CFM chuck123wapati Posted March 15, 2022 CFM Report Posted March 15, 2022 52 minutes ago, fredk said: Same has happened in Belfast and some other towns in N.I. We had a couple of really nice, hot, summers and the councils got rid of the covered places, redeveloped them into open air plaza type places. Bars and restaurants which were encouraged to open up there soon closed up, too cold and wet most days. Now the councils are wasting more public funds in schemes to correct their mess up here the city built a nice water park over $100,000 for the kids then figured out we dont have enough water to run it. we were on water rationing all last summer lol. Quote Worked in a prison for 30 years if I aint shiny every time I comment its no big deal, I just don't wave pompoms. “I won’t be wronged, I won’t be insulted, and I won’t be laid a hand on. I don’t do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.” THE DUKE!
CFM tsunkasapa Posted March 15, 2022 CFM Report Posted March 15, 2022 19 minutes ago, chuck123wapati said: here the city built a nice water park over $100,000 for the kids then figured out we dont have enough water to run it. we were on water rationing all last summer lol. Our city totally screwed up a cross town through street to create a 'Bike Boulevard'. But it is a block south of the street that borders the university, so the college kids have no use for ir. And the locals don't use it. It is a nightmare for snow removal, and almost impossible for emergency vehicles. The excuse from the city? "We got a grant to do it." The stupidity of govt, at ANY level, is mind boggling. Quote Hoka Hey! Today, tomorrow, next week, what does it matter?
Members Sheilajeanne Posted March 15, 2022 Members Report Posted March 15, 2022 3 hours ago, chuck123wapati said: Now what does it have to do with shipping? It cost me 20 bucks +3 days to get it, to send it back for refund another 20 bucks +3days then to re order from someone else 20 bucks +X days then maybe i get a decent piece with just scratches and bug bites. LOL OR eat the 100 bucks i throw away in bad leather and save four or five days of aggravation and forget it. And that's why I'm so glad I'm only 35 minutes from the nearest Tandy store! You may not get Herman Oak there, and other really top grade leathers, but at least I can see what I'm getting, and not have the hassle of returning crap! I've heard so many stories like yours, Chuck, it's turned me off ever ordering leather by phone or over the internet! Tools, dyes, etc., fine, but not leather. Quote
CFM chuck123wapati Posted March 15, 2022 CFM Report Posted March 15, 2022 52 minutes ago, Sheilajeanne said: And that's why I'm so glad I'm only 35 minutes from the nearest Tandy store! You may not get Herman Oak there, and other really top grade leathers, but at least I can see what I'm getting, and not have the hassle of returning crap! I've heard so many stories like yours, Chuck, it's turned me off ever ordering leather by phone or over the internet! Tools, dyes, etc., fine, but not leather. You are lucky , I wish i had that option i would use it nearest tandy is 150 miles over two mountain ranges. Funny thing is i have ordered from tandy and gotten better Brazilian tanned leather cheaper. Quote Worked in a prison for 30 years if I aint shiny every time I comment its no big deal, I just don't wave pompoms. “I won’t be wronged, I won’t be insulted, and I won’t be laid a hand on. I don’t do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.” THE DUKE!
Members Sheilajeanne Posted March 16, 2022 Members Report Posted March 16, 2022 I was doubly lucky in that I found a wonderful mentor when I signed up for their free beginner's classes. God rest your soul, Bill, there must be thousands of leather workers out there who were turned on to this marvelous craft through your patient teaching! He also knew the stock in the store better than some of the managers Tandy picked to work there... Quote
Members Handstitched Posted March 16, 2022 Author Members Report Posted March 16, 2022 Thanks for your replies good peeps. There are many times we get attacked by the ' fed up & p***d off ' virus, so its good to just vent . @Spyros & @Tugadude A lot of my hides come from Italy . I'm just going to stock up while I can atm, as we don't know what will happen with freight, cost etc. in the future. I may have increase my prices to compensate . 18 hours ago, Mulesaw said: Ah, nothing like a redevelopment of a city Our 'lil ol' hick of a town only has approx 1700 people...no bank, that closed down Nov. last year and nowhere to park right now due to the redevelopment . The journey just to collect the mail each day has doubled ( no mail boxes where I am) . The foot paths are all over the place, so its a bit like 'bush walking' to the post office each day. Feel sorry for the elderly & the disabled . Businesses are suffering as a result . I really can't see the point of it all. They should have left it the way it was....people were happy , not any more they're not. And , our 'lil 'ol hick of a town now has no mobile phone service . Its been down since yesterday , and the townsfolk are p***d off !!! 18 hours ago, chuck123wapati said: i got good shipping just crap product That would be classed as seconds here. I guess it would be too costly to send it back . Feel free to vent some more HS Quote ' I have a very gweat friend in Wome called Biggus Dickus, He has a wife you know, do you know whats she's called? Incontinentia.......Incontinentia Buttocks '
Members Mulesaw Posted March 16, 2022 Members Report Posted March 16, 2022 2 hours ago, Handstitched said: nowhere to park right now due to the redevelopment That is really one of the few things that most city planners seem to have no clue about. In a lot of Danish towns the general hope is that people will buy from the small shops/boutiques in the town center, because it gives some life to the pedestrian streets and that southern Europe feeling. But then they change free public owned parking lots into weird non functioning plazas, and people are left trying to find an overprized private parking spot nowhere near all the small shops. Next the politicians can't grasp why people suddenly decide to move all their business to mall areas outside the tons where there is free parking and lots of it. An educated guess from my side is that most of those city planners are types that lives in apartments and use a bicycle for their commuting. Well I quite often find myself driving with a boogie trailer or a horse trailer hitched to the back of the car, and If I need to make a stop to buy some groceries - there are really only a couple of shops that have a good parking spot for that. So I try to support those places even when I haven't got the trailer with me. By the way, this is a great rant you have started Quote
Contributing Member fredk Posted March 16, 2022 Contributing Member Report Posted March 16, 2022 1 hour ago, Mulesaw said: . . . and use a bicycle for their commuting.. . . True story; a certain road junction in Belfast was designed by a bicycle riding development designer. A couple of years ago some EU inspectors declared that road junction as the most confusing and most dangerous junction in Europe and possibly in the World! Quote Al speling misteaks aer all mi own werk..
Members suzelle Posted March 16, 2022 Members Report Posted March 16, 2022 On 3/15/2022 at 6:01 AM, Handstitched said: **sigh** Sure hope things are a bit easier for you where ever you are ? HS Oh Yes, MORE CHOCOLATE please! Hang in there, feeling your pain. Still dealing with regrouping after having to move out of my shop that was on a main street in the middle of town, open to the public. I'm transitioning still, working from home and also at a friend's (Customer's) shop. Hang in there! Stock up on Chocolate!!!!!!!! Quote
CFM chuck123wapati Posted March 16, 2022 CFM Report Posted March 16, 2022 (edited) 4 hours ago, Handstitched said: Thanks for your replies good peeps. There are many times we get attacked by the ' fed up & p***d off ' virus, so its good to just vent . @Spyros & @Tugadude A lot of my hides come from Italy . I'm just going to stock up while I can atm, as we don't know what will happen with freight, cost etc. in the future. I may have increase my prices to compensate . Our 'lil ol' hick of a town only has approx 1700 people...no bank, that closed down Nov. last year and nowhere to park right now due to the redevelopment . The journey just to collect the mail each day has doubled ( no mail boxes where I am) . The foot paths are all over the place, so its a bit like 'bush walking' to the post office each day. Feel sorry for the elderly & the disabled . Businesses are suffering as a result . I really can't see the point of it all. They should have left it the way it was....people were happy , not any more they're not. And , our 'lil 'ol hick of a town now has no mobile phone service . Its been down since yesterday , and the townsfolk are p***d off !!! That would be classed as seconds here. I guess it would be too costly to send it back . Feel free to vent some more HS heres my issue with sending it back , they will just resell it to some other poor sap who probably wont know any better and possibly he will even think they did him a favor. plus I will waste a week of my life and 20 more dollars. then shipping and more time on another piece I cant afford throwing good money after bad and telling them that made no deference to them. MLC wont get any more of my money that is all i can do. Edited March 16, 2022 by chuck123wapati Quote Worked in a prison for 30 years if I aint shiny every time I comment its no big deal, I just don't wave pompoms. “I won’t be wronged, I won’t be insulted, and I won’t be laid a hand on. I don’t do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.” THE DUKE!
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