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TBL said:
Then its time for a "Sam Adams" It takes the taste of weed and hooker-spit out of your mouth.
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I've been involved in a lot of truly shameful, horrible, mind-bending, soul-crushing, life-altering adventures, but I don't recall a hooker ever spitting in my mouth.

Not saying it never happened... I just don't remember it.

On a far less terrible note, I'm with Todd and TBL; flowers are freakin' cool and I'm man enough to admit it :p

Our lilies are still doing well and the corn is getting taller...

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tradewater said:
Three weeks ago we were 'over in MO at a farm store and found a wallet in the parking lot. It had 350+ in cash, checkbook, credit cards, DL, fishing license, SS card, union card etc. Virtually the guy's entire life in there. We called the number on the checks but it was disconnected. The guy's address was 60 miles away and we just didn't have time to track him down, so we took it to the police station and turned it in. They wanted all of our information, then we underwent 15 minutes of questioning and they told us we were "free to go". Really? Made us feel weird as hell. Never said thanks or anything. We haven't heard shit from them or the owner of the wallet since. Kind of makes you wonder.
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That is ridiculous! Good on you for turning it in. I think I would have turned it in at the store. That way I wouldn't have been interrogated, and because if I was the guy, I would call the store before I called the cops to see if it had been found.

I lost my wallet once and I got it in the mail 3 days later. No clue where it came from just got it in the mail.
 
Chameleonbear said:
That is ridiculous! Good on you for turning it in. I think I would have turned it in at the store. That way I wouldn't have been interrogated, and because if I was the guy, I would call the store before I called the cops to see if it had been found.

I lost my wallet once and I got it in the mail 3 days later. No clue where it came from just got it in the mail.
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We actually sat outside and discussed turning it in at the store. I didn't feel comfortable doing that because I didn't want him getting it back sans cash and being told "Hey man, that's the way they turned it in". We decided the cops were the route to go. In hindsight, I wish we'd brought it home with us and just tracked him down ourselves.
 
tradewater said:
...so we took it to the police station and turned it in...
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I'd be pretty dang disappointed in the public servant who dealt with that for you. :grumpy:

One time many years ago (early 90's), I was at the mall doing some Xmas shopping; my last stop was McDonald's to get a lump of McFood to tide me over until I got home.

I get my McMeal and turn around to look for a place to sit down and choke it down my gullet... and immediately notice a booth in the corner, where 3 pieces of currency are sitting on the table.

I said to myself, "Self, that's odd, who leaves a tip at a place like this?" I figured it was probably $3.

So I wander over to check it out, with my McMeal, and realize it's three crisp 50's.

Well dang... now what... clearly this is either a terrible mistake or some kind of set-up.

I decided to sit there, eat my McSlop, and wait an extra 20 minutes in case some poor rascal came back and said, "Jiminy Crickets, I mistakenly left $150 sitting here!"

Nothing happened. No one came around. So my Mom and Dad got extra Christmas presents that year. *shrug*
 
I used to work at a quick lube shop vacuuming the cars out while they were getting oil changes. I found $100 bill under a floor mat one time so I handed it to the guy. Turns out he put it there a while back before a road trip as emergency cash and just kinda forgot about it. Another time on my day off a guy came in and whoever was vacuuming found an envelope under the seat with a lot of money in it, so they gave it back to the dude. Turns out it was the money for his grandkids' Christmas presents, like $400 IIRC. He had just withdrawn it earlier that day and then realized it was missing and didn't know where it was or how he was going to afford presents for his family.
 
james terrio said:
I've been involved in a lot of truly shameful, horrible, mind-bending, soul-crushing, life-altering adventures, but I don't recall a hooker ever spitting in my mouth.

Not saying it never happened... I just don't remember it.
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ROFL you just made my night James. Quote worthy!
 
I've found several wallets/purses over the years. For the ones I found in stores/restaraunts, I just turned them in to the owner/manager. I ALWAYS ask for the owner/manager to turn it over to. For those found "in the wild", I have usually been able to contact the owners fairly quickly, except for 1. The only phone number in it was disconnected and the address was up in Dallas (190 miles away). (A good reason to make sure your current phone number is SOMEWHERE in your wallet or purse, for IF an honest person finds it.)

Since I wasn't sure the address was still valid on the DL (since the phone was disconnected), I didn't just want to mail it. I took it to a local police station, walked up to the dispatcher/desk watch and said "I found this wallet." and explained about the phone number not working. The only response was "OK, thanks, we'll figure out how to contact them." This was back in the mid-90s, so maybe police have changed their procedures/attitudes.
 
tradewater said:
We actually sat outside and discussed turning it in at the store. I didn't feel comfortable doing that because I didn't want him getting it back sans cash and being told "Hey man, that's the way they turned it in". We decided the cops were the route to go. In hindsight, I wish we'd brought it home with us and just tracked him down ourselves.
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Hindsight is 20/20. Oh well. YOU did the right thing. If the people responsible to serve and protect won't do what's right THEY need to be fired.

james terrio said:
I'd be pretty dang disappointed in the public servant who dealt with that for you. :grumpy:

One time many years ago (early 90's), I was at the mall doing some Xmas shopping; my last stop was McDonald's to get a lump of McFood to tide me over until I got home.

I get my McMeal and turn around to look for a place to sit down and choke it down my gullet... and immediately notice a booth in the corner, where 3 pieces of currency are sitting on the table.

I said to myself, "Self, that's odd, who leaves a tip at a place like this?" I figured it was probably $3.

So I wander over to check it out, with my McMeal, and realize it's three crisp 50's.

Well dang... now what... clearly this is either a terrible mistake or some kind of set-up.

I decided to sit there, eat my McSlop, and wait an extra 20 minutes in case some poor rascal came back and said, "Jiminy Crickets, I mistakenly left $150 sitting here!"

Nothing happened. No one came around. So my Mom and Dad got extra Christmas presents that year. *shrug*
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I've never gotten a tip for eating at McChokeandPuke. However I also don't eat anything besides breakfast there anymore. It just isn't worth it. The "food" is so far from being real food and it isn't cheaper or faster than getting a real meal from a real restaurant served by a real waitress and cooked by a real person in a real kitchen.
 
Chameleonbear said:
So, has anyone else started planning for Blade show? Or is that just me?
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My planning so far has been to tell my family I will be unavailable for the month of June next year, on the assumption that that's the month when it will be held. I'll narrow the dates when they are announced.
 
Right now prices are still high... I'd wait till January (what I did) and get a room off campus (also what I did).
 
This year I had just gotten hired at my new job. First day was June 2nd. I told my new boss when he hired me about being out if town on the 5th - 8th. He was ok with it so I accepted the job.
I got back to Dallas late on the 8th but made it to work on Monday morning, no problem. When the boss saw me later that day he asked about my trip and I gave him the highlights and my request for June 4-7 off next year.

So, ya I'm already thinking about it, planning on it and saving for it! :D
 
I really miss having a garden. I'm envious of the guys here that have them. I used to grow a very small one with tomatos, onions, sugar snap peas, and then some other random vegetable. It produced really well even though I really had no idea what I was doing. Ive thought about tilling it up again the last few years, but I know my neighbors kids wouldn't stay out of it. I was kinda thinking about getting a few big pots for a couple tomato plants. I might do something to grow some leaf lettuce too. I wonder how long leaf lettuce takes to grow from seed.
 
I took the trip as Thursday to Monday, made it nice to not have to deal with driving home hung over from Saturday night on Sunday evening.
 
tradewater said:
Three weeks ago we were 'over in MO at a farm store and found a wallet in the parking lot. It had 350+ in cash, checkbook, credit cards, DL, fishing license, SS card, union card etc. Virtually the guy's entire life in there. We called the number on the checks but it was disconnected. The guy's address was 60 miles away and we just didn't have time to track him down, so we took it to the police station and turned it in. They wanted all of our information, then we underwent 15 minutes of questioning and they told us we were "free to go". Really? Made us feel weird as hell. Never said thanks or anything. We haven't heard shit from them or the owner of the wallet since. Kind of makes you wonder.
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They probably recognized the Barlow stare and immediately assumed you were a moonshiner.
 
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