DW Community Catch-up Thread
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Re: Wedding Shuttles
A couple of years ago, we were invited to a wedding in the suburbs. There were 8 of us in the city who were going, but none of us wanted to stay out there. We ended up renting a limo to take us to and from the event. It worked out great! And probably cheaper than a couple of ubers both ways. Also, we could drink!
@Copa, if you’re even in that situation again, limo is the way to go.
We actually came SO CLOSE to doing the limo thing for that wedding! We took the Metra out there and figured a Lyft back wouldn’t be a huge deal. And it wasn’t a HUGE deal, but… we were all three sheets to the wind by the end of the night and the wait was longer than any of us would’ve guessed.
Another wedding I went to was at a massive resort on Lake Michigan that, during daytime hours, shuttles guests around in golf carts. That was another venue where I felt like some kind of transportation option would’ve been nice. My boyfriend and I drove to the welcome party on the resort and on the way back noticed that other guests who had arrived by golf cart had to walk back to their lodges/rooms on a pitch black road in the dark (there were no sidewalks). It’s a quiet vacation area so traffic was light, but… eh, I felt like that wasn’t a great situation for the pedestrians.
@Kate – it’s not your. If I’m the maker I want 100% of my appliances to die roughly around the time the warranty expires so I replace the fewest at cost. But getting all 100% to die at that point is not realistic. I test and find that some die at 6 months and some die at 9 months but most die at 12 months, and some die at 14 months and a few die at 18 months (I hate that group). Based on that I’ll determine the most likely point at which my appliance will die is one year and set that as the expiration date. But I expect that a small percentage will die earlier and I accept that I replace those (and even then, I know that I won’t replace 100% of appliances that conk out before a year because people haven’t registered them, or their lazy and won’t come after the replacement or I’ll simply lose a customer and as long as that ratio is a number/ cost I can live with – I will happily put a crap, but expensive, product on the market.
Oh for fucks sake, corporate America! And then it’s like, your cheap and ugly shit that you’d like to replace just lasts forever.
Unfortunately I have nothing to add to the hair tool conversation as I’m just now back to doing my hair on a daily basis after maternity leave. I just wanted to pop in and say hi! My kid spent 3 weeks in the NICU but now she’s a little healthy 9 pound butterball and life is good.
And my husband and I have concert tickets for an outdoor concert in September now that we are fully vaccinated so that might be our first real date as parents of an infant this year!
@Fyodor – I didn’t mean for it to be quite so eventful lol. But looking back, my life was very very different when this thread started! Worth it though to be where I am now.
@LisforLeslie – her cheeks now take up approximately 74% of her body and she’s the greatest human ever and our tiny baby bff.
