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Post by Marshall on Aug 3, 2023 7:48:54 GMT -5
Yesterday I did some overdue yardwork. The vines I planted about 5 years ago in front of the side yard 28' tall fireplace brick had grown to the roof. We had the roof redone a month ago. The roofers tore the vines off the roof and left a mess on the upper brick. I have to trim them periodically or they grow horizontally onto the siding and windows. But it's high up work. My extension poles weren't cutting it. So I got out the 24' extension ladder and maneuvered it around. No small task as the rack for the ladder in the garage is too close to the brackets for the new garage door mechanisms, so I had great difficulty just getting the stinkin thing off the wall and out of the garage. Many other impromptu problems arose. But after a couple hours of finagling, the job was done and the ladder was back in the garage on new lower brackets.
I finished up and was all sweaty. I had had to move the car and my bicycle out of the garage to get the ladder out and back in. It was a calm evening. So I decided to take the bike for a little ride around the block. Generate a little artificial breeze through my movement. It felt great.
So as I'm about a 1/2 mile from home, a car drives up behind me and passes me at a stop sign. Some young guy hangs out the window and shouts, "Don't have a stroke, Gramps !"
Whippersnappers.
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Post by drlj on Aug 3, 2023 8:09:36 GMT -5
I would have shot him, but perhaps you left you S&W at home.
It’s nice to be appreciated by young folks and know they are concerned for our wellbeing.
Perhaps they were medical students and were concerned that you appeared overheated. Did they have on white coats?
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Post by concertinagirl on Aug 3, 2023 8:14:39 GMT -5
So as I'm about a 1/2 mile from home, a car drives up behind me and passes me at a stop sign. Some young guy hangs out the window and shouts, "Don't have a stroke, Gramps !" Whippersnappers. Scott told me that many years ago his Dad was walking down the street wearing shorts. A group of teenage boys drove past and whistled at him. He never shorts again. Not even in the house. |
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Post by drlj on Aug 3, 2023 8:17:51 GMT -5
If I quit doing everything teenaged boys disapproved of, I wouldn’t be doing much. A teenaged boy has the brain development of a chipmunk. They will be 27.5 before they have any sense and, even then, it will be limited.
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Post by RickW on Aug 3, 2023 9:03:20 GMT -5
If I quit doing everything teenaged boys disapproved of, I wouldn’t be doing much. A teenaged boy has the brain development of a chipmunk. They will be 27.5 before they have any sense and, even then, it will be limited. Are you saying you developed common sense somewhere along the way? (I just got married. Susan provides most of that.) |
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Post by david on Aug 3, 2023 11:17:13 GMT -5
If they could just ride a mile in your bike shorts they would have more respect.
By the way, I think LJ might have mentioned seeing "Impromptu Problems" perform at the grand opening at the Chispas Discotheque in the Lafayette Shoppes Shopping Center in 2021. Sort of an ABBA meets Grand Magus sound, but after the lead singer, Bizfeeder Nemoy never returned from a bathroom break, the band folded their respective chairs and never played again.
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Post by epaul on Aug 3, 2023 11:39:49 GMT -5
... but the lead singer, Bizfeeder Nemoy never returned from a bathroom break... Oh man, tell me about it. Happens darn near every gig. |
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Post by Village Idiot on Aug 3, 2023 21:14:33 GMT -5
Darn near, thanks to our restroom gigs. The men's room in that I-94 restop west of Fargo had plenty of room, although I insist the hand-dryers made enough noise to be distracting.
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Post by drlj on Aug 4, 2023 7:48:49 GMT -5
The hand driers in men’s rooms usually sounds like a small jet engine struggling to take off.
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Post by paleo on Aug 4, 2023 7:52:56 GMT -5
When I'm riding bike it's very common, if you stop and get off your bike, for people to ask if you're OK, or having problems. I've done it too, we gotta watch out for each other.
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Post by John B on Aug 4, 2023 8:44:54 GMT -5
While hiking in the Rockies I thought I should get a jacket with an embroidered message on the back: "It's not a medical emergency - I'm just slow and out of shape."
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Post by howard lee on Aug 4, 2023 8:49:52 GMT -5
Darn near, thanks to our restroom gigs. The men's room in that I-94 restop west of Fargo had plenty of room, although I insist the hand-dryers made enough noise to be distracting.
They are also very efficient spreaders of aerosolized bacteria.
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Post by drlj on Aug 4, 2023 9:19:55 GMT -5
Barb sometimes puts a mirror under my nose when I am sleeping.
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Post by dradtke on Aug 4, 2023 11:38:50 GMT -5
... but the lead singer, Bizfeeder Nemoy never returned from a bathroom break... Oh man, tell me about it. Happens darn near every gig. I always make it back. Okay, maybe sometimes a little late. Some of those stall latches are tricky. |
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Post by Village Idiot on Aug 4, 2023 17:30:17 GMT -5
The hand driers in men’s rooms usually sounds like a small jet engine struggling to take off. I had a blind student who could play one of those hand driers like an instrument. He wouldn't touch it but manipulated his hands near it like he was playing a theremin. |
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on Aug 4, 2023 21:18:58 GMT -5
Darn near, thanks to our restroom gigs. The men's room in that I-94 restop west of Fargo had plenty of room, although I insist the hand-dryers made enough noise to be distracting. They are also very efficient spreaders of aerosolized bacteria.
Why no medical facilities use them, at least around here. |
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Post by Marty on Aug 4, 2023 21:23:04 GMT -5
Barb sometimes puts a mirror under my nose when I am sleeping. Don't worry about the mirror, worry about what's on it. |
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