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In a house, Bose 901s can overwhelm and deafen you with sound. A friend from the Army had Bose 901 speakers. 901s rely on bounced sound reflection off of a wall. I think it had nine speakers facing the rear and one speaker facing the front and they could handle lots of wattage. You need a powerful receiver to really take advantage of 901s. They were expensive too as I remember. Because they’re so powerful at loud volumes, they’re better for discos and roller skating rinks than home use. Playing the Bachman Turner Overdrive song “Sledgehammer” at full volume would cause the walls to vibrate.

Put on your ice skates before walking across that floor. You just might need them because the floor looks slippery and especially if it gets wet.

As I remember there was a problem when the Thompson State of Illinois Office Building in downtown Chicago was under construction. It was discovered that the concourse floor was too slippery and they feared lawsuits from people falling. A machine had to be brought in after the floor was installed to roughen up the floor.

Our old forum is now a ghost town.

Can a topic in its entirety from the old wtf/eve site be brought over here to be continued rather than starting the same topic here as a new topic? It was a “What are you reading” topic and I think there were two of them.

Then there’s a device called a “curb feeler”.

A curb feeler is an aftermarket device that some people used to attach to their car’s passenger side fender. They’re passe now. I haven’t seen one in decades. It’s a long thin flexible metal coil that jutted out from the lower fender. If you got too close to a curb or anything else, it would make a metallic sound to let you know you were too close.

Passenger side outside mirrors cause some distortion because they’re convex shaped glass.

Outside mirrors stick out too far. Whenever I back up, I turn my head and look out the back window in addition to using the interior and exterior mirrors. This was an expensive lesson for me. Once when I was backing out of the garage and turning the car’s wheels, my outside mirror hit the steel track that the overhead garage door uses and cracked the mirror. I had to buy a whole new mirror assembly.

When I was in a high school driver’s education class, the instructor put traffic cones stored in the car’s trunk onto a parking lot and we, three students per car, would take turns practicing parking. I don’t know where you can get traffic cones.

I have a narrow garage so I have to be super careful when entering and exiting my garage. I’d like for my next car to have a feature called “four wheel steering” (4WS). Some of the 1990s Mitsubishi GT3000 models had this feature. There may be other car makes and models that have 4WS but I haven’t been keeping track. It makes a car more maneuverable to steer and especially in tight spaces.

The outside rear view mirror is a feature that I’d like to see go away for good. Because outside mirrors protrude from a car, they’re vulnerable to damage. Cameras can take the place of the outside mirrors. I think Japan allows cars to have this feature. It’s probably just a matter of time when U.S. cars will have 4WS. Most cars already have a back up camera with the monitor screen in the dash.

Who leases a car instead of buying one? There are pros and cons for car buying versus leasing. Check “Consumers Reports”. CR is a good reference for autos. I personally don’t have any car leasership experience.

But I do know of one group of people who would rather lease than buy. They’re owners of business properties. One of my coworkers owns a couple of gas stations. By leasing, he says he gets certain income tax deductions by using the leased car in the course of checking on his gas stations.

I got the Covid 19 booster on Wednesday. Opera season and a World Music Festival are starting up here. They get crowded and I don’t want to go unprotected. I requested Pfizer because all my previous Covid shots were Pfizer. Pfizer wasn’t available at the CVS drug store chain which administered the shot so I got the Moderna vaccine instead which is interchangeable with Pfizer.

My arm was sore and I had body ache for about a day and a half afterward but it’s better than catching a Covid.

This will be my first post on the new WTF forum. I’ve never owned a grand piano. After reading your post Shiro Kuro, the following came to mind:

If it was a local move, did the piano mover come out to your house BEFORE the actual move to scope out beforehand what’s involved between unloading the piano out of the truck and moving it into your house?

Regarding the movers not using a ramp. Maybe they had a ramp but couldn’t use it. Ask them why. Does your house have a porch with curving stairs or is the staircase longer than the length of a mover’s ramp?

Concerning the thud sound when the piano was on the sled: It appears that piano moving sleds need to have springs mounted on each wheel to act as shock absorbers. Yeah, I know they don’t make them like that but maybe they should.