J. Hova
Don Corleone
Emotionally exhausted and morally bankrupt
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Post by J. Hova on Dec 3, 2023 18:34:34 GMT -5
As I've said in other threads, I live in a small housing addition that is surrounded by cornfields. Four miles south of me is a town of 1800 people (and where I graduated high school), three miles to the north of me is a town of 3500 people. A little less than a year ago, I had the local, third generation plumber who has 30 years of experience himself come over and install a new external spigot and a shut off valve for it in my laundry/utility room.
Over the past week, I've been cleaning up my garage (I own a split foyer) and was planning on hosing down the garage floor, scrubbing it, etc. Basically cleaning it all up to prep in the spring to lay down an epoxy finish. I go and run the hose through the window in my garage, turn on the spigot, and go into the room to turn on the valve and have water spray everywhere. The valve is loose and the pipe going to the spigot has a bit of a split from the valve about an inch long towards the spigot. I'm now wet and pissed. Shut off the valve, tighten it up, spend about 10 minutes trying to figure out how in the hell this happened. Decide to call the plumber and leave a message to see if he can come out this week to fix it. I don't have a soldering gun, and I suck at it anyway. About 30 minutes later, he calls me back, asks if he can come out today and take a look. He shows up about 15 minutes later, replaces the valve and pipe, and charges me zero dollars. He said even if I left the valve on since he had been there earlier this year, it hadn't been cold enough for long enough to cause this.
I've used bigger home service places, but I can only imagine what I would have been charged by them for a Sunday service call. I also didn't ask for him to come out today, I was fine with waiting a day or two since the leak wasn't happening if I had the spigot off and valve closed. He doesn't work Sundays, he just checks his voicemails on Sundays to schedule out his week and wanted to make things right ASAP.
I think I'll leave a good yelp review. It is no wonder that his shop has been in business since 1959.
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Dec 4, 2023 9:14:04 GMT -5
John Mellencamp agrees.
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tirtefaa
Unicron
If you wanna know the truth, you gotta dig up Johnny Booth.
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Post by tirtefaa on Dec 4, 2023 10:59:03 GMT -5
Grew up in cities most of my life, then in my 20's I moved to a small town, and while I hated a lot of things about it, mostly how everything is a 20 to 30 minute drive, I got used to it.
Now I'm living in a larger area and miss the small town. Maybe I wouldn't want to live in a small small town any longer, but I really do miss the peaceful nature of it, as well as the cheaper housing options. And I even started to enjoy those longer drives. Nothing like driving to work as the Sun is coming up while you're breaking in a new CD album.
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tafkaga
Samurai Cop
the Dogfather
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Post by tafkaga on Dec 4, 2023 11:43:38 GMT -5
Similar situation. I live a couple miles outside of a small town, in the middle of nowhere. Had a part on my well go out over Christmas last year, and found a local guy who was able to swing by on his way to another job within an hour of me making the call. He put in about a $300 part and said he would send me a bill. A month went by with no bill, so I called them I never got a bill. Same dude answered and didn't really have any explanation, and said he would call me back later that night to talk to me about it. He never called me back, so my well got fixed for free I guess.
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Dr. T is an alien
Patti Mayonnaise
Knows when to hold them, knows when to fold them
I've been found out!
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Dec 4, 2023 16:53:53 GMT -5
You misunderstand what he considers small towns though. I literally used to live right down the road from his main residence in Bloomington, IN (79K population, though an additional 45K find themselves here during the school year). He eventually moved when the woods behind his palace started to get developed for another suburban housing neighborhood, but he still has a lake house further outside of town as well as an additional place in Seymour (an admittedly more quaint 21K pop). |
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Dec 5, 2023 9:39:44 GMT -5
Speaking as a queer person who hates involuntary social contact - I can assure you small towns have their drawbacks
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Dec 5, 2023 10:45:49 GMT -5
Speaking as a queer person who hates involuntary social contact - I can assure you small towns have their drawbacks I live in a town of 400 people, I meet very, very few new people each year. When I go on a dry spell, it can be a lengthy goddamn drought sometimes. And you just have to live with the fact that when you do hook up with someone, they've likely already hooked up with your single friends or will after they're with you. In a small town, you don't lose a girlfriend/boyfriend, you just lose a turn. |
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Dec 5, 2023 10:48:28 GMT -5
Speaking as a queer person who hates involuntary social contact - I can assure you small towns have their drawbacks I live in a town of 400 people, I meet very, very few new people each year. When I go on a dry spell, it can be a lengthy goddamn drought sometimes. And you just have to live with the fact that when you do hook up with someone, they've likely already hooked up with your single friends or will after they're with you. In a small town, you don't lose a girlfriend/boyfriend, you just lose a turn. Yup, no privacy amongst that kind of group. Your options end up reeeeeal limited. And I didn't even mean that, so much as times I've visited friends living in small towns and watched the local heads swivel as they notice that I am the Only Pan In The Village from that moment until the second I leave |
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Dec 5, 2023 10:53:26 GMT -5
I live in a town of 400 people, I meet very, very few new people each year. When I go on a dry spell, it can be a lengthy goddamn drought sometimes. And you just have to live with the fact that when you do hook up with someone, they've likely already hooked up with your single friends or will after they're with you. In a small town, you don't lose a girlfriend/boyfriend, you just lose a turn. Yup, no privacy amongst that kind of group. Your options end up reeeeeal limited. And I didn't even mean that, so much as times I've visited friends living in small towns and watched the local heads swivel as they notice that I am the Only Pan In The Village from that moment until the second I leave Not a f***ing soul in this town knows that I identify as pan, and I intend to keep it that way. As sad as it is to say, I honestly don't think I'd feel comfortable staying in this town if word ever got out that I hooked up with a dude |
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Dec 5, 2023 10:56:22 GMT -5
Yup, no privacy amongst that kind of group. Your options end up reeeeeal limited. And I didn't even mean that, so much as times I've visited friends living in small towns and watched the local heads swivel as they notice that I am the Only Pan In The Village from that moment until the second I leave Not a f***ing soul in this town knows that I identify as pan, and I intend to keep it that way. As sad as it is to say, I honestly don't think I'd feel comfortable staying in this town if word ever got out that I hooked up with a dude That's really sad, albeit not enormously surprising. I hope you have online community to lean on. |
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Dec 5, 2023 11:07:24 GMT -5
Not a f***ing soul in this town knows that I identify as pan, and I intend to keep it that way. As sad as it is to say, I honestly don't think I'd feel comfortable staying in this town if word ever got out that I hooked up with a dude That's really sad, albeit not enormously surprising. I hope you have online community to lean on. I should clarify, it absolutely has nothing to do with safety concerns. I'm not worried I'd get beaten for being queer or anything. It would be an anxiety thing, and worrying about constant judgement. I already have severe issues with thinking everyone judges me, and shit talks me and that would just exacerbate it to an insane degree |
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Dec 5, 2023 11:14:34 GMT -5
That's really sad, albeit not enormously surprising. I hope you have online community to lean on. I should clarify, it absolutely has nothing to do with safety concerns. I'm not worried I'd get beaten for being queer or anything. It would be an anxiety thing, and worrying about constant judgement. I already have severe issues with thinking everyone judges me, and shit talks me and that would just exacerbate it to an insane degree That's a kind of safety. It still counts. |
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Dec 5, 2023 12:47:11 GMT -5
What about reasonably large cities where everyone just thinks it's a small rural town? That's Scuzzbury for you.
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