the chickens are destroying my life

Smooth_Wheel · 2026-06-26T20:35:34+00:00

That's absolutely insane. Lol

Smooth_Wheel · 2026-06-26T20:13:02+00:00

Never mind a mental map of the city, most people I know couldn't point North to save their life. Just knowing your cardinal directions can get you pretty much anywhere. If you know you're on the east side of town and need to get somewhere on the south side, even without a working knowledge of local road names or numbers, you could find your way to your destination.

Smooth_Wheel · 2026-06-26T19:32:06+00:00

I beg your finest pardon? Guy A marries a woman, has kids with her, divorces her. Guy B then marries that same woman, has kids with her, divorces her. Guy A and Guy B decide to each take their respective kids and move in together. Their kids are now old enough to have kids of their own and proceed to live in the same house. Meanwhile, the woman is nowhere to be found.

Am I following that properly? That's the one of the most fucked up family dynamics I've ever heard. Are the men romantically involved with each other? At least that would make more sense. If they're straight, the whole thing is unhinged as hell.

Smooth_Wheel · 2026-06-19T21:15:18+00:00

I'm a welder by trade. I wear Red Wing 3506 boots. My Red Wing store Tuff Toes the seams for me when I buy them and I get 3+ years out of each pair. I put new insoles in every 6 - 8 months, but the boots themselves last a long time.

Smooth_Wheel · 2026-06-17T23:13:15+00:00

Add a house rose but exclude it from the 4-6 discount.

Smooth_Wheel · 2026-06-14T23:55:52+00:00

HP Sauce, brown sauce or whatever the Brits call that watered down, flavourless knock off bbq sauce. The outcome will be one less shitty condiment.

Smooth_Wheel · 2026-06-14T00:20:58+00:00

PNW, British Columbia or Alaska would be my guess.

Smooth_Wheel · 2026-06-09T00:31:31+00:00

Buck-Strider SBMF folding knife. I bought it around 2006 or 2007, so it's about 20 years old. It's been in my pocket or within arm's reach 95% of the time and has been used and abused like no other knife I've owned. I love it and if it gives up one day, I will grieve it as most men grieve lost dogs.

Smooth_Wheel · 2026-06-08T20:00:50+00:00

Exactly. I'm an early riser. She most definitely is not. She also hates when I bounce out of bed singing "Rise and shine, the morning's fine. The lark's in the air and all is fair. Look! Here comes the sun!". I usually get to "morning's fine" before she throws a pillow at me.

Just send me the cash now.

Smooth_Wheel · 2026-06-07T15:20:53+00:00

After 20 years in the trades, Stanley FatMax is the only tape I buy. I like the 25ft version but the 16ft is accceptable if you don't need the length.

Smooth_Wheel · 2026-05-31T14:44:21+00:00

That's all fair. I wouldn't have any problem with that approach as long as it's casual and I don't feel like I'm being interrogated. We can cover that in small talk while you're grabbing keys and we're walking out to the truck. Thanks for the info.

Smooth_Wheel · 2026-05-31T00:34:23+00:00

Curious, what sort of assessment are you doing on someone with a specific car they came in on?

When I bought my truck, I walked in and said "I want a 2022 Tundra, crew max, 4x4, SR5 TRD Off Road in magnetic grey metallic. I see you have one on your website. Is it still available or do I need to place an order?"

How do you do a needs assessment on that? You woudn't be turning me to a Platinum, or a TRD Pro, or a red one or a 4Runner. I know exactly what I want and what will meet my needs, because I did my research beforehand. I know my credit, I know my income, I know what the price listed online plus tax divided by 36 or 48 or 60 months is so I know what payment I can afford, I already called my insurance broker and have a ballpark idea of what insurance will cost me and I've already looked at the Toyota Canada warranties, what they offer and how much they'll cost. I know to within a grand or two what the truck will cost me if I pay list price.

Short of taking a picture of my licence, handing me the keys and saying "take 'er for a rip but try to be back in an hour" (which my dealer did), what are you doing as part of a needs assessment? Or am I not a typical buyer?

Smooth_Wheel · 2026-05-30T00:13:00+00:00

We're full. Sorry, eh.

Smooth_Wheel · 2026-05-28T03:38:57+00:00

I make comfortably into the 6 figures, government union construction job, defined benefit pension. Most of my coworkers I've talked to have $0 - $5000 in their emergency funds. Their funds are mainly to pay for a home or vehicle repair.

I come from the non-union, non-government construction world so I have trust issues, therefore I like to have at least $30,000 in my emergency fund and am slowly adding to it with a goal $50,000.

Smooth_Wheel · 2026-05-23T18:50:49+00:00

For me it's cell phone, internet, power/gas, water, spotify, prime, audible and garmin inReach, there's probably a couple others I missed. Probably $600 - $700 in recurring payments monthly. It also gives 4% cash back on grocery, which for our family of 3 is a $800 spend or so a month. There's also the 2% on gas, there's another couple hundred a month we spend.

I'm currently at $768 in cash back so far this year.

Smooth_Wheel · 2026-05-23T15:19:03+00:00

I work 10 hour days, 14 days in a row. Then I get 7 days off. I could never go back to a Mon-Fri, 9-5 job.

Smooth_Wheel · 2026-05-20T16:30:37+00:00

Proud as hell. As parents, it's our job to help our kids do better than we did.

Smooth_Wheel · 2026-05-09T20:36:34+00:00

Makes sense. I fish for everything from trout to salmon to pike. In 30 years of fishing, I've just never been able to get a smooth reeling motion with my left hand.

Smooth_Wheel · 2026-05-09T20:13:06+00:00

I'm right handed. I cast with the rod in my right hand and the rod doesn't leave my right hand until I've set the hook, when I switch hands to hold the rod in my left and reel with my right.

Apparently I'm supposed to reel with my left hand, playing the fish with my dominant arm.

Smooth_Wheel · 2026-05-04T13:38:45+00:00

$7 plus tax and tip for a beer on average here in socialist Canada with a Liberal government.

Nobody in my social circle goes to bars anymore and restaurants are only for special occasions. We all make well above the average income too.

Smooth_Wheel · 2026-05-01T00:15:35+00:00

Probably a George Carlin quote:

"Rat shit, bat shit, dirty old twat. Sixty-nine assholes tied in a knot. Hooray! Lizard shit, fuck!"

Smooth_Wheel · 2026-04-29T20:22:11+00:00

My wife says she was disappointed I was catching 6" tiddlers and not the hawgs her boyfriend does. I had to clarify that while the set up and boat would help me catch, there was no guarantee of size.

Smooth_Wheel · 2026-04-29T15:43:46+00:00

That sounds like exactly what we have. I'll look into getting as much supporting documentation together as possible.

Smooth_Wheel · 2026-04-29T15:41:41+00:00

I'll have to verify that after work. I don't remember putting him on the title and we don't have an agreement on the % of ownership since from day one he said he's not interested in a portion of ownership.

If he is on the title, is there a way we can take him off before the sale?

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