I don’t go to the movies much anymore. I still have nightmares from that damn National Amusements’  Charlie Chaplinesque “These are the rules” POS they used to play before the movie previews. I must have seen that thing a thousand times. Once was more than enough. I don’t think I ever heard as many groans in a theatre…

Mashed potatoes without the peels are just not right. Even the instant ones have peels most of the time in them. 

Didn’t we learn the “rules” about crossing the street back in Kindergarten or 1st grade? “Don’t cross from between parked cars!” was number one, but I see people ignore it all the time. Pretty much makes it their fault if they do and they get hit. One of the new rules should be, “Put away the damn phone and don’t…

The new struts are going on this morning. These will lift the trunk up without any help from me when it’s 30 degrees out, so the conking should be a memory, at least until next winter.

A half hour or so driving a stick, and I’m done. Almost as annoying as when I borrowed a car(same guy, different car) to take my dog to the vet and the person that lent it to me called and needed a ride from the other side of town. The damn car blew it’s radiator all over one of the busiest streets in town and the guy…

I think that sound actually was recycled from The Flintstones, but it still works.

I would seriously curtail my driving if I had to daily drive a stick. Last time I did it, I was ready to just dump a friend’s car I had borrowed and walked home. And it was a Corolla I was driving, which has about the softest clutch I have ever used. When I bought my last car, the sales guy said, “You want the 6…

At this point in time, I don’t think any industry has the ethics/resistance to make-more-money, screw safety/the environment/the employees, etc. I can’t think of a single indistry whose policies don’t follow “Profits above all else”. And now the RR’s want a single person running a train? The govt needs to just shut…

I’ve noticed this happening a lot lately, not just chips, but frozen vegetables and even french fries. I loaded up on steam in the bag broccoli when it was on sale at Meijer’s, and got an unpleasant surprise when 3 of the 12 I bought had very little broccoli, and a lot of water/ice. The first one made me laugh, one…

They should just make a couple of dozen different noises it can make, including several variations of the above, such as “Deep Rumble”, “Screaming Turbo”, etc, along with:

I think it’s kind of funny when I see something on the news and search on it, ONE TIME, and almost instantly are flooded  with ads that sometimes make sense and actually have something to do with what I searched on, but sometimes, they make zero sense, and flooding me with ads based off a single wiki view about…

I went out with a friend’s family when I was about 10, and messed up and ordered, as my friend’s dad said, “Whatever you want!” So I ordered a whole Walleye, deep fried and red potatoes. It was huge and it was awesome. Oooops, I wasn’t supposed to actually do it. It was worth the dirty look his dad gave me the rest of…

We had friends of the family with 7 kids and I remember going to a local restaurant when I was about six, and they (five had been born at that time)were going wild in there. The oldest two who were 12 and 13 were just yelling at the other 3 like their mom was. I was just sitting there watching the “show”. I started to…

Nothing much going in, nothing much going out, I guess it works for (Mostly) women.

I’m almost 67 years old, and I have never, ever, been asked for a receipt when they mess up my orders, and they have messed them up hundreds of times, if not over 1000 times over the years. But I never ask for a refund, just make it correctly is all I ever ask. For some reason, Culver’s seems to mess up the most these…

My worst one was recently at Culver’s. I was in line and the car in front of me, just a man and a woman in it, spent a LONG time at the order spot. I couldn’t hear what they were saying, but it went on and on. Finally, I put my order in, and after paying, pull around the corner to wait, and wait and wait and wait.…

Sometimes I have to say, “Meat and bun, no cheese about 3 times before it sinks in I just want the meat/fish and bun. None of that crap on it. And they still mess it up about 15% of the time. I know I should always check every item, but when you’re in a hurry, it seems like the people making the stuff knows it, and…

As a plain eater, I get everything with “Just the meat and bun”, or Just the fish and bun”, and learned long long ago, to check everything. IMHO, it’s trashed with anything but lettuce (I don’t see the point) or onions (I’m OK with them, but I don’t really want them). If they have ketchup, mustard, mayo, “secret…

My only complaints about Kroger’s is their prices. In general, Meijer’s and WalMart beat them on just about everything, sometimes by a shocking amount. Buy 4 at Kroger’s, you could almost buy 6 at WM or Meijer’s. The place that had the craziest prices on some things was Cub Foods. Long gone from the NW Ohio area, they…

If I was in the market for a mid sized truck, the turbo 4 would scare me off, period. Everyone I know with an Ecoboost Ford has had turbo problems, and Ford being Ford, they basically got no help from them at all. On my one friend’s F150, the dealer paid half towards his $3000 repairs. And yet, he’s currently waiting…