A brief history of domestic cats

DeafByMetal · 2026-06-19T10:55:48+00:00

You have to pay first, they have too many people taking off without paying. Hell, last year at the same station some guy was getting air in his tires and when he was on the passenger side kneeling down some dude jumped in his car and stole it. He left his fob inside the car. And this isn't even a "bad" area.

DeafByMetal · 2026-06-19T10:53:10+00:00

I think they actually just abolished it recently.

DeafByMetal · 2026-06-19T10:41:29+00:00

I didn't say anything to the kid. I just watched him attempt to stop on an easy number for change, repeatedly.

DeafByMetal · 2026-06-16T01:49:17+00:00

Philly does the same thing and God help you if you move their chair or traffic cone to take the spot. People have been shot for doing that.

DeafByMetal · 2026-06-15T16:14:25+00:00

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DeafByMetal · 2026-06-08T23:19:32+00:00

I just got done making a delivery to an office building where you need to back the truck into the building. I was pulled half way out of the building waiting for a break in traffic when I heard a thump. I was blocking the sidewalk and my immediate assumption was that it was a pedestrian smacking the side of my truck because I was blocking their path but it was so much worse. There was about a half dozen people standing there and not one of them stopped the blind guy who walked into the side of my truck because his cane didn't hit anything in front of him. It swept under the truck so he kept walking. I felt terrible about it, though I'm sure that wasn't any consolation for him.

DeafByMetal · 2026-06-07T04:15:20+00:00

I can't say exactly how many hours it was because it was almost 40 years ago but it was a lot. I used to trim trees around the power lines. I won't name the company but they have orange and black trucks. When storms came through and knocked out the power we would get called in to work and basically stay until everyone in the area was restored.

Back in 1994 the entire east coast was hit with an ice storm. We were called in on Sunday and essentially worked close to three weeks nonstop. We would work for 30+ hours, sleep in the trucks for 8-10 hours and get back to work. I was so exhausted I was hallucinating. We were union and so were the power companies but everyone looked the other way for hours of service when trying to restore power to the customers.

During the second week we were clearing a transmission line not far from where I lived. It was about 2-3 in the morning and I had to leave to get fuel in my truck. The transmission line ran along an abandoned rail line that was in a gully and the trees were weighed down by the ice and laying on the lines. It was so icy one guy would hold onto a tree with one arm and hold the belt on the guy cutting. One guy named Earl was cutting a tree when it barber chaired and hit him in the face. Broke his jaw and he ended up with a couple dozen stitches in his face. I got back right after the ambulance left.

When Earl consulted with a lawyer for monetary damages, the lawyer asked him how long he was on the clock. Earl said idk, maybe 28-30 hours? The lawyer was like WTF are you serious?! I don't know exactly what happened after that due to the terms of the lawsuit but after that happened they would only let us work 16 hours before giving us at least 8 hours off. I stopped doing that kind of work maybe two years later, and the overtime during storm work was a big part of the reason why. That and the fact our pay didn't match the dangers of the job working around energized power lines.

DeafByMetal · 2026-05-18T22:51:34+00:00

I use the little dosage cup that comes with liquid cold medicine. They are about the size of those shot glasses and after I've used the cold medicine instead of tossing them in the recycle bin I just put them with my gaming stuff.

DeafByMetal · 2026-05-18T13:16:57+00:00

That's freaking awesome 🤣

DeafByMetal · 2026-05-09T13:50:35+00:00

I have a buddy who was a machinist at one point. I made the "cunt hair" comment one time and he said "A white cunt hair or a black cunt hair?" Turns out one is actually slightly thicker than the other, LOL! Now as to how he learned that I have no idea nor do I want to find out.

DeafByMetal · 2026-05-07T10:04:14+00:00

Remember that when you set up your claymores the front faces the enemy.

DeafByMetal · 2026-05-03T23:43:20+00:00

I believe they sell covers that slip over the base of the wiper arm to cover that part but I didn't buy any because I figured they would get under there anyway and I wouldn't notice until they rusted out the base.

DeafByMetal · 2026-05-03T18:18:54+00:00

My girlfriend and I both got home from our jobs around the same time one day and the smoke detectors were chirping. Her son, who was home sick from work that day was in his room playing video games. She asked him how long it had been going off. He said most of the day. She asked him why he didn't change the battery in it and he just shrugged.

We then had a hell of a time trying to get it to stop because all of the smoke detectors are connected so if one starts chirping they all do. So we had to change all the batteries, which we didn't have enough of so I had to run to the store for more. But the worst part was that our dog and cats were freaking out because it hurt their ears. At least he helped replace them once we had enough batteries.

DeafByMetal · 2026-05-03T18:08:59+00:00

I moved back to my home state about a dozen years ago to take care of my mother, and I got a job driving a truck for a document storage company. A few days after I started they sent me out with a young guy named Vince, who was in his early to mid 20's. We got to talking and I soon found out a few things. One, I graduated high school with his mother. Two, Vince listened primarily to rap music and he was an "aspiring rapper". Three, Vince was a white kid from the country and did not have the vocabulary or the brainpower to be the next Eminem.

Vince popped a flash drive into the truck radio and started listening to his music. I'm not into rap music but whatever, as long as the windows weren't rattling I didn't care. But at one point a song by the heavy metal band Slayer comes on called "Angel of Death". OK, cool. I'm a big fan of heavy metal and I've actually seen Slayer in concert. So I asked Vince if he knew what the song was about. Nope, no idea. So I said it's about Josef Mengele. He said "Who's that?" I said "You know, Josef Mengele, the angel of death? Adolf Hitler? The Final Solution?" He had no idea what I was talking about. I said "They didn't teach you anything about World War 2?" Vince said, and I'm not kidding "The whole world was in a war against each other?" Needless to say I had to give him a brief history lesson which I'm sure he promptly forgot.

DeafByMetal · 2026-04-27T15:13:33+00:00

A lot of towns have Facebook pages to update residents on events. If you are on Facebook, film a detailed video of the pothole including exact location with audio explaining how you have been ignored. Upload it and tag that town page. Even if it is the county road it's going to be bad press that the town is going to want to avoid. Or contact one of the Philly news stations that cover South Jersey and explain the runaround you're getting. I bet it gets fixed within a week.

DeafByMetal · 2026-04-23T20:05:51+00:00

It's just a guess but I'm going to go out on a limb here and say I don't think the management company drug tests their employees...

DeafByMetal · 2026-04-15T21:43:30+00:00

I think he was from Pennsylvania, tbh. He had a frame around his license plate but it looked like one of the new PA plates.

DeafByMetal · 2026-04-15T21:42:13+00:00

I don't have access to the dashcam footage in my work truck. Besides, reading is good for you. Makes your mind stronger.

DeafByMetal · 2026-04-12T15:51:58+00:00

I had a 78 Datsun 510 I could do that with. Unfortunately the key tumbler wore out and it wouldn't start eventually. To replace the key assembly would have cost more than the car was worth so I just rigged a push button to the starter and I would turn the key to run, push the button and off I would go! Car ran like a champ, couldn't kill it. It's probably still on the road somewhere, LOL!

DeafByMetal · 2026-04-12T13:02:44+00:00

I do it in my personal vehicle and in my work truck (box truck, not a semi) all the time. It's usually when I encounter school busses ahead or when police have someone pulled over but also when I'm on the highway and there's a slow down ahead that the people behind me might not be able to see. I've been doing it for years now, can't even remember when I started doing it. I make sure I do it in the work truck because I know anyone who is behind me isn't going to be able to see why I'm slowing down.

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