I wake up Friday morning, and run out of bed to turn on the heat in my apartment before diving back under the covers because it's cold. Brrr, autumn!
After its warmed up, I get showered and dressed, surf the net, and get to my first delivery job (the indie) at 11am. I can tell its going to be slow when I pull into the parking lot - it's a third full. Yep, it was slow. I got two runs, and made $10. Not too bad, even though I get a crappy tip on a big order and a good tip on a small order.
Got back home about 1:30. Walk into my apartment's kitchen and notice a "splish splash" as I walk. Turn on the light, there's a puddle of water on the floor, the counter is damp, and the sink is half full of dirty water. Great. Call maintenance, they wind up spending three hours and using three different sized "plumber's snakes" to clean out the stop in the drain, apparently caused by thirty-plus years of use. "I've been here nineteen years, never seen anything like this," the maintenance guy says. They'd also never had to use the larger sized snake, and he had to call the night manager for permission to use it (because by this time, it was after 5pm).
Oh, did I mention I was supposed to be at PJs by 4:30?
The sink finally got unstopped, I quickly mopped up the floor and cleaned off the counter, and got up to PJs a little after 5:30. With the day I'd just had, I was expecting ten delivering total all night if I was lucky, all five miles out or more.
Boy was I wrong.
I started out with three going north. The first house I thought I was going to get fucked at - I told the kid the total, he handed me a twenty and three one's, then said "hold on", took the money back, and went into the house. Great, he was going to take the tip. Yay. Then he came back and handed me the twenty, a five, and seven singles. Cooool ...
Getting back to the store, I had a single to Blythenia. Argh. Took it, got back, had four runs going down Dance Mill and back up Manor. Got back from that, had three more. Got back from that, three more. The whole night was like that - we had two people call out, one do a now show, but we didn't get too badly fucked getting pies out the door. I took nineteen runs between 5:30 and 9:30pm. Sadly, our store dies at night, so I only had one other run the rest of the night (I was there until midnight), but I made $97 on 20 runs (not including $21 I spent on my gas-tank), and the night seemed to go by in an hour.
What a GREAT end to a shitty day.
(Especially since I mailed rent in Friday!)
Oh yeah - the indie place had the checks ready (he usually doesn't give 'em out until 5pm on Friday), AND the franchisee had our checks ... with him, we usually don't get out checks until Monday or Tuesday! Yay!
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
I drove the bank bags from Springfield to Bloomington, then waited in Bloomington till the next set was ready, which was late, then drove to Chicago, unloaded, and drove back through all the foggy spots. All in all an average Friday night for me....
I should take up pizza delivery, you made more in tips than I did in pay by a few dollars....
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
It helps to work in one of the wealthiest areas of one of the wealthiest counties in the country. Still get stiffed by people with million dollar homes and Porches lined up on the driveway. Oh well.
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Yeah, but how many people who own a Porsche like to eat pizza? I mean, that is SO prolish.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Appearantly enough to support Jeff and the other drivers....
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"Yeah, but how many people who own a Porsche like to eat pizza?"
The ones who are sixteen and had Daddy buy them a Porsche?
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
I smell bananas in the tailpipe..
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
If you put a banana in the tailpipe of a Porsche, the owner will probably get jealous of the banana's size...
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Dude, I drive a frikkin' Saturn, and I'm jealous of the size of the banana.
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
Sounds like a personal problem...
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
The jealousy, or the fact that he drives a Saturn?
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
More the Saturn than the banana.... I shudder at the thought of a Saturn....
Is it a yellow Saturn, if so then you are really in need of a good threshing.... as soon as it is fixed....
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Actually, it's a gray for the moment. It may be black soon since I am oh-so-very close to setting the damn thing on fire and pushing off the ship channel bridge (which would negate the setting on fire thing, but, hey, I'm pissed).
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
That's what you get for driving a GM. Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Hey, my Saturn still runs fine (unlike that Cavalier you used to take out a forest a few years back). All I have going wrong is a damn amber warning light that won't turn off.
But, holy mother of Dan Monahan, does that warning light piss me off. It just sits there and mocks me at every glance I make to my dashboard. It gets turned off by the technicians and **bing** that sucker is on again laughing at me with it's photonic warble. It's as annoying as an unwanted erection when you're wearing sweatpants.
Posted by Ultra Magnus (Member # 239) on :
That reminds of something funny.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Nothing -- and I mean NOTHING -- is funnier than a boner in sweatpants.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Can't say I've studied that before.....
My best car was a Buick, my worst car was a Chrysler....
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
quote:Originally posted by Topher: That's what you get for driving a GM.
I drive a GM too, thank you very much. In fact, all the vehicles in my family are GMs.
And Siegfried, it'd help to know which warning light exactly is coming on.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
It's the "Service Engine Soon" light. Long story short, the Saturn service department apparently doesn't know what the hell it's doing since in the course of 4 months and five visits the motherhumper is still on.
Saturday, I'll be seeing if they screwed me over by just guessing that the computer needed replacing instead of knowing for damn certain that the computer needed replacing.
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
Faulty wiring on some sensor would be my guess of the cause. But then, there are so many sensors within the engine that would trip the "Service Engine Soon" light, it could be almost anything...
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Been there, done that, have the service invoices.
The cause in June was an O2 sensor, a coolant sensor, and arching in the spark plugs and wiring harness. That's not a case of shoddy service since the coolant gauge was screwy and the engine was hesitating.
The cause in June, Part 2, was the technicians failing to correctly reset the fault codes from the earlier service. I believed this since the warning light came back on almost immediately. Codes reset, and the light comes back on almost immediately.
The cause in June, Part 3, was that the power control module (aka computer) was bad and needed to be replaced at a cost of $700.
Last weekend, I took my car in to have the PCM replaced after finally saving up the money. I was promised by the service advisor that this would correct the problem. The light come back on after driving about 20 miles after I got my car back.
I think the Saturn technicians just sit at my car with a Ouija board opened up on the engine to guide them in their diagnosis.
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
Well, yes, they're screwing you, but the most likely problem is they've missed some other sensor.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
They placed a small remote LED controler in your dashboard and milked you for $700! I could have just got you one at the model train store for $50....
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Do it the old fashioned way, since you replaced the parts and it still comes on, if it runs okay, trace the wire and kill the light.... This looks better than the electrical/duct tape on the dash.....
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Jason: "...and milked you for $700!"
I'm sure I could get a full evening at the "Queen of Hearts" in downtown Stockholm for that fee. *spanketispank*
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
If it weren't for the fact that the two most direct routes to school are through the ghetto or on a freeway, I'd be riding a bicycle during the week. Work is only three miles up the road, and everything I'd need (groceries, bank, etc) is all within a one-mile radius.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Hell, for $700.00 you could have bought a year you two of protection in the ghetto....
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
For $700 I could have rented a dozen hookers for an hour. Regardless, tomorrow I go back to the shop and see what the monkey-flingers say about it this time. Whoopie.
Posted by Styrofoaman (Member # 706) on :
quote:Originally posted by Siegfried: Long story short, the Saturn service department apparently doesn't know what the hell it's doing
Here's the problem! You're going to the flipping DEALER for service. Go to an indie shop. Like Goodyear or Firestone or whatever you got around you.
The Service Department relies on situations like you describe to make money. 9 times out of ten they don't even staff real techs, the 'people' there just do what the computer tells them to do. They have no real troubleshooting ability, they just smack a dignostic tool on and follow the prompts.
Look around on the Net and see if you can find a listing of Saturn trouble-codes. Odds are you can force the EMM to give up the codes to you by fiddling with the wires under the dash or somthing... Find out what the codes are and then go to an independent shop and tell them what to fix.
I had trouble with my Neon years ago, the dealer kept replacing the O2 sensor and the coolant sensor and the speed sensor untill I looked up the codes. You can force Dodge computers to display the codes via the Check Engine light. When it was all said and done, the fault was the COMPUTER MODULE itself, not the sensors.
Good luck!
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
I don't trust independent auto shops anymore; I've got too many horror stories involving them and my old Cavalier. Even the ones with stellar records on file with the BBB screwed me over royally. Granted, the dealership isn't ranking too high with me either at the moment, and I'm not feeling too confident with the current diagnosis of the problem.
And there is absolutely no way I'm going to start fiddling with stuff under the hood. Aside from the battery, air filter, and fluid levels, I avoid that area like the plague.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
You must do like the last Presidential election, and choose the lesser of the to evils....
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
So, he chooses the lesser of the two evils, and then the Supreme Court illegally forces the greater evil on him?
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Of course!!!!
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
Yes, but then the US Supreme Court will override his state's, and all will be well again. Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
And then, many months later, it will be discovered that his state's Supreme Court was wrong all along and then the US SC will be embarrassed and look stupid and then a public outrage will ensue and then new elections will be held and then...
Oh.
Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
Public outrage is not Patriotic! Never forget!
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
the Ballot....
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
NO! ELECTION 2000 NEVER HAPPENED! NOOOOO!
Please, just take this thread onto any other topic other than politics. I prefer to live in my fantasy world where Teddy Roosevelt is president.
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
It's Teddy Ruxpin in mine.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
I knew a guy from the dorms who once bragged about sodomizing a Care Bear.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
That is as bad as sweatpants and boner observations....
Any update on your car????
My insurance is supposedly going to get cancelled, since I supposedly didn't make my last payment, which I have a receipt for.... Screw AHIC....
Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :
I've discovered that mention of the 2000 election is the new replacement for the comparison of one's opponents to Nazis.
Godwin II: The Whine Continues.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
quote: That is as bad as sweatpants and boner observations....
Come now, you're making me sound like another Margaret Mead. I assure you that I am not camping out in the bush making observations of boners.
quote:Any update on your car????
Yes, there is a car update. I took her back to the dealership Saturday and had a nice chat with the service manager. I made sure to mention I had complained to the company as well. They checked my car out, and they said that the computer was not properly programmed when they did the replacement. They reprogrammed it, and, so far, the demon light hasn't come back on since (and I've driven my car about 150 miles in that time).
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Or they realized that they had screwed you enough, being all loose and floppy now, decdied to replace the proper part and make you happy....
No, Siggy Mead.... Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Well, yes, there's the possibility that the service department was squeezing me for their Hawaii trip slush fund.
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Turns out sink, fixed, was not. Joy.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Well, something was a bit damp by the sounds of it....
I bet they are squeezing you too Jeff.... Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Okay, Jeffy, this is what we do about the sink (and, yes, I'm stealing this from an episode of The Family Guy and Futurama). We build a spaceship with super armanents. Then we build a shrink-ray with a reverse option (because it's hell to engineer that in when you're tiny). We get in the spaceship and shrink ourselves. Then we fly into your drain and blast whatever the hell is clogging it. We may have to go all the way out to the sewer tap, but, by God! we'll get the cloggy bastard!
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
They squeezed him far to hard for far too long....
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
And that's just the way I like it, too. Hard and long.
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Siggy,
Cocaine = Bad.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Actually, it's Advil Cold & Sinus.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Advil Cold & Sinus = Bad
Is Sim Siggy still having a better life????
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
I don't know if Sim Siegfried is still doing okay. He's probably long since been deleted from the game by now. I quit that job two years ago, and I haven't had any contact with any of my old coworkers. I'll just assume that Sim Siegfried died shortly after I left.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Wow, has it really been that long ago.... Seems like just last spring.... Eh, time flies when you are having fun here at Flare....
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
Fun? Here?
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
What, did we delete that too, to make room for more posts???
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