Comments | soopageek: you're talkin' jive woman when you say to me

soopageek

you're talkin' jive woman when you say to me

Nov 14, 2009 21:50

After the truck accident, I acquired my first Bluetooth capable phone when replacing the one that was destroyed in the crash. I bought a cheap headset for it. It was awful. People I talked to heard themselves echoing in their conversations and using it in a noisy truck environment was impossible due to the background noise. When I went to work ( Read more... )

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welfy November 15 2009, 05:03:03 UTC

Not safely at home anymore! I think Fubu smoked all of them.

bulletsandbones November 15 2009, 14:20:49 UTC

Congrats on the one year!!

backuplj November 15 2009, 15:00:22 UTC

My parents used to roll their own cigarettes. Except around the time I turned 20 I discovered that they weren't "cigarettes."

lossfound November 23 2009, 04:11:38 UTC

I wish I had your parents; also, I wish that my parents that were your parents would share some "tobacco" already.

lossfound November 23 2009, 04:12:02 UTC

finally, apologies for replying to a comment last made EIGHT FUCKING DAYS AGO

intendent November 15 2009, 20:33:26 UTC

What, exactly, is truckstop markup?

soopageek November 15 2009, 21:01:34 UTC

The phenomena that occurs anytime you have a captive consumer base, you know, like "airport markup". While truckstop consumers aren't quite as "captive" as airport customers, the fact that a truck driver can't easily go somewhere else with his 18 wheeler to buy something he needs/wants does cause it to occur. The headset I bought retails online for about $80, but it was $100 in the truckstop. If I had been buying it with actual money, there's no way I would've bought it in a truck stop. But since it was essentially free, that's why I got it there.

intendent November 15 2009, 21:13:01 UTC

Ohh! Okay. I understand. I wondered if that was what it was, but I wasn't really sure.

And, hey, it was free! Is it nice to use, then?

soopageek November 15 2009, 22:09:50 UTC

Yeah I love it.

lossfound November 23 2009, 04:16:10 UTC

i tried out a lot of different DIY cig-making methods as a younger lad. you are right, they would never work for a daily / hourly smoker, or at least the $8 variety certainly wouldn't fly. success rate was about 2/3 even with practice and it took about 60 seconds to get each cigarette ready, you'd waste half your fucking day trying to get yourself set. i always wanted to try one of the $50-80 models; i heard they were a million times better.

soopageek December 1 2009, 00:33:28 UTC

Yeah, well I don't really WANT anything that would make it easy to smoke. I figure if I'm going to allow myself the occasional cigarette, the temptation will be too great to pick up the habit again if I can churn out cigarettes easily and efficiently - so this is great for me. When I'm home, I've smoked one per day. Of course, with the holidays, I'm home a lot more, so I've had 5-6 in the past week. But as a general rule, I'll likely smoke 2 cigarettes per week this way.