In other news (apolitical thread)...

[Gigem]

Nope.  But I can't blame any of them for leaving early with millions of dollars in their immediate future.

Like I've always said, if someone had wanted to pay me millions to leave school and become an engineer ________ for them, I'd have done it instantly.

FIFY

[Gigem]

Here it comes.

Buc-ee’s coming to Port Charlotte as part of major development

It's funny, because people are always telling me how much they hate Buc-Ees and then I realize it's the big ones they hate.  I don't care for the really big ones either, but I love the small and medium size Buc-Ees.  

[MikeDeTiger]

I don't get the love or hate either way.  It's a gas station with clean restrooms that's trying to be a small Walmart.  Doesn't move my needle one way or the other.  

[FearlessF]

Ed Zachery

[Brutus Buckeye]

If you are looking for a clean restroom on a road trip, drive past the rest stops, gas stations and fast food restaurants, and use the one in the hotel lobby instead. You're welcome.

[847badgerfan]

If you are looking for a clean restroom on a road trip, drive past the rest stops, gas stations and fast food restaurants, and use the one in the hotel lobby instead. You're welcome.

CVS and Walgreen's.

[utee94]

It's funny, because people are always telling me how much they hate Buc-Ees and then I realize it's the big ones they hate.  I don't care for the really big ones either, but I love the small and medium size Buc-Ees. 

I like the big ones because they have large spread-out gas pumps that are easy to access whilst towing my RV.  Also typically have large, easy driveways for entrance and egress.

[MikeDeTiger]

Lately I occasionally get calls from "Comcast Xfinity" informing me that if I don't call them back to resolve an issue, my 50% discount will be nullified.  

I don't have any Comcast/Xfinity services, and if I did, they probably wouldn't give me a 50% discount.  Delete.  

I hate scammers.  A different sort got my mom a few months back and they got her on some kind of "anti-virus update" scam.  Fortunately we were able to freeze her accounts and they didn't get anything from her, but it's been a hot mess ever since getting everything squared away.  I caught my grandma talking to scammers on the phone several years back and I took it away from her and hung it up, then had a talk with her about what kind of stuff to look out for, and how her son basically handles all her business now anyway so she really has no reason to have those conversations, legitimate or otherwise.  

Scamming elderly people should incur the death penalty.  

[Gigem]

https://twitter.com/_mgde_/status/1929729091894128718?s=46&t=EHozF964Pc_xZmTZKPCcEA

[medinabuckeye1]

https://twitter.com/_mgde_/status/1929729091894128718?s=46&t=EHozF964Pc_xZmTZKPCcEA

Good god that makes me feel old.  

It is bad enough that Prince's 1999 has now been around longer since NYE 2000 than it was before 2000 but the fact that we are closer to 2050 . . .

[medinabuckeye1]

Lately I occasionally get calls from "Comcast Xfinity" informing me that if I don't call them back to resolve an issue, my 50% discount will be nullified. 

I don't have any Comcast/Xfinity services, and if I did, they probably wouldn't give me a 50% discount.  Delete. 

I hate scammers.  A different sort got my mom a few months back and they got her on some kind of "anti-virus update" scam.  Fortunately we were able to freeze her accounts and they didn't get anything from her, but it's been a hot mess ever since getting everything squared away.  I caught my grandma talking to scammers on the phone several years back and I took it away from her and hung it up, then had a talk with her about what kind of stuff to look out for, and how her son basically handles all her business now anyway so she really has no reason to have those conversations, legitimate or otherwise. 

Scamming elderly people should incur the death penalty. 

I run monthly billing for about 8,000 customers.  When I first started one of our big challenges was matching up bounced checks to the accounts that they had been credited to.  This might sound easy but it can be very difficult.  If @MikeDeTiger pays his own bill then it is obviously easy.  You just look at the name on the check, find that in your system, and charge it back to him.  Where it gets messy is if @MikeDeTiger writes a check to cover his daughter's boyfriend's account.  Then nothing matches.  Those were tricky.  

Anyway, these days NSF's (checks or ACH's bounced for non-sufficient funds) are not our big hassle.  Our big hassle is the volume of ACH transactions that bounce due either to the account being frozen or closed.  There is a LOT of fraud out there.  Every month we get an account or two frozen due to fraud.  

[FearlessF]

I suppose it's possible that I could make it to 2050

[FearlessF]

Scamming elderly people should incur the death penalty. 

Yup, publicly 

[jgvol]

I like the big ones because they have large spread-out gas pumps that are easy to access whilst towing my RV.  Also typically have large, easy driveways for entrance and egress.

Me too.  Until my wife, and kids, get lost in there, and I'm delayed by 45 minutes --- and 60 bucks lighter.