I wish I knew/thought this was illegal when I was 18!

Confidential settlements are good if it’s the wish of the victim in this case, if the non disclosure agreement is the wish of NASCAR here to protect themselves it’s a trashy move.

Best comment.

That is not entirely true actually. Apple when the iPhone first came out refused to accept cash because people were buying and reselling them, they wouldn’t take anything but credit or debit. Ok sorry correction iPad’s

Not if you get a gift certificate.

Hells no! Coinstar takes 4%. Screw that.

I could totally imagine the shop (in counter-retaliation) not being in any hurry to finish counting the money, or to make the phone call. The customer might get some satisfaction out of the payment method, but the customer’s own added inconvenience and delay might dilute that satisfaction.

Why not? It’s legal tender and any intentional damage caused to your car by the shop in retaliation is a crime.

I swear I’ve seen something around here about doing an LS swap for pennies, so maybe he took that literally.

Is coin payment retaliation really a good idea, when the shop has the keys to your car?

see... this is the problem with letting people pass their education on sports grants...

The first two interruptions, you let those go. They’re human. They do rude stuff w/o noticing. So do you. Try to move on and finish the conversation.

I like the sarcastic approach.

The best lamps ate the ones where you have to unscrew the bulb to turn it off. I’ve got a couple of those torture devices.

I’m 33 and legitimately thought I was the only person on Earth who did this, and have always been extremely self-conscious about it. I have never heard the term gleeking before this thread. How did this happen? I feel like that Gawker guy who never ate pudding or whatever.

One reasonable reason to cover your mouth when you yawn is the dreaded involuntary gleek. Nothing worse than yawning and all of a sudden the paper in front of you is covered in tiny droplets of spit.

Holy Christ, my wife came home with one of those fucking things one day. Because, obviously, turning a switch on and off is simply too taxing for the average human. The problem with the Clapper is that it’s simply set for a particular amplitude threshold--not the general frequency range of hands clapping. So, you can…

Let’s not conflate the late great Waylon Jennings with what has devolved into what is contemporary country.

My grandma had one of those, but it was like a faux Tiffany lamp so there was very little surface area to actually touch. Plus we got in trouble for constantly touching it on and off.

Had to quickly comment on the lamp switch thing and you’re way off. I’ve got a lamp in my living room that is a touch activated lamp. All you have to do is tap a metal part of the lamp to turn it off/on. So awesome.