The Goat Pen

AlabamAlum wrote:eCat is like a redneck Yoda.

Hmmmm...car repairs you must. Do or do not. There is not try. Y'all.

hedge wrote:I'm sure the ladies at work appreciate your thrift and work ethic...

eCat wrote:heh

I remember a story my brother told me and its kinda stuck with me. Back in college, he and a friend went hiking in the Red River Gorge (beautiful place to hike if you ever get a chance). They'd been smoking weed all day, hiking and generally enjoying the day when they got lost on a trail that led upward along a cliff ledge with them thinking that just getting over the hill would result in them finding the path back to the car. Near the top they reached an impasse where the cliff ledge turned into rock climbing, something neither was able or prepared to do.

So their only option was climb back down the trail which took them a long time to get up and it being late in the night before they got back. At least that was the only option the friend saw. My brother's weed infused decision making led to option 2. Jump off the cliff onto one of the pine trees that was growing parallel to it and climb down turning a night long hike into a relatively short one.

The friend refused claiming it was too dangerous and began walking down. My brother grabbed his backpack, threw it off the cliff to where it would land at the bottom of the trees and said "welp, we're committed to it now" - and with much protest, him and the friend jumped onto a tree and climbed down.

That's my approach on stuff like this - just commit to it, and hope that either my desire to live or in this case my pride in not letting it end up looking shitty force me to do it right.

Of course if it turned out shitty, chances are you guys would have never heard of it and it would just be another "that's my moron husband" story my wife tells her friends at work.

Sadly she keeps them entertained regularly with those.

AlabamAlum wrote:Awesome stuff. Part Mark Twain, part Lewis Grizzard, part Yoda. Love it.