Especially since my son was just there! He went to the Journey concert at Golden 1 Center on Friday night. Downtown scares me, especially at night. I stressed to him to not walk around there....then this shooting happens and I'm like, "see what I mean??" It's just always super sketch in that area...
No real update. I guess if we find anything out, my dad will let me know. I wonder if he will serve jail time and how long....and who knows how long it will take until that happens? I know he bailed out the very next morning after being arrested. He sent my dad an email apologizing. I am just still baffled by this. He was like a son to my dad, if he needed money all he had to do was ask and my dad would've helped him out.
Am I the only one here that thinks Elon Musk is eventually going to usher in the end of the world with one of his grand schemes? This guy is like a fucking villain in a superman movie.
With how much crap I'm selling right now, I almost feel like this kind of thing needs it's own thread like with "Online Dating". But it doesn't happen enough for it to be.
Adventures in selling online:
Mini Fridge. I got a couple of bites, but one that was over zealous. Sounded nice enough on the phone, but couldn't pick it up until today (Spoke with him Saturday). Said he didn't have his wheels right now. Asked if it would fit on a bus. I told him that it would fit, but it's bulky and awkward. He responded that it would probably block the aisles. Ummmmm. Yeah. It would. Not the best option. I'll hold it for you.
Enter last night and today. He asks all kinds of questions of if it freezes up and creates a bunch of ice. I told him that all of them do, but only around the small freezer compartment and might need to be defrosted every few months or so. Him " Okay ". " Does the ice get everywhere inside? The last one I had it would be icy everywhere inside of the fridge once a month and I used a sharp object to chip it away and it pierced a coolant line and made it unusable ". I told him, no. This one only does it around the really small freezer part and only after a few or so months. That it defrosts really quickly unplugged, maybe an hour. Also, that if he's in a hurry to use a blow dryer on it and it will be clear within minutes. No need to use sharp objects that will ruin the whole thing.
"okay, good". " I'll be there at 2pm". Then...... "My ride is late. I'll be there at 3pm"..........
3:15 and the husband is waiting to eat. Not there. 3:45pm. Husband texts " This is ridiculous ". I call. Profusely apologizing, telling me he's on a freeway that's nowhere near us, "I'll be there in 15 minutes". I tell the husband to just eat. He doesn't.
4:15pm buyer calls and says "I'm here" and names off an address that is three blocks away. I then have to be a virtual Thomas Guide directing him to our house.
4:45 he picks up the fridge, pays $10 more because of the trouble and walks away with it balanced ON HIS HEAD.
Half hour later, front neighbor knocks on our door with a knife in his hand. Asks if we lost this. Husband says no, but that he just sold a fridge to someone and it might belong to him. I text buyer and ask if it's his.
Two hours later. This is his response:
Hmmmm.........Yes! It's my neck knife.
He claims that he will be back in the area in the next couple of days and will use the metro to get here to pick it up.
I go up front, ask the neighbor if they still have it. Of course they do (They're hoarders) and explain that it belongs to the guy buying the fridge. He gives it to me and explains why it's called a "neck knife". I'm not surprised that they're well versed in "neck knives", take it and I tell him that I'm wiping my fucking prints off of it.
Picture will follow after I upload.......
It's in a paper towel because I'm not about to have my prints on this fucker.
I've just reached a point where I throw stuff away or drive and drop it off at the thrift store because people are crazy and I don't want to deal with them. Please be careful Boston!
Most of what we have is being donated or given away to friends, but the larger ticket items have to be sold since we need the money to buy stuff back after getting over there It's already bad enough that the dollar to euro conversion sucks so every penny helps. Most of what's being sold is already sold. Just a handful of stuff to go and then we might have a yard sale for the bits and bobs. Donate the rest.
I'm listing some of the real wood furniture as well. So maybe we're not almost done
99% of the people we've dealt with so far are genuinely nice and even excited to be buying the things. Like my keyboard. The two kids that showed up for it were BEAMING. It's pretty annoying that you can't get anywhere NEAR what it's worth, but I'm happy enough when I know that these things are going to people that will genuinely treasure them. I have someone picking up the PA tomorrow and apparently their whole band is pitching in to buy it. I received a message from another band member saying "For the love of God! PLEASE hold on to this until Thursday! We need it for our show". They're young kids and I remember my first band and how passionate we were and pitching in together to get equipment for shows.
I went all of the way back to 2017 and I didn't see a games thread. Does anyone play House Flipper? It's a game about flipping houses.
I think I spend too much time on here/looking for articles for here. This was the ad that I had when I signed out of my email.
Just a random post to say that I sometimes come on here to visit the profiles of other members I remember and see how long it's been since they were here. This place used to be sooooo crazy busy everyday, and I miss that. I remember there being tons of members on all the time, and not just when there was a big trial (like Jodi Arias), either.
I look at the profiles and think "surely they've visited since 2014!" It's weird. Then I see things that make me kinda sad, like when I'm on fb and my timeline shows me a conversation I had with KWD.
Hope all is well, everyone.
Don't like what I have to say? I respect that. Go fuck yourself.
It makes me sad too to see this place dwindle down to next to nothing. I'm still holding on to hope that people will finally get sick of the Zucking and censorship and make a grand return to message boards. It could happen. I have faith that perhaps MDS will get a second wind at some point.
I'm glad that you're still here and everyone else that's stuck around. People still come on and lurk here quite a bit, I think. The other issue is people who have forgotten their password. I guarantee that if there were an easier way to recover it that more people would be here, but it requires Mike to manually reset it and he's an absent father. I'm still waiting for him to come back from getting a pack of cigarettes. If he became more involved here again, it would liven up for sure. Maybe once the kids are older and he gets bored again.
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