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D-League

Indeed.

I haven't had that much fun since I sneaked back into the kitchen and screwed the top of the orange juice bottle on as tightly as I possibly could with a pair of channel locks (I think, but I might have just used grippy shelf liner) after she bitched about me "always screwing lids on too tight" (sic).

I waited until I saw her use the oj and put it back in the fridge, and then waited a little more until she fell asleep. I got the bottle out and twisted that mofo with a death grip. Next day we're both in the kitchen and she can't unscrew the lid...

Her: I can't get this lid off. I don't know why you always screw them on too tight (sic).
Me: (calmly) Well, I think you used it last, remember? Last night when you had a glass before bed?
Her: (stunned silence)
Me: [laughing] (to myself)

I soooooo love passive aggressiveness.
You are a Zen Master, Mav
Made my day
 
Ouch...I force myself to finish no matter how bad I'm playing.
My friends used to place bets on what hole I'd quit.
The highlight of the last year was when I skulled a 7 iron on 4 straight shots, reared back and skipped that SOB 3 three times into the middle of a pond. Had to give it up because that was the only club I could hit anything with.
 
I can't say anything. I like to smell my ear wax and when I'm clipping my toenails and get down real deep in the corners of my big toes I like to smell the clippings. Always smell sour, but I kinda like it all weird-like and stuff.

Also it goes without saying every time I fart I have to sample it.

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I used to have no friends. Never knew why. But I wanted to have friends. In desperation, I decided that my best bet might be down on skid row. Well, that worked for a few days, but alas, after only one week, they told me to get out and never come back. It just so happened that, being an avid UK football fan, I stumbled upon Wildcat Lair. From there I found the Paddock and then the D-League.

Home at last, home at last. Thank God Almighty, I'm home at last.

Sure, hardly anyone responds when I post (and some have me on ignore), but I know it's not personal and doesn't mean anything. Because I know I am loved here - just as I love you guys.

Thank you.


Not only did I respond to your post…I gave it a much deserved "like" as well.
 
Achingly long story, but I had to share. Feel free to skip, it won't hurt my feelings.

Well, the impossible happened -- my GD/MFing pool finally brought me some joy.

Yesterday afternoon wifey and I were working ("working" is actually a poor term to use because you can't work on a Sunday because that's a sin and you'll go to hell even if your ox is in a ditch and even if your preacher FIL eats at restaurants on Sundays thereby paying other people to work and thus benefiting from the fruits of their labor but that's not a sin because well just because so let's call not call it "working" k? k... but I digress) in the back yard. I was vacuuming the pool and mentioned -- out loud, yet mainly to myself -- that the pool's inlet nozzle needed adjusting so it directed the water more downward. Wifey immediately pipes up that she'll do it. Uh oh...

Me: That's ok, it's kinda hard to turn
Her: OH YOU THINK I CAN'T TURN A NOZZLE TO SUIT YOU?
Me: No, hunney, it's not that, it's just that it's kinda hard to turn.
Her: FINE. I'm just trying to help (walks off in a huff)

Good friggin' gosh, of all things to get worked up over. Anyways, the thing is hard to turn because (a) when the pump is on there's a lot of force behind the water and since the nozzle tip is threaded it's like trying to finger turn a nut on a lock washer, (b) the dumbass who installed the pool sorta/kinda buggered the threads, and (c) it's on the low end of the pool, so for somebody short, like her, they have to reach up over the pool and then down into the water, thereby making it hard to get any force with your fingertips. Ergo, it's somewhat difficult for a man and nearly impossible for a woman. But she ain't no shirker and BAH GAWD she can do anything a man can do.

I let it pass and go back to vacuuming. After a bit she wanders around towards that area and I casually say "hey, can you go ahead and adjust that nozzle while you're over there? " Tee hee, tee hee. I'm giddy with anticipation.

For once she doesn't smart off with something like "Oh you think I can do it now huh, what changed your mind? " or some bullshit like that. But I know she wants to say it. She needs to say it. I can feel it. It's palpable. But I also know she's thinking that this is her big chance to show me up, so she keeps her mouth shut. But she's gonna show me, dammit. She's gonna prove to me BAH GAWD that she can turn a nozzle to suit me.

Behind my sunglasses I watch her intently. Her hand reaches up and over the wall and as she grasps the nozzle a grimace crosses her face -- she can't turn it. The grimace immediately turns to abject horror because in that instant she realizes she was wrong and, more importantly -- and this is the critical, glorious point -- I. WAS. RIGHT. Oh she'd never admit defeat, of course, nor will she give up, but her stubbornness only sweetens the moment.

For the next 15 minutes I watch in rapt amazement as she vainly struggles to adjust that beautiful, wonderful nozzle. First one hand, then two, pausing between attempts, resting then giving maximum effort only to rest again. Time and time again she strives, yet nothing works. Nothing will work. That nozzle is her master, and she its bitch. I've never loved an inanimate object more deeply. Nay, I've never loved anything as much as I love that nozzle. In fact, I'm going to have it gold-plated (or at least chromed). What a time to be alive.

Finally, body hurting and ego crushed, she walks away mumbling something like "that's as close as I can get it, hope it's enough." "Yeah hon, that should do it. Thanks." Bwaaa haaa haaa haaa haaa haaa haaa [banana][banana][banana][banana][banana][banana][banana][banana][banana][banana][banana][banana][banana][banana]. She didn't even rotate it through one second of arc, and she knows it. She knows she lost. I win, and I silently bask in the victory, my smirking, smug silence being far more gratifying than any words I could utter.

So, after wasting 7ish years, $10,000+ dollars, and literally hundreds of man-hours of precious, irreplaceable free time, that pool -- that worthless, God-forsaken vat of glorified pond scum spawned from the very Devil herself -- finally, FINALLY, lives up to its expectations.

It was worth every f**king penny.


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Instant classic. Well done, maverick…well done.
 
Yeah yeah, we did have a good time at TMG. Austin is a cheap date. No food, 2 glasses of 360 or something he likes. I had a grill chicken salad. Just delicious. Austin had just eaten a short time ago. On his way to the airport and then Texas. Real good guy and person. I recommend him to you guys.

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Thanks again, Don. I had a blast .
 
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