Quit it with all the sex talk. 
Don’t you have the option of taking them with you? Around here you would drop them off on the Day of Extraordinary Trash.
Looking at one of my refridgeration bills, some gems…
2 - Wire Nuts .14each
1 - 5/16 x 1" Hex Head Screw .08 each
3 - ST Solder $2.50 each
Yup, they bill out individual screws, wire nuts, copper couplers, soldering sticks etc…
I guess I don’t mind though, I guess I’d rather pay an extra $2.78 for misc. parts then for them to raise the hourly charge by a couple of dollars and I wind up paying an extra $20.
Lock it up 
It’s the “high-end” bikes like mine that come without a kickstand. These kinds of bikes are typically designed so that weight is reduced in every way possible - one way to reduce weight is to leave off the kickstand. The kickstand is unnecessary because when we’re not riding these bikes they’re either securely locked into a rack on the top or trunk of our car, locked to something solid in the garage, or tucked into an out-of-sight place in our homes where we lean them against the wall (mine is currently leaning against the back wall of my bedroom closet).
Back on-topic, since I’ve never purchased a new car could somebody tell me what the hell is this “$35 dealer documentation fee” that the fast-talking guy mentions at the end of every radio ad the local Kia dealer runs?
When I recently renewed my car’s license tabs I had to get new license plates as well (Washington law says they have to be replaced every seven years). I renewed the tabs online, and it gave me two options for obtaining my new plates: I could have them mailed to me or, for a $4.00 service fee, I could pick them up in person at the DOL. The hell? Paying somebody to stuff them in a padded envelope + postage is cheaper than just handing them to me?
All you people talking about miscellaneous bank fees just make me say, “God I love my bank!” I swear they don’t charge me for anything except overdraft checks - they charge me $20 for that … but then they go ahead and honor the check anyway, saving me from getting dinged a second time by whoever I wrote the check to, and just take the shortfall out of my next deposit. Free ATM use, free tellers, free debit card, free online banking/bill pay, etc. It probably helps that its a small local bank that’s been around here forever and has managed to not be bought out by a larger bank. Their slogan is “The little bank with the big circle of friends.”
You put it against a wall, on let it lie on the grass, whatever is convenient. Kickstands certainly aren’t found on all bikes.
I was extremely surprised when I heard about that.
Last year, I found two chequebooks I had put away in a box and never used. So, when I ran out of cheques, I used those. Turned up that I had put them away for a reason. They were really old chequebooks, in French francs. I didn’t notice. The shop owner I handed the second cheque to did notice, however (not immediately, though. I got a dozen angry phone calls in as many hours, since he didn’t believe for an instant it could be an honest mistake).
So, after having paid the shop owner, I went to my doctor’s since I had used the first cheque to pay him. He hadn’t noticed and told me he would try to get the cheque back before it will be deposited, but might be charged a fee if the cheque bounced. Huh 
You get charged if you’re handed a bad cheque??? Well, apparently, yes.
Well… Because there aren’t many bank tellers who could hand you money in Antarctica, of course.
There has been a whole thread about this recently. A poster’s spouse who wasn’t eating had to pay a cover charge (in the USA).
I’ve got a good one:
Not sure what it’s like in the rest of the world, but in Ontario, Canada, the big 3 cell carriers started charging people for ‘incoming’ text messages.
Fucking bastards, it pisses me off to no end.
I’m not big on texts anyway, I might send 1 or 2 per month, so I’ll pay my 30 cents or whatever.
A few friends of mine are constantly texting, so I had to add a $5 text thingy to my plan.
Dirty bitches, they arnt making enough?
Now they get paid when the text is sent, and then again when it’s received, this is criminal.
Are there places to spend money in Antartica? Who refills the ATM?
I can’t speak from personal experience (dang it! I want to go!), but McMurdo station is pretty much a city, these days. They have multiple bars, IIRC from my friend’s travels.
I have a mountain bike that was $250 or so 10 years ago, a GT Palomar. Not too expensive but not cheap either. It’s always bothered me that it didn’t have a kickstand on it. Seems like basic equipment for a bike to me. I never got around to getting one, but seems they should have included one, maybe a carbon fiber or something if weight is a concern.
Dang!
I’d love to see some hits on Where’s George from McMurdo!!
I hate this. The store I work in does it on some furniture pieces. Smaller pieces of furniture (or those that fold up into smaller flat-packs) are stocked, larger pieces are freighted up from the city when ordered. Those pieces come with a delivery fee of $30, whether it’s delivered to their home or to the store. We all dread explaining it to customers - if there’s anything they hate more than finding out that they can’t have it today, it’s being told that there’s a compulsory delivery fee. Plus, if they want it delivered to the neighbouring town (7-9 miles away), then the fee is $50. I don’t think it should be legal to advertise a desk for $200 when you can’t actually get it for less than $230. It looks like false advertising to me. It should be advertised as $230 with free delivery to the local area.
I was joking. I’ve absolutely no clue about ATMs (or anything else for that matter) in Antarctica.
Sorry, but I must:
[GeekAlert]
I swear, this is the the closest thing I’ve heard of, IRL, to a lonely Federation outpost in Star Trek. I’m thinking the space station tavern on The Trouble With Tribbles.
[GeekAlert]
Cold hard cash.
I bet a vodka tonic is really expensive at those bars.
I just bought a new stove yesterday. Delivery was “free.” There was a fuel charge of $15. I guess the delivery wasn’t actually free, now…was it?
I was in Chicago for the weekend, and had to pay $15 extra both ways to check a bag in. I know this has been discussed on this board before, but IMO it’s just WRONG to ask a customer to check herself in and then ask for a baggage fee. Of course, a lot of people had really huge carryons, even worse than before this bag check fee nonsense. I did note that the fee had dropped from $25…they must have really caught a lot of flak for it.
In Florida we had a severe water shortage last year which caused mandatory watering restrictions to be put in place. This (obviously) caused the use of water to decline and the local water boards were losing tens of thousands of dollars in revenue.
So they did what every private business would do if they were a protected monopoly: jack up the prices. But they didn’t simply raise the prices, they added a “Water Restriction Fee” to our utility bill.
So, I have to pay MORE for using LESS of a product, and instead of trying to hide this fact so that nobody knows about it, they put it right there in black and white!