the random musings not worthy of new thread thread

[Seabiscuit36]

Makes me want to kill Andy Brinkley and Jack Edwards

[smeags]

People of Wal-Mart

what is she sticking in her mouth with the other hand ?

[Yeti]

Crack pipe?

[shorebird]

Not shore I want to know.

[shorebird]

They're hot, rich, and single

[Sgt PSN]

And poorly dressed

[Diomedes]

I met a guy today at a dumpster.  Calm down chuggie, it's not what you think.  Our neighborhood association gets a city dumpster four times a year for bulk trash.  While putting a bunch of crap in there, I met a metal scrapper.  I separated the aluminum flashing I had from my stuff for him, and we chatted for a few minutes.  A good day is 80 bucks.  He's got a wife and two girls, 5 and 6 years old.  Laid off as a driver a couple years ago, he runs his kids to school and his wife to work, then scraps for the day.  He thanked god for his truck but also said the cost of gas limits his range.  Good guy.

In not totally unrelated news, the junkyard was hopping today.  People crawling everywhere, def. more now than three or four years ago.  The crowd is now big enough that there's a food truck on weekends.  Latinos selling yummy grilled chicken and beef, beans, etc.  Quite the scene.  In case you care, I got the relay I was looking for.

[shorebird]

Man, theres money in scrap metal these days being as the price have went back up . You should keep an eye out for it. I did a forclosure a few weeks back on an Oriental food joint. The people left all kinds of stuff in there, though a lot of the food stuff was out of date. Everything that wasn't went to a homeless shelter. The kitchen was loaded with those stainless pans you put sterno under, but no lids. The directors said they wanted everything out of there, so thats what I did. A hundred and thirty bucks worth of stainless pans. Might not sound like much but it worked for me. Would have been crazy to through that stuff away.

The guys at the dump make some nice extra cash on stuff like that. It's crazy not to recycle these days. Any clean metal is worth money. Copper is almost like gold.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Yeah, there are two scrap yards close to one of my customers and there is not a day that goes by where there is not a line of trucks waiting to pull in there. The other day it was a quarter mile long of people waiting to drop shtein off.

[hbionic]

I met a guy today at a dumpster.  Calm down chuggie, it's not what you think.  Our neighborhood association gets a city dumpster four times a year for bulk trash.  While putting a bunch of crap in there, I met a metal scrapper.  I separated the aluminum flashing I had from my stuff for him, and we chatted for a few minutes.  A good day is 80 bucks.  He's got a wife and two girls, 5 and 6 years old.  Laid off as a driver a couple years ago, he runs his kids to school and his wife to work, then scraps for the day.  He thanked god for his truck but also said the cost of gas limits his range.  Good guy.

In not totally unrelated news, the junkyard was hopping today.  People crawling everywhere, def. more now than three or four years ago.  The crowd is now big enough that there's a food truck on weekends.  Latinos selling yummy grilled chicken and beef, beans, etc.  Quite the scene.  In case you care, I got the relay I was looking for.

But that's exactly what I would have thought. Weirdo.

[ice grillin you]

lol @ oriental food joint

[Sgt PSN]

Would "sweat shop" be more appropriate?

[ice grillin you]

chinese restaurant would have worked

[Diomedes]

The facilities manager at my mom's work--she's the comptroller-- told her that the oriental gate was broken, so he needed approval to get a repair man to come out.  "The what?", she asked.  "The oriental gate is busted," he explained.  Obviously not understanding wtf he was talking about, she said "Fine, but get me estimates first."  It took her a few minutes after he left to realize he meant 'ornamental' gate.

[Sgt PSN]

chinese restaurant would have worked

How do you know it was strictly a Chinese restaurant?  There's a ton of places out there that feature foods from all over the Orient.