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RTDNTOTO 🐻 Random Thoughts Deserving No Thread Of Their Own 19 (2024)

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SlaveToTheGrind said:
So, the Frankfurt airport shuts down at night?
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Yup. They roll up the sidewalks and everything.

Really, all airports do, even if it's for just a few hours. Have you never landed at an airport when your flight's delayed and nothing in the airport is open (aside from the necessary services to receive passengers and luggage from the late flight)?
 
Doohickie said:
So I usually nap on the sofa but yesterday I laid down on my bed after getting home from work. I woke up a 9:00 and thought I was late for work, but it was dark out. I was really confused, then I realized I still had my clothes on and remembered I only took a nap. So I went back to sleep and woke up when my alarm went off this morning. I guess I needed the sleep.
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We are living in a dream, actually.
 
Whose Yur Planner said:
I agree with that and acknowledgment that I do it as w
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Maister said:
Is it possible she already paid for it at the register and had a receipt in her purse, like they do with bags of salt and other bulky items they keep out front?
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dandy_warhol said:
While working a summer job at Walmart I saw an old lady grab a geranium off an outdoor display and hop into her car with her elderly husband as the getaway driver.berv
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A friend knew a detective whose job was to follow what are called "runners", those that load shopping carts and rush out the door without paying. The big box legal advice is never to chase a runner, due to liability. The detective follows a runner and tries to get a tag number, but beyond that, they just let it go and write off a loss if they can.
 
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A friend knew a detective whose job was to follow what are called "runners", those that load shopping carts and rush out the door without paying. The big box legal advice is never to chase a runner, due to liability. The detective follows a runner and tries to get a tag number, but beyond that, they just let it go and write off a loss if they can.
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Oh the shoplifter stories I can tell. I could tell whether someone coming through the door was there to shop, shoplift, or buy drugs from Mark in produce.
 
Re: Shoplifting

For a while when I first got out of the Marine Corps I worked at a high-end department store as a salesman in the men's dress shirt and tie department. One day a brand rep came in and started setting up a table display of ~$150 neckties right next to the doors leading out to the sidewalk. I told her that was probably not the best place for their display but she wasn't going to take any advice from a lowly salesman and I didn't care enough (translation: I wasn't paid enough) to push it. Fast forward to the following week and I come in for my shift one afternoon and notice the table had been moved and it only had half the amount of stock on it. I asked one of the other people from the department about it and she told me that the evening prior a guy walked in from the street, pulled a big garbage bag from his jacket, and in about one continuous movement opened the bag and swept about 80 ties into it, and then walked right back out the door to a car waiting for him.
 
kms said:
Oh the shoplifter stories I can tell. I could tell whether someone coming through the door was there to shop, shoplift, or buy drugs from Mark in produce.
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We have a local grocer that does chase runners, different lawyers. A regional grocer that puts his employees at that risk of chasing runners. Very conservative. Have written about them before...they routinely build new store space, usually adjacent, and then abandon the old. They surely get some kind of big write-off.
I don't know how their job description goes, but here in the gun toting south I have seen customers shopping with guns on their belts and once a shopper with an assault rifle laid across his cart. Hopefully those guys won't be chased.
 
SlaveToTheGrind said:
So, the Frankfurt airport shuts down at night?
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Yep. And our local international airport won't allow flights to land after midnight. We got stuck for an extra night in Sardinia when our flight kept getting delayed and then wasn't allowed to take off because it was too late.
 
SlaveToTheGrind said:
So, the Frankfurt airport shuts down at night?
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John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California, has a curfew where flights are not allowed to occur during the night (except if there is a flight emergency that requires a plane to land). It also has very short runways, and to avoid noise impacts to the very wealthy OC cities, requires planes to spool up their engines to full power before moving on the runway, hit a hard incline to quickly get above the ground, then drop power and turn, making for one exciting takeoff. There is actually sound meters nearby that, if exceeded, will result in a fine to the airline.

 
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fringe said:
A friend knew a detective whose job was to follow what are called "runners", those that load shopping carts and rush out the door without paying. The big box legal advice is never to chase a runner, due to liability. The detective follows a runner and tries to get a tag number, but beyond that, they just let it go and write off a loss if they can.
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When my wife worked at a women's clothing store in a mall, a woman put a bunch of clothes and tied them around her body under her very large dress. My wife realized what happened and as the woman moved toward the door my wife yelled, "STOP!" The woman ran out of the store with my wife chasing her and darted into a Wendy's. She went in and didn't see her, checked the restroom, no one there. She told a guy behind the counter and he checked the men's room and there she was. She ran past him out the door to the mall. Wendy's guy chased her down and grabber her buy her ponytail and wrestled her down. They got her back to my wife's store and called the police (mall security was useless). When they got there and ID'ed the woman, the police told her that she was wanted in several states and had an FBI bulletin out on her; that she was considered "armed and dangerous." They told her don't ever chase a shoplifter again.
 
Doohickie said:
When my wife worked at a women's clothing store in a mall, a woman put a bunch of clothes and tied them around her body under her very large dress. My wife realized what happened and as the woman moved toward the door my wife yelled, "STOP!" The woman ran out of the store with my wife chasing her and darted into a Wendy's. She went in and didn't see her, checked the restroom, no one there. She told a guy behind the counter and he checked the men's room and there she was. She ran past him out the door to the mall. Wendy's guy chased her down and grabber her buy her ponytail and wrestled her down. They got her back to my wife's store and called the police (mall security was useless). When they got there and ID'ed the woman, the police told her that she was wanted in several states and had an FBI bulletin out on her; that she was considered "armed and dangerous." They told her don't ever chase a shoplifter again.
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And this is why I will die before my time. If I see somebody rolling out of Home Depot with a cart full of tools and they tell them to stop and they don't I'm probably grabbing/tackling them. It's just my nature, I simply cannot stand by and let something like that happen without trying to help. Hell, in a lot of cities now the police won't even go after or prosecute thieves. And yet some people wonder why pharmacies and other stores are closing in certain areas.
 
It's been three years since my brain aneurysm, so tomorrow I have an MRI and full neurological workup just to make sure the stent is holding and everything looks good. If everything looks good (which I expect I will), I can go on the "every two year" MRI plan instead of annual.

What they did is put a stent in my brain around the aneurysm, cutting off its blood supply. So now the aneurysm is still there, but hanging out not getting any blood. I remember joking with the doctor at my one-year that he put an interstate bypass around the "roadside attraction" aneurysm, and no since there is no traffic on the former main two-lane highway, the aneurysm is languishing. (Not a bad planning anology.)

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MD Planner said:
And this is why I will die before my time. If I see somebody rolling out of Home Depot with a cart full of tools and they tell them to stop and they don't I'm probably grabbing/tackling them. It's just my nature, I simply cannot stand by and let something like that happen without trying to help. Hell, in a lot of cities now the police won't even go after or prosecute thieves. And yet some people wonder why pharmacies and other stores are closing in certain areas.
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What pissed me off about the Virginia City incident--right up the street from me and where I go for our Planning Commission meetings--is not so much the horrible racist comments themselves by a VISITOR to the community, but the fact that no locals stepped in and told the a**hole where to go. That's what makes our community look bad. :-(

I am an easygoing person, but I have no room in my life for bigotry.
 
The legal profession still makes extensive use Word Perfect as the preferred word processing program.
 
dw914er said:
John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California, has a curfew where flights are not allowed to occur during the night (except if there is a flight emergency that requires a plane to land). It also has very short runways, and to avoid noise impacts to the very wealthy OC cities, requires planes to spool up their engines to full power before moving on the runway, hit a hard incline to quickly get above the ground, then drop power and turn, making for one exciting takeoff. There is actually sound meters nearby that, if exceeded, will result in a fine to the airline.

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I remember the first time departing John Wayne the pilot announcing "hold on to your lilly white butts"
 
dw914er said:
John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California, has a curfew where flights are not allowed to occur during the night (except if there is a flight emergency that requires a plane to land). It also has very short runways, and to avoid noise impacts to the very wealthy OC cities, requires planes to spool up their engines to full power before moving on the runway, hit a hard incline to quickly get above the ground, then drop power and turn, making for one exciting takeoff. [/URL]
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My father was an aviation electrician in the Navy during the late 1950s - his description of taking off from Guantanamo Bay was pretty harrowing (at the time it was apparently a short-ish runway that ended at the edge of a cliff). Watching planes take off from Regan National and make a sharp banking turn early in their accent to avoid hitting the Washington Monument is also fun.
 
Faust_Motel said:
The legal profession also had a cow when I threw out our fax machine.
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Thankfully most office copiers now have this ability. Don't recall when I last used a stand-alone fax machine. But I do recall early use when the paper was curled up since it came off a roll.
 
SlaveToTheGrind said:
<snip> But I do recall early use when the paper was curled up since it came off a roll.
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We have many facsimile-era files with old faxes in them. The ink has not aged well and many are barely legible. We try to copy them whenever we find them as a preservation effort, but I fear we will lose many because we have no comprehensive record of them in our files. No doubt, some will be important documents ...
 
Bubba said:
My father was an aviation electrician in the Navy during the late 1950s - his description of taking off from Guantanamo Bay was pretty harrowing (at the time it was apparently a short-ish runway that ended at the edge of a cliff). Watching planes take off from Regan National and make a sharp banking turn early in their accent to avoid hitting the Washington Monument is also fun.
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I've flown from National (erm sorry, Reagan) a ton over the years as it was one of the 3 airports that was equidistant for me (BWI, DCA, and IAD). Anywho, it has always been tight but after 9/11 it got even tighter with more restricted airspace. There's been times I thought I was in a Blue Angels show we were rolling around so much!
 
Maister said:
The legal profession still makes extensive use Word Perfect as the preferred word processing program.
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Personally, I was a big fan of Nota Bene back in the 80's and early 90's. Long defunct AFAIK. Like all programs of its era, it came on about 4-5 floppies, and its documentation came in a binder.
 
SlaveToTheGrind said:
Thankfully most office copiers now have this ability. Don't recall when I last used a stand-alone fax machine. But I do recall early use when the paper was curled up since it came off a roll.
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At our house, we have a printer/copier/scanner/fax. I use the first two features regularly, the third occasionally, but haven't used the third since . . . I don't know when. I doubt I can, now, since we finally dropped our landline earlier this year.

In other news, I went through some old files this morning. Two observations:
1. we made startlingly little in 2007, looking at our tax stuff, and
2. I think I can go ahead and throw away the receipt confirming return of all Charter equipment in 2012--I don't think they will question it at this point.

Also, the last of mother's health/financial paperwork is now shredded. (She passed in 2017.) That was hard, since it's like losing the last physical bits of my mother . . . But I don't need it anymore.

Jim
 
The people that bought my childhood house last year are putting in a pool.

I got curious and got the building permit. I see they are digging the pool in the same area where my father buried all the cats over the decades, 1986-2016. I wonder what will happen to the poor kitties now--hopefully, re-buried elsewhere in the yard, or at least an en-mass cremation.

(In no particular order: Nermal, Fievel, Pascal, Unix, Meiko, Cinder, Boo, Bobby, C-Prompt, Sis, Samantha, Goldy, ASCII, Nikki . . .)*

Cinder was the best cat we ever had. Black Siamese, very vocal but also very devoted to her humans.

*None of these are account security questions. :)

Jim
 
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Today we went to the Bass Pro Shop in Memphis. It is in a pyramid that is 321 feet tall. While there was a lot of cool stuff there, including the observation deck, I don’t get it. The whole character of what Bass Pro Shop is just does not relate to Egyptian style pyramids.

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