My family has run a army/navy/department store for over 70 years and the one single really bad decision my dad made during his time as president of the company was hiring a husband and wife theft prevention team. They were great at their jobs, catching customer ofter customer stealing stuff as minor as a pack of fish…

The people around here are so confident they won’t be caught, they cut the converter off a coworkers car in a brightly lit parking lot, with visible cameras all over the building. The car was parked in the one spot that prevented identifying the car they came in. They ended up getting caught at one of the nearby car…

The only thing I never got at all, damaged or just late, was a radio I bought from an Los Angeles seller. I wondered where it was and checked my email and I got a notice from Fedex saying the “Item was destroyed, train derailament!”. Yep, BNSF had a huge one in Texas the day before. Containers everywhere. A friend had…

I hope not, UPS is nicely boring, my stuff always shows up, and if the shipper/seller packed it correctly, intact. I work on old electronics, and the truly pitiful packing that happens sometimes just amazes me. When I contact them, they are always shocked that I didn’t think they did a good job of packing. Putting a…

Somehow, at 56 years old now (the dog “incidents” were about 25 years ago, he looks 75) he’s managed to stay out of jail and not get himself beat for perving out the wrong person. He’s pretty wealthy, but not wealthy enough to get someone to marry him, but he almost did about 20 years ago. No, I never saw her, I just…

I ordered a tool online and FedEx was the carrier. I got an email saying it had been delivered, with a supposed picture of the package at my front door. The problem was the pic was from over 4 months earlier, a day or so before my birthday, I recognized one of the 4 boxes in the picture as being something I had…

The stupidity of modern day rail management exceeds my expectations constantly. Anytime the economy hiccups, they lay off people, and mothball/sell/scrap engines, and it bites them in the ass every time. NS swears they have learned their lesson, but when the next generation of clueless executives get in charge, they…

There are an awful lot of autoracks sitting around the Toledo area rail yards at present. My one friend in California says there are a lot of them near his parents house (LA Area) sitting empty and they haven’t moved for some time. 

I just googled “railracks” and the results don’t even mention rail cars like..

I’m with her when it comes to Cilantro, Arugula, licorice and the Monte(Not a fan of any Monte, but those later ‘70's cars were just awful). The rest I totally disagree with. I like coconut just fine. Really high percentage dark chocolate I will pass on, but don’t hate. Yes, I am a supertaster. My “top of the yuck…

I caught some neighbor doing that with my friend’s dog once. It was not the first time he was caught doing it. My friend’s sister caught him the first time. When I saw it happening, I said, “Jesus Rich!, WTF?”, and he jumped to his feet, and screamed, “NOOOO! It’s not what you think!”. His explaination was just a…

My dad was an older one, he was 43 when I was born. He drove “old man” cars, always, but he liked them fast. Real fast. He had a couple of problem plagued T-Birds with 390's in them that had been cammed and other work done on them. They were fast, but totally unreliable, both blew head gaskets before they made it…

A friend of mine leased a condo for a year while his new house was being built. He and his wife had two assigned parking spots. A few months after they moved in, the management/HOA said that all cars parked there had to have stickers in the rear windows. Fine, no problem, my friend thought. So a few weeks later, comes…

I’ve been watching trains my entire life and a couple of things come to mind when I read this article:

I’m old and remember when the Pillsbury? Betty Crocker? canned frosting appeared. And it was awful. I had friend’s mothers who made decent enough cakes, but ruined them with that canned shit that had a very strange after taste. It seemed like I was the only one of my friends, or their families, who didn’t like it. One…

Beyond was just beyond awful. Sorry, but it’s true. 

A relative of mine was on vacation and he had a huge seizure while on a boat fishing. They took him to the hospital who couldn’t find anything wrong. He had another seizure and they went to a local ER and they couldn’t find anything wrong. They accused him of “faking it”, until he had another seizure in front of them,…

I saw the same awful interior (And that color, wow!) for a couple of weeks back in 1981 when I rented a totally beige/band-aid colored Zephyr. I never beat a rental as badly as I beat on that car. I hated everything about it. 

I want only black interiors too. I grew up riding in my parent’s cars with blue, red, off white, etc, interiors and I hated them. In 1968, my dad bought his (IMHO) awful bronze Imperial. I didn’t like the car or the color, but the inside was black leather and I thought, “This is so much better than the colored…

We had a shady F&I at a local dealership sneak one in on us back in 1993. About 3 months in, the rate changed (Up) and that was the first we knew about it. All hell broke loose, and they redid the loan at a low fixed rate, and we were assured that he had been fired. Yeah, we somehow missed it on the paperwork, but at…