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Simon
Current Cars:
-1966 Lotus Elan
-1986 German Car
-2006 Volkswagen Jetta TDI
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why are we watching a guy let snakes bite him?1990 325is
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Anyways, this is supposed to be off topic, right? My daughter was being transported from one hospital to another late Wed night, got the story today from her today (hospital transfer back story not for sharing here).
Well, the car was a retired police car, and still had the divider in it - she is in the back. Rainy day as usual here in FL, the car hydroplanes on the turnpike, front hits a median barrier, spins in front of a semi truck and the truck rips half the trunk off the car. To boot, the rear seat belts are non existent and she gets tossed around like a rag doll. Driver was super cool and called us immediately, she was rushed to the ER well coherent, but banged up. When we asked if he (driver) was OK, he just responded "We will worry about that later, but she is OK" ER did an MRI and cleared her. He still won't tell us how he is.
She made it to the destination today, but haven't heard back from the driver. Meanwhile, because of the distance and situation, all we can do as parents is sit by and take this in.
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Fucking epic! That’s a sexy ass build. You do seem more meticulous than most. I’m still learning but I find myself having to go over my work re do things. I hope to one day have a system together where I can be more effective mechanically. I’m learning slowly 6 months ago I never thought I would know what I know now. I either have to get the e30 running today or make room in the garage cause they keep ticketing me even tho it’s in my driveway.Comment
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I am an old man, and came from a very different time. Based on your posts, I would suggest to put the "dabs" down more often, same with the keyboard, do more listening than talking. Not a saint by any means, but am fully self taught (and I toked quite a bit in my younger days, even some more taboo stuff). Be diligent, follow through, go a week without saying the word "I" or "me", concentrate on helping others and being a sponge for information. Books (used loosely, today is "read" accurate information), and hanging out with a crowd that is more knowledgeable than you and act as a pee-on. I fond a lot of the younger crowd "knows it all" and you can't tell them shite. One of the local kids I help as a pro-bono recently bought an e90 335is - OMG he had us here until midnight the other night to install some down pipes. Let him use a parking space, and tools to do the job - should have taken a few hours at most, instead had three of us bailing him out and it being a half day event (3 men 4 hours = 12 man hours) for freaking turbo down pipes!
If you can't tell I was livid, but we saw it through, he bought us all dinner and a 12 pack of beer. All is well that ends well. Hopefully he will listen to the old farts and fix his oil pan leak before making another mod attempt. We told him to fix the darn oil pan and clean his intake ports before attempting to make more power....SMH.Comment
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Thanks you always appreciate any advice. I practically raised myself. Believe it or not I was on Probation at 8 years old. For not having guidance I would say I’m doing pretty ok. I got out of breaking laws around 16. Hope your daughter has a speedy recovery it must be so scary having one of your kids hurt. I couldn’t imagine I have a 5 year old boy. Thanks again tho I know we don’t really know each other but I really do appreciate your words. I’m trying to quit le dabbage I just have really bad anxiety it feels like when I’m sober I’m a lot more thorough but very grumpy I kind of turn into a dick. But yes my efficiency goes up about 35% lol
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Thank you. It's not so easy being on the parent side of the fence.
Bimerboi, you are preaching to the choir. Look up the term "latch key kid". Broken home, single mom working 2 jobs as a real estate agent by day, waitress at night with a brother 3 years younger in the 80's. He fell into hard core drugs and OD'd at 23, woke my ass up to reality. We all as humans have to deal with reality, suck it up buttercup. :PComment
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kids these days...
John glad to hear your daughter is ok.Simon
Current Cars:
-1966 Lotus Elan
-1986 German Car
-2006 Volkswagen Jetta TDI
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