I think one of life best gifts is the ability to laugh at ones self. I have been lucky enough to laugh at myself frequently the past few years. But today I hit a parked car while pulling out out of a parking spot.
24 years of driving with no accidents but I managed to hit a parked car. Thank you life wait no thank you .

Reminded me of something that happened back in November

I was rear ended by a young lady who was from the lower mainland this winter during our 3 week long -20 cold snap in November and it was hilarious as she had never driven in cold weather ever. She hit me at slow speed and got out and was a hysterical mess as it was -22ish and she had never been in the north during winter and she had no gloves on (this becomes clear in a second) A fellow who saw the accident tried to calm her down and between the two of us we finally figured out that she was petrified as she had no gloves on that if she touched her steering wheel with bare hands that they would freeze to the wheel.

First time for everything I guess. Turns out no damage to my truck small dent in her hood and after calming her down and assuring her that her hands would not freeze to the wheel sent her on her way. There are times that catch you off guard and this was one of them.

When construction of a building is complete, why is it not then called a built? ...

Me and my family lost a great wonderful boy yesterday. He was only fifteen and he took his own life.Sorry for this sad post but please watch your loved ones for signs of depression I have a huge family and none of us saw this coming. Manny hard days ahead.

That's very sad. I have a person very close to me that deals with depression on a huge scale and it something that I worry about every day.

Keep your chin up, there is often nothing that can be done and many people don't see it coming.

My best to you and your family and all his friends.

Are we talking about 13 reasons why here? Kidding aside, I guess we should all be sensitive on what the other people around us feels and at the same time take good care of our action. It is always a matter of putting oneself's in someone's shoes.

I am sorry to hear that.
It is sad when someone with their whole life ahead of them decides that.
It is hard for the people left behind.

Sorry to hear about your loss. All of us feel sad or emotionally drained at some points in our lives, but depression is exponentially worse. It is especially tough for the family members left behind as they try to come to grips with what happened, why, what could they have done different. Our thoughts and prayers are with you at this difficult time.

Anthony

Aw jeez Bud - so sad. :hug:

I've been involved in safety to varying degrees at my workplace over the last 18 yrs and in that time I have seen changes galore some were beauracratic others in response to catastrophic issues (Lakeland and burns lake sawmill explosions) to others being modernized yet one thing has not changed over the 18 years

The incessant moaning, groaning, whining and snivelling of both the employee and employer and generally speaking those in the front line of safety are the most frequent targets of those who bitch moan and groan and in some cases like today you get those that threaten you because they are forced to change

I love safety but when people start to threaten you it makes one wonder why we do safety anyway

People hate change and often lash out at the first point of contact and even though I have a thick skin it does wear one down but then again people hate to be told to do something in other words grown up children who pout

It’s winter and it’s raining cats and dogs today hell even the lower mainland has more snow than we do atm unusual but still entertaining to see 3 million people panick at the sight of a snow flake its entertainment value for us northerners for sure watching lower mainlanders drive in snow or should I say attempt to drive in snow.

Belated merry Christmas and ahead of schedule happy new year.


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Me: Post stuff for sale
Member PM: Hey, I want your stuff. Here's my #
Me Text Member: Hey, it's me. Blah, blah blah blah, blah etc.
:yawn: 1 day
Me PM Member: Hey, did you get my text?
:yawn:

At least I haven't had any 'no shows' yet :rolleyes:

Me: post some stuff up on Kijiji ..2$
Other person : ... is this still for sale ...
Me: yes ( that’s why the add is still up man)
Other person : ok would you concisely taking 1$ for it and delivering it
Me: smashed face on wall , no


Every Kijiji email thread

It's not a whole lot better on the facebook marketplace groups. I couldn't even give away something for FREE because it was just person after person of no-shows, or "can you please hold it for 3 weeks because life is busy?" and so on. After going down the chain of 4 or 5 people I simply gave up.

Same here I had a tank for sale lots of interested people bunch said they would be at my place so and so day and time wait nobody showed had well over a dozen people do this to me finally gave it away to a friend who wanted it but couldn’t afford it and I just wanted it gone

I post stuff for free and they still ask for delivery. I say I can

thats why i just throw stuff out now.... people want to low ball me... ill throw it out, no shows, i throw it out

Tank is crashing :neutral: sps have been looking off for a few weeks. Went to Vegas last Monday hoping thing would get better. When I got back on Friday things still not looking snappy. Found a battery in my ato last night that explains a lot. It’s been in there since my sisters kids put in there on Christmas Day. They are not invited to dinner next year.

Oh noooo... :(

Hello

I hope things will recover after lots of water changes.

Titus

Oh crap. Carbon every few days and water changes

Crappy. Let us know if you need anything Ian!

Thanks Guys things look like they are calming down. I really want to post a picture of a huge dead colony because who doesn’t want to see dead corals. unfortunately I can’t figure out how to post from Imgur from my phone. Any one want to do a photo step by step how to post for a idiot. Can reef needs to see more photos of dead corals so the fellow peps won’t try to enhance coral growth with energiser batteries.

I sold a bunch of older aquarium equipment to a buyer 2 weeks ago (shipping his cost) and I got the package back yesterday (rts as person did not pay for package) messaged buyer who said he never agreed to shipping at his cost to which I resent the agreement that he understood it was at buyers cost to which he denied ever agreeing to it and claimed to never of seen that even though I sent all the replies where he agreed to it

End result got the equipment back told the buyer that I wouldn’t be dealing with him anymore and I would make sure that the local community knew about this so that they would be aware of his indiscretion

Some people ....

I would have charged him a 15% restocking fee.

:twised:

Omg tell me about it. Going through it now and it’s tragic. Grrr...
Just yesterday & today, in addition to the usual crazy CL respondents, I had 4 “definite” coming-right-after-work guys only to have them fall through. The last guy, after my husband offered to help him move it into his van, said he heard you can’t use a tank for freshwater after it’s had saltwater. What. Sadly one of them was a canreefer who, after commiserating with me about how difficult people are, proceeded to offer me a lowball price after he knew the previous guy bailed on me. Truly, I would rather give it away at that point.

I find it very odd that when I bump my for sale post it never goes to the top. Hmmm

You need to actually bump it first.

Might be a conspiracy.

Haha yup and it lasts just a couple of hours. But thanks for the bump haha

Took an expensive watch to have battery replaced but due to its size about an inch and half across most of the jewelry stores I went too wouldn’t touch it because they didn’t have the tools to open such a large backing plate.

Finally got a jeweller that could do it and when they opened it I got a surprise when the store clerk told me that there was 3 batteries in the watch one battery for each function on the watch. Total cost was 55 dollars and learned a new lesson about big fancy watches