Cabin Fever: What Really Grinds My Gears

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I figured this thread could be therapeutic. Cabin Fever is strong this time of year.

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Think of this thread as a nest in a tree of trust and understanding. We can say anything here.
 


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Holy cow KW! Did you have yourself a bad Valentine's Day date with Rosie Palm and her 5 sisters yesterday? Or is the cabin fever just driving you stir crazy? Not to fear...but there is some light at the end of the tunnel or some warmer temps where hopefully you can get out and do some ice fishing at least.
 

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You know what really grinds my gears? Almonds on Almond Joy. Damn Mounds has no almonds but has half assed dark chocolate. I want milk chocolate and not have to deal with cheap ass bullshit almonds on my sugary splendor of coconut.
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You know what grinds my gears? When some one makes "cookie salad" and puts fruit in it. Fuck that shit.
 


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What grinds my gears? Items that are exceptionally well engineered, but done so in a "silo" environment that doesn't let the engineer see the entirety of the project.

Case in point: 2011 SuperDuty has headlamps that are really easy to change, unplug, 1/4 turn in/out, and plug them back in. However, to get to the point that you're able to get at the the bulb for the swap, you have to remove the entire grill.

2015 Subaru Legacy was just about as bad, had to remove the fender liner to get at the bulb.

2011 SupeDuty, Water-in-fuel sensor is plastic has 2 18ga wires coming into it and hangs down below the frame rails. I've broken 2 of the sensors on snow-drifts. One out on the lake, the other on a section line. Nothing that fragile or made of plastic should hang down beneath the frame rails of any pickup.

Outboard motors. The stupid little rectangle shaped nuts that fit into recesses in the plastic to bolt the mid-section in place. Fine, have the little nuts, but lets make them stay in their recesses a little more securely please.

Suzuki King Quad, you have to pull off a small plastic panel to check the doggone oil. The plastic panel is held in place with those plastic push-pins who's inventor by the way, should've been dipped in honey and staked down to an anthill.

If I were king for a day, every engineer would have to be able to start with a finished product (whatever that is), disassemble said product to get to the part they designed, remove/replace their part, then re-assemble properly. Too much CADD time, not enough wrench time, along with not NEARLY enough time spent understanding the finished product rather than just their little part.
 


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City blade operators that don't know how to blade the streets. :mad: Streets in Minot are rougher then titty sprinkles. That and I haven't seen one on north hill since they bladed off the 11 inches we got quit awhile ago.
 

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City blade operators

Not operators really more equipment. How come Bismarck gets wing dams on their blades to stop the driveway lumps but Fargo can't have them. Would think in the days of modern technology there'd be a GPS actuator on those little beauties.
 


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Remembering trying to teach my grand sons on how to drive a stick shift.
 

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Dickshits that come up on a side road and can't wait for you to finish plowing the 1/4 mile of gravel and be past them, but instead have to pull out and drive towards you. I don't slow down one bit.
 

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Maybe there’s still that spare in the dodge.

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Not operators really more equipment. How come Bismarck gets wing dams on their blades to stop the driveway lumps but Fargo can't have them. Would think in the days of modern technology there'd be a GPS actuator on those little beauties.

I might have actually figured out the answer to this one. The newer the development, the smaller the lots and the closer the houses are to each other, not to mention the increasing number of culdesacs, roundabouts, and intentional curving and turning of streets to prevent speeding in residential areas. This results in a significant reduction of linear boulevard on a street.

In the old neighborhoods, you might have 3’ of boulevard for every 1’ of driveway (width). In the new developments it’s more like 1/1 ratio. If they dropped the gate to “skip” every driveway, they’d a) take FOREVER to clear a street and b) run out of room for snow on the boulevards by New Year’s Day. They have to push snow into driveways so you can move it to your front yard, off the boulevard.

They can’t very well parse out “use the gate on this street but don’t use it on this street.” Their goal after a storm is CLEAR THE @&$#% ROADS ASAP.”
 


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