Easter Partay 19: Secret Of The Ooze

[Chad22]

Originally Posted by Stormtracker TF

Funny thing is, whatever they did actually destroyed the disposal unit and it later had to get replaced.

This was like a month or two after I started working at Best Buy.

I somewhat remember you talking about this on the podcast at the time.

My garbage disposal hasn't worked in years. First one I ever had when I moved in here, it worked like a year and just hasn't since. I barely used it anyways just cause I'm not used to throwing food down the sink.

[robyrob]

Originally Posted by C Doody

Nah, I'll actually kinda be sad if it does end even if it's not great anymore.

I don't remember what life without The Simpsons was like. I think you only lived three months in a Simpsonless world.

i watched the original appearances of the Simpsons when they first appeared on the Tracy Ullman show - wayyy different feel

I was actually a big fan of Life In Hell long before that too - FOX originally wanted Groening to make a sitcom based on that but he didn't want to give the the rights to those characters, and so we got the Simpsons.

[Chad22]

Originally Posted by Stormtracker TF

Joe: Tell me about it

LOL

Poor guy

*Chad just casually sits in the hotel room and TF runs across the street while a sick Joe coughs his way out to the main office to tell them before returning with a plunger*

[Chad22]

Originally Posted by robyrob

i watched the original appearances of the Simpsons when they first appeared on the Tracy Ullman show - wayyy different feel

I was actually a big fan of Life In Hell long before that too - FOX originally wanted Groening to make a sitcom based on that but he didn't want to give the the rights to those characters, and so we got the Simpsons.

Yeah, I saw some of those Tracy Ullman shorts later on and they were very different. Homer especially.

[Stormtracker TF]

Originally Posted by Elvis Fonzie Dean

When I came back to work this past Monday I heard an automated page in the store. Somebody told me they installed a new phone system which also includes pre-recorded robot voices paging departments. My co-worker told me cops were outside one night when it was being installed because somehow the police were called accidentally during installation.

The great surprise about this is that this plays over the speakers when somebody is waiting for their phone call to be picked up:

LOL I've dealt with Cisco phones many times, and I can almost guarantee what happened was is that someone hit the 9 key and didn't hang the phone up immediately.

Almost all Cisco phones are set up so that if you just hit the 9 button and pause or stop, it automatically calls 911. The police will come, and there is nothing you can do to stop it unless you call the police back and tell them it was an accident immediately. It's like a panic button.

I am all too familiar with that hold music.

[Stormtracker TF]

Originally Posted by C Doody

I somewhat remember you talking about this on the podcast at the time.

My garbage disposal hasn't worked in years. First one I ever had when I moved in here, it worked like a year and just hasn't since. I barely used it anyways just cause I'm not used to throwing food down the sink.

I'd still have your landlord fix it. Landlords are cheap, you should have a working disposal even if you don't use it because if it isn't working properly it can cause plumbing issues.

[Chad22]

Originally Posted by Stormtracker TF

I'd still have your landlord fix it. Landlords are cheap, you should have a working disposal even if you don't use it because if it isn't working properly it can cause plumbing issues.

I should. I just have extreme anxiety about that kind of thing cause I always fear I'll be blamed or something even though I know I probably wouldn't be.

[Stormtracker TF]

Originally Posted by C Doody

LOL

Poor guy

*Chad just casually sits in the hotel room and TF runs across the street while a sick Joe coughs his way out to the main office to tell them before returning with a plunger*

I've never seen anyone more unconcerned with their property being destroyed than management at that motel, you would have thought we were asking for a key to their safe or something with how hard it was to get that plunger.

Honestly, if the maintenance guy wasn't personally getting toilet water flowing into his room, they probably wouldn't have even cared.

[robyrob]

Originally Posted by Stormtracker TF

I'd still have your landlord fix it. Landlords are cheap, you should have a working disposal even if you don't use it because if it isn't working properly it can cause plumbing issues.

the standard response is - "i figured out what's wrong with your garbage disposal - you don't have one."

[Stormtracker TF]

Originally Posted by C Doody

I should. I just have extreme anxiety about that kind of thing cause I always fear I'll be blamed or something even though I know I probably wouldn't be.

Look at it this way, if they were going to go that route, they'd just blame you for it when you moved out.

If anything, taking care of it now would probably show it WASN'T your fault.

[Chad22]

Originally Posted by robyrob

the standard response is - "i figured out what's wrong with your garbage disposal - you don't have one."

[Chad22]

Originally Posted by Stormtracker TF

Look at it this way, if they were going to go that route, they'd just blame you for it when you moved out.

If anything, taking care of it now would probably show it WASN'T your fault.

Them: So when did it stop working?

Me: 2014...I mean, Wednesday.

[robyrob]

Originally Posted by Stormtracker TF

I've never seen anyone more unconcerned with their property being destroyed than management at that motel, you would have thought we were asking for a key to their safe or something with how hard it was to get that plunger.

Honestly, if the maintenance guy wasn't personally getting toilet water flowing into his room, they probably wouldn't have even cared.

they seen some scary **** man - literally.

[robyrob]

Originally Posted by C Doody

Them: So when did it stop working?

Me: 2014...I mean, Wednesday.

[Chad22]

Originally Posted by robyrob

they seen some scary **** man - literally.

In the area we stayed in, they probably have.