That’s not butter. Closest it got to a bovine was passing a farm on the interstate.
Another premium item: Power Windows. When was the last time you saw a crank?
In a U-Haul rental truck that was already ancient when I rented it over 10 years ago. If I had to guess, that’s probably the last place you can still find manual crank windows – in bare-bones trucks that get sold to fleets.
I sort of appreciate power windows on cars that I own, but there is the phenomenon I encounter a couple times a year of people in front of me at drive throughs whose power windows have broken and they can’t afford to fix them or haven’t gotten around to it yet and so they have to open the door to interact with the restaurant. I’d say no manual option is a downside even though that’s never happened to me.
If I had to wave my wand, I’d have a car with power windows except on the driver’s door, to forestall situations like that and to make sure that when I want to roll down the driver’s door I don’t roll down the wrong one by mistake. I do appreciate when I’m alone in the car and have to roll down a window other than the driver’s and so I don’t have to lean.
that’s because of fees they have to pay to visa/mastercharge/americanexpress
My 2000 Honda Civic had power windows but my 2014 Toyota Yaris still has a crank.
Up until sometime in the '60s, even heaters were optional on many low-priced cars, especially air-cooled models like the Corvair and Volkswagen Bug.
Again, that’s not true, the fees are tiny and there are fees for cash and especially for checks.
If they insisted upon a fair fee to be equal with the costs for cash, it might be 1%. The fees are usually 2% to them.
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Are you sure you know what a party line was–or maybe you meant conference calling?
A party line was a line shared with one or more of your neighbors, but you would all have different rings. It was more common when land line service was expensive and many people couldn’t afford or didn’t see the need to have their own individual phone lines. Every phone on the party line had its own ring pattern, like “two shorts and a long” so you’d know if the call was for you, but depending on the system you might hear your phone ring when someone else on the line was being called.
Nobody would want a party line today.
Well now, if we had coins that were worth something, and got rid of the pennies and nickels, then retailers would be getting more coins from their customers instead of mostly from the bank.
Just today I asked for $20 cash back at the grocery store because I was going to pick up some take-out, and the $20 bills were under the cash drawer, the way you used to see only with fifties and hundreds. Most of the available slots in the insert were occupied by the four common denominations of coins and extra rolls for each. ones. The store clerks are going through their stock of coins so fast that they need to have new rolls constantly available, while $20 bills are under the drawer. And that’s really not that much money these days.
Insane.
If the retail industry wants to encourage us to pay cash, they should advocate for more sensible denominations.
I just saw a sign last week in Pennsylvania that offered free Radio! I was like huh? I’ve seen the AC and TV ones before but never the radio one.
Ha! We just watched Pillow Talk on TCM. When introducing the movie, the announcer had to explain exactly what a party line was, otherwise the movie would make no sense.
Do you ever see this at higher end hotels? IME free breakfast usually comprises coffee and a muffin, and the establishment usually has no provision at all for lunch or dinner. That works for a lot of people, but not if you need to have the option of taking a meal in your room, or at least on the premises.
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I only rarely stay at what I’d consider a higher end hotel, but it is standard at Embassy Suites, which I would consider at the higher end of the mid-tier hotels.
Plus, if the establishment has no provision for lunch or dinner, then I wouldn’t consider it a higher end hotel and in fact might not be a hotel at all depending on location and setup. It might be a higher end motel if has a lot of other amenities, but while some motels have lounges or restaurants, I wouldn’t consider it a proper hotel if it didn’t.
Sorry, I’m going through a tunnel… can’t… you’re br… k… kkggghhhhshhhh.
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I always thought the difference between a motel and a hotel was in the parking arrangement. A motel has parking for each room either right next to or very close to the room and assumes that all or most of its clients arrived in their own cars; a hotel has a separate parking area, which may not include enough spaces to have one for every room rented as many of the people staying there may have arrived by plane/bus/train/taxi and have no car with them that needs parking. In some cities some hotels may not have their own parking areas at all, but may rely on city parking facilities.
I tried to encapsulate that in the “setup” part of my post and it may indeed be the dictionary definition. In fact I’d say that upon seeing your post I sort of did change my mind a little: if a hotel is not set up with motel-style parking then it’s fair to call it a hotel. But the opposite is not always true, since so many people drive to their destinations these days. I can consider a place with motel-style parking a hotel if it is otherwise like other hotels except for the parking, such as attached restaurants and room service.