What grinds your gears?

tsx_guy · Postby **tsx_guy** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 9:14

remember Jersey Shore?

speedjunkie · Postby **speedjunkie** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 9:14

Having a home warranty and still shelling out $1228 for a new water heater and installation.

Sprung a leak a couple weeks ago. Looked online and found some for around $600, but remembered I have a home warranty. Called and confirmed that water heaters are covered. SUCCESS! Or so I thought. They had their plumbers come out, B&L Plumbing, and the guy quoted the job for $1869 :eek:

:eek::eek:, and lo and behold, the warranty only covers up to $1600. How convenient. Then the new water heater was too tall and the power wires wouldn't reach, so an electrician (Downtown Electric) had to come out and wire it up...$349 for 1.5 hours of work, and part of that fee was paying for the apprentice to assist the journeyman and get on the job training (meaning she was his gopher, pretty sure I don't need to be paying for that) and $79 for a job permit, which I'm not sure I should be paying for either. Oh, and the plumber checked my water pressure and it was too high, so he had to install new parts that totalled another $590. I'm quite sure I was taken for a ride, and I'm quite sure Blue Ribbon will be getting a call from me. They can shove their home warranty up their ###.

They replaced my garage door opener right after I moved in, $55 flat fee, like it's supposed to be. I got raped this time.

Oh yeah, and I had to go buy two carbon monoxide detectors so the inspectors wouldn't ding me when they came out to inspect the work on the water heater, so that was another $50.

_AlexTM · Postby **_AlexTM** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 9:14

Huzer wrote:The dumbass zombie fad, if it can be called a fad.

Same with Vampires.

erod550 · Postby **erod550** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 9:14

speedjunkie wrote:Having a home warranty and still shelling out $1228 for a new water heater and installation.

Sprung a leak a couple weeks ago. Looked online and found some for around $600, but remembered I have a home warranty. Called and confirmed that water heaters are covered. SUCCESS! Or so I thought. They had their plumbers come out, B&L Plumbing, and the guy quoted the job for $1869 :eek::eek:, and lo and behold, the warranty only covers up to $1600. How convenient. Then the new water heater was too tall and the power wires wouldn't reach, so an electrician (Downtown Electric) had to come out and wire it up...$349 for 1.5 hours of work, and part of that fee was paying for the apprentice to assist the journeyman and get on the job training (meaning she was his gopher, pretty sure I don't need to be paying for that) and $79 for a job permit, which I'm not sure I should be paying for either. Oh, and the plumber checked my water pressure and it was too high, so he had to install new parts that totalled another $590. I'm quite sure I was taken for a ride, and I'm quite sure Blue Ribbon will be getting a call from me. They can shove their home warranty up their ###.

They replaced my garage door opener right after I moved in, $55 flat fee, like it's supposed to be. I got raped this time.

Oh yeah, and I had to go buy two carbon monoxide detectors so the inspectors wouldn't ding me when they came out to inspect the work on the water heater, so that was another $50.

That sucks man. We didn't have carbon monoxide detectors either and they said they had to install them when we had our furnace replaced last year. Lucky for us they threw them in for free. But we were paying full price on that job (about $2200 I think) so no warranty helping us out, heh.

mOOsE · Postby **mOOsE** » Wed Jul 03, 2013 9:14

_AlexTM wrote:Same with Vampires.

Love Vampires.... and zombies, and general old-school monster-types.

What I hate is recent high-school-girl versions of characters that are supposed to be scary.

Vampires.... 30 Days of Night NOT Twilight sparkle crap
Zombies..... Walking Dead NOT Warm Bodies (although it was decent for rom-com wife-movie)
Werewolves.... American Werewolf in London NOT Teen Wolf/Twilight crap.

GR-8 · Postby **GR-8** » Wed Jul 03, 2013 9:14

When you move all you're cars across the street the night before street sweeping and come home after work to find that your street is still filthy because people parked in front of your house.

Oh and since I'm here. People that don't know how to drive. I was turning off Alameda making a right hand turn and this lady in a SUV thinks she owns the street. She's not just in the middle of the street but driving left of the middle. I was forced to turn extra sharp and the curb at that street is high at the Apex. I ended up curbing me rear wheel. Pissed me off. She has soo much room to her right. It was either avoid her and hit the curb or have a head on collision. Go Back to/ Stay in the suburbs.

Andyscums · Postby **Andyscums** » Thu Jul 04, 2013 9:14

When you park far away so no one parks close to your car and you come out of wherever you were only to find out of all the spots in the entire parking lot, the parked RIGHT next to you.

tsx_guy · Postby **tsx_guy** » Thu Jul 04, 2013 9:14

Andyscums wrote:When you park far away so no one parks close to your car and you come out of wherever you were only to find out of all the spots in the entire parking lot, the parked RIGHT next to you.

people love you, embrace it.

Andyscums · Postby **Andyscums** » Thu Jul 04, 2013 9:14

[quote="tsx_guy"]people love you, embrace it.[/

kingtut · Postby **kingtut** » Thu Jul 04, 2013 9:14

Andyscums wrote:When you park far away so no one parks close to your car and you come out of wherever you were only to find out of all the spots in the entire parking lot, the parked RIGHT next to you.

Story of my life...happens to me ALL the time:rolleyes:

speedjunkie · Postby **speedjunkie** » Sun Jul 07, 2013 9:14

erod550 wrote:...so no warranty helping us out, heh.

Count your blessings...they wouldn't have charged you $3000 because you had a home warranty, and the warranty would have covered up to $600 lol.

Postby **Huzer** » Mon Jul 08, 2013 9:14

Colorado (metro-Denver) emissions testing.

_AlexTM · Postby **_AlexTM** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 9:14

Not being able to find a GD phone number for support

Andyscums · Postby **Andyscums** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 9:14

When women call you dude

_AlexTM · Postby **_AlexTM** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 9:14

Andyscums wrote:When women call you dude

the absolute worst thing ever

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