The Goat Pen

Update: It was a motorcyclist who was trying to pass a car and then slammed head-on into the oncoming car. I guess that's why I didn't see a wrecked car or too much debris on the road...

The MIF works at the local health dept., she got the info from the EMS guys...

That's not all she got

Come on man, I've been traumatized enough today...

when I was working on the farm I came up on a dead guy in a rolled over pickup truck. I was the first person to come up on it. I was only 19 but thats not really an excuse, I should have tried CPR but all I could do was drive to the fire department. On the way there I just happen to pass a fireman I knew and flagged him down

I told the farmer I was working for about it and we drove out there. He knew the guy and was pretty tore up about it. I had heard later his u joint went out and they think that what caused the wreck.

I haven't thought about that in years.

While its horrible news, its good for me to hear about motorcycle wrecks. It keeps me from taking chances on mine.

So Hedge didn't actually witness the death, just the aftermath. Even though he says he's shook up about it, I guarantee you he was cussing whoever he thought was responsible for making him slow down when he first came upon it.

I remember going from Greensboro to Raleigh to see Pink Floyd at Carter-Finley in the spring of 1988. There was a huge slowdown on I-40 and then we could see up ahead there was a pretty bad wreck, including a white car sitting facing traffic on the inside shoulder. As we crept by, I looked back and saw what looked like red paint poured down the side of the passenger door of the white car. It was blood.

Later at the concert, I was tripping balls when Floyd played "Welcome to the Machine." I haven't been right since.

BAHAHAHA!

I have this mental hang up about Xmas. Since its the one day of the year when every store is pretty much closed (except Waffle House), then I have to stock up the house with mutliple food options just in case I want something and I can't get it. I also have to go load up on junk food before whatever closes at 6pm on Xmas eve. At some point today I'll spend $25 at Taco Bell or McDonalds.

So we have like 2 loaves of texas toast, hawaiin bread, hot dog buns, coke, diet coke, pepsi, moutain dew, bologna, hard salami, cupcakes, cookies just in the way.
I won't touch most of it, but I can't deal with the idea that I might want something and can't get it.

There is probably some mental diagnosis to this, but since it happens only one day a year , who cares. My wife has quit trying to deal with it, she just accepts it now.

The bread part is also because I grew up with depression era parents who bought bread on sale and froze it, then thawed it out if we were running low. I think the most motivation I had to graduate from college was so I would never have to eat crumbly freezer burned bread ever again.

Bread is like $2. I let my wife know that we will always have fresh bread in the house , even if we throw out half of it very early in our marriage. So that part of me really kicks in when I know a store is closed.

Merry Xmas Saint. That's my gift to you

I'm watching the 1951 version of A Christmas Carol right now, I'm at the scene where Scrooge confronts the ghost of Marley and opines that he is merely an illusion caused by a piece of undigested cheese, and then Marley stands up and shrieks and Scrooge goes into terrified convulsions and sinks to his knees and clasps his hands together and begs for mercy. That scene reminds me of when Stu got caught shoplifting at the 7-11 and went to his knees in front of the clerk (or as Scrooge would say, "clark") and prayed to God that he would never do it again.

eCat's tale reminded of the previous scene that showed Scrooge in a restaurant asking the waiter for another piece of bread and the waiter said it would cost extra and Scrooge bitterly replied "no bread." Not eCat though, by god eCat would have more bread, fresh bread goddamn it, or somebody was going to get their aiiisss whupped...

Merry Christmas, punkles...

10:35 mark for the anti-eCat scene. 16:37 mark for Stu brought to his knees and praying to God. I esp. like the convulsions...

I watch as many versions of the Christmas Carol as I can find, except for the Muppets with Michael Caine. Even the Disney version with Jim Carrey is pretty good.

We had a nice Xmas morning. We didn't spend alot of money on presents, but the kids seemed to really appreciate the stuff we did get them.

homemade waffles for breakfast, we're passing on the traditional dinner and having seafood this year (Shrimp omelette, look out)

Merry Christmas all!

Rat, yer hitler vid was pretty good. You have too much time on your hands!!

Only the third time in 31 years of marriage we’ve been in our home for Christmas. We usually are either taking a family trip or visiting in-laws in CT. I’m not shy in telling my family that the best part of the Covid is that I haven’t seen my in laws in over two years. We were in London last Christmas so didn’t see them then.

GBJs wrote: ↑Fri Dec 25, 2020 12:32 pm Rat, yer hitler vid was pretty good. You have too much time on your hands!!

Ecat made that years ago

"I watch as many versions of the Christmas Carol as I can find"

Same here. Did you watch the FX version from last year with Guy Pearce? It was kinda dark...

Homos

hedge wrote: ↑Fri Dec 25, 2020 4:15 pm "I watch as many versions of the Christmas Carol as I can find"

Same here. Did you watch the FX version from last year with Guy Pearce? It was kinda dark...

yea I did and I told my wife the same thing, like demanding sex - thats kinda going off the rails a bit.

I like Guy Pearce though. I can watch bad stuff he is in.
E! has a "Its a Wonderful Life" marathon on right now. I just leave it on in the background.