Adventures With Tempting Fate...or Pushing Your Luck.

[theGinsue]

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I'm guessing that's about me. I can usually take a joke & don't offend easily, but I'm tired of the supposition that I must be a dude (or used to be) because I'm on a forum about firearms. Apparently some a*hole (or more) has pretended to be female & pissed off some folks, fine. I ain't them. I'm new to the sport so not many folks know me yet, however at some point you'll meet me (or someone you know) & look the fool for confusing me with a dude. When that day comes, I think you'll owe me an apology for insinuating that I have been dishonest.

~also really sorry if this post kills the thread because the topic was a fun.

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One time, two days ago, I was eating a tomato out of my garden and got a mouthful of wet chicken poop in my mouth at the same time. I didn't even spit it out.

That's starting to explain some things.

[OtterbatHellcat]

I didn't even spit it out.

Um....."and we all lived".

[Scanker19]

***begin rant***

I'm guessing that's about me. I can usually take a joke & don't offend easily, but I'm tired of the supposition that I must be a dude (or used to be) because I'm on a forum about firearms. Apparently some a*hole (or more) has pretended to be female & pissed off some folks, fine. I ain't them. I'm new to the sport so not many folks know me yet, however at some point you'll meet me (or someone you know) & look the fool for confusing me with a dude. When that day comes, I think you'll owe me an apology for insinuating that I have been dishonest.

~also really sorry if this post kills the thread because the topic was a fun.

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No not aimed at you. It was a joke about testing luck at bars with trannies.becausesome try really really hard, soA foreffort on their part. No one thinks you’re a man. I assumed you’re a woman based on your screen name...Ora chicken farmer that’s also the president of the Hank Schrader fan club. Maybe you’ll owe me an apology one day for thinking I’m a girl Becuase I’m delicate like a flower, or becuase I really enjoy Gilmore girls (damn it Rory needs to be with Jesse!!!), or becuase my SCCY is pink with an OD green holster. (Yeaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh..... (puts on sun glasses....))

[spqrzilla]

I bought a Pontiac.

In the '80's.

[ChickNorris]

... Maybe you’ll owe me an apology one day...

I recently got some advice & they said: Don't poke the tigers!

Fair observation sure, but I didn't see how it applied to me at the time the advice was given. Still not sure it did apply but I appreciated the thought behind it, so the phrase stuck. Turns out I see a fair use for it now, though it is a bit of a stretch. Here goes it:

Unfortunately you were the poor soul in the crowd who just so happened to have picked up a stick when the tiger finally decided it had in fact, had enough of being poked. Ooops!

I'm very sorry I bit your head off.

[copfish]

Tore the tags off my mattresses... I never trust a fart anymore.

[hollohas]

Rode in the bed of the pickup, regularly. Even on road trips.

Had a real job before highschool.

[BladesNBarrels]

Rode in the bed of the pickup, regularly. Even on road trips...

Started working on a geophysics crew at 18 yrs old in the mid-60's. We would move the Drilling Rig and Recording Truck along with the crew trucks in the middle of the night.
I would sleep in the back of a pick-up in a sleeping bag when it wasn't my turn to drive. The old-timers took the road through Yellowstone one night and I woke up to a bear cub climbing into the bed of the pick-up. I couldn't get out of the bag fast enough.
And, I survived.

[Jamnanc]

I’m 99% certain this had to do with kazoo’s sexual habits in the 70’s.

***begin rant***

I'm guessing that's about me. I can usually take a joke & don't offend easily, but I'm tired of the supposition that I must be a dude (or used to be) because I'm on a forum about firearms. Apparently some a*hole (or more) has pretended to be female & pissed off some folks, fine. I ain't them. I'm new to the sport so not many folks know me yet, however at some point you'll meet me (or someone you know) & look the fool for confusing me with a dude. When that day comes, I think you'll owe me an apology for insinuating that I have been dishonest.

~also really sorry if this post kills the thread because the topic was a fun.

***end rant***

[DireWolf]

Too many to count, truly amazed and thankful to have survived the early years...

Lots of stuff already listed in thread, plus some that were downright nuckin'futz looking back on them.

A few of the more sedate examples:

a.) Climbing up the face of ~100' tall frozen waterfall w/ no specialized gear. Was not pre-planned, but necessary at the time. There were a few hikers stopped at the trail on top (trail was impassable at that point due to ice); looks on their faces was priceless when they saw me coming up over the top of the falls...

b.) Deliberately jumping off the top of another waterfall (in better weather)...Not sure exactly how tall it was, but remember the fall taking 5 full breaths (holding the fifth) from jump-off before hitting water...

c.) A couple gross of M80's (the real ones), slingshot, stogie, and bottle of liquor pinched from the old man. Nuff said...


Then there's the ones that come as a suprise, like not realizing that one of your friends riding in the back seat is drinking (HS years) until he decides to toss the empty bottle out the window...and somehow beyond my comprehension, scores a direct-hit on the windshield of a local PD cruiser that I hadn't even noticed sitting there in the dark...Extremely lucky that the occupants of said vehicle were pretty reasonable about the whole thing and only cited the idiot in the back, despite a few of their buddies showing up that weren't quite as amused...