Definitions by QuacksO
super-size returnable-container swindle
Refers to the pathetically-selfish practice of a miser’s offering a naïve fellow human one or more huge trash bags full of returnable containers as payment for his running one or more errands and/or performing some task around the shyster’s house or property, only for the hapless workman to later discover that the bags merely contain a comparatively few very large (i.e., gallon and/or 2-/3-liter) plastic containers, rather than the logically-expected “haul” of many dozens of ordinary-sized glass/plastic drink-bottles and aluminum beverage-cans; he is thus being paid only a small fraction of the “apparent reimbursement” that the gigantic bulging bags had “implied”.
I always insist on either “counting through” bags of bottles/cans before accepting them as payment for something, or having clear-plastic sacks be used to bag up the returnables, so that I can actually see the size/type/number of the containers inside the bags, and thus be more sure of getting the approximate reimbursement that I’ve been led to believe I’d be receiving as my end of the deal... there are waaaay too many advantage-takers out there who are eager to try to pull the ol' "super-size returnable-container swindle" on people like me.
super-size returnable-container swindle by QuacksO September 9, 2018
OIYGA ride-request
Where you ask someone if he can take you somewhere in his vehicle, but "only if you're going anyway"; this ensures that he will not hafta use much if any extra gas to accommodate your travel-needs.
I really appreciate how my neighbor always lets me ride along in his pickup truck to the big city whenever I want to pick up bulk supplies at Home Depot or WalMart, and so I always just make OIYGA ride-requests whenever possible, and then I either reimburse him for his gas or perform a few odd jobs for him in the rare instances when I actually do need a "special ride".
OIYGA ride-request by QuacksO September 9, 2018
front-lawn storefront
A.k.a. "yard sale". Often you can get good bargains on good-quality household items there, but you hafta always watch out for damaged/defective/worn-out items and inflated prices.
Brick-and-mortar shops do indeed usually charge a lot more for stuff than a front-lawn storefront, but yard-sale items usually don't come with a warranty or money-back guarantee, so it's kind of a trade-off..
front-lawn storefront by QuacksO September 9, 2018
rubber check
Where a gal promises to "pay" you for a favor by spreading her legs for you afterwards, but then unexpectedly insists that you wear a condom, which of course drastically reduces the pleasure of the act and thus largely negates any true value of said "payment".
Any time that a "willing" chick offers me sex in exchange for my assistance, I always make sure to first ask her if she's gonna let me "do it bareback" before I decide whether or not to bust my ass for her --- oh, I might still help her out even if she wants me to use protection, of course, but I still like to know what I'll be actually getting out of da deal --- I've gotten too many rubber checks in da past!
rubber check by QuacksO September 9, 2018
Come **up** with your hands **out**
What a less-than-honorable person WOULD like to hear --- i.e., "Approach me and I'll give you money, food, or something else desirable" --- rather than the stern "show yourself peaceably" command uttered by a firearm-wielding lawman.
Delinquent teen in the overnight lock-up: So... what got YOU in trouble?
Second delinquent teen: Oh, I was out raisin' Hell the other night, and Johnny Law showed up, so I ducked into a dark alley and hid behind a dumpster. I didn't hear the cop properly when he called to me --- I thought he'd said, "Come **up** with your hands **out**," so I stupidly dashed right out and ran up to him with my eager hands held out, thinking he was gonna give me a hamburger or pass me a few bucks... instead, he merely slapped da cuffs on me!
Second delinquent teen: Oh, I was out raisin' Hell the other night, and Johnny Law showed up, so I ducked into a dark alley and hid behind a dumpster. I didn't hear the cop properly when he called to me --- I thought he'd said, "Come **up** with your hands **out**," so I stupidly dashed right out and ran up to him with my eager hands held out, thinking he was gonna give me a hamburger or pass me a few bucks... instead, he merely slapped da cuffs on me!
Come **up** with your hands **out** by QuacksO September 9, 2018
farm-stand harvest
Refers to the pathetic practice of as few particularly-unscrupulous/selfish folks who go around to unattended produce-booths that typically pop up in late Summer and early Fall, carefully note which of the stands use unsecured "purely on the honor system" money-containers like screw-top canning-jars or snap-top coffee-cans, and then wait till late enough in the afternoon when the "unprotected" booths' cash-containers would logically be about the "most heavy with the day's fruit and therefore ripe for the plucking", but still a little while before the farmers would likely arrive back at their stands to close up shop and collect their money... the greedy light-fingered shysters then hastily empty out the containers into their own pockets and leave without anyone's being the wiser.
It's just too bad that you can't trust people nowadays with even fairly small amounts of cash laying around! Fruit/vegetable gardeners will do well to take steps to foil farm-stand harvesters --- one of the best ways is to n-e-v-e-r simply leave ordinary easily-opened/broken containers for legitimate customers to leave their money for purchasing the booth's produce --- instead you'll want to supply a "drop it in the slot"-based money-container, and have the container firmly/solidly fastened down so that it cannot be readily "lifted" and transported elsewhere to be forced open later. I would recommend a heavy-walled plywood or metal box with glue-covered countersink-embedded deck-screws or welded-together bolts that cannot simply be unscrewed, and have the box securely bolted to the farm-stand's main framing-timbers where it cannot be simply pried loose by hand.
farm-stand harvest by QuacksO September 9, 2018
yard sale
A weekend cash-raising event where either you are selling strips of sod from your front lawn, or all the items for sale are three feet long.