Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[SoulReflection]

What I observe in storm after storm is the cars that spin out are invariably the four wheel drive sort. Nothing like a little imaginary invulnerability to ring up a tow.

A failed test ??? Maybe more practice/intelligence ???

 

[GwenOnBass]

A failed test ??? Maybe more practice/intelligence ???

Or free entertainment.

 

[beans-on-toast]

What I observe in storm after storm is the cars that spin out are invariably the four wheel drive sort. Nothing like a little imaginary invulnerability to ring up a tow.

They’re often dinking on their phones while driving. Despite the law.

Twice yesterday I was inconvenienced by phone dinkers. The first was at a self checkout at a grocery. They scanned, packed, and paid, then had the urgent need to work their phone. All they had to do was pick up their bags and step away. I stood there patiently waiting a foot away. They look up with a look of surprise that there was a line behind them. On the way out of another store, someone had to stand in front of the only way out, blocking the door, and dink on their phone. They didn’t want to do this outside. So let’s just inconvenience folks behind them. Nobody else matters but them. This happens all the time with the me generation. I’m too big and old to smack them.

On the plus side, I found $10 on the sidewalk. I’ll donate it to someone in need.

 

[SoulReflection]

They’re often dinking on their phones while driving. Despite the law.

Twice yesterday I was inconvenienced by phone dinkers. The first was at a self checkout at a grocery. They scanned, packed, and paid, then had the urgent need to work their phone. All they had to do was pick up their bags and step away. I stood there patiently waiting a foot away. They look up with a look of surprise that there was a line behind them. On the way out of another store, someone had to stand in front of the only way out, blocking the door, and dink on their phone. They didn’t want to do this outside. So let’s just inconvenience folks behind them. Nobody else matters but them. This happens all the time with the me generation. I’m too big and old to smack them.

On the plus side, I found $10 on the sidewalk. I’ll donate it to someone in need.

I happen to like the term "dink" and use it often to describe dinkers!

 

[spiritbass]

What I observe in storm after storm is the cars that spin out are invariably the four wheel drive sort. Nothing like a little imaginary invulnerability to ring up a tow.

An ex-coworker of mine told me that he never got stuck until he started driving four-wheel drive vehicles.

 

[spiritbass]

Looks like a GOF thing to do:

 

[12BitSlab]

What I observe in storm after storm is the cars that spin out are invariably the four wheel drive sort. Nothing like a little imaginary invulnerability to ring up a tow.

2-wheel drive or 4-wheel drive doesn’t matter when you hit the brakes. At that point, we are all equal in the eyes of The Great White Monster (i.e., snow).

 

[Fat Freddy]

2-wheel drive or 4-wheel drive doesn’t matter when you hit the brakes. At that point, we are all equal in the eyes of The Great White Monster (i.e., snow).

Unless, of course, you're driving on bald tires......

 

[Jeff Scott]

I'm not sure I was ever their age.

No memory problems with this one.

Or free entertainment.

So long as it is nowhere near me!

 

[GonePlaid]

What I observe in storm after storm is the cars that spin out are invariably the four wheel drive sort. Nothing like a little imaginary invulnerability to ring up a tow.

Just because one can buy a(4 wheel drive, sports car, big mud bogger)doesn't automatically give them the ability to drive it.

 

[GonePlaid]

Looks like a GOF thing to do:

Well, I have the lawn chair. Little short on the snow, though.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Just because one can buy a(4 wheel drive, sports car, big mud bogger)doesn't automatically give them the ability to drive it.

"I just got my driver's licence and my dad is getting me a F12tdf so I can be the envy of all my high school friends! "

 

[Fat Freddy]

Just because one can buy a(4 wheel drive, sports car, big mud bogger)doesn't automatically give them the ability to drive it.

I thought that you had to move to Florida and drive one, or all, of the above by law the moment that you reach retirement age, regardless of whether you even hold a license or not........

 

[GonePlaid]

I thought that you had to move to Florida and drive one, or all, of the above by law the moment that you reach retirement age, regardless of whether you even hold a license or not........

Nah. I lumped 'em all into one and drove 18 wheelers for 23 years.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Nah. I lumped 'em all into one and drove 18 wheelers for 23 years.

But try and explain Smokey and the Bandit to the kids.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Well, I have the lawn chair. Little short on the snow, though.

How much would you like?

(Not this year...yet)

 

[GwenOnBass]

They sent me to work in places where the hockey rink is cleared before the streets.

 

[El Güero]

 

[El Güero]

What I observe in storm after storm is the cars that spin out are invariably the four wheel drive sort. Nothing like a little imaginary invulnerability to ring up a tow.

Sometimes I get the impression that some people think that the faster they drive in bad weather the less time there is for them to have an accident.

 

[GonePlaid]