13 posts tagged “qotd”

What part of your childhood do you miss the most?
Submitted by Maretta.

My Papa and the shop.

In 1979 my Papa opened a towing company in 2004 we closed; 2 years after he died. I grew up in the ghetto simply because I grew up down at the shop. I spent a good bit of my life there. I miss the old house, I miss the stories that went along with some of the cars.

I'll never forget the one car where a UPS driver's route info (or something of that nature) flew out of his truck at the !-95/I-10 split and he pulled over to the side of the road, got out of his truck, walked across three lanes of traffic, started walking back in the middle lane, an old man didn't see him and hit him......When the car got back to the lot there were still pieces of his UPS uniform stuck in the windshield.

Or the Honda CRX that late became my baby. A guy from NC just left it underneath the Main St Bridge.

Then there was the time I was rounding the 95/10 split and there was a white Ford Excursion on the westbound side flipped over in the grass to the right, after the bridge, I looked at my friend in the car with me and told them that the next day when we went to the shop that truck would be there.....Sure enough, we got that call and the next day it was in the lot.

I used to get up in the middle of the night with my dad and go on calls to weird places, like Brunswick, or St Mary's, or the airport.

I remember one night probably about like 3 or 4 in the morning, my dad's pager went off and i was dead asleep, but I knew what was going on, so I asked if I could go with him. I took my pillow and my blanket and I slept in the truck.

There was a time I had a conversation with my papa and I told him I wanted to learn how to hook up cars and drive a wrecker, he told me there was no way in hell his granddaughter was going to do that! lol I learned it anyway. Granted, my dad is the one who ended up teaching me years later, but it wasn't until after Papa died.

FYI my papa and my dad are two completely different people...........

There is a natural disaster headed your way. You get 4 standard sized canvas grocery totes to fill with valuables and provisions to bring with you to a safe place. What would you pCreateut into your 4 bags and why?
Submitted by dejablu503.

1. Rayne's pictures; all of our personal information (SS cards, birth certificates...etc)
This should be obvious.

2. Nikon, HandyCam, All of my hard disk drives, any CDs that have pictures or movies on them.
Memories, I don't want to lose them. My HDDs contain a lot of pictures and a lot of other things that I have done, I back a lot of it up online, but to be honest, I'd rather just not lose all my of work.

3. Any clothes I could fit in there for the three of us. Preferably at least 2 sets of pjs for the baby and a tshirt and jeans for mommy and Daddy.  Yes, I can really fit all of that in a grocery bag.

4. The Wii.. I just paid too muh damn money for that thing! It's coming with me.

If you could take a class right now and learn anything in the world, what class would you take?

At this point, I love to learn more about photography.

I bought a Nikon F6 and I absolutely LOVE it. Only problem is, I'm still learning what all the settings mean and how to use the damn thing.

What personality trait has gotten you in the most trouble? 

I'd have to say the bitch personality trait.

I don't lie, for obvious reason, that shit just causes trouble. Everyone used to tell me not to disclose certain info to the cops when I got pulled over, but I never listened and telling them about it before hand usually got me in a whole lot less trouble than if I'd lied about it. There were more than a few times I should have probably been arrested. I was pulled over at least 4 times that I can remember while driving my honda and it wasn't registered and/or insured. There was that one time that I had four cops surround my car because I was "driving suspiciously" after I made a right hand turn to get away from a cop that I saw in my rearview mirror who was a good distance away. They searched my car after running mine and my passenger's license.

What was your first car?

If I remember correctly, it was that piece of shit gray '88 Chevy Cavalier that I blew the engine while I was driving down Southside Blvd. I hated that car.

My FAVORITE car I had tho was my '87 Civic CRX Si. I wish I hadn't sold it and that I had actually taken the time and money to fix it and make it pretty.

Have you ever experienced road rage?
Submitted by Question of the Day.

Yes, I have. Every day of my life. I am the one with road rage. I am the bitch that's behind you or next to you screaming because you have me blocked in; the idiot to my left won't go any faster (or slower) then the car in front of me and I am trying to get the fuck out there!

I am the one who gets pissed off because you didn't turn soon enough. I am the one who you pull out in front of, and when you get irate because I flipped your stupid ass off I get out of the car and proceed to tell you about how stupid you are for pulling out in front of me and beg you to challenge me!

Do you remember the person behind you who honked at you because you were too busy talking on the cell phone to Aunt Joe about how Linda-Sue messed around with Bobby Allen to notice that the light was no longer red? That was me too.

Let's talk now about the morons parking their cars. So, you didn't get it in between the lines PERFECTLY straight..............As long as your ugly Mazda isn't taking up two parking spots and I can park straight, I don't care. The only thing I'd like you to do is is pull the car in, put it in park, and get out.

What about the idiots who can't seem to remember that pedestrians have the right of way. Yeah, I have road rage even when I am not in the car! When my fat ass is walking across the parking lot to Wal-Mart, please pay attention to the Yield and/or Stop signs. The yield sign means, "You have to yield (or give) the right of way to the person who is on two feet and not sitting on their ass getting fatter. Stop means just that... STOP! Let the people on foot cross!!!

And pedestrians, when I am in the car, hurry up and get the fuck out of my way. First you need to make up your mind and stop half ass walking in to the road, either hurry up and get out there and cross the damn street or just stand still. Second, just because they have to yield the right of way does NOT mean that you have to walk slower then Great Gramp Melvin. Have a little courtesy for others and think of how you feel when people do these things to you..... maybe we'd all be a little better......

If you could travel back in time, which era would you visit and why?

Well, actually there are quite a few and I wish I had time in my life to visit all of them for a while....

I'd love to visit from the 20's to about the 70's, but I'd like to be about my age now during each decade.

During WWII, I'd like to be in Germany... don't ask....I can't explain it. Obviously in the 60's I'd like to be out near San Fransisco. The 70's I think I would like to spend them in southwest Georgia......

What are your irrational fears? 
Submitted by Dan Culhane.  

I believe it is irrational at times, but at others I think I am right. I believe that no one will want to hire me for a job even though I am qualified because I am fat or because I am not pretty enough.

I will say that I don't look at myself and say, "Oh hey, you're a fat bitch." I don't think I am ugly either, but I'm not a supermodel and I know that. It seems like thats all anyone wants to hire, scrawny little hoes that are soo small they look like they haven't eaten their entire lives.......

As far as I know, thats my only irrational fear.

If you could get everyone in the world to change their behavior in one way, what would you have them do differently?
Submitted by Ross.

Wow, this is a hard one for me. I want to change the way people look at crimes. I mean that if someone does something wrong and its a terrible tragedy, yet the offender gets off, I'd hope everyone would be outraged enough to change the laws and/or get that person off the street.

It's the state of mind, "I'm one person, and one person alone can't change anything," that has gotten us in the place we're in. One person with a big voice can change the world.

You see, my boyfriend lost his three year old little girl from a previous marriage in a possible DUI crash where the mother (his ex wife) was driving. And if she was DUI or on drugs, it was covered up, not only by her and her family, the district attorney who prosecuted her case, the hospital, the police who didn't give her a breath test.

I'm fighting to find out if she was drunk and/or, and if she was, why wasn't she charged with DUI?

What's the most memorable crush you have had? 
Submitted by spectacular.

My most memorable crush, I must say besides Clayton, would had to have been Meredith. I met her when I was eleven years old, I think. I may have been younger than that.

We started out as best friends, but over time things changed and we became more than friends. Sometimes to this day, I still believe we are more than friends. The way I felt about Mary has NEVER changed. She's always been one of my best friends.

She's one of few people, I'd do anything to help as long as I could no matter what.

We had a rough spot throughout high school, but as we got older, I learned that the things that happened way back when weren't anything at all and she was someone you couldn't have even prayed to have as a friend