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I was 9 years old when this thread started.
My boys were born about 7 months after this thread was started. I've got to update the avatar image - them pulling Arthur's sword from the stone in Disneyworld when they were 4 years old is kind of dated...
So they are about driving age now? Um yea datedQuote:
Originally Posted by szlamany
Yes - they've shared a car for about a year now. I bought them a Chevy Malibu - been working out real good. I think it's actually less $$'s then the Uber-fees they were racking up!
[edit] Actually - if I consider the insurance bill that's not really true!! [/edit]
Yah, that insurance is a killer at that age.
I just quoted someone that has 4 drivers (one is 18 and the other is 16) with 4 vehicles at state minimum liability only for $6.2k every six months. Not a great conversation considering that they weren’t listing the children before hand, got caught (via an accident by the 18 year old), and the company is requiring that they either list the kids or exclude them so they wouldn’t be covered if they drove any of the 4 vehicles.
What you really should have been able to say to them was "you gamed the system and had uninsured drivers in your household - be happy we covered anything let alone offered future coverage!".
I almost got hit tonight by someone backing straight out from the local package store (yeah, look it up. CT colloquialism)
The only people hated more than insurance agents are debt collectors, so when I get conversations like those... they get nasty sometimes. But I never take it personally.
I used be on the debt recovery line for British Gas. I have been called many varied and interesting names.
We also had a small office in reception where people could come in and talk to someone personally. It was laid out so that the desk ran from wall to wall and was very wide so that it would be difficult for someone to jump across. There was an escape door behind the operator that I had to use more than once.
Did anybody ever offer to give you back their gas? That could be done in the office, and no desk is wide enough if the gas is sufficient.
Funny enough, we just elected a debt collector as Representative in the Louisiana House of Representatives. Close race too, but it was 3 points over the runoff mark.
Ironically we also had a city elect a guy for mayor who is a convicted felon that finished his sentence a year ago while simultaneously the state voted to bar felons from seeking public office for up to 5 years after they finish their sentence. Even more ironic is that the city voted overwhelmingly in favor of the amendment to bar the felons.
We had nothing interesting in our elections, but we have an opportunity that I hope we don't pass up.
As everybody knows, I like puns and word play. We are trying to get a new HQ building, and we just elected Brad Little as governor. To get the building, it would be pretty much essential to have the support of the governor, so I think we should offer to name the building after him. That way, we could have the Little HQ building for probably a century, or so. I'm actually thinking that we could just revamp the old building completely, in which case we could have the Little Old HQ building.
I fear people will pass up the opportunity. People can be so stodgy. You rarely get a chance to plaster a joke onto a building for decades, or on anything else, either. It's like when Seattle created the South Lake Union Trolley. They thought it was a mistake!!! They even tried (and may have succeeded) to change the name! Stodgy ol' buggers.
We have stupid voters here in CA that dont read what the actual prop or law is actually about. They see ads and just vote.
We did not pass the prop to repeal a previous gas tax and vehicle registration fee imposed a year ago. $175 on top of your registration fee and $0.xx per gallon tax. Problem was they worded the prop so it was very confusing and sounded like it was to take fund away from road repair and transit etc. Bundled in teh prop was also the requirement to have any new future tax increases be voter approved. Now that it didnt pass they can continue to add gas tax for any reason without any approvals.
Well, that's one interpretation. I don't know about the proposal in CA, but I've long argued that gas taxes are too low. That's the primary source of funding for highways (or it was meant to be). Costs go up, revenues are going down, and we all still drive plenty. Perhaps people weren't as confused as you think.
I'm super excited about self driving vehicles.
I had an idea a while back about implementing a self driving vehicle that used visible light communication to determine the speed limit as well as lane detection combined with proximity sensors to help with collision detection.
But I don't have the money for that...