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TwitterMy Papa, a wise, wise man, pointed out this universal truth to me many years ago, when I was a child. It remains a fact as true as ever, so I’m going to share it with you now: You can’t trust dish scrubbers. You know what I’m talking about. Those thingies you buy at the [...]
Things That Suck
The Lane Lineup
People who commute to downtown Toronto from South Etobicoke via Lakeshore Boulevard will know specifically what I’m talking about here, but I think everyone knows of someplace where a similar drama unfolds on a daily basis. Just past Lakeshore and Park Lawn, the civil engineers worked a bottleneck into the eastbound Lakeshore lanes. At first [...]
Day Care Viruses
One major drawback to day care centres that our family has discovered with Leo’s first few months in one is the almost bi-weekly cold or flu that he brings home. I understand how it happens. Toddlers don’t know better, so they sneeze in each others’ faces, touch each others’ food with snotty hands, and generally [...]
Push Button Faucets
This week, I attended a conference in the Detroit area. The convention was held in a brand-new, state-of-the-art exhibition/conference/event facility. All amenities were quite top notch, except for one thing: the lavatory faucets were of the push button type. Sometimes called “metering faucets” or “self-closing faucets”, their raison d’être is to prevent careless hand washers [...]
Speaking of searching for used parts…
Has anyone ever tried successfully to use the Internet for this? It’s not as easy as you may think. If you do a Google search for “Suzuki Esteem used parts” you get a whole bunch of websites that don’t actually carry used parts for Suzuki Esteems. What they do instead is ask you to fill [...]
2000 Suzuki Esteem Wagon: Fix, sell or part out?
Late last year, Claire’s car got a bit banged up in a fender bender: Not major damage, by any means, but the repair estimate was over $4,200. Of course, we hadn’t opted for the collision insurance on this car, because we were being frugal. D’oh!!! The body shop blamed the high price on the fact [...]