Eyeopening Trip to Bass Pro Shop

[MN Fisher]

20 minutes ago, slonezp said:

Just start eating the children

Is this the dawn of Soylent Green?

[slonezp]

38 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

Is this the dawn of Soylent Green?

I believe that movie "took place" in 2020 or 2022, I don't remember.

 

I buy in bulk when food goes on sale. If the grocery shelves went bare tomorrow, I've got at least a month or more before I have to convert to cannibalism.  

[TOXIC]

I had a friend who was a “prepper”. Every year on our annual trip to Michigan, we would take him cases of MRE’s.  He had a cottage in the UP that was crammed full of food, guns and ammo and in an area that was ripe with wild game and other sustainable food sources. ?. Sadly he passed from a heart attack.  

[Darth-Baiter]

1 hour ago, TOXIC said:

I had a friend who was a “prepper”. Every year on our annual trip to Michigan, we would take him cases of MRE’s.  He had a cottage in the UP that was crammed full of food, guns and ammo and in an area that was ripe with wild game and other sustainable food sources. ?. Sadly he passed from a heart attack.  

i knew a prepper.  put all his energy and money into prepping.  he bought a shipping container he was planning on burying.   he got into money trouble and had to liquidate prepping stuff to pay bills.  it was a bummer.  

 

he planned for the wrong emergency.

[Tennessee Boy]

Who’s old enough to remember when no one thought gas would ever be over a dollar a gallon so the gas pumps only went up to 99 cents per gallon.  When gas prices shot up in the 70s,  they set the pumps to half the price per gallon and you paid twice the total displayed on the pump.  You had to do the math in your head or keep a $50 calculator in your car.?

[Alpster]

You can get a whopper/bigmac, etc. for around $5 or $6. If you want a hamburger in a sit down restaurant $15-20, for a hamburger. We are eating out less and less.

[Captain Phil]

24 minutes ago, Alpster said:

We are eating out less and less.

This ^^

[flatcreek]

11 hours ago, Tennessee Boy said:

Who’s old enough to remember when no one thought gas would ever be over a dollar a gallon so the gas pumps only went up to 99 cents per gallon.  When gas prices shot up in the 70s,  they set the pumps to half the price per gallon and you paid twice the total displayed on the pump.  You had to do the math in your head or keep a $50 calculator in your car.?

And Hank Jr. sang a song about dollar a gallon self serve gasoline

[airshot]

People wont take a 20 plus dollar an hour job, but they will sit in line for an hour at a food line to get free handouts...  Look on the news, look at the lines of folks waiting for some type of handout designed for the poor, see how many new cars at 40K plus are in line...

[flyfisher]

18 minutes ago, airshot said:

People wont take a 20 plus dollar an hour job, but they will sit in line for an hour at a food line to get free handouts...  Look on the news, look at the lines of folks waiting for some type of handout designed for the poor, see how many new cars at 40K plus are in line...

I'll take something that I never saw but I heard from a friend that it happend for $500.....

[slonezp]

On 4/14/2023 at 8:35 AM, Alpster said:

You can get a whopper/bigmac, etc. for around $5 or $6. If you want a hamburger in a sit down restaurant $15-20, for a hamburger. We are eating out less and less.

It's $12 for big mac meal in IL and a pub burger at a sit down will run you $30 with a drink and sides. Grandma's birthday is tomorrow. She wants to go out for breakfast. Plates run $18-$30...for breakfast!!??

 

Truck is 6 years old with 80K on the odometer. No tickets or accidents and I'm paying about $400 more a year for insurance than, when it was new.

 

Back to the eye opening trip to BPS, I went to Cabelas today to get my licenses and Cabelas no longer gives out the vinyl bifold to put the license in. 

[gim]

41 minutes ago, slonezp said:

went to Cabelas today to get my licenses and Cabelas no longer gives out the vinyl bifold to put the license in

I noticed that too.  I have so many though I don't need it.

[Darth-Baiter]

On 4/14/2023 at 7:21 PM, airshot said:

People wont take a 20 plus dollar an hour job, but they will sit in line for an hour at a food line to get free handouts...  Look on the news, look at the lines of folks waiting for some type of handout designed for the poor, see how many new cars at 40K plus are in line...

Some people just want free stuff.  They don’t check if you’re actually needy.  My friend hands out good at food bank.  It’s no questions asked.  He said everyone shows up for free stuff. 

[Tennessee Boy]

3 hours ago, Darth-Baiter said:

Some people just want free stuff.  They don’t check if you’re actually needy.  My friend hands out good at food bank.  It’s no questions asked.  He said everyone shows up for free stuff. 

I help with food giveaways often at our church.  Most of it is food that is about to expire.  Many times we have an excessive amount to give away.  Recently we gave each person five pounds of bacon,  called everyone we could think of to see if they wanted bacon, took home what we wanted ourselves and threw away probably 100 pounds that was leftover.  People drive through and we put food in their car.   We don’t ask questions and we don’t judge.  I’ve put food in some very nice vehicles.  You never know what someone’s story is.  Maybe they can’t afford food because they’re making payments on a new $100K bass boat and a new truck to pull it. ?

[Captain Phil]

Our church has been cooking and serving free meals every Friday for years.  Before Covid, we averaged between 200 and 300 meals a week. There are many reasons people come to our church to eat these meals.  It's easy to believe they want "free stuff" when you have enough.  While some are truly hungry, many are just lonely.  It's surprising how many elderly people are desperate for someone to talk to.  We also bag hundreds of sandwiches for take out.  We live in a small town in Central Florida where your neighbor may have dirt floors or may be a millionaire.  The financial diversity here is amazing. A good friend is an elementary school nurse.  Her school is in a lower income area. She tells us half the kids in her school get free food.  Some of them say it's the only real meal they get.  Poverty in America is real. 

[Darth-Baiter]

1 hour ago, Tennessee Boy said:

I help with food giveaways often at our church.  Most of it is food that is about to expire.  Many times we have an excessive amount to give away.  Recently we gave each person five pounds of bacon,  called everyone we could think of to see if they wanted bacon, took home what we wanted ourselves and threw away probably 100 pounds that was leftover.  People drive through and we put food in their car.   We don’t ask questions and we don’t judge.  I’ve put food in so very nice vehicles.  You never know what someone’s story is.  Maybe they can’t afford food because they’re making payments on a new $100K bass boat and a new truck to pull it. ?

100%
 

 I don’t judge either.  You don’t assume the person in line is anything.  Just commenting to the above that said ….  Either way.  I don’t pretend to know peoples circumstances. 

[airshot]

Unfortunately there are to many that choose free handouts over working and are taking advantage of peoples generous attitudes !!  People are being trained to not work for what you have or want.  Becomming difficult to tell who really needs and who just wants.

[gim]

2 hours ago, Tennessee Boy said:

Maybe they can’t afford food because they’re making payments on a new $100K bass boat and a new truck to pull it.

And then they whip out a $1500 smart phone too. I’m sure plenty of people just do it to take advantage of it. Without a proper screening process, this will continue.

[volzfan59]

I absolutely do my best not to judge others, lest no one judge me. Broke is broke, be it from low/no income, or being over extended with debt. I hate the thought of a person, especially children, being hungry.

My problem starts when people that call themselves "parents" would rather buy drugs than food for their family. But, by the Grace of God I don't have an addictive personality and have never walked in their shoes. I thank each and every one of you that feed the hungry.

[Tackleholic]

On 4/14/2023 at 8:21 AM, Tennessee Boy said:

Who’s old enough to remember when no one thought gas would ever be over a dollar a gallon so the gas pumps only went up to 99 cents per gallon.  When gas prices shot up in the 70s,  they set the pumps to half the price per gallon and you paid twice the total displayed on the pump.  You had to do the math in your head or keep a $50 calculator in your car.?

Got my driver's license in 1957;  gas was about a quarter, an attendent pumped it and washed the windshield.  How many of you guys remember that?

[Tackleholic]

33 minutes ago, Tackleholic said:

Got my driver's license in 1957;  gas was about a quarter, an attendent pumped it and washed the windshield.  How many of you guys remember that?

That same attendent also checked the oil.

[TnRiver46]

9 hours ago, Tackleholic said:

Got my driver's license in 1957;  gas was about a quarter, an attendent pumped it and washed the windshield.  How many of you guys remember that?

An attendant still pumps your gas in New Jersey (or at least they did when I was there 6-8 years ago 

[MN Fisher]

10 hours ago, Tackleholic said:

Got my driver's license in 1957;  gas was about a quarter, an attendent pumped it and washed the windshield.  How many of you guys remember that?

I remember that - though when I was getting gas...and working at the station in the mid-late 70s...it was $0.10 a gallon more for 'Full Serve' over 'Self Serve'.

 

[Bird]

10 hours ago, Tackleholic said:

Got my driver's license in 1957;  gas was about a quarter, an attendent pumped it and washed the windshield.  How many of you guys remember that?

You have to be one of the oldest members, hats off.

Got my driver's license in 1976 and remember the Esso stations that did that.

[Hammer 4]

I recall when gas was .18 cents a gal. and the attendent also checked your battery's level too.