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flipper35 · flipper35's Garage

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Originally Posted by HHI944

This is obviously a legislative failure. We need tougher laws that make it illegal to drive the wrong way down a road.

Obviously if they hadn't had automatic windows this wouldn't have happened.

porsche4life · porsche4life's Garage

Had an interesting one today. Went and looked at a 2nd floor condo for an out of town client. Walking from the stairs to front door it felt like you were going up hill. Once you got inside it dwl like that all the way to the back of the unit. If you bet down it looked like the kitchen was a good 2" higher. Lots of high and low spots across the unit. Laminate flooring, so not s carpet pad issue. Only means one thing. The whole freaking building is settling to the front. Told my client that no freaking way does she want to buy in that building!

flipper35 · flipper35's Garage

Hey Pete, this you?

Porsche-poor · 08-05-2015, 01:45 PM

ask her if she has seen the show How I Met Your Mother? There is an episode where they buy an apartment like that.

GH85Carrera · GH85Carrera's Garage

When we were looking at houses long ago before we bought our current place We saw some strange places. My absolute minimum was a 3 car garage or a property that is large enough to build a workshop on. The realtor took us out in the county to one place that was 10 acres of grass and dump of a house. I really think the former owner built the house out of scraps and did not follow any codes. No interior doors would close properly and the floors creaked and the entire place would have to be bulldozed. I bet marble would roll like crazy on that floor. Nothing was level.

I would be mowing for a day at a time and we would have to build a new house and garage. It was all the way up in Logan county so the commute would suck. I looked at the realtor and asked her point blank, what would were you thinking when you brought us way up here?

Porsche-poor · 08-05-2015, 02:04 PM

some realtors like to think they know what you really need. We had that very experience the last time we bought a house. He got lost, took 30 minutes to find the place and it was not what we were looking for.

Rick V · 08-05-2015, 03:05 PM

Evening Y'all,
Well I got an interesting phonecall this afternoon. Subaru is trying to get me to come back. Since I already have a job I guess I can just be myself on this round of negotiations and just lay out my demands and get them in writing. There are some advantages to working there. We'll see.
I do miss the crew there, and have kept in touch with them.

GH85Carrera · GH85Carrera's Garage

When I was looking for my first house I told the realtor up front a garage was REQUIRED no exceptions no how period. The first house she stopped at had the garage converted to living space. I did not even get out of the car. She walked to the front door and saw me in her car. She asked was was wrong and I said there is no garage. It is not an option at all. She understood then.

Oh Haha · 08-05-2015, 04:04 PM

Oh boy.

Jake wanted a clown fish more than anything. He has a 10 gal.tank with a few freshwater fish.

I paid him his cut of the job and of we went to Petco. He found an employee and announced "I have 60 dollars and I want a clown fish". "Tim" then proceeded to explain that it would take about $120 to properly set a SALTwater tank. Jake just didn't understand so I let Tim go into detail about how labor intensive a saltwater set up an be.

After about 45 minutes later it finally sunk in that he just couldn't have one.

We now have another hamster in the house. "Lightning" is Jake's new friend. He spent all but $8.

It was painful to see the disappointment on his face once he realized a clown fish wasn't coming home with us. Life sucks sometimes, get used to it.

BTW-I am taking the kids and one of their friends for ice cream tonight. I'll be buying. yay

Rick V · 08-05-2015, 04:10 PM

We had our fair share of hamsters when our kids were growing up but since we always have cats and at least one of them has always been a natural hunter from hell we viewed hamsters as temporary visitors and a way to save on catfod for one sitting

RKDinOKC · RKDinOKC's Garage

Whew, went unconscious right after lunch and just woke up...I hate it when that happens.

When my brother went to college he and his family lived in an old house in Stillwater OK. When we visited you could take a toy car or ball and roll it from the front of the house to the back, and it would return to you. Remember him and my dad crawling around under the house and jacking up places and adding boards between the foundation and house to level the house. They left a jack under the front door and would have to re-adjust it every spring then fall or the front door would stick closed.

When house hunting for a wheel chair accessible home it was quite a challenge. The houses that claimed wheel chair accessibility were jokes, all it meant was they had hand rails in the bathroom. My relator ended up sending me new listings in my price range so I could drive by and see if the front door was where I could at least make it accessible before having us go do a walk thru. Ended up finding the house we are in now because we looked at another house in the neighborhood. Drove around the neighborhood and this one had a for sale by owner sign in the yard. When Mom very first saw the house she said, "That's it!" Turned out to be the most accessible house we found. Freaked my relator out, she didn't like dealing with a for sale by owner, AND we signed the contract on the house on Friday the 13th and closed on Halloween.

Oh Haha · 05:05 PM

Not a cat fan here. We have a dog but he's too old to give a crap about much anymore.

Rick--I hope the Subaru thing works out if you decide to go back.

Rick V · 08-05-2015, 04:20 PM

I would love to have a dawg but I am not home enough and it would not be fair to the dawg.

Rick V · 08-05-2015, 04:20 PM

When I retire I am going to get another blue tic

RKDinOKC · RKDinOKC's Garage

Put together a Saltwater aquarium when in college and had it for about 3 years after. Yes, it was a hassle to maintain. Had to keep a 10 gallon bucket of water setting out so the chlorine could evaporate out. Had to add about 3 gallons a day to replace the water that would evaporate out to the 60 gallon aquarium. Had all kinds of very colorful fish including a clownfish. It died after I added a cleaner shrimp and didn't quarantine it long enough. It brought in some disease that killed everything about a month after adding. Would have had to sterilize everything and start over completely so ended up giving all my aquarium stuff to a friend for helping me take a motor out of a Monte Carlo to rebuild and swap into my Blazer.

I really wanted an octopus, but understood they are very difficult to keep in the aquarium. They are escape artists. Did not want to get up in the middle of the night one night and step on it.

Had a gerbil instead of a hamster. 4 year old girl Mom was babysitting stabbed it with a pencil. Replaced it with an Owlet some kids in the neighborhood had. Asked my mom for a dollar to get a bird. She was sure surprised when I came home with a baby owl. The Great Horned Owl, Herbert Hooter lived 10 years. Owls move their head and neck around because their eyes are cylindrical and don't move in the sockets. Also more than half of the head is ears, most of the rest is eyes or beak. There is a great horned owl that sits at the top of the cottonwood tree in my back yard. Can hear him hoot in the middle of the night, but haven't been able to actually see it.