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Totally amateur phone camera pics thread.

#7,481
Jeremy Crockett said:
Found in the East San Fernando Valley
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A van at my work that did not fare too well.
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Abandoned pleasure craft.
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And a nice Cadillac.
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Seeing that boat took me back the the Southern Caribbean island of Curacao. Mrs.Fingers and I honeymooned there.

Being wanderers, we left the resort and went for a walk. One of our favorite days was hanging out at the local bar down by the dock used by locals for commercial fishing. Boats like that (and larger) were everywhere. My sister's name was Aimee (spelled that way). She died in the 90s at 20 years old. Since I was a young boy I had called her "My Aimee". The first thing we saw was a wrecked fishing boat called (you guessed it) "My Aimee". So I was already feeling pretty good about the area even though it looked pretty rough.


Turns out, the locals all speak several languages (including English). As we walked by a total DIVE bar, I looked over at the guy sitting on the porch wearing nothing but cutoff jeans with skepticism. Then he smiled and said "You haven't eaten until you eat in here, man. Come on in. We don't bite."

We decided to give it a shot. When we got inside, the place was actually kind of crowded.

We were pretty pale. Everyone else in the building was as dark as night. We were from America. Everyone else in the building had never left that island other than to fish. We were fairly well of. They were all mostly poor.

We had the best time ever! Those were some of the happiest, friendliest, and welcoming people I have ever encountered. They fed us like royalty for relatively little money. (We tipped them incredibly well.) We ate, drank, and swapped storied for hours! My wife danced with every man there. I tried to keep up with a couple of the local ladies but I'm a hopelessly terrible dancer. My wife and I bring that place up almost weekly. We walked in there around 2:00 p.m. local. We left about 12 hours later. If I were offered a two-way weekend trip to anywhere on Earth I swear I would fly back to that little island and go hang out with poor local fishermen for two days.

Thanks for flipping my fond memory switch!

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two fingers said:
Seeing that boat took me back the the Southern Caribbean island of Curacao. Mrs.Fingers and I honeymooned there.

Being wanderers, we left the resort and went for a walk. One of our favorite days was hanging out at the local bar down by the dock used by locals for commercial fishing. Boats like that (and larger) were everywhere. My sister's name was Aimee (spelled that way). She died in the 90s at 20 years old. Since I was a young boy I had called her "My Aimee". The first thing we saw was a wrecked fishing boat called (you guessed it) "My Aimee". So I was already feeling pretty good about the area even though it looked pretty rough.


Turns out, the locals all speak several languages (including English). As we walked by a total DIVE bar, I looked over at the guy sitting on the porch wearing nothing but cutoff jeans with skepticism. Then he smiled and said "You haven't eaten until you eat in here, man. Come on in. We don't bite."

We decided to give it a shot. When we got inside, the place was actually kind of crowded.

We were pretty pale. Everyone else in the building was as dark as night. We were from America. Everyone else in the building had never left that island other than to fish. We were fairly well of. They were all mostly poor.

We had the best time ever! Those were some of the happiest, friendliest, and welcoming people I have ever encountered. They fed us like royalty for relatively little money. (We tipped them incredibly well.) We ate, drank, and swapped storied for hours! My wife danced with every man there. I tried to keep up with a couple of the local ladies but I'm a hopelessly terrible dancer. My wife and I bring that place up almost weekly. We walked in there around 2:00 p.m. local. We left about 12 hours later. If I were offered a two-way weekend trip to anywhere on Earth I swear I would fly back to that little island and go hang out with poor local fishermen for two days.

Thanks for flipping my fond memory switch!

(Sorry. Back to the pics.)
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Great story fingers. Very moving.
 
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One our heritage buildings at work.
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two fingers said:
Seeing that boat took me back the the Southern Caribbean island of Curacao. Mrs.Fingers and I honeymooned there.

Being wanderers, we left the resort and went for a walk. One of our favorite days was hanging out at the local bar down by the dock used by locals for commercial fishing. Boats like that (and larger) were everywhere. My sister's name was Aimee (spelled that way). She died in the 90s at 20 years old. Since I was a young boy I had called her "My Aimee". The first thing we saw was a wrecked fishing boat called (you guessed it) "My Aimee". So I was already feeling pretty good about the area even though it looked pretty rough.


Turns out, the locals all speak several languages (including English). As we walked by a total DIVE bar, I looked over at the guy sitting on the porch wearing nothing but cutoff jeans with skepticism. Then he smiled and said "You haven't eaten until you eat in here, man. Come on in. We don't bite."

We decided to give it a shot. When we got inside, the place was actually kind of crowded.

We were pretty pale. Everyone else in the building was as dark as night. We were from America. Everyone else in the building had never left that island other than to fish. We were fairly well of. They were all mostly poor.

We had the best time ever! Those were some of the happiest, friendliest, and welcoming people I have ever encountered. They fed us like royalty for relatively little money. (We tipped them incredibly well.) We ate, drank, and swapped storied for hours! My wife danced with every man there. I tried to keep up with a couple of the local ladies but I'm a hopelessly terrible dancer. My wife and I bring that place up almost weekly. We walked in there around 2:00 p.m. local. We left about 12 hours later. If I were offered a two-way weekend trip to anywhere on Earth I swear I would fly back to that little island and go hang out with poor local fishermen for two days.

Thanks for flipping my fond memory switch!

(Sorry. Back to the pics.)
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Excellent brought a :) to my face :thumbsup:
 
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rollie 55 said:
i will never mone about wasps again
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I have to knock down wasp nests every other week or so. I spray them with a water hose to drive the wasps away from the nest, then knock it down with a broom. I’ve been stung a couple times but it’s better than just letting them go. Last year i rarely went out on the front porch and wound up with a wasp nest easily a foot across out there, so this year i’ve been keeping after them to avoid another giant nest.
 
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When I was a child I was playing hide n seek with a friend. I chose to hide in a bush so he Couldn’t see me. I was in there hiding and laughing to myself. I did not realize that there was a sizable Yellow Jacket nest right next to my head. All the while as long as I was calm I wasn’t attacked. As soon as I saw them I freaked out and that’s when they got me. Many stings. :rollno::help:
 
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EatS1stBassist said:
When I was a child I was playing hide n seek with a friend. I chose to hide in a bush so he Couldn’t see me. I was in there hiding and laughing to myself. I did not realize that there was a sizable Yellow Jacket nest right next to my head. All the while as long as I was calm I wasn’t attacked. As soon as I saw them I freaked out and that’s when they got me. Many stings. :rollno::help:
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I’d find their underground nests when I was a kid cutting grass in the summer. The motor noise would aggravate them and they’d swarm the mower.
 
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fhm555 said:
I have to knock down wasp nests every other week or so. I spray them with a water hose to drive the wasps away from the nest, then knock it down with a broom. I’ve been stung a couple times but it’s better than just letting them go. Last year i rarely went out on the front porch and wound up with a wasp nest easily a foot across out there, so this year i’ve been keeping after them to avoid another giant nest.
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Had a small wasp nest form on my outside stairway railing and they were tormenting me each time I would go in and out of the house. An idea came to me in the middle of the night to take them out with a hammer. I got up a little past 12:30 in the morning, found my hammer and a flashlight, and went out to the nest and knocked it down. When the nest hit the deck, the wasps lethargically started crawling out. As one would come out of the nest, I would hit it with a hammer, crushing it. I wouldn't suggest doing this with an overly large nest, but it turned out yhere were only 20-30 wasps that need killing. Next morning on my way out to work, the wasps were nearly gone as the bird had come by to eat them. Never had a wasp nest there again.
 
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fhm555 said:
I have to knock down wasp nests every other week or so. I spray them with a water hose to drive the wasps away from the nest, then knock it down with a broom. I’ve been stung a couple times but it’s better than just letting them go. Last year i rarely went out on the front porch and wound up with a wasp nest easily a foot across out there, so this year i’ve been keeping after them to avoid another giant nest.
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