The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

[Wu Wei]

I have a fence gate post that is kaput. A contractor gave me a fixed price bid as well as mentioning T&M and costs. I chose T&M and now the contractor has ghosted me because I'd pay quite a bit less that way.

Sorry to hear that, have a few contractor horror stories from a government office I worked at...and a couple just from being a home owner

 

[Wu Wei]

So where's my Tappan Zee Bridge?

Your Tappan Zee bridge....well...its dead dead dead and dead....

and or replaced..... should have asked me before you leant it to the state...you can't trust em... they will take your stuff and not even ask you or tell you they did it

 

[sun rise]

Tappan Zee

named for the Native American Tappan people who once lived in the area and the Dutch word for “sea”

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Today has been a cooking day, but I'm actually making that much, I'm just making bread, and juggling cheddar bay biscuits, grilled corn on the cob and steak for dinner.

 

[Stevicus]

Your Tappan Zee bridge....well...its dead dead dead and dead....

and or replaced..... should have asked me before you leant it to the state...you can't trust em... they will take your stuff and not even ask you or tell you they did it

This is what happened to it:

 

[Shadow Wolf]

named for the Native American Tappan people who once lived in the area and the Dutch word for “sea”

Not to be confused with the Deutsch/Dutch Amish, because English hates to work and make sense but loves to get sloppy and playful.

 

[Wu Wei]

This is what happened to it:

Don't tell @Revoltingest that NYS and Andrew Cuomo blew his bridge up.... it will make him so sad

 

[Revoltingest]

Don't tell @Revoltingest that NYS and Andrew Cuomo blew his bridge up.... it will make him so sad

I'll be bet the toll is higher on the new one.

 

[Wu Wei]

I'll be the toll is higher on the new one.

for cars it is about 75 cents higher, not sure about trucks. But I only know what I read, I avoid NYC and the Mario Cuomo Bridge

 

[Revoltingest]

for cars it is about 75 cents higher, not sure about trucks. But I only know what I read, I avoid NYC and the Mario Cuomo Bridge

I take 287 around NYC.
This bridge is useful to get further north on the east coast.

 

[Stevicus]

I take 287 around NYC.
This bridge is useful to get further north on the east coast.

I just checked the map, and it appears there's another bridge across the Hudson about 17 miles north of the Tappen Zee. It's called the Bear Mountain Bridge, near Peekskill.

 

[Revoltingest]

I just checked the map, and it appears there's another bridge across the Hudson about 17 miles north of the Tappen Zee. It's called the Bear Mountain Bridge, near Peekskill.

It lacks good highway access.
If I have business south of NYC, then it's 287 to 684 to 84.
If staying north of that then it's 80 to 81 to 84.
Remember...no trucks on any east coast parkway....not legal, ya know.

 

[Wu Wei]

It's useful too.
But the Tappan Zee Bridge location is best most of the time for me.
If business south of NYC, then it's 287 to 684 to 84.
If staying north of that then it's 80 to 81 to 84.
Remember...no trucks on any east coast parkway....not legal, ya know.

Go though Pennsylvania.....

 

[Revoltingest]

Go though Pennsylvania.....

I always do.
Never thru Canuckistan.

 

[Wu Wei]

I always do.
Never thru Canuckistan.

you do realize that Canuckistan is North of NYS, and Pennsylvania ... and not a US state...right

 

[Stevicus]

 

[Shadow Wolf]

you do realize that Canuckistan is North of NYS, and Pennsylvania ... and not a US state...right

He's in Revoltingestan, and would it really be surprising if he wound up somehow going through there?

 

[sun rise]

I'll be the toll is higher on the new one.

You'll be the toll up higher.

 

[sun rise]

True story

 

[Revoltingest]

you do realize that Canuckistan is North of NYS, and Pennsylvania ... and not a US state...right

Windsor Ontario is actually south of Detroit. I could go
thru Windsor to Buffalo, & never traverse PA on my way
to MA or ME. It would save me 60 miles or so (each way).
But the border crossings offer brutal delays & potentially
nasty government encounters. And I'd need to provide an
inventory to a broker (cuz of what I carry).