My kid spent the night with his friend. The next day, thinking he's still at the friend's house, I get a phone call from the local grocery store. Seems my kid was shoplifting. Now, both of the mom's involved are angry with each other. [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Oct 19, 2009 - 39 answers

1988 Chrysler Le baron - can't get hood open! [more inside]
posted by Kudos on Jun 9, 2009 - 15 answers

How do I keep my head straight about a girl, while being the rebound, even though I am really interested in her? Very confused. [more inside]
posted by weh546 on Jan 14, 2009 - 14 answers

I received a check for $3,000 from my mother who I have not spoken to for nearly seven years. Should I cash the check? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Dec 29, 2008 - 45 answers

AAA replaced my car battery which caused my radio to reset itself. I need a code to re-activate it that can only be found in the manual (lost), or obtained from a dealer (all away for the holidays). Help me reactivate my car radio before my three hour road trip tomorrow! [more inside]
posted by a lot is two words on Dec 24, 2008 - 9 answers

We were daily buddies at work for two years - she has a boyfriend and I'm married - but we cracked each other up and "fought the man" together. There were rules, and if I pushed them she reminded me, sometimes harshly but still there was genuine mutual platonic affection. About a month after me getting laid off she won't talk to me anymore. It's really bothering me because I don't know why... advice?? [more inside]
posted by Barrows on Oct 30, 2008 - 27 answers

I'm an American living in Canada. I'd like to buy a plant from a store in Canada that is legal in Canada but not in the US. Will I get in trouble? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Oct 10, 2008 - 16 answers

My PC was working fine until tonight. I rebooted to fix a BIOS setting (to enable the onboard Ethernet port) and since then it won't boot properly anymore. The PC POSTs fine, keyboard is initialized, I can enter the BIOS setup fine and make any changes I like, then save them. After that, the screen blanks and I'm left staring at a blinking cursor in the upper left corner. Nothing happens. How can I troubleshoot this and fix it? [more inside]
posted by dudeman on Aug 7, 2008 - 6 answers

youtube said i had to install adobe flash player 9. okay. i downloaded it and installed it (running a g4 imac, os 10.3.9) and now i can't view ANY flash. it tells me that the plug-in failed to load successfully. what gives? [more inside]
posted by kerning on Apr 5, 2008 - 3 answers

I recently visited bankrate.com and found my bank has a rating of one star out of five. (There is no zero rating). Should I change banks? [more inside]
posted by dances_with_sneetches on Mar 4, 2008 - 5 answers

osx not booting up and I'm unable to make it to an apple store... [more inside]
posted by krautland on Dec 25, 2007 - 20 answers

Can you serve 2 bosses even if you don’t respect one? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Sep 29, 2007 - 3 answers

What are these type of glasses called? [more inside]
posted by hamhed on Jul 28, 2007 - 6 answers

My HP Pavillion dv4000 is not allowing me to log into the computer. It did this once before saying i lost my password and i had to have my ex do some trickery and it was fine. Now it is doing it all over again. This time I did not have a password..it has just locked me out completely. [more inside]
posted by eve28 on Jun 17, 2007 - 9 answers

Dream living situation turned nightmare. Is there a way get rid of the problem roomies before things turn even uglier? [more inside]
posted by kmtiszen on May 18, 2007 - 19 answers

What is causing my engine to cut out when I come to a stop? [more inside]
posted by jaybeans on Mar 21, 2007 - 16 answers

PC laptop wireless issues: Can’t connect to my secure in-house wireless network. Any smart people able to help? [more inside]
posted by Milkman Dan on Jan 21, 2007 - 13 answers

UK Parcelforce delivery mess: Parcelforce has kindly delivered a package to the wrong address. Is this theft? [more inside]
posted by The Carolingian on Aug 17, 2006 - 11 answers

Open Source Ticket system - I am looking at OTRS, but cannot figure out if the system can send alerts to a supervisor/co-worker if a ticket is not resolved within a certain period of time. Any pointers? Any other open source trouble ticket systems out there that can do this?
posted by bright77blue on Jul 15, 2006 - 8 answers

HTML woes: How can I make Amazon ads play nice with Google ads? Also, why is my web site's layout screwed up in Internet Explorer on Windows? I can't figure it out. [more inside]
posted by jdroth on Apr 25, 2006 - 8 answers

I got a speeding ticket the other day (76 in a 65) and I'm still on my parents insurance. I already paid the ticket... do I have (need) to report it to my Insurance company?
posted by bamassippi on Aug 17, 2005 - 16 answers

A coworker had an informal chat with our manager's boss this morning, and was told that our department should ignore anything our manager tells us to do, including direct orders, especially if it would make a customer unhappy. Help! [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Jun 8, 2005 - 10 answers

I am going crazy about this, and google won't turn up anything useful. Laptop with no CDrom or floppy: Took HD out and installed XP using my desktop. Freezes loading mup.sys. I already installed the MB swap patch.

Basically what I am asking is: Can you copy the entire XP Pro CD onto your Hard drive, and set it as a boot option? Can it work? Does anyone have any ideas?
posted by Keyser Soze on Jul 22, 2004 - 5 answers