I pit unprofessional restaurant "general managers"

[Cat_Whisperer]

@Una Persson

Yes, because you can draw the conclusion from what I wrote that I was going 75mph in a parking lot…I know this is the SDMB Pit, but let’s try to not to think the worst of everyone when facts aren’t in evidence.

I was actually going about 15mph, in an empty parking lot along the edge. There was a point where the edge turned in and I was too distracted and stupid to notice. The speed I was going was perfectly safe in it unless I wasn’t paying attenion. Since I wasn’t paying attention, NO speed was safe.

I fucked up, and I’m paying for it. No one else is, and you can’t even say I “drove up insurance rates” because I’m not claiming insurance.

My ire with parking lot speeders was not aimed at you who have admitted you messed up, but with parking lot speeders in general who don’t seem to have a clue about how dangerous what they’re doing is, and of course there’s absolutely no enforcement to enlighten them.

[Neurotik]

@Scumpup

Not if it was 1938 Superman, who didn’t have superbreath.
1938 Batman would have been especially useless, as he didn’t come along til 1939.

How could he not have superbreath? He had superlungs, a superdiaphragm, and super abs. Superbreath just follows naturally.

[Scumpup]

@Neurotik

How could he not have superbreath? He had superlungs, a superdiaphragm, and super abs. Superbreath just follows naturally.

1938 Superman was just super. He wasn’t super-dee-duper like today’s Superman. Plain old superbreath won’t erode a cinderblock wall to sand in a going-out-to-dinner-at-a-restaurant-and-have-to-get-home-in-time-to-see-CSI Miami timeframe.

[Una_Persson]

@astro

Per Left Hand of Dorkness GuanoLad’s comment is simply indicting that it’s impressive you’ve got enough disposable income to forgo the conventional liability limits in an auto insurance policy.

Ah…OK.

I have to admit your reasoning seems a bit odd to me as an auto policy is (in my view) a straightforward commercial transaction in the case of a valid accident & coverage limits. There are certainly logical reasons to cover the accident yourself if it is sufficiently small & your insurance rate increase would swamp the out of pocket cost of the repairs, but to set (in your case) 14,000 as the prospective starting point at which you could be bothered to file a claim (assuming you have a standard 250 or so deductible) sort of negates the point of having insurance which is to (more or less) make you whole in the case of an accident in exchange for an actuarial bet made by the carrier that is reflected in your policy cost. I don’t think my health or auto insurance carriers are pondering whether to return the premiums I’ve paid over the years because my payments to them have vastly exceeded any claims I’ve made.

OK…well, the thing is I didn’t want to talk exact finances. I used $14k as an illistrative point. In reality, there is some level in-between that I’d have to make a judgement call on as to the break-point, I mean, I don’t have a formula or anything for it. It kind of depends on “how are the finances now”, “what does the budget look like for the next 6 months”, etc.

I don’t think having $4000 to cover is that big a deal when I read all the time on the SDMB about people buying new cars, paying $300k or more for a house, getting a new plasma HDTV, or taking snorkling vacations twice yearly to Cabo. My assistant at work paid $3000 for his television recently; I’m still watching my free 1978 JC Penney’s 18-inch color and with no cable or sat service (avoiding a $50+ monthly charge). I reckon he spent nearly $4000 in his first year on his new TV plus his cable+Dish network thing…it depends on what you want to do.

I have a $1000 deductable, which makes a difference as well. Another thing is my insurance company is notorious for taking the absolute lowball bid on collision repair, and when I get the car fixed I want it to be from a shop I trust, even if it’s more expensive. So there are other intangibles at play.

[Una_Persson]

@featherlou

My ire with parking lot speeders was not aimed at you who have admitted you messed up, but with parking lot speeders in general who don’t seem to have a clue about how dangerous what they’re doing is, and of course there’s absolutely no enforcement to enlighten them.

I understand now; thank you very much for the polite clarification.

[MacTech]

@StarvingButStrong

Yes.
And if Superman had been there, he could have shattered that concrete block into sand with his superbreath, and then there’d have been no incident.

Batman, however, would have been useless.

actually, Batman would have painted the Batmobile with Bat-Anti-Concrete Spray and Bat-Cinderblock-Repellent before even leaving the Batcave…

[GuanoLad]

@Left Hand of Dorkness

I thought he meant it as in “cool,” or “serious money,” or both (these aren’t dictionary definitions, but I think I’ve heard them as slang before)

Um, yes, sorry. I was paraphrasing Blackadder II, when Queenie is impressed by Edmund having a thousand pounds in his pocket as loose change. She says “Gosh, that’s flash.”

The definitions you discovered, Una, is more correctly “flashy”.

“flash” is rather an outdated phrase, really. Hence why I use it sometimes.

[Una_Persson]

Thank you very much, for politely explaining as well.

[Cat_Whisperer]

Jeeze, we’re all so polite - quick, somebody throw a flameball or we’re all gonna get kicked into MPSIMS!

[alice_in_wonderland]

@featherlou

Jeeze, we’re all so polite - quick, somebody throw a flameball or we’re all gonna get kicked into MPSIMS!

You all felch goats!

Happy to oblige

[EddyTeddyFreddy]

@alice_in_wonderland

You all felch goats!

All you goats felch.

Felch all you goats! :mad:

Goats felch you all? :dubious:

You felch all goats? :eek: