Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[GwenOnBass]

A walker, crutches, and a boot comprise (most) of my surgical swag. Not tallied is a set of blue nurses' scrubs that was a gift when I left rehab for the two knee replacements. The top is kind of nice, but no real need for the stethoscope pocket.

 

[Jeff Scott]

A walker, crutches, and a boot comprise (most) of my surgical swag. Not tallied is a set of blue nurses' scrubs that was a gift when I left rehab for the two knee replacements. The top is kind of nice, but no real need for the stethoscope pocket.

Picks.

 

[Greywoulf]

Been dawning on me lately that perhaps I'm overrated...
Troublesome.
(Also why did the missus laugh so heartily when I said it?)

But hey, perhaps we're all overrated?
Yas.
That's better.

 

[shadowtippy]

Here in Texas there are few things for which we remove our hats. I wear a hat/cap almost everywhere I go, but I was taught, that no hats were worn at the table, when in church, or when greeting someone. There are those, whom I see everyday, who would have been taken to task by my parents, grandparents, etc.
But as @GonePlaid said, most restaurants no longer provide hat racks, or hat check locations.

If a person sat at my mother's dinner table while wearing a hat something was going to be removed. The hat would be removed or the person wearing it would be removed from the table. My dad wore a hat most of the time but when he stepped inside the house the hat came off.

 

[beans-on-toast]

What I also saw last night are uncouth men who don't remove their hat at a meal.

Thinning hair is traumatic, especially in public. A hat provides a comfort zone.

 

[Greywoulf]

Well why can't we use some of this climate change stuff to also do some good?
For instance if, as they say, the oceans' levels are raising, why can't we build huge desalination plants on the west coast to help with drought and heat problems?
Hmmmm?

 

[shadowtippy]

Well why can't we use some of this climate change stuff to also do some good?
For instance if, as they say, the oceans' levels are raising, why can't we build huge desalination plants on the west coast to help with drought and heat problems?
Hmmmm?

That would make too much sense.

 

[Al Kraft]

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This is the screen saver I have in one of my Macs!

 

[Al Kraft]

If you have any video of you practicing your parking lot technique, we'd love to see it!

...there is a reason I don't own any vehicles with sunroofs, I don't even want to be tempted. My performance in such a video would not be a demonstration of ingenuity and athleticism, in fact just the opposite. I suspect such an attempt by me would likely be described by observers as a bizarre cross between plain stupidity, awkwardness at heretofore unknown levels, and pity for the aged!

Do you have any other requests though?

 

[beans-on-toast]

I grew up in an era where hats were removed.

In the movie, The Full Monty, they left their hats on till the very end.



Good Tom Jones performance.

 

[beans-on-toast]

The top is kind of nice, but no real need for the stethoscope pocket.

A stethoscope taped onto the headstock of a bass is good for amp-less private practice.

 

[SoulReflection]

A stethoscope taped onto the headstock of a bass is good for amp-less private practice.

And, if you can hum in tune, you could used it as a tuner...

 

[beans-on-toast]

And, if you can hum in tune, you could used it as a tuner...

You can practice using your heart rate as a metronome. How you feel will dictate the song that you can play.

 

[SoulReflection]

You can practice using your heart rate as a metronome. How you feel will dictate the song that you can play.

. With me and my COPD, the faster the heart rate, the less likely I could play ! Imogen is my best friend...

 

[Jeff Scott]

Imogen is my best friend...

 

[Charlie Tango]

...there is a reason I don't own any vehicles with sunroofs, I don't even want to be tempted. My performance in such a video would not be a demonstration of ingenuity and athleticism, in fact just the opposite. I suspect such an attempt by me would likely be described by observers as a bizarre cross between plain stupidity, awkwardness at heretofore unknown levels, and pity for the aged!

Do you have any other requests though?

Or it might look, as David Feherty once described Jim Furyk's golf swing, like an octopus falling out of a tree.

 

[SoulReflection]

I hear you on that...you can't even use some of the parking spaces these days unless you want to crawl out of a sunroof, slide down a windshield onto a hood or trunk lid, and then jump to the ground from there.

When I was in the parking business, way back when, it was nice to see the acceptance of smaller vehicles. Re-stripping parking lots made more spaces to sell. Who cares if you can't fit into them. The lot owners don't care if you get door dings, inconvenience or damage. They do not accept any liability. They get to sell more spaces. The real scam was "compact only" spaces. Who regulates that? Now, we get narrow spaces reserved for for "Low Emission Vehicles" What a joke....

 

[Charlie Tango]

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Um, I think he might have meant Inogen and fat-fingered it. But Ms. Cunningham made some purty pitchers.

 

[SoulReflection]

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Sorry, I meant to say "Inogen".

 

[GwenOnBass]

. With me and my COPD, the faster the heart rate, the less likely I could play ! Imogen is my best friend...

Imogen's Antlers?

The stethoscope pocket may be deep enough for a headstock tuner. Pockets are dear. I'm old enough to wear hospital scrubs not to be presumed not to be a stage gimmick. Something pings about Wendy O. Williams and stethoscopes.

"Is that a Susquehanna hat? That’s the same kind of hat my husband was wearing when he was killed! He wouldn’t have lost his life if he had of been wearing a good hat when that safe fell off that 15 storey building – but no! He was wearing a hat like this one."​