Hey, you know Steve too? Small world, man.
The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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I'm no longer blonde and its weirding me out. I went back to my real colour, which is almost black, to cover the damage from the temporary purple crap.
My daughter loves it and told me that I didn't look like a real mom blonde...thanks I think?
My daughter loves it and told me that I didn't look like a real mom blonde...thanks I think?
Aw thanks!
These jokes seem a little premature... but they crop up after every tropical storm.
I'm 30. When my dad was 30, I was 6 and my brother was 4.
GasBandit
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I should also preface that my folks got married when he was 20, and she was 19. They got started early. Dad says there was a little pressure on him, when he was taking his finals in med school, and it occurred to him that he'd never actually technically gotten an undergraduate degree as he got into med school early, and his high school (in Australia) never actually sent him a diploma, so if he bombed this final, he'd have absolutely no credentials whatsoever, not even high school, after all those years of additional education, and a very pregnant wife in the hospital with an overdue baby.
My folks met in the Navy, married when they were 23 and 22, I was born about a year later, give or take a month. Spent a lot of time at my grandparents' house when I was really small as my folks didn't swap off active duty till a little after my brother was born.
fade
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I'm 38. I was about to graduate high school when my dad was 38.
The oil and gas industry's parental age is weird. My son's friends all have parents who are old enough to be their grandparents. And it doesn't matter if they're foreign or American. We are the youngest parents in my kids' peer groups, and I feel like we started late.
The oil and gas industry's parental age is weird. My son's friends all have parents who are old enough to be their grandparents. And it doesn't matter if they're foreign or American. We are the youngest parents in my kids' peer groups, and I feel like we started late.
I had my son 2 weeks before my 22nd birthday. We got married a year after my son was born. I felt very young around other parents with my son. My daughter is 3.5 years younger so I feel a little more on par with some of the parents, but those are the ones whose kids are also their oldest.
Given the housing/job market in our parent's day as opposed to today, it's not surprising we started having kids later (on average). But now that you mention it, when my mom was my age, she had a freshman in high school. 
Then again, when my dad was my age, he had an 8 year old, which isn't that big a leap compared to an (almost) 3 year old, so whew.
Then again, when my dad was my age, he had an 8 year old, which isn't that big a leap compared to an (almost) 3 year old, so whew.
GasBandit
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If only your health class instructor knew you'd take the condom demonstration so darn literally.I just mate with bananas.
GasBandit
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One of my flirty co-workers heard I have a brother, and wanted to see a picture of him, so I dragged out that picture of my brother and I when I was 19. She was all "wow, look at you" etc etc, and I of course made the same joke I did here when I posted it "Yeah, see, I was fly as hell. I have no idea why I wasn't dripping in bitches!" And she said "Probably because you're so mean."
Ow!
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GasBandit
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Et tu, Fade?
Even if, yeah, it's a fair cop... I was a vicious, manipulative, nasty little bastard.
GasBandit
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Yeah, but she's alsoHey now, women willing and daring to say the truth to your face are to be treasured. So, she's flirty, huh?
1) in a relationship
2) kinda my subordinate
3) below my X/2+7 threshold
and I'm also
1) a mopey sadsack still not over the last gal who spoke truth to my face.
fade
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I was teasing--thought you were joking around. But it seems like it's a sensitive topic. Sorry.
GasBandit
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It's alright, it's no secret I have a mean streak in me. I've just been trying to tamp it down for the last couple years, as opposed to indulge it like I did the previous 20 or so.
I think you are a swell guy Gas. And you have an awesome voice.
GasBandit
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Well, thanks. Like I said, I'm trying to be nicer. Because, however I've been the last 2 years, I wasn't faking the previous 13. Sometimes I still have to fight to filter, even in real life.
There's always money in the frozen banana stand.