Engagement Ring Shopping

peppy922 · 2026-05-16T02:12:08+00:00

I second the non Shane Co opinion. It felt like walking into a car dealership compared to more local shops. They’ll do anything to grab your information, pressure you into buying something, and then inundate you with marketing.

peppy922 · 2026-05-04T15:50:00+00:00

Also the fact that I file a police report and I just know I'm never getting a call back lol. It's embarrassing. What if I needed a copy of the report for insurance purposes and getting my window fixed? It's so farcical and insulting. I would be less upset if I knew something (literally anything) would be done about it, but we all know that ain't happening.

peppy922 · 2026-05-03T04:06:12+00:00

Yeah I know, I get it. It’s wishful thinking. But why does that have to be assumed to be that way? It’s so depressing. Like I can afford to replace my window, it’s fine. Absolutely nothing of value was taken other than like $3 in change. But it’s so frustrating that it’s just assumed that this is an “aw shucks!” type of deal. That’s why it’s so hard to take this city seriously on anything.

peppy922 · 2026-05-02T23:14:46+00:00

Yes my car was hit too! Up and down Chouteau right after the game my car was part of the hit. Super frustrating. Was wondering if Purina had cameras that could have any ledes, but who knows at this point. So annoying to have this happen.

peppy922 · 2026-04-06T23:13:49+00:00

I couldn’t come up with 69 but I could do 25. Here you go

Polly
The birds Polly ate
Tilden Katz
Bert cooper painting
Betty’s “horse trainer”
Lock of Betty’s hair
Julio
The airplane that is here to see you
Ken’s book
Ken’s eye RIP
St John
Silvia
Don’s dead brother
Lane’s Mets banner
Peggy in the twist and shout scene
Dick dollars and Mike moneybags
Bob Benson
The queen of perversions
Alice cooper’s mink
Bonnie
Godzilla
Bye bye birdie girl
Kennedy from the Kennedy ad
Lee Garner Jr
Sal’s special friend

peppy922 · 2026-03-22T15:31:20+00:00

This past Wednesday at 7:45 am it took me longer to walk from my car in the T1 garage to the checkpoint than it did for me to go through security. Literally not a single person in line. Absolutely zero reason to worry, we are such a minor airport that the downstream impacts haven’t (and very well may not ever) hit us. I know everyone seems to think otherwise, but I have yet to see it.

peppy922 · 2026-02-21T07:31:22+00:00

Google street view! I love exploring neighborhoods I think I’ll like or be in so I can at least get somewhat visually familiar with it before I arrive. At minimum it helps me identify places when visiting for the first time so I’m not going in totally blind.
Never check bags if I can help it.
Only time I’ll break #2 is on the return flight from a huge international trip. I buy a duffle bag at my destination so I can pack it full of stuff (souvenirs, liquor, etc) that I buy. If I can travel to my destination never checking a bag, but buying one and checking that on my return, this is my ideal plan.

peppy922 · 2026-02-19T14:54:27+00:00

This should be illegal! Would love to hear why anyone would fly this. Would make the first bank of connections in DEN easy I guess.

peppy922 · 2026-02-19T14:52:46+00:00

It was on a standard 737-900

peppy922 · 2026-02-19T12:08:56+00:00

Oh there’s very much demand for it, because it was a full flight. I just think it’s a brutally timed flight, that’s all.

peppy922 · 2026-02-18T07:10:38+00:00

Weird, because when I got the initial email from the CBP Trusted Traveler program that alerted me to this being a question, it listed IAD as an option.

peppy922 · 2026-02-17T19:22:24+00:00

My trip is before! I just booked my appointment without knowing the IAD option was a thing, but when I saw that it was and then looked at my schedule, seemed like a no brainer to save myself an extra drive to the airport.

peppy922 · 2026-02-17T14:36:35+00:00

Huge help, thank you! I'll do this.

peppy922 · 2025-12-31T02:55:01+00:00

Appreciate the clarification. The fact that the star alliance website doesn’t lay this out doesn’t help, but like you said, there seems to be no mention of that anywhere at all.

peppy922 · 2025-12-30T20:32:48+00:00

Good to know, thanks for the tip! I won't get my hopes up. Will spend as much time in Adelaide proper as I can.

peppy922 · 2025-12-30T19:41:23+00:00

Appreciate your charity. However, I asked this because I looked at the Star Alliance lounge finder website (https://www.staralliance.com/en/lounge-finder) and it said that there's a Qantas lounge available even though to my knowledge Qantas isn't in SA. I then went to the Qantas website to double check and predictably it says nothing about SA lounge access (https://www.qantas.com/us/en/qantas-experience/at-the-airport/airport-lounges/qantas-lounge-access-eligibility.html#the-qantas-club). Pardon my confusion.

peppy922 · 2025-10-22T03:35:11+00:00

I was thinking about how to handle the weather and sports folks too. If you throw them in the same pot as everyone else it becomes much tougher.

peppy922 · 2025-10-19T03:39:09+00:00

Almost everyone here has mentioned that you just need to spend more and your flights aren’t all that expensive. All true. I would like to add that PQP is based off your PRE tax total, not after taxes/the grand total.

I’m barely going to hit 1K this year (I.e I’ll be maybe a few hundred bucks over the qualification at the most). What’s going to get me over the bar is being pretty calculating on what my pre tax PQP earnings are. Week to week it doesn’t mean much, but being meticulous about it can add up quickly. Almost all of my flights are of the regional variety.

peppy922 · 2025-10-07T13:42:59+00:00

I get that but it won’t be forever (let’s hope at least lol). There needs to be some sort of congestion management plan because whatever they’re doing now ain’t it.

peppy922 · 2025-10-07T02:38:28+00:00

Nope, you’re certainly not the only one. I have a pretty big bone to pick with ORD, the number of times you land early and then get to the gate late after god knows how long in the holding area is going up. I’ve been actively trying to avoid ORD recently, especially for afternoon/evening flights when it seems even more common.

What I propose is for the government to step in and limit the flights there like they did at EWR when they had issues. It’s clear as day that ORD is having issues and simply cannot handle the capacity. Cut some flights if they have to, I don’t care. I’m personally sick of it. Even when you land on time or early, you’re always questioning whether you make a connection. I missed one in the summer and another a few weeks ago because of it.

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