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Things that make you want to drink! If you don't already.

PaulTra said:
Yea, it's pretty sickening to think how lax driver education has been for decades in this country.
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What really "drives" me nuts is that people will go 5-10mph under the speed limit when the speed limit is 55mph+; but when they get in a zone of 30-45mph, they will go 10mph over!! WTF!?
 
modo22 said:
What really "drives" me nuts is that people will go 5-10mph under the speed limit when the speed limit is 55mph+; but when they get in a zone of 30-45mph, they will go 10mph over!! WTF!?
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My brother in law was like that. He never got out of western Pa. so he was frightened to be on the freeway, yet he drove the back country roads like a mad man. Of course being dumber than a stump didn't help him either.
 
CigarStone said:
The vent thread!

When I was in the Air Force, I witnessed numerous things that opened the eyes of a backwoods Pa. boy. This one still annoys me to this day.

Every shop had a tool room for maintenance related work, some were very sophisticated. I did design, calibration, and maintenance of Air Intercept Missiles, and our tool room was pretty impressive.

Once per year, the shops on base, which were part of the XXX Tactical Fighter Wing, would gather up the unused things from their tool rooms, load them into a truck, which would load them into a cargo plane, which would then fly out over the ocean and dump them.

Why?

Because if we turned the equipment back in, or we still had it at inventory time, our budget would be cut for the next year.😡
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I was an avionics technician in the navy and it was similar for us.
We had a room full of partial equipment and electronic components that had to disappear every annual inspection.
We couldn't turn it in anywhere and couldn't just throw it in the trash, so the boxes full of stuff would be divided amongst everyone in the shop to take home to hide it.
Very stupid we couldn't just keep it or turn it in to supply
 
Jared Nomack said:
Along similar lines...

I used to work in a large Wall Street law firm, doing securities class action litigation (defense). Our clients were the largest companies in the US, the cases were front page WSJ stuff. The plaintiffs' bar would file lawsuits, we would defend them.

As a young lawyer one day I got assigned to a new case, went to see the partner in charge. I told him, "I can get this case dismissed easily, they haven't even pled the standards properly."

The partner said, "Mark, Mark, Mark... no, no no. Here's how it works. We'll take a year or so to go through the motions, do document discovery, have a few court appearances [etc]. Then we'll enter into a settlement that will require the usual mass notice mailings, court approval, and so forth. We'll bill the client a lot of money, and they'll pay it... because if we don't, and they don't, the budget for their legal department will be cut next year. And the inhouse lawyers don't want that, and neither do we. And anyway the plaintiffs' lawyer won't be able to get his percentage of the settlement for his fees if he doesn't do some work. This is all understood by everyone. OK?"

I got lots more like that. Which is largely why I left that life years ago...
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I have a law minor and even went to law school for one semester. A huge reason why I left was that in order to make real money I would either have to be a part of the routine you described or acquit people I knew were guilty of something really bad. Just could not do that
 
Well I dont have a great story to tell about government waste, or bad drivers bringing me to the bottle unfortunately. I guess kids could count however my recent thing that drives me to drink is the thread: What Whiskey, Rum or Cognac are you drinking today.

GETS ME EVERYTIME!!
 
modo22 said:
What really "drives" me nuts is that people will go 5-10mph under the speed limit when the speed limit is 55mph+; but when they get in a zone of 30-45mph, they will go 10mph over!! WTF!?
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Or, the people who are doing the speed limit who suddenly brake to 10-15 below the limit in front of you as soon as they see a police cruiser on the side of the road.

ETA: I always scream at them “You were already doing the f’ng speed limit assholes!” Like they can hear me.
 
jfields said:
Or, the people who are doing the speed limit who suddenly brake to 10-15 below the limit in front of you as soon as they see a police cruiser on the side of the road.

ETA: I always scream at them “You were already doing the f’ng speed limit assholes!” Like they can hear me.
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I actually got pulled over once for tailgating an asshole who did that. I told the cop what happened and he laughed and let me go!!
 
modo22 said:
I actually got pulled over once for tailgating an asshole who did that. I told the cop what happened and he laughed and let me go!!
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I had something similar happen to me. I was riding in a group of cars on a four lane road. One of the cars was a state trooper behind us, and of course everyone’s going well below the speed limit. I attempted to accelerate and change lanes to get to the front of the pack, because I’m not afraid to go 5 miles above the speed limit around a trooper. The guy to the left/behind me decided to make is it his mission to speed up and block me as I was coming over. Then he did his best ever James LeBron flop, swerving over the yellow lines when I was no where near him.
The officer pulled me over, but let me go with a laugh when I told him what happened.
 
what makes me want to drink is playing pool aka billiards as my grandfather called it.
when I was quite young me & my brother talked my Mom & Dad into buying us a pool table. :oops:
wasn't much of a stretch for anyone's imagination because my grand father owned a pool hall in Webster parish, that served alcohol. 😂
I still remember one Sunday afternoon we all went down to 'Guys & Dolls' in downtown Shreveport to watch Willie Mosconi play for a solid hour.
Mosconi didn't miss a single shot in over a solid hour of playing, exhibition, and trick shots. That guy was a monster on the table. :cool:

fast forward to when I was a late teen, to mid 20s, I was a bit of a table hustler myself; loved 9 ball & bank shots ruled.
It was always a blast to shoot triple banks, sink a shot, and watch the opposition just kinda take a dump in their drawers & their beer. 🤣
Back then it was either a few lines of cocaine, a lot of alcohol, or both; playing pool made me drink like a fish.

Was nothing like going to the ole Bandido's hang out, The Raven, on old Mansfield Road & doing tequila shots with Rela & playing pool until 2 AM.
Wow, those were the days!
 
I worked for Loudon County Virginia Government for almost two years before I was told “you can resign and we won’t give you a bad reference, or you can not resign, and we will fire you!”
I spent that two years being told I needed to slow down. That the way the way things are being done, are the way they have been done for years.
We would spend months meeting about implementing the latest/greatest new thing. As soon as we were ready to make a move, the higher ups would announce we were scrapping “xyz” and moving onto the next thing. We never moved on anything, and it was maddening!!! We would waste plenty of taxpayer money in then process.
It was so crazy and maddening looking back.
 
jfields said:
I worked for Loudon County Virginia Government for almost two years before I was told “you can resign and we won’t give you a bad reference, or you can not resign, and we will fire you!”
I spent that two years being told I needed to slow down. That the way the way things are being done, are the way they have been done for years.
We would spend months meeting about implementing the latest/greatest new thing. As soon as we were ready to make a move, the higher ups would announce we were scrapping “xyz” and moving onto the next thing. We never moved on anything, and it was maddening!!! We would waste plenty of taxpayer money in then process.
It was so crazy and maddening looking back.
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Luckily there were no taxpayer dollars involved, but I still have flashback frustrations over all of the hours and money (and emotional energy) wasted developing projects at the museum that were scrapped before fruition just to move on to something else.
 
Texting etiquette will get me every so often:

ME: I'm not sure, we may have to look at putting more investment into it. It kinda depends on what we think the future of the product is gonna be and if the other clinics will be able to sustain the price with maintenance. If they can, it would help overall with patient satisfaction and may slowly increase revenue over time.

THEM: k

yeah, I'm done texting you past that
 
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