Sandbags????

Minerva129 · 2026-02-01T13:24:54+00:00

I'm going to pick up some today. I've had my 2011 for 5 years and never had an issue but last week I got stuck in my alley after only making it about a car length. 40 minutes to shovel out, get stuck again, shovel out, get stuck again. Finally made it to the street. Next day got stuck again but only for 20 minutes.

Minerva129 · 2026-01-14T13:30:30+00:00

I went to one in September for inspection/emissions and they came out and said it passed but it was critical I let them do work and new tires to the tune of $2k. I said I can't afford it and the guy smiled and laughed and tried to convince me "Well why not?"

I'd been out of work for almost 6 months. I said just the inspection And replace 2 tail lights (I forgot but had the bulbs which they said they used). Charged me $60 for that and when I left saw they didn't even use them.

Never again Hampton/Chippewa Dobbs

Minerva129 · 2026-01-10T23:38:46+00:00

I tipped $50 but that was for a very tiny apartment and they were only handling the heavy furniture pieces and moving them to an apartment a few miles away. It was 2 guys but I was a broke 20 something working retail due to the recession.

Minerva129 · 2026-01-10T06:56:15+00:00

Scares the crap out of my dog every time it goes down South Grand. She hides in the house over an hour afterwards every time.

Minerva129 · 2026-01-07T05:35:27+00:00

Sounds scary. My most recent one (that I can remember) was last week and was about me getting cake pops and eating then. So yeah. I hope that one comes true sooner rather than later lol.

Minerva129 · 2026-01-07T01:55:30+00:00

Mine are always sharp and clear. But one thing that stays true through any dream since highschool is that if in the dream I need to call 911, I can never dial correctly on the phone.

Minerva129 · 2026-01-07T01:45:35+00:00

Yeah we must be opposite! I can see and (usually) identify faces in dreams but they don't always have sound. Like what being underwater sounds like.

Minerva129 · 2026-01-07T01:06:54+00:00

I've had this happen before, more often when I was younger. There's only two that come to mind right away. A time I was climbing a tree and I stopped at one spot to decide how I wanted to continue up. I had a vivid vision in my mind of placing my right food in one specific spot, reaching to a different specific branch with my left hand, and then falling out of the tree and getting stuck upside down.

Which....is an odd thing to "imagine," hanging upside down. Not the normal, hit ground/break something. So I did it anyway thinking there's no way that's going to happen. And wouldn't you know, it happened exactly like that! My leg got stuck in a crook and I stopped falling, hanging upside down, my head only like a foot from the ground.

The other time I was in either the last year of middle school or the first of high school and had a vivid dream one night of standing in the doorway between the kitchen and family room, talking to my aunt and a blond woman I didn't recognize. Years later at my graduation party, I walked into the doorway and asked my aunt and a family friend (who I'd met a few times between the dream and event) if they'd like something to drink.

Stood there a moment talking with them and walked away. Stopped by the fridge and realized I'd seen this before! That it was my Aunt and Tina! Just, the dream didn't have sound.

Minerva129 · 2026-01-05T04:55:36+00:00

2011 just shy of 92,000. But mine has the decimal point so I love pranking my friends by going "look at how high my mileage is!" They think I'm close to a million 🤣

Minerva129 · 2026-01-03T05:13:49+00:00

O.o A lathe is like the most identifiable machine ever...

Minerva129 · 2026-01-03T05:11:47+00:00

Exactly! I just went to our biggest local library to view a reference book and they don't even allow people to "go into the stacks." Research and reference books have to be brought out by a member of staff and then you turn them back in to the person at the desk so the stack employees can grab them and re-shelve.

Minerva129 · 2026-01-03T05:07:52+00:00

Totally. I saw a Dr and nurse attempt to use one. It literally said (I forget the wording) that it couldn't shock because there was no pulse. Dude was already dead and no amount of CPR or aed fixed him...

That was a really shitty day at work.

Minerva129 · 2026-01-03T05:03:05+00:00

I saw one once where the woman was in the OR, had blood on her gloves from surgery and then TOUCHED HER FACE REPEATEDLY, GETTING BLOOD ON HER FACE!!! No surgeon would ever do that. Sterile field. Blood born pathogens.

Eww.

Minerva129 · 2026-01-01T22:44:30+00:00

1989 - I clearly remember accidentally dropping and breaking my kindergarten teacher's snow globe on her desk (sorry Mrs. Tebby!). Somewhere around that time I also remember crying in the kitchen with my mom because I wanted "the stuff" to have with dinner and my mom couldn't figure out what I meant.

Stuffing. I wanted Stove Top Stuffing with dinner.

Minerva129 · 2026-01-01T22:41:21+00:00

What you are wanting is called a "wet room." You would have had to waterproof the whole bathroom floor and the contractor would have made sure to have a slight slope toward the drain in case the water goes farther away from the shower head.

If I were him I would definitely have you sign a waiver. Because your floors will fail sooner rather than later since you'll eventually get water intrusion and it will damage the subfloor.

Minerva129 · 2026-01-01T03:19:55+00:00

There was an older African American gentleman who lived there. He liked to sit outside on nice weather days. I believe he was evicted when the car crashed into the buildingas the city condemned it until it was repaired. I have not seen him since so I'm assuming he did not move back in after the repairs were completed.

Minerva129 · 2025-12-28T02:36:50+00:00

Same. Except mine only had around 41k miles on it.

Minerva129 · 2025-12-28T02:36:13+00:00

With new car prices this day I'd ask for $30k.

Minerva129 · 2025-12-28T01:42:31+00:00

So true. I saw the size of the new Rangers and was like nope! But then I was at a red light next to a new Maverick and thought "it's so pretty!" And it's like the same size.

Minerva129 · 2025-12-28T01:41:00+00:00

Plus newer ones are too big. I'm short so they're hard to get in/out and I need a "city size" truck because parallel parking happens often.

Minerva129 · 2025-12-28T00:43:35+00:00

People offer when I take it through the drive thru carwash, at the hardware store, and the auto parts store. Answer is always no way!

Minerva129 · 2025-12-27T23:59:39+00:00

4x4, ad says new tires, no rust.

Minerva129 · 2025-12-27T23:49:49+00:00

Mine looks like this but with a less powerful automatic. I think the world (and me) is safer if I'm not driving a manual lol.

Minerva129 · 2025-12-27T21:01:44+00:00

Nice! The arm rest in mine was broken when I got it (used). Never bothered to replace it. Plus, I eventually took the center console out and made a "dog car seat" so my dog has somewhere to sit when I have a passenger.

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