Recent comments in /f/massachusetts

Ok_Sorbet9577 t1_j61u8e8 wrote

I heard about this happening at my pediatrician office. We have been patients there for 27 years and this is a new “policy” not law as I was told by the receptionist. I called my own family dr office and they don’t do that there. You have access to your children till they are 18. There is no law stating children at 13 make their own medical decisions or parents have no access to their children’s health records at 13. My pediatrician office does it because they are part of a bigger hospital that has this policy.

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Waggmans t1_j61u1qf wrote

I had the the basic coverage, if you needed something like a root canal you were SOL. I was never offered crowns because of course since there was no root canal coverage you were more likely to have an extraction (which I did).

I started a couple implants right before the pandemic, realized I couldn’t afford it, so now I’m at the point where I need tons of dental work and a big part of it isn’t covered.

Hard to get a job with no teeth.

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Fun_Top5285 t1_j61tdv3 wrote

They like it when you overcompensate by looking both ways, rear view mirror, side mirrors etc.

During a Y turn, make sure there isn't a tree or something in your blind spot when you reverse. A sneaky trick.

When you park on a hill, make sure you turn the wheel to the correct way. Toward curb downhill. Away from the curb up hill.

Make sure it is in park or neutral with your foot on the brake or the car won't start

Stay the proper distance away from the curb when they tell you to pull to the curb and stop.

Sometimes they will try to get you to turn into a one way street the wrong way...they'll tell you to take a left before a one way street and a few feet further there will be a stop sign where there is a cross street that it's legal to turn left. Use your directional.

Good luck. Don't tell anybody,HaHa (a few days before your test, pull an "I Spy" and follow at a discreet distance the route they take during a test. Do it a few times as sometimes they take different test routes. Use a friends car and not the one you'll use for the test.

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DCharizard OP t1_j61sdlu wrote

I grew up in Massachusetts, Boston area. It was a constant commercial that would come on so I’m not sure if it was strictly local to Massachusetts alone but definitely local in the New England area. Time frame would be very late 90’s into early 2000’s

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DCharizard OP t1_j61nt43 wrote

I don’t think that is the business I’m looking for. The commercials are very similar, low budget and local. The store also seems very similar but not the right one. The staple of the commercial was at the end when the daughter would exclaim “oh no here comes some more”

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DCharizard OP t1_j61myxy wrote

No, it was a store more akin to Walmart. They would advertise furniture, electronics, jewelry, clothing. Basically everything and anything. The staple of the commercial was always at the end when his daughter would exclaim “oh no, here comes some more”. My friends and I all remember the commercials but cannot recollect the name of the business or find any video of it.

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Ken-Popcorn t1_j61mqvz wrote

I think that was the Building 19 commercial, I can’t remember his name… wait, I think it was Jerry

From Wikipedia:

The “closeout stores” had been known throughout New England for selling an eclectic assortment of items at drastically discounted prices, as well as self-effacing advertising that made fun of the founder, Jerry Ellis. Many of the items were factory irregulars, discontinued models, post-expiration-date, damaged, or less than perfect in some other way, but some new merchandise was offered as well. The stores capitalized on the quick cash flow needs of other businesses, obtaining most of their merchandise from fire sales, overstocks, customs seizures, liquidations, and bankruptcy courts.

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