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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 02:25 PM
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I'm waiting on my sofa delivery right now. I have no idea when they'll show up (I suppose I could call?) and sitting around waiting when I could be out doing stuff instead really sucks.
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 02:26 PM
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1. Did they give you a ridiculously wide window of delivery?
Over here they usually say something like, it'll be after midday. Gee, thanks assholes. :eyes:
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 02:29 PM
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2. "Saturday sometime after noon"
Edited on Sat Jul-28-07 02:29 PM by LeftyMom
:eyes:

Maybe I should buy a pickup truck when I grow up, so I don't have to deal with this crap.
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 02:31 PM
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3. Or rent one, at least.
I guess you don't go for Transit vans in the States, huh? :D
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 02:34 PM
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4. You mean a cargo van? Or a moving truck?
Either it's something we don't have or the nomenclature's different (why won't you people speak English?!? :rofl: )
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 02:37 PM
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5. This is the Ford Transit
In Britain it is ubiquitous.



I will work on my English. :spank:

:D
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 02:43 PM
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6. Oh, it's a bit like those Dodge Sprinter vans.
I don't think they sell that one here. Mostly tradesmen here use pickups of various sizes. Sometimes mini or full sized vans converted to cargo, but you don't see many with those real high back ends like that. Daimler sells one that I guess comes from the Euro market but it never really caught on and you don't see terribly many.
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Omphaloskepsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 03:07 PM
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9. I think he was saying that they rent those there for people to move things.
Think U-Haul but smaller.
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 03:10 PM
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10. Oh.
We need bigger moving trucks because we have more stuff, and larger sofas to accommodate the epic proportions of the American backside probably wouldn't fit.
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 03:11 PM
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12. People rent them for their own use and tradesmen have their own ones.
When you want to haul something that's too big for a car or pickup but too small for a truck, we use a van.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 03:05 PM
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7. The fuck??
They model it after this? :shrug:
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 03:06 PM
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8. It sorta looks like it should be yellow and full of slow kids.
:shrug:
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 03:15 PM
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13. Yeah, but
really tall ones.

:rofl:
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 03:17 PM
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15. Room for the bike helmet
I'm so going to hell. :rofl:
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 03:22 PM
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16. Yup
But you'll have a really fun trip. :7
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 03:10 PM
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11. It's a van
That's what a van looks like. Just 'cause you don't use them doesn't mean it's stupid.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 03:16 PM
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Bwah
It's even got the steering wheel on the wrong side. :eyes:
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 03:16 PM
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14. We have vans here, they look different though.
typical cargo vans here look something like this: http://www.uhaul.com/guide/index.aspx?equipment=truck-cargovan

and moving trucks: http://www.uhaul.com/guide/index.aspx?equipment=truck-14

People tend to use pickup trucks more though, since the american mentality is that trucks are manly and vans are for mothers with children (this is how SUVs got to be so popular here, selling them to people who wanted the versatility of a minivan but without the motherly association.) I guess there vans are more associated with tradesmen.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 03:25 PM
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18. The Brits used to have a micro-van
that I thought was seriously cool (though I'd get my ass flailed for saying that). It was a product of GM and... Bedford, I think. Or maybe Leyland. It was called the Chevanne, and basically it was a Chevette sedan delivery. I thought it looked sweet.

:hide:
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Crabby Appleton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 04:27 PM
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32. If you had said rent a U-Hall everyone stateside would have known
what you were talking about, Billy.

http://www.uhaul.com/trucks/
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Gormy Cuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 03:24 PM
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17. Oh noes..
You're sofa king bored?
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 03:27 PM
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21. Yep.
:O

I talked to the owner of the delivery company. He's calling the guys on the truck to get an ETA and he should call right back.
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Ann Arbor Dem Donating Member (900 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 03:26 PM
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19. I dare you to read the "toxic step children" thread
...and then tell me you're bored. :o
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 03:30 PM
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23. Only if you pay me a large sum of money in small, untracable bills.
:scared:
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Ann Arbor Dem Donating Member (900 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 03:45 PM
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24. yeah
It's um......wow.

I am kind of wishing I could have been paid to read all that.
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LaraMN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 03:27 PM
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20. But your teeth are all better now, right?
:D

I had one wisdom tooth pulled the other day. I'm getting really sick of the taste of blood in my mouth...

:puke:

New sofa?!
:bounce:
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 03:30 PM
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22. All better.
Took about a week until I felt 100% and could eat most normal stuff.

New sofa and love seat, AND I talked my Dad out of leather ones. :bounce: We get to sit on 'em in front of the enormified HDTV and watch shark week! :woohoo:
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LaraMN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 03:46 PM
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25. Ohhhh! I have furniture envy!
I HATE our living room couch.

I will think of you when I see shark week trailers! :P
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 04:06 PM
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27. It was actually really cheap.
I got it at Big Lots. And I signed up their email list so I'd get the sale coupons, so I got it for 20% off- a nice sofa and love seat for about $750 including taxes. There's a matching recliner but I'm not sure if it will fit in the den, so we'll wait and see after the delivery. I think I can drive that home in the wagon anyhow.
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MadAsHellNewYorker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 03:47 PM
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26. How could you be sitting around if you don't have a sofa?
:P

:*
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 04:07 PM
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28. On the floor.
In the carpeted room. Sitting on freshly mopped pergo sounds less than fun.

So have you figured out where we're going to dinner yet?
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MadAsHellNewYorker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 04:13 PM
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30. I like the floor
Edited on Sat Jul-28-07 04:16 PM by MadAsHellNewYorker
I approve ;)

Im debating between my two favorite resturants.

Red Bamboo Soul Cafe http://www.redbamboo-nyc.com vegan/veggie Asian soul food

or

Caravan of Dreams http://www.caravanofdreams.net vegan, macrobiotic, kosher world cuisine with raw a food menu to boot. (its fun to see the hari krishnas and orthodox jews eating at the same restaurant)

The choice is up to you. both are amazing, and get 5 heads-o-lettuce in my boot :rofl: the menus are on both websites too, so only go look if you're really hungry :D
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 04:10 PM
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29. "doing stuff" = watching porn
Some of us know better.
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 04:44 PM
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34. :minimizes window:
Was not. Those are, erm, vacation photos. Yeah, that's it. :blush:
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cwydro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 04:20 PM
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31. they will be there between
9 and 5, right? I hate that.

Wish I could tell my boss that.
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 04:46 PM
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35. 12 and 4.
But "they might be running a little late." Whatever that means.

Oh, if only furniture delivery were like pizza- 30 minutes or it's free.
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cwydro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 05:04 PM
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37. now,
that is a good idea.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 04:29 PM
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33. You could be reading Harry Potter!
:o
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 04:47 PM
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36. It's a scandal how far along I am in Deathly Hallows.
They're still at the Burrow. Stupid work and school taking up all of my time. :grr:
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 05:06 PM
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38. Well, I won't spoil it by telling you
about the part where Harry and Ron hook up, a la Kirk/Spock.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uxTpyCdriY
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 05:10 PM
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39. Oh, sweet 12" talking Jesus
Do I even KNOW you? First Star Trek and now this.

What level dungeonmaster are you, anyway?
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 05:15 PM
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40. Dude, D&D is for geeks.
I much prefer the WOD. Or Shadowrun in a pinch.

And you're not geeky enough to know what the hell I'm talking about. :D
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