Open Thread

Pete…you want to join m4l, C Gar and me for lunch on Friday??? 11:30 at Grand Sechuan.

Please try and keep up with the posts.

Don’t we need a +A celebration?

Posted by: Arkady at February 17, 2010 3:57 PM

Who allowed the literary license with the use of “+A” for PLUSA.

Just because cobble isn’t here doesn’t mean you can willy nilly dispense with established protocol.

bxgrl,
Bush handed over a stable Iraq situation.
The surge actually worked although the NYTimes
was loathe to admit it.
But after three pesky democratic elections,
the story of a “failed” state was wearing thin.
You should be happy, woman now have voting rights that
they didn’t under Saddam and they are even active in
politics.

…on another note,

mini-driving rant of the day.

is it considered wrong or somehow politically incorrect to get into a shouting match with a Fireman on duty?
I mean I have all the respect in the world for these guys but am I just supposed to sit there quietly while some moron directs a 10 ton fire truck onto my front bumper?

…earlier today, I’m at an undisclosed intersection in Brooklyn where an accident has occurred. Airbags are deployed but nothing highspeed or deadly.
Ambulance is already gone and I pull up as the second fire truck arrives to block the entire intersection.
There’s a block of cars behind me on my back bumber.
In front is this fireman who signals for me to turn around, which I find quite difficult as there are about 20 cars behind me and the lane to my left is still crowded with traffic.
So I wait.
And this idiot comes over to my car and starts directing the 10 ton firetruck to back-up towards my car.
I say nothing.
20 seconds pass as the truck comes within inches of my front hood then I let the horn fly for 10 seconds straight until the truck stops.
The fireman is incredulous, how dare I blast my horn as his
truck is about to smash into my hood, didn’t I trust him?
He asks in a New York blue collar accent that I know too well means FU and howdy doo at the same time.
So I let it fly,
I think I have hypertension these day.
I say “where the F#%K am I supposed to back up to with a row of cars in back of me? You wanna make my car part of the accident scene?”

This causes a commotion as his captain comes over and some other young punk fireman who couldn’t be more than 20 glares at me attempting to look threatening.

10 seconds pass without a word and the left lane clears,
I make a U-turn and hold my thoughts of cursing further.

I don’t know, maybe it’s time to go to Iowa or something, but I just know that guy would have been all to happy to see a nice dent in my hood from his gleaming truck and all he would have to say about it was “oops” you didn’t back up in time.

F. that.

Legion – It’s called making the best of a bad thing.
CarGar – Congrats! What’re you going to do in the intercalends? Don’t we need a +A celebration?