Saturday, July 31, 2021

Sunday Stealing-Fun and Unexpected Topics


 
Hi! Our host is Bev Sykes of the blog "Funny the World". . Welcome to Sunday Stealing. This feature originated and published on WTIT: The Blog. Here we will steal all types of questions from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent questions. Cheers to all of us thieves!


 

Stolen frommantelligence

  

1. Have Your Ever Driven Drunk Or Even Slightly Buzzed? In my younger days. I have a designated driver, my wife, but even before the pandemic I don’t think I ever had more than 1 very weak Chili’s margarita. There really aren’t many bars around here and the only gay bar around here is frequented by mostly men. In Milwaukee there was a bar on just about every corner. 

2. What Was The Funniest Moment In Your Life? I can’t think of anything. If I do, I’ll come back and change this answer.

3. What Kind Of Things Really Makes You Laugh? Usually the dumbest things. When I was in high school and just after, I had a friend who could make me laugh by saying “shoehorn”. It wasn’t the word, it was the expression on her face when she said it that made me laugh. I knew one of her brothers and her younger sister. If they said “shoehorn” it had no affect on me whatsoever. And believe me, they did try!

4. If You Could Jump Into A Pool Full Of Something, What Would It Be? Water.

5. Which Habit Are You Proudest Of Breaking? Smoking. I quit April 2015 because I was having surgery to remove my gallbladder and my surgeon told me his anesthesiologist insisted I quit. I highly doubt that, I’ve had other surgeries while being a smoker and no other surgeon told me I had to quit. I’ve quit 4 or 5 times, so I’m pretty good at it. I’m thinking that’s the last time I’ll quit smoking. My allergies have gotten worse and smoking, even 2nd hand smoke bothers me.

6. Which Animal Do You Find The Sexiest Of All? If you mean actual animals, I don’t find any sexy. I am not into beastiality. Eww!     

7. What’s The Weirdest Nickname You’ve Ever Had? Can’t say.

8, What Do You Wish You Were Really Good At? I wish I could play guitar really well. It would be so cool to go camping and bring out a guitar and start playing. I went on a camping trip once where the tent near us did exactly that. There was also a banjo player and flute player. It was like a private concert. The woman who I was seeing at the time enjoyed it. I told her that I had arranged the whole thing just for her. Yeah…I’m kinda smooth like that. She almost believed me. When I started giggling I gave myself away.

9. If You Were A Dog, What Kind Of Dog Would You Be? Who wrote these questions? Barbara Walters? If you could be a tree….what kind would you be? She asked that one a lot, as I recall.

10. What’s The Most Spontaneous Thing You’ve Ever Done? I would call in sick to work, call my bff, go to her apartment to pick her up, convince her to call in sick and we’d do some of the scenes from “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and make up our own Ferris Days. I lived in WI at the time, so we went to Brewer’s day games, got the cheap seats and walked down and sat in empty more expensive seats. We took brewery tours…Pabst, Miller. Sometimes I drove to Chicago. I drove to Chicago a lot. That’s how I ended up moving there.

11. If You Had A Time Machine, Would You Go Back In Time Or Visit The Future? Back in time.

12. What Was The Last Show You Binge-Watched? I’ve been reading more than watching tv, so the last show I binged was probably “The Flight Attendant”. I’m looking forward to “The Many Saints of Newark”. It’s the prequel to “The Sopranos”.

13. If You Had To Rename Yourself, What Name Would You Choose? Pass.

14. What Did You Do During The Summers When You Were Growing Up? We rode our bicycles a lot. Most days all day, except for taking a break to go home for lunch. Our parents had no idea where we went.

15. If You Go To A Restaurant And Have Terrible Service, Is It Ever OK Not To Tip? If I know for certain it’s the waitress’s fault, yes, no tip. If he/she were talking to someone for a long time while our food got cold, or if he/she were incredibly rude, yes, no tip. But, if the problem was in the kitchen, then they would still get a tip because that’s beyond their control.

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And so it goes

The Blazer is still in the shop. Will it be another 3 month wait?

My brother-in-law gave me an Amazon 7 for my birthday. Friday I went to Best Buy with his receipt wanting to return it and get the the Amazon 10 and pay the difference. Seems simple right? Not so much. Apparently the store he bought it at rang it up as a Black Amazon 7, instead of the Denim Blue Amazon 7 that he actually purchased. I went to the Best Buy in Orland Park. They are a bunch of tools. They would not do the return/exchange/upgrade because it would mess up their inventory. Seriously? That’s not my problem. The store my brother-in-law bought it at, their inventory is messed up. Oh what will they do? It’s called making a simple journal entry to adjust the inventory. It’s not rocket science. Saturday my brother-in-law is taking me to the store he bought it at and he will make sure I get what I want.

My son had his first visit since the pandemic. Anastasia is at it again badmouthing me to my son. The nerve of her lying, cheating ash! My wife is furious and will be having words with her.

My daughter is settling in nicely at her apartment. We still have the living room furniture to bring over and probably 2 pieces that still need to be bought. She is making friends and been having bbq’s with other tenants. Everyone is very friendly.

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Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Seriously?

I’m gonna work backwards here. Today, the Blazer, took it back to the mechanic because it was super hard to steer and my wife couldn’t do it, so guess who had to drive it to the mechanic? And the magic number for repairs is…
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About $365. The hoses were new, but not tight enough, so it leaked slowly, until the pump went and then it came out like water from a faucet. So it’s back in the shop. 😠 The lose hoses were the fault of the guy who sold it to me.

My daughter is moved in enough to sleep at her apartment tonight. She got her Link card and a check to buy furniture and non food items. Bed is assembled, new mattress and box spring, dining room table assembled, I’m still working on the top dresser drawer that fell to the cement while both my kids moved it on a cart. I only have 1 C clamp (I actually had several, but my toolboxes have been gone through and clamps and screwdrivers are gone.) Since I have only 1 🗜 the repairs will be slow because I can only Gorilla Glue and clamp 1 spot at a time.

We had quite the entertaining afternoon, watching my daughter make her new bed. My brother-in-law was over and assembled the dining room table because apparently I don’t know what I’m doing having assembled it, disassembled it at my previous home, then assembled at my now home, then disassembled when I got a round oak table to replace it. I saved it, knowing my daughter would need it. Considering she was provided no furniture, and has very limited funds, it was a good idea. Anyway, my daughter making the bed…I do have video, but she’ll kill me if I post it ANYWHERE! Omg! We had fun watching her make her bed. My brother-in-law flipped the fitted sheet 3 times, I did once. Then he flipped the top sheet off about 5 times, I did it twice. Gurl has got to learn how to properly make a bed. I told her next time I come back I’m bouncing a quarter off it, if it don’t bounce, the sheets get stripped off the bed. Bwah hahahaha! It wasn’t like I left her to do it on her own, I did show her what to fix, she just wanted to rush to finish.

After that I went to get her a shower curtain liner and shower curtain hooks, and a bath mat. (I ordered a cloth shower curtain from Overstock) I can’t wait to see what she does with the shower curtain hooks! 

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