The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.

LittleKagsin

LittleKagsin

So, I'm home (I was gone, just in case it wasn't noticed..), but I have a story to tell from my trip!

Okay, so, we're driving home from the Ren Faire and we're on our side of the freeway when in the distance there's a pair of headlights coming right at us. We thought it was a trick of the road or something, but no, as we got closer to this car, it was most definitely on the wrong side of the freeway. It was totally going against traffic, and was bookin' it too.

After we panicked for a second, got out of his way and pulled over, we just all looked at each other like 'Did that just happen? Did that really just happen??" Moments later we get back on the road and we see 6 cop cars speeding (on the right side of the freeway) in the direction that guy had gone. He was totally running from the cops on the wrong side of the freeway!

Yeah, it was...really random and frightening and exciting.
 
Gared

Gared

Now that I know that next Friday is my last day at this job, the stupidity of some of my (mostly internal, but occasionally even my end user) customers is really starting to get to me. I can't decide if I have a much lower idiocy quotient now that I have ten days left, or if I'm so un-upset about my contract ending because I'm fed up with the stupidity. I suspect it's a little from column A and have a dozen of the other.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

LittleKagsin said:
So, I'm home (I was gone, just in case it wasn't noticed..), but I have a story to tell from my trip!

Okay, so, we're driving home from the Ren Faire and we're on our side of the freeway when in the distance there's a pair of headlights coming right at us. We thought it was a trick of the road or something, but no, as we got closer to this car, it was most definitely on the wrong side of the freeway. It was totally going against traffic, and was bookin' it too.

After we panicked for a second, got out of his way and pulled over, we just all looked at each other like 'Did that just happen? Did that really just happen??" Moments later we get back on the road and we see 6 cop cars speeding (on the right side of the freeway) in the direction that guy had gone. He was totally running from the cops on the wrong side of the freeway!

Yeah, it was...really random and frightening and exciting.
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I helped a friend move from MI to AL in the Fall of 2001. As I was returning at something like 3am, the same thing happened to me (but without the cop cars). The adrenaline kept me going for the next hour with no need for caffeine.

--Patrick
 
Chad Sexington

Chad Sexington

LittleSin said:
I just found a poop in my bed room.

I just found a POOP in my bed room.

That kid is so lucky he's asleep right now.
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I don't have a camera on me, but the face I'm making involves my left eye twitching, my jaw dropped and brow generally furrowed in a mixture of confusion and horror.
 
Cajungal

Cajungal

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My grandmother, my mom, and I have always had naturally low iron levels; it's hard to keep our iron levels up. Doctors tell us to make sure to get enough in our diet and take supplements if needed. I don't think I've been keeping up with this very well. Hadn't been able to figure out why I was feeling so tired and just "bleh" in general. Couldn't get up the energy to do anything. Had beef and turkey in the same week, and have been eating meat with almost every meal. Feel better than I have in weeks. So... more iron, I think.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

On the one hand, I feel like I win because I focused and got a lot done tonight.

One the other hand, I feel like I lose because it's late now and I have to get up for work in five hours.

Thus it goes to random.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

I was up at mid-night, and the Hub was airing one of my favorite Transformers episodes. Then the commercial break happened...for elleven minutes making me miss the rest of the episode. Hell, it even went on into G.I. Joe! This is the second time this has its weird.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

http://www.skeltoncrewstudio.bigcartel.com/category/locke-key

Never before have I been so obsessed with a comic book that I've been seriously tempted to buy some of its related merchandise. Locke & Key is currently my favourite comic book, with a really great mythology. In it, there's an ancestral mansion that contains dozens of different keys that do various magical things (turn you into a ghost, allow you to fly, change gender, etc). And there's a company that, well, makes the keys...



Goddamn, it's tempting. Maybe once I have more money.
 
Fun Size

Fun Size

Steiny, I read the first trade from the library and just put the second one on hold (I bring it up because we might be in the same library network). The first one didn't really grab me other than a couple of genuinely creepy moments, but with the local endorsement I'm going to try some more.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

Let me put it this way of how obsessed I've become with this series:

Most of you know my stance on pirating comics: I don't. Like books, I prefer the tactile feeling of holding a comic, flipping back through pages, etc. The only time I'd pirated comics was for old series that have never been collected.

Being jobless in the last few months, I'd only picked up the first two volumes of the series.

I became so obsessed with wanting to know what happened next and pirated the rest, up to the latest issue of the current series, Omega.

Yesterday, I celebrated my new job and bought the next two volumes, but holy shit, I love this series.
 
Gared

Gared

Who has 8 days left on his contract and just got all of his systems access revoked? This guy! From conversations in the past few days with my manager, it looks like someone just pulled the trigger a few days too soon, but if they can't get the access restored quickly, I may as well pack up my stuff and be done with it. Sucks for them, I have about 15 discs to ship out.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

sixpackshaker said:
Bad News ThatNickGuy my dog just brought up an Armadillo carcass into my yard... Your next novel needs an over-energetic hound as the villain.
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First of all, pics or it didn't happen. (Seriously, I'm obsessed enough with dillos that I'm willing to look at pictures of a dead one. For reference.)

Second, Dill's friends with a dude who can commune with dogs, so I think he's okay in the pooch department.
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

It is just tail, scales and a couple of ribs... The good stuff was already eaten. I don't think my dog killed it or ate it, but you never know. My pup is pretty much a Lenny.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

sixpackshaker said:
It is just tail, scales and a couple of ribs... The good stuff was already eaten. I don't think my dog killed it or ate it, but you never know. My pup is pretty much a Lenny.
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By scales, you mean the carapace? As morbid as this might sound, that might actually be kind of interesting to see. Not that I expect you to still have it kicking around.
 
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