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PatrickMcHorn

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  1. Many apartments have rules prohibiting installation on the building.
  2. NPR did a story on the guy who grabbed the gun away as she started to fire it. A really well told story, just very sad. He was a Vietnam era marine and gay. He wasn't out to his parents, so basically disowned him
  3. Ztejas sounds like a guy I'd not like to have a beer with.
  4. Which is a nice change of pace. Usually everyone else is in his mom.
  5. But did you hand them a strongly worded note as you walked out?
  6. Took me a minute to figure out who you were talking about on some of those, lol. Still not entirely sure I know who the dry humper is. It doesn't feel like you've been gone that long. You were right on the money with this one: "A line of dudes that seem to serve no purpose whatsoever"
  7. This is one of the most bizarre topics for internet squabbling that I've ever seen.
  8. So when are you going to join up?
  9. I worked in restaurants throughout HS and college. A few of my stories: I worked at a place on Lake Travis and would pick up shifts at others. It was a revolving door of employees moving from Iguana Grill to Oasis to Carlos and Charlies, to...servers in particular would go on a bender, get fired from one, then hired at another, and by the time they made it through the cycle the place they started at wouldn't remember them. When new busboys would start we'd send them over to one of the other restaurants at the beginning of the shift to get something that the other restaurant had supposedly borrowed. Typically like a chicken stretcher, glass magnet, left handed spatula. Things that, you know, didn't exist. They'd get to the restaurant that had borrowed it, and they'd inevitably tell the poor kid that a third place now had it. The new busboy would spend half an hour driving around the lake only to figure out that what they were supposed to go get didn't exist. It took some longer than others. Similarly, we'd tell them that at dusk they're responsible for taking the US flag down. A few different people would mention it, then they'd be walking around the parking lot aimlessly looking for it (there isn't a U.S. flag) after sunset. When we could get managers involved, yelling and screaming about why a flag hadn't been taken down yet, it was a bonus. Customers... Lots of just drunk assholes that have been mentioned by others. I've also been the recipient of the "Jesus loves you" tips more than a few times. There's something about the places on the lake, and how they serve margaritas in plastic tumblers that makes people think it's ok to just walk out with a 3/4 full margarita. It's a phenomenon I've never seen that much elsewhere, but more times than I could count I'd have to chase someone down in the parking lot and make them chug 6 ounces of margaritas before they took a cup with our phone number half full for a spin around lakeway. The look on their face was always this one of shock as though because they're within 400 yard of a body of water they should be allowed to just take alcohol past the signs that say "No alcohol beyond this point" and get in and take a drive.
  10. PatrickMcHorn

    Kayaking

    Ah, with three yaks that makes sense
  11. PatrickMcHorn

    Kayaking

    $1200 is a lot. Who are you using?
  12. She's bigger than I would have thought. I know, I know, my mom something or other.
  13. PatrickMcHorn

    Kayaking

    I was going to say september/ October or April/ may give you the best chance for good flow and also not dying in a flash flood.
  14. PatrickMcHorn

    Kayaking

    For dragging I'd do closer to 10 feet. On the cheap, just run the rope through a six inch length of pvc. At the devil's, it's dragging, but it's also letting the boat go ahead of you and holding it back. On the cooler... I wouldn't take one. As light as possible...
  15. Regardless of motive, which I would think is to help a friend, I can't see how anyone sees it as a negative that's not a buckeye fan.
  16. This could easily be thrown into the dumb question amnesty thread, but I'm choosing to drop it here. My daughters and I play the license plate game in the car (keep a list and try to find all 50). Trailers on 18 wheelers are a good source of out of state players, however, there is an insane number of them from both Oklahoma and Maine. Any idea why? Cheaper to register there? Manufactured there? Oklahoma I can kind of see, but Maine? Wtf?
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