Dreaming of my Cybertruck.

[Crissa]

(I promise there's a point)

So my clothes washer died after seventeen years of near daily service. It was one of those special large, commercial-sized but all-in-one ventless units. It wasn't without its quirks, I had to tear it down every other year and fix something, clean out the heater coils in the tub and drier loop. I'd replaced pumps five times, the drain hose, the valve array, and the door sensor and the main motor alignment sensor. But if you followed the instructions, you'd hand it half a dozen pairs of jeans at bedtime and get back warm, clean ones come morning.

Now, since we moved into this cabin, we left our full-sized refrigerator behind. It had a little fridge, one that I tested, and it managed energy-star efficiency, despite its rather pedestrian looks. My spouse hated it. It made weird noises at all hours, its temperature was inconsistent, and the doors sometimes popped open. It had the shelves in the doors molded in place, so you couldn't choose sizes, and as the little doors broke, you were just left with unusable shelves.. I also hated it: It didn't fit, it was rusty, the shelves in the freezer were angled just so that if you put anything to the ends, the door couldn't close. Literally all the shelves overlapped the door shelves, which made it a pain. Who would design a shelf that if anything slide forward, it would open the door? It was also impossible to keep clean, the glass didn't come out and the plastic was brittle.

And now, today, I had to haul a new fridge over several hundred meters because the delivery driver couldn't manage getting around a pothole or past a couple poorly parked things - although the brick-delivery flatbed bigger than their panel truck did it and the propane truck just did it yesterday. And they didn't take the old fridge or the packing material and now I see the fridge has a dent in the stainless corner that will face the kitchen!

Argh. All this would be prevented by us having a truck of our own we could carry stuff in. Like those bricks.

*sigh* I need my truck. And I wanted to take an epic camping roadtrip in it. My car turns 10 this year.

-Crissa

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[SpaceYooper]

I feel your pain. The Bluetooth in my F150 is acting wonky. I totally need my CT today!

 

[John K]

My wife and son are off work today. I miss my CT mobile office.

 

[Tinker71]

(I promise there's a point)

So my clothes washer died after seventeen years of near daily service. It was one of those special large, commercial-sized but all-in-one ventless units. It wasn't without its quirks, I had to tear it down every other year and fix something, clean out the heater coils in the tub and drier loop. I'd replaced pumps five times, the drain hose, the valve array, and the door sensor and the main motor alignment sensor. But if you followed the instructions, you'd hand it half a dozen pairs of jeans at bedtime and get back warm, clean ones come morning.

Now, since we moved into this cabin, we left our full-sized refrigerator behind. It had a little fridge, one that I tested, and it managed energy-star efficiency, despite its rather pedestrian looks. My spouse hated it. It made weird noises at all hours, its temperature was inconsistent, and the doors sometimes popped open. It had the shelves in the doors molded in place, so you couldn't choose sizes, and as the little doors broke, you were just left with unusable shelves.. I also hated it: It didn't fit, it was rusty, the shelves in the freezer were angled just so that if you put anything to the ends, the door couldn't close. Literally all the shelves overlapped the door shelves, which made it a pain. Who would design a shelf that if anything slide forward, it would open the door? It was also impossible to keep clean, the glass didn't come out and the plastic was brittle.

And now, today, I had to haul a new fridge over several hundred meters because the delivery driver couldn't manage getting around a pothole or past a couple poorly parked things - although the brick-delivery flatbed bigger than their panel truck did it and the propane truck just did it yesterday. And they didn't take the old fridge or the packing material and now I see the fridge has a dent in the stainless corner that will face the kitchen!

Argh. All this would be prevented by us having a truck of our own we could carry stuff in. Like those bricks.

*sigh* I need my truck. And I wanted to take an epic camping roadtrip in it. My car turns 10 this year.

-Crissa

I feel you. I haven't been infatuated with anything like the CT. Adventure calls.

 

[Ogre]

Owning a truck is a type of independence. It is a superpower. We sold our Tundra a bit too early, but I figured the Cybertruck would be here by now or very soon.

Having to get plywood a couple weeks ago and get it cut in advance and not exactly how I would do it myself because I need to fit it in the Model Y.

Likewise getting 10 foot sticks of copper and PVC pipe and needing to cut them at the HW store.

Having a giant pile of hoes in my Model Y.

Needing to take our Subaru up through a gauntlet of brush and getting pinstriped.

Really would like that Cybertruck like last year.

 

[Crissa]

And I gotta say, my old hand truck has not seen this much work since we moved here. Not much call for it on a mountain!

And such, the hard part going down the trail from the ally to the cabin we'd have had to do anyhow.

But not the trek from the corner, down the road, to the ally, down the steep cobbles the neighbor paved with, to the unpaved part that the delivery trucks turn around in...

*sigh*. And I still have to figure out how to get the old ones gone, since the truck left without them.

-Crissa

 

[Sirfun]

THIS IS WHY "almost" everyone was PISSED when the timeline we were told we were going to get at the shareholders meeting, went POOF like a puff of smoke!!

Don't get me started!!!!!!!

 

[Klaxon]

Yesterday I replaced the second time the muffler on my old RAV4.
I do not complain. It was good enough to evade a truck running at the contraflow line on me . But the sound of brocken muffler, well, you know it...
I am missing my CT
?

 

[beeeasybro]

Haha yeah I just NEED it.

 

[John K]

Having a giant pile of hoes in my Model Y.

Everyone, please reread the quote. (Grade school humor)

 

[Ogre]

Everyone, please reread the quote. (Grade school humor)

You are such a rake.

At least I didn’t say a giant pile of dead hoes.

A giant pile of dirty hoes.

 

[Macgyverfever]

I feel ya on all counts. I'm going stir crazy wanting to get out of the house and do yardwork projects, but all I have is a damn Honda Accord and cant haul hardly anything around unless I do 100 runs. I have such an electric vehicle bug too wanting to get ebikes for now to get me by(spouse said no to that - something about me having to choose between ebikes and a CT and that we aren't made of money - peh). Ugh someone get me out of this house - the walls are closing in fast!

Fwiw my new stainless steel fridge too was dented by the movers - ran it right into the side of the brick; no apology (smh).

 

[John K]

Flip side of coin. I am happy to put off projects my wife want but, I don’t want to do saying, “wait to we get the truck.”

Ask me if the excuse is accepted?

 

[Toonces]

(I promise there's a point)

So my clothes washer died after seventeen years of near daily service. It was one of those special large, commercial-sized but all-in-one ventless units. It wasn't without its quirks, I had to tear it down every other year and fix something, clean out the heater coils in the tub and drier loop. I'd replaced pumps five times, the drain hose, the valve array, and the door sensor and the main motor alignment sensor. But if you followed the instructions, you'd hand it half a dozen pairs of jeans at bedtime and get back warm, clean ones come morning.

Now, since we moved into this cabin, we left our full-sized refrigerator behind. It had a little fridge, one that I tested, and it managed energy-star efficiency, despite its rather pedestrian looks. My spouse hated it. It made weird noises at all hours, its temperature was inconsistent, and the doors sometimes popped open. It had the shelves in the doors molded in place, so you couldn't choose sizes, and as the little doors broke, you were just left with unusable shelves.. I also hated it: It didn't fit, it was rusty, the shelves in the freezer were angled just so that if you put anything to the ends, the door couldn't close. Literally all the shelves overlapped the door shelves, which made it a pain. Who would design a shelf that if anything slide forward, it would open the door? It was also impossible to keep clean, the glass didn't come out and the plastic was brittle.

And now, today, I had to haul a new fridge over several hundred meters because the delivery driver couldn't manage getting around a pothole or past a couple poorly parked things - although the brick-delivery flatbed bigger than their panel truck did it and the propane truck just did it yesterday. And they didn't take the old fridge or the packing material and now I see the fridge has a dent in the stainless corner that will face the kitchen!

Argh. All this would be prevented by us having a truck of our own we could carry stuff in. Like those bricks.

*sigh* I need my truck. And I wanted to take an epic camping roadtrip in it. My car turns 10 this year.

-Crissa

I purchased the last refrigerator with a dent already in the front of the black stainless to negate the preloaded anguish of the impending event…plus it was cheaper.

 

[CyberGus]

...Having a giant pile of hoes in my Model Y.

IKR! The DeLorean can only carry one hoe at a time

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