Put driving skills to the test on the drive up. Also avoided two speed traps once we got to Marion. They are going to need new spots in order to catch me!
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I saw that on the news! Though I think their idea of a blizzard is drastically different than ours.
If the NWS issued it then it is the same. There is specific criteria it has to meet to be issued.
I hate that, too. I went out Black Friday and there were whole families out. Kids barely awake in the shopping cart, kids in the toy aisle at midnight. The reason I am out at that hour is to get away from my kids.
We are in full on Griswold family fun mode here. Last night was the biannual gingerbread house making contest, today is baking sugar cookies for Santa. No snow in South Dakota which is just fine for me, but the 9yr old was wishing for a bit of the white stuff.
I fell so much better knowing Caleb didn't deserve that gift. We will all have fun playing with his Hot Wheels.
Ahh, the good old Marion police...their cruisers should say "to Protect and to Fund the Budget" We have some like that in Iowa City...University Heights, a landlocked city that can't grow, so has to fund thru ticketing.
Yeah. One the car was so reflective it gave him away (Thomas Park and 7th Ave) the other one was on the parking lot of the strip mall down town...where there is always one late at night.
Back in college I was stopped on Christmas Day leaving my parents home in Manchester and heading to Dubuque to see my Irish Terror GF. They had extended the 35 mph zone further than when I had lived there and I was probably going 45 in what had been the 45 zone. Young cop was a real *** and tried baiting me into something worse by insulting me and giving me **** about my hair etc. I won't bite so he finally admitted he wasn't even supposed to be running radar that day per instructions from the city and didn't even do a ticket. Decades ago but still remember because it was Christmas and how he seemed to really want to arrest someone. Been insulted and baited by city cops before, always city cops, highway patrol guys have always been all business and professional.
It's funny, I was reading that thinking of it being a trip on the current 4 lane, then realized, no...when Boxster was in college, that would have been 2 lane all the way...and my parents' house wouldn't have existed yet....heck, I don't think they were likely married yet, either.
And now that I know you're from Manchester originally, I predict with 95% certainty that if I told you my last name, you'd respond with "Are you related to insert one of 15 first names here" and then, I'd say no...maybe distantly. Unless it's one specific name, and then I'd answer...not the one you know.
Actually at the time it was old two-lane Manchester to Delaware than 4-lanes from there to Dubuque. With Crazy White Women living in Dubuque I drove that route a LOT. Miracle I didn't fall asleep driving back than with all of the stupid late night post drinking post sneaking sessytime (using 00's favorite term) in her parents living room.
Wait, you mean the other way around? Manchester to Delaware was 4 lane first. Delaware to Dubuque went to 4 lanes in 86 ish?
It's always disconcerting when a thread simply ceases to exist. It was a very innocuous thread as well (or at least it was at the time I posted in it)...most frustrating player. Went back to see what had been said, and I'm not allowed to access it. And the post I made in it is no longer in my profile list of posts. Someone must have said something reallllllllly bad in the last 10-15 minutes.
And since you mentioned Irish and from Dubuque, gonna go out on a limb and guess she was catholic...which reminds me of the Billy Joel line..."Catholic girls start much too late", and I always think...Not the ones I knew!
If you're looking for christmas music you haven't heard before, a couple good ones I heard this morning:
Christmas Canon by Trans Siberian orchestra (set to Pachelbel's Canon)
One King by Point of Grace
Christmas Canon by Trans Siberian orchestra (set to Pachelbel's Canon)
One King by Point of Grace
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