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Edog
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With the countless threads on here about other people who walk, bike, or drive like crap, I thought it was time to provide a place for us to own it as much as b*tch about it.
I'll go first: Today I was not paying attention because I did not f*cking feel like it, and thought it was a good idea to text and change my play list while I was accelerating and turning on a red.
To the dude who I almost killed, I'm sorry I almost killed you.
That could only have been better if the guy was on a bike.
BBB...if you are OK with this, perhaps we could take it up one more level and have the guy be a pedestrian, who was walking his bike, and almost getting hit by edog? Covers all 3 of the major food groups? <grin>
Edog! I sense an...."edgier" mood in you since the New Year? <teasing grin>
Dave
Add in a baby carrier attached to the back of the bike. Oh, and make it a single parent too, maybe on his way to donating some blood
BuffaloHawk
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What about the lost cats, dogs & hens?
teigyr
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Can there be homeless people involved?
pennygirl
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How about basketballs?
pennygirl
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And a box of wine.
BuffaloHawk
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hipsters & honey buckets
Edog
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And rusty old TR6 with crappy electrics!
pennygirl
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And a minivan!
Penny - did you mean a box of wine or box wine. Big difference
teigyr
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Yes, there must be a minivan filled with basketballs! Could there somehow be vegetables involved?
phoo
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FIVE GOLDEN BUMS
Cheese
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And so the Steerlers go...
pennygirl
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Bamboo...
A box of wine. Meaning a big box filled with multiple boxed wines.
Like what I will be going to pick up soon. My order came in
teigyr
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bambooboy, what almost Aleutian island are you on?
And more importantly....why have you chosen to vacation there at the height of the tourist season?
Well it actually is an Aleutian island, not just an almost. It's just not very far out in the chain and when I mention Aleutian islands most people think way out in the pacific like Adak or something so I was downplaying my location a bit.
Popov Island is the name and the town is Sand Point. Small town with 2 bars, a grocery store, one medium sized fish processing plant (which was the reason I was there) and an airport which usually flies, weather permitting.
I actually just got back this morning at about 5 am. They only have one flight out of there a day now and it leaves at 7:30 at night, so a connecting flight to Seattle is a redeye. I think after last night I'm done with the redeye flights though. I got a middle seat on a packed plane and I am recuperating from a cold so I didn't feel too well. Just been bumming around in the house today. still wearing my jammies too! Really comfortable, no reason to change at this hour, unless I want to go text and drive....
you know, I guess if you put a different spin on tourists, you actually could call this the tourist season. If you want to fly there today you can't even get a seat on a plane till the 14th at a minimum. It's just the the tourist season would be corresponding to the big fishing season of the year (A season) and the tourists would be processors flocking to the island in droves with jobs at the plant. Getting out was easy. I changed my reservation from today to yesterday at 3:30 in the afternoon no problem, only 6 people were leaving the island.
pennygirl
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The next question is why were you visiting a medium sized fish processing plant?
I wasn't forced to. Well, actually I was because if I didn't go, there's a better than fair chance I would have been fired. Probably not because I would have been able to come up with a pretty good excuse for not going, but then I couldn't use that same excuse in the future (mother dying*) and I wanted to save it for when I really really didn't want to go, so I went.
The job was to wire up and connect to the existing network the electronic components in a new fish processing line. The "tourist" season as it's now being called , starts soon, actually they ran some fish across it today for a test.
* Oh, before any gets aghast about my good reason, it's actually true, only she died maybe 8 years ago. I didn't tell people at work so I figure it's still a valid excuse for not doing something. I'm pretty sure you can only use this once.
Someday BBB, we need toget together for a brew. I suspect there are fun tales to be shared and an interesting person to meet.
Hope you feel better soon. And next time think about heading north in the off season when its calmer and you don't have to fight the madding crowds.
Dave
Ps...i suspect you are right about your excuse being a one off. (Grin)
Cate
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Biological Mother
Adoptive Mother
Foster Mother
The next door neighbor who was like a Mother to me
My Aunt who raised me as one of her own
You could keep losing Mothers for a long time.
SmartsyArtsy
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Might bemused for MIL also for some companies, although mine didn't accept it when I used it years ago.
teigyr
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It's crazy busy going north. Off season doesn't factor in school breaks or weather problems. I've only been to Cold Bay and wasn't there that long. Would love to go to Adak but I'm strange that way. A lot of the processors charter too - maybe it depends on if there are regular (or semi-regular) flights there.
I knew a guy who had all sorts of excuses for missing work. Mother dying (several times), ptomaine poisoning, you name it. When he finally didn't show up because he died, people didn't believe it at first.
Corvus
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I've been to Sand Point and King Salmon and Dutch Harbor and then just a little further West by boat a few times. Takes a little longer but it is way more scenic and there aren't any lines. Well, at least not lines of people!
so....Corvus. "A little further west" would put you on Akutan. What cha doing there? 2
boatgeek
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I've had the excitement of a Grumman Goose flight from Dutch Harbor to Akutan (on how many commercial flights do you see the pilot crank the flaps down by hand or tell you that the survival kit is under the right front passenger seat?). Only stopped in King Salmon once for fuel on the way to Dutch. Most of the time, I'm down here getting the boats ready to bring the tourists to the plant. Practically the entire fleet leaves on the 10th to make openings on the 20th of January.
Corvus
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Akutan is East of Unalaska (Dutch Harbor). West is the Islands of 4 Mountains (Yunaska being the largest). If I had a good map I could probably figure out which bay we typically anchored in. I know it was on the North side in the Bering because the storms were typically approaching from the South and West. I would have been on one of a couple different small (50' - 60') longlining vessels and my home port was Homer so it was about a weeks travel to get out West for the late summer halibut derbies. Never saw much of any of the towns mentioned above and if we made it into the bar we would have been sneaking a shot of Captains and chugging an Oilcan!
Your fright. for some reason I was putting east on west and west on east. that's a small boat to be out on a big ocean. I see several like that though. so did you do this is the summer time?
Corvus
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Yes. The out West halibut openers were typically the last week of September or the first week of October.
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