The Hunger Rants

[TBoneTX 45,260]

How are the drivers & companies typically punished, huh man?

[C-ma'am 684]

Oh wow. That's just horrible

 

Afternoon, all!

[cdneh 3,112]

7 hours ago, NikLR said:

I would never be a blonde. Have been and it doesnt suit me. 

Or me. I've got three blond haired blue eyed sisters. I refer to them as the Southern Belles. Well, Southern Ontario any rate.  The youngest of them still there following Irma, and likely now to stay there until well post Marie.

 

[cdneh 3,112]

Terrible accident. Given the state of the vehicles, and the damage to the buildings and all, one of them must have been going at speed.

[cdneh 3,112]

I am off this afternoon, to sit at the SSA office in an attempt to update them now that I'm no longer a legal resident alien. Taking a book, perhaps I ought to take a cut lunch as well.

 

Successfully managed to get the MIL to pay her taxes. We have to pay personal property tax here every year on our car (seriously). I got the paperwork in the post yesterday to register it again for the year, but of course, if you haven't paid the taxes, you can't do it.  They send one property tax notice to everyone at the same address, so I don't get the notice, she does.

 

Which led me to wonder. Her car tag expires at the end of the month. She swears up and down she didn't get the renewal notice, but she did. I bring in the mail, and I thought at the time it would be for us, but it was addressed to her. Either she has binned it, or misfiled it, so she will have to go to the DMV and sort it out. So far, over the last three days, we have had the same discussion 23 times. Unusually she says 'but I always do that online', followed by an explanation that she needs the code off the letter to do that, and she doesn't have it.  I am having a hard time making her understand that paying the taxes does not update the registration. Separate entity.

 

Today is her 87th birthday. Cake for tea.

[SAT 9,609]

35 minutes ago, cdneh said:

Terrible accident. Given the state of the vehicles, and the damage to the buildings and all, one of them must have been going at speed.

He was flying. There's a clip floating around...

Looks like he ran a light too. 

[SAT 9,609]

 

http://nypost.com/2017/09/18/video-captures-deadly-bus-collision/

 

He was on the left turn only lane. Then he ran the red, swerved right, nailed the city bus. 

[SAT 9,609]

 

He was doing 60 in a 25. Looks like he was sleeping behind the wheel. 

If you study the clip, the Fooks brake lights doesn't come on until after the collision. 

[SAT 9,609]

The driver did die. 

[SAT 9,609]

 

If you google this Dahlia bus company, you'd see that they're always involved in crashes with multiple fatalities. 

The owners really should be sent to jail.

[trudi 1,317]

21 minutes ago, SAT said:

 

http://nypost.com/2017/09/18/video-captures-deadly-bus-collision/

 

He was on the left turn only lane. Then he ran the red, swerved right, nailed the city bus. 

Just awful

 

Store manager has offered me anything I want (except a raise) if I'll stay, hours of my choosing and any department I want

Trouble is I'm not convinced he can follow through.

[SAT 9,609]

I'm telling ya...

There's a China conspiracy to take over toys R us, and retailing in America. 

Because they're no longer that profitable in manufacturing. 

And, lacking their own brand power, they have no choice. 

The Japanese tried the same thing, resulting in their "lost decade" 

[SAT 9,609]

8 minutes ago, trudi said:

Just awful

 

Store manager has offered me anything I want (except a raise) if I'll stay, hours of my choosing and any department I want

Trouble is I'm not convinced he can follow through.

 

Tell him to throw in lunch!

Front line manager position!

Um...all You can eat hotdogs!

And free beef jerky for the redneck! 

[SAT 9,609]

1 hour ago, cdneh said:

We have to pay personal property tax here every year on our car 

 

Was it initially tax exempt (like, no sales tax)?

[trudi 1,317]

We pay property tax on the cars every year here - that came as a shock to me!