You Know What Really Grinds My Gears? Now with 3x more gears...

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by Sliver

You buying something cool?

Money laundering.

[Geraldsh]

Did you have Smih & Wesson help with the withdrawal?

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by DoubleF

I'd guess a vehicle. Not many things other than higher end recreational equipment for around that price I can think of that you want cash to transact in. Or maybe you have 50 people you need to give $100 for Chinese New Years in a few months plus a few parking lot scalper deals for Christmas presents?

You're close. Asian communities/business are still very cash based. Pay cash no tax.
I'm throwing my parents a 50th anniversary party, dinner buffet for 100+ people. So that's half my money, $3500ish. My car has some dents and scrapes so some cash for the autobody shop. Yes, some Christmas and Chinese New Year cash to give out. And then whatever's left, put it on black?

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by surferguy

Update! Perfume woman is still rank. The stink is stuck to her like a skunk scent that won’t stop. Woof

I also broke a tooth about 2 hours ago so that’s something that can happen. lol

Hawaii coming up on your left.

[Nyah]

Originally Posted by surferguy

lol actually it’s free. Granted purchasing the ticket to get to and from NZ was not free. So maybe included is the better way to state it.

Another reason I like the carriers here, they still include things with your ticket. The rot of American captilism hasnt quite got it fingers into this.

I'm doing this exact flight in February (Vancouver - Auckland and back), except I'm flying AC. I highly doubt the wi-fi is free on that one

Hope you had a good trip!

[Minnie]

Originally Posted by surferguy

I just boarded a 12 hr flight. Somebody near me (old woman in row behind) is drenched in perfume from duty free. It’s an all out assault on my senses. Lady it’s an over night long haul and you smell obnoxious. #### this noise

Emeraude. I mean, it's probably something else but honest to maude, I swear Emeraude is the old lady perfume of choice and they bathe in it. I sometimes think they also gargle it/drink it, & it just seeps from their pores. I run into someone's granny at the store at least once a month, who is wearing so much Emeraude, they should be green, and it's all I can do not to vomit as I'm sneezing. Heinous heinous perfume.

[Wormius]

Speaking of flights, has Google ever become useless for searching. Hmm, $289 return to Phoenix for Dec 26 to 5th. That sounds pretty good. Except that the departing flight is through a third-party (sounds like a headache waiting to happen), and the return flight on Lynx doesn’t even exist.

[MoneyGuy]

Originally Posted by Sliver

You buying something cool?

She had to make grocery and gas stops on the way home.

[Lubicon]

Originally Posted by bizaro86

Dropping off is way less effort than picking up as well. You show up at someone's place at the agreed time, load their stuff leave. Picking up inevitably involves waiting at the cell phone lot and trying to coordinate finding them at one of the doors where 14 people are parked idling in the loading/unloading zone.

Originally Posted by powderjunkie

Its weird and dumb how the expectation is that the driver should be early and wait.

Alerts in Flightaware FTW. When we're doing a pickup we get alerts for the flight. Once it lands we leave for the airport, the timing is usually pretty close that we will get there about the time the person is ready for pickup.

Originally Posted by Nyah

I'm doing this exact flight in February (Vancouver - Auckland and back), except I'm flying AC. I highly doubt the wi-fi is free on that one

Hope you had a good trip!

Not full on free WiFi but if you are Aeroplan then messaging is free.

https://www.aircanada.com/it/en/aco/...ity.html#/wifi

[Scroopy Noopers]

Originally Posted by surferguy

Ok smarty pants! What was the reason for our 2 hour delay and where did the flight next to our gate head to?

Originally Posted by Bigtime

Your plane operated Fiji to Auckland and was 1 hour and 21 minutes late.

I'm stumped on the second question, if I could make out the registration I'd have a shot at it.

Classic display of air travel story rounding.

[Bigtime]

Well it arrived 1 hour and 21 minutes late, and I'm actually surprised they only left 2 hours late since the aircraft would need servicing and cleaning (that's a fast turn for a widebody like the 787-9), and as surferguy said they were checking out the radar too.

Edit: Me dumb, they probably already had the turn around time factored in, and the additional 2 hour delay could have been from some of that and the radar issue.

[RichieRich]

Originally Posted by surferguy

I just boarded a 12 hr flight. Somebody near me (old woman in row behind) is drenched in perfume from duty free. It’s an all out assault on my senses. Lady it’s an over night long haul and you smell obnoxious. #### this noise

thats when you turn the overhead air jets on and do your best to direct it backwards towards them, and hope it doesn't freeze your skull.

[You Need a Thneed]

All I probably need to tell Bigtime for him to track me is to say I'm flying Friday from Inuvik.

[calgarygeologist]

I didn't know, or maybe I did and forgot, that Amazon sometimes ships via Canada Post and it takes forever. I couldn't figure out why a recent Amazon Prime order was taking so long and I checked on the order and it was sent out with Canada Post. Gotta wait a week for delivery now.

[GordonBlue]

have a broken tooth that's needs to be pulled once I can get to a dentist.
sucks as it's a tooth that's visible and will give me a hillbilly smile.
It's a premolar 2-4. so 4th tooth in on the top.

the worst part will be the fight about treatment. last tooth I had pulled the dentist wouldn't shut up about getting an implant. "but we do payments..."
you're pressuring me into treatment I can't afford, I'm never going back to you.

I'm assuming the same thing will happen. The dentist will argue the most passionately for the most expensive treatment option.

[Wormius]

I have dentists bring up things that made me slightly self-conscious, but I never felt pressured by them. I think they’re really pushing night guards these days. My insurance covered it, so I just went with it, but I think there must be a dental convention where they learn what to pitch next.

Also, if the hilly billy smile is going to make you self-conscious and withdrawn, maybe consider it. They can’t make you get an implants. Seems like a simple “no thanks” interaction.

[Lubicon]

Originally Posted by RichieRich

thats when you turn the overhead air jets on and do your best to direct it backwards towards them, and hope it doesn't freeze your skull.

Last two aircraft I flew on (777-200 and 787-9) did not have those vents. Which surprised me.

[White Out 403]

Rogers proposes to charge me 35 dollars a month just to watch Jets games for their SN premium? #### yourselves, rogers.

[Wormius]

Sounds like Rogers just did you a solid.

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by GordonBlue

have a broken tooth that's needs to be pulled once I can get to a dentist.
sucks as it's a tooth that's visible and will give me a hillbilly smile.
It's a premolar 2-4. so 4th tooth in on the top.

the worst part will be the fight about treatment. last tooth I had pulled the dentist wouldn't shut up about getting an implant. "but we do payments..."
you're pressuring me into treatment I can't afford, I'm never going back to you.

I'm assuming the same thing will happen. The dentist will argue the most passionately for the most expensive treatment option.

One thing to take into consideration is that if you did end up doing the implant down the road you can have bone loss the longer you wait and then you might need bone grafting first which is significant extra cost and 10x more painful than an implant was. The gum line also recedes at the adjacent teeth with bone loss. It also takes longer as you have to wait multiple months for the bone grafting to heal before doing the implant. The cost definitely sucks and I’m still paying it off.