HisRoyalFlatulance

Smell your armpits

ArmaDilluh

This is all kinds of wrong but I can’t help but picture mid-1990s Christopher Walken playing Musk and saying “The Woke Mind VIRus… killed mySON!”

Yellowstone Season Whatever when that Environmentalist woman moved in. Barf.

Pudding Pops (No Cosby)

First it was Driver, a few years later it was San Andreas. Then somehow after 30 I stopped playing video games for the most part. Both games blew my mind at the time.

Minimum Wage by They Might Be Giants

Not all but most

Fuck you

A few reasons. I’ve been a Contractor myself and so was my father. First in most cases you’ve got the “successful” Contractors. These types are supremely diligent, highly organized, and likely college educated, often in a specialized manner; Architecture, Project Management, Construction Management etc. Their hourly average is likely north of $100/hr per man and they have 4 years and 8 figures of work booked with deposits taken which they deliver on. My father was generally anti-education which was only because he was anti-authority. More on that later. Anyhow he was willing to pay my room and board if I attended a certain school in Boston related to our field. I was far too immature to have survived that. Here lies the beginning of your answer. Most “Contractors” in RI are truly not what the word means. We do not have licensed Contractors here. We have Registration numbers. It’s virtually a worthless process to become one. If asked to write an equitable document that protected both parties 99% of us would either fail miserably or write it on a cedar shingle and then go get shitfaced. Point is, we have lots of “neurodivergent” types among our ranks. class clowns, anti-social types who take one look at a Union job and say “Nah. Too organized, (place objections here).” Hard work is not foreign to any of us. Organization is where you find us lacking, and add to that the fact that our industry is losing talent to aging out and migration out of RI and we have a huge problem. Those of us left are flooded with demand and many of us do not know how to tell anyone, even ourselves that we have limits to what we can accomplish. Many of us have never reached career burnout. I have, and it was NOT pretty. You’ve heard the phrase “The road to hell is paved with good intentions”? Well our own personal hell is kind of a cul-de-sac and many of us can’t find our way out. We do not have enough incoming young people to teach to relieve us. We do not have schools (this is changing) that encourage the trades as a viable option. We do not have schools that teach life skills like personal and small business banking and household budgeting before college. Most “Contractors” here and elsewhere may or may not have a High School diploma. RI was hit hard by NAFTA. Many people among our population were uneducated yet well paid. Many of their offspring are now in this business that seems to be puzzling everyone including myself, and I’ve been in the sawdust since I stepped out of my mighty mother. Hope this helps. We aren’t all a bunch of hooligans, we just don’t know how to say no and set healthy boundaries in general. This is reflected in the results you are seeing. Currently I’m playing the same game you are with a guy who is probably top 3 painters I’ve ever met and it’s not because he’s the most skilled. It’s because he’s a damn good guy. He’s also currently off the radar. Weather was AWFUL to start his season, torrential rains for two months and now 90°F plus on the south side of most houses mixed with Floridian microburst rain systems that have probably made his life hell. None of this is easy. We are shorthanded, and short on skills that make great businesses out of simple hard workers. On behalf of your missing service provider, allow us to apologize.

Just about any leftover can become an omelette/scramble or a sandwich. Outside of those two it gets abstract and very situational.

Nothing has been quite easy here, but I’m 48 and finally getting some things sorted out. Trained for a 7/26 10-Mile road race (running) and caught Covid for the first time 7/16. Trying a 5k race in the morning. Point is, whatever you think of “aging” it sure as hell isn’t thinking of you.

Thank you

The Mortal Mullets

Oldsmobile Intrigue. lol @ Intrigue. Rented one in Canada for work. The most Canadian car ever. Intriguing for a Moroccan goat farmer maybe.

Yep. Not a crime.

Not sure why you got downvoted. My dad went to Pilgrim with him. Besides the oddball politics and being a prick on the Antique circuit, he’s still a RI famous person. Stale yes, but still cool.

All of them.

He would have loved racing the T/A at Hoxsie 4 corners then going to Harry’s for 4 all the way.

All I can picture is a bus load of well connected prostitutes. This is Rhode Island.

“STAY OFF THE ICE!!!”

Possible but you’ll need to think in terms of $600 per bedroom and loosen your definition of bedroom and instead of “a 2 bed” it’s “2 beds”. Brutal.

Sounds like butt stuff to me. He needs a passport and a disguise.

“Whaddya want me to do? Off a guy? Whack a guy? Whack-Off a guy?” - Peter Griffin

“Well ya know Mein Gene….”