fantasmatical thorr wrote:Adam CR, that pub sounds fucking ace!

Just what I was thinking! Salut! Adam and family.

We went to Old Orchard Mall today to buy some stuff for our vacation next week.

Me, wife, kid in her stroller.

We're crossing from parking lot to mall, in a crosswalk.

Guy rips down the road into the crosswalk, in his Yukon or whatever, yakking on a cell phone.

We stop in the middle of the crosswalk.

I yell "Thanks a lot."

He keeps going, but he sticks his head out the window and screams "NO PROBLEM, DICKFUCK AND CUNTGASH!"

We laughed pretty hard. New nicknames!

tmidgett wrote:He keeps going, but he sticks his head out the window and screams "NO PROBLEM, DICKFUCK AND CUNTGASH!"

We laughed pretty hard. New nicknames!

Don't let Pee-Rag know about them.

I got very tipsy at a bar last night & lost my wallet. Bar claims it's not there & a buddy I was with noticed I had it when we left. I took the subway home & when I went about my usual ritual of emptying my pockets upon entry, noticed the wallet was missing. Scrambled about in a drunken haze turning my apt. over looking for it, thinking maybe I already took it out or something. Began screaming obscenities & generally freaking out. Attempted calling credit card companies to cancel accounts (which I had to re-do this afternoon b/c I was waaayyy to drunk to be doing this with any real effectiveness) and inventory what all was in wallet when she went missing.

I remember dozing off on subway, but since I keep (er -- kept) wallet in back pants pocket, felt it was pretty unfeasible for someone to have stolen it then and there. The wallet's pretty fat & stuffed (though not w/$$, more paper and receipts) and doesn't stick out of the pocket, so someone would've had to dig into my pants to get it out. I'd have noticed someone digging in my pants, I'm sure.

So, as I say, I checked in again w/the creditors & turns out someone's gone spending on CTA cards & Jewel. Not a big financial hit, not that I'd be held liable for any of those charges. The real pain in the ass is getting new ID's and losing all the business/contact cards that I'd accumulated in the course of networking and whathaveyou. I'm just hoping there were no bank receipts in there....

I broke par for the first time today at Pine Meadow golf course.
70 from the tips.

Magical day.

That's a real shitter! The last time I lost my wallet I too was very pissed- had to do the embarrassing phone calls to cancel cards etc. The wallet had fallen out of my pocket while I was buying wine in (UK budget supermarket) Iceland. I had wandered off to do a 2-hour radio show and had only noticed my missing wallet when I was about to go home. The next morning I got a call from my mum. The staff in Iceland had found it and phoned my mother to inform her that her idiot son had dropped his wallet, and I went to pick it up. As you said - it's not so much the financial liability, because if you report that in time you're cool - it's all the ID and other assorted stupid shit you keep in your wallet that is a nightmare to sort out and replace - that's if it's replaceable.

Thanks for the empathy, night_tools! I'd have made the story Iceland, NOT the UK store & imply that you had to fly all the way back to the country to get your wallet back b/c they wouldn't pay for the postage!

I'm glad this board has a non sequitur thread.

I don't know if and when the local WGN news is re-broadcast, but tonight they had a segment on Lollapalooza, they had some kid guest reporter running around asking people if they knew what exactly the word "Lollapalooza" means. One shot was framed with the kid running after this snowy-haired guy with a pot belly walking away from the camera. I thought they were going to do an "old man at young people's event" bit, but then I notice the guy is wearing a crisp the Jesus Lizard t-shirt with the wolf/heart logo (see my av) in front and "The Jesus Lizard You IDIOT" on the back. I have the exact same t-shirt and I believe it's a scarcer version than the one with just the logo on front and band name on back. I just happened to turn on the TV less than a minute before seeing it as well. Coincidences like that make my brain itch.

I can't imagine any other forum caring much about this tidbit, aside from the Jesus Lizard forum whose URL I cannot remember.

night_tools wrote:

fantasmatical thorr wrote:Adam CR, that pub sounds fucking ace!

Just what I was thinking! Salut! Adam and family.

It's really not somewhere I would drink if it wasn't for the fact that it has a pleasant child-friendly garden and is in the Cathedral quarter.

When one has kids, going to a pub simply because the kids like the garden/play-kit is a small price to pay for a couple of hours of comparative relaxation and relatively sensible adult conversation on a balmy Friday evening.

I'v worn glasses for a few years now but only lately realised how nice it feels to take them off at the end of the day. Kinda like the feeling you get taking your socks and shoes off at the end of a long days walking. Only this is after a long days looking at stuff.