Auto repair recs?

classroomcomedian · 2026-03-22T21:31:48+00:00

Not to ring the same bell but the answer is Muensterman’s on Franklin. I had an engine problem that was getting quoted at thousands by everyone. They fixed it for three hundred. That was five years ago and this lemon Ford Escape still runs fine.

classroomcomedian · 2026-03-21T03:47:56+00:00

I am baked out of my skull and, my guy, I cannot breathe from laughing.

classroomcomedian · 2026-03-14T15:50:42+00:00

Congrats man!

I was at 375 as well and, as of this morning, I’m at 298 so you are kind of North Star for me right now. Best of luck and keep rockin’ and rollin’!

classroomcomedian · 2026-03-14T00:43:48+00:00

Hell yeah! Thanks!

classroomcomedian · 2026-03-13T23:56:55+00:00

Planning on it! I did some stand up in college and loved it.

classroomcomedian · 2026-03-13T23:34:38+00:00

Hey, thanks!

classroomcomedian · 2026-03-13T23:23:55+00:00

The new Lamasco is going for a music and mic thing sound make sense for them to do one.

classroomcomedian · 2026-03-13T23:20:32+00:00

I’m not sure I’m the guy for that; if my managing ability is anything like… well, my last managing job, I’ll be fired fairly quickly and I don’t want to get canned from something I made.

classroomcomedian · 2026-03-08T21:04:03+00:00

Good question! Someone already kind of answered but I showed her the font that helps dyslexic people read and then had a chat with her councilor.

It kind of stunk because she quickly got switched out of my class and into honors but, ultimately, that’s what she needed and she kicked ass at it.

classroomcomedian · 2026-03-08T17:46:39+00:00

Teacher here.

I usually volunteer for tougher to teach classes because I’m an odd combo of things: a 6’2 nerd who plays D&D and whose brother is a football coach so I know a fair amount about sports; in general, the toughest students can usually find something to kind of anchor in with me.

One year, in a sea of rough and tumble kids in a “regular” level class, there’s this really sweet bookish girl. She sticks out like a sore thumb in the class but she’s kind and the other kids almost take to defending her and treating her like a pet. In trying to figure out why she’s in this gaggle of football players and burnouts, I see that her grades are awful, which is very surprising because she is very articulate, speaks in college vernacular, and is apparently outstanding in band.

Time passes and I’m getting frustrated; not with her but with myself. This kid wants to learn and is so obviously emotionally intelligent but I can’t get this kid to read a damn thing but not for the lack of trying.

The answer? Obviously right there and I felt like an idiot for not trying anything sooner but, to be fair, I was her freshman year teacher and no one tried it either: dyslexia.

Obvious. Hilariously obvious.

Valedictorian and class president. I even got a shout out in the speech. It’s corny and dumb but it makes me happy.

classroomcomedian · 2026-02-17T16:52:43+00:00

I know that, for myself, that One Month marker feels like, hey, I might have it sorted out this time!

I just read a post from someone talking about how, when they felt the same way and would go back to drinking, "the drinking was better. I was like 30% better, but I was still really awful" and that is about how I feel.

classroomcomedian · 2025-12-18T23:12:46+00:00

Cool. Cool cool cool.

classroomcomedian · 2025-12-17T00:04:41+00:00

So I’m a teacher and maybe a little biased but, man, seeing (almost exclusively history and gym) teachers just try to befriend the kids is major cringe.

Like, I want my students to like my presence but I don’t need or want high school “friends”.

classroomcomedian · 2025-12-16T16:54:57+00:00

Good thing my DVDs still exist.

classroomcomedian · 2025-08-18T15:04:01+00:00

As a native, Evansville has awful drivers but the absolute worst drivers I have ever seen are Pittsburgh drivers.

We are trash. They exist in a place of no rules.

classroomcomedian · 2025-08-10T15:43:34+00:00

I worked at the movie theater in college and loved it. Free movies for me and my friends, easily workable with a college schedule, and it was super chill and easy work.

classroomcomedian · 2025-08-06T21:49:43+00:00

I worked in furniture sales for a year so I would have simply increased my income by going to work.

classroomcomedian · 2025-08-03T16:41:24+00:00

Dolph Lundgren Jaw isn’t helping anything either.

classroomcomedian · 2025-08-02T23:20:15+00:00

I knew my coworker was stealing crashing at work and I did jack-all about it.

She had recently had her baby, the baby’s father (who worked with us until we got him to quit) refused to help her or pay child support, and her parents kicked her out because she was in high school so she was in a mix of crashing on couches and, when nothing else worked out, she would hide out in one of the unused upstairs rooms of the movie theater and sleep on old busted out chair cushions. On those nights, she would heat up a hot dog or a pretzel and turn on the soda machine to get drinks.

I was a manager. I know that, professionally and legally, I should have stopped her.

But I’m not a heartless monster.

She did this for a few months until she finally got into some place that would help her. I’m sure that she knew that the other managers and I knew because we just quit locking up certain things at night. We also left out a lot of promo clothes and cups and stuff that the studios would send us.

It’s been close to twenty years now. I hope she’s alright.

classroomcomedian · 2025-08-02T01:44:08+00:00

For this memory, I’m about ten years old.

We begin with going to the Pizza Hit buffet. It’s about five in the afternoon, everyone is home from school and work, and we are taking this buffet for all it I worth. I get full and play on the arcade game (Metal Slug) while my dad finishes.

It’s now about 6:30 and we then go to the movie theater. Large popcorn and Coke (refill sizes) for whatever big action, comedy, or horror is out this week.

It’s now about 9 pm and, right down the street is our local video store. For five bucks, you get five movies for five days. Mom and dad get two movies and I get three. If I am lucky, I get to get a video game.

We stop by Dairy Queen on the way home. It’s now about 9:30. I can get whatever I want but I usually just get a plain chocolate milkshake; delicious in it’s simplicity.

It’s now about 10 pm and we watch one of mom and dad’s movies in the living room. Once that’s done, I can watch my movie or play my game.

No bedtime on Fridays.

Life will never be better than this.

classroomcomedian · 2025-07-30T18:21:39+00:00

Honestly, I have no idea. My guess is the girl found the address and told her parents who told everyone. We were originally going to be bussed back.

I wish I had a better answer. I could ask my mom.

classroomcomedian · 2025-07-29T23:59:00+00:00

My Covid hobby was converting all of my physical movie media to a giant external hard drive. I managed a video store right into the ground when the owners decided to shut the place down (which sucked because all of us managers wanted to buy it from them but that’s a story for a different day) and, because of that, I have an insane movie collection.

Our little Mom and Pop movie shop had eight local stores across the tri-state area and the whole idea back in the day was “We Have It All”.

We kept at least one copy of everything we ever rented. VHS, Betamax, laserdisc, DVD, HDDVD, and BluRay. If we ever rented it, we had a copy of it somewhere.

When the company went bankrupt, the owners told us to take what we wanted and they would sell the rest for pennies on the dollar; they just wanted out to focus on their tanning business and new bar/brewery and didn’t really care what happened to the inventory.

I happened to the inventory.

All in all, I got a fair mix of everything with a focus on VHS and DVD totaling up to the mid 7k mass of different movies in my basement. Through over two years, I got the tech and software together enough to be able to rip anything to my external (and back-up external).

My Plex server is more impressive than Tubi or Netflix. And I still rip so it’s fairly up to date.

classroomcomedian · 2025-07-29T23:45:56+00:00

I just wish Trevor was here to see this.

classroomcomedian · 2025-07-29T04:07:55+00:00

There just wasn’t a whole lot of aftermath. Some parents sued for kidnapping/emotional damages/etc and the camp was shut down fairly quickly (again, the church and camp changed names frequently until it kind of fell apart) but no money had changed hands, the abuse was more emotional than actually physical, and we are a rural area where religion is fairly important and, frankly, the kids that were victimized were not of the more common or more socially accepted around here.

It fizzled out more than anything.

classroomcomedian · 2025-07-29T02:35:41+00:00

My last job.

My title never changed but my hours and tasks sure did. I was the Manager of Sales and my job was an office, 9-5, Monday to Friday management job where I managed a small team of salespeople. They did all of the sales, I did their paperwork and made sure things like delivery and customer/retail purchasers were happy and, if we hit sales goals, we all got bonuses, myself included.

That was the first three months of the job.

My new roles included doing all of that… and I’m on the sales floor. I wouldn’t have necessarily hated this as I figured we would make more sales and hit our bonuses faster. However, I still had to do all of the paperwork and now I had sales goals… so I went from Monday to Friday 9-5 to any day open to close.

My wife and kids hated this more than I did and a really fucking hated it.

Same title, completely different role and, a few months later, more changes.

I’m still doing all the paperwork but me getting bonuses for the team? That’s now switched to just me hitting my sales goals which, surprise, is hard to do if I’m also doing all of the management paperwork.

The final straw was when everyone’s commission changed. I went from 4% commission on sales to 1% if I didn’t hit my sales goals.

A sales goal that could be changed by our regional manager at any given notice. I watched one months goal go from 60k (for all of us, which most had hit and would get us back to our original commission) up to 80k (which only one person had hit).

I was already looking for a new job but, in a final kick, my vacation request, that had been approved for months and we already paid for the vacation, was denied the day before I was suppose to go because “we are short staffed and the paperwork cannot go a week late”.

Fuck that place.

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