Curmudgeon wrote:Flight Service wrote:Me either- only with good reason.ditchdigger wrote: I instantly distrust any person in khaki pants and a polo shirtoh, then you would not trust me 5 days a week
+1ed that one for you. 
Curmudgeon wrote:Flight Service wrote:Me either- only with good reason.ditchdigger wrote: I instantly distrust any person in khaki pants and a polo shirtoh, then you would not trust me 5 days a week
+1ed that one for you.
carbon wrote: This guy I know saw a woman deliberately push her shopping cart into a car that He spent a year building from scratch (while He was running an errand during His 1st shakedown trip) while she mumbled about how the owner of the car thought his car's so special. I heard that He kind of lost his mind a little and smashed in every body panel of her car with the cart while she sat locked in her car screaming for help. Then that guy who definitely wasn't me at all, jammed the cart on it's side beneath her rear bumper cover on it's side so it dragged behind as she drove away. Hopefully she never berkleyed with someones art again. I would never do something like that though, Ever.
Many years ago a guy I know who wasn't me pulled into a parking spot while his girlfriend who wasn't my girlfriend ran in the store for a minute. This fat nasty broad pulled a beat up Maverick into a spot next to not my car then proceeded to bang her door loudly into not my car. Not me got out, walked around and inspected the damage to not my car as she grabbed her two screaming snot nosed brats and screamed at them as she tried to hustle them into the store.
Not me was wearing some cowboy boots with really hard heels and slammed those heels into her car several times after loudly getting the old bat's attention. Not me put some BIG dents into her car before not my girlfriend showed up and calmed not me down and got him back into not my car.
In reply to Curmudgeon:
That makes my head hurt, dude.
Justice makes me happy no matter how the lawyers make us word things.
I have definitely not keyed people's cars after I've seen them open their doors, hard, right into the side of my car leaving a nice ding and paint chip, unlike this guy that I used to know who would do things like that. Which I would never, ever do.
The parking lot door dings got me on this one. It's not a rant but you guys should like it. I was in the Walmarts store parking lot in my old Jeep and my wife ran into get something. Jeep had full doors with tinted windows and a hard top, so you couldn't really see inside at all. Turd-burgler walks up to the car I am parked beside and proceeds to open his door and hit my Jeep, stops and looks at the door. Turd-burgler then slams the door into the Jeep again on purpose and harder. Again stops and looks at the door and then finally looks at the Jeep. I didn't mention that the Jeep had these full rocker panels with steps coming out to protect the sides from rocks when off-roading, and apparently from turd-burglers in the Walmarts parking lot. Moron was just slamming his door into the rocker and it was denting his door and not hurting the Jeep.
I think he was winding up for the third slam when I rolled down the window and politely asked him "WTF are you doing?" Dude about shyte his pants. Jumped in his car and tore out of there. I didn't care because it hadn't hurt the Jeep and because I got such a good laugh at him when he about shyte his pants. Plus it has been a story I have told for years.
In reply to octavious:
That is a great story.
My favorite Michael Jackson video is the one where his hair catches fire.
Forgive me Father for I have sinned. I covet the $1200 '76 Scirocco on the local CL. I have promised my significant other that my Scirocco days are behind me, but I fear I might have a relapse when she leaves town tomorrow.
Please advise, Father.
I wish I was a girlie, just like my Dear Papa.
I just signed up for 4 classes from edX.org.
One from University of Toronto
One from UT Austin
One from Harvard and one from MIT.
I already have freshman jitters.
Mr_Estrotica wrote: Forgive me Father for I have sinned. I covet the $1200 '76 Scirocco on the local CL. I have promised my significant other that my Scirocco days are behind me, but I fear I might have a relapse when she leaves town tomorrow. Please advise, Father.
The only way to absolve your Scirocco sins is to drown yourself in Sciroccos until such time as it is completely out of your system.
Even though I really really need new tires for the Miata, I am waiting until solo nats is over to see what to buy. (STS) They just gotta last through one autocross and a 3 hour drive...
I hate fox bodies. I just called a friend of mine about his fox body. It's the most well built one ive seen that's not a show car.
He asked why I wanted it when I clearly hate fox bodies. I explained to him my dream to DD a Fox/Ranchero with the rear turned into a mini-bed.
He hung up. Not sure we are still friends.
Apexcarver wrote: Even though I really really need new tires for the Miata, I am waiting until solo nats is over to see what to buy. (STS) They just gotta last through one autocross and a 3 hour drive...
as far as STS is concerned, I'm going to get one more set of R1R's ... they're legal for '14 ... by that time the dust should have settled as to how the ZII's/Rivals shake out (or any of the other 200 TW tires)
I got a helluva laugh out of a state trooper the other day. MN State Fair is going, and it was police day. So- large display of police equipment. Choppers, dogs, cars, etc. Strangely, there was no P71. So I went up and asked an officer that was marked as "Captain"- "Why don't you have any p71's here?" I know they're still in service locally, they like to camp at my local gas and smokes dispensary to eat donuts and drink coffee. Captain...something immediately goes deer in headlights and says "uhhhhhh.... what's a P71?" "Crown Vic" Oh.... because we can't get any more of those. SO? You've got a freakin Model A- an old Diplomat, and some other stuff on display... you can scrape up a P71. I found it lulzy.
I just left the Minnesota hose shop for the Chicago hose shop that I worked at 14 years ago. I am really happy I made the change - I expected it to be different and it is really nice. I also came back as one of the Senior sales guys - it feels really good.
FranktheTank wrote: I am helping build a Tough Mudder competition... I'm starting to kind of get excited about the small details in how difficult I can make each challenge.... Like just the slope and angle of the mud pits and the design of each wall I help design, I'm also in charge of the hay bale sail and keep doodling different configurations of each obstacle to create the most fun/difficulty. I hated it when I started. Wanna run? PM me. It's in western Ky early September 35 dollar entry. Should be interesting...
Could you please put SOME safety measures in place on the height obstacles? I've done 2 tough mudders, on both: the back of the half-pipe was wide open, with a 20+ ft fall
no mats on the backside of the tallest wall obstacle. Once you climbed it, the only way down was a 10ft leap
turboswede wrote:Mr_Estrotica wrote: Forgive me Father for I have sinned. I covet the $1200 '76 Scirocco on the local CL. I have promised my significant other that my Scirocco days are behind me, but I fear I might have a relapse when she leaves town tomorrow. Please advise, Father.The only way to absolve your Scirocco sins is to drown yourself in Sciroccos until such time as it is completely out of your system.
I'm not sure I can handle hearing every dumb meth addict tell me the same story. It's always something along the lines of "Dag'on! Is that a Stirocco?! Man, back in High Schoo' I had a friend with one of dem. Thing went around corners so dang fast. Awe man, I tell you. We pulled some serious tail with that ride, may-an. I tell you what."
I'm more interested in hybrid (and especially EV) technology than I am about sports cars. Hoping it's just a phase of life thing and will just pass...
Its Friday. I wanna dance!
Okay, y'all were right about the seats in the RSX. I've adjusted, and re-adjusted, and re-re-adjusted about a thousand times in the two months since I bought the thing, and still can't get comfortable with padding that stiff.
But I love the rest of the car so much that I just can't discard it for what I see as a flaw in myself, rather than in the car. Hey, I'm working weekends again, so I don't have any trip longer than my commute in my future in the first place. Maybe a Kickstarter page? "Old Man still loves sports cars, but has back problems! Buy me some Recaros?"
dj06482 wrote: I'm more interested in hybrid (and especially EV) technology than I am about sports cars. Hoping it's just a phase of life thing and will just pass...
I want to buy an insurance write-off Leaf and turn it into an A-Mod class autocross car. (Sponsored by Aurora, Tomy, A/FX, etc 
)
dj06482 wrote: I'm more interested in hybrid (and especially EV) technology than I am about sports cars. Hoping it's just a phase of life thing and will just pass...
I'm worried that it's a phase of life thing and I'll pass first...
Though I'd say that sports cars are still holding a firm lead for now.
Mr_Estrotica wrote:turboswede wrote:I'm not sure I can handle hearing every dumb meth addict tell me the same story. It's always something along the lines of "Dag'on! Is that a Stirocco?! Man, back in High Schoo' I had a friend with one of dem. Thing went around corners so dang fast. Awe man, I tell you. We pulled some serious tail with that ride, may-an. I tell you what."Mr_Estrotica wrote: Forgive me Father for I have sinned. I covet the $1200 '76 Scirocco on the local CL. I have promised my significant other that my Scirocco days are behind me, but I fear I might have a relapse when she leaves town tomorrow. Please advise, Father.The only way to absolve your Scirocco sins is to drown yourself in Sciroccos until such time as it is completely out of your system.
There's either some mystery connection between Sciroccos and Falcons, or between you and ditchdigger... We'll see what happens when I get the Ranchero running...
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