They all judge me..

tpotts27 · 2012-05-24T19:15:00.082121+00:00

Confirming I do this as well. Sometimes I worry I'm not turning it down enough because I don't realize how loud I really have it. My ears get desensitized due to all the wind noise and such.

What really draws my attention to the music volume is while listening to SiriusXM Octane... their delightfully uncensored rock music often uses language that is better off not being blasted at full volume to everyone in a 100 meter radius. When the F-bomb goes off I quickly turn down the volume, then sheepishly glance around waiting for the looks of disapproval.

dragonworthy · 1 day

Yeah I've been to stingray city in Grand Cayman twice, tons of stingrays swimming around you, under you, sliding all over you. With these particular stingrays you'd have to do something awfully wrong to get them to hurt you.

danger_mcboom · 1 day

The best part is, she packs your fudge for you too.

liverman · 2 days

I don't know much about flying bison physiology, but if I base my understanding of how this might work with similar sized animals I would say that the pug would have exploded early in the mating process.

BurntSnow · 5 days

Butterface.

wonderless2686 · 7 days

Couples showering is what those fancy double showers were invented for. Someday I shall have one. Reminds me of an anecdote... my wife and the architect she was working for were talking with a client about how they wanted their shower designed and they had some odd requests. One of them was a bizarre request for a off-height step-thing in a strange place in their oversized shower. The architect kept saying that it was dumb, it looked totally out of place, it wouldn't work, etc. while the client said they just really wanted it with no explanation.

Finally the wife frustratedly blurted out, "It's for sex, okay!? We need it for sex because I'm too short!" The room got quiet for a moment, then the architect moved on with the meeting as if nothing had happened.

ThrowawayAcctforever · 7 days

Meatworld reminds me of this: Meat that thinks

IAmSoMeanMwahah · 7 days

Well now that is a legitimate concern. Mainly I just am really careful with it and I don't set it down anywhere. I have only misplaced a cell phone once in my entire life, so I have a pretty good track record. I will lock the phone if I feel like I might have too much to drink though.

IAmSoMeanMwahah · 7 days

I don't. We each have full access to all finances. Here's something else that's crazy: we know all the passwords to everything the other uses. This will blow your mind: I leave my phone unlocked 24/7.

Wolverine9 · 9 days

I also had sex on a commercial plane. We were sitting in the back row of an A319, and when the attendants went by to start beverage service we got up and snuck into the lav. We had sex. We cleaned up and went back to our seats. That's really all there was to it. Nobody said anything.

It was frankly quite awkward for both of us. There isn't enough room and the stress of not getting caught made it a bit difficult to get started. But, once things were rolling it was easy enough to finish.

TonoMcFly · 10 days

Unfortunately every time you play this game you poop.

antr · 10 days

Unless the furniture extrudes from the floor somehow, I would say that this place is not quite ready for move-in.

WhyNotFire · 15 days

But you can buy time right now from someone else. Instead of mowing the lawn, you can hire a lawn crew. There's two hours a week you get back. Rather than having to clean the house or do laundry, you spend money to hire someone to do that for you. All that time you spent doing chores can be spent in the pursuit of whatever is important to you.

WhyNotFire · 15 days

You're right, money can equal freedom. I had to go through some pain to get to where I'm at now, but my wife and I make enough money to pay others to do a lot of our household chores for us. That is extra time we can spend with our kids and that is priceless to us. Also we can afford babysitters a lot, and sometimes time away from our kids is priceless too!

swedishpenis · 19 days

The future is exciting mainly because we don't live there. If we were born 100 years from now then some other time would be the future, some other imagined technology would be amazing. We would still be living the present hoping for tomorrow.

LesterRoyale · 19 days

I tried polyphasic sleeping (the "uberman" schedule if you're familiar with it). TL;DR - it didn't work.

Jon_Galt · 19 days

This is why I love the Alamo Drafthouse. Nobody under 18 permitted and an awesome bar in their newest location. A night out for the two of us might cost a couple hundred bucks since we have four kids, but the level of effort to corral even one child means I'm not going to enjoy my evening and neither are others.

deejay_reich · 19 days

When the doors and top are on my JK 4-door, it is a virtual certainty that someone that day will ask me how I like my Hummer.

manicjester3 · 21 days

I share your frustration about some JK owners. They don't know what they're a part of. The Jeep wave doesn't get returned and you can see in the other driver's eyes that they are just different. They're not excited about owning a Jeep, they're just going from point A to point B. The hardtop and doors never come off because they have no idea it's possible. The only reason the Jeep is dirty is because they never wash it.

The problem I think is the new JK esp. the 4 door also appeals to the H3/tough SUV demographic so there are a lot of people who just consider it an SUV. They're not in tune with the Jeep culture.

As for me, my wife and I both owned TJs before we got married. Then we had two children and didn't want them to miss out. We recently moved up to a 2012 JK so that we could still have a Jeep and let the kids enjoy it too.

I guess I say that to point out that not all JK owners are clueless soccer moms. In our case we just have to have a vehicle that seats four plus gear, and we wanted a Wrangler. Some JK owners are Jeep lovers too.

alendiel · 22 days

I have four kids and I have to say that I haven't noticed this kind of pervasive discrimination to the extent the author describes. It's not that I don't believe it happens. However, the traditional roles are kind of reversed in our family because I work from home and my wife runs a business. We are trying very hard to build her business into something big, and that requires a sacrifice of time on her part. My job allows me to be flexible with my hours, so I take the kids to day care, to the doctors, I go shopping with them, take them to the park, make dinner, and many, many other things.

Maybe there's something I'm doing differently, some aura I give off that makes people treat me equal to my wife. Maybe it's something she does. Perhaps the kids act a certain way around me that people key off of. Maybe I'm just not paying attention, or I simply don't care when my wife is addressed rather than me. I don't know. I do know that nobody scoffs at me when I say I want to be a stay at home dad. Nobody ignores me or avoids answering my questions about kids.

EDIT: I talked to my wife and she said that before we had kids it was slightly different. For example, when we would take my older daughters to a restaurant the server would look to her to ask what they wanted to drink. I would be amused by this and just wait to see what she said. She normally would say, "I don't know, ask him." Not sure if they took it as "they're not my kids" or "she's a bad mother." At any rate, I guess I would have to say after further reflection that I have seen this subtle deferring to the female when it comes to kids. I just thought it was funny rather than insulting.

thinkerthought · 22 days

Relevant anecdote: There was this construction project out in the sticks south of here and access to the site was extremely inconvenient. There was this little tiny jutting out of a neighboring landowner's property that prevented a direct drive from the nearest road. Due to rough terrain, this spit of land was the only thing preventing their direct route.

So, the construction company decided to make a more convenient right of way across this small part of the person's land. There was a lot of other land, it was in the middle of nowhere - I guess the company figured nobody would notice.

The landowner noticed and decided he needed a new fence across the road. The company tore down the fence. The owner then created a fence post of reinforced concrete sunk four feet in to the center of the road. Soon after the construction company negotiated to pay for a right of way.

xanoran84 · 23 days

This is awesome, and the cost of the flooring is comparable to what my wife's clients are already paying for their wood floors. Thanks for posting this!

lumiras · 23 days

I was mowing the lawn one day when suddenly something skitters out from under my lawnmower. It was a baby rabbit, completely unharmed but disoriented. I held it until it calmed down, then looked around for his den. I found it near a tree, set him down, and backed off. The baby rabbit hopped around his den being all cute and stuff when suddenly a wild cat sprang from the fence bordering the woods. I lept toward the bunny to save it, but the cat was just too fast. It grabbed the bunny by the neck and darted back in to the woods.

I cursed impotently at the sky.

ryannayr140 · 24 days

I had a phone in 2002, sprint service but can't remember what kind of phone it was. Whenever I would receive a call it would garble my radios. They were basically stock radios in a 1979 Cessna 172.

BetterThanOP · 1 month

When I was in the POW camp part of combat survival training, I was Prisoner #69. It was tough to giggle about it in between torture sessions, but I still did.

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