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Knoxtnhorn

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  1. 17 hours ago, DixonHur said:

    Brings up another question...why are you scooping bird seed at a Las Vegas hotel?  Do you travel with a birdfeeder in your carry-on?

    Did it the day before I left.  

     

    1 hour ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

    Interesting 25 "brand":

    All I see:

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    I read the graphic as "#2 in the state" which, to be honest, probably isn't even accurate anymore.  They may be worse than Tech, TCU, and/or SMU.

  2. On 12/16/2023 at 5:43 AM, Lhorn said:
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    This is more typical college student poor  but my sister and I shared a shitty Corolla hatchback and would routinely buy a dollar of gas.  Frequently with change.   ( 1990-1994). 

    Ha!  Been there.  Same time frame.  I once drove to SFA to see my girlfriend armed with nothing more than a jarful of change.  I rolled about $5 worth of pennies in the parking lot of a gas station about halfway to pay for gas.  

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  3. Thanks for the head's up.  I need to do a better job of following.  After moving from cycling heaven (East TN), I've lost a lot of my cycling desire due to the fact that there's nowhere to bike in this God forsaken place (DFW) unless you're in to mountain biking.  I'm tepid on mountain biking.  I'd rather road.

    Anyway, I watched the first 5 or so stages of La Vuelta, then forgot about it.  Found out a couple of months later that Kuss had won.  Went back and watched the rest.

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  4. Got another one.  While putting my wife through her undergrad, then Master's before returning to school myself, I worked at a Mexican restaurant in Knoxville.  Manager fired me one night.  He was being a bitch, so I threw my apron at him.  I didn't expect 15 pens and 40 coins to turn into restaurant, break room shrapnel.  

    The next day, I quickly obtained a temp-to-perm job at Whirlpool.  I was to train for a month, then fill in for those on vacation.  Something that should have been easy was incredibly difficult.  Contractors building housing developments would call to order appliances.  I had to be able to determine which appliances, with certain outlets, and certain product numbers, go where.  It was FAR more confusing than it should have been.  I show up on Day 2 and their all, "Congrats!  You're on the floor!".  I barely knew how to answer the phone at this point.  Cool.  I'll just do my best and wing it.  First call.  8:01AM.  "I need 34 units of the T34 model with outlet codes xyz."  I mean, I'm typing b.s., but it's nowhere close to how confusing this was.  I put the guy on hold and just leave.  Later that day, I talked my manager into giving me my restaurant job back.

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  5. Mother effer.

    Flying to Vegas Tuesday.  Just herniated a disc in my back.  This is the *5th time in the last 12 years so, at least I know the drill.  F sakes.  I am not looking forward to the flight.

    *Herniated disc; not trip to Vegas.

  6. Also wanted to add my worst and shortest job to the thread.

    I was working at the Blockbuster on Riverside during the school year.  I went home for the summer and worked at the local (Garland) Blockbuster.  In not having to be at work til 10AM, I decided to apply for a prep job at McDonald's, which was located in the same shopping center.  Show up at 6AM, cut some vegies, head over the Blockbuster at 10.  The more I work now, the less I have to do when I get back to Austin in August.  So, yeah.  I lasted an hour.  

    Bitchass, 300 lb shift manager started bitching at me for leaning on a counter while I was cleaning.  I had had ACL surgery about 4 months prior, so I was still a little wobbly.  I told her to go fuck herself and threw the cleaning rag at her.  As I was walking out, I was all, "That was kind of cool."  Little victories before becoming responsible.

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  7. 31 minutes ago, Rudiger said:

    Goddamn Clean Water Action. 

    Was that it?  That sounds incredibly correct as I do recall it had something to do with water.

    I think the town they dropped us off in was possibly Seguin.  I know it had a decent sized college - hence the time spent in the library.  I also recall we traveled south on 35 for a bit.

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