Saw one of those ford fiesta/focus actilifesportdogmobile things this morning. It's worse irl than in pictures
Being a student in NYC I have gotten use to being asked for stuff by random bums and candy salesmen (still not sure what's their deal...) and just ignoring them. I'm at the point where if anyone comes up to me for any reason I'll instinctively just mumble something like "I have a train to catch" or "I'm late to class" and keep walking. Twice this semester that happened when I later learned that it was just a person who genuinely needed $2 (yes, exactly $2 both times. Actually, yesterday I needed $2... Illuminati?..). So lately I've been giving people about 15 seconds to tell their story before I go about my day. Today a lady came to me asking to buy her baby formula, which was a first. She also did not look like a desperate mother in the slightest. I'm not a mother but I assume there's better ways for desperate mothers to get help. Anyway, I listened to her whole story, lied to her and said "sorry, I don't have any money on me" and went to class. I was so confused about the baby formula thing that I googled it, turns out its a common scam in South East Asia where the "mother" works with the store owner and just returns the baby formula. I'm honestly rather pissed off right now. Looking back on it, maybe I should've just dragged her into the local CVS to get her whatever and waste as much of her time as possible. I'm really curious why so many of these people will specifically ask me in a crowd. I look like a generic local college student, not a wealthy tourist or anything... I've been told that I always look mad at someone, which I would think would be a good clue to a bum that I won't be parting with my money for no reason. Obviously not... Sometimes the same people will come up to me asking within a week. While I'm at it, I may as well tell some stories of my favorite bums. I visit Las Vegas a lot, as a city they have my favorite bums because they are honest and 9/10 times won't push if someone says "no". One of them I saw had a sign that said "why lie, I need beer". Out of the beggars, honestly been the most tempting to give money to. A few years ago in the suburbs we had problems with fake families being dropped off in super market parkinglots begging for money, then they would be picked up around 7pm. It was always funny to see them not even trying to hide the fact that they were getting into a truck filled with fake families and identical cardboard signs.
And yet another Western Digital hard drive has bit the dust in my possession, this time being the 3TB WD Green I have a bunch of important stuff stored on. Fantastic. I'm going to DD what I can off of it onto a Seagate drive, then I'm going to take it down south when I visit a friend and blast a bunch of holes in it with a shotgun. It was loud when I first got it, horribly slow (somehow bottlenecked a 20meg internet connection), ran hot, and lasted about 6 months or so before it waived sayonara. Junk.
I'd love to extend the largest fuck you in the world to Western Digital. My sanity: 1997-2019 My porn collection: 2012-2019, may it rest in peace
When I play video games, and see the scrawlings of a crazy person in a prison or mental asylum, I am starting to wonder if they are actually crazy, or if they are just programmers trying to debug code...
It depends on your budget, but I personally like RAM trucks the best. I would buy one with 4WD and the non-hybrid 5.7 Hemi if I had the money. Its all up to you of course, I just prefer RAM trucks because they are as reliable as the other manufacturers, they look much better than the new Chevys imo, and they don't try to push customers to get turbocharged V6s like Ford.
Well, you're going from a Chevy, so the only way is up. I'm a Ford guy. You'd see me in a standard cab/standard bed F-150 XLT-FX4 with a V8.
Maybe you could get a slightly used Nissan Maxima. They're pretty fast, reliable, and they look good.
