Minor Confession Thread

A can of black olives.  

sleepyhead said:

In reply to Woody & Datsun310Guy :

Just to be clear... are we talking green or black?

These were feta stuffed green Greek olives from the olive bar at Stew Leonard's.

Second Minor Confession: I now spend more time at olive bars than at regular bars.

I ate raw ramen straight out of the packet and I liked it better than cooked.

In reply to Knurled. :

It's actually really good if you break it up and use it as a salad topping.

Knurled. said:

I ate raw ramen straight out of the packet and I liked it better than cooked.

All of the filling, none of the salt. Much better when you're living on ramen to eat it that way, in my experience. 

In reply to Knurled. :

I agree, raw ramen is the best ramen.

I'll have to try the salad topper idea.

Or cook the ramen, leave the flavour packet out, cool the noodles and use it to replace lettuce in a salad. Some sort of Thai ginger peanutty dressing.  Lots of onions...

I confess I took a 15-20 minute nap on my lunch hour every day last week.  

I feel guilty cause hunter type aggressive salesmen don’t take lunch.  You travel to the next site or network or drink martinis. 

Call it a power nap or a de-stressor or that I was on my time but in the end I both enjoyed it and felt guilty at the same time.  

I'm really hoping for a canoe that's trying to sell us literal canoes.

Seriously. I don't want to build something that could be competitive for the sake of being competitive. I like what I have, and I get a kick out of flogging the hell out of it even though we wind up in a class that ... out-classes us.

Inspired by reminiscent post about how much fun the Challenge was before it was about rules.

My zephyr makes 88hp and 160ft lbs of torque and it feels like a rocketship next too my 90 ranger with the 2.3, but its wet out and the ranger has dry rotted tires so I drifted it home like it actually made power!

I'm convinced that all food critics are pompous asshats.

Datsun310Guy said:

In reply to AWSX1686 :

I get annoyed when complaints come in for low dollar cars.   

Once I stopped a guy complaining about the battery in my Datsun 310GX.  Dude - I’m asking $400 - want perfection?  New cars were running $10,000 at the time.  

A buddy and I once went in on flipping a 12 y/o grand am (like a 97) and listed it it for $750 just so we didn't have to sit on it too long. That turned out to be way too low for it, dangit. Anyway, after it went up on craigslist he got 30 calls in the first couple hours. While the first dude is test driving it he literally gets two more calls. The guy pulls back up and tries to lowball him. "Why is it so cheap? What else is wrong with it?" As he's trying to lowball, Jason is silencing another call. I love his reply, "look pal, if you wanna pay more someone down the way is asking two grand for an 84 Tempo, why don't you go buy that one instead?"

The guy ended up buying it for asking price and we began to consider a new rule for cars we sell: $X,XXX firm. If you try to go lower the price goes up $100.

I confess I would rather splurge on my wife than myself.  Just dropped $2000 on a new stove and washer today.  Wife happy and for $59 they install them both.   

I also announced that less than the amount I’m spending on triple Weber’s when I, uh hum, finally buy that 240Z I’ve been eyeing since 1985.  

Then mysteriously Molly Hatchet came on the radio.   

https://youtu.be/jTZHHQplIX8

It sucks getting old.  

For some reason my DVR thought I’d enjoy a David Foster tribute show. It was right, he writes some fine music.  

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/hitman-david-foster-friends-introduction/456/

Sometimes the morning after a good whiskey night, I check the $2000 Classifieds to make sure I didn't agree to buy a $40 Spitfire the night before.

I'm still really hoping somebody speaks up and claims they nabbed that $150 Corvette before this weekend.

Stampie said:

Sometimes the morning after a good whiskey night, I check the $2000 Classifieds to make sure I didn't agree to buy a $40 Spitfire the night before.

I've had strange things shipped to me by UPS and/or FedEx.  eBay is a horrible thing to access while inebriated.   Or wonderful, depending on your point of view.

I have not yet been shipped a live badger, at least.

Do you think the fact that it expires tomorrow will stop me from eating it today?

In reply to Appleseed :

Hell no, expiration dates are merely a suggestion,  except for maybe milk,  eat up and enjoy.

imgon said:

In reply to Appleseed :

Hell no, expiration dates are merely a suggestion,  except for maybe milk,  eat up and enjoy.

Exactly, I’ve had things way out of date with no problems.  

Stampie said:

Sometimes the morning after a good whiskey night, I check the $2000 Classifieds to make sure I didn't agree to buy a $40 Spitfire the night before.

Only at GRM do we delineate a good whiskey night from a bad whiskey night by whether or not we bought a $40 Spitfire, but I totally get it.  I mean, a $40 Spitfire is way worse than puking your guts out before going to Waffle House.

Wally said:

imgon said:

In reply to Appleseed :

Hell no, expiration dates are merely a suggestion,  except for maybe milk,  eat up and enjoy.

Exactly, I’ve had things way out of date with no problems.  

Appleseed said:

Dp you think the fact that it expires tomorrow will stop me from eating it today?

If in doubt, fry it up and eat it with eggs.

Shut up and chew your milk.