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I Baffled The Cashier at Safeway This Morning
As many of you know Seattle has had a weather disaster with snow and ice for the past week. Well my power went out along with the Safeway store both mine and SW got our power back at 3:45am this morning. After digging my car out this morning I went to SW for a few things and gas for the car.
The difference between those who lost power and those who didn't in my town was whether your power line were underground or overhead. So I was going through the checkout and was talking weather with another customer who didnt lose power and he said he was glad that I got my power back on after 17 hours. I then mentioned that a great jobs bill would be to employ people burying our power lines thus ending for the most part the $$$$$$$ losses that happens when the power goes out.Plus the other related jobs it would create.
Well the cashier who's conservative husband just won a seat to the city council heard the conversation and looked over toward me and said how would that help the economy and just had that .... "JEEZ I DONT KNOW WHAT TO SAY LOOK" on her face. it was like she was saying with her face how come liberal/progressives always have the good ideas??
It was priceless.
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Link (http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002194643)
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I was just about to bring this crap over.
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Rsmith needs to change the venue of his bouncies. Isn't this like the third or fourth one in a grocery store?
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BS, you liar.
Never happened.
No bong.
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The difference between those who lost power and those who didn't in my town was whether your power line were underground or overhead. So I was going through the checkout and was talking weather with another customer who didnt lose power and he said he was glad that I got my power back on after 17 hours. I then mentioned that a great jobs bill would be to employ people burying our power lines thus ending for the most part the $$$$$$$ losses that happens when the power goes out.Plus the other related jobs it would create.
My Husbands Aunt has underground power lines and we have over-head power lines, she lost power for 3 days during the Halloween Storm and she had to stay with us since we only lost power briefly.
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I don't think that the underground service gets power from the power station underground. I have burried service, and it goes out all the time. Seems those nasty trees, winds and ice storms knock down the overhead lines servicing the neighborhood, poof, no power. Crap load easier to fix overhead lines than burried lines
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It's a bouncy, but it shows what the DUmmie really thinks.
Buried power lines still are more expensive to emplace, maintain, and replace than overhead power lines. Not to mention the difficulty in burying power line in an established area, where property rights would increase costs(off to court we go) and roads (which will have to be dug up and taken out of service while the lines are placed) get in the routes that would be the most economically feasible then all of the power hookups to the houses would have to be alterred for the underground delivery. The DUmmie would expect to see a hike in his electricity rates and a millage adjustment on his property tax to pay for all of this, right?
How much is the DUmmie willing to pay for this little economic stimulus?
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Are they lapping it up over there?
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Moron.
Underground wires would still cause the electricity to go out. What happens with earthquakes? Does the earthquake say, "Oh no, we better look out for those power lines. Don't want to leave them DUmmies without power for a day or longer."
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I had underground utilities for seventeen years while living in the north with heavy snows, freezing rain, and severe pre-global warming winters.
As far as I know, we did not have even one minute of electricity outage during that entire time.
On the other hand, this is rsmithnumbers, one of the absolute DUmbest of all the DUmbasses, and the author of the lamest bouncies in town.
The hilarious cover letter he suggested for his wife's resume remains a DUmp classic.
Not one word of his story actually happened.
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Gee I guess that nicked cable cattywhompas across the street from me that caused my power to brown-out and pop on and off several times a day wouldn't have happened if it was buried deeper than the 5 feet it was huh dummies? It took 4 crews 2 weeks to fix it due to it being buried. All of which would have been avoided if it was on a pole.
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All I can say to this, is :whatever:
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When building a new neighborhood not only is it aesthetically pleasing to the eye but also cheaper upfront to use buried lines.
When poles already exist, passing a jobs bill that would would pay workers $45,000 for every $200,000 that the taxpayers pay would not be good for the economy DUmmie. Not to mention the 300% over budget the project would run, causing taxes to go up even more.
DUmmies are so freaking short sighted it almost pisses me off.
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Nobody was paying attention to me, so I ripped off my shirt and ran into a Safeway and blurted out "Underground Power Lines" and everybody looked at me and were like, "Wow, how come liberals always have such great ideas!" And everyone was happy with me so I ran out into the street and was hit by a bus. The end.
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Boobiez?
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Nobody was paying attention to me, so I ripped off my shirt and ran into a Safeway and blurted out "Underground Power Lines" and everybody looked at me and were like, "Wow, how come liberals always have such great ideas!" And everyone was happy with me so I ran out into the street and was hit by a bus. The end.
I would have actually been more inclined to believe your version.
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We have underground lines. If a transformer blows, we lose power for hours. No wind, no rain, no snow, no ice. It just blows out.
Imagine that. :whatever:
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OH OH, I got an idea. We could pay 6 million people to break windows and then pay 12 million people to replace them all. I'm thinking something along the lines of the Golden Gate Bridge painting. The first groups heads east and then comes back west, rinse and repeat until everyone has a job.
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Hahaha, I love how he made the cashier's DH a city councilman, to "show" how he knew she was conservative. Since he just won the seat, I wonder if she can stop working at the Safeway now and become one of the 1%? :lmao:
Here is a grocery store tale:
Today was my kid's b'day and I needed to bring the obligatory cupcakes in to his class this afternoon. I went to the Super Walmart, because I wanted to. I walked to the bakery and looked at the cupcakes. There was one pack of 12 Angry Bird cupcakes, so I asked the baker lady if there was anymore at another place in the store (they sometimes have displays in assorted places). She told me there wasn't, but she would be happy to take some of the plain packs of cupcakes ( I needed 30 total)and deck them out with sprinkles and Angry Bird rings. And so she did. I thought it was a very sweet thing to offer and thanked her. And then I paid for my cupcakes and left. There were no political discussions, no applause, and no cops in bushes. Silly me, I thought that was how most folks grocery store experiences went.
They don't even try to be believable. In all my years of grocery shopping, I have never, not once, discussed politics with the cashiers, the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, and not with the other customers either.
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Hahaha, I love how he made the cashier's DH a city councilman, to "show" how he knew she was conservative. Since he just won the seat, I wonder if she can stop working at the Safeway now and become one of the 1%? :lmao:
Here is a grocery store tale:
Today was my kid's b'day and I needed to bring the obligatory cupcakes in to his class this afternoon. I went to the Super Walmart, because I wanted to. I walked to the bakery and looked at the cupcakes. There was one pack of 12 Angry Bird cupcakes, so I asked the baker lady if there was anymore at another place in the store (they sometimes have displays in assorted places). She told me there wasn't, but she would be happy to take some of the plain packs of cupcakes ( I needed 30 total)and deck them out with sprinkles and Angry Bird rings. And so she did. I thought it was a very sweet thing to offer and thanked her. And then I paid for my cupcakes and left. There were no political discussions, no applause, and no cops in bushes. Silly me, I thought that was how most folks grocery store experiences went.
They don't even try to be believable. In all my years of grocery shopping, I have never, not once, discussed politics with the cashiers, the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, and not with the other customers either.
Well, that's just a boring story. Because that's what happens to most people when they go shopping. When I'm shopping, I don't try to convert people to my way of thinking, I don't engage in political conversations with strangers or cashiers, and when I'm out shopping, the only thing I'm thinking about is how f****** our country is because of liberal policies and how much more shit is costing me for some utopian wet dream.
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Nobody was paying attention to me, so I ripped off my shirt and ran into a Safeway and blurted out "Underground Power Lines" and everybody looked at me and were like, "Wow, how come liberals always have such great ideas!" And everyone was happy with me so I ran out into the street and was hit by a bus. The end.
The other day at the grocery store I was waiting in line and felt this overwhelming urge to blurt out "paper ballots now, we must destroy Diebold!!!" so I did. Everyone cheered and said in unison "right on right on right on" just like Rush says, which pissed me off because Rush is a fat racist homophobe 1%er. :mad:
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Boobiez?
If you like them in a 38 Long. :lmao:
He probably confused the cashier because he used actual cash instead of his EBT card.
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The one thing I bet was true is that she had to run out for gas and food AFTER the storm! :loser:
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OH OH, I got an idea. We could pay 6 million people to break windows and then pay 12 million people to replace them all. I'm thinking something along the lines of the Golden Gate Bridge painting. The first groups heads east and then comes back west, rinse and repeat until everyone has a job.
That was exactly my thought too,a project such as proposed serves no purpose to advance anything and bring self sustaining growth.
It simply spends money to change something and once the change is made it is dead.
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Okay, boys and girls--time for the utility worker to chime in.
PSNH is the largest, but by no means only, power provider in New Hampshire. They cover about 500K customers, with National Grid and Unitil picking up most of the rest.
To bury JUST PSNH's lines (existing and proposed) would take on the order of 40 YEARS, and cost (at current dollars) around $40-50 BILLION. Guess who those costs are going to get passed on to? It was estimated that the average customer's bill would be several hundred a month higher than they are now.
http://www.unionleader.com/article/20111106/NEWS02/711069975
Just ONE utility, just ONE state.
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Okay, boys and girls--time for the utility worker to chime in.
PSNH is the largest, but by no means only, power provider in New Hampshire. They cover about 500K customers, with National Grid and Unitil picking up most of the rest.
To bury JUST PSNH's lines (existing and proposed) would take on the order of 40 YEARS, and cost (at current dollars) around $40-50 BILLION. Guess who those costs are going to get passed on to? It was estimated that the average customer's bill would be several hundred a month higher than they are now.
http://www.unionleader.com/article/20111106/NEWS02/711069975
Just ONE utility, just ONE state.
WHAT??
Are you a repig, or something? What's wrong with you??
Like COST matters! We'll just tax the rich and make them pay for it all! :mad: :mad: :mad: They all have underground lines and never go without power! I have a right to have never-ending free electricity at my house. It's right in the Constitution! I have a RIGHT to HAPPINESS and no worthless repig is going to tell me our country can't afford to give me that!! :mad: :mad: :mad: :stoner: :mad: :mad: [/DUmpmode]
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Hahaha, I love how he made the cashier's DH a city councilman, to "show" how he knew she was conservative. Since he just won the seat, I wonder if she can stop working at the Safeway now and become one of the 1%? :lmao:
Here is a grocery store tale:
Today was my kid's b'day and I needed to bring the obligatory cupcakes in to his class this afternoon. I went to the Super Walmart, because I wanted to. I walked to the bakery and looked at the cupcakes. There was one pack of 12 Angry Bird cupcakes, so I asked the baker lady if there was anymore at another place in the store (they sometimes have displays in assorted places). She told me there wasn't, but she would be happy to take some of the plain packs of cupcakes ( I needed 30 total)and deck them out with sprinkles and Angry Bird rings. And so she did. I thought it was a very sweet thing to offer and thanked her. And then I paid for my cupcakes and left. There were no political discussions, no applause, and no cops in bushes. Silly me, I thought that was how most folks grocery store experiences went.
They don't even try to be believable. In all my years of grocery shopping, I have never, not once, discussed politics with the cashiers, the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, and not with the other customers either.
You get zero bongs. You missed several valuable opportunities to MAKE A DIFFERENCE while speaking to a poor, oppressed, underpaid Wal-Mart slave, AND you think we'll buy the idea that you took horribly unhealthy sugar-loaded cupcakes to a SCHOOL, increasing the obesity of all those children...and the teacher ALLOWED this!! Tsk, tsk... :thatsright:
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Okay, boys and girls--time for the utility worker to chime in.
PSNH is the largest, but by no means only, power provider in New Hampshire. They cover about 500K customers, with National Grid and Unitil picking up most of the rest.
To bury JUST PSNH's lines (existing and proposed) would take on the order of 40 YEARS, and cost (at current dollars) around $40-50 BILLION. Guess who those costs are going to get passed on to? It was estimated that the average customer's bill would be several hundred a month higher than they are now.
http://www.unionleader.com/article/20111106/NEWS02/711069975
Just ONE utility, just ONE state.
...and that doesn't even take into consideration the lawsuits by DUmmies families suing the power companies after a DUmmie digs into a 100,000 volt underground cable....pffft....one DUmmie up in smoke.
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Forgot to mention, DUmmies always baffle me...but not with their brilliance.
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Okay, boys and girls--time for the utility worker to chime in.
PSNH is the largest, but by no means only, power provider in New Hampshire. They cover about 500K customers, with National Grid and Unitil picking up most of the rest.
To bury JUST PSNH's lines (existing and proposed) would take on the order of 40 YEARS, and cost (at current dollars) around $40-50 BILLION. Guess who those costs are going to get passed on to? It was estimated that the average customer's bill would be several hundred a month higher than they are now.
http://www.unionleader.com/article/20111106/NEWS02/711069975
Just ONE utility, just ONE state.
Well now, I dunno if it makes any difference if power lines are on poles, or underground.
There's a fenced-in thingamajig about eight miles from here, and there's a sign on it saying it belongs to the county public power district, and don't come in unless one wishes to be fried.
I dunno what it's called--transformers maybe? But whatever.
The power lines in this county are all on poles; in fact a great deal of money was spent the past two years putting up newer, stronger, higher poles. Miles and miles and miles of them.
Nebraska's notorious for its wind.
I myself have never had a power outage since I've lived here--the autumn of 2005--and it needs pointed out that since I live on the edge of the territory, the power lines are still carried on poles that are probably from the Truman administration; about as old as the old dude over on Skins's island.
It seems to me every time the power's gone out somewhere in the county, it's because something happened at that fenced-in compound, not from power lines going down.
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I baffle cashiers on a regular basis, but mine typically involved the price being something like $11.93 and I hand them $22.18. They look at me so confused, and I just say with a smile "Just enter the amount I gave you into your register and it'll all work out."
As for the OP, it's a bouncy. New city councilman's wife a cashier at SF and primitive getting in her line makes it unbelievable right off the bat.
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Fenced-in thingamajigs and sky sparks, don't play well together.
Darn things are spark magnets on the same order that mobile homes, are tornado magnets.
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You didn't baffle her DUmmy. She was just trying to keep conscious after the smell hit her. :sad1:
You have power now. Take a shower!!
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I baffle cashiers on a regular basis, but mine typically involved the price being something like $11.93 and I hand them $22.18. They look at me so confused, and I just say with a smile "Just enter the amount I gave you into your register and it'll all work out."
As for the OP, it's a bouncy. New city councilman's wife a cashier at SF and primitive getting in her line makes it unbelievable right off the bat.
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I know of a guy that used to walk in, buy a weeks worth of food and one role of single ply toilet paper. As he paid in cash, he would ask the cashier, "So you think the one role will be enough?" The cashier would almost always count the change wrong after that.
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rsmith6621 (6,024 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
Well the cashier who's conservative husband just won a seat to the city council heard the conversation and looked over toward me and said how would that help the economy and just had that .... "JEEZ I DONT KNOW WHAT TO SAY LOOK" on her face. it was like she was saying with her face how come liberal/progressives always have the good ideas??
She was probably thinking something more like "My God, what that would do to the power bills and tax assessments, they'd lynch my husband and then come after me!!!"
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My Husbands Aunt has underground power lines and we have over-head power lines, she lost power for 3 days during the Halloween Storm and she had to stay with us since we only lost power briefly.
As do I and I lost power several years ago in an ice storm for ten days. I didn't lose power in the October storm, but towns adjacent to us did for several weeks also.
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it was like she was saying with her face how come liberal/progressives always have the good ideas??
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To bury JUST PSNH's lines (existing and proposed) would take on the order of 40 YEARS, and cost (at current dollars) around $40-50 BILLION. Guess who those costs are going to get passed on to? It was estimated that the average customer's bill would be several hundred a month higher than they are now.
To me, that sounds like a far better use of fifty billion dollars than high-speed rail, light rail, windmills, solar panels, ethanol, battery cars, recycling centers, kneeling buses, 0bamacare,and the host of other socialist boondoggles that soak up the productive potential of America.
At least people would use the underground utilities, and their asthetic value alone is worth more than all the "green" horseshit we're forced to support.
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I live in cyclone country. All new subdivisions here have underground power , which is a great move.
It doesn't make a huge difference in when you lose your power - but it does make a difference as to how soon you get it back on.
The local substation will usually trip out for whatever reason and when the storm clears the crews can go out there and turn back on the areas with UG power first, while the crews work on clearing and reinstalling lines in the areas with above ground power - which can take some weeks in a bad storm.
Of course all our main 220KV feeders are above ground and if one of them has a woopsie it's still lights out for everyone for a while.
For what it is worth I'd be more than happy to pay extra on my electricity bill for the added service of having the underground power installed. Many other people don't and funnily enough they're also the same crowd that don't own generators AND bitch loudest that their nice leafy green suburb is the last to be switched back on.
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I live in cyclone country. All new subdivisions here have underground power , which is a great move.
It doesn't make a huge difference in when you lose your power - but it does make a difference as to how soon you get it back on.
The local substation will usually trip out for whatever reason and when the storm clears the crews can go out there and turn back on the areas with UG power first, while the crews work on clearing and reinstalling lines in the areas with above ground power - which can take some weeks in a bad storm.
Of course all our main 220KV feeders are above ground and if one of them has a woopsie it's still lights out for everyone for a while.
For what it is worth I'd be more than happy to pay extra on my electricity bill for the added service of having the underground power installed. Many other people don't and funnily enough they're also the same crowd that don't own generators AND bitch loudest that their nice leafy green suburb is the last to be switched back on.
Same out here. Doesn't matter if you bury ALL wires in or around neighborhoods underground. They're all slaves to the power lines feeding them.
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To me, that sounds like a far better use of fifty billion dollars than high-speed rail, light rail, windmills, solar panels, ethanol, battery cars, recycling centers, kneeling buses, 0bamacare,and the host of other socialist boondoggles that soak up the productive potential of America.
At least people would use the underground utilities, and their asthetic value alone is worth more than all the "green" horseshit we're forced to support.
GO--that's for about a half-million customers. According to the UL link, that comes out to just under $80,000 PER CUSTOMER over the course of the project--money which doesn't come for "da gubmint" but directly from the ratepayers. Of course, that's just principal. To actually fund such a project, rate cases would have to be made with the state, bond issues floated (and a VERY substantial interest rate promised, probably tax-free), which would drive costs well over double the initial estimates.
Then there would be the NIMBY types because even though all those big power lines are underground, right of way still has to be cleared, lines marked, mapped, and registered, and yes, as one previous poster stated, what happens when (NOT IF, WHEN) some dipshit doesn't do the 72-hour call ahead and get the lines marked? Not to mention that they don't call this place "The Granite State" for no reason.
Underground lines are fine in urban settings. Rural or for transmission? Not so much.
If you're going to create new infrastructure, go ahead and put your sub-trans and distribution stuff underground, but it's simply not worth trying to "fix" stuff that's already existing. Money just doesn't exist for it, and when it boils right down, you're not going to find a customer willing to pay for it.
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GO--that's for about a half-million customers. According to the UL link, that comes out to just under $80,000 PER CUSTOMER over the course of the project--money which doesn't come for "da gubmint" but directly from the ratepayers.
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Underground lines are fine in urban settings. Rural or for transmission? Not so much.
Most places conversion of existing utiliities to underground doesn't make sense, but $80,000 per customer is a bargain when you start talking about these commuter rail and high speed rail boondoggles.
And around here, for the "mass transit" buses that are paid for by the taxpayers, the cost per customer is infinite, since they patrol their routes all day long literally without a single paying customer.
They are cute, though, since they paid a fortune for buses that look like old-time trolley cars. As they explained at the time, it didn't really cost anything because nearly all the money came from the federal government.