I haven’t tried metal detecting, but we went magnet fishing once. Caught lots of fish hooks and one mostly rusted but still intact shock absorber.

Dad let me watch Poltergeist when I was 6 and Mom let me watch The Shining when I was 7. I was also 7 when the Thriller video came out, and I think that scared me more.

To someone with ADHD, this is like telling them to just pull ya’self up by yer bootstraps. 🙃

My motivation

When it was first released, The Sixth Sense ending blew everyones’ minds.

Usual Suspects and Se7en as well.

I made a Bespin Leia outfit to wear to the opening night of Phantom Menace. On the way to the theater, I got pulled over. The cop was very weirded out by me. I did not get lucky with just a warning.

I have had the train thing happen to me. There were no warning lights where the road crossed over. Fortunately it was a coal train going very slowly. Scared the living daylights out of me. It’s been 30 years since that happened and I’m still neurotic about railroad crossings with poor visibility.

A picture of my grandfather standing next to a woman, taken before he met my grandmother, and she is holding a baby. It didn’t surface until after grandpa’s funeral. It was taken 500 miles away from where my family lives. I live in that other city now. I wonder if I’ve met my half aunt or uncle randomly in passing?

Am Appalachian. This sounds about right.

Have you tried used vacuums from op shops/ thrift stores/ flea markets?

New vacuums in the budget category are not built to stand up to daily use. It may be worthwhile to look for a secondhand premium brand.

My MIL used to work for a dentist. One year he encouraged? required? the employees to hand out toothbrushes on Halloween. My hubby begged his mom not to do it, to just fib and tell her boss she had. But… she went through with it. They got egged that night & their pumpkin was smashed. She fucked around and found out.

I’ve rescued wasps from the pool as well even though they & I are mortal enemies. 1) it was in the water with me & I didn’t want it considering me a liferaft, and 2) smushing it was not an option. It flew away, hopefully to tell its brothers that I’m worthy of a brief ceasefire.

Here Baby Jesus, we brought you some nice smelling stuff, pretty shiny metal, and a kitten.

Fun anecdote, in DC the east/west streets are named A St, B St, C St, and so on. But not i street. Capital i could be confused with L Street, so all the signs are written “Eye St”

I took it off my phone but it’s still on my tablet. rip rif

I had staff that used to talk over me and each other. Drove me batshit, but they were good employees. One day, i couldn’t get my words out for being interrupted, when i suddenly grabbed my sea otter tape dispenser off my desk and proclaimed “I have the talking otter! Let me finish speaking!”

They were so thrown off by the absurdity that it worked! I got my thought out, then handed the Talking Otter to the next person who had comments. From then on, if they got unruly, I’d say “do I have to go get the otter?”

You were just playing billiards but with cars.

Oh, you meant the other kind of pool…

If you can play sousaphone and other various brass, you might be able to pick up the didgeridoo. The embechure is kind of similar (see also: alphorn). It’s the circular breathing I’m still trying to get the hang of.

And a I picked up a hand pan drum last month for giggles. It has a lovely tone.

Edit: I’m a shameless enabler.

Not even Soundwave was spared? Shit dude. That’s some hard core cold turkey.

They’re packed full of vitamins and good for you