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  1. 6 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

    well they were exporting beef to china until they found mad cow disease so I might take that one off the list. And you did forget supermodels. 

    yes, and I think the UK banned their beef as well recently, so maybe this is some kind of retaliation??
     

     

     

  2. Hoping for payback against an LSU buddy who wouldn’t shut up about their win against us…hoping UCLA wins it

    he hasn’t replied to any of my texts thus far…

  3. On 9/1/2021 at 9:50 AM, DDD Dad said:

    Did the lawyer send a formal demand identifying the specific ADA violations?  If suit is threatened I'd see if you can get the lawyer to send a draft of the complaint.

    Also, he still would have to sue you in Texas federal (or state) court, which requires that he have a lawyer at his firm admitted in to practice in the court in question (or he'd have to partner up with local counsel and then appear pro hac vice or just let local counsel do all the in-court filings).

    I have handled some ADA suits in the past for restaurants and retail.  Best advice is to get a lawyer you trust to look things over and develop a plan for how to respond.

    Appreciate it. Yes, we ended up hiring an attorney and he’s advising a course of action. 

  4. 3 hours ago, mdleast said:

    As many times as I’ve watched that game/highlights of the game/just that 4th and 5 play, it always amazes me that I feel only slightly less anxious watching it each time than I was watching it that night live. Whew!

    I get a bit nervous every time I hear the Craig Way call on that play “all the dreams, all the hopes for the national championship come down to this one play”

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  5. 48 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

    That’s the first law firm website I’ve seen where the lawyer bios aren’t front and center. Gotta be a Saul Goodman type working out of his long term Motel 6 rental.

    The lawyer’s name is Douglas Schapiro. Unique last name. 

    link to his FL bar profile…

    https://www.floridabar.org/directories/find-mbr/profile/?num=54538

  6. Agreed. Total scam - they are in it for claiming their attorney’s fees as damages. There are no other damages to the plaintiff. The plaintiff and the attorney MUST have a fee sharing agreement and I don’t see how that’s not unethical. Also, I have no idea how a FL attorney can practice in Texas (even though this would be in Fed court due to ADA) without being registered by the Tx Bar. 

    In their letter they sent us a picture of the plaintiff, who was in a wheelchair, as well as his $16 receipt for the food he bought.

    This is the attorney’s firm…https://www.schapirolawgroup.com

    This same attorney and plaintiff have filed 18 lawsuits in Texas this year. 

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  7. We were sent a pre-suit notice threatening a lawsuit in 2 weeks unless we paid some Florida lawyer for this attorneys’ fees for alleged ADA violations at a restaurant. It’s not a huge amount of money, but a nuisance lawsuit threat. Did some digging and the same lawyer has filed 18 lawsuits on behalf of the same plaintiff in Texas this year alone. 

    Thoughts or referrals?

  8. Trying to decide on a new W & D. We had a front load Samsung washer and a dryer that we bought in 2009 and they were fantastic. Not one issue. 

    We moved into a house with a Maytag WD. The washer is a top loader with impeller and it sucks - basically twists all of our clothes and doesn’t clean well. The dryer is ok, but has a lint screen that pulls up from the top of the machine and leaves a mess when we go to empty it. 

    Thinking about going back to Samsung, but reading the comments on here, it sounds like they’ve gone downhill since we bought our first ones. 

  9. Late last year we moved to the Portland, OR area (Vancouver, WA) and looking to try some local wine from WA or OR. Any recs for wine that we should try or wineries to visit?

    We’re huge fans of reds (more on the dry side). In fact, we have some 2005 Rauzan-Segla that we’re looking to try soon and will post the pics when we do. 

  10. On 8/7/2021 at 9:19 PM, conVINCEd said:

    Seems like the prudent move, but I really don’t want to do it until after the cardiologist visit because I don’t want to send my bp back into the stratosphere.

    Before they put you on a bunch of BP medication, get yourself a good BP monitor and write down your BP twice a day. Just to confirm, but I’m no doctor. 

  11. 5 hours ago, HouTex said:


    My dad has Parkinson’s and this is pretty much our current situation. It’s just horrible.

    Sorry to hear about that HouTex, it’s very tough to watch your dad (and family) go through that.  If you need to reach out to chat, feel free to DM. 

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  12. 2 hours ago, Nicole44 said:

    This. It is what we did with my aunt. My uncle (her hubby) and their daughter went to the appointments and their other daughter (a nurse) was able to participate via phone during the consultations so everyone could hear the information at the same time and ask questions. My cousin said the cognitive tests were heartbreaking. Move the hands on the clock to 10:15. She couldn’t do it. Move the hands on the clock to 12:00. Couldn’t do it. Was given some pocket change. Make $.50. (Even though she had at least two quarters.) couldn’t do it. And so on. 
     

    Up until a few months earlier she had been doing most normal activities but as I posted earlier there were signs of things being not right at all. That diagnosis via the neurologist came in March 2019 (though her two daughters had been concerned something was off for months and had pleaded with my uncle who was in denial to get her tested.) she had been taking high blood pressure meds so they thought maybe that was it. But evidence started to pile up she wasn’t right. 
     

    I lived in Dallas at the time and I was just going through a separation. Living in the same town, she wanted to drive over (20 minute drive to a place she’d been numerous times) to see me and take me to lunch. She gets a block away from where I am living and calls me and says it’s was too hard to find me and she just was going to turn around and go home. I was like wait! I will come to you. Tell me what you see and I will find you and you can follow me. She said no! It’s too hard. I’m going to head back. That was February 2019. I immediately called my cousins and mom and told them what happened. Then the diagnosis. 
     

    obviously after that no driving period and no cooking touching the stove etc...

    She has good days and bad days. Late afternoon is the worst time. Sundowning they call it. She cannot do simple mundane tasks and just walks around her house putting on clothes. Taking off clothes and putting on more clothes and then clothes on top of those clothes. Picking up items and moving them to fucked up places. Walking back and forth and back and forth all day. Won’t take naps. She knows there is something wrong with her and on bad days she will pull one of us aside and ask us to kill her. Which ...no. But damn it’s fucking heartbreaking. 
     

    Get a neurologist. Do the research. Covid hit and made daycare impossible for a long time but now she is able to go a few days a week and do school she calls it. It gives my uncle a chance to rest and do things. She wakes up at 4:00 am (no matter when she goes to bed and sleeping aids outside melatonin aren’t good for dementia people) and just walks around in the dark for hours until my uncle wakes up to whatever bathroom mess has happened. She can’t bathe or shower on her on so he must help her with everything. She can put on clothes just not in the correct order. She will get out a hairbrush but have no idea what to do with it. Then she can have a conversation with me sometimes and seem ok. It’s bizarre and it sucks to watch her struggle through this rapidly decreasing window of being present. 
     

    TLDR: Highly personal stuff about my aunt offered as a means to help someone else who may be seeing the signs but not sure what to do. Every one is different with symptoms like a snowflake. I don’t understand why. My heart breaks for her and her family. Research a neurologist in your area who is a specialist in the field and get a diagnosis if you have a loved one experiencing this. They gave my aunt a year to a year and a half of good memory and we are at 2 thanks to my uncles great care and keeping her fed, clean and comfortable and doing activities with her daily. 

    Absolutely all of this. Each person has different symptoms, but they all seem to revolve around some WTF actions that just seem out of the norm. It much more than just memory lapses or forgetting why you walked into a room or what you were doing - it’s truly odd behavior. 
     

    As far as I know, there is no medical test for dementia or Parkinson’s, but they are diagnosed through clinical observation and physical “tests”, like those described above. It definitely sucked for my dad, who was in such good shape all his life, but during the last few years, could not lift a spoon to feed himself. 
     

    Another bit of advice is to closely monitor the caregiver (usually the spouse) and my mom in our situation. She had to do everything for my dad, feed him, get him dressed, shower him and she’s getting up there in age, so it really takes a toll on the caregiver. We finally decided that she needed help and got a series of nurses to help pretty much around the clock (after going the memory care route). If you’re financially able to swing that, I would advise that instead of the memory care home. 

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  13. Hang in there, Armybrat, you have plenty more time to annoy the youngsters. 
     

    A caution about the memory care facilities for those of you having to go that route - take note of the medicine(s) the memory care facility is giving your loved ones. We found out later that they were giving my dad all kinds of sedatives that would knock him out for large chunks of the day. Not a doctor, so not sure if this was right, but certainly none of us were told that they had started those meds and we didn’t find out until later what they were giving him.

     

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