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Sandman

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  1. 4-5 years ago, I tried the email route: Give me your out the door price on this car. Salesman said if I wasn't coming in to see the car, then he wasn't going to talk to me. I never heard from them again.
  2. So you want the entire board to go away?
  3. Every time I see someone at work who has brought their lunch in a tied off plastic grocery bag, it just makes me cringe. I can't explain it. Get a lunchbox, they're not expensive.
  4. Last time I ate subway was several years ago. I remember that I wasn't disgusted, but it felt like I wasn't eating real food. Like maybe I was served some fake food that they use on display at furniture stores.
  5. The worst part is watching him. He had a hell of a time coming out from the anesthesia and was acting weird. Crying out for help, not knowing where he was and then falling asleep again. I'm back at work today and my sister said he was telling old stories and then getting emotional about his father, who died in 1973. Then sleeping again. But he's doing better, ate some food. He'll have to go to skilled nursing for a while to get back on his feet (literally). He needs PT and someone to watch him during the day, as he's still weak from blood loss.
  6. Sometimes mom would make a big skillet of white gravy and a stack of toast. Then you tear up toast into pieces and pour the gravy all over it. I never thought about asking why there weren't biscuits, even though we had biscuits and gravy every so often.
  7. Test results are in: internal hemorrhoids and diverticulitis. Tomorrow, they're going to put in an implant for blood thinning, the Watchman? Also doing a little heart ablasion. Just a whole slew of shit.
  8. I'm pretty sure I haven't been to a theater in 8 years. Haven't missed it at all. Pretty sure that all of the theaters I used to go to are long gone now.
  9. I've already looked for his post in the divorce thread. Nothing yet, but it's coming.
  10. I was stone cold asleep when my phone rang at 0130, probably the deepest sleep from which I have been awakened unexpectedly. I saw my sister was the caller and I knew something bad had happened. Dad was taken to the heart hospital with chest pains and trouble breathing. He was sleeping, so I went down there a little later. He had a mild heart attack, caused by blood loss. Turns out he's seen some blood in his stool the last 3-4 days, off and on. He said he didn't say anything because "it went away". Please note that my dad was a medic in the military for 25+ years, then spen 17 years as a cardio-cath tech. So he should know better. He got a few units of blood and feels much better. He's getting scoped from every orafice in the next day or two to find the cause of the blood loss.
  11. Took my daughter's car in to get the A/C fixed, it took 3-4 days before they got to it. They called and said it was done, she picked it up and went to work that night. She called about 30 mins later to tell me it quit working again. I call the dealer in the morning and he says they can't get to it for a week, I said you told me it was fixed and took my money, you should prioritize my fucking car. They claimed that was just impossible. I never did business with them again.
  12. Man, this takes me back. My mom would go to the local western wear store to get me irregular jeans. Levi's made sure you had the "IRR" stamped on the back tag, too. And we had to get Levi's because the super cheap-o brands didn't have a long enough inseam for my gangly ass.
  13. I didn't grow up poor, but my parents did and they acted like we were poor as fuck too. Dad gets offended when I look back and call him cheap, I guess "frugal" would be the right word. I get it though. His dad built one of their houses out of old railroad ties. No indoor plumbing. Fried baloney was the first thing I ever learned to make by myself. We lived in military housing overseas, so no A/C at all and no central heat, just radiators. Eating out was a rare treat. I got hand me downs as well, but from my older sister. I thought the Hardy Boys were cool but perhaps her old Parker Stevenson iron-on t-shirt was a poor choice for an 8 year old boy.
  14. My kids would whip into the driveway at an angle, blocking both sides of the drive with what they called "NASCAR parking" and thought it was hilarious. Then I'd make them get the fuck up and move their car so my wife and I could get out of the garage. They don't live at home anymore but will occasionally do it when they come visit. It still infuriates me and they still laugh about it.
  15. Using my standing desk at work. It makes me feel like some 80s keyboard player in a shitty band. By which I mean I feel cooler than normal while probably looking like a schmuck.
  16. More electronic bullshit: Wife came into the study to show me something on her laptop. Unbeknownst to either of us, she set her phone down on top of the Apple TV remote and hit the volume down button. It immediately started lowering the volume on my TV, and I mean it was acting like there was an invisible person permanently holding down the "Volume Down" button, even though she had quickly picked up her phone. The TV remote would no longer function properly, shit was fucked. I tried everything I could think of, I unplugged the Apple TV, unplugged the TV and plugged it back in a few mins later, fucking did a factory reset! Nothing worked. After researching, it turns out that the Apple TV remote is a piece of shit and does this, at least it does it to Samsung TVs. I had to plug the Apple TV back in and reset it's remote. Everything was fine after that. I then unplugged the Apple TV and used all of my willpower to keep from throwing it across my backyard.
  17. I assume rape is illegal on campus, too. Maybe they'll cancel each other out?
  18. However much a nice 9mm pistol and handgun training costs. Say $2000 or so?
  19. That's the parent's fault. If my kids had turned down a full ride, they would've paid their own way. The fucking nerve.
  20. When shit that you can't actually operate just quits working. Like wi-fi, or home internet in general. I can't just turn it off like a faucet, yet sometimes it just goes out. And by the time you call the ISP and get some slapdick on the phone, it miraculously comes back on. Fucking ridiculous.
  21. 15 or so years ago, I read that women's golf was the best sport for getting a scholarship in college. The premise was that they had so many schollys to give away and nowhere near enough golfers. So there was going to be a full ride available somewhere. I tried to get my 2 girls into golf and they declined. Hope you have more luck.
  22. I got a call from my credit union, their number was on my phone screen, so I knew it was them. The guy said my card was used in another state. Long story short, it was bullshit. But it was hard to tell right off the bat because they had spoofed the phone number. I've had this account since 1989 or so and I know that phone number by heart, so I felt safe enough to talk to the guy. And his obvious indian/pakisanti accent didn't faze me too much because I know many companies use offshore CSAs. I wound up freezing and cancelling our debit cards and getting new ones. Hope that guy gets killed in a goat-fucking accident or worse.
  23. Sandman

    Getting old sucks

    Scrolling on twitter and saw one of those "released on this day" posts and it was the movie "Porky's". Came out 43 years ago this week, I was beside myself. Texted my friends, immediate replies of OMG and WTF. Time is a motherfucker.
  24. When my wife has to park, it's like she's trapped in a maze and she'll die if she chooses wrong. "I'm going to park here-wait, that car is too close. I'll go here-no, there's a closer spot. Wait, maybe I'll pull through-no that truck is too big". Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuk.
  25. Twist-ties. We used to save the ones that came in boxes of sandwich bags, but now they're all ziplock baggies. So I keep ones from loaves of bread. Slightly off center of this question, but my late brother-in-law never had a job interview. He joined the Marine Corps after high school, served 22 years and retired. While laying around the house a few months after retiring, a buddy he served with called and said he was working at our local AFB and would my BIL like a job up there with him. He said yes and worked there until he unexpectedly passed away.
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