8/17/08 Captain Jack's Repossession Repo Cruise to PC thru TPC Part 5

[PBader]

Whew.......I think that I am basically caught up with you guys.
I enjoyed reading your romantic engagement and wedding stories. Some were really amusing. Alan and I met while I was in high school and married a little over a year after I graudated. I was 19 and Alan 21. We were too young to be romantic.....
I got the same spam and blocked it.
Luckily our weather has been mostly misses......we bought a snow plow in Dec. 04 after a 16" snow fall and have never had the need for it since! But all of you dealing with the messes Stay Safe.
Paula

 

[PBader]

To be a purveyor to a virtual captive audience - we have to often be a client to a bigger fish who is also a purveyor in a captive audience (you). I've seen some service stations change brand from say Texaco to Mobile ... and even some prime real estate trade from being a gas station to mixed use retail and office space. I used to muse over the radical change in use. As... I thought the hugh traffic site was better suited for something like a gas station. But I've heard the EPA and environmental requirements can ake rennovating or updating older stations unfeasible or impractical from a ROI POV.

I've sometimes mused over the ROI potential for something like a gas station. Recently I was noting the lifetime counter on the gallons a single pump had on it. It only showed regular and the mid grade... the figures were 609,000 and 250,000 respectively. One pump out of 12... so... this one pump had 859,000 gallons... times 12 = 10,308,000 gallons at say an average of $2 over it's life = $20,616,000 in sales excluding premium and tangible concessions. No car wash was at this station. What are the monthly averages and margins? I don't expect any sort of answer from anyone - but I would guess the margins must be 6-12% NBIT. Premium gas should have sweeter margins.... and I would take a wild guess at sales being comparable to the mid grade... as nice cars never say fill with mid grade... they just say "premium only". So add another 5,125,000 to gross sales and shift the margins to 7-13% NBIT.

What am I saying? A dedicated used for prime RE for only 2.5KK if we have a 10% NBIT? Is that enough? Maybe with the added revenue from concessions? And it would ake a huge difference what the time frame was we're talking about here.

At any rate... my local station is singular and unique, I'm sure. It looks to be fairly LOW volume to me. And wih top dollar for your inventory - all i can say is one of my best friends has a spouse who works for one of the major refineries. And - no doubt about it - the oil companies have a nice gig!

Hey Crash we can have this discussion over a cup of coffee or what am I saying a Drink of the day. Inside margins excluding lottery are very good, it is the gas that drags our ROI down. Our biggest uncontrollable expense is the interchange fees that Visa etc.. charge us. Most of the time the cc companies are making more cents on the gallon than the station owner.
Paula

 

[Verandah Man]

Posting Summary 20001 - 21000:

- Favorite Disney movies.
- Blah, blah, blah cookies!!!
- Blah, blah, blah how to get enough liquor on the ship for the secret deck 7 party.
- Tons of snow all over the place.
- Will the LA port let us take drinks onboard?
- More snow in the morning with lots of schools closed.
- Join the snowed in bunch for morning chat.
- Recommended reading for the cruise: "Panama Canal by Cruise Ship", written by Anne Vipond
- Blah, blah, blah Sweet Innocent Andy shows everyone his dirty side.
- Valentine's Day is celebrated by telling how we got engaged.
- Captaincrash finally fluffed a pirate with #21000.
- Score: Wenches 14 Jack 3 Swabbies 4

I'm innocent I tell ya, that was Randy, my evil twin, dosen't anyone believe me???

 

[arlenesp]

Morning
Liz, I love that you keep me informed of the weather here.Lets me know how to dress to take the poochie out You could see my breath this am.
Well I saw the story about the recall on Peter Pan Peanut butter and guess what? I have the jar in my pantry.Code 2111 and all. Mine is the reduced fat brand. So since I have been snacking on it for a few weeks now, I'm assuming (we all know about that word assume) I would've had some heath issues by now.They say this may be the cause of many Salmonella cases up north.
Today is Thursday and in our house Dr. day. First up to the Ortho for his Synvisc shots (both knees this time) and then down to Winter Park to have his quarterly MRI. If the Ortho doesn't take him on time, bam there goes my timeframes. Hopefully not tie ups on I4.
I also got the spam.
Judy, good to see ya back.

 

[yargrnhoj]

Whew.......I think that I am basically caught up with you guys.
I enjoyed reading your romantic engagement and wedding stories. Some were really amusing. Alan and I met while I was in high school and married a little over a year after I graudated. I was 19 and Alan 21. We were too young to be romantic.....
I got the same spam and blocked it.
Luckily our weather has been mostly misses......we bought a snow plow in Dec. 04 after a 16" snow fall and have never had the need for it since! But all of you dealing with the messes Stay Safe.
Paula

That's the way it always works. First winter in Chicago, we had no snow thrower and it snowed every day for two weeks and I hurt my back shoveling. Bought a snow thrower the next year and I use it only 4-5 times a winter. It's like carrying an umbrella -- if you carry one, it won't rain. If you leave it at home, you'll get soaked.

 

[yargrnhoj]

I saw that Liz. Andrew did make a post about that a little earlier this morning, scary.

I decided to take another vacation day today afterall, with these knees of mine, I thought it was best to use caution!!!

This one is more scary:

"A barge struck a cruise ship on the Mississippi River near New Orleans on Saturday morning, leaving a 30-foot gash in its hull and forcing the cancellation of a five-day cruise.

Carnival Cruise Lines' cruise ship Fantasy was returning to New Orleans from a Caribbean cruise when one of six rice barges being pushed by the towing vessel Repentance struck the 2,100-passenger ship's port side, Carnival and the Coast Guard said."

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-19/117118004739290.xml&coll=1

 

[yargrnhoj]

Or, as my DW would quote, "He fell into my knife, he fell into my knife nine times."


Anyone else concerned that the banter went from [insert our love story here] to [insert stabbing and police report info here]?

Sorry about that. We have been married 15 years and in that time, she's never thrown another knife at me, despite having motive and opportunity, so I do believe it was an accident.

 

[Verandah Man]

Hey There MR, does this bring back any memories from last August??? Dinner at Grills the night before we sailed away!!!

Wench Mary Rose is seated next her DH John in the photo below.

 

[Verandah Man]

This one is more scary:

"A barge struck a cruise ship on the Mississippi River near New Orleans on Saturday morning, leaving a 30-foot gash in its hull and forcing the cancellation of a five-day cruise.

Carnival Cruise Lines' cruise ship Fantasy was returning to New Orleans from a Caribbean cruise when one of six rice barges being pushed by the towing vessel Repentance struck the 2,100-passenger ship's port side, Carnival and the Coast Guard said."

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-19/117118004739290.xml&coll=1

Oh my word!!!

 

[yargrnhoj]

Well Todd, I email'd her back and told them it was an underhanded thing to do to use your name like that. Probably won't get through but felt good to write

Just a thought, but maybe we should all take up the offer and go over there and post our usual fluff.

Or am I just instigating trouble again?

 

[bellelinus]

Attention Attention

Someone is sending out bulk email that has mentioned my name , I am not responsible for this in any manner ...I have no idea who this is cause I got it to ...they must not realise that my email is different then my screen name ...Please dont point your finger my way ...I got them too ...

Good morning -- I was just getting on here to ask what is up with these emails about our cruise . . . I will read more to see if anyone figured out anything more about them, but I'm glad to see that it's not really some confusing alternate site . . .

 

[m&m's mom]

I may be late but we had a very unique wedding.
DH and I had lived together for 11 years. We had 2 small children, owned a house for 8 years etc. Just forgot to get married along the way.
We had a Halloween party every year for my nieces and nephews that was coming up. We decided why not use that as an opportunity to get married.
I called 1-800-find-a-judge and arranged to get married that weekend. We did not tell anyone except my DH to be's mother. She is not the surprising kind. We all dressed in costumes. I was Arachania the Black Widow Spider Bride and my DH was Captain Hook. 1st DD was Minnie Mouse and Baby 2nd DD was a Disney Princess. All family dressed in costumes for our Halloween parties anyway. Well when the party was almost done, the doorbell rang and I said "By the way this is more than a Halloween party, it is a wedding". Everyone was screaming and laughing so much is scared my Judge Wapner type judge half to death. I mean it took a lot of encouraging to convince him we were not crazy to have a suprise costume Halloween wedding. It was perfect!
Now I am sure you have a mental picture of us at this point but we are very normal, educated, conservative family that just likes to have fun.

 

[yargrnhoj]

Lisa - can you fortell the future?!?! It looks to me like we are still in the 21000's.... Of course, if all the hundreds of us tell our stories, it may continue up through 23,000!

pdarrah (Pamela)

Do you honestly think the posting summary to 23K will be much different than 21K? blah, blah, blah, fluff, fluff, fluff.

 

[yargrnhoj]

Two of my brothers (one a police officer & the other a superintendent of a local prison) went to bail them out. They were all still awake the next morning when DH & I went down to breakfast. My brother (the police officer) took me aside to tell me what happened. I went into the restaurant where they all were & I just said, "Geez you couldn't even behave at my own wedding!" Oh well I can laugh about it now.

Wow, and I thought me almost getting into a fist fight with my best man at my wedding was the worst wedding story. But ours did not involve the police, so you win! Good you can laugh about it now.

 

[buckifan]

Oh Congrats on your new Doggie!!!!! Sound like she's a keeper!

And thanks for adopting your dog from a rescue! God Bless you for that! So many shelter animals need homes!

ITA!! Both of our dogs are rescue dogs....and they are THE BEST!!!

Speaking of dogs....I called yesterday to get Beau's blood results and they weren't able to get it to the lab yet because of the weather. They said they would call me today....I'm so nervous!

 

[yargrnhoj]

Just a thought, but maybe we should all take up the offer and go over there and post our usual fluff.

Or am I just instigating trouble again?

BTW, I was only joking. Before anyone runs off thinking this is a good idea...

 

[Verandah Man]

I may be late but we had a very unique wedding.
DH and I had lived together for 11 years. We had 2 small children, owned a house for 8 years etc. Just forgot to get married along the way.
We had a Halloween party every year for my nieces and nephews that was coming up. We decided why not use that as an opportunity to get married.
I called 1-800-find-a-judge and arranged to get married that weekend. We did not tell anyone except my DH to be's mother. She is not the surprising kind. We all dressed in costumes. I was Arachania the Black Widow Spider Bride and my DH was Captain Hook. 1st DD was Minnie Mouse and Baby 2nd DD was a Disney Princess. All family dressed in costumes for our Halloween parties anyway. Well when the party was almost done, the doorbell rang and I said "By the way this is more than a Halloween party, it is a wedding". Everyone was screaming and laughing so much is scared my Judge Wapner type judge half to death. I mean it took a lot of encouraging to convince him we were not crazy to have a suprise costume Halloween wedding. It was perfect!
Now I am sure you have a mental picture of us at this point but we are very normal, educated, conservative family that just likes to have fun.

Sounds "ghostly" wonderful!!!

 

[yargrnhoj]

Oh how cute, Caroline you are expecting and you didn't want to tell us, so you let Judy share the news............

Randy seems to be acting up a lot lately. Maybe he should get his own DIS ID...

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

Happy Birthday
Joe and Brennan​

Paula

HAPPY BIRTHDAY'S

 

[lbgraves]

Just to let everyone know, I have unpublished the website for right now. I am sorry, but thought this was the best thing to do for the moment. I will post when it is back up.