[bugstrider]

And they call this fashion????? WTF has happened to the world….. Never mind answering, just turn on the nightly news to get the answer.

Amazon is now complete…….

I can buy caulk condoms. Mrs Bugs also told me that I could use them for other things to…… I hate it when she is spot on.



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[GH85Carrera]

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by gregpark

Yep, old money customers only for me anymore. New money people are not realistic, treat you like they're doing you a favor by hiring you and think every contractor is out to rip them off. I love dealing with my old money customers who trust my advice and trust me so much that money is never even discussed. I take care of these people

I could possibly take some jobs repairing on site but old money died out. At my age that is entirely true.

Obligatory pic:

[GH85Carrera]

I am not a doctor, I have not spent a night at Holiday Inn in 20+ years, and I don't play a doctor on TV, but think that is a broken nose.


The exact moment lightning strikes water.

[Jolly Amaranto]

Magazine ad from 1960.

[GH85Carrera]

5 MB of data on 62,500 punch cards in 1955.
A single photo on most cell phones is more data than that.


Original Caption: Exterior view of 7th Fighter Command "Slop Chute Mess Hall" on Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands. Oct 1945. (N.A.)

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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

5 MB of data on 62,500 punch cards in 1955.
A single photo on most cell phones is more data than that.

I hope they're all properly numbered. Go ahead ask me why.

[GH85Carrera]

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[Icemaster]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

You got to love the blue tape walk-thru on new construction homes...

Looks like a renovation to me, not new construction. Still a pretty hardcore case of OCD.

[GH85Carrera]

IWO JIMA.
Original caption: The pilot of a North American P-51 "Mustang" sits in this cramped position for seven or eight hours during a mission. Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands, July 1945. (N.A.)
Just imagine a day at work, sit in a small cockpit for 8 hours, a pee bottle as a bathroom, and the enemy shooting at you trying to kill you, and not just on Mondays, but the next day and the day before. All for not much money.


SOLOMON ISLANDS + NEW GUINEA.
Original caption: A Lockheed P-38 "Lightning" is repaired by men of the 27th Air Depot Group at the Port Moresby Air Depot, Papua, New Guinea, 7 October 1943. (N.A.)


Wagon train loaded with supplies crossing through Echo Canyon, Utah during construction of the Union Pacific Railroad. 1867.
Credit: Heartfelt History.


A country store somewhere in Oklahoma - 1940.
Credit: Country Stores Restaurants & Bed and Breakfasts.

[asphaltgambler]

What the h3ll are those things^^^^^

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