Piss & Moan Table
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Maybe you mean chicken bones; or maybe you mean wussy!
It’s a partially conflict-averse strategy; but it also instigates and worsens the situation … so all in all a terrible strategy but one I would enjoy watching unfold from the comfort of my couch over here!
The dog would probably think it was a reward for barking and run to the fence and bark every time he was out. My luck.
Not going to hurt the dog, he's just doesn't want to be left out alone. Maybe give chicken bones to the owner if it doesn't go well.
Probably best to talk to him first, though usually those types of people aren't going to care what you think. You can report him, though the success of that will depend on the law enforcement in your area.
My golden doodle has 3 joys in life: Eating, Stealing things to eat, and barking. So he gets locked inside at night instead of out. He loves lying outside at night, but often has to be brought back in because of the barking, gets locked in early. Usually our boxer will run outside to see what he's barking at, then come back in a minute later because he's barking at nothing.
I laughed last night because he started barking. Our boxer was curled up with a blanket on the couch. Sat up, thought about it, went back to sleep.
Not the dog’s fault! But, obviously the owner has no training at all.
I’d record every incident, and call the police with the evidence on every incident. Let them provide the training to the moron who does that with their dogs.
I favor doing it that way, as opposed to trying to confront a neighbor, especially if I don’t know them. Never know how people will respond in that situation, especially in today’s world!
flapper on the hall bath toilet caved in enough to cause the water to run about every two minutes.
Naturally my daughter and son-in-law in en route from across the state & due to arrive around 5pm to spend the next few days with me & that's their bathroom. If I didn't have well water & septic I'd have just let it run for the weekend then shut the supply line off after they left & fixed it whenever, but that wasn't really an option.
Quick trip to the local hardware store to pick up a universal repair kit, wasn't sure if it was the flapper itself or the gasket it sits in so I grabbed the whole fuck pack of parts.
Usually can bang this out in no time but this freakin toilet had some strange rubber three-pronged uni-gasket that covered the large plastic nut under the tank so I couldn't get the channel locks around it & all the tank bolts were connected to it & each went through its own two headed rubber grommet making it a mother fucker to pull the bolts out.
A good solid hour of cursing & struggling I got the thing done & back together, filled the tank & it started leaking from all three tank bolts so I had to clamp them down tighter than I've ever gone in any past swaps like this, you known that feeling when you're going one more turn on the ratchet & you're sure you're gonna hear the sound of cracking porcelain
Anyway it didn't happen & all is well, but what a pain in the ass
Naturally my daughter and son-in-law in en route from across the state & due to arrive around 5pm to spend the next few days with me & that's their bathroom. If I didn't have well water & septic I'd have just let it run for the weekend then shut the supply line off after they left & fixed it whenever, but that wasn't really an option.
Quick trip to the local hardware store to pick up a universal repair kit, wasn't sure if it was the flapper itself or the gasket it sits in so I grabbed the whole fuck pack of parts.
Usually can bang this out in no time but this freakin toilet had some strange rubber three-pronged uni-gasket that covered the large plastic nut under the tank so I couldn't get the channel locks around it & all the tank bolts were connected to it & each went through its own two headed rubber grommet making it a mother fucker to pull the bolts out.
A good solid hour of cursing & struggling I got the thing done & back together, filled the tank & it started leaking from all three tank bolts so I had to clamp them down tighter than I've ever gone in any past swaps like this, you known that feeling when you're going one more turn on the ratchet & you're sure you're gonna hear the sound of cracking porcelain
Anyway it didn't happen & all is well, but what a pain in the ass
Just the fact that you were working on a toilet made your very last statement downright classic.
toilets are fun 
Ive done apt maintenance in the past..
the most common pain in the ass running toilet call I had was the clogged toilet / bad fill valve seal combo. which results in the neighbor calling from the apartment below with water leaking through the bathroom ceiling. as you can imagine, when the toilet is legitimately clogged and the fill valve for the toilet runs.. water literally runs in the overflow tube in the tank straight to the clogged bowl eventually spilling over onto the floor.
I remember one big lady used the tank of the toilet like a recliner and snapped the tank off the bowl and flooded the unit because she was unable to fit to reach the shutoff valve.
another the guy got pissed because the seat lid wouldn't stay up so he kicked the seat lid into the tank and shattered it, luckily he shut off the water valve.
another one was a daily service call for a clogged toilet for a week, resulted in daily plunging and snaking which always solved the issue for the day. on the last service call for the toilet the boss told us to just replace the f'ing toilet and bring the old one up to the shop for hammer dissection to see what the hell was stuck in the damn thing. come to find out, the large feller that lived in that apartment was passing rock hard logs that were unable to clear the flange diameter of the toilet
snaked a toilet and pulled out a doll before, half ass joked with the resident if he still wanted the doll back. he literally grabbed the end of the toilet snake and untangled the doll hair from the spring coil and tossed the doll back into his kids toy box next to the tub
had a middle aged lady call in a clogged toilet. I was able to plunge for the most part but still didnt flush well, snaked it and recovered an adult diaper. I was a bit pissed and took it to her in a bucket and got the "thats not mine, I have no idea where that came from" answer.
people are f'ing stupid. it was always pleasant to be told its my job to plunge a clogged toilet, not theirs. um no.. its not my job its actually yours.
management always requested us to plunge residents toilet but to ask if they tried a plunger first. reason being is because its more than likely going to evolve into a flooded bathroom if we dont take the call, and the kicker was that we didnt charge for toilet plunge calls.. but if we did it too would result in flooded bathrooms.
man im glad to get away from that job.
Ive done apt maintenance in the past..the most common pain in the ass running toilet call I had was the clogged toilet / bad fill valve seal combo. which results in the neighbor calling from the apartment below with water leaking through the bathroom ceiling. as you can imagine, when the toilet is legitimately clogged and the fill valve for the toilet runs.. water literally runs in the overflow tube in the tank straight to the clogged bowl eventually spilling over onto the floor.
I remember one big lady used the tank of the toilet like a recliner and snapped the tank off the bowl and flooded the unit because she was unable to fit to reach the shutoff valve.
another the guy got pissed because the seat lid wouldn't stay up so he kicked the seat lid into the tank and shattered it, luckily he shut off the water valve.
another one was a daily service call for a clogged toilet for a week, resulted in daily plunging and snaking which always solved the issue for the day. on the last service call for the toilet the boss told us to just replace the f'ing toilet and bring the old one up to the shop for hammer dissection to see what the hell was stuck in the damn thing. come to find out, the large feller that lived in that apartment was passing rock hard logs that were unable to clear the flange diameter of the toilet
snaked a toilet and pulled out a doll before, half ass joked with the resident if he still wanted the doll back. he literally grabbed the end of the toilet snake and untangled the doll hair from the spring coil and tossed the doll back into his kids toy box next to the tub
had a middle aged lady call in a clogged toilet. I was able to plunge for the most part but still didnt flush well, snaked it and recovered an adult diaper. I was a bit pissed and took it to her in a bucket and got the "thats not mine, I have no idea where that came from" answer.
people are f'ing stupid. it was always pleasant to be told its my job to plunge a clogged toilet, not theirs. um no.. its not my job its actually yours.
management always requested us to plunge residents toilet but to ask if they tried a plunger first. reason being is because its more than likely going to evolve into a flooded bathroom if we dont take the call, and the kicker was that we didnt charge for toilet plunge calls.. but if we did it too would result in flooded bathrooms.
man im glad to get away from that job.
toilets are fun
the most common pain in the ass running toilet call I had was the clogged toilet / bad fill valve seal combo. which results in the neighbor calling from the apartment below with water leaking through the bathroom ceiling. as you can imagine, when the toilet is legitimately clogged and the fill valve for the toilet runs.. water literally runs in the overflow tube in the tank straight to the clogged bowl eventually spilling over onto the floor.
I remember one big lady used the tank of the toilet like a recliner and snapped the tank off the bowl and flooded the unit because she was unable to fit to reach the shutoff valve.
another the guy got pissed because the seat lid wouldn't stay up so he kicked the seat lid into the tank and shattered it, luckily he shut off the water valve.
another one was a daily service call for a clogged toilet for a week, resulted in daily plunging and snaking which always solved the issue for the day. on the last service call for the toilet the boss told us to just replace the f'ing toilet and bring the old one up to the shop for hammer dissection to see what the hell was stuck in the damn thing. come to find out, the large feller that lived in that apartment was passing rock hard logs that were unable to clear the flange diameter of the toilet
snaked a toilet and pulled out a doll before, half ass joked with the resident if he still wanted the doll back. he literally grabbed the end of the toilet snake and untangled the doll hair from the spring coil and tossed the doll back into his kids toy box next to the tub
had a middle aged lady call in a clogged toilet. I was able to plunge for the most part but still didnt flush well, snaked it and recovered an adult diaper. I was a bit pissed and took it to her in a bucket and got the "thats not mine, I have no idea where that came from" answer.
people are f'ing stupid. it was always pleasant to be told its my job to plunge a clogged toilet, not theirs. um no.. its not my job its actually yours.
management always requested us to plunge residents toilet but to ask if they tried a plunger first. reason being is because its more than likely going to evolve into a flooded bathroom if we dont take the call, and the kicker was that we didnt charge for toilet plunge calls.. but if we did it too would result in flooded bathrooms.
man im glad to get away from that job.
I replaced almost 40' of sewer drainage pipe at a duplex where a friend lived. I told the landlord that there were two things I could tell her about her tenants; 1) What brand of cigarettes they smoked, and 2) That they needed to chew their food better.
I worked at a bastard apartment property ours had competed with before our company had bought out the other, was my first introduction to section 8 living. this was one of my after-hours only properties as my main daily and nightly location was just one property with 32 buildings on the other side of the highway.
anyhow boss called me in for assistance at the bastard property for backup help with a water leak after hours, I was off the clock but decided to go in if they had desperately need the help and figured id take the overtime.
turned out it wasn't a water leak and was instead a major sewer backup, I was pissed. the first 3 buildings at the property out of the 27 buildings were tied into the west sewer lead which had a check valve stuck open, all 12 bottom floor units had 2" of standing sewer water in the one building and the other 2 hadn't yet flooded.
anyhow, job involved moving anything that wasn't soaked in floating toilet paper turd water in muck boots from all 12 units off whatever was in the shit water then once the water level dropped to just squishy carpet work consisted of gloving up and cutting out all the saturated wet carpet and pad and hauling to the dumpster.
utter bullshit and im sure a major health safety issue for us employees as the remediation company that took over only had to deal with the job once all the f'ing nasty work was done for them.
called the boss once I got on site and didnt even acknowledge my call. didnt even get a apology in the morning when I went in for the day.
anyhow boss called me in for assistance at the bastard property for backup help with a water leak after hours, I was off the clock but decided to go in if they had desperately need the help and figured id take the overtime.
turned out it wasn't a water leak and was instead a major sewer backup, I was pissed. the first 3 buildings at the property out of the 27 buildings were tied into the west sewer lead which had a check valve stuck open, all 12 bottom floor units had 2" of standing sewer water in the one building and the other 2 hadn't yet flooded.
anyhow, job involved moving anything that wasn't soaked in floating toilet paper turd water in muck boots from all 12 units off whatever was in the shit water then once the water level dropped to just squishy carpet work consisted of gloving up and cutting out all the saturated wet carpet and pad and hauling to the dumpster.
utter bullshit and im sure a major health safety issue for us employees as the remediation company that took over only had to deal with the job once all the f'ing nasty work was done for them.
called the boss once I got on site and didnt even acknowledge my call. didnt even get a apology in the morning when I went in for the day.
For all my efforts with the 40' of sewer pipe replacement, I ended up with a double eye infection. I knew it was bad when my doctor entered the room and jumped back away from me with a startled "WHOAH!!!"
For all my efforts with the 40' of sewer pipe replacement, I ended up with a double eye infection. I knew it was bad when my doctor entered the room and jumped back away from me with a startled "WHOAH!!!"
oof. I dont recollect catching anything from my efforts but it definitely was on my mind the whole time.
My toilet story:
Our first house was approximately 30 years old at the time. My RN wife had left for work one Saturday - I was laying on the bed reading a book and kept on hearing water drip, drip, drip, dripping in the bathroom. "Dammit, she didn't tighten the shower valves again!" was my thought - but it was a damn good book, so I kept reading for a bit. The dripping got louder - so "Oh HELL, I'll go do it!". Walked in the bathroom, about halfway across I was walking in water. It wasn't the shower, it was dripping from under the toilet tank (Old, 4 bolt toilet). I reached down and turned off the water to the toilet, and removed the tank top. This is where it gets interesting: There was a crack in the exact center of the back of the tank - in a perfect straight line starting at the top and was down below the water line, hence the leak. Obviously a seam of some sort when the tank was made. Removing the tank top made it worse as there wasn't anything pressing down in the center of the tank, the crack continued to SCREEEEEEEK! and lengthen down towards the bottom of the tank! I saw what was going to happen, so I flushed the thing to minimize the flooding when the tank broke in two and CLONKed onto the floor!
Weirdest damn thing I ever heard of - had a brother in law at the time who was a plumber. He had never seen anything like it before either. Thank Goddess I was home, otherwise it would have been a real mess. To this day, I don't trust toilets, and shut the fucking things off if we're going out of town...
Our first house was approximately 30 years old at the time. My RN wife had left for work one Saturday - I was laying on the bed reading a book and kept on hearing water drip, drip, drip, dripping in the bathroom. "Dammit, she didn't tighten the shower valves again!" was my thought - but it was a damn good book, so I kept reading for a bit. The dripping got louder - so "Oh HELL, I'll go do it!". Walked in the bathroom, about halfway across I was walking in water. It wasn't the shower, it was dripping from under the toilet tank (Old, 4 bolt toilet). I reached down and turned off the water to the toilet, and removed the tank top. This is where it gets interesting: There was a crack in the exact center of the back of the tank - in a perfect straight line starting at the top and was down below the water line, hence the leak. Obviously a seam of some sort when the tank was made. Removing the tank top made it worse as there wasn't anything pressing down in the center of the tank, the crack continued to SCREEEEEEEK! and lengthen down towards the bottom of the tank! I saw what was going to happen, so I flushed the thing to minimize the flooding when the tank broke in two and CLONKed onto the floor!
Weirdest damn thing I ever heard of - had a brother in law at the time who was a plumber. He had never seen anything like it before either. Thank Goddess I was home, otherwise it would have been a real mess. To this day, I don't trust toilets, and shut the fucking things off if we're going out of town...
On Saturday my 25 y/o son driving his '98 Silverado (on my insurance) on the way to the shooting range with his friend gets rear ended by a suv that blew a stop sign.
About a 30mph difference in vehicle speeds. Son and friend are ok. Truck bed, bumper, tailgate wrinkled but drivable.
Again State Farm insurance.
I notify my agent Monday (HS friend that farmed then became an insurance agent, I'm probably one of his first customers) He gets back to me on Tuesday saying he'll look into the accident report and get back to me. (never does)
State farm calls me wanting son's number for "his accident testimony"
Son calls number repeatedly and leaves messages no returned calls. (State Farm sucks based on my prior encounter with them)
I ask my agent what the next step was: "Just keep calling State Farm it will be the quickest way to settle it."
Agent said our insurance could file a claim but I would have to pay the $1K deductable until State Farm reimburses.
Agent mentioned that: "I screamed" at paying the deductible when my camper / pickup were rear ended 4 years ago.
I expressed displeasure that I had to pay $2K. $1K for the pickup and $1K for the camper for the one incident.
Don't believe screaming was ever involved.
What's the next step?
Dangle waiting for State Farm to respond?
Call my agents company and ask them what to do?
Go get a personal injury lawyer?
Anyway due to lack of concern / help from my agent, the 35yr relationship is done.
About a 30mph difference in vehicle speeds. Son and friend are ok. Truck bed, bumper, tailgate wrinkled but drivable.
Again State Farm insurance.
I notify my agent Monday (HS friend that farmed then became an insurance agent, I'm probably one of his first customers) He gets back to me on Tuesday saying he'll look into the accident report and get back to me. (never does)
State farm calls me wanting son's number for "his accident testimony"
Son calls number repeatedly and leaves messages no returned calls. (State Farm sucks based on my prior encounter with them)
I ask my agent what the next step was: "Just keep calling State Farm it will be the quickest way to settle it."
Agent said our insurance could file a claim but I would have to pay the $1K deductable until State Farm reimburses.
Agent mentioned that: "I screamed" at paying the deductible when my camper / pickup were rear ended 4 years ago.
I expressed displeasure that I had to pay $2K. $1K for the pickup and $1K for the camper for the one incident.
Don't believe screaming was ever involved.
What's the next step?
Dangle waiting for State Farm to respond?
Call my agents company and ask them what to do?
Go get a personal injury lawyer?
Anyway due to lack of concern / help from my agent, the 35yr relationship is done.
To be clear, is State Farm in this story your own policy you are going through, or is it the other guy's carrier that caused the accident?
If it's your own carrier, they have an absolute contractual duty to properly and promptly adjust the claim, subject to your deductible of course.
If it's the other guy's carrier, then they can drag their feet while performing their 'investigation', they have no contractual duty to you, only to their insured.
As for your son's statement, if it's your own carrier, he has a duty to cooperate with the carrier and give a statement. If it's the other guy's carrier, no duty, therefore no statement is required, though it can be done voluntarily at your discretion.
I usually tell people in this situation to go through their own carrier, it's easier & more seamless, and they'll recoup your deductible through the at-fault carrier, if not you can.
Your friend sounds like an asshole.
As for getting a personal injury lawyer, was there an injury? If so, yes. If not, they're of no use, they won't get involved to represent someone for a property damage only claim. Those claims are tag-alongs with injury claims, not stand alone claims.
Finally, if your carrier is telling you that you 'have to' go through the other guy's carrier, they're lying, it's your choice which carrier to go through, provided of course you have collision coverage on your vehicle. If not, then the only choice you have is their carrier.
I still have $1000 deductible from 20 years ago that I’ll never get reimbursed for. Hit by an uninsured motorist.
Forgot to actually answer the questions.
State Farm is the at fault drivers insurance. They asked for my son's statement.
I'm going to hold the agents feet to the fire. Yes being an asshole.
Definitely other drivers fault. Son turns left off State Hwy heading south. Other driver is southbound doesn't stop and shoots across state highway hits my son several hundred feet south of the intersection. Admits fault. Police report backs it up.
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