OK, just how did you manage that? “Hi, random stranger, we had a spare locking gas cap lying around, and thought you might appreciate it”?
More like: don’t interact with the guy, just install the thing in his driveway while he’s sleeping. Without leaving a note.
I wasn’t there but this …
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seems suggestive. 
ETA: Ninja’ed!
Last time a microwave needed replacement I found the secret to my own Microwave Joy: look for commercial-grade microwaves, like you would find in a workplace break room.
They are all business and no extra froufrou.
Mine has a big dial that you turn until you get the time you want. There is no clock.
The interior is designed to be easy to wipe clean.
It was somewhat expensive (just north of 200) but worth it in my opinion.
Some workplaces apparently differ, but the one you’re likely to find in a school break room is likely to be the old one that some teacher had lying around when they bought their new one.
The microwave at my work literally won’t work if it still has “Time on the clock”, you have to find the clear button, the input your new time. So if you decide you need to add more time you gotta hit STOP (or open the door), then hit CLEAR then you input your new time.
My home microwave just as long as the machine is stopped you can add or replace time as much as you want.
We’ve been using Vicks NyQuil and DayQuil as our go-to cold and flu medicine for about 15 years. We used to prefer the syrup form, but now it’s usually gel caps. The company sells combo packs with a combination of DayQuil and NyQuil gel caps, the pills are easily distinguished by colour (orange and blue-green, respectively) and the box is also half-orange, half-blue-green for easy recognition on the shelf.
(Stupid design #1) The instructions on the combined package are very confusing because they document both products side by side in black-on-white, and we’re supposed to know which one refers to which pill based on the colours on the box.
Today my hubby went to the pharmacy to pick up a new package because we ran out. He came back with a combo package of DayQuil and NyQuil SINUS intead of DayQuil and NyQuil COLD & FLU. (COLD & FLU contains dextromethorphan for coughs, SINUS doesn’t.)
(Stupid design #2) The package design is identical between the SINUS and COLD & FLU product lines, the only change is the text in the bright blue rectangle in the middle.
I’ve bought those day/night packs, and my complaint is that I always end up with extra of one type or the other. The packs include more daytime than nighttime pills, since you’re supposed to take the daytime pills several times a day, but only one nighttime pill before you go to bed. But if you don’t develop the cold until the middle of the day, or worse in the evening before you go to bed, then you throw off the whole schedule.
It’s worse than that. The directions say to take a gelcap every 6 hours. So that’s 4 per 24 hours. With one of them being the nighttime kind just before bed and the other three being the daytime kind right after wake up and then 6 & 12 hours later.
So regardless of whether it’s a small package for a couple days or the mongo box for a whole season of recurring colds, there ought to be 3x as many day caps as night caps. But the package consists of only twice as many day caps as night caps. You are guaranteed to run out of the day stuff early and having night stuff left over.
It’s like the hotdogs & buns: a guaranteed mismatch. But in this case both products are from the same company and sold in the same package.
Bastards.
Today I went to a laundromat for probably the first time in over 15 years; I wanted to give my comforters a good wash for the new year (and my cat happened to throw up on one of them this morning, coincidentally on the day I planned to wash them anyway). They don’t fit in my home washer, so I had to use the big commercial machines at the laundromat.
Since the last time I was there they upgraded all their machined to accept credit/debit card payments. That’s a good thing, but my god the implementation was horrible, at least for the dryers. The dryers cost 25 cents per 5 minutes. But there was no obvious way to add time before swiping your card. I swiped my card, waited for the transaction to process, and it added 5 minutes and charged me 25 cents. I swiped it again, waited for it to authorize another transaction, it added another 5 minutes and charged me another 25 cents. I added an hour to one machine that way and was starting on another before an employee finally came over and told me I could add time by pressing the button on the card reader labeled “enter” to increment the time before swiping my card. That was not obvious at all. I realize these were just generic card readers that were repurposed for the laundry machines, but could they not have re-labeled the button, even by just putting a sticker over the word “enter” with a better description of the button’s function? Or at least they could have posted some instructions. While I was there I witnesses another may also struggling to figure out how to add time to the dryer.
I have heard that one is pretty much because butchers and bakers just don’t talk to each other. Butchers are accustomed to selling meat by the pound, and it comes out to 8 normal sized hot dogs to a pound. Bakers are used to selling things by the dozen, so 12 buns in a pack.
Bingo.
Makes sense, though Honda seems to have managed it. I have not looked at Nissan / Toyota.
That makes a little sense, though it’s not that regular an occurrence (one hopes!!) while filling the car’s gas tank at a pump IS (again, one hopes!).
I’d be happier if there was consistency, whether it’s on the right or the left. That “dance” at a large gas station can be a major hassle when another car is there filling on the other side.
Here’s an oddball one: Ozempic’s lower-dose pens for the 0.25 and 0.5 mg dose are the exact same pen. You can get 8 0.25 doses, or 4 0.5 doses, from the same pen.
It comes with SIX needles.
There seems to be some expectation that if you stay on the 0.25 dose, you are going to THROW AWAY multiple doses. Or have leftover needles if you are on the 0.5 mg dose.
I remember hearing somewhere (yes, this is one of those factoids that I just “heard somewhere” and don’t have a cite for, so take it how you will) that German cars usually put the filler on the right, for the reason that it’s safer while standing by the roadside filling from a gas can.
In my experience, Japanese cars seem inconsistent. I’ve owned a Toyota and a Mazda; they both have the filler on the left. But I rented a Mazda3 once and it had the filler on the right. So I don’t think I buy the reasoning that they drive on the left.
Nissan is on the right from my experience.
When I started taking Ozempic I was told to take the .25 dose for 4 weeks and then switch to the .5 dose. 6 doses.
Doc left me on the lower dose for another month or two. Fortunately the needles are standard, and I just bought a spare box. When I did go up to 0.5, this meant I had leftovers (which are coming in useful right now, as I’m using a 1.0 pen to take 0.5 mg).
Nissan is on the left in my experience , specifically a 2014 Altima.
Ditto for my 2012 Altima. I had a 2001 Mazda 626, also on the left. A long long long time ago I had a Toyota Corolla, also on the left. I still own a 1999 Mazda pickup, also on the left. My wife’s 2019 Toyota Highlander is also on the left.
I don’t believe I’ve ever owned a car with the gas tank opening on the right.
Have you always owned Japanese cars? Or at least cars from countries where driving on the left is the norm?
I have only owned US or German cars. I can’t speak reliably to every single one of them, but as best I can recall, the filler has always been on the right side.
With the exception of a '69 Olds Cutlass that hid it behind the license plate on the centerline. The plate backer was on a spring-loaded hinged mount; you folded it down & rearward to reveal the gas cap. That always felt cool, like James Bond and his multiple plate disguise mechanism on his DB5. I’m not sure how crashworthy it was.