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Tipping for take out if you call ahead and they have it ready when you get there is totally worth it. I payed a Thai place a dozen blocks away $20 For a $16 meal. Every time I showed up there like ten minutes later, they would interrupt a group party or other orders to cook up my #4 chicken...

Home invasion is one thing, going outside of your home to shoot and kill is another. I have no problem with how the "alleged murderer" handled the situation, though I would not do the same thing. A couple of months ago, I was fixing some BBQ at my mom's house, and the deadbolt and door was not...

Longs Drugs seems to have plastic bags in every practical size, everything you can use as a shower cap to large enough to line a paper bag. I take the paper bags to Grey Bears to recycle if I don't use them for trash bags, I will become a senior citizen some day so better to benefit them than...

Just found a battery shop that stocks that product line, I had never heard of it before, thanks for the info. I checked out the rest of the catalog and something on there will work for sure, I'll take a trip over the hill this weekend. On the plus side, the vice grips compression on the...

The negative battery cable terminal on my 1990 300zx will no longer stay securely connected as of Sunday night, and after parking it for a day and thinking about a fix, I used a set of adjustable locking pliers to hold the terminal on. The terminal is one of those soft copper or brass deals...

"Landscapers" can be like sub-par gardeners. I rent and live in a cottage/shack and the landlord or property manager hires Hector y Jose to hit the brick patio with a leaf blower every once in a while. This just redistributed the flowers and leaves that drop from the tree somewhere else on the...

Kids don't read signs, such as "Left turn must yield" or "cross traffic does not stop." It's there, right in front of them, and after the inevetible "accident" their answer is "I don't know." or "I didn't see the other car." That's because they never look. Driving is one of the very few...

I thought "The War" was much better than Burn's "The West"- mostly through living people being interviewed vs. re-enactments and trying to dramatize the words of folks who died 100+ years ago. While the video footage didn't seem to match up with the audio narrative at times (ie Russia 1943 on...

I let the spiders and their webs take over my house, and I haven't encountered any other pests besides a scorpion or two in their place. Spiders> ants. However, the car is another deal. Some web slingers have taken up residence by/in the driver side window and passenger side hatch. If it has 8...

Kragen here is the same as Advance. Same service too! On May Ave.'s Kragen we have the attractive girl, always on her cell phone, never actually working. In Capitola, there's the clerks who grunt when you say words like please and thank you, and forget to give you a receipt for all the stuff...

1990 300zx- no extra room whatsoever, can't even fit a 20" BMX in the hatch. Glove box won't hold much more than just that, gloves. Insurance and registration papers live here, not much else. Locked for security. I pull certain fuses or disconnect the negative battery cable and take the janky...

Concrete quality used to depend on the quality of cement used in construction(concrete being the finished product, cement being a chief ingredient). The demand for raw cement from particular locations was higher many years ago, I don't know much if anything about it these days. Does it go to...

A 4-runner full of high school kids sought out to steal my neighbor's very dead, discarded gas grill last year. My clue was a bunch of loud kids as I turned on my bathroom light and heard, "I think somebody's in that house." I ran out to the alley and they took off at speed with no headlights...

I usually buy a light for my mom every other year for her birthday since she runs in the early morning with little street light. She's had everything from non-halogen geek lamps on the head to Dorcy or Eveready and so on. Never tried LEDs until last year. The mini-maglight I found for her 2...

They still make Zima? Wow. I kind of miss it, the un-beer. For the skateboarders out there, FYI: The hole in the hanger of Krux trucks can open a bottle, but has a nasty but very true reputation of breaking the bottle at the neck. Start drinking Red Stripe or something with a different bottle...