Has anyone else dived into the rough and tumble world of delivering for Uber Eats? I just signed up and I’ve done a few deliveries over the past few days and so far, I am not impressed. I’ve had to call tech help twice in the middle of orders. I’ve been sent in loops by their GPS. I’ve been told that trip will earn me $15 only to have come out to $2. I’m thinking I need to reassess if I want to do this. I don’t think I’m even going to break even at this rate. Maybe GrubHub? I’ve heard their app is a little more user friendly.
My daughter will only do Instacart. She doesn’t think the rest are worth it. I couldn’t tell you why.
If you pay a premium for your next sticker to be mailed, the question “You’re not really here for the hunting, are you?” is going to resonate quite strongly.
My rant is mini in impact but long in words. 
My wife and I just came home from a trip that ended with 2-3 days in Las Vegas. The trip was perfect except at the end, because the Sahara hotel-casino can’t keep an elevator working worth a tinker’s damn. The parking garage had an out-of-service elevator, as did a rooftop pool (which was therefore closed), and two in the tower where we had our room.
But those all just meant longer waits for the working elevators and going to another pool. The pain in the ass was the busted sole elevator to the Monorail station. Which wasn’t marked as busted when we bought two-day Monorail passes at over $40 total. 
I have a phobia of down escalators, and the Sahara Monorail station entrance is at least three stories up. We ended up catching the Monorail at Sahara but returning by getting off at the previous station and walking. At least the walking route from Westgate to Sahara was good, with a full sidewalk and pedestrian crossing lights. I saw a fair number of people on the Monorail in wheelchairs and on mobility scooters, and I hope they weren’t trying to get to the Sahara!
Dishonorable mention to the Monorail itself, which never posted a notice in its stations that the Sahara station had a busted elevator for at least two days. Real transit systems post on their websites, and/or on a whiteboard in each station, a list of stations with inoperable elevators so riders can plan accordingly.
The Sahara is still open? I thought it was demolished years ago.
This is last month’s rant thread.
October is so ranty we now have two. Al least until a mod wakes up & combines them:
Before they close this, a note of humor. I unblocked his number today thinking he gave up. Nup. Called and wants to marry me. Good lord. No, I will not.
I don’t care if it is October 1st… you’re too cool to be ‘Miss Lotion’.
( Also, that has way too many ‘Silence of the Lambs’ vibes to it )
Suntan.
They’re designed to last just long enough to procreate. Anything after that is a freebee. It’s only thanks to science that we outlast our teeth.
Anecdotally, I find that teeth become less problematic as you get older. I still have all my teeth, with the exception of a molar or two that I no longer notice the absence of, but they rarely give me any problems, as opposed to the cavities I used to get when I was younger. I attribute it to slower (or possibly, entirely stopped!) metabolism.
Bathtub curve, my fine dog, bathtub curve.
The especially weak stuff fails early in life. Then there’s a long failure-free period. Then everything else starts failing at an ever-increasing rate.
The “good” news is since that applies to every subsystem in every body, maybe the teeth outlast the eyes or maybe the heart outlasts the brain or …
That’s funny, I was just complaining to my husband that I’m always getting cavities now and I never used to. I once went eight years without a dental visit and still no cavities. Everything changed after I had a kid. Now I have them every goddamn year. I have an appointment Monday and my dental hygiene has been impeccable the last six months. If I have another cavity I’m going to start flipping tables.
Well aren’t you the cheery optimist!
Sad but true, however. On the matter of the failing brain, I believe we’ve had a number of discussions about my challenges with grocery lists. I’ll either forget to buy items, or forget to bring the list, or buy things I don’t need, or quite often manage to accomplish all three!
Also, I think maybe one of the reasons my teeth aren’t giving me problems any more is that they’ve had so much Modern Dentistry inflicted on them that pretty much everything there is synthetic. Like my friend who just had a second knee replacement, I am becoming a semi-cyborg, at least dentally speaking.
I like to claim I’m in pretty good health. Then I count up the 7 prostheses it takes to carry my tired carcass through a day. Geez what a geezer I’ve turned into!
Now you can fight crime as Cybertooth.
Along with the scented pine cones!
Note that the poster you are addressing may have moved on to the Hell O’ Weenies (October Mini-Rants) thread, and therefore might miss your post.
They may have also succumbed to Autumn Spice Syndrome by now.
Pretty much, yeah…the company that services the restrooms at work has deployed some godawful cinnamon-scented things, so every time I go in there I have a coughing fit.
Yes! The pinecones are especially evil because you don’t always see them from a distance - they can slip down in the display or box, so you’re not fully aware of them until you start to smell them.