OT - What are you doing right now?

frazzdaddy · October 2018

As a native southenah, I scoffed at my then GF turned swmbo when she spoke of the fine dinning to be had in the north. (We argue about the relevance of the Mason/Dixon line.) She is a true Southern Belle (of dubious origins) There was just no way it could be true. Boy was I wrong. Gaithersburg for me.

YEMTrey · October 2018

Dealing with teenage Daughter drama. She's going to take so many years off my life.

Eoin · October 2018

YEMTrey said:

Dealing with teenage Daughter drama. She's going to take so many years off my life.

Boys are so much easier.

frazzdaddy · October 2018

Eoin said:

YEMTrey said:

Dealing with teenage Daughter drama. She's going to take so many years off my life.

Boys are so much easier.

YEMTrey said:

Dealing with teenage Daughter drama. She's going to take so many years off my life.

Been through two. wow, just wow. and bolded.

Possumtrot · October 2018

frazzdaddy said:

Eoin said:

YEMTrey said:

Dealing with teenage Daughter drama. She's going to take so many years off my life.

Boys are so much easier.

YEMTrey said:

Dealing with teenage Daughter drama. She's going to take so many years off my life.

Been through two. wow, just wow. and bolded.

From a Dad's perspective (mine - 2 daughters now grown and on their own payroll) Boys break your cars, Girls break your heart - smiling all the time.

lousubcap · October 2018

@Possumtrot - I can't speak to the girls deal but definite truth about boys and cars. My two sons (now 27 and 31) each had their initial speeding tix and car wrecks within a couple of weeks of the same time frame after getting their licenses 4 years apart. Of course, in my youth I was also a member of the speeding tix and car wreck club. Fruit doesn't fall too far from the tree, I guess.

Possumtrot · October 2018

Same for me - wreck and Tix. However I wasn't too careful what I asked for in my younger days - all I wanted when I grew up was to be surrounded by women, thus the wife, 2 daughters, female dogs, etc.

DoubleEgger · October 2018

lousubcap said:

@Possumtrot - I can't speak to the girls deal but definite truth about boys and cars. My two sons (now 27 and 31) each had their initial speeding tix and car wrecks within a couple of weeks of the same time frame after getting their licenses 4 years apart. Of course, in my youth I was also a member of the speeding tix and car wreck club. Fruit doesn't fall too far from the tree, I guess.

Talking my way out of a 119 in a 55 zone ticket was a life highlight. I also got pulled twice for speeding in one day. I ended up with one seat belt violation. I couldn’t tell you how many times I talked my way out of tickets growing up.

lousubcap · October 2018

@DoubleEgger - better to be lucky than good, for sure. It was only extremely infrequent that I was able to talk my way out of a speeding tix. Did manage to get one down from 88 in a 55 (back when the interstate limit was 55) to 75 so I didn't have to go to court as I was around 250 miles up the road in nowhere central CA (I-5).

frazzdaddy · October 2018

DoubleEgger said:

lousubcap said:

@Possumtrot - I can't speak to the girls deal but definite truth about boys and cars. My two sons (now 27 and 31) each had their initial speeding tix and car wrecks within a couple of weeks of the same time frame after getting their licenses 4 years apart. Of course, in my youth I was also a member of the speeding tix and car wreck club. Fruit doesn't fall too far from the tree, I guess.

Talking my way out of a 119 in a 55 zone ticket was a life highlight. I also got pulled twice for speeding in one day. I ended up with one seat belt violation. I couldn’t tell you how many times I talked my way out of tickets growing up.

My scanner was my best friend, unfortunately my dad had one too. He was usually waiting for me when I got home.

TEXASBGE2018 · October 2018

DoubleEgger said:

Talking my way out of a 119 in a 55 zone ticket was a life highlight. I also got pulled twice for speeding in one day. I ended up with one seat belt violation. I couldn’t tell you how many times I talked my way out of tickets growing up.

I have only been pulled over a few times in my life. Show them my DL and my Conceal Carry License, that seems to do the trick. I say "thank you for your service and to stay safe" and usually get a "thanks for having our back out there" and drive off. Of course I've never driven 119mph in my life.

Ozzie_Isaac · October 2018

DoubleEgger said:

lousubcap said:

@Possumtrot - I can't speak to the girls deal but definite truth about boys and cars. My two sons (now 27 and 31) each had their initial speeding tix and car wrecks within a couple of weeks of the same time frame after getting their licenses 4 years apart. Of course, in my youth I was also a member of the speeding tix and car wreck club. Fruit doesn't fall too far from the tree, I guess.

Talking my way out of a 119 in a 55 zone ticket was a life highlight. I also got pulled twice for speeding in one day. I ended up with one seat belt violation. I couldn’t tell you how many times I talked my way out of tickets growing up.

My luck, get pulled over for seatbelt and talk my way into a speeding ticket. I lack the charm in person that I display on here.

Acn · October 2018

DoubleEgger said:

lousubcap said:

@Possumtrot - I can't speak to the girls deal but definite truth about boys and cars. My two sons (now 27 and 31) each had their initial speeding tix and car wrecks within a couple of weeks of the same time frame after getting their licenses 4 years apart. Of course, in my youth I was also a member of the speeding tix and car wreck club. Fruit doesn't fall too far from the tree, I guess.

Talking my way out of a 119 in a 55 zone ticket was a life highlight. I also got pulled twice for speeding in one day. I ended up with one seat belt violation. I couldn’t tell you how many times I talked my way out of tickets growing up.

Should live in Massachusetts, they can’t pull you over for that.

DoubleEgger · October 2018

Acn said:

DoubleEgger said:

lousubcap said:

@Possumtrot - I can't speak to the girls deal but definite truth about boys and cars. My two sons (now 27 and 31) each had their initial speeding tix and car wrecks within a couple of weeks of the same time frame after getting their licenses 4 years apart. Of course, in my youth I was also a member of the speeding tix and car wreck club. Fruit doesn't fall too far from the tree, I guess.

Talking my way out of a 119 in a 55 zone ticket was a life highlight. I also got pulled twice for speeding in one day. I ended up with one seat belt violation. I couldn’t tell you how many times I talked my way out of tickets growing up.

Should live in Massachusetts, they can’t pull you over for that.

At the time, they couldn’t pull you over for it but they could write you a ticket for it. It was $20.

CPFC1905 · October 2018

Eoin said:

YEMTrey said:

Dealing with teenage Daughter drama. She's going to take so many years off my life.

Boys are so much easier.

Girls are like a migraine that you know is coming then gets intense and then goes away. Boys are like a constant nagging minor back pain.
Trouble with boys is that you know what they are thinking, usually before they do. With girls they are thinking about 15 different things at the same time and you only know about three of them!

fishlessman · October 2018

Acn said:

DoubleEgger said:

lousubcap said:

@Possumtrot - I can't speak to the girls deal but definite truth about boys and cars. My two sons (now 27 and 31) each had their initial speeding tix and car wrecks within a couple of weeks of the same time frame after getting their licenses 4 years apart. Of course, in my youth I was also a member of the speeding tix and car wreck club. Fruit doesn't fall too far from the tree, I guess.

Talking my way out of a 119 in a 55 zone ticket was a life highlight. I also got pulled twice for speeding in one day. I ended up with one seat belt violation. I couldn’t tell you how many times I talked my way out of tickets growing up.

Should live in Massachusetts, they can’t pull you over for that.

actually was pulled over for that this summer in mass in a commercial truck. 1972 chevy ramp, no shoulder harness but had the belt on

pulled over for 46 in a 45, written warning, massachusetts

crossed the inside yellow line on the inside of a divided highway during a blizzard, written warning, massachusetts

car registration expired by 6 hours, ticket, car towed and impounded, massachusetts

expired safety sticker, ticket, considered a moving violation, 7 years against your insurance, massachusetts

expired safety sticker, hit the gas and took off, hot pursuit, got around a corner and pulled into a dirt parking lot with a wedding party going on, ducked, no ticket, new hampshire

as a kid in mass, i think all that would be called harassment nowadays

Eoin · October 2018

Cinderella's carriage, the pumpkin is about 18" across, Anne carved it earlier and I drilled the holes.

nolaegghead · October 2018

Botch said:

nolaegghead said:

shoepeg corn.

Curious, what is "shoepeg" corn? It all looks delicious!
(I'm not a southerner, even tho I grew up in South Dakota)

@botch

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoepeg_corn

ColtsFan · October 2018

Just ordered one of these for the XL

YukonRon · October 2018

Due to upcoming bad weather......Trick or Treat has been moved up to tonight.
Yeah, I hope they like red wine and Funyuns.

pgprescott · October 2018

Turkey fillet and some veg

NorthPilot06 · October 2018

No more delaying

NC_Egghead · October 2018

fishlessman said:

Acn said:

DoubleEgger said:

lousubcap said:

@Possumtrot - I can't speak to the girls deal but definite truth about boys and cars. My two sons (now 27 and 31) each had their initial speeding tix and car wrecks within a couple of weeks of the same time frame after getting their licenses 4 years apart. Of course, in my youth I was also a member of the speeding tix and car wreck club. Fruit doesn't fall too far from the tree, I guess.

Talking my way out of a 119 in a 55 zone ticket was a life highlight. I also got pulled twice for speeding in one day. I ended up with one seat belt violation. I couldn’t tell you how many times I talked my way out of tickets growing up.

Should live in Massachusetts, they can’t pull you over for that.

actually was pulled over for that this summer in mass in a commercial truck. 1972 chevy ramp, no shoulder harness but had the belt on

pulled over for 46 in a 45, written warning, massachusetts

crossed the inside yellow line on the inside of a divided highway during a blizzard, written warning, massachusetts

car registration expired by 6 hours, ticket, car towed and impounded, massachusetts

expired safety sticker, ticket, considered a moving violation, 7 years against your insurance, massachusetts

expired safety sticker, hit the gas and took off, hot pursuit, got around a corner and pulled into a dirt parking lot with a wedding party going on, ducked, no ticket, new hampshire

as a kid in mass, i think all that would be called harassment nowadays

@fishlessman, dude, that’s really some ball bustin’ right there. Folks in Mass got something screwed on too tight back then. I hope it’s still not like that.

I got pulled over in Quincy once, on my way from the airport to Hingham. Probably 15 yrs ago or more. You exit 93 and take that drive along the shore. Just before that, right after you exit the interstate, you come around this curve and, BAM, they’ve gotcha’! I think I just got a warning; think he saw my NC license and my rental. Just bustin’ balls...

lousubcap · October 2018

Giving out Halloween eve candy as the weather-guessers figured we were gonna get lots of rain Weds PM. Thus the reschedule.

As is the usual case, the rain expectations are sliding into the later (past 10 PM (EDT) period Weds but the projections are at least 2+" of rain so I get the audible.

I'm sure the double-dippers will be around tomorrow. Never mind having to be somewhat ( a loose term) presentable two days in a row. Only once (well twice) a year. I will survive. Bourbon supply is gonna take a hit. FWIW-