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Ordered an outdoor cam from Ring on July 29. Expected delivery date, Monday August 10th.

Yesterday I still had no email with shipping info, so I connect via chat. Takes forever to get a human....

I explain the situation. They ask my order number. A few minutes go by...

"Yes, sir...your device should arrive by August 25th. They had a delay because they're out of stock."

LoL...what?

"We can refund your card, or you can wait for the item."

I guess I'll wait, but WTAF? Ring just sells products they don't even have in stock? Then doesn't bother to let the customer know there's a delay?

Great business model there, Ring. Totally cool.

Checking in for thoughts on the situation...

Just met a student who will be joining my class on Monday, and their father was with them. Turns out he's a highly respected local tattoo artist. We exchanged Instagram accounts.

I have been wanting to get more ink, and this feels like a great connection, but I also want to avoid the appearance of preferential treatment. Based on what I can gather, the student is very motivated by my subject area, and should do just fine in the course without any special treatment.

Would it be unethical of me to get tattoos from the student's father?

Would it be best to wait until next semester (after the child is no longer enrolled in my course) before getting tattoos from him?

Just curious to see. I can understand a variety of approaches being reasonable here.

Just curious to see where everybody here lands on the spectrum...

Collectors:

Buy vinyl and do their best to maintain condition, so don't typically play their records.

Player:

Buys vinyl for the love of the music and the tone. Plays their records into the ground.

Both:

Has an extensive collection but will break out a record to play from time to time...but this is rare.

Anyway...just curious. Personally I think I'm in the "both" category. Mostly because I don't have a good setup for playing my vinyl right now. All I have is an Ion USB turntable that plugs into a computer, because my primary use for it was digitizing records and sampling for music production.

On that note, if anyone has tips on storage, player/stero setups, etc, I wouldn't be mad. Feel free to drop em in the comments.

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We have a concert coming up there and we can buy $10 tickets for parking. I have a handicap and need to park rather close. Is the $10 necessary or is there plenty of free parking even for me?

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I think this is great for the caged up doggies and what a fun activity for folks who can’t have a dog in their house.

We were going to see the Odyssey at Parkway Plaza Friday afternoon. I was walking towards the door back by 5 Guys and all of the sudden kids on ebikes started spilling out of the doors from inside the mall like it was a clown car. A seemingly neverending stream came out and then a security guard came stomping out after them yelling things like "You better get out of here, I know where you live! I know where you live!"

At this point the kids just kept riding around the entrance in circles, one frumpy kid on a mini gas bike just kept revving his little engine over and over.

Seemed like some other managers came out to get the kids to leave and at that point we were just trying to weave through them to get inside and one of the kids ran over my foot. Lol. The manager guy screamed "see now you ran over a customer" and we just went inside to get to the movie.

The whole mall was kinda weird and smelled like exhaust probably from the mini frump. Pure chaos. I did find an article about probably the same group of kids banging on cars and blocking traffic.

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