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Thoughts on the Day

  • It’s summer.  Why does the boy get up as soon as the sun rises?  Does he have solar cells or something?
  • It never fails.  I found out that I probably wasn’t going to be making a business trip 5 minutes after I bought my non-refundable airline tickets.
  • To the people driving on the expressway this afternoon:
    • We got over two inches of rain in the hour it took to drive home, with driving winds and hail.
    • Slow down.  No really, if you see a line of us going about half the speed limit with our four way blinkers on, slow the hell down.
    • Turn on your bloody lights.  If your windshield wipers are on, your lights should also be on.
    • If you think you need to drive less than half the posted speed, pull over and read a book until the rain calms down.
    • If there is a relatively thin, but long, branch blocking your lane of traffic on a two lane road, do not try to pull around it in a rain storm.  Get your butt off the driver’s seat, move the stick, and stop being a hazard to everyone else on the road.
    • If you look in your rear view mirror and see Mr. Big Flashy Firetruck coming up fast, pull the heck over.  Someone’s life may depend on it.
  • The new tent was still up when the storm hit.
    • We got a little rain yesterday, and I wanted  to let it dry out today and put it away tonight.
    • The winds and rain pulled out a few of the stakes, and that let the wind fold it in half and lay most of it on the ground.
    • Irish Woman was almost in tears when I got home.  She thought our new tent was horribly broken.
    • A couple of guy lines pulled tight, a couple of flexible tent poles unbent, and the tent popped right back up.  No damage.
    • I’m impressed.  Half the tent was down in a driving rain with the rain fly pulled halfway off and loose, and there were only a few small leaks in the tent.
  • Dear Weather Channel – 20% chance of showers, my ass.
  • Our nightmare of taking a few minutes every evening to work together and talk quietly is almost over.  The new dishwasher will be installed tomorrow.
by daddybear71 on June 17, 2013  •  Permalink
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Posted by daddybear71 on June 17, 2013

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  1. Roy's avatar

    Roy

     /  June 18, 2013

    I agree whole heartily about the “turn on your lights” thing. It’s a peeve of mine. It’s not so that you can see better, it’s so others can see *you*. And it seems that today, at least half of the vehicles on the road are a silver or grey color. In rain or fog, a silver or grey car becomes almost invisible.

    There’s a reason the Navy paints their ships that color.

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    • daddybear71's avatar

      daddybear71

       /  June 18, 2013

      Yeah, the civic in front of me was almost invisible except for her lights. The toyota in front of her WAS almost invisible.

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    Roy

     /  June 18, 2013

    About the firetruck… This past Monday afternoon, I was going south on Bardstown road when an ambulance, with lights and siren going, came up from behind. I pulled over to the right and let it by. But then I watched as two morons, one in a sedan, and one in a pickup, stopped dead in the middle of the driving lanes, forcing the ambulance to cut over into the median to get around them.

    Geeze, are there really people that stupid. Why yes, of course there are.

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