Banter Thread Part 3 (Back with a Vengeance, this time its personal)

evening, y'all..

evening, y'all..
Well look what the cat drug in! :eek:

Everybody is crawling out of the walls lately.

Well look what the cat drug in! :eek:

Everybody is crawling out of the walls lately.

Speak for yourself, I'll be crawling to walls for support soon enough. :cheers:

Speak for yourself, I'll be crawling to walls for support soon enough. :cheers:
I'm gonna try to keep the little alcoholic in my head under control tonight... I've been sick all week and yet I'm still making an attempt to go out and party the night away. lol :uhoh:

I wanted to get hammered last night, I really need to soon. This has been one ROUGH month for me, and it seems to only be getting worse until February. Things need to get better because I don't know how much more of this I can handle.

Well I successfully went out last night without drinking at all...

I wanted to get hammered last night, I really need to soon. This has been one ROUGH month for me, and it seems to only be getting worse until February. Things need to get better because I don't know how much more of this I can handle.

What makes you think it will be getting better once february comes? It might just keep going down hill.

i'm quitting my job tomorrow.

my boss wants me to work harder, do 60+ hours a week managing a shop all for $300/week.

my boss wants me to work harder, do 60+ hours a week managing a shop all for $300/week.
And we call that the shaft, folks... :runaround:

got in early this morning, took all my stuff (and some of his!) and told him i'm not working for that money.

predictably, he changed his story and said "we hadn't agreed on $300/week, i said we'd discuss days off."

hmm.. $300 a week with "days off" doesn't pay the $17,000 i owe. it's ridiculous.

Sucky jobs. Let me tell you about a sucky job :)

What's new?

Whats going on 6?

quit today. i find it funny how my boss put on his little act, all not bothered about me leaving. then later on i get a call from his business partner, asking me to go for an informal meeting with them to discuss me coming back. it just makes me laugh.

he's gone and offered me money i can't accept, then when i leave he tell someone else he's pissed that the only employee he wanted to keep has walked and is too proud to even say anything to me.

Whats going on 6?
Not much man. How's life with you?

2.2, fuck them. You'll find a better job.

5 days 'til I see Manson in Columbus, Ohio!

Sucky jobs. Let me tell you about a sucky job :)
Do you really hate yours that much?

black, when you work as a cop or in a hospital you run into some of the scummiest people around. That can tend to make us jaded or hate our jobs from time to time. You work in a hospital you know whats its all about.

black, when you work as a cop or in a hospital you run into some of the scummiest people around. That can tend to make us jaded or hate our jobs from time to time. You work in a hospital you know whats its all about.
This is true... I have noticed that with the hospital and I guess now that you say it, being a cop would like dealing with the same people if not worse ones... There are some really weird people out there. Seems like all the loonies like to wonder into our hospital here. We have this one lady who comes in everyday and sits in each of the waiting rooms and steals the magazines. lol

We have this one lady who comes in everyday and sits in each of the waiting rooms and steals the magazines. lol


That's when you 'secretly' replace the magazine cover on the latest issues of Grannie Trannies. :icon16:

That might slow her down.:popcorn:

That's when you 'secretly' replace the magazine cover on the latest issues of Grannie Trannies. :icon16:

That might slow her down.:popcorn:
Or make it worse. lol

I love my job. I hate people.

On a sadder note. A buddy I graduated from the academy with lost his life last night. I do not know all the details yet. I do know it the result of a crash in his commission while on duty.

What makes you think it will be getting better once february comes? It might just keep going down hill.

Part of it has to do with wishful hoping.
It has mainly to do with the gf. She's been stressed with moving out and getting her EMT license and stuff. And the relationship aspect from my point-of-view has been going downhill. I'm not going to get into it because no one wants to hear about it, but she'll be moved out and done with it in Feb, so that's why I say it will get better in Feb.

workin retail isnt a whole hell of a lot better.. especially when you're salary.. 60+ hrs a week.. shitty people almost constantly.. fun stuff.. i especially hate the weekends..

thats nothing compared to restaurant management

On a sadder note. A buddy I graduated from the academy with lost his life last night. I do not know all the details yet. I do know it the result of a crash in his commission while on duty.
I'm sorry to hear that

workin retail isnt a whole hell of a lot better.. especially when you're salary.. 60+ hrs a week.. shitty people almost constantly.. fun stuff.. i especially hate the weekends..
:1: . i'm dreading going to work this weekend....superbowl weekend. lots of people buying a shit load of food. we always attract the most intellegent people in the area :rofl: . at least my salary is pretty decent.

i just can't figure out what goes through some people's minds.. we get people all the time that try to get us to mark down prices like we're selling used cars.. i don't get it.. it's not like i walk into mcdonalds and try to negotiate the price of a double cheeseburger...

we get people all the time that try to get us to mark down prices like we're selling used cars..
Oh dear God... That is some shit my dad would try to pull...



And he has... :uhoh:

.. it's not like i walk into mcdonalds and try to negotiate the price of a double cheeseburger...

I'll give you a buck, two-fifty for that extra value meal :icon16:

I get crap like that as well. People trying to get a deal if they buy alot of something. Especially lobsters. If I buy 100 can you get me a deal on the price? Gotta love that one. It's even better when they have food stamps.

See you guys later. I'm heading back to Indiana.

i just can't figure out what goes through some people's minds.. we get people all the time that try to get us to mark down prices like we're selling used cars.. i don't get it.. it's not like i walk into mcdonalds and try to negotiate the price of a double cheeseburger...
You know what, it gets really weird when you put that scenario into legal sense. According to the law, when you go to purchase something from a store at a listed price, you (the buyer) are offering to pay the store the amount and they are the one deciding to take the deal or not. Legally the store is not offering you the item at the price, making you the dealmaker, it's the reverse (you give the store an offer, they accept or deny). Weird huh... but then u get the places that "have to sell the item for the tagged price, even if it's a mistake" that's a bunch of bull, they can refuse to.

i love when we run a nationwide add and not every store in the nation has every item advertised for the entire week... had a guy bitch me out one time because he came in on a saturday night, (the end of the ad week mind you) looking for a laptop we had advertised for like 400 bucks.. obviously we didn't have any left in stock.. and he told me i had to sell him the next closest thing for that price and needed to actually drop the price to compensate for him driving an hour and wasting his time when we didn't have the item in stock.. he threatened to call our corporate office and have me fired because we didn't have the item in stock and we were "false advertising".. the guy was nuts.. was so glad to see that guy walk outta the store without buying.. he shouted out really freaking loud as he was leaving that he was going to BEST BUY... funny thing is tho, a buddy of mine works at Best Buy down the road and was also working that night.. while he didn't have to directly work with the guy, he said he blew up there too... some people...

that kind of goes hand in hand with my lifelong theory..... the more of the world you get to see the more you realize how many f'ed up people there really are in it

People suck....

Talk about a shitty past few days :/ Fuck.

I'm going to see Marilyn Manson today! Woo. You're jealous.

Sorry for the loss of your friend 6.

For everyone that does not know whats going on

http://www.wsbt.com/news/local/14557367.html

Thanks Gold. It was tough to see him, at 25, dead doing the job I do. He wasn't doing anything different from what we do on a daily basis. I have had a few friends die and this was one of the worst in my mind.

I can't imagine how hare it would be to lose a friend like that. Had a scare once my real close friend might as well be my brother was in the hospital here and we thought he had cancer. That was a real hard few days till we ruled cancer out.

****tumbleweed rolls by****

this thread has been dead for 4 days.. who would have thought..

****tumbleweed rolls by****

this thread has been dead for 4 days.. who would have thought..

I thought it was like a moment of silence for 6's friend and fellow officer.

I thought it was like a moment of silence for 6's friend and fellow officer.

:1:

Makes it a little weary to chime in. :(

condolences none the les..

Well, it finally happened. The tranny blew today, I lost 3rd, 4th, and part of 2nd. It was a nice day, so I decided to get it out. This is was the first time since I changed the water pump and replaced the A/C compressor. Everything was going smooth, until it wouldn't shift out of 2nd and smoke started coming from the shifter console. So, I limped it home w/ 1st and part of 2nd. Its amazing the roads and lengths you go through to stay off high traffic and high speed-limit roads.

Welp, at least it went out with a bang :)

So does this mean you're going to be holding on to the car a little while longer?

So does this mean you're going to be holding on to the car a little while longer?

I couldn't see the trans issue bieng a hot selling pont, meh, it'll make a smok'n deal at best :icon16:

Funny you mention it. I just listed it to see if someone will take it off my hands for the reduced price. If not, I will fix it and relist it with a higher price. I got the 'list till its sold' package, so I have awhile. What sucks is, I found a WS6 that is a really good deal, but I can't look at other cars until this one is sold.

I called 2 tranny shops and they both quoted me $1600-$2K for a rebuild. So, that's probably how much I will add onto the price if I do have to get it fixed and re-list it.

Funny you mention it. I just listed it to see if someone will take it off my hands for the reduced price. If not, I will fix it and relist it with a higher price. I got the 'list till its sold' package, so I have awhile. What sucks is, I found a WS6 that is a really good deal, but I can't look at other cars until this one is sold.

I called 2 tranny shops and they both quoted me $1600-$2K for a rebuild. So, that's probably how much I will add onto the price if I do have to get it fixed and re-list it.

$1600-2k!?!?! Did you tell them you just want your trans rebuilt not a whole other car?

You can buy a new transmission for less than that.

Personally I'd get one from a junk yard for a couple hundred bucks.

I called 2 tranny shops and they both quoted me $1600-$2K for a rebuild. .

4L60E's are a dime a dozen, swap the damn thing out. :shakehead

4L60E's are a dime a dozen, swap the damn thing out. :shakehead

Swapping one out with labor will cost me about the same as the rebuild. I found that I can get a tranny for about $1500 shipped. And one of the shops quoted me about $450 for the swap. So that total puts me right around the same price as a rebuild.

Maybe you misread me. Buy a used/rebuilt, raise and support vehicle, grab your tools, a case of beer, and if available a buddy who's done a swap or 2 (and a case of beer for them too) and have at it. :thumbsup:

Maybe you misread me. Buy a used/rebuilt, raise and support vehicle, grab your tools, a case of beer, and if available a buddy who's done a swap or 2 (and a case of beer for them too) and have at it. :thumbsup:
Tha'd be about the right way to do it.

I do everything this way now rather than pay a shop stupid amounts of money out the ass for simple things...

Maybe you misread me. Buy a used/rebuilt, raise and support vehicle, grab your tools, a case of beer, and if available a buddy who's done a swap or 2 (and a case of beer for them too) and have at it. :thumbsup:

I would love to, but I don't know anyone who has done a tranny swap, and I don't know too much about it either. I would rather pay someone to do it right and get the damn thing off my hands than me f*ing something up. Plus, I would rather use a lift than jack stands. Plus, I don't have a trans jack, or the patience at this point.

I would love to, but I don't know anyone who has done a tranny swap, and I don't know too much about it either.

Alright, here's all you need to know:

Lefty - loosey, righty - tighty :thumbsup:

This applies to bolts as well as lines. :iceslolan

Meh, I give up :frown:

Alright, here's all you need to know:

Lefty - loosey, righty - tighty :thumbsup:

This applies to bolts as well as lines. :iceslolan

Meh, I give up :frown:
Let's go do it for him. It sounds like lots of good money and free beer for us! :grinyes:

Let's go do it for him. It sounds like lots of good money and free beer for us! :grinyes:

sweet, you can pick me up along the way :grinyes:

sweet, you can pick me up along the way :grinyes:
2k split sounds pretty nice right about now. lol

Hell yeah it does, taxes are due. :eek:

I hope you guys bring your tools and equipment also, because I don't have a whole lot to work with over here. And I would love to see you guys swap it out in a narrow garage on jack stands. I hope you plan on spending the week.

I hope you guys bring your tools and equipment also, because I don't have a whole lot to work with over here. And I would love to see you guys swap it out in a narrow garage on jack stands. I hope you plan on spending the week.

Do you have a driveway? If so that solves the narrow problem, as for the jack stands thats no problem either. Believe it or not but the engine can be taken out with a jack, jack stands, and a can-do attitude.

Search around for the pictures when Curtis did his engine swap. His garage is probably 2 feet wider than the car is. I couldn't work that way, waaaaaaaay too cramped. Plus, when it's that tight, that wrench that gets thrown will definately stick into the wall.

Search around for the pictures when Curtis did his engine swap. His garage is probably 2 feet wider than the car is. I couldn't work that way, waaaaaaaay too cramped. Plus, when it's that tight, that wrench that gets thrown will definately stick into the wall.


I can't work that way either. I roll my car out to the driveway whenever i work on it. I'd rather work out in the sun and heat then not be able to move. Plus my girlfriend thinks its sexy when I'm all sweaty.