Quote from: Bonwilder on August 06, 2008, 12:44:22 PM
You'd kinda have to know Burleson to get it, but I'll try.  Basically, we live behind the Albertson's shopping center off of Alsbury.  Tommy and I made it through the stoplight beside this shopping center, but mom got stopped at the light because, well, she's very slow.  Anyway, Tommy and I went on and pulled right into the neighborhood and went home.  We waited and waited at home and she never showed up.  We went inside and made the kids ice cream, came back outside and (a good twenty minutes later) she came putting around the corner.  (We didn't go looking for her because last time she stopped at Sonic and we thought maybe she got hungry again!  )
Anyway, she pulled up at our house, and said she had gotten lost.  Apparently, even though she saw TOmmy and I go straight through the light, and she was sitting beside a large shopping center that she shops at all the time, and lives behind - her internal map told her to turn left onto the service road and head south beside 35W (which she drives on to work everyday, BTW)  She was lost, in the dark, and still didn't figure out where she was when she passed Renfro St (where she goes to check her post office box several times a week).  She drove all the way down the service road feeling panicked until she came upon RV Ranch where Tommy and I used to live in the travel trailer.  There, she turned around and headed back down 35W north to the same intersection on Alsbury where she had originally gotten lost, and found her way home.  Seriously, our kids could find there way home from the Albertson's shopping center!  It was so funny, but Tommy says he can't ride with her anymore.  

did brian steal ur password, or did you just type all that shit urself

Quote from: pipeliner1978 on August 06, 2008, 12:50:00 PM
did brian steal ur password, or did you just type all that shit urself

you two are just made for each other, huh?

Quote from: Bonwilder on August 06, 2008, 12:44:22 PM
You'd kinda have to know Burleson to get it, but I'll try.  Basically, we live behind the Albertson's shopping center off of Alsbury.  Tommy and I made it through the stoplight beside this shopping center, but mom got stopped at the light because, well, she's very slow.  Anyway, Tommy and I went on and pulled right into the neighborhood and went home.  We waited and waited at home and she never showed up.  We went inside and made the kids ice cream, came back outside and (a good twenty minutes later) she came putting around the corner.  (We didn't go looking for her because last time she stopped at Sonic and we thought maybe she got hungry again!  )
Anyway, she pulled up at our house, and said she had gotten lost.  Apparently, even though she saw TOmmy and I go straight through the light, and she was sitting beside a large shopping center that she shops at all the time, and lives behind - her internal map told her to turn left onto the service road and head south beside 35W (which she drives on to work everyday, BTW)  She was lost, in the dark, and still didn't figure out where she was when she passed Renfro St (where she goes to check her post office box several times a week).  She drove all the way down the service road feeling panicked until she came upon RV Ranch where Tommy and I used to live in the travel trailer.  There, she turned around and headed back down 35W north to the same intersection on Alsbury where she had originally gotten lost, and found her way home.  Seriously, our kids could find there way home from the Albertson's shopping center!  It was so funny, but Tommy says he can't ride with her anymore.  

Guess things started looking a little different from the persepctive of sitting on a Triumph?? 

Quote from: Kevin848 on August 06, 2008, 01:26:24 PM
Guess things started looking a little different from the persepctive of sitting on a Triumph?? 

Yea, usually it's only a sudden craving for tea and short-bread cookies. 

Quote from: caffeinejunkee on August 06, 2008, 01:30:57 PM
Yea, usually it's only a sudden craving for tea and short-bread cookies. 

Quote from: Bonwilder on August 06, 2008, 12:44:22 PM
You'd kinda have to know Burleson to get it, but I'll try.  Basically, we live behind the Albertson's shopping center off of Alsbury.  Tommy and I made it through the stoplight beside this shopping center, but mom got stopped at the light because, well, she's very slow.  Anyway, Tommy and I went on and pulled right into the neighborhood and went home.  We waited and waited at home and she never showed up.  We went inside and made the kids ice cream, came back outside and (a good twenty minutes later) she came putting around the corner.  (We didn't go looking for her because last time she stopped at Sonic and we thought maybe she got hungry again!  )
Anyway, she pulled up at our house, and said she had gotten lost.  Apparently, even though she saw TOmmy and I go straight through the light, and she was sitting beside a large shopping center that she shops at all the time, and lives behind - her internal map told her to turn left onto the service road and head south beside 35W (which she drives on to work everyday, BTW)  She was lost, in the dark, and still didn't figure out where she was when she passed Renfro St (where she goes to check her post office box several times a week).  She drove all the way down the service road feeling panicked until she came upon RV Ranch where Tommy and I used to live in the travel trailer.  There, she turned around and headed back down 35W north to the same intersection on Alsbury where she had originally gotten lost, and found her way home.  Seriously, our kids could find there way home from the Albertson's shopping center!  It was so funny, but Tommy says he can't ride with her anymore.  

That's too funny!  Especially knowing that area and how relatively simple it all is.

Let us know when you guys buy her motorcycle and want to sell it cheap.   

Quote from: The Svoloch on August 06, 2008, 10:41:45 AM
I'll try to post up new 183 adventures as they come...   IZ_ Stranger, do you have any to add?  You drive the redneck highway also...

I can add:
dog carcass
cat carcass
sandstorm - seriously, who hauls sand on a flat landscaping trailer???
laser pointer I only hope was a smartass kid in a car somewhere
rebar
bricks - stationary and flying
couch cushion
and the worst....which I could not get around....
leaky dumpster truck.  I was pinned in the 183 58mph rolling roadblock and was coated by the gentle mist of leaky "juice".  I backed off but that merely atomized the spray into finer particles so it could seep through my perforated jacket.

Quote from: Kevin848 on August 06, 2008, 01:26:24 PM
Guess things started looking a little different from the persepctive of sitting on a Triumph?? 

No, I think it's just my mom.  She's very entertaining and I don't think she means to be.  She's been referred to by multiple unrelated people as - a one woman circus.  At least she's not boring.  When I was a kid, if I ever said I was bored her reply was:  If you're bored it's cause you're boring!

Quote from: BarneePhife on August 06, 2008, 01:42:21 PM
That's too funny!  Especially knowing that area and how relatively simple it all is.

Let us know when you guys buy her motorcycle and want to sell it cheap.   

Quote from: Bonwilder on August 06, 2008, 02:15:07 PM
When I was a kid, if I ever said I was bored her reply was:  If you're bored it's cause you're boring!

Nice... I may have to add that one to my own list of retorts for my daughters constant cries of bordem. I usually tell her that when she gets to be my age, shes going to wish she was bored.

Quote from: Bonwilder on August 06, 2008, 12:44:22 PM
You'd kinda have to know Burleson to get it, but I'll try.  Basically, we live behind the Albertson's shopping center off of Alsbury.  Tommy and I made it through the stoplight beside this shopping center, but mom got stopped at the light because, well, she's very slow.  Anyway, Tommy and I went on and pulled right into the neighborhood and went home.  We waited and waited at home and she never showed up.  We went inside and made the kids ice cream, came back outside and (a good twenty minutes later) she came putting around the corner.  (We didn't go looking for her because last time she stopped at Sonic and we thought maybe she got hungry again!  )
Anyway, she pulled up at our house, and said she had gotten lost.  Apparently, even though she saw TOmmy and I go straight through the light, and she was sitting beside a large shopping center that she shops at all the time, and lives behind - her internal map told her to turn left onto the service road and head south beside 35W (which she drives on to work everyday, BTW)  She was lost, in the dark, and still didn't figure out where she was when she passed Renfro St (where she goes to check her post office box several times a week).  She drove all the way down the service road feeling panicked until she came upon RV Ranch where Tommy and I used to live in the travel trailer.  There, she turned around and headed back down 35W north to the same intersection on Alsbury where she had originally gotten lost, and found her way home.  Seriously, our kids could find there way home from the Albertson's shopping center!  It was so funny, but Tommy says he can't ride with her anymore.  

Glad she made it home safe! 

that is too funny though! 

Quote from: Kevin848 on August 06, 2008, 02:27:34 PM
Nice... I may have to add that one to my own list of retorts for my daughters constant cries of bordem. I usually tell her that when she gets to be my age, shes going to wish she was bored.

The line doesn't seem to work as well with my 11 going on pissed off 18 year old daughter.  I get major eye roll from her.  I say it anyway. 

I'm not on 183 much anymore, but I guess it's been like that for a long time.  I was in my Corvette about 20 years ago in traffic and came up on a full size aluminum ladder in my lane.  I have no idea how I missed it, but I remember getting fairly sideways dodging it.

I was headed west on I-20 going into Fort Worth a few years ago, and a person pulling a landscaping type trailer ran over a piece of steel.  About a foot long, 1.5 inch square thick-walled tube.  Kicked it straight up into my windshield, directly at my face.  You always thing you can duck your head and dodge something like that, but it happens so damn fast, it's over before you realize it.  Fortunately, it hit broadside and didn't go all the way through.  The windshield exploded and showered me with powdered glass and shrapnel.  My sunglasses kept it out of my eyes, so no physical damage, but man if that had gone straight through end-wise I would have needed some new sunglasses.

Quote from: Bonwilder on August 06, 2008, 12:44:22 PM
You'd kinda have to know Burleson to get it, but I'll try.  Basically, we live behind the Albertson's shopping center off of Alsbury.  Tommy and I made it through the stoplight beside this shopping center, but mom got stopped at the light because, well, she's very slow.  Anyway, Tommy and I went on and pulled right into the neighborhood and went home.  We waited and waited at home and she never showed up.  We went inside and made the kids ice cream, came back outside and (a good twenty minutes later) she came putting around the corner.  (We didn't go looking for her because last time she stopped at Sonic and we thought maybe she got hungry again!  )
Anyway, she pulled up at our house, and said she had gotten lost.  Apparently, even though she saw TOmmy and I go straight through the light, and she was sitting beside a large shopping center that she shops at all the time, and lives behind - her internal map told her to turn left onto the service road and head south beside 35W (which she drives on to work everyday, BTW)  She was lost, in the dark, and still didn't figure out where she was when she passed Renfro St (where she goes to check her post office box several times a week).  She drove all the way down the service road feeling panicked until she came upon RV Ranch where Tommy and I used to live in the travel trailer.  There, she turned around and headed back down 35W north to the same intersection on Alsbury where she had originally gotten lost, and found her way home.  Seriously, our kids could find there way home from the Albertson's shopping center!  It was so funny, but Tommy says he can't ride with her anymore.  

She's going to be hilarious when she's 60