Loading a vehicle or container for moving. I’ve had friends ask me to basically take over their move. And yeah, I may be a sucker for doing it, but I will save people hours and multiple trips while moving. I 3d tetris the hell out of a uhaul.

Height. I’m 6’6" on a good day. Top 99.897% in the world.

Reviving and programming REMBASS units. REmotely Monitored Battlefield Sensor System was a old ass piece of equipment when I was using it 20 years ago in the Army. You’d have to program different channels using another old ass piece of equipment. And very often they’d drop their fills, or not appreciate having a new, fully charged battery in it. It would frustrate people to no end because they’d spend hours trying to get it going, and then I’d stroll up talking all nice and pretty to the gear and shit would just work for me.

All you have to do in order to be a better than average driver is to be alert to what’s going in around you. I do that, and I drive fast. I’m an exponentially better driver than most.

Yeah. I have no problem paying for products that I happily use. Especially when they are supporting independent developers.

Thai papaya salad was what got me into hot food. I was at a Thai restaurant with Thai friends, and they told me to try it. It looked like coleslaw to me, so I grabbed a bunch and started eating it. First couple bites were fine, but then the heat came. And the salad was the only thing that provided any temporary relief. I had so much of it. I loved it. I’ve tried it other places, never been as good because they will use jalapeno instead of the tiny Thai chilis.

I stood up in my best friend’s wedding, and he took the photos at mine. I went in and covered for him when his wife started labor for their first child. I bailed him out of jail when we had a particularly wild night of drinking. We often have the same or very similar daily driver vehicles. I wrote him letters and post cards nearly every day when he was in basic training, and they were such a hit with his group, he asked me to write them all a letter. I’ve known him 18 years, could not with confidence tell you his age.

That’s a lot going on.

A 14 year old girl once tried to berate me for having an android versus her iPhone. I asked her why her iPhone was so much better thsn my android? She didn’t have a response. I told her that I had an iPhone, and found it inflexible and frustrating to use. It’s overpriced and boring…

She didn’t really understand what I was getting at, and why ear buds or blue text bubbles weren’t important to me.

Shush. There are many Americans that still drive a manual transmission.

Pay me enough and I can forget about how much work sucks.

Sorry you are going through that. I have only been mean or rude to a service worker one time, and that’s because they were actively being an asshole to me by serving everyone else at the table besides me, and after their orders were brought, I had to make it a point to ask for food and drinks. And everyone else had refills and their food before I ever got my drinks.

And let me be clear, by mean or rude, I mean I just didn’t tip them.

One time I got a tray of drinks dumped on me by our server as they were bringing them. I paid for those drinks and the replacements and I still tipped that server.

I don’t get people that are rude to service workers. Even at McDonald’s when they forget fries or something, no need to be a dick. Just politely ask for them. They literally don’t give a shit and will usually give you a bigger size.

But OP, if you are making so much money doing this, why stress about it Just enjoy the money and don’t let it get to you.

Is “kill yourself immediately” too dark? Probably. But if like three billion people died suddenly and without a massive environmental impact like nukes or some other poisoning of the world, could solve a bunch of problems.

Almost exclusively credit. And I don’t even play the game where you move stuff around to maximize points and all the other Bullshit. I just use the credit card through my almost exclusively online bank. Every pay day, first thing I do is pay off whatever I’ve accrued on the card the past two weeks, so I never carry a balance.

Back when I would go to the bars a lot, I used cash often.

I get that. And we had been planning to save up for a deposit, but we were a couple years away from it. But she very quickly caught on to what we could do and jumped at it. At the time she was freshly divorced and remarried, and he ex had tanked her credit and depleted her funds, and I didnt earn much. Our financials have gotten much better, and we both contribute our fair shares to the household. We won’t ever miss a payment or anything. And we live in a semi-rural community, so for what our house is, we are doing very well.

Shit. We didn’t put anything down. And our rates were pretty good as well.

Then wouldn’t it make sense to not put an actual figure down for how much donating is actually freeing up?

I’ve always been under the belief it’s a day’s worth of calories.

VA loans are so fucking clutch.

I got a Chinese joint two blocks away like that. I saw someone eating there for the first time for the five years that I’ve lived in my house. The cook is also the delivery driver, and we are both on the same one way street, so I’ll see him drive past a handful of times a night. Not enough though. I don’t think it’s a front though. Just cheap real estate that he probably owns.

Our small, rural town had a bar change hands a couple times over the past few years. One day several murdered out Mercs, one an AMG, start parking in front of it. Not to stereotype, but they were greased up, wearing tracksuits and gold chains, guys from the Balkans are driving those cars and operating the bar. Never went in while they were around, but within a year, one of those guys got caught by DEA trying to move some serious weight of cocaine and meth.

The bar shut down pretty quickly after that.