That's weird. Don't they always seat the elderly, people with small children and anyone needing assistance first?

Not really. You are under no obligation to offer-up a defense at the time the citation is written. Also you are violating a statute not a law so standard "anything you say can be held against you in a court of law" doesn't apply either.

A tip if you don't avoid the citation: Unless you are a habitual offender you can typically get the ticket changed to a no-points violation. The fine will generally be the same as the original but it won't result in any points being attached to your license and so avoid the insurance premium increase.

After you're done using them, click your razor blades off your razor and store them in a jar of rubbing alcohol. This way they last at least twice as long, which is convenient considering what a ripoff most blades are these days.

Also, I can confirm the efficacy of apple cidar vinegar; I take a tablespoon of it daily with water (tastes bad, oh well). You have to make sure to get the kind that includes the "mother," which is the cloudy sediment (?) in the bottom of the bottle.

No.

Pretty sure when you check-in has nothing to do with your zone and that it has more to do with seating.

You mean speed up?

My gas cap is tethered on too close but my wallet is the perfect size to wedge in there.

Amazing if true.

Ya, I'm pretty sure that I've read that corrosion on the blades is really whats causes them to go dull, not use, so this would probably work.

FWIW, the close door button definitely does something in my building that was built around 2 years ago so it isn't just older elevators. If you don't push the close door button it will always wait a few extra seconds before shutting. Pushing the button once you are in closes that sucker immediately.

Didn't read the whole thread, so maybe this came up already. But I hardly ever see anyone do this, but it works great.

When cracking eggs, don't crack them on the edge of the pan/pot, but crack the side of the egg on a flat surface (like a plate), and then tear it from below (like you would with the normal method). Even though you don't get a hole in there from the cracking alone as big as normal, the shells will not get seperated from the thin skin inside the egg. I hardly ever have to fish out shells anymore. Try it!

When backing up to park, use the passenger side mirror to line up with the curb.

When you run out of something like shampoo, put the empty bottle by the door, then in your car - to help you remember to get more.

If you have a beard and want a more prominent chin, trim the chin on a higher setting than the rest of the beard.

If you feel any kind of cold/flu-ish thing coming on, take 5k miiligrams of vitamin C. Keep doing this up to 4x a day until you feel better. The key though is to catch it early, before you start to feel bad, but the first inkling you feel something coming on. I've been sick probably < 10x in the last 15 years and the only really bad ones were when I didn't take my vitamin C right away. Keep a bottle at work.

Windex gets out red wine, nail polish remover gets put tar.

If your feet are cold at night, wedge them in the crook of your knee for a while.

Rinse out your washcloth or scrubby thing often while showering for maximum effect.

Immediately turn over a Reuben when you get it to keep the bottom from getting soggy, also place it on your fries so the greasy goodness drips onto them.

Buy a cheap corkscrew and a $1 package of 10 pens and keep them in your glovebox.

Always have some kind of alchohol in your house for after-hours entertaining.

Level? This is something Charlie from It's Always Sunny would say.



Pretty good life trick for getting out of a DUII, at least in Oregon; This guy hands out cards to all his clients with instructions to simply hand it to the officer if there is a chance you're looking at a DUII:

NOTICE TO OFFICER AT ROADSIDE STOP
As required by Oregon law, I am herewith tendering my driver's license, registration and proof of insurance. They are in proper order and I have committed no crime or traffic violation. I hereby request that all my documents (including my license) be returned to me and that I be permitted to leave immediately. If you have any doubt as to my ability to operate my vehicle, I will be glad to leave my car here and have a cab pick me up. Unless you return these items to me and advise me that I can leave with my license and other documents and in my vehicle, I must assume this is more than a brief traffic stop, and that liberty is restrained, that I am under arrest, and that I must obey your orders without resistance, but I do so under coercion and protest.

I do not wish to answer any questions or make any statements at this time. I am exercising my right to remain silent. (U.S. Const. 5th Amendment; Oregon Const., Art 1 section 12; ORS 131.040(3)). I request that my attorney be present during any questioning or proceedings against me (including voluntary field sobriety exercises) and that I be permitted to contact my attorney at the earliest possible time, as permitted by the Oregon and United States constitutional law. I have the name and phone number with me at this time and woud like to call immediately.

Oregon law does not require me to submit to any verbal or non-verbal field sobriety evaluations, including reciting the alphabet, the horizontal gaze nystagmus evaluation, the walk and turn, one leg stand and other such exercises. I know that these are SUBJECTIVELY GRADED evaluations, designed for me to fail. I choose not to participate in any such so-called field sobriety evaluations, unless my attorney is present when such "voluntary" exercises are performed. If you ignore my constitutional and statutory right and verbally coerce me into taking any such evaluations by telling me that my refusal can be used against me in court, I am not performing any such exercises willfully or voluntarily, but I am doing so to avoid a confrontation with you, an armed law enforcement officer who has the ability and legal sanction to use deadly force.

In compliance with the requirements of Oregon's Implied Consent Law and the Oregon Consititution, I refuse breath, blood, or urine testing until I am given a reasonable opportunity to contact my attorney. If I am afforded a reasonable opportunity to contact my attorney, I will submit to a test of my breath, blood, urine or other bodily substances which you designate, provided the test I am offered is properly done, in compliance with basic scientifically accepted principles of chemical analytical testing, regulatory and statutory provisions; since if I refuse to submit to the test, my drivers license will be confiscated and my license will be suspended by the DMV. However, since I maintain that you do not have a reasonable or legally sufficient cause to make this request for a chemical test, my consent is given under protest and is in no way voluntary. Furthermore, I do not waive any deficiencies in the advisements you are or may give me, or in the procedures that you follow. I wish to be given a copy of the Implied Consent rights that you read to me. Any consent by me to take a chemical sobriety test is given only for devices which are operating with all electronic, software and operating components prescribed by the machine's manufacturer properly attached and in good working order and where all pre-testing protocol and recommended observation periods are precisely followed. Otherwise, the consent is NOT voluntarily given.

I request that I be provided with full information concerning the test including a written copy of any report of the result of the test. If it is used, I wish to view any digital or numerical readout on the breath machine, pursuant to my constitutional rights to confront witnessess and evidence against me. I also desire to have an independent analysis made of any chemical tests taken by the State of my blood, breath or urine, and hereby demand that a sufficient sample of my blood, breath or urine be collected and properly sealed, and immediately refrigerated in a locked and secure refrigerator to prevent deterioration of the sample so as to permit re-analysis to be accomplished at a later date. Please honor this request for preservation of a sample by selecting a machine or type of test that can preserve a sample. In addition, if a breath machine is used I request two samples of my breath be analyzed, at least five minutes apart but no more than 20 minutes apart, and a check of the machine's calibration to determine if its calibration is sufficiently accurate; preferably against a known-strength alcohol reference sample in a wet-bath simulator, if not that, then against a dry gas standard traceable to NIST, preferably performed between the testing of each of the two breath tests.

After the administration of your test, I hereby request that I be transported to the nearest available private medical facility which will conduct independent testing. If feasible, I will select and utilize my own physician or medical provider to administer my independent test(s). I will make my own financial arrangements upon arrival at the selected facility, will select the type of test I want and I specifically request immediate access to a phone and phone directory to arrange this. This request should not be considered to be withdrawn or waived even if I take one or more additional breath tests.

I hereby request that I be taken to the nearest law enforcement agency (which is not affiliated with your agency) that possesses an approved breath machine so that I may be given an independent breath test by an officer other than you or someone employed by your police department. I will pay for this test if there is a charge for conducting it. Any and all tests selected by me (both breath and blood) are being done as work product for my attorney, and they are confidential, as guaranteed by the attorney-client privilege and pursuant to my constitutional right to gather evidence in my defense. I do not consent to any independent sample being divided or collected for use by the State, nor do I consent to copies of test results being given to anyone except me or my attorney. Please be advised that I want the independent breath test regardless of whether I recieve an independent blood test.

I object and do not consent to a search of my person, my motor vehicle or any of my other property. Unless, I give you written authorization to search my vehicle (for "inventory" or any other purpose) and arrange for impound of my vehicle, I wish for my vehicle to remain at its present location, locked, with a note explaining that it will be removed as soon as possible, and I will arrange for a private tow of the vehicle as soon as I am provided access to a phone through your instructions. I hereby exercise my rights under ORS 811.550-811.560 to leave the vehicle at the present location. I hereby release and indemnify your police department from all liability resulting from leaving the vehicle at this location at my request.

I also demand that I be videotaped by the use of police video equipment, both at the roadside and at the police station, and that all such tapes be preserved for my later use at court so that the jury will be able to objectively determine my state of sobriety. Should video equipment not be available at the roadside, I request that an audio tape be used to record any verbal statements made during this event.

Officer, this document constitutes an official notification of my exercise of my legal rights; It should be retained for your records.

Also sometimes hitting 0 once will do nothing, but hitting it rapidly in succession will get you to a live person.

Hitting it rapidly has nothing to do with it. You're just on a system where at some point hitting 0 directs you to a live person.

Rather use hidden volumes with Truecrypt

Totally agree. Sometimes I am getting my laundry done, getting my car washed AND grocery shopping all at the same time. That's powerful. I don't get the people who sit there in the landronat the whole time. Are they afraid someone is going to steal their used clothes?

you're a ***

I have heard that some systems respond to double-0 but not single-0. maybe not. What's really annoying are the ones that make you listen to 6 options, including reading a webiste name and very deliberately pronouncing every syllable in 'www'--only to find out you have to hit 7 to talk to a live person.

The worst ones are places where they really really don't want to field your phone calls so they have a pre-recorded message that you must listen to in its entirety explaining the procedures you should take for any of a dozen different reasons you might be calling, then finally after you sit there for 5 minutes listening to it you finally are presented with the menu.

On the systems where you have to talk instead of punch numbers I've heard that swearing can get you through. Haven't tested it though.

Garlic/Garlic Oil capsules will get rid of warts (not genital warts afaik sorry guys)

I went to a dermatologist for a wart freezing on my hand, after several visits it wasn't going away. I read about the garlic thing, rubbed on the oil from inside the garlic oil pill once a day, gone in a week. (I recommend wrapping it in something as the area will smell like garlic).

idk about the other two but the third one works.

If you're reading this thread on an iPhone and want to instantly scroll to the too, tap at the very top of the page.

Also, for anyone that lives in an urban area, it's a good idea to keep a roll of quarters in your car for parking meters.

I just stop by the bank and pick up a $10 roll. This keeps me from frantically scrambling for change any time I need to park.

Thank you for this pro tip, I seriously did not know about this and it drove me crazy.