If you are selling something that is collected by a small community of avid collectors, then why, oh why, don’t you make any effort to provide enough information so collectors can determine if they want your items?
I collect a very specialized kind of vinyl record that can only be played on a special machine (a Seeburg 1000 background music system). The records are labeled with a short letter/number code along with a “place in use” date.
The problem is that the letter/number code was reused year after year, so it is critical to know the “place in use” date–a date that is printed in tiny text on the label.
So, when a seller posts a photo of 10 records and says “For sale: 10 Seeburg 1000 records from 1967 and 1968” it is all but useless. Bonus points if the photo is blurry.
The best one can usually see is those record numbers, which are not unique.
Occasionally I ask a seller to provide this information, and most of the time I get no response.
So these auctions are a pig in a poke–if I win the auction, I will likely find out that many of the records are duplicates in my collection (or, often, duplicates in the set they are selling).
It’s like a comic book seller posting a blurry photo of 10 comic books with no further detail.
If it were a grandma selling 4 boxes of her late son’s comic book collection, then it’s understandable that it’s a grab bag, but if you are selling 10, why not take better photos and answer questions?
NSAIDs. Stick an “I” in there for non-steroidal anti-INFLAMMATORY drugs.
Sorry to hear about your travail. May I suggest something that has been helpful for me in my health challenges (traumatic brain injury and, most recently, needing supplemental oxygen 24/7)? Find a virtual/Zoom support group offered by your state’s or a national MS advocacy organization. Virtual/Zoom makes the support group much more accessible and vastly easier to fit into your current energy/effort budget. It is so helpful to have peers who have experienced what you are experiencing to piss and moan with and to offer resources and possible solutions s well as moral support. The same organization will likely offer a support group for family, friend and caretakers, also very valuable.
I’m sorry to hear about all you are going through right now (and second @BippityBoppityBoo’s suggestion about finding a support group).
My husband and I had greyhounds for many years, so I always like to hear other people’s stories about theirs. I’m glad you have a couple hounds by your side now.
Lots of people speak into their phone to send texts. And they certainly don’t proofread those. The whole point of talking a text is to not have to look closely at, or poke at, a phone screen. Pisses me right off, but it’s commonplace. So maybe the eyeroll should be aimed at Apple or Google, not exactly at your friend’s Dad.
If your friend is anywhere near your/my age, his Dad would be pretty old now. I’m going to bet that when he’s done halling something big and heavy enough to need a trailer, his lumbar is going to need some attention. Like when Fred Flintstone used to wail “Oh, my aching baaack!”
Well crap that’s ghastly news. The “rapidly” being the less good of the two. I can’t offer more than virtual {{hugs}}, but they’re as real as I can make them from here.
I have at least 2 friends willing to spend multiple days with me 24 hours a day, and a third who can help out from time to time. I wish there could be a few more, this is likely to be hard on them, especially since they have careers.
I pit myself for watching a YouTube clip of a post-credits scene of a TV show who’s series finale dropped today first thing in the morning. I thought it was from last weeks episode, but that’s not much of an excuse.
I thought it was from last weeks episode, but that’s not much of an excuse.