Originally posted by Ripsnort
Where were your parents? Did they know where you were?
Home I guess.
Did they know where I was? "Out"... that's all the parents of a 17-18 kid gets to know. There's a law about it somewhere.
I know you have this idea that your kids are gonna share all their secrets with you and you all are going to be best friends and everything... But tell us how that's going when they get into highschool...
Gixer - "Decending through fog in a helicopter to land at a field with only GPS as a guide."So... yer saying it's safe to fly a helicopter drunk, as long as you don't descent through fog? Whoah dude.... that IS stupid!
Sandman - "I can recall sitting at a four-way stop sign for awhile."I'm real wasted, and I come up to a red light and stop. And Iwaited... and waited. Then eventually cars started to pile up behind me while we all waited for the light to turn green. The car directly behind me? The cops. And we all had a good long wait...
Until the cop car started flashing its lights, and making whoop whoop sounds. Then over their speaker I hear them say this muted "Mmppp yrrrr hrrricle mmmmmmrrrwww!". I'm like, "WTF?!"
But I'm panicking now, cuz I want VERY badly to get away from all this and the freaking light is still red. I look in my rearview, and now one of the cops is getting out and walking up to me. "Ah man, I am hooped.".... I roll down the window and in a moment of bravado I pre-empt whatever he's about to say with a witty "What the hell is wrong with these lights?!" I can't imagine how it must of actually sounded.
He said, "These lights are controlled by the weight of your car. You're way too far back. Move forward on to the pad."
Ahhh...
So I moved up a bit, the light turns green almost immediately, and I am a free man. I think my legs stopped shaking by the time I got home.