the trivial complaints thread

[swapmeet]

A buddy of mine that's health conscious guy would say "u can pay extra for good food now or u can pay extra for the health care u need after eating that crap."

Ehhhh... its fair to say the food doesn't taste good at certain chains, but its up to you if you order "junk" (fried or fatty foods).

I mean, If I order grilled chicken/ fish with a side of rice, thats not gonna create health care issues down the road.

Now if I consistently order Chicken Fried Steak, Mashed Taters etc...

 

[Pablo]

My work place choices are slim around the hospital. Cafeteria, McDonalds, Subway. Yall ever eat at one of these? I've had a couple decent reviews but I don't see how it's different than subway. It's splitting a building with dunkn donuts.

 

[Big Kahuna]

We have 2 here. Not a fan. but I am picky.

 

[jo5hi3]

Dude, which wich is actually pretty good.

 

[mxmark4]

Which wich isnt too bad. The sandwiches go thru a conveyor oven, o ce mine came out cool, as in not very warm which pissed me off. Other than that they have a pretty good assortment of sandwiches and best of all its not subway!

 

[DAG]

Picked up an old XL1200 from a coworker that was wanting to just get it out of his yard before he built a fence. I gave him $100 because I felt sleazy just taking it for free. The ski was in very ruff shape cosmetically but it had 115psi in each hole, had spark but needed a complete pump as the one in it had a case of the fresh water rot. So dug this thing out of the barn loaded it up and took it home.


Next day after work I took it to the ramp with rotted pump and all and rode it about 3minutes just to make sure the carbs were good and the motor would rev up. Because of the hole in the pump it had extreme cavitation as expected but I felt it was a solid ski worthy to spend the extra time and money to get a good pump in it. Took a day off work to pull the pump and get a fresh pump installed because today its going to be 80 degrees and sunny which is unusual for this time of year here and and my girl and I were wanting to do a Dam to Dam cruse all summer and we finally had the perfect opportunity. So last night took it to the ramp one more time just to make sure everything was good before the 50 mile trek up the lake.


Ski did great rode solid for about 45 minutes before shutting itself off at full speed about 10 mins from the ramp. Switched fuel selector to reserve fired it back up and I rode it back to the ramp. On the way back to the ramp the ski shuts off again this time it did not spin that good upon pressing the little green magic button and could not get it started. After sitting in the middle of the lake on a Thursday evening with a half hr before the sun sets and no boats in site I said a little prayer and cashed in some karma points and low in behold it fired up again and started idling. I limped the ski back to the ramp but for poops in giggles WOT once I was within swimming distance from the ramp and the ski planned and rode fine. Maybe a slight loss in power but I say it was running every bit of 45mph. Probably rode it for another 5 minutes no issue so I figured maybe I just having a fuel delivery issue. Pull the ski out of the water and check compression and low and behold theses triples run just fine with one of them pumping 30psi lol.


All said and done I guess I had about a total of 12hrs of time messing with this thing between all the driving and wrenching that lasted for 45mins worth of fun. I guess this thing was destined to be a parts ski with 185hrs on it but we were really looking for a cheap ski we could join our couch friends for the long summer river cruises. Now who needs a parts from a 98 XL1200

PS: anyone seen a fresh water ski with a pump like this.. crazy

 

[Big Kahuna]

Just pick up a cheap top end or engine for it.

 

[DAG]

I can part it out and with the funds probably buy a decent one that's in much better shape cosmetically. just have to bird dog craigslist over winter

 

[Pablo]

@McDog has a funny story about his oldest kid projectile puking on everyone at a graduation ceremony in some stadium.

I had a good story years ago at the Ohio State/Michigan game up in Ann Arbor. The stadium is below ground level and we had seats what seemed like 100 rows down or so. I was with a girl I was dating, her dad and brother. We rode a booster-club bus from Columbus Ohio up and we stopped at a Outback Steakhouse before the game. I split a blooming onion with my girl. She skipped the dipping sauce and I inhaled it and a burger after pounding beers all night before and that morning before the game. By game time I was a bit queasy but nothing outside having too much to drink couldn't be attributed to. So brushed it off and had mega sized coke with some Jack in it. Well that didn't help. We proceeded to our seats from the bus. We were about 5 rows off field level. The restrooms were like 50 rows up from us. I kept drinking...thinking as the game got going I'd b ok and it'd pass. Well, by mid 1st quarter the nausea came on in a tidal wave and I knew I was gonna blow. I took a quick look up the stands for an escape route. Too far! We were about 15-20 people deep in our row and it was elbow to elbow with people bundled to the hilt with cold weather gear. No chance to even make it to the aisle to yak on the steps. I still had the mega-coke cup. I deftly poured it out on the ground and tucked my head between my knees and tried to, as quietly as possible, puke in the cup. Apparently, nothing had left my stomach since about 9:30-10am. When it started coming...it came out like a fire hose and ricocheted into the cup. The cup shot out of my hands and the rebounding sludge went airborne on me, my girl and all over the back of some decently hot chick with long brown hair and a fancy leather jacket. My GF dad and bro looked at me like I was a leper with 3 heads. They couldn't get away fast enough. It was like mini napalm and I was the epicenter. Everyone vacated my spot in about a 6 foot radius. I pulled my jacket and tried to contain the extra not so dry-heaves that were continuing. Finally my GF's dad grabbed me and plowed a path to get me out of there. He drug me back to the bus and told me to stay put. I layed on the bus floor by the crapper and spent the day with my head and butt in that little toilet. To add to misery, it was 6-7 hour ride back home after we got destroyed by Michigan (Tim Biakabatuka). We came in ranked #3 and expecting to win, have a good bowl game awaiting us and shot at a NC. By mid trip home, my girl had joined me on the floor sharing the toilet to puke into. Glorious day all around.

 

[DAG]

Had someone drive 15hrs (one way) to buy a Blaster 1200 I had listed this past weekend. He made the trip down with his wife and we met at the ramp Saturday. We did a walk around the ski and he had ATON of questions. He ended up knowing more about blaster than I did, where they crack, what parts to buy, exc.. Walk around went great so we went to put it in the water for a water test. I took it out first to warm it up and make sure everything was working correctly since It hasn’t been fired up in it several months. Everything went fine after a little priming. He goes to hop on top of it and tosses him off 3 times before he can even hit the start button. I ask if he’s ever rode a blaster and find out he has never been on a blaster or a standup he said he rides a WA650. So the next attempt I give him some pointers and hold the ski for him while he climbs onbore. He gets it fired up and zooms from the dock thru the no wakezone and make about 5 turns out on the channel and brings it right back in. I’m like is something wrong, he said he bit off more than he can chew. That was the end of it, he never even gave it a chance after driving 15hrs to come get, already bought a brand new trailer for it, and who knows how many hrs researching blasters. Needless to say his wife was pissed and made some snooty comments about couldn’t you have tested one out alittle closer. I wonder what my midlife crises will be?

 

[Pablo]

Wife (& I)bought bad tickets off Craig's list the night before a concert as a surprise for youngest kid. Got to stadium and found out tix were counterfeit. Kid, wife...and I were crushed.

I bit the bullet and bought a second set of tickets at stadium front box office. They discounted them $60 total since we waited till it started. Got OK seats on the floor...surprisingly.

All told TS got me for $1k not including tshirts, gas and daddy needed a couple $8 beers to simmer down once inside.

Was worth it after we got in my daughter was beaming after the low blow out front.

 

[swapmeet]

I literally just made this face.

 

[Big Kahuna]

You cannot put a price on memories!!!!!!!

Wife (& I)bought bad tickets off Craig's list the night before a concert as a surprise for youngest kid. Got to stadium and found out tix were counterfeit. Kid, wife...and I were crushed.

I bit the bullet and bought a second set of tickets at stadium front box office. They discounted them $60 total since we waited till it started. Got OK seats on the floor...surprisingly.

All told TS got me for $1k not including tshirts, gas and daddy needed a couple $8 beers to simmer down once inside.

Was worth it after we got in my daughter was beaming after the low blow out front.

 

[tor*p*do]

You would have to pay me a grand to see a Taylor Swift show

 

[Mark44]

worth every penny!!!

 

[OCD Solutions]

You would have to pay me a grand to see a Taylor Swift show

Meanwhile, you be like;

 

[Ducky]

@Pablo ....a little late to the game but Wich Which is awesome!

 

[SXIPro]

Morning after leg day.

 

[jo5hi3]

Morning after leg day.

Every day is leg day......

 

[SXIPro]

Every day is leg day......

Not for me. I do plenty of sprints and climbs in the course of a week, but as far as the heavy lifting I don't do it nearly enough, which probably explains why walking down stairs today is pretty much torture.