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    Any writers?

    It wasn't. Trust me. But I must admit it sounds cool to say it.
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    Any writers?

    I've done my fair share. I've written numerous magazine articles for various publications over the years. I was a staffer for a WW2 magazine out of the UK until it folded a few years ago. A while back, I wrote a horror novel (which is funny because I'm no fan of the genre) about an Army unit...
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    The Ultimate Vintage Movie Collectible

    “Nosferatu” is a really creepy movie today. I can only imagine what people thought of it back then.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I live between you and Portland, so I get your point. I've lived in the area since 98 so I've long lost my ability to handle hot/humid weather. This summer has been pretty warm in the Pacific NW, but it's still no match for the summers growing up in Florida. I went to Sacramento in 2005 to see...
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    The Ultimate Vintage Movie Collectible

    Yeah, that's a big sack of [bleep]ed up!
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    As for warm showers, when I was in the military and would come in out of the field, I would often take a really long hot shower. Not the same thing, but I never lost my appreciation for heated water based on that. I was at a WW2 spectator re-enactment in New Orleans in June of 92 and they housed...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Same with me and AC. I grew up in the deep south and NEVER had central air. We only ever had wall units, and only then when I was about 12 or 13. Nobody can believe I had no AC of any type for much of my childhood in that kind of climate... So, I eventually settled down over 3000 miles away, in...
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    30 Year B-17 Restoration

    Paul Allen from Microsoft has one of the largest private collections of warplanes in the US. He owns a rare E-model B-17 (41-9210), which was flown to a place north of Seattle in 1999. Photos were taken once the paint was stripped off, it was rolled into a hangar... ...and it hasn't been seen...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Same thing happened a few years ago to us. We were home at the time and heard a very loud pop. Only until I walked into the garage and saw the puddle did I figure out what it was. We're each lucky that neither were launched through the roof, though, as that's happened top a few people. The...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Plenty of people in the Army today don't believe in it, either. I was a CPT when I resigned in 2006, and generally, there will always be plenty of soldiers who will milk any thing they can to get out of PT or hard duty. But the leadership will always have the default mode of, "You don't have a...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Yeah, in the county I live in, it's a law that all stores have to charge for bags now. Many people have been bringing their own bags locally for years now, before that law got passed. It's funny to see out-of-towners being told they gotta pay for bags when they couldn't have known ahead of time...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    And sometimes people get offended by darned near anything. People are so quick to fly the "I'm offended flag" as if it really means anything anymore, I hardly notice it unless I really did put my foot in my mouth. And I didn't do that in my initial response, which was based on the info you...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My biggest pet peeve as of late: I refer to is as Being a prisoner of the check at a restaurant You go out to eat, and most of the time the service goes relatively fast. You're clearly done with the meal, and maybe the table is bussed... Then you wait. And wait. And wait. And wait. And...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Fair enough, but you never mentioned any of that in your post. That was a pretty substantial detail that got omitted. Knowing that now, I agree their reaction would be annoying. Well, you didn't mention those key (and very important) details, so I'm offering no apology for my response, which was...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The medical profession has historically never taken any concept of 'customer service' into account and you'd have thought they would when hospitals started being bought up by corporations, but that never happened. The medical field, I guess is the only big business that simply couldn't care less...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    If there's a medical reason why the left arm is a no-go, did you bother telling them that? If not, then their reaction was quite reasonable. If something like that can't be done under any circumstances, I'd wonder why you don't have some manner of life alert bracelet explaining it (in case you...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    This can be especially true for companies which have stockholders. But yeah, it is a fact that agents will often talk policyholders out of filing claims. I've seen just about every company do this, even the one I work for. Agents are often not employees of the actual companies they represent...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Trucking companies are often self-insured and you gotta play patty-cake with them to get to pay for anything. My all-time favorite was the time I called a trucking company and I only got as far as ID'ing myself and my company when their loss prevention guy launched into a litany on how his...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My day job is handling liability investigations for an insurance company. You wouldn't believe the things people do with cars, and then argue they can't possibly be at fault for that. Monday morning, I dealt with a annoying policyholder who hit a parked car in an adjoining parking space while...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Yeah, but strollers are way worse. How about those SUV-sized ones, that'll completely block an aisle in a store?

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