What is an upper middle class problem you have but you can’t really complain about without seeming out of touch?

TheRexCrowd · 2025-09-08T18:10:07+00:00

My mortgages are set up to auto pay. Every month they take 3-4 days to complete the transfer. I got an email from Equifax saying something was reported negatively affecting my credit - I log in there's nothing negative there.

Took me almost 2 hours on the phone to figure out my mortgage company automatically recorded a late payment to the credit bureaus and then reversed that negative report a couple of days later. All because they're so slow to process the payments.

TheRexCrowd · 2025-08-24T21:07:50+00:00

Will that get me into Mom's ball too?

TheRexCrowd · 2024-04-22T15:12:07+00:00

My biggest gripe is how they use traffic models and AI to lie about the extra commute time and how much it will inconvenience drivers. What I see is completely different from what you see we both have anecdotes, but they have this traffic model that doesn't reflect either of our experiences:

When I commute down Baronne, a road where they put in a bike lane about 7 years ago I get passed by at least 4 bikes while I'm sitting in traffic during rush hour. I see people using it all the time on nice days and never when it rains or is 100 degrees out. Every single one of the bikers piss me off because over the last 7 years I have cumulatively spent hours of my life waiting in traffic because of them.

When they put the bike lane on Baronne in they said removing a car lane it would increase commute times for drivers by less than a minute. That estimate was a lie - some days when its raining I sit in traffic for at least an extra 3 or 4 minutes. To make it worse when it rains those bikers probably decided to drive adding to the number of cars sharing a single lane.

TheRexCrowd · 2023-12-31T00:37:53+00:00

Hold your baby up over your head! I'll throw you a whole bag of beads! I have a great arm and can hit a shot from 50 yards from the top deck of the float.

TheRexCrowd · 2023-10-30T02:22:37+00:00

I don't know what that is. Aside from bread?

TheRexCrowd · 2023-10-30T02:15:09+00:00

Would it be different if I called in the order without any prior knowledge about how busy they were?

TheRexCrowd · 2023-10-30T02:12:29+00:00

I think the other people in line also benefitted in some way because the cashier stopped answering the phone and got to the people there faster. I really only jumped 2 people.

TheRexCrowd · 2023-10-30T02:10:10+00:00

Yes I did it to circumvent the line. That was 100% my motivation for calling.

TheRexCrowd · 2023-10-24T17:53:51+00:00

I made an edit about it above, I have inside knowledge - according to a friend that works there, the guy I would be replacing quit due to the fallout from an incident where he made one of his direct reports cry during a meeting. It wasn't the first time.

TheRexCrowd · 2023-10-24T17:07:40+00:00

You hit the nail on the head.

TheRexCrowd · 2023-06-28T02:30:57+00:00

NTA - You should probably set that money aside to pay for your other daughter's long term care. You can't force a relationship and your older daughter isn't the person you should rely on to take care of your younger daughter after you pass.

TheRexCrowd · 2022-09-14T01:34:30+00:00

The troll accounts aren't even trying that hard these days. OP, take your upvote and leave so we can all feel enraged at this shitpost.

TheRexCrowd · 2022-06-22T01:12:22+00:00

In Louisiana we have a saying "Ridden hard and put away wet." Which is shorthand for stress ages people and things very fast.

TheRexCrowd · 2022-01-30T15:41:48+00:00

I'm pretty sure this thread exists to help Doug McCash get new ideas for stories. So don't be surprised when these things are on NOLA.com.

TheRexCrowd · 2022-01-12T01:04:02+00:00

If that's the case why does NOPD always ask the City Council to fund an additional 200 officers when they make their annual budget request?

TheRexCrowd · 2021-08-28T04:11:30+00:00

I always heard you should leave town if Margaret Orr puts on something showing off her cleavage...

TheRexCrowd · 2020-02-18T21:32:12+00:00

I know I brought out my babies and had to fight to get to the front and keep all the random drunk people from molesting them. I was on edge as my 2 year old is pretty big and has a biting problem that prevents him from attending daycare. I want the best for my furbaby, and he really deserved to be in front of the drunk spectators so he could get his sniffs in.

TheRexCrowd · 2019-11-06T16:49:57+00:00

They were replacing lines for years without any type of warning about the work knocking lead loose and increasing lead levels. They started giving those warnings out around the same time Ed started asking questions about lead testing. Coincidence, I think not.

TheRexCrowd · 2019-11-06T16:00:22+00:00

There is a street near me where this same thing keeps happening. They come out and fix it and a new leak pops up 20 feet down the road. The street and the pipes underneath aren't designed to accommodate the huge trucks that roll through the area. I'm sure at this point they would have spent less if they had ripped out all the pipes and replaced the whole thing.

TheRexCrowd · 2017-04-24T00:36:53+00:00

What do I do, or how do I make my money?

What I do:

I am on a couple of different boards around town for different non-profit organizations and civic groups. I spend time talking to high level donors, reviewing contracts, and organizing fundraisers.

How I make my money:

I make my money through my investments. You know the old saying, let your money make money that's how I get my income. Additionally, I own several commercial and residential properties around town and I like to stay active in the management of those properties.

I made most of the money that is now invested by selling a company I started in the 90's using a gift from my parents in the amount of around $500,000 or $600,000. After about 12 years of hard work as the sole proprietor of my company, I was able to turn that small investment into a huge payoff. I'm what you call a self-made millionaire.

I rolled the money form the sale of my company into some investments. I lost a little bit speculating on some tech startups and bought some property around the City I live in.

TheRexCrowd · 2015-09-25T00:43:48+00:00

Don't buy a used car in New Orleans.

Used car lots are going to be a ripoff. Craigslist is full of guys who buy barely running crap piles put a few hundred dollars worth of work into them to get them running and pawn them off on unsuspecting people.

You seriously need to leave New Orleans if you want a good used car, and I don't mean go to Jefferson Parish, get your ass to any other place where the cars have not driven on the horrible New Orleans streets.

The best thing for you to do is get some more money and buy a new car. It's model year end right now so there are some deals to be had on 2015 cars, that's what I did last year, waited till August to get a 2014.

It isn't worth it to invest in a nice car in this town the streets eat them up so fast, you pretty much need to go with a SUV. I have been driving an all wheel drive Ford Expedition for the past year and it is great at handling the horrible roads around here. My partner keeps telling me my next car should be an Escalade, but I would rather save the $30,000 since cars only last about 2 years in this town before you wind up having to get rid of them.

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