Shit that annoys you

[rideit]

Using fuel stabilizer in the snowblower, and the thing still won’t start for shit.

Part 2: going to the small engine place where they are a bunch of assholes

[Rideski]

The 4wd in my truck decided that today was a good day to not work.

Sounds like the linkage was frozen.
Is it a known problem?
Are the hub seals toast allowing water in?
I’d shift in the night before a 5 degree morning if it’s gonna be a tegular thing.

[skaredshtles]

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Part 2: going to the small engine place where they are a bunch of assholes

Hopefully they charge an arm and a leg in addition to being assholes?

[Danno]

Sounds like the linkage was frozen.
Is it a known problem?
Are the hub seals toast allowing water in?
I’d shift in the night before a 5 degree morning if it’s gonna be a tegular thing.

it is a known problem, the actuator sometimes goes bad. Which is why I had it replaced a few months ago. So this might be covered under a "warranty", but don't know. Of course, it worked this morning.

annoying.

[Boissal]

US Customs.
I've been getting a monthly shipment from a company that does contract work for us in India for about 18 months now. There's a fair amount of paperwork to clear customs so they have an entire team dedicated to making sure everything is in place before the package goes out. Contents are on dry ice and time sensitive, if they get to room temperature they go bad. We had 17 shipments arrive in 48 hours with no issues. The 18th is held up by CBP for some mysterious reason. I've contacted Fedex and they're as confused as I am. The box is 3 days late, there's probably enough dry ice to last until Friday night but if not we're throwing $30k down the drain.
Even worse, 5 years ago they held up a shipment of French cheese for 2 weeks and it wasn't salvageable when it finally arrived.

[PNWbrit]

US Customs.
I've been getting a monthly shipment from a company that does contract work for us in India for about 18 months now. There's a fair amount of paperwork to clear customs so they have an entire team dedicated to making sure everything is in place before the package goes out. Contents are on dry ice and time sensitive, if they get to room temperature they go bad. We had 17 shipments arrive in 48 hours with no issues. The 18th is held up by CBP for some mysterious reason. I've contacted Fedex and they're as confused as I am. The box is 3 days late, there's probably enough dry ice to last until Friday night but if not we're throwing $30k down the drain.
Even worse, 5 years ago they held up a shipment of French cheese for 2 weeks and it wasn't salvageable when it finally arrived.

[iceman]

Gotta keep them kidneys refrigerated, amIrite?

[Danno]

US Customs.
I've been getting a monthly shipment from a company that does contract work for us in India for about 18 months now. There's a fair amount of paperwork to clear customs so they have an entire team dedicated to making sure everything is in place before the package goes out. Contents are on dry ice and time sensitive, if they get to room temperature they go bad. We had 17 shipments arrive in 48 hours with no issues. The 18th is held up by CBP for some mysterious reason. I've contacted Fedex and they're as confused as I am. The box is 3 days late, there's probably enough dry ice to last until Friday night but if not we're throwing $30k down the drain.
Even worse, 5 years ago they held up a shipment of French cheese for 2 weeks and it wasn't salvageable when it finally arrived.

man, the price of dead Indian hookers has really skyrocketed.

[rideit]

Hopefully they charge an arm and a leg in addition to being assholes?

Well, I put in new fuel with some octane, and left it in the sun for an hour.
Fired right the fuck up.
That didn’t annoy me.

[Boissal]

Gotta keep them kidneys refrigerated, amIrite?

man, the price of dead Indian hookers has really skyrocketed.

I wish the kidneys were the only thing to go bad...
Danno, we like to call them generous donors, hookers is so demeaning.

Just got off the phone with Fedex. Dude basically told me it's probably a trainee who fucked up and at this point all bets are off. This isn't gonna help my budget.

[rideit]

Is that type of thing insurable?

[Boissal]

Is that type of thing insurable?

Hooker kidneys? Not really...

This stuff may be insurable but I'm sure we'd never see a $ from a delayed shipment since nobody will take responsibility for the delaying and eventually will blame CBP which will sure as fuck not give us a dime. In this case the package was supposedly missing a form which I know for a fact was included in the shipping docs. The India guys always send me a copy of whatever goes in the shipping pouch & an actual picture of the box + documents to cover their asses. The Fedex lady I just spoke with got all testy with me about the form not being there until I sent her said pics. How do you not find a form when there are only 4 pages of documents?
DHL pulls the same shit all the time and they're the only other option to overnight weird stuff from across the world.

Edit: and just like that...

[old goat]

Isn't the shipper responsible to the addressee for delayed, lost, or stolen packages until the completed delivery is documented? By shipper I mean the person sending the package, not the carrier. Maybe that doesn't apply in cases like this, especially with the customs hold.

[Boissal]

Isn't the shipper responsible to the addressee for delayed, lost, or stolen packages until the completed delivery is documented? By shipper I mean the person sending the package, not the carrier. Maybe that doesn't apply in cases like this, especially with the customs hold.

I'm not 100% sure who is legally responsible. It would make sense that once you hand out a package to Fedex and pay them to deliver it they assume responsibility and if they lose it/delay it it's on them... but very few things follow the rules of common sense these days. Crisis averted in this case, until next month. Can't wait to see what new trick is pulled to delay my kidney, erm, undisclosed pricey object shipment.

[iceman]

Edit: and just like that...

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We have some muscle here son. What else do you need done?