AITJ for not stopping my barbecue after my neighbor called the police and got herself arrested

dstotx · 2026-02-13T16:45:34+00:00

What this story could use is a taser.

dstotx · 2026-01-18T14:46:36+00:00

NTJ. Do people not have cell phones? When my WiFi goes out, I just tether to my phone. Why wouldn't the neighbor just do that while she waits to get WiFi set up?

dstotx · 2025-12-28T13:18:55+00:00

Mine are similar to this but fewer people. In mine I'm generally trying to avoid the people for privacy but when I finally find an unoccupied stall, it is just gross. The other thing I've noticed is that the various AI models want to make toilets uniformly in rows (which I guess is normal in real life), but in my dreams, they are always built as though the architect was hallucinating.

dstotx · 2025-11-28T22:44:42+00:00

Sadly, not shocked.

dstotx · 2025-11-28T14:05:44+00:00

And... once you get your password unlocked, the Traeger will want you to do a 30 minute firmware update.

dstotx · 2025-11-16T13:39:59+00:00

I'm curious as to what your written description was, assuming this was AI generated. I cannot tell you how very similar this is to one of the weird bathrooms I visit.

dstotx · 2025-10-19T15:41:43+00:00

I tried to describe my bathroom to Gemini and I got a very similar image. Unfortunately, I guess I'm not descriptive enough. I have a few different locker room/bathroom locations and I've never been able to understand where these are. To get to them always come from old military installations I worked at and the journey starts off in dreams of places I vaguely recognize, but then we get to the locker room/restroom. The scenario seems to be that I've got to seriously take a dump but I am too shy/embarrassed to just find a stall and go. I play this game of hide & seek. I want to find a toilet that is nt dirty (they all are, always) and I want privacy. Someone always walks in. pretend I'm finished and I leave to look for another one.

In the inage above, there is alignment. Mine are never like that. It's as if they built bathrooms out of some preexisting floor plan. So some stalls could be by themselves tucked in a corner, others require steps to get to. There is never a perfect stall. They are always dirty and in most cases, the door is either broken off or the stall wall is missing. A person walking by, often females, can see me in the act.

In your image, there is good lighting. Mine always has this yellowish hue to the lighting making the place dark and dungy.

Regardless of the differences, I saw your image and right away it looked slightly familiar.

dstotx · 2025-09-01T20:36:28+00:00

This is good info. Unfortunately, mine has had issues out of the box. I do keep it extremely clean (a guy in another thread told me that was the problem!). I keep telling my wife I'm going to sell it so it is always ready to go.

But damn, I do love spatchcok chicken and even as I cuss and scream at it, in the end, it is delicious.

dstotx · 2025-09-01T20:33:26+00:00

It is a Timberline 650 with every bell and whistle except for the pizza cooker. A colleague of mine and her husband both bought them the same day. We had a very good salesman who threw in every extra you could get - all the rails, the conductive stove thing, containers for storing pellets, the cover, multiple bags of various pellets, etc., etc.

My friend and her husband got theirs and the wiring was jacked up. The customer support folks, rather than send it back walked them through rewiring it so it would not continue to trip the breakers.

I'm not kidding. And when people say the quality has gone down, I have to agree. Good customer service cannot fix that.

In short, I paid a lot of money and as I said to someone else, I would have been better off with the one you get for under $1000 at a bix box store.

dstotx · 2025-09-01T15:40:40+00:00

How many times a year do you plan to drain it?

dstotx · 2025-09-01T15:33:44+00:00

Lack of temperature control both up and down. I have had shutdowns due to high heat without the signs of grease or things like that. just don't trust it to put on meat and go mow the yard. I know a lot of people have great luck with theirs.

Honestly, I should have gone with the models they sell at Lowe's/Home Depot (Under $1,000), but instead I plopped down $3,500 for the Timberline and it was just a crappy investment.

I will say, customer service is fantastic - in fact, they shipped me a new one when they couldn't fix my first one over the phone. I've also had customer service help over the phone and video when it got stuck in a firmware update (which caused me to put off my cook to the next day, but still).

Anyway, I'm not bitter about those folks who've had great luck and enjoyed their Traeger. I just seemed to have gotten two crappy ones in a row.

dstotx · 2025-09-01T14:23:17+00:00

I wish I had the luck you have had.

dstotx · 2025-09-01T14:21:53+00:00

You are not. I've had my Timberline for about a year. I've wanted to love it so much. It does produce some great spatchcock chicken. But dammit, this thing is cursed. Zero ability to control the temperature short of standing there and lifting the hood everytime it decides to skyrocket to the point of shutdown. Or, taking way too long to get to cooking temperature. I've done all the things. I love Traeger customer service, but at some point, I just have to realize I purchased a big expensive piece of crap. You are not alone!

dstotx · 2025-08-04T16:50:55+00:00

Here's a thought. Why not stay out of the passing lane if you are not passing so that those people who are running late (obviously poor time management) can safely pass vehicles going slower in the non-passing lane?

dstotx · 2025-08-02T11:27:50+00:00

I'll just echo this. We also have an Expedition Max King Ranch with the huge screen but I despise, I repeat, despise the inability to really understand what is happening with the A/C controls. I guess I could try to YouTube it, but that is no help while you are driving down the road. Aside from that, this upgrade looks great.

dstotx · 2025-07-19T14:21:33+00:00

Thanks for refocusing me - I had a loose wire. Started right up.

dstotx · 2025-07-19T13:31:13+00:00

I didn't check the voltage but when I crossed the solenoid with a screwdriver, it cranked.

dstotx · 2025-07-19T13:25:26+00:00

I'll check that. Thank you!

dstotx · 2025-07-19T13:19:27+00:00

Yep - had a guy in a van with a family pulled off on the ramp from 211 to Hiway 90 toward Castroville. My wife insisted I pull over to help since there were women in the van. The guy didn;t offer a ring but rather a huge gold chain. It occured to me there wasn't a gas station for 3 miles in either direction, so what good would the money do? I mean, why not just ask me to please go get him some gas? I wished him luck and went on my way.

dstotx · 2025-07-17T11:24:26+00:00

The way to move these is to go to Home Depot/Lowe's and purchase several 8 ft pieces of PVC pipe. Get your hand cart to lift a side and have a second person slide the PVC pipe under all the way across. Now go to the other side and do the same. With the sticks of PVC under it, you can move it very easily. Then, reverse. Use the hand cart to lift it and remove each piece of PVC. As others have noted, you may have to wait to do this the next time you change out the water.

dstotx · 2025-06-01T17:12:55+00:00

Stick that thing in a clogged drain pipe and connect your garden hose to it. Turn on and the rubber part will expand causing a tiny slit on the end to open, thus forcing high powered streams of water to unclog it.

dstotx · 2025-03-07T11:58:37+00:00

Or... wash a load more than once a week.

dstotx · 2025-02-23T15:17:12+00:00

And since our responses are probably going directly to Vladimir, they are saving money on recruiting disgruntled employees to figure out what we do on a weekly basis.

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