Sounds to me like some Avis manager’s brother-in-law owns a tow truck and has an Avis service contract.

“ticking time bomb that can potentially burn down my house, with my family’s dead bodies in it.”

When I picked up the car, I did note that the license plate did not match the contract. As I was a corporate customer, I never saw the desk. It just went to my app, here’s your car, red Camry, license plate blah-blah.

I even ASKED at the exit, hey, do I have the right car? Plate doesn’t match my contract. They assured…

Some companies have the license plate number in the printed up paperwork they give you with the keys.  Budget and Hertz does that.  It's one of the things you should check when doing the initial inspection of the rental.

Avis blows balls.

They once rented me a Camry that THEY had switched out the license plates with another vehicle. As the story goes, the Camry had its license plates stolen, but they had just sold a Ford Expedition that they still had the plates for. So, they threw the plates from the Expedition onto the Camry, and…

Kinja, of course. It’s a crap shoot right now whether I can even see replies to me that aren’t gray.

One thing seems to be certain and depressing: The pandemic will only become endemic once its literally gotten into every single country and now it seems to be getting into the places that staved it off initially. Things in Australia are pretty bad: Low vaccination availability and a population with zero immunity…

Full English breakfast while steering with your knee.

It’s not just you. If it’s in the greys, the comment essentially doesn’t exist, and it’s been that way for a couple of months. I can’t count the number of times I haven’t been able to respond to a genuinely interesting conversation someone’s trying to have with me because I can’t interact with the comment or read more…

Can’t see shit. I even tried opening up your comments in a separate tab and window, still nothing. Kinja is legit one of the worst commenting systems I’ve ever had to wrestle with.

Fuck you Kinja. So if someone replies to your post but they are in the greys, it seems like there is literally NO way to view or reply to that comment? I know the notification links have BEEN broken, but I get a notification that a greyed commenter replied to me, I can read half their comment in my notifications, but…

Dollar stores are targeting demographics who [.....] don’t make enough to have much choice in where and when they buy their household necessities.

Not necessarily low intelligence, but there is definitely a correlation between low-education and low-income, as better educated people can get better jobs. Much of the predatory business ecosystem for the poor depends on their innumeracy. Besides Dollar stores, there are those awful “Checks Cashed”, “Payday Loans”,…

Why do all these types of articles equate low income as low intelligence. People are smart enough to know they’re getting smaller sizes and maying more per ounce, pound, inch, etc.

It sounds like the “scam” is just being on the lowest end of the unit price spectrum. Most people are generally aware that you pay the highest unit price for the tiny amount, and the lowest unit price for the bulk amount.

So the scam is that they’re generating a positive gross margin? And I think everybody, even less educated folks, knows that you generally get a better deal if you buy a bigger-volume product. If lower-income people are unable to afford larger-volume products, that’s not really these stores’ faults, more the nature of c…

“Good idea, bad implementation” is basically Russia after 1720.

Gotta give credit where credit is due. This design looks do be well rounded.

I have known about this ship for over forty years.