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[Titan2]

Originally Posted by Locke

'Cool Story Bro' time!

I had a client come in and her husband was a traveling salesman and he'd just died.

Upon his death she discovered giant buckets in her basement of hotel soaps, shampoos, basically anything from Hotels.

So I'm doing her taxes and she just asks me...what should I do with this stuff? It seems a shame to throw it out.

I just said..."give it to the Drop-In Centre."

They always need that stuff. The hotels dont care and have already sunk their costs, why just toss it in a dumpster? There are people that really need soap and shampoo and if you have to pick it up at a drug/grocery story its actually quite expensive relatively speaking.

I remember my first time to Cuba, I was sitting in a local bar shooting the breeze with the hotel bartender (he took me to his town) and he was mentioning it.

"Havent you noticed that most men have shaved heads? Because shampoo is hard to get and expensive!"

Huh. Okay. When I leave do want mine? If I'd known that I'd have brought more. But I dont mind leaving it here.

Huh. That was a cool story, bro. In fact, it was two stories in one. A twofer if you will.

[bc-chris]

my favourite hotel soap story....
my band played a gig at sunpeaks (we played right after foreigner - it was nuts!! ha!)
after we were all packed up we retired to our hotel rooms. i was sharing a room with the drummer and he was absolutely hammered... brutal slurred speech and very very incoherent.
we crash for the night. i got up super early becuz i wanted to get home. i went into the bathroom to have a shower and all i see is the bar of hotel soap with a bite out of it - i could see the teeth marks.
the only thing i could think of is that at some point during the night, our drummer stumbled into the bathroom, was hungry and saw the "oatmeal (soap) bar" and took a bite - ha! ha!
ahhh - good times!

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Titan2

Huh. That was a cool story, bro. In fact, it was two stories in one. A twofer if you will.

Yeah...it was great, I wish I'd known at the time. The next time I went back to Cuba I brought a bunch of shampoo and soaps and I just left them in the room.

"Take and share."

Aw...I love Cuba. I enjoyed going to the Bartender's town.

"It takes 90 minutes by bus if everything is on time."

Me: "Uhh...lets just take a cab."

"That will cost *equivalent of $12CDN at the time.* but will get us there in about 25 minutes."

Me: "Yeah....that'll be fine. I think I can swing that. Can you ask your buddy the concierge to call a cab?"

Driving down the Varadero coast in a '57 Chevy convertible with the top down? Some of the best money I've ever spent.

[Titan2]

Originally Posted by bc-chris

my favourite hotel soap story....
my band played a gig at sunpeaks (we played right after foreigner - it was nuts!! ha!)
after we were all packed up we retired to our hotel rooms. i was sharing a room with the drummer and he was absolutely hammered... brutal slurred speech and very very incoherent.
we crash for the night. i got up super early becuz i wanted to get home. i went into the bathroom to have a shower and all i see is the bar of hotel soap with a bite out of it - i could see the teeth marks.
the only thing i could think of is that at some point during the night, our drummer stumbled into the bathroom, was hungry and saw the "oatmeal (soap) bar" and took a bite - ha! ha!
ahhh - good times!

You wild and crazy rock and roll guys...Wow. I am thoroughly whelmed by that story.

[SutterBrother]

Booked flight and game tickets to Phx at Mullett.

Caught Covid.

Over it in less than a week. Listening to how great it was on BarnBurner grinds my gears.

[Knut]

People that wear too much perfume in public. Sitting at my kids stupid band concert and this lady bathed in perfume is causing my throat to close up. I am going to start acting like Loudermilk and just call people out on this stuff.

[Brendone]

Originally Posted by Knut

People that wear too much perfume in public. Sitting at my kids stupid band concert and this lady bathed in perfume is causing my throat to close up. I am going to start acting like Loudermilk and just call people out on this stuff.

My tolerance for perfume and cologne is pretty much zero since the lockdown. Didn’t used to bug me, but I can tell when anyone has it on now. Tried putting on a touch of my old cologne, which was always on the subtle side and couldn’t wash it off fast enough. Might as well have been bear spray.

[81MC]

Ordered parts for my truck, paid extra to have them arrive before the weekend so I could fix it. They were supposed to arrive on Tuesday, turns out they’re still in the god damned states.

Rockauto is good I guess, but man sometimes local suppliers are worth their markup.

[justkidding]

Rockauto uses FedEx and there was some weather issues in Memphis this week.

[Titan2]

Places trying to sell stuff that have no idea what the #### they are doing.

From the carry on thread someone liked this bag: https://www.osprey.com/sojourn-porte...19#color=Black

Who the #### needs 5 pictures of the OUTSIDE of the bag without any pictures of the pockets, openings, various places in the bag. For #### Sakes are you trying to sell it or not?

Related: House picture on Realtor. You are posting 50 pictures. FIFTY. Almost never do you get a picture of the garage and rarely do you get a good shot of the pantry/butlers kitchen. These are key things for me, so I assume everyone else too, but nary a shot or some weird angle looking through the kitchen. I get irrationally mad about this.

[Table 5]

I have not once in my 40+ years cared to look at a photo of a kitchen pantry...but definitely agree with you about the lack of garage photos/info in listings. When we were looking for a house, a good garage (and access) was very important to me yet often times you'd be lucky to get a single photo...so I was was left to figure out the situation with google maps.

A bad garage killed more than a few houses for me...while at the same time, I remember one house that had an oversized garage AND an already installed car lift, that I was ready to throw out a dozen other prerequisites for. Sadly lost that battle, but probably for the better.

[darockwilder]

Originally Posted by Titan2

Related: House picture on Realtor. You are posting 50 pictures. FIFTY. Almost never do you get a picture of the garage and rarely do you get a good shot of the pantry/butlers kitchen. These are key things for me, so I assume everyone else too, but nary a shot or some weird angle looking through the kitchen. I get irrationally mad about this.

I also assume if they have no pictures of the basement that it's a disaster

[Locke]

Originally Posted by darockwilder

I also assume if they have no pictures of the basement that it's a disaster

I love going through some Real Estate photos of just complete disasters.

Its like Bank reclamation or someone is trying to sell a rental and the occupants wont cooperate?

Spite Photos. Just...absolutely garbage everywhere.

"Screw it! Post what we've got!"

I think they're hilarious.

[Wormius]

I find beds without any linens or just a mattress on top of a box spring to be the most grating. I get now that it’s to visualize the size of the room, but they look awful.

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by Titan2

Places trying to sell stuff that have no idea what the #### they are doing.

From the carry on thread someone liked this bag: https://www.osprey.com/sojourn-porte...19#color=Black

Who the #### needs 5 pictures of the OUTSIDE of the bag without any pictures of the pockets, openings, various places in the bag. For #### Sakes are you trying to sell it or not?

Related: House picture on Realtor. You are posting 50 pictures. FIFTY. Almost never do you get a picture of the garage and rarely do you get a good shot of the pantry/butlers kitchen. These are key things for me, so I assume everyone else too, but nary a shot or some weird angle looking through the kitchen. I get irrationally mad about this.

I wish I was rich enough to have a need for a butler's kitchen.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Wormius

I find beds without any linens or just a mattress on top of a box spring to be the most grating. I get now that it’s to visualize the size of the room, but they look awful.

I've thought of getting into the home staging business, but more as a tax dodge.

Just...stage the house as badly as you possibly can.

"Heres a photo of a homeless man doing rails of coke off the toilet."

"Heres a photo of a biker gang on Poker night...yeah, thats scheduled, it comes with the house."

"Heres a photo of a homeless couple...well its blurred out, but you can guess what they're doing on the kitchen island."

"Whats that in the Basement? Its a Satanic Altar. Yeah...they meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays, they have their own entrance down there though...you can also meet them for Bowling on Sundays."

Ohhh.....I'd be great!

[Titan2]

Originally Posted by Locke

I've thought of getting into the home staging business, but more as a tax dodge.

Just...stage the house as badly as you possibly can.

"Heres a photo of a homeless man doing rails of coke off the toilet."

"Heres a photo of a biker gang on Poker night...yeah, thats scheduled, it comes with the house."

"Heres a photo of a homeless couple...well its blurred out, but you can guess what they're doing on the kitchen island."

"Whats that in the Basement? Its a Satanic Altar. Yeah...they meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays, they have their own entrance down there though...you can also meet them for Bowling on Sundays."

Ohhh.....I'd be great!

1. Become a home stager.
2. Act out own personal twisted fantasies and take selfies.
3. ???
4. Dodge taxes.
5. Profit.

Sounds good to me if you need investors, or models for the photos.

[Titan2]

Originally Posted by Table 5

I have not once in my 40+ years cared to look at a photo of a kitchen pantry...but definitely agree with you about the lack of garage photos/info in listings. When we were looking for a house, a good garage (and access) was very important to me yet often times you'd be lucky to get a single photo...so I was was left to figure out the situation with google maps.

A bad garage killed more than a few houses for me...while at the same time, I remember one house that had an oversized garage AND an already installed car lift, that I was ready to throw out a dozen other prerequisites for. Sadly lost that battle, but probably for the better.

I saw one house that had a lift in the garage. The lift went down to the basement garage. Yes, you read that right, the garage had another garage under it. Twas awesome.

[getbak]

Originally Posted by Wormius

I find beds without any linens or just a mattress on top of a box spring to be the most grating. I get now that it’s to visualize the size of the room, but they look awful.

I've noticed a lot of listings now are using "virtual furniture" in the photos, which look really bad too.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Originally Posted by Knut

People that wear too much perfume in public. Sitting at my kids stupid band concert and this lady bathed in perfume is causing my throat to close up. I am going to start acting like Loudermilk and just call people out on this stuff.

Guy at my work has so much scent you can tell where he's been because it lingers in those spaces for 24 hours or so afterwards.

The amount he's using is probably sinful to begin with, but the worse part is it smells like a generic athletic spray (not axe at least).

No higher tones or lower tones of anything distinguishable, just chemical.

Was willing to look the other way cause I didn't think he realized he overdid it, but after getting to know him more I'm coming to suspect it's intentional.