u/spinningpeanut

I'm glad I saw this before riding in traffic with it but I bought a fun novelty rainbow tail light, it is not in replacement of my current tail light. The strap holds on tight, but the light slides right out of the strap from any serious bump like going down a curb, I can only imagine how quick it will fly off with how terrible the roads are around me.

It is a novelty, fun rainbows to make me happy, so if you have any clever tricks to secure the slip (there's no thumb release trigger it's a very basic slip) besides super glue (tempting) I'd love to hear. I can't be the only one who loves toy lights.

Location: Utah
A friend of mine contracted someone to build up a tiny living vehicle. We checked out the website, no signs of AI use so all work was legitimate. The vehicle was delivered at the beginning of the year. The timeline given was for the vehicle to be ready to show progress in May. He kept brushing off any messages and calls to get any progress updates, the deadline has long since passed.

At this point my friend finally managed to force him to show her in person what progress had been made. She was shown barely a frame in place, something that wouldn't take longer than two days. She was met with constant excuses while standing there, staring at the vehicle that has been in his care for 7 months with at most 2 weeks worth of work if he was slow and spent time drawing up blueprints. I do not have information of any existence of blueprints or any prior work. She was understandably upset. At this point the finishing should have been going on and the vehicle taken to it's next step; mechanical repairs, in a few short weeks.

The amount paid is shy of $50,000. I know a frame alone would not cost that much. She's worried that he's going to fight her on getting a refund. He had been avoiding showing her any progress, claiming he wanted to "surprise" her, which I was wary of and it caused me to do a deep dive on this guy to see what kind of work he's actually accomplished in the past. It has been near silence from him for this entire year.

"Went to finally see [it] in person, he finally stopped avoiding me long enough to see it, and he barely even finished the framing"..."He said he had other projects and all the family issues he was having at home. Now he's claiming that he can 'Make it right in the next two weeks' and 'send me daily pictures' but couldn't do anything more than give excuses when I asked them why he couldn't do that for the last 7 months."

Naturally he is incredibly untrustworthy at this point. I will be discouraging her from continuing work with him, as the least he could have done was communicate any level of progress to her. The offer to speed through the work in 2 weeks is reckless, especially since this will be her home. I haven't seen the pictures, but I imagine the frame to be barely an outline of the walls and bed frame, most likely no storage or countertop frames in place, something that takes a weekend from any fool with a toolbox.

What are the realistic expectations from this situation? I'm looking into legal recourse to help guide her in the right direction, though it absolutely flies twice as high as the small claims limit so that isn't going to work out. She would have to properly sue him if he refuses to return her money for a breach of contract. I hope he makes this easy on her and just refunds her, genuinely, so she can just move on and find someone more qualified to build her home. But I would love some advice on building her legal case up, I do know the basics already, I spend a lot of time watching various practicing lawyers go through civil cases. I just don't know anything about breach of contract cases. What grounds does she have to stand on?

I do not know if he is a licensed contractor. I do not know if there is a formal carbon page contract that was signed (though it normally does not matter as long as there is documentation of the agreement, which she does have). I do not know if he's insured.

Been thinking about this for years but I'm kinda clueless on what to even call this to get the correct results. When I was a kid we just used a press down nozzle attached to an air compressor. I have the xaomi 2 pump and twist nozzle but I would very much like to press it down again. What do I even call the pump nozzle attachment so I can find what I'm looking for? My search results only yield the discovery of tire nozzle replacements rather than pump attachments.

Has anyone done that "experience" at the very end of the points? What exactly is it? I don't want to save my point for a mystery with no dollar value I can make comparisons to to see if it's actually worth all that time and money. I save my points for whatever can provide the most value, so I gotta know man. What is the value? What is the experience?

It feels like you can't win no matter what. You're hurt by awful men for being a woman. You're hurt by awful women for being a man. I'm both, I'm neither. I don't think any of this is fair. I don't know how to handle any of these. I couldn't handle it as a woman very well before and got angry. I don't even have it in me to be angry, just depressed. Back then it was fine to be angry and fight back. I can't fight back anymore. I only have the energy to cry. I've never been more alone.

I felt like I had to switch insurance companies because the secretary at my PCP said they wouldn't be covered under my insurance. I thought that's awful I'll switch to a different plan so I can keep coming here.

So I switch. The department in charge of health insurance at my work helped me with that, I had no information to compare plans at this point in time. I had no information. I had no help in understanding what I was doing.

So I have several prescriptions I need to take. All of them are $400-$2000 each on this new plan no matter where I take it. If I had known this I would have just stayed with the basic plan my job offered as it actually covered the costs of my medicine. I'm completely distraught. I'm asking them to switch me back but I have a feeling they can't. I'm not going to be able to take any of my medicine for the entire year if this winds up being the case. I'll have to file for bankruptcy every three months to afford it.

I wish someone told me what to expect. I wish there was information off season I could've viewed to find out the best plan that would actually work for me. If I had known what was going to happen to me I would never have switched. I would have paid the nearly $200 in chunks with my PCP for the occasional visit. I can't afford any of my medicine now. I'm lost. I'm disturbed. I'm disabled on top of it all so I feel like I was taken advantage of in a desperate situation where my brain barely functions enough to pretend I can work full-time with reasonable accommodations.

I'm sorry that this is a wild vent. I hate this system so much. I just want to be able to afford my healthcare... I don't know what to do. Even good Rx has me paying hundreds of dollars for my medicine. I can't afford to live anymore. I'm priced out of life now. I don't see the point in continuing to live if this is what I'll have to deal with.