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IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
Jerry Seinfeld even pointed it out in an episode of Comedians Getting Coffee in Cars.
He saw a black rimmed BMW and said something like "Watch this guy. He's going to pull an asshole move........See????"
He saw a black rimmed BMW and said something like "Watch this guy. He's going to pull an asshole move........See????"
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
Hey! Who knows, maybe your balls were on the mini-golf course that day too?!
My wife's family used to vacation there when she and I first met. I was invited up once. When it came time to go to bed, her mother insisted I not sleep in the camper. Because in their tiny camper, while their older daughter who invited me was sleeping on one end (next to her 12 year old sister I should add), I might get up from the couch-turned-bed in the middle of the camper - with her and her husband in the bed on the other side of the camper 4 feet away from me - and start fiddling around with their older daughter who had invited me at 2am. Of course, inside those campers, if you so much as adjust your pillow, you wake everyone up. But that aside, I had to sleep in the back of their hatchback, like a Pinto or some shit. Curled up like the worm she assumed I was.
Along with my tiny pencil.OK, two things.
First, our kids had friends come up with us too. One of them - a girl from a very nice family - announced "my parents said it's OK to pee in the shower, because it all goes to the same place". And we're like, "OK then...".
Second, there's a famous miscommunication that happened with one of my daughter's friends. My younger daughter had a friend over while I was home, but my wife was out. My wife called me to say hi, and during the conversation she said "If her friend wants to stay over, that would be fine". So I called my daughter over, and said "Mom said she can stay over, so why don't you ask her?". So she turned to her friend, and said "My dad wants to know if you'd like to sleep over". That was definitely not how I intended that to happen.
The funny thing of it is that Jerry IS a snob, and a major car snob to boot.
10.18.18
That's our anniversary weekend, and we went to our timeshare in Dennis Port on the Cape. Right before, we visited our friends who bring their dog up to Kennebunkport every year. This was our first year in the house, and we had a housewarming party on Thanksgiving weekend.
The 18th was a Thursday. I was still driving into the office. Friday was our actual anniversary, and that's the day we went up to Kennebunkport. Looks like we all had drinks at Pedro's in Kennebunk (I think the Phillies game was on), and dinner at the Hurricane in Kennebunkport. We drove down to the Cape on Saturday.
That's our anniversary weekend, and we went to our timeshare in Dennis Port on the Cape. Right before, we visited our friends who bring their dog up to Kennebunkport every year. This was our first year in the house, and we had a housewarming party on Thanksgiving weekend.
The 18th was a Thursday. I was still driving into the office. Friday was our actual anniversary, and that's the day we went up to Kennebunkport. Looks like we all had drinks at Pedro's in Kennebunk (I think the Phillies game was on), and dinner at the Hurricane in Kennebunkport. We drove down to the Cape on Saturday.
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
2018/10/18
The actual date is a Thursday. On this particular day my wife has some appointments set up from the insurance company and her lawyer as a result of her accident in 2017. I had some physio appointments to cover the aftermath of my accident from September of 2018. I would also have been fighting with the insurance company over what they would cover for my new car. I was covered for full replacement value. But they would not cover the rust proofing which I had applied to my previous car. I refused to sign the replacement deal without that. So they continued to pay for the rental car at about $1000 a week while they quibbled about the $300 charge on the bill. They eventually caved and I got my new car in early December. Same car I am driving today.
But the more interesting stuff happened 2 days after the 18th on the Saturday. My sister came to visit. As per usual she was only in town for 1 day enroute to do something else. So I arranged lunch at the Spaghetti Factory. My wife son daughter and one of her friends joined us as well along with my sister and her husband. The meal started out normally. We gave our orders. The fun started when the food arrived. My son ordered spaghetti with tomato (marinara) sauce. Somehow the waitress heard spaghetti with seafood sauce. I head him order it and he did say tomato. In customer service, the best way to handle a situation like this is to accept the customer was correct and make the correction. If there is doubt, involve the manager. The waitress chose not to go that route. She instead was insistent that this was what was ordered and she was not going to change it. I can see my wife working herself up to a small boil. Eventually, she just stormed off. Now normally she would have distributed parmesan cheese. So I took it upon myself to do the distribution. My wife was now full boil and flagged down a manager. The manager was our waiter for the duration of the visit. He comped us my son's meal. We did not see the same waitress again for any table. I believe she was given her walking papers. Other than that it was a good lunch and visit.
The actual date is a Thursday. On this particular day my wife has some appointments set up from the insurance company and her lawyer as a result of her accident in 2017. I had some physio appointments to cover the aftermath of my accident from September of 2018. I would also have been fighting with the insurance company over what they would cover for my new car. I was covered for full replacement value. But they would not cover the rust proofing which I had applied to my previous car. I refused to sign the replacement deal without that. So they continued to pay for the rental car at about $1000 a week while they quibbled about the $300 charge on the bill. They eventually caved and I got my new car in early December. Same car I am driving today.
But the more interesting stuff happened 2 days after the 18th on the Saturday. My sister came to visit. As per usual she was only in town for 1 day enroute to do something else. So I arranged lunch at the Spaghetti Factory. My wife son daughter and one of her friends joined us as well along with my sister and her husband. The meal started out normally. We gave our orders. The fun started when the food arrived. My son ordered spaghetti with tomato (marinara) sauce. Somehow the waitress heard spaghetti with seafood sauce. I head him order it and he did say tomato. In customer service, the best way to handle a situation like this is to accept the customer was correct and make the correction. If there is doubt, involve the manager. The waitress chose not to go that route. She instead was insistent that this was what was ordered and she was not going to change it. I can see my wife working herself up to a small boil. Eventually, she just stormed off. Now normally she would have distributed parmesan cheese. So I took it upon myself to do the distribution. My wife was now full boil and flagged down a manager. The manager was our waiter for the duration of the visit. He comped us my son's meal. We did not see the same waitress again for any table. I believe she was given her walking papers. Other than that it was a good lunch and visit.
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In the world of DRC, I posted about these things:
And then Wolf and I were arguing about semantics, regarding a game he was running
Those were the good ole days.
5.4.94
I was going to rock shows on the regular around then. Saw Machines Of Loving Grace in March. Saw Anthrax and Fight (Rob Halford, he leaned up against the wall for most of his set) in April. Saw Metallica, Danzig and Suicidal Tendencies in June. Saw Stabbing Westward in October.
This was also my self-imposed abstinence era. Months earlier, I decided I didn't want to be a playboy anymore (ok, I was never a stud, but from 1990-1993 I did get round round get around I got around). I had met my future wife shortly after realizing I wanted a soulmate/partner, not just hooking up with any girl I could establish a mutual tolerance factor with, and said 'no more shenanigans'. It was a relationship that took a long time to get hot n heavy. When I'd say something witty and cutting in my apartment (which I had a tendency to do) my roommate's girlfriend would say "Go to hell!!" to which I would always respond "I AM IN HELL!!" (referring to my extended celibacy). I went more than a year which, in your early 20s, feels like you've joined the priesthood.
I was going to rock shows on the regular around then. Saw Machines Of Loving Grace in March. Saw Anthrax and Fight (Rob Halford, he leaned up against the wall for most of his set) in April. Saw Metallica, Danzig and Suicidal Tendencies in June. Saw Stabbing Westward in October.
This was also my self-imposed abstinence era. Months earlier, I decided I didn't want to be a playboy anymore (ok, I was never a stud, but from 1990-1993 I did get round round get around I got around). I had met my future wife shortly after realizing I wanted a soulmate/partner, not just hooking up with any girl I could establish a mutual tolerance factor with, and said 'no more shenanigans'. It was a relationship that took a long time to get hot n heavy. When I'd say something witty and cutting in my apartment (which I had a tendency to do) my roommate's girlfriend would say "Go to hell!!" to which I would always respond "I AM IN HELL!!" (referring to my extended celibacy). I went more than a year which, in your early 20s, feels like you've joined the priesthood.
I never knew much about them, but there was a sub-culture of kids that were referred to as "straight edge". They didn't drink or do drugs, they may have practiced celibacy, and they tended to be into metal music. Were you tied into any of that?
I never knew much about them, but there was sub-culture of kids that were referred to as "straight edge". They didn't drink or do drugs, they may have practiced celibacy, and they tended to be into metal music. Were you tied into any of that?
I wasn't SxE (Straight Edge). It's one of those things where you something sounds good at first, but then you realize people take it to extremes and ya go "yeaaaaaa no thanks". So I first heard it was a group/label where you don't drink or do drugs. I thought "Cool!" Then it was "and they don't smoke". And I thought "These might be my people". Then it was "and they don't do caffeine" and I went "Hmmm..." Then it was "and they're vegetarian" and I went "Uh....." Then it was "and no casual sex" and I went "NO THANKS!" I was willing to wait for the right person while I had a right person. But I heard about SxE a few years earlier and got to "no casual sex" and said, "Oh hell no!"
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
I would have departed the train at vegetarian as I drank my caffeinated beverage.
I did that too. I carefully created a subconscious ability to turn women off.
Fortunately I wasn't consistently good at it. I was just bad enough at to not be bad at at the other thing.