skifreak

Eh, the sites ratings went down the tank while TP4 was gone. They had no choice but to bring him back ASAP.

I really didn't want to hijack this thread again, but at this rate I don't think it's ever going back lol So a few years ago I actually worked at a funeral home. The director also worked with some other funeral homes, so I got to work with them as well. Basically everyone helped each other out in case someone was busy or short staffed. The one funeral director had his own crematory and he'd cremate for other homes. The cremation unit can only hold one body (unless there are bigger ones, I'm not sure) so I can't see how you'd get multiple people cremated together. Now if someone is doing something unethical, that may be a different story. I can say that when the crematory is busy, I could see how it would be possible for peoples ashes get mixed up if someone doesn't mark them and thus you end up with the wrong ones. Now with pet cremations, they do have what are called "communal cremations". If you go to your vet when the pet dies you can pay for a private or communal cremation. Private is more expensive but only your pet gets cremated and you get only their ashes back. Communal cremations are done with a bunch of animals so you won't get back just your pets cremains (ashes). Usually in a communal they don't even give back cremains.

Welcome back. The place has been quiet since you were gone.

This is what I said to myself this morning and to think it occurred on a Saturday none the less! I usually don't come on here during the weekend. For some reason I did today otherwise I'd have missed it.

There's gonna be riots at blue tomorrow over this.

I think unless you've actually been in the car business as a salesman, you can't really understand the frustration that TP4 experiences. Selling cars is like selling nothing else. I don't know why it happens, but when it comes time to buy or sell a vehicle people get weird. That goes for the average Joe selling his car private party too. If you don't think he won't screw you, you better think again. I'll have people come and buy a 2 year old car with 25,000 miles and be so paranoid something is wrong with it. Like what do I have to freaking hide? It has the full bumper to bumper factory warranty yet. But when you ask them about their 15 year old car with 120,000 miles they want to trade if there are any issues, they say no. A mile down the road on the test drive the check engine light comes on and they claim that never happened before. Funny because the scan tool says you cleared it out. I'm not a new car dealer and never would want to be. It's a totally different animal. The factory puts immense pressure on the dealers to move new cars. If you don't move your quota, you lose your franchise and the TONS of money you invested. This in turn makes the sales people pushy which customers hate. At the same time, you have unrealistic customers coming in that waste the sales persons time. The salesman is just trying to make a living like everyone else. The customer doesn't care and really, they are part of the problem. How would you like if you worked a commission only job, did all the work, and didn't get paid for your efforts? It happens to Realtors all the time too. At the end of the day a car salesman is just trying to make a living like everybody else. But too many customers look down on them like they are dirt. Some of these sales people are in their 50's and lost their once good paying job elsewhere. But because of their age nobody would hire them. I see it all the time when I go around from dealership to dealership to buy their unwanted trade-ins. Some times when I sit around waiting for keys or titles, you get to talk to these people and hear their story. You can tell they are sometimes at a low point in their life and feel like they are worthless. But they try their hardest to provide for their family. Just like there are good cops and bad cops, there are good and bad car salesmen. I think if you worked in the industry you would find out there are more good then bad. It's really hard to "screw" someone these days. The internet has made everything pretty damn transparent. But no matter what the public still has their stigma for the "used car salesman". On a side note, I love how this thread got hijacked from $50 helicopter rides lol

You have to love people like that. Every one comes in with champagne taste and not even beer money. I had a guy here about a month ago with his wife trying to buy an Elantra. Mine had 20,000 miles, 1-owner, and clean carfax. He's trying to compare it to another one for less at my "competitor" AKA some poor credit dealership on the east side of Allentown. He failed to mention the other car had 57,000 miles, already had 2 owners, accident on carfax, and was a repo. Then his wife starts up with the, "I don't know honey, you really liked that other one at XYZ dealership we looked at yesterday" To which I replied, "Yeah, I really liked the people who came to see this car yesterday better." I did not get the sale lol There are some days I just want to go 100% wholesale and not deal with the public. It's so much easier to sell a car in 20 seconds when it rolls across the auction block.

Sounds about right lol. I don't even buy the new Taurus's. Really hard to even give them away.

Who remembers the uproar when they stopped displaying your post count?

Yeah probably. Those didn't get much use at the end. They were actually 11's though.

I knew that was going to be your response lol

Which means only 42 more days until Doug gets banned!!!! jk

I mean they couldn't even get the TP4 Statue done in time for the pope for crying out loud.

Nah, by next year it will be 41 when they name it "Upper" and "Lower" haha

I'm gonna be extremely optimistic and say that a few will be able to hit BC in October!!!

Yoccos hasn't been steaming the bun lately. At least at the one in Fogelsville. It's making the dogs taste like garbage. I haven't eaten at Yoccos in awhile but they just closed the Liberty Street location a few months ago. I had a Potts' at Ice Cream world a couple of years ago out of curiosity. It was ok but I still preferred Yoccos at the time.

I felt like I was the only kid in school that didn't go to Disney too. I'll always joke that I had a screwed up childhood and when people ask why, I say because I never went to Disney. Honestly though, now I have no desire to even go haha

I want to go see the gorillas at the zoo.

Lows in the 40s tonight. Maybe blue will put the lights on and try and blow some snow in case it actually gets colder! They would have in the ray tuthill days!

I do that with the people who call and claim they are from Microsoft. It's funny when you get them to curse at you.

Damn it, I forgot all about that. I hope Barb announces soon what they are replacing it with.

All I am worried about is what will happen to the fish in the fishing pond if something goes wrong with the pipe line. We need an environmental study before this moves forward.

My cousin who is going to ESU for her master's is a lifty at shawnee.

Yes because Blue is scheduled to close, I took out all my driveway markers, and took the snowblower off my tractor.

Yes. Based on what I saw on the webcam earlier, I would say they won't have much of a choice if they want to open this weekend.