Oh, fuck, Drew. I'm so glad you were able to get a flight, and may he hang on until you get there. My love to you and yours.
Plei beat me to it. All very much the same.
Nice acronym, Mom!
Buffy ,'Showtime'
Spike's Bitches 41: Thrown together to stand against the forces of darkness
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Barb - Jul 12, 2008 10:39:11 am PDT #6798 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”
DCJensen - Jul 12, 2008 10:41:17 am PDT #6799 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
Then there was the time we slipped on a mere slick of ice and did a pretty 180 with Mom driving. She took it as a sign and went back home.
Once, when traveling out to visit my dad and I ensconced in the ice fishing shack on Pleasant lake in February, my mom hit a patch of ice and did a 720 and got stuck.
A farmer came along an pulled her out and she told him "Thanks, but we were headed the other way."
Like your mom, she decided it was a sign and headed back home with my sister and another passenger.
My sister thought it was fun and scary, and loves to tell the story for mom.
NoiseDesign - Jul 12, 2008 10:44:46 am PDT #6800 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
My first car was a 1987 16V VW Scirocco. It was bright red and a load of fun.
DCJensen - Jul 12, 2008 10:49:11 am PDT #6801 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
I just spent an hour getting the inside door panel off of Andi's 1990 caprice. WHAT A PAIN.
It was bad enough I had to buy a $5 tool in order to get the crank handle off, but I had to remove over a dozen screws and two rivets to even get to where I *might* be able to replace the handle.
(Separate rant for insane GM engineers: WTF were you thinking making door handles need a special tool to get off? Ford does well enough with a single Phillips screw, why couldn't you?)
Don't get me started on the whole "lets put the seat belt mechanism in the door so that if someone opens it while driving, they'd fall right out onto the ground."
Sean K - Jul 12, 2008 10:59:25 am PDT #6802 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Fuck, Drew.
NoiseDesign - Jul 12, 2008 11:02:48 am PDT #6803 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
More accurately, fuck cancer. Hard. With a blow torch.
Glamcookie - Jul 12, 2008 11:02:50 am PDT #6804 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
~ma, Drew. I'm so sorry.
Hil R. - Jul 12, 2008 11:04:50 am PDT #6805 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Much ~ma, Drew.
I still haven't owned my first car. In high school, I drove my parents' Camry, but I've never had a car of my own. If I end up getting a job somewhere that I need a car, I plan to get a Mini Cooper.
Cass - Jul 12, 2008 11:05:25 am PDT #6806 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Oh, fuck, Drew. I'm so glad you were able to get a flight, and may he hang on until you get there. My love to you and yours.
Plei says it well. I am glad you got a quick flight back and I hope things are as easy and painless as possible. Will be thinking of you.
Sean K - Jul 12, 2008 11:06:24 am PDT #6807 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
My first car was a Ford EXP.
My second car, and first new car, is my poor, abused, beloved and faithful Escort.
It's eleven years old. I'm hoping to get maybe one or two more years out of it, and look at buying something new(ish... not sure I'll ever buy a brand new car again, as fun as it is).
The only problem is, apparently, my Michigan title never made it into my stuff when I moved out here, so I never transfered the title to CA. Not that I suppose I'd get much for it. I have not taken the best care of my car.