Nice start to the day
 

Kiss the wife good bye, head outside to go to work and. . .

My 2003 stock Taurus company car is on blocks, with the back two tires removed.

Filed a police report (they'll never catch who did this in a million years) Called my company who sent a tow truck and they are putting the new tires on it now.

I don't have any enemies that I know of. The condo complex is nice and well lit. And it's a STOCK 2003 TAURUS. Are you kidding me?

Hope they like the tires. . .

damn that sux

and kinda lol

tires? really?

Believe me, I lol'd a lot. I mean, it's an annoyance and I'm not happy about it. . . but what can you do? Worse things have happened to me before, it won't even ruin my day. I find it more amusing than anything.

Maybe a neighbor was surprising you with a complimentary tire balancing. Way to ruin it by calling the cops, jerk.

I really thought that finding your car on blocks with the tires removed was something that only happened in movies.

Do you at least get to keep the blocks?

well, it wasn't blocks really. . . it was some big landscaping bricks. Yeah, they are in front of my building now. I guess I own em.

Cops didn't even send anyone out. Took a report over the phone. They said it's not that unusual which really stuns me. This is common? Maybe I don't get out enough, but like Honolulu_Blue, I thought it only happened in movies.

I'll counter that story with how I started my day (also eventful). I dropped my little brother off at his track meet and was heading off to get a bagel and go to work.

I saw a big Golden Retriever wandering along the side of the road (fairly busy road, double yellow-line and all). I pulled over around the corner on a residential street and went over to grab the dog. Looked at his collar and he lived essentially a block and a half down and some # of houses onto a residential street. Grabbed him by the collar to head back to his house with him. He sat and wouldn't budge.

Figured "Okay...this is a big golden. Slow and sorta old looking...maybe he'll trot along next to me."

So I point him towards home and start walking along next to him with him inside of me away from the road.

Just as we get down to where we'd turn down the residential street to take him home this little 4 year old or so kid comes toddling out of the house across the street into his driveway. "HEY DOGGY!" he yells. Dog whips around and dashes into the road.



Full on screeching-brakes, DaddyTorgo jumping halfway into the road waving his arms, and the jeep JUST barely manages to stop short and miss the dog who runs over into the kid's yard.

DaddyTorgo starts screaming "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING KID!?!?! DON'T CALL THE DOG FROM ACROSS THE STREET!!!" as I run over the rest of the way across the street to get the dog, ending up at the edge of this lady's driveway.

Lady comes out of the house screaming at me. "DON'T YOU CURSE AT MY KID!!! DON'T YOU YELL AT MY KID...TAKE YOUR DOG AND GET OFF MY PROPERTY OR I'M CALLING THE POLICE!!! etc."

So I'm full-on hysterical at this point, because the dog literally almost got hit, and this lady is more upset that I yelled at her kid and said "hell." (Like he's never heard the word before - I could tell already she was a bitch and I'm sure he's heard it when mom+dad fought). So I'm screaming back at her that it's not my dog and I found it by the side of the road and I don't have a leash and I'm trying to take it home. I go to move past her to chase the dog through her backyard and she moves to stay in front of me and keeps screaming at me for "disciplining her kid."

Turned and walked down the bike path right next to her house and found the dog a couple houses over. Grabbed him and called his owner, who showed up to pick him up a good half hour later (she was new in town and got lost).

Some people need a fucking reality check about what is and isn't important. Me saying "hell" to your kid and yelling at him for doing something so stupid is far less important than the life of the dog. But oh no...your poor kid's feelings are SOOOOO important. Fuck you cuntbag. She's lucky I didn't fucking go off on her...I was too shaken by the dog almost getting hit to do so. And I don't think I was ever actually on her property...at most I was probably at the point where the sidewalk crossed her driveway (which, although i might be mistaken, i don't believe is private property).

Color me crazy, but I'd rather the kid get yelled at for being stupid then witness a dog being killed because he called out to it and it got hit.

Things like this really make me dislike people.

Likely story, DT. What did you do with TroyF's wheels?

Those tires are worth more than the car, which is about $40.

:lol:

It's true. I have half a mind to fucking round up every dog turd in town and deposit them all on her front lawn in the middle of the night tonight. :rant:

So... you expected the 4 year old kid to be able to make a reasonable assessment of the situation and not call the dog across the street in his excitement at seeing a loose dog?

Your real problem is that you need to lower your expectations of the youth of America.

For the record, when you're driving through Colorado and you get two flat tires on your Taurus from the spike strip you ran over evading the Kansas Highway Patrol, there's only so many places you can go to get new tires.

Did you at least see the IOU I left under your driver's side windshield wiper?

Honestly yeah. My niece wouldn't have last year when she was 4.

LMAO

Mine was a good start. I woke up and while digging through a drawer looking for a watch, I found an old external hard drive I own. I thought I had lost the thing and was worried the girlfriend had taken it hostage and was going to use it against me one day in a fight. I have a shitload of porn on it.

I woke up for the usual drive to drop off the GF to work, and head into town . Usually a 30 minute adventure, today there was an accident 20 cars ahead of us or so (everyone one was ok) but my usually short trip took 2 and a half fucking hours of bumper to bumper 2 mph car rides to get 12 miles which pissed me off. not a great story, but it irked me the fuck all.

they have cars in hawaii? Why didn't you just ride a wave? Or hop onto a sea turtle and let them pull you.

true story - i once worked with a girl from hawaii. she managed to convince another girl that we worked with that in Hawaii there are no ATM's, and the only way to get money is to go into a bank.

I lived in Ewa BEach too.....the traffic always baffled me! but the bus sucks fatcockandass.

Roger that. I usually am ok with traffic, I don't know why it set me off this morning.

the built a new road last year and the usual traffic is a thing of the past, until there is an accident (like today).

YOU NEVER GO ATM!!!

Kids are stupid.

That sucks. Even worse, they probably implanted a microchip in your car between the gas filler and the exhaust pipe.

you yelled at a 4-year old?

you deserved to get chewed out

i was hysterical - the dog was like an inch from getting killed because the damn kid yelled to it and caused it to run across the busy street.

i'd do it again in a heartbeat.

the dog's life is worth more than the kid being yelled at for all of 10 seconds.

ah, sorry. totally missed the part where yelling at the kid saved the dog's life.

kid shouldn't have been yelling for the dog to cross the busy road at rush hour. and i literally yelled at the kid for all of 10 seconds. it was like "NO NO!!! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING YELLING FOR A DOG TO CROSS THE STREET KID!!" and that was it. Hardly going to scar him for life or anything. People fucking coddle their kids these days.

So, uh, how did she repay you for your kindness?

lol. no payment necessary. a good deed is its own reward.

Troy, have the cops check the Jazz for their whereabouts last night. My guess is, after stealing that game from the Nuggets, they were feeling lucky.

Wow, DT.

I didn't realize you had "fuck you, cuntbag" in your repetoire.


Oh, and there are "like new" factory 03 Taurus wheels going on Ebay for $120. Probably worth the 15 minutes of effort if you're a total scumbag.

ohhh my misognyistic repitoire is quite well developed at this point. that being said - I love my sisters and my mother, and something like 60% of my closest friends are women. I've got no problem with specific women - but a random stranger (say some woman who cuts me off on the road, or is walking 0.1mph in front of me where I can't get around here), it's game-on for full-on hate-muttering.

For the euphemism specialists out there, what does this "a good deed is its own reward" translate to ;)

SI

Nope. Probably the refs doing it because I bitched yet again about how incompetent they are at their jobs.

Dude time to get out of Broomfield geez that is too bad.

That's a bit cynical. He was four! Do you have any expectations for a four year old! You don't need to lower expectations. You need to drop them.

Saying Hey Doggie isn't exactly calling it to cross the street. New flash, a lot of 4 year olds like dogs. The kid didn't do anything purposely that deserved getting yelled and cursed at by some stranger.

You may want to step down from your high horse and get a reality check. You come across as a complete douchebag in this.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought this...and getting mad at the mother is a bit odd. You are a complete stranger who is yelling at her kid, and you expect the mom to be all happy about it?

I wouldn't expect a 4 year old to be able to understand the consequences of calling to the dog, and I would be pissed if a stranger came yelling at my 4 year old regardless of what words they chose.

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I sympathize far more with the lady than with the dude chasing a lost dog that's not even his through my yard and cursing at my kid. But that's just me.

the word "hell" isn't exactly cursing.

and i still stand by the fact that the dog's life (and ya know...the dog not getting drilled by a car right in front of the kid because he called to it) is more important than the kid's feelings. Not to mention that I wasn't even on her property, I was essentially standing on the sidewalk in front of her house.

and you'll still be wrong

So this is where the action's at. Huh.

I totally agree with DT on this one, 4 year old needs to know better, and yelling at them shows it.

I'm just going to go +1 on DT and get the hell out of here before I get drug into another parenting conversation. What he said wasn't that bad and just because you think your kid is the center of the universe and like to project that onto everyone else doesn't mean you're right. We're never going to agree on that. We also all know how this thread goes: enough people pick at silly minor parts of the story and it eventually becomes "won't someone please think of the children" and it's all over because of this misdirection.

SI

But what if it turns out the four year old knows something about Troy's missing wheels?