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Another speshalist is on the horizon and I will come out of this Aliiiiiive! Irregular heartbeat and too thick blood! Easy peasy
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1. My wife was stopped at an intersection this morning in my VW Jetta when she was rear ended by a pickup truck. The impact pushed her car into the car in front of her. Scared my kids to death. Substantial damage to both the front and rear.
Fortunately my wife and kids are ok. No injuries. That is the most important thing, Material things can be replaced
Its just annoying. We have all the stress involved with it, while this guy probably does not care because his truck was an old beater.
2. Pick up drivers. They annoy me. Every time we have been hit by someone its always a pickup driver. They are always tailgating and acting like they own the road.
1. Hope you're wife and kids are doing well this morning. The next day is usually when things start to ache and get sore, believe me I speak of this with way too much experience.1. My wife was stopped at an intersection this morning in my VW Jetta when she was rear ended by a pickup truck. The impact pushed her car into the car in front of her. Scared my kids to death. Substantial damage to both the front and rear.
Fortunately my wife and kids are ok. No injuries. That is the most important thing, Material things can be replaced
Its just annoying. We have all the stress involved with it, while this guy probably does not care because his truck was an old beater.
2. Pick up drivers. They annoy me. Every time we have been hit by someone its always a pickup driver. They are always tailgating and acting like they own the road.
Did you see what occurred at that Middle School in Compton, CA? A kid bought a BB gun to school and was pointing it at other students. When told about it, his Mom replied that they clearly did not know how deal with children. The next day all the teachers and the principle did not show up.These little p****s picking on my daughter at school. Some of these teachers are so indifferent or just blind. I am on my students like taxes on people. The instant they hit the other classroom, it's chaos. Nice lady I co-teach with, but they just don't take her seriously. My oldest just got expelled. Just a great week altogether.
I got a letter from the Social Security people last week. It says they reviewed my last tax returns and concluded that I need to pay more for Medicare fees. So next year I will be getting about $100 less a month in Social Security Retirement, despite the 3.3% increase.
Today I got another letter from the Social Security people, saying that not only am I going to get $100 less each month in 2024, but I owe them $3500 in back payments because they paid me too much in 2023, using the same reasoning. So I can either send them a check for the amount or they will take it out of my Social Security payments for next year. I don't know if they will take it out over a few months or spread it out over the whole year, but my rough calculations show what it amounts to is that next year I'll be getting about $450 a month less from them.
For y'all that don't know, Social Security and Medicare operate on the principle of, "From each according to his ability. To each according to his need."
Official workshops are fraudsters nests. I have quite a bit of problems with the official Ford dealer & workshop in hometown when I was younger. The problem was that my mother car was bought there and she want all repairs made there. It was no problem for her, as long as she pick the car I used while hers was there so it didn't matter if they were behind schedule in the repair or made a bad one and the car must go there once again.I took my car for a service today, knowing I had a slow puncture, and Audi tried to charge me £167.16 for this.
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I got it fixed at a local tyre place (shout out to Plume Tyres) for the princely sum of £23.50.
I'm obviously not annoyed at a saving of £143.66, but at Audi. A lot of people would just have paid, including the extortionate price of the tyre which can be had much cheaper, without thinking that maybe that puncture is at worst borderline repairable* and that someone would do it.
*In the UK it has to be in the central 3/4 of the tread.