I am a single person in a city where I don't know anyone because I just moved here. I need something that will set me up with someone to run me home from the medical clinic as I need minor surgery and can't drive myself home. They will not release me to an Uber or Lyft or anything. So I need someone to drive me, sit there, then drive me home. The services that do this for old people think I'm insane. None of the car…
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#12I am a single person in a city where I don't know anyone because I just moved here. I need something that will set me up with someone to run me home from the medical clinic as I need minor surgery and can't drive myself home. They will not release me to an Uber or Lyft or anything. So I need someone to drive me, sit there, then drive me home. The services that do this for old people think I'm insane. None of the car…
Thanks for sharing! Gladly I never experienced that problem myself.
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#13I want to have fitted sheets that are easy to put on a mattress and will not snap back when I'm trying to put them on. Fitted sheets are constructed the same, more or less, so something that breaks the mold and does the above would be a game-changer.
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#14I am a single person in a city where I don't know anyone because I just moved here. I need something that will set me up with someone to run me home from the medical clinic as I need minor surgery and can't drive myself home. They will not release me to an Uber or Lyft or anything. So I need someone to drive me, sit there, then drive me home. The services that do this for old people think I'm insane. None of the car…
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#15There is no public transit around here, so one of your best bets to get to the city (and back to university) is to find students with a car that are driving in your direction. The going rate that a student will charge you to let you ride with them is about $30.
Students post offers for rides (and requests) in a convoluted way: through a Facebook ridesharing group. Facebook is a terrible platform for this. The posts are not displayed chronologically. And even if they were, they offer rides for different dates which are impossible to sort; you have to manually scroll through the page and hope for the best while you wade through endless expired or irrelevant posts.
Apparently there used to be an app that people used at one point, but the developers graduated from school and I guess it stopped being supported. Anyway, I'd definitely like a better way of finding rides.
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#17I want to have fitted sheets that are easy to put on a mattress and will not snap back when I'm trying to put them on. Fitted sheets are constructed the same, more or less, so something that breaks the mold and does the above would be a game-changer.
Get a second, larger flat sheet and consider the game changed.
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#18I want to have fitted sheets that are easy to put on a mattress and will not snap back when I'm trying to put them on. Fitted sheets are constructed the same, more or less, so something that breaks the mold and does the above would be a game-changer.
Remember me when you make your first billion.
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#19I attend university in a small US town about ~2-3 hours from city life. There is no public transit around here, so one of your best bets to get to the city (and back to university) is to find students with a car that are driving in your direction. The going rate that a student will charge you to let you ride with them is about $30. Students post offers for rides (and requests) in a convoluted way: through a Facebook…
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Get a second, larger flat sheet and consider the game changed.
How would you keep the flat sheet in place? I have a love-hate relationship with fitted sheets, but when they're on the mattress they usually stay put.
Here're two examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8d4-vA_sEY or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7nD-S7pIV8