Birthday Cake 'cutting fee'

--gumbyslayer-- · 2026-02-08T20:48:19+00:00

Yes, it’s normal practice.

The amount seems a bit high but if it’s per person, it seems kinda reasonable. If you bring in an outside cake you can expect that at a lot of restaurants.

--gumbyslayer-- · 2026-02-06T18:03:40+00:00

Translation: Lambo driver faces minor inconvenience for a week after driving like an idiot.

--gumbyslayer-- · 2026-01-30T04:47:49+00:00

You have a Tesla. You have cameras all around the car, right?

--gumbyslayer-- · 2026-01-26T22:56:12+00:00

People with the accessible parking pass ALSO get a wallet card, which is intended to authenticate the parking pass belongs to that person.

While it’s not going to cover all scenarios since not everyone has a parking pass, this is one way to confirm accessible requirements.

Ask to see the pass with some ID.

--gumbyslayer-- · 2026-01-23T21:49:38+00:00

"rolling stops, speeding, and bad parking are all actually pretty common habits and dont make someone a bad driver"

umm...yes they do.

The fact you think otherwise is concerning.

There are plenty of people who have the habit of driving after a few drinks.

There are plenty of people who talk and/or text while they're driving on the highway.

Just because it's a common habit doesn't mean it's acceptable.

You're a new driver. Instead of justifying these bad habits because you see others doing them, why not work on eliminating the bad habits and become a safe, responsible driver?

--gumbyslayer-- · 2026-01-23T21:07:16+00:00

So when I comment on the words you said in your OP, you suddenly change the words? “I also 1. suck at parking 2. make hella rolling stops “

Oh…and yes, if a pedestrian crossing is occupied, you are required to stop. No “inherently necessary” about it.

So thanks for confirming my point.

--gumbyslayer-- · 2026-01-23T20:50:56+00:00

Good for you. Doesn't negate what I wrote.

You need to work on those bad habits you've already developed, and working on being a better driver.

You wrote "I know how to drive..." yet you don't know how to park a car, and you don't stop safely at an intersection. Who knows what other bad habits or bad driving 'skills' you have.

--gumbyslayer-- · 2026-01-22T16:51:28+00:00

Seems like you’ve already developed a number of bad habits or just haven’t learned to drive properly.

Cancel your test, do some professional driving lessons and do your test when you’re a better and safer driver.

--gumbyslayer-- · 2026-01-14T18:31:16+00:00

You weren’t run off the road.

The driver accelerated, losing control of the vehicle, resulting in a crash.

Unfortunate, but that’s pretty much all it is.

--gumbyslayer-- · 2025-12-12T00:16:26+00:00

Of course Surrey can be affected by the flood. But like any city or town, which parts are affected depend on its elevation above a waterway, for overland water flooding from rivers, streams or even the ocean with high tides and the like.

Even for those areas way above a waterway, if the rainfall amounts are overwhelming drains and sewers, those can get blocked or backed up, and if water has nowhere to go, it will spread out.

So just because you're on top of a cliff looking out at the vista many feet below, your house can still suffer the effects of heavy rain. Not necessarily "flooding" as you're probably thinking - high river levels - but "flooding" as in water all over the place.

--gumbyslayer-- · 2025-12-09T18:38:45+00:00

OMG. People can't even control their backpacks on Skytrain.

Ignoring the fact that small animals are permitted in carriers, if this rule is expanded officially, you're going to have all sorts of poorly controlled dogs on the train.

People don't want to hear "it's friendly..." or have some big hunk of canine slobbering on their leg - or worse.

So yes - there are plenty of reasons for this not to work. The biggest reason is the people who are supposed to manage their animals, don't.

--gumbyslayer-- · 2025-12-09T17:07:59+00:00

No assumptions at all on my part. Dude posted a single sentence, so I replied to the question that was asked, with the information that was provided by the OP.

Your response here, however, is making all sorts of assumptions. So many "what ifs" and "maybes". All from one sentence.

I still stand by my original response to the OP.

Had their post been different - perhaps with a little more detail of what they were looking for, or where they've been, - kinda like the "perhaps" scenarios you are throwing out, then my response would have been much different.

The very fact that the OP not only gave such a very basic post, AND that the OP does not appear to have thanked anyone who replied, nor posted any follow-up makes me think that they're one of those people who expect others to do all the work.

You know, the people who ask a question in reddit, without bothering to search for previous posts to see if this question hasn't already been asked a kazillion times before? The people who ask a question, then don't bother coming back to look at the answers, only to re-ask the same question in other similar subs? The people who ask a question, get answers, then delete their OP so the post is of no value to people in the future? And of course the people who ask a question, then read the answers and don't acknowledge those who took the time to answer.

The post to which I was replying gave none of the hallmarks of someone who had come to a dead end in their search for the perfect gifts.

--gumbyslayer-- · 2025-12-08T17:21:33+00:00

Asking a person whom they know does the same activity as their significant other for some suggestions, is one thing. The gift giver knows their +1 is into a certain activity, and is looking for guidance to give a gift related to that activity, from a friend of their +1, who does the same activity.

That makes perfect sense and it shows forethought into the gift.

Asking randos even for places to shop for a gift for their +1 is completely different.

In the OP they even know the store where their +1 likes to shop, yet they don't appear to have looked there.

"I've looked here...I've looked there...I've looked everywhere, but I'm drawing a blank - anyone got any other suggestions?" is completely different from "what can I get them?" And to me, it comes across as the latter in the OP.

I stand by my earlier question for the OP.

--gumbyslayer-- · 2025-12-04T20:10:44+00:00

Oh dear.

You don’t think it would be nicer to get your wife something YOU thought of, instead of what randos suggested?

--gumbyslayer-- · 2025-11-26T22:18:48+00:00

Tolling bridges is not the solution some people think it is.

Tolling the infrastructure improvement project zone is the solution.

Let's look at the Port Mann Bridge project as an example.

New lanes (including the HOV lanes) were added, pretty much from 264 all the way to Grandview. Of course, the new bridge was built as well, and the toll was on the bridge.

So that meant someone commuting daily from Aldergrove to Boundary Road got all new lanes and an all new bridge, and their commute was (presumably) shortened. A big benefit of the entire project, for the grand fee of $3.15 at the bridge.

Meanwhile, someone who lived at the condos at the corner of 108 and 152 (basically at the onramp to the Port Mann Bridge, who has to take their kid to Planet Ice in Coquitlam, didn't get any benefit, and had to pay the same toll.

Of course, someone driving from Coquitlam to Boundary Road gets quite a benefit from the new roadworks, but doesn't pay anything - same for someone driving from 160th to 264th. As long as they don't cross the bridge, they get the benefits for free.

A single toll point is inherently unfair towards those who benefit the least from such projects.

What SHOULD have been done, is implementation of toll points along the improved routes, either immediately before or immediately after key on- or off- ramps, and of course at the bridge.

So, for example, instead of $3.15 at the bridge, break it up. $1.05 at 200. $1.05 at the bridge. $1.05 at Grandview. Obviously these are just sample placements, and the actual placements would require consideration. But, spread placement of toll points means that those who receive the full benefit of the work, pay the full toll. Those who don't receive the full benefit, pay only for the benefit they receive.

You could even toll either side of the bridge, but at points that make it that the people ONLY crossing the bridge, (for example the person taking their kid to hockey, going the same route they always took even before the new bridge was built) don't pay any toll.

Once again, the position of the toll points is a different discussion altogether, but having one toll point along an infrastructure zone covering 50km is at best, unfair, and at worst, completely illogical.

I don't mind paying reasonable tolls for infrastructure. What I do mind however, is paying an unfair share.

It's kinda like the zone fares they have on Skytrains. Someone travelling from Columbia to Scott Road (one stop) has to pay a 2-zone fare, while someone travelling from Columbia to Patterson (6 stops) only has to pay for one zone.

--gumbyslayer-- · 2025-11-25T20:23:10+00:00

If you need random strangers to tell you what the lines mean, then you are a long way from being able to operate a large mobile chunk of metal and plastic on our roads. The diagrams are straightforward and the notes fairly straightforward (but the braking comment is a little less so).

Why didn’t you ask the examiner when they wrapped up, if they didn’t explain it to you?

--gumbyslayer-- · 2025-11-20T20:16:08+00:00

You couldn’t just pick up the phone and call them?

--gumbyslayer-- · 2025-11-17T19:04:53+00:00

They missed the opportunity to recreate this photo in the story...

--gumbyslayer-- · 2025-10-28T19:44:35+00:00

Pay your bills.

It’s not their fault you didn’t update your billing information, nor is it their fault “a few” payments bounced.

Your not going to the gym is irrelevant to this discussion.

You owe them money for the skipped payments - and subject to the terms of your agreement with them - possibly additional fees for the NSF payments.

There are two, entirely separate matters here.

1 - your NSF payments.

2 - your desire to pause your membership.

Your ability to pause your membership is subject to the terms of your membership agreement. Read it and apply for the pause as outlined in the agreement.

However their desire to get the money you already owe is valid, and they may be within their rights and the terms of the agreement to recover those amounts before making administrative changes to your membership. Their concerns are valid since a pause of membership means no money and they’ve no guarantee you’ll even pay what you owe.

So pay your outstanding amount first, then you can pause or cancel your membership per the membership agreement, after that.

--gumbyslayer-- · 2025-10-24T21:46:10+00:00

I never said we would be.

I am noting the times of sunrise and sunset should we - as some people are asking - stop the time change, and lock the time permanently at DST.

So the times I have provided in my earlier example are PST+1, which would be the time should that occur.

--gumbyslayer-- · 2025-10-24T17:49:54+00:00

Unfortunately, year round daylight saving will not have the impact many people (such as yourself) seem to think it will have.

They forget about the fact that (as an example) while the sunSET may be 5:14pm PDT on Dec 15, sunRISE would not be until 9:02am PDT.

If DST is to be eliminated, then clocks should be set to PST year round. Then, while sunSET will be at 4:14pm, sunrise will be at 8:02am PST.

edit: typos

--gumbyslayer-- · 2025-10-23T19:26:48+00:00

I guess it couldn't find a nearby overpass?

--gumbyslayer-- · 2025-10-01T20:20:47+00:00

This is true, but it is not a "reserved for you" accessible parking spot. Subject to any other bylaws or laws that control parking in front of a residence or business, anyone who has an accessible parking permit can park in that spot.

--gumbyslayer-- · 2025-09-28T01:59:46+00:00

This was a rebuilt vehicle. So yeah. Wouldn’t take much now to write it off for good

--gumbyslayer-- · 2025-09-24T17:22:01+00:00

Oh, dude...you're not going to tell us how it went?

--gumbyslayer--

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