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Wow, $2900 sounds like an awful lot for a 3" dent in the door. We had the door of our car crunched in by a forklift and while I don't remember how much it cost to fix (the company who hit it paid for it), I know it wasn't that much!

That's how I've always understood it; that if you hit the 100-employee threshold at any point during the year, you're supposed to file.

Yeah, there was nobody in the truck or anywhere near it. I figure we're just lucky that it happened in our outside parking lot and not the parking garage directly under our building...the way it was burning, had it been under the building it may well have burned part of the building also.

What a way to end a Friday! A little while ago I noticed that all my co-workers were running to look out the windows. The truck of an employee in the building had caught fire just sitting there in our parking lot, and it was burning furiously. Several people had already called 911 but it took...

I'm sorry to hear that you're having health issues, hrforme. I hope visiting my beautiful state isn't what caused it!

While it is true that banks are notoriously conservative, those of us who are members of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation have good reason to be when it comes to certain criminal convictions. The FDIC prohibits their member institutions from employing individuals who have been convicted...

Passenger seat rules in my car: if we give you a ride once in a blue moon, and you take it upon yourself to mess with the seat and seatback position, and I get in my seat and find myself practically lying down or with my knees up around my ears because you changed the position, you are in the...

There are some very real-looking counterfeit money orders (and cashier's checks, as well) out there these days. This is why most banks will not cash a money order for non-customers and if you took it to a bank where you were a customer, they would want to make sure you had enough money in your...

First day back at work after vacation....just got done wading through the 650 e-mails in my inbox, only around 200 of which were actually anything I needed to pay attention to/read/respond to. We had a great trip, although Disneyland was insane. There were 50,000 people in the park on...

Today's my last day of work before vacation...woo-hoo! I'll have three days at home to get ready and then we're off for Disneyland. Once we survive three days of Disney insanity with grandkids and other extended family, we head up the Pacific Coast Highway. We haven't had a real vacation in...

I agree with disagreeable. Sounds like they are already being fairly generous with what they are willing to pay for.

Me either, but my husband practically needs an IV of coffee to get the day started so I'm always aware of where we can get coffee in an "emergency". On the 4th of July he didn't have his usual morning coffee and was starting to get grumpy about 11 a.m. We were getting ready to watch the parade...

We don't have Dunkin either. But being in the Pacific Northwest, we have lots of coffee places...Starbucks and at least four others I can think of just in the immediate several blocks around my office. I've always wondered about the 12th of the month thing as well. Seems so random. We have...

I'm with you regarding "exciting" storms, Betty. We were supposed to have rain on the 4th but even though that would have but a damper on our celebrations, I was thankful it wasn't a hurricane. It rained lightly in the morning but by the time we were out doing anything, it was overcast but...

Yeah, that was my thought exactly at the time. I'm so near-sighted that I may have walked all the way across the room next to the window before I noticed them! :) I actually find it pretty funny, with 40 years between then and now. I didn't think so at the the time, although it was much...

Years ago I lived in an apartment building. Because I was on the 8th floor of the highest building in the area, I often didn't close the drapes on my living room windows at night. One morning I got up, took a shower, and walked into the living room wearing not much more than my glasses and...

We have a dress code, but ours contains language very similar to that, cbg. When I started here, there was a huge list of things that were absolutely prohibited, and a lot of those were based upon the opinions and beliefs of the person who was running the show at that time. We changed it about...

I remember when a relative of mine did that whole gender discrimination thing years ago because his workplace allowed earrings for women but not for men. Not that he had a pierced ear or even particularly wanted one, he and his male co-workers were all about just trying to make their point. They...

I am wearing a short black dress with multi-colored flower/vine print over black leggings and knee-high black boots. It's only about 55 degrees out and raining sideways so I feel comfortable in fairly thick leggings & boots even though it's almost July!

I'm glad to hear that you had a good experience here! What was the weather like when you were in town? We've had some exceptionally wet weather recently so hopefully it wasn't too bad when you were here. It's cool that they still have the reindeer at the Rainforest Sanctuary. We always drive...