New England B.S. Thread

Hey man I miss my summer job at 16 of slinging pizza at old orchard beach. Sometimes.

 

Bills, Lisa’s or Roccos

 

Yeah, it's rugged work. You get a killer tan and you're ripped/cut as hell by the end of the summer, but when you're working from grey light to dark every day that it's sunny your social life suffers, lol.
It's why I eventually quit and got a job stocking shelves at the grocery store. Less enjoyable, but it was a year-round paycheck that left me time (and energy) to chase girls and hang out with my friends.

Edit- back when $100 a week was BIG money I make a lot more now, but I had more $$ then.

 

Roccos.

but you’re missing a few. Pier pizza

spinners actually wasn’t bad. They lasted like a year maybe two I don’t remember. They were replaced by beach side OOB sushi.... which also lasted only a year. I think that was then replaced by a ship for only sweet potato fries. Again. One year.

I think there was another one further up the hill a bit too can’t remember the name of it though.

also can’t forget Mario’s. Mario’s was run by Roccos wife, it was hilarious to egg people on to the pizza wars and ask what they though of the opposite when you were working at one.

Edit can’t forgot Amatos tried for a year or two.

 

I just cancelled the flights for my vacation in July. The hotel was already cancelled but since my ticket which had no cancel fees doesn't cash back out, I sat on it to as close to my trip as possible. JetBlue extended the travel bank time to 24 months instead of 12 to rebook. I had hoped by 2022 that it would be safe to travel again, but I wanted every last day I could get. I got an email yesterday saying that they changed my flights with a note that if the flights were changed more than 2 hours they'd cash out the tickets. They only changed my flights by one hour, so I was boned, but I had to either acknowledge the change or cancel. I logged in and then noticed they changed my departure day as well as the hour. Called them up, waited an hour on hold and cashed out.

I'm still grumbling I lost my vacation (it was to be kid-free) but at least I've got the cash back.

 

Those are the only 3 I’ve eaten down there. We grab a couple boxes of pier fries and a few pizzas and get out of there a couple times a year.

 

we’re actually planning a trip to Austin in august. Early stages but here’s hoping it doesn’t go haywire.

yeah those are the big 3. I only had pier fries like once in my life. Never been a big fries guy, but I do love me some pizza. Being in providence is awesome there’s a ton of ny style pizza. Didn’t get that growing up I got the Greek style house of pizza crap. With dominos mixed in time to time.

 

Ya, wife is from NY, was hard converting her to pizza up here, I don’t think I would live with out pizza.

 

That stinks, where were you going?

We are headed to Oregon coast for July, I'm pretty excited for it.

 

Bermuda. Far enough away to be truly away, but less than a 3 hour plane ride home if we needed to get back to the kids. Nothing to do but sit on a beach and do nothing. Hopefully next year, or worst case the year after. Not having to deal with the travel bank is beautiful though. My biggest fear is for whatever reason we didn't feel comfortable traveling next summer, we'd have to book for Summer 2022 and if for some reason we had to move our flight after the 24 month period expired (say we booked 6/1 for 7/1 and then had to cancel the 7/1 flight to reschedule) I'd lose the points altogether. My hope is we go next summer, but we will see.

With my wife being a teacher, traveling during the school year poses challenges. The cost of hotel/airfare nearly triples on school vacation weeks.

 

I might have my islands mixed up but Bermuda is good in the summer it's further north. Yeah school year is rough on teachers. International right now is wishy washy, we're looking at going to Austin so fortunately that's domestic. Hopefully it's still clean in August.

 

I was in Bermuda in mid-June about 10 years ago. It's off the coast of North Carolina if memory serves. We wanted to go somewhere with tropical beaches. I'd have done Aruba again as I love it down there, but we've been twice. Neither one of us really liked the Bahamas, but we liked Bermuda when we went. We went on a cruise there, but we're both over cruises so doing a flight and back was ideal. The flights were direct to boot, as I'm not a good flyer, so I'll pay a few extra dollars to just hop on a plane and go.

 

Pizza up there is very different from pizza around here in Western MA. I used to go up to Wells for the summers when I was younger and the biggest problem was finding a place that not only made a good pizza, but a bigger one. All of the places in Wells, Ogunquit, Saco, OOB, even Portland, only made like 2 size pizzas, a small 12 inch or a large 16 inch. Almost all places , Even the supermarkets out near me here sell "party" size pizzas that are 3 feet long and 2 feet wide and a combo will run you $25 and feed 10 people.

 

St.Martin? that's my inlaws favorite island. The dutch side is very commercial with cruise ports and whatnot, the french side is not, it's amazing. Expensive but awesome. They usually stay in Orient Bay, rent a room/flat. They're on the upper end of the curve of recovering from Irma still though, at least they were able to get a solid season in before COVID shut down flights.

Roccos OOB 21"

 

I've stacked a hay wagon before. I know more about you in the three words you posted above than all the years of posts prior. Turns out you are clinically insane.

I stacked hay until a full loaded wagon rolled on me. I am still to this day terrified of high wheel tractors.

 

It is absolutely hard work, but it is sort of fun. My first job was working at a local farm unloading hay wagons onto the elevator. It was a small farm and they weren't overly efficient so we had about a 20-30 minute gap between wagons. Fortunately, I was on the ground, not in the loft. It's hard work but there are certainly days I'd trade that for the bureaucratic bullshit I deal with on a daily basis with my current job.

 

Alright folks. Oem spark plugs or other? It's about that time. First plugs on the new truck haha. Figured I'd actually put good plugs in this one.

 

The farmer that I worked for hitched the wagons directly to the baler, and we stacked until the front row was at the same height as the delivery chute on the baler (any higher than that and you risked falling off and getting run over). Then we'd unhitch, hook up to the wagon with a truck, and load the wagon the rest of the way and then the truck until the bed was rounded over, and then that would drive up to the barns to get unloaded. Much more stable with a big load than a tractor.

 

https://www.rockauto.com/en/catalog/toyota,2017,tacoma,3.5l+v6,3437069,ignition,spark+plug,7212

Side thought, I didn't expect spark plugs to be that cheap from RockAuto. Sweet, good to know!

 

I have always trusted OEM but not from the dealership. I just changed mine this week and got all 6 of them NGK (same model number as OEM) for $36. They want $103 at the dealership.