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mininghorn88

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  1. I was pulled over once for having an obscured license plate by a DPS trooper. He said that my Texas Ex frame partially blocked “Texas” at the top of the plate. He let me go with a warning. BS. The same trooper pulled my son and one of his buddies over. My son was 15 at the time and the friend was 16. My son’s friend was driving and changed lanes without signaling. Both boys were written up for dipping and had to do community service by picking up trash along the highway and take a drug and alcohol awareness program. Fortunately the local cop of the small town where we lived knew both boys and only had them pick up trash for about an hour and then signed them off as all hours completed. The bigger issue, from what I recall, was that if my son got busted again for tobacco then he would not have been eligible to get his license until he was 18. This trooper that pulled both of us over was notorious for pulling people over for BS reasons.
  2. I always thought that there was some type of law or ordinance that dictated how dark the windows can be. But I see super dark ones all of the time.
  3. Gotta start'em early. My granddaughter attended her first UT game at the age of 3 months and it was a road game in WV. Congrats Koopa! Fun times ahead!
  4. Oh, great idea. Will have to try that out. Nice.
  5. This is pretty much what I told my new boss about a year ago. I have more years of experience by myself than the combined years of the balance of the team (4 other people). Almost daily I am having to teach or explain something. The problem with that is that I am drawn into almost every meeting and being recognized as the "old guy". My industry has changed a lot during my career. I had the good fortune to be exposed to all aspects of the business whereas today folks are more specialized in what they do so that they do not always have the big picture thus their decision making becomes a bit myopic.
  6. ^^^^ This right here.
  7. We have a guy in our office that has his PhD. Super smart but I believe that he is somewhat on the spectrum. His social skills are awkward and he is always participating (barging in) in on conversations. He always has something to say by butting in but what he says only makes sense in his mind on how it relates to the already in process conversation. Every conversation that I have with him results in "WTF did we just talk about"? Whenever he creates some work that needs to be shared with others my boss (and his) told him to "Let Mininghorn review it first before you send it out. He has a knack for dumbing it down for others to understand". I guess I should take that as a compliment? Maybe??
  8. Yep, she was definitely sandbagging.
  9. I like how she goes back to her “I am too lazy to walk” scooter.
  10. Yep, the comparison to Brad Smith (who even remembers him now?). Mock hiding behind that smile because he knew that his days were numbered.
  11. I am so thankful that I was of an age when VY came through that I could appreciate his greatness in that moment. As the Horns continue to wander in the desert (minus the Colt years) his greatness is even more apparent. Every play was a "must see" as the potential to do something spectacular was ever present. He elevated the whole team.
  12. Umm? Ma’am? Sir? Pete, is that you?
  13. I haven’t seen the documentary yet. Perhaps the opening and closing scenes of him smoking and drinking, of which he is allegedly trying to stop, is only a foreshadowing of things to come. This is just a primer for the yet unannounced sequel of his ultimate failure where there will be a deeper dive.
  14. Yes, his dad was the sales manager at Tower Honda in Longview. We bought a car from there around 2011. We received a thank you note in the mail from the dad. The note had the Honda Tower letterhead at the top with the aTm logo at the bottom.
  15. One of my early college roommates believed that walking was a right and that driving was a privilege. While on campus one day there was a small group of us crossing 21st Street between Moore-Hill and Brackenridge. To our right was Speedway. As we were crossing the street I hear a motorcycle revving up off to the right coming from the direction of Speedway. I tell everyone to look out but my then roommate continues to cross 21st Street (his constitutional right according to him) whereupon he gets hit by the motorcycle. Roommate goes flying and the motorcycle goes sliding. All get up and brush themselves off. No problem. However, later that night the roommate is complaining about his wrist. Turns out it is broken. I get a call from UTPD asking for information regarding the incident. No names were shared at the time of the incident and since everyone seemed fine at the time we all just walked away chalking it up to the pedestrian losing out to a motorized vehicle. FAFO.
  16. Kemerovo is not a word you hear everyday. We have an office there. Been there several times.
  17. This right here. I will also add India and Russia. I was on a flight in Russia once and people were headed to toilet to smoke as soon as the wheels were up. Also been on flights where the air conditioning did not work in Russia and for seats that were messed up in some way they just pulled them forward. Dicey traveling in Russia for sure.
  18. Medal of Honor recipient.
  19. When it comes to air travel I am a stickler for rules and proper etiquette (which should be common sense in most instances). Without fail, on just about every flight that I am on, during the boarding process when it is called for those that need a little extra time for boarding to please board early and now, there is always at least one person that takes advantage of that call that clearly does not need any extra time to board. Ugh.
  20. A related story; not Korean but a Chinese grandmother. Several years ago my now ex-wife and I took our two young teenage kids to New York City for vacation. This was something that the ex and my daughter really wanted to do. Some of my exe's friends convinced her that she needed to go to Chinatown to buy a knock-off high-end brand purse. They had convinced her that they looked like the real deal. Whatever. So we make our way to Chinatown to begin the experience of buying some knock-off purses on the cheap. After several stops and some shady conversations we find a guy to negotiate with. I had already told my ex that she needs to barter a bit. I am leaving this all up to her since this is her deal. As she is talking to the guy she finally reaches a dollar point and turns to me and asks me what do I think? I proceeded to tell her, with the guy listening, that I could get a better quality purse from the Silk Market in Beijing the next time that I go to China for an even better price. This ticks the guy off and he now refuses to negotiate or sell anything to us. Now I am the "bad guy" in the eyes of my ex because I ruined her chances of getting a purse there. We proceed to walk around a bit more looking for another place to spend our money on cheap purses with the ex fuming at me the whole time. We finally find an old Chinese grandmother that says that she has some purses to sell. She asks us to follow her. We follow her a couple of blocks and she leads us right back to the guy that we had ticked off. He recognizes us and refuses to sell us anything. The grandmother starts yelling at him and is spitting on the ground and making all sorts of gestures towards him. He ends up selling us some cheap-ass purses.
  21. I fly a lot so I see this often. 99.9% of the time I have an aisle seat. To prevent the rush I typically will turn sideways in my seat with my legs in the aisle preventing them from getting past me. You can usually tell the ones that are in dire need to get off of the plane so I will let them pass. Once the traffic starts to flow then I will get up and will allow space for the people that are sitting in my row on the inside seats to exit first. But I make sure that they have all of their crap together before I do so so that it does not hold others up. The rush to get off of the plane is a common problem in some countries. You have to get pretty defensive in holding your space.
  22. Out of curiosity I did an unscientific check on the soldier's ages. I collect WW2 uniforms of which I have about 160. Of the 160 I have the actual name of the soldier that wore that uniform in about 130 of them. Simply taking the average birth year (1919) of the soldier from the average enlistment date (1942) the average age is 23 from my collection. The oldest soldier that I have a uniform from was born in 1900 and the youngest was born in 1926.
  23. I was in the Delta Lounge last week in the ATL airport. There was a guy that was occupying one of the three-sided cubicles that you sit at facing inward. He is on a call with a headset on. Instead of sitting at the cubicle and talking into the space he is standing up with his back to the cubicle talking for all to hear in the lounge.
  24. I recall leaving the theater after the end of SPR. It was so quiet. No one was saying a word. Not out of displeasure of the movie but of the emotional toll it took on people, particularly the opening sequence. I have watched it several times and will stop to watch it whenever it is on. An all-time favorite of mine.
  25. This is Surly. When did etiquette ever matter?
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