Random Thoughts XI (Eleven Pipers Piping)
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No - but Woo & I both participated in the thread PD2 started about his angelic son and the ******** of Iowa State disrespecting him. That was a fascinating train wreck, so when I saw the name again, I was drawn to the thread.
Yeah I don’t get it at all. It seems as much fun as hitting your head against a wall.
I took one of my kids to tennis camp in Ames one year when he was about 13. Most of the kids were from Ames or suburban Des Moines and he kept commenting on how soft they were. Like a blister was a near death experience and 80 degrees was Death Valley.
All my kids had the same complaints when they closed our wonderful southern Iowa Scout camp and they went to the suburbia one. Finicky kids having a fit when their food touched in the fancy dining hall, a pool instead of a lake, etc.
My two youngest have been tutoring an acquaintance to help him raise his math ACT. The results apparently were so good, the parents came and loaded my freezer up with beef.
I can't remember who on here (and I am too lazy to do a search) brought up "That's All Brother" the first C-47 over Normandy on D-Day that is being restored. Anywho the first flight in it's restoration is scheduled for tomorrow.
Guessing its one of those retired RTTers since they are the only ones old enough to see it in its prime.
Honestly, when he did that I hit my brakes and let him fly by. I wasn't considering anything but my immediate safety at that point. I'd love to say I'd react differently next time, but I'd be lying.
One of our neighbors was arrested for road rage a few years ago. I have no idea what he did, but if I see him near his car, I stall a while before I back out. Pantherhawk fan, probably has lots of rage.
I don't blame you. The concern is that he has already taken the step from driving aggressively and flipping people off to showing them his gun. The next step is pointing it at people and then shooting someone is only a fraction of a second and one hot emotional lapse away. We all need to do whatever we can do (safely) to get the nut jobs off the road.
My brother had someone take offense to his driving in some way, shape or form in Texas and aggressively follow him to his neighborhood. My brother smartly didn't go home but started trying to lose him in the maze of the neighborhood. He did end up shaking him but the crazy showed my brother his piece as he left the neighborhood.
If we are official RTT family, I'm calling dibs on being the crazy uncle that shows up unexpectedly, drinks a little more than is appropriate and doesn't take hints on when its time to leave.
Seriously, Spiker, stop by more often.
Congrats on beating your upper level squad. My daughter is on the D2 team for soccer and plays harder against our D1 squad than anyone else. We used to give them everything they could handle, but, unfortunately, the talent gap and coaching gap is working against us as we get older.
I've tried getting my daughter to play Vball because I lived on the sand courts and at the rec center during college, but she has no interest in it.
Can there be more than one of these? I feel like I would fit in to that role quite well, also.
[QUOTE="VeloClone, post: 6023595, member: 9348"My brother had someone take offense to his driving in some way, shape or form in Texas and aggressively follow him to his neighborhood. My brother smartly didn't go home but started trying to lose him in the maze of the neighborhood. He did end up shaking him but the crazy showed my brother his piece as he left the neighborhood.[/QUOTE]
Exactly. I would never go to my house with some nutcase following me. I've had people tailgate me for awhile and then back off, but only once has someone continued following me off a major road. I ended up pulling into a grocery store where I had plenty of people around me. They wound up driving off.
Heck, I get a little paranoid whenever I see someone follow me into my neighborhood if they stay with me for 3-4 turns beforehand (there's zero reason for someone to come into my neighborhood unless you live there and the roads twist and turn a lot).
Exactly. I would never go to my house with some nutcase following me. I've had people tailgate me for awhile and then back off, but only once has someone continued following me off a major road. I ended up pulling into a grocery store where I had plenty of people around me. They wound up driving off.
Heck, I get a little paranoid whenever I see someone follow me into my neighborhood if they stay with me for 3-4 turns beforehand (there's zero reason for someone to come into my neighborhood unless you live there and the roads twist and turn a lot).
Rumor is we might find out tomorrow that we were sold. I guess there were some executives at our Jersey offices talking to some management that they would like to retain.
What's that gonna mean for your position? Being retained or possibly phased out?
Everybody wave hello to Cousin GR8
"I can't swim Clark."
Hard to say. I've been through many of these so I don't even worry about it anymore. I could always move on to my dream job. Billionaire Playboy, all I need is a billion $.
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