Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 9:02 pm
I shoulda listened! Something told me not to go swimming today!
(it was fine until I almost passed out on the way home...)
(it was fine until I almost passed out on the way home...)
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This would've been good advice for some guy I saw in a pickup outside WalMart Friday night. A somewhat-older-than-middle-aged man crossed in front of this guy, in the crosswalk in front of the store. And yet the driver felt compelled to hang his head out his open window and snarl something along the lines of how *he* wanted to get home sometime tonight *too*. Wow. Happy Friday to you too, buddy.Balon wrote:Today's Wisdom:
Loosen up a little why don'tcha?
There is a lot of crazy stuff on the road these days. Especially from the viewpoint of a cyclist. Urgh.aliantha wrote:This would've been good advice for some guy I saw in a pickup outside WalMart Friday night. A somewhat-older-than-middle-aged man crossed in front of this guy, in the crosswalk in front of the store. And yet the driver felt compelled to hang his head out his open window and snarl something along the lines of how *he* wanted to get home sometime tonight *too*. Wow. Happy Friday to you too, buddy.
(hmm, that's pretty good. I may have to put that in my sig...)Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. -- Mark Twain
Life... is like a box of chocolates. A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable, because all you get back is another box of chocolates. So, you're stuck with this undefinable whipped-mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while, there's a peanut butter cup, or an English toffee. But they're gone too fast, the taste is fleeting. So you end up with nothing but broken bits, filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts, and if you're desperate enough to eat those, all you've got left is a... is an empty box... filled with useless, brown paper wrappers.
Richard Bach wrote:There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.
I prefer Giantish.danlo wrote:IOW-Everything happens for a reason(that Bach guy, too wordy
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