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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

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olbriar said:
Yesterday's rain closed some of the temporary parking lots around the Kansas State Fair. It reminded me of a rant from my youth. My father bought his first new car in 1957. Wanting to drive it he agreed to take the family to the state fair. It had rained and he discovered that the rear window of his brand new car was leaking. By the time we arrived at the fair he was in a very poor mood. The available parking around the fair was basically fields converted for the week and they were muddy. He refused to get his new car muddy so we turned around and came back home. That my friends was as close as my sister and I came to attending the fair with the fam. :) ....I could almost smell the popcorn 😢 🤣
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I remember going to some fair or circus as teenager and some rock n roll band was playing there. I bought their poster not really thinking much of it. The poster sat in a corner before I put it up and it slowly got covered by other stuff and then one day there on MTV were the four guys from the poster being interviewed , the rock n roll band i had seen at the fair circus thing was none other than Motley Crue
 
I am ranting because of time today, of shooting bricks off a log, from my audiologist appointment of getting new wax guards, and he sharpens up with them for clarity and oh yeah, good thing I had about an hour to kill, before going to my optomitrist that lasted an hour too. I am glad both where an hour appoitments
 
Out of the blue for the past few days, had this strange cough, that feels like broncitis but my fluids in my lungs are normal, and I did not extremely vomit from having GERD the other night, on Sat., the last person who I was talking with was the barfly but I am not so sure what is in his mind though, I just walked away without being hurt one bit either..


Today's storyline, I am sort of doing a fanfiction wrapped around Once upon a time.
 
In my desk drawer is a rubber bumper that obviously came off of something. I've kept it in the drawer for months knowing the day after I toss it I will discover where it belonged. Today I had to stop between lawns and dig the wet grass out from under my mower deck. I rolled my dumpster out to the trailer to rid the trailer of the mess and find another rubber bumper. I put it in my pocket and go on my merry mow way. I get home and check the mowers to see which one lost the bumper and can find no place for it. I put it in my desk drawer to discover it is an exact match for the bumper I have been storing. Now I have two bumpers and zero clues.
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olbriar said:
In my desk drawer is a rubber bumper that obviously came off of something. I've kept it in the drawer for months knowing the day after I toss it I will discover where it belonged. Today I had to stop between lawns and dig the wet grass out from under my mower deck. I rolled my dumpster out to the trailer to rid the trailer of the mess and find another rubber bumper. I put it in my pocket and go on my merry mow way. I get home and check the mowers to see which one lost the bumper and can find no place for it. I put it in my desk drawer to discover it is an exact match for the bumper I have been storing. Now I have two bumpers and zero clues.
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Maybe to stop you from mowing a certian patch of grass?
 
The hotel room i am staying in. I am going stir crazy. If my wife and daughter were here i would be perfectly fine, here by myself I am having freaking panic attacks, I try to sleep and wake up to where the f#ck am i , heart beating like it's going to blast out of my chest
 
joe71 said:
The hotel room i am staying in. I am going stir crazy. If my wife and daughter were here i would be perfectly fine, here by myself I am having freaking panic attacks, I try to sleep and wake up to where the f#ck am i , heart beating like it's going to blast out of my chest
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That sucks, I remember my first time in a hotel.. Scary as heck.
 
olbriar said:
In my college days I once woke up soaking wet from the morning dew under a tree in the city park. My date was nowhere to be seen. Talk about panic city!! I found her asleep in the back seat of my car. That my friends is when scary is real!
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Least you could hear, it was not until right about my later days in life, I was able to hear cleary thanks to my hearing aids..
 
It was entirely too wet to mow this morning so I took the opportunity to run to the tag office to renew my travel trailer tag. They allow me to renew my auto tags online for a nominal fee but not my trailer. In Kansas the trailer is insured by the tow vehicle. Why that muddies the waters I can't say but I have to show proof of insurance on the tow vehicle.. which is on file or I couldn't renew the truck tag. It's one of those ignorant unjustified pain in the rear end rules that makes me go to the tag office yearly.
I drive to the closest tag office and stand in line for an hour. Finally it's my turn and I hand over the paperwork. I show my proof of insurance for the tow vehicle. I'm ready to pay and she says check or cash. I have my debit card out and say my card. She says we are only accepting cash or check. I say since when??? Friday afternoon our system went down, sorry. No signs declaring such.. no public announcements.. Am I supposed to know this or what the hell??? I have two twenties a five and two ones. That's just a wee bit short of a hundred and six bucks and change. She says you can run to an ATM and get the money and come back to my window. I'll work you in when I see you. I don't do ATMs. Paying to get my money pisses me off. I haven't used one since they started charging. Off I drive in quest of an ATM. I get my money and return and I was waved to the window and quickly taken care of. It only took me two and half hours to acquire a sticker for my trailer tag that I should be able to get from my desk chair.
 
Okay not to sound paranoid, but my mother did give me a fb link to look at via text messaging,but so far so excellent my cell is working without any type of flaws,like having my aves gallery app never freezes up when looking at a photo at all,or even playing a video on it, works alright. I just wonder if that hyperlink via her account could of distrupt it even long term though.. I got to keep an eye on it though, maybe back up everything to my comp later on today, and just see what will happen when I factory reset it again, *elephant in the room devouring the mouse% html coding blah blah blaha%, I think I will able to fully whipe it out clean again ..


But mighty Birds of hades, took me forever to find my Smart launcher paid app though.. And the synch went okay for the meanwhile.
 
Ok health wise. My vision and memory isnt what it use to be.
Sleeping in strange places. As a commercial driver (truck driver) i have spent the nignt in some of the scariest parts of america, areas where you stay in the truck after dark.
Ive spent the night in some dirt pull out in the mountians of colorado.
Out in the desert at some old deserted gas station miles from the nearest town.
staying out in the midle now with no light pollution gives me a chance to take astrophotography photos.
Funny thing is i am totally relaxed being out in the midle no where by myself.
Put me in a hotel room by myself and i basically come unglued.
 
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