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I can't believe this needs to be said, but I'll say it: Offer your pool guy a burger at 7:30 when he's fixing your pool
Not only do you ask the pool guy if he'd like a burger, you ask if he wants bacon, pickles, fresh homemade ketchup and which beer he'd like to suck down while eating the burger.
America, what are we doing here? This shouldn't even be a question.
You offer to grab lunch for your tile guy. You make sure your plumber has cold water to drink. You leave a cooler out for the roofers. One year for Halloween, I left out ranch packets for the suburban moms of the neighborhood.
And yet I'll receive emails saying I'm anti-tipping and that I'm the scum of the earth. No, I just don't think tipping a fast-food or fast-casual worker is necessary. If that makes me the scum of the earth, then sign me up.
Years ago, when Captain Morgan and a bunch of liquor brands were hammering my porch with multiple bottles each week, I started tipping my FedEx guy with bottles for Christmas. The guy was PUMPED. I'd open the package on the porch, see what we had and then let him pick what he wanted.
The pool guy is always offered beer out of the fridge. I always tip him enough to get lunch.
These are the people I might need at a moment's notice. Offer the burger.
Tell me I'm wrong. Yell at me for my fast-food stance.
Email: joekinsey@gmail.com
Look at this place!
What a run it's been with the Scheels content. Wyn in Colorado sent over this one. An animatronic John Elway? Are you kidding me? That's awesome.
This place keeps growing on me.
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The Detroit Free Press of all places struggles with how manual transmissions work, but the intern isn't at fault here
- Camden J. writes:
Saw your tweet about stick shifts and have to agree, never felt the clutch in my hand. They were popular vehicles because they were cheaper than a manual transmission. That obviously flipped, but didn’t they push them because they got better gas mileage as well I believe? If that is the case, why aren’t they still getting pushed. Better gas mileage, better for the green folk. Make all them green folk try to drive one for fun. Make it a race for money with no practice. First one to finish moves on. Final winner take all. That would be entertaining television. Harder vehicles to drive the farther you get. Final episode, gotta pop that clutch to get the vehicle started.
Also, I used to run valet at the horse racing park in DFW. Was a great job right out of high school. Made great money. The best part was watching people who had never driven a diesel truck try to start in first gear. If you are not aware, diesel trucks for towing have granny gears. First gear is made for when towing. Second is where you start when not towing. The newer models have a low and high first gear. Back then, they didn’t. Anyways, they couldn’t get them going without the jerk back and forth. Couldn’t get it to stop. Then when one of us who knew how to drive hopped in watching there face as we smoothly pulled off was hilarious. Good times!
Kinsey:
Let's not blame Jenna for her manual transmission mistake.
She's an intern whose past articles include: Eminem's daughter getting married, two stories on a Detroit flower market, a propane tank exploding, a government agency denying a Sheetz gas station proposal, the Gordie Howe bridge, a story on tick season, a 6,500 acre northern Michigan ranch and a story on the world's largest bounce house coming to town.
Clearly, it appears the manual transmission story was way out of her lane, yet an editor green-lit the assignment.
Management failed Jenna here.
Parents giving kick-ass motivational speeches to their youth sports teams
- Chris in Western NY shares a good one:
I was the coach of my son’s travel basketball team, 5th or 6th grade. We played other towns travel teams, this was before school ball and before the AAU season started.
We were very good, 13-0 at the time. Had 3 kids who eventually would go on to play in college. Going into the game I could tell the kids were starting to get a little full of themselves. We’re down 10 at the half to a much weaker team that we had beaten easily earlier in the season. After talking about why we were losing (getting out hustled/other team wanting it more/panicking under pressure, generally getting our ass kicked, etc) I dropped this on them. "You’ve got a half to show them one of 2 things. You can show them why you’re 13-0 or you can show them your record is a fraud. Your choice." I turned around and walked away. I think they were a little stunned. I had never needed to light into them all season until then.
They came out in the 2nd half and put on a clinic. Won by 15-20 points. One of the parents who was in an earshot of my speech came up to me after the game and thanked me for lighting into them and said it was one of the best speeches he’d ever heard! We ended the season 29-1 and the same group of kids went on to go 21-2 and 11-2 (Covid year) their Jr. and Sr. years in high school. I like to think I had a small part in that!
Keep up the good work. I look forward to Screencaps every day!
Kinsey:
I need to put that one into the back of my brain for future use.
Memories of dad putting together a coaching strategy to beat the A-Team when he was coaching a B-Team
- PNW Husker Dan writes:
In my smallish Nebraska town of 30,000+ we had a rec basketball league that if you played in then you could then at the conclusion of the rec league be picked up for a month of travel tournaments around the state of Nebraska. Our town had enough kids my age to have two different teams and I believe this was while we were sixth graders. One team was labeled the A team and they were made up of a bunch of the private school kids and a couple of the taller public school kids and our team became the B team coached by my dad.
We had no size but my dad saw that we had speed and tenacity so we played full court press and fast break basketball and had a blast and did pretty well at the tournaments. The tournaments were divided into A & B divisions and our A team decided to sandbag the last tournament of the season and play down at the B level and we ended up meeting them in the Championship game.
Both teams the night before the game were eating at the same restaurant and the A team was running their mouths pretty good about how badly they were going to beat us and that it wasn't going to be a game and to be fair they did have first pick and did have the size and talent advantage for sure.
During the game we hang in there and stay pretty even through the first half but starting in the second half our pace starts to really get to them and they just absolutely are gassed and we pull away in the fourth quarter to win by about 10 and it was never close and they were shell shocked and it was the sweetest win of my young career absolutely putting them in their place. None of us really said much at the meal, but our actions spoke volumes the next day and I have to credit my dad and his coaching for finding the strategy that worked really well for the kids we had.
Outdoor speakers to consider this summer
- Colby suggests:
I recently upgraded my dated Sonos system in part by upgrading to the Sonos "Move". The Move is a speaker that is waterproof and dustproof so it can be left outside and has a reported batter life of 48 hours. It has a cradle charging base that we leave inside and just grab the speaker( only weighs 6 lbs) to put it outside when we're on the patio or around the pool. Just as with other Sonos products it has fantastic sound and is more than loud enough to be used outdoors. The best part is the Move can be used in tandem with other Sonos speakers so you can have the same music (or different) played from multiple speakers throughout the house or outdoors. Highly recommend.
- Ken in Thousand Oaks, CA writes:
Try Speakercraft outdoor speakers . https://na.niceforyou.com/solutions/audio-solutions/ I have three sets of their OE8 outdoor speakers (have had them for over 10 years). They sound almost as good as living room speakers (assuming you have decent equipment to drive them). The company recently was reorganized with a couple of high end brands and now is a division of Nice North America and has an "Audio Solutions" website (see link, above). In addition to wall-mounted outdoor speakers (such as the OE8 model), they have rock speakers, planter speakers, satellite speakers, and in-ground subwoofers for outdoor use. They are not wireless, however. The best sound is never wireless.
Admittedly, I live in Southern CA where the outdoor issue only means it might rain on the speakers from time-to-time. I can tell you that the speakers have withstood heat and rain for ten years. The Nice/Speakercraft company website says the grill on their rock speakers is rust resistant (does not say, ‘rust-proof’) and the fiberglass housing will stand up to the harshest weather conditions (including, I would guess, Ohio).
A comment on the story about the dog who ate a thong and revealed that a husband had been cheating
- MP from Staunton, VA writes:
Joe, the story about the dog swallowing the thong reminds me of another story involving a dog eating an article of clothing. The third ex-wife of the late great Lewis Grizzard told this story in her book "How To Tame a Wild Bore".
Seems that Lewis had a pair of designer socks that he liked. Unfortunately, one of his black Labs ate a sock. Lewis couldn’t figure out what happened to the sock. Some time later, the wife saw the dog struggling to take a poop. What was trying to come out was the sock!
Kinsey:
Do we have an expert on why dogs eat socks? I could Google it, but I don't always trust Google like I trust Screencaps readers. One of you must know the science behind it all. Our dog will absolutely inhale a Screencaps the III sock if she can get her mouth on one.
Projects for Memorial Day weekend
- Jim M. writes:
Getting garden ready to plant here in RI. Planting day is always 2nd full moon in May. Had to get my boy heavily involved this year seeing my back still healing. Had the wood stove going on Sun for final round of the PGA. 3 days later it's gonna be 80 degrees! Life near the Ocean, oh well, not complaining the best time of year is coming!! Have a great weekend!!
Kinsey:
Jim, let me tell you about my Memorial Day weekend plans: I'm going to golf, probably take the family out to Lake Erie to play around, grab lunch one day with Canoe Kirk, sit on the patio and do nothing.
I've earned it, Jim. No, the mulch isn't done yet, but we're expecting spotty showers and the last thing I need to have in the driveway is a pile of mulch and trying to keep it dry. I'll wait.
Why don't you use bags?
Because we're already in deep enough with Mrs. Screencaps' plant purchases. And I have labor available to me in the form of Screencaps Jr. who needs to learn how to handle a mulch project so one of these days he can offer his services to neighbors and make a few dollars.
Something to consider if Red Lobster suddenly closes all of its stores and the Cheddar Bay Biscuit disappears
- Matthew F. has a suggestion:
So there’s a spot in Athens, GA called Catch 22 that does a chicken sandwich where the chicken tastes like chick-fil-a and the bun is almost identical to a Cheddar Bay biscuit. It’s naturally called the Big Mother Clucker because why wouldn’t it be? It is
http://www.catch22gp.com/Catch-Menus/catch-22-dine-in.pdf