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On Friday a customer called and said that he is hesitant to come to the store because our prices are much higher then on the internet. I told him that I would give him trade prices but that was all I could do.

He comes in on Saturday, identified himself as that caller and starts to place an order. Then he says, "I need to pick your brian." I told him, this is why our prices are higher then Amazon, Amazon doesn't have me. As I'm answering his question, he smirks and says, "You know Chatgpt is getting better and better." I smile back at him and say...

"There is nothing I like better at 3:00pm on a Saturday, at the end of 55 hour work week then to be told my 30 years of experience and my time isn't worth a couple extra dollars and that my job and skills are irrelevant. So maybe I'll just sit here and wait for Chatgpt to pick your order."

Think I might get a bad Yelp review.

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@impala-dreamer brought up a great point just now. We were talking aboit how shitty Andy's parents were (as you do) in the Garden Party episode. Her theory is that they came from Connecticut, at that time, they would have had to go to the movie theater, buy tickets for later that day, then make their way to the garden party. They decided ON THE WAY that they were going to make an early exit. Wow, they suck.

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I swear the only thing keeping out of jail today is pure exhaustion.

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I'm getting a little sick and tired of the rudeness and glorifying of bad behavior. Just two examples are these two commercials, commercials I see everyday (even though I pay for the privilege of streaming). The kid on the airplane is absolutely the worst. If my kid was ever like that, there would be consequences.

This whole "how do you sleep" ad campaign is just nasty, rude and just gross. I think it's best to say classless, might be a good representation of 2025 so far.

I'm sorry to all who feel differently, but it's not ok to be a complete asshole. Not when trying to sell me a mattress or PayPal or at work or at the grocery store or in a parking lot or even on the road. This country needs a serious wake up call and start treating people with respect.

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Need to add the dance floor of Dance Dance Revolution, I mean what's the point if you can't do the Scarn?

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Accidentally found myself, with my kids, in the middle of a protest in PA. It made me so proud to see so many good people out there being real Americans, peacefully exercising their first ammendment rights. Speaking, gathering and chanting against hate, tyranny, inequality. I'm so glad my boys got to see, first hand, what patriotism really is. It's not about waving a flag or wearing a stupid hat, it's about speaking out for what is right.

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Just read an article about lightening strikes in NJ. My town is number 1 in the state. That's right, WE'RE NUMBER 1 - WE'RE NUMBER 1 - everybody - WE'RE NUMBER 1!

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Quick question. Are we great yet?

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Jim (in interview): There’s this thing that people tend to do with billboards. How do I put this............. if there’s an opportunity for a graffiti artist to work in a phallic shape, interacting with the artwork, it’ll happen. And Donald .....gave them that opportunity.

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Jim (in interview): There’s this thing that people tend to do with billboards. How do I put this............. if there’s an opportunity for a graffiti artist to work in a phallic shape, interacting with the artwork, it’ll happen. And Donald .....gave them that opportunity.

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Just wondering, how much do you think it cost for the president to do a commercial for me on the White House lawn?

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Rest In Peace David Johansen. Good dude, gone too soon. I just reblogged my David Johansen story over at @myimaginaryradio . It's a good story if you are interested.

Feeling sad sad sad

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Working Saturday sucks. We are short staffed and have to deal with homeowners who are "youtube" experts. It's a low profit, extremely busy day. Today, to make matters worse, they are filming a commercial. So, my day is gonna suck.

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Have you ever noticed that no matter what time of the day, no matter the weather or how many cars are waiting, the attendant at the gas station is on the his phone. He speaks loudly and seems to be having a good time. Me, ummm, no problem I'll wait, I'll say fill it regular 3 f'ing times, I'll wait some more. Ok, this might only be a NJ thing being we don't pump our own gas.

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I have customer who spent over $12,000 in Kohler fixtures and faucets a couple weeks ago. I get a call this morning, customer tells me that he bought 2 of the exact same faucets and one came with a regular pop-up and one with a clicker drain and he needs clicker drains. WTF, how is it possible? I pull up the spec sheet, says it comes with a pop-up. I walk over to our back building (it's a 10 min walk in the freezing wind) open one of the boxes and it's a pop-up not a clicker. I'm about losing my mind, none of this makes sense. So I ask one of the salespeople in our showroom. So Kohler is switching this particular faucet from the old standard pop-up to the clicker drain but they are not changing the model number of the faucet. I had to take that long frozen walk again, open every box until I found one with a clicker drain. 6 opened boxes before I found one. This customer, this poor SOB is 2 hours away. He's got to travel 2 hours because Kohler doesn't want to print new labels and I wasted a shit load of energy and over an hour of my life.

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A Very happy anniversary to Ryan and Kelly