Not sure if I've already mentioned this somewhere in this topic but.... Never trust anyone with a neck tattoo. Living in NYC, such tats are more common than you think. Literally everyone who has one, has screwed me over. Never again.
Things I've learned the hard way . . .(Part 2)
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So, are you a slow learner, or just too quick to forgive and forget?
@bluflaam777, I thought that one was pretty funny too. It might be due to the hard cider.
It might be due to the hard cider.
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Today, I relearned that plaster is harder than average human bones.
Hopefully not through punching.
One of the many jobs I worked was at an arena. I was there for decades.
At one point we had an epidemic of drunks punching the drywall near the bathrooms by the bar. I told the maintenance guys to replace the drywall with 3/4" plywood and throw some drywall mud over it. We never had a hole in the wall again, but there were many broken hands/wrists. Not my problem.
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kind of...the reactive instinct to swat something away kicked in when something buzzed into my ear, and I ended up backhanding an abutting corner of a wall LOL. No visible bruising, but what felt like an underlying deep sharp throbbing persisted...Surely you can guess what it was lol
There's an Optimist buried inside of me.... He's hunkered down in a secure spot with plenty of food and water, and a warm blanket. Can't seem to get a clear shot to kill off that sommanabeach.So, are you a slow learner, or just too quick to forgive and forget?
'Tis better to forgive and forget, but also be wary in the future. Feed that optimist. He's the best of you.
Oh, I'm sorry, man. I shouldn't have laughed out loud. But I did. Forgive me if you weren’t joking.
Honestly, when I first thought I understood your post, I was laughing at what I assumed was you joking.
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Hammy Sammy double Whammy Mayo Mato it's so Great-o?
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If Raggie were a thing, he'd be the ball in a pinball machine! He might get knocked around alot, but without him, the whole machine is pointless!
The very last member of CPF I'd hammer on is raggie33.
I know the feeling... I feel the same way. Life's been a long, difficult journey for me as well.
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You are half-way there...never trust anyone, regardless of tats. People with tats were once tat-less. The tats didn't change them, they were the same before the tat. The tat is simply an expression of what was hidden inside before.
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Neck tats are telling the world they're leaning into third strike , or would like you to think that.
same difference to me.
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Being the "spider in the toilet bowl". Or my own personal "Descent into the Maelström", you might say.
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Thirty years ago, I did a lot of river kayaking in the nearby mountains. Had been trained by a couple of experienced and skilled Class-V/IV water dogs, so the basics were strong. Loved doing the Class II-IV rivers, with moderately-challenging whitewater occasionally. Mostly, I just dearly loved being out there in the setting, one of the critters in the canyon so to speak.
One day, went with a couple of buddies on a more-challenging day. It was late-winter almost early springtime, and the water was "pushy". Higher than normal, and certainly the water temperature was down. We knew it would be, and were dressed accordingly. But, dang the conditions were challenging. Didn't stretch as easily. Didn't stay warm as easily. That cold seeped in unlike any other day of kayaking I've had.
Basically, I got flushed off-course into a huge swirling eddy off the bend of the river. Was ~25ft in diameter. And it was this big, swirling "toilet bowl" vortex that dragged nearly everything down with it, right in the center of that eddy. Something about how the river bottom and nearby rocky bank conspired to swirl it like that. Huge amount of the river's water entering at the "head" of that thing to fuel it all, and the swirl taking up the rest of that small "cove" area. Couldn't see it from the main channel of the river. Couldn't believe what I saw, when my boat went over the eddy lip into that mess.
Got caught. Got sucked. Then "slammed" ... and ripped from the boat. Along with half my gear. All of which spent the next 10 minutes pummeling me. I was about done. (So this was what a spider feels like in its last moments nearing the bottom of the bowl. Surprise.)
Could see one option. I did my level best to swim hard for the outside of that swirl, so that I eventually could grab one of the rocks nearer the shoreline. About the only way to stay out of the bottom of that bowl. Swam hard, 'round and 'round, for a few dozen circuits of the swirl. Which worked. Eventually, when I was almost "blown", after one last hard attempt I finally headed up toward the edge of the swirl close to a rock ... and hooked a couple of fingers onto it.
Was eventually able to scrape myself up onto that small rock, then laid there like a landed trout for ~20min until I semi-recovered. Made it out. But it took awhile to fish out the boat, paddle and gear. A half hour later, my buddy had bushwhacked back through steep rocky terrain to where I was, since clearly I hadn't followed them out of the rapids.
Lesson: Don't do that. Yeah, well ... duh. Who knew, at the time, that this "toilet bowl from Hell" was there, or that I'd be the sacrificial "spider" that day.
No pics. Yet, happen it did. Ugh.
Never kayaked again, rightly recognizing Mother Nature was showing her claws and my age was catching up with me. Good decision.
Had to add to the ledger, that day, with an entry documenting this latest time yours truly almost didn't make it. Thankfully, not a very long list.
Moral of the story: Don't be the spider. It isn't healthy.
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