The Pleasures of Life Thread

[pietasterp]

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Doin' it right, my man. Happy Birthday and enjoy that steak!

[Majingir]

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Good deed of the month (today's actually only the 2nd time I've gone grocery shopping all month! I'm good at stocking up on only what I need):

On my way out of the store I noticed someone left a bag of toilet paper in the middle of the parking lot. On my way to my car I saw some lady with the same brand in her cart as she was packing her car. I checked to make sure its hers and let her know where it was (I wasnt gonna pick it up for multiple reasons).

If she was someone looking like she was hoarding them and one of the many happened to fall out, I wouldn't bother letting them know.

I'm sure certain others would just leave it or simply take it for themselves (a gift from above, toilet paper fell out of the sky!).


In hindsight it really was karma though. She looked like the same person in line ahead of me who let an old guy go infront of her (she was first in line too), so I'm sure she's having a good day.

[pietasterp]

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Good deed of the month (today's actually only the 2nd time I've gone grocery shopping all month! I'm good at stocking up on only what I need):

On my way out of the store I noticed someone left a bag of toilet paper in the middle of the parking lot. On my way to my car I saw some lady with the same brand in her cart as she was packing her car. I checked to make sure its hers and let her know where it was (I wasnt gonna pick it up for multiple reasons).

If she was someone looking like she was hoarding them and one of the many happened to fall out, I wouldn't bother letting them know.

I'm sure certain others would just leave it or simply take it for themselves (a gift from above, toilet paper fell out of the sky!).


In hindsight it really was karma though. She looked like the same person in line ahead of me who let an old guy go infront of her (she was first in line too), so I'm sure she's having a good day.

Every little bit helps, especially in times like these.

May you find a fresh beer in your fridge that you didn't know you had as karmic return for your deeds!

[Majingir]

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Every little bit helps, especially in times like these.



May you find a fresh beer in your fridge that you didn't know you had as karmic return for your deeds!

It's weird too because the store wasn't busy, so if it was busy, someone was bound to have seen it on the ground, maybe they would've just taken it, or they would've seen her drop it and let her know, you never know.

But it happened to be the only other person in the store who saw what she did literally minutes before.


Anyways, if I'm bound to find something in my fridge I never knew I had, it's probably white grapes lol.

[NinerFan1983]

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Finishing a difficult level/mission in a game.

[Caulfield]

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seeing the end of a train cross the track in the road right before where you stop. no waiting. when you first see your path is blocked, has a gear-grinding feel. but then this happens and it's all rainbows and lollipops again

[Blzer]

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seeing the end of a train cross the track in the road right before where you stop. no waiting. when you first see your path is blocked, has a gear-grinding feel. but then this happens and it's all rainbows and lollipops again

Neither a pleasure nor a gear grinder, just a story:

I'm coaching my softball kiddos at a travel tournament and our hotel is right outside of some train tracks. On the last day of the tournament, I already had my car loaded in the parking garage and carpooled with another coach to the games for that day and back. When they dropped me off back in front of my car at the hotel, they still had to check out, pack up, and load their car before they headed out. I headed out immediately.

As I turn out of the parking garage, I just fall behind the train track arms lowering so that one could go by. I see it slowly coming from the right (but disappearing behind a building), and on it slowly comes. I'm in a bit of a small-town area so this is where they travel across the state with some serious freight, and this thing is moving slowly. Apparently, it's pretty long as well. A lot of cars didn't really come up this way, since the only thing here was pretty much the hotel. Myself, another car, and eventually a police officer were the only three there for a long time. The officer waited a few minutes before he said "Screw it," and illegally turned around on the one-way street and went back to do something else.

I'm waiting there for thirteen minutes. During that time, only one car had come up behind me. Once that thirteen minute mark hit, one more car came up behind the other guy to my right. It's my other coach. "Dude, you're still here??" he asks. It's crazy how long this train was going by for, enough for he and his family to check out of the hotel and all and still see me. It took about sixteen minutes before the train finally passed by in full. It was long as hell and extremely slow-moving. I was definitely not a fan. Anyway, I thought the bit with my coach showing up was kind of funny.

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For another quick story, where I live now has this "diagonal" train track that hits both vertical and horizontal crossroads in my town. There was once this time where I passed by the train tracks just before the arms went down, and as I passed by I realized it was coming from my left. I was about to right turn to go down another road, so I was like "Crap!" as I knew I had to haul *** before those arms went down as well. It was close, but I beat that one too. It was kind of funny knowing that I had to race the train to not get stopped there is all.

[Caulfield]

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there's this one track I'm routinely stopped by a crossing train every 2 or 3 weeks, and if it's going in the ''same'' direction I am, it has to cross back over the road about 8 miles up. now that's a gear-grinder: stopped twice by one train

also, pleasure's of life: grilled squash. I could eat it every day, and enough of it, till I burst

[Fresh Tendrils]

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You're waiting for a train. A train that will take you far away. You know where you hope the train will take you, but you can't know for sure. Yet it doesn't matter. Now, tell me why?

[Blzer]

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You're waiting for a train. A train that will take you far away. You know where you hope the train will take you, but you can't know for sure. Yet it doesn't matter. Now, tell me why?

Because you'll catch the re-release of Inception in theaters before Tenet arrives, that's why!

... and because you'll be together.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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Knew you would catch that instantly. With all the train talk that's what popped into my mind immediately.

[l3ulvl]

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I actually have a train memory of being a young kid in a car with my grandma and her old lady friends, and we actually raced through the tracks to beat the train.

You can't make this **** up, I was in a car with renegade grandmas, and we barely made it across

we got to the store and they all acted like it was no biggie, I'm like traumatized about how close we came to getting hit by a train, but it was just another day for these ladies

it's been 30 years and I still remember the day I was with a crew of dissident grannies who thought we were completing a cannonball run

[LambertandHam]

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It starting to rain just as you're putting the mower back in the garage.

[Caulfield]

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It starting to rain just as you're putting the mower back in the garage.

mine pleasure is it's starts to rain just as you're getting the mower out of the garage lol

[LambertandHam]

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mine pleasure is it's starts to rain just as you're getting the mower out of the garage lol

Aside from mowing in the heat, I don't mind it once I get going tbh. I'd hate more to do the front yard one day then the back yard the next.