CSE-- Pg. 74 SATAN'S HAMMER, Ch.18, pg.160 "Goodnight Sweetheart" epilogue

[pkondz]

In mid wipe I stepped on the lift of the garage floor precisely that it made me twist my ankle a bit. Not a bad go to the hospital sprain, but one of those if I react quickly enough that I can catch myself and walk it off kinda twist. I guess it was way to much multitasking cause in 1.395 seconds I was flat on my face kissing the concrete in broad day light! Big girls fall fast!

My palms had gravel stuck in them, my sunglasses were thrown on the neighbor's lawn, my knees were skinned up and now I think I might have a fracture or hair line crack in my foot. I can't pick anything up cause my wrists hurt, my foot throbs even sitting.

Are you okay??? How's the foot now? And your wrist?

 

[nebo]

So I thought I'd give Nebo a break and entertain you all for a spell.

My garage floor is several inches higher than the driveway where the two meet. Have lived here since 1999. Very much aware that this is like this.

It's not too often a riviting story begins with "My garage floor is several inches higher,,,," , but who knows,,, If "Call me Ishmael " worked for Herman Melville.....

Earlier this week I was walking around my car to get to the driver's side door.

Yes,,, I always have to use the driver's side doors now myself, the front doors are usualy locked.

Having 4 children, going to school, running a day care (closed now) and running the house I know how to multi task.

I believe you.

I do!

I know, I said I believed you!

So as I am walking I decide to take my sunglasses off of my head and put them on but also decided to give them a good cleaning from the bottom of my shirt before I entered the car to save a few precious seconds of my time.

I have to ask,,, when you take the glasses off your head,,, where then do you put them when you,,,and I quote, "Put them on?".



In mid wipe I stepped on the lift of the garage floor precisely that it made me twist my ankle a bit. Not a bad go to the hospital sprain, but one of those if I react quickly enough that I can catch myself and walk it off kinda twist. I guess it was way to much multitasking cause in 1.395 seconds I was flat on my face kissing the concrete in broad day light! Big girls fall fast!

Ok,, this I can understand. this was the Smidgy stepping on the edge of the sidewalk/beach at Coronado, and taking a header into the sand flies.
Did you know that when your spouse is laying on the ground bleeding, the first thing you are not supposed to do is go for the camera and turn it on.

Who knew?

My palms had gravel stuck in them, my sunglasses were thrown on the neighbor's lawn, my knees were skinned up and now I think I might have a fracture or hair line crack in my foot. I can't pick anything up cause my wrists hurt, my foot throbs even sitting.

Nothing like taking one for the team, your welcome Nebo!

Hang on,, let me get my camera!

Yes,,, this was very considerate of you,,, you mentioned that you didn't have any emergency stash of vikes at home to share when we meet up,,,, and now,,, voila,,, a reason,,, and very thoughtfull I might add.

It's 90 ish here all week. We shut the air off this evening and it feels great to have fresh air and it feels very comfortable.

Yes,,, it feels like they have turned off the air here too the last three days, and we'vee been breathing carbon dioxide.

If you were 5 this would have been funny, but as we age, falls get less and less funny. Well, unless Nebo is the one doing the falling....

Nice,,, my buddy Marie. I feel like the preshow of Monster's Inc. , where Roz is making fun of all the times things went bad for Mike and he got hurt.

"Here's nebo ramming his crotch in POTC,,, Here's nebo ruining his shin and arm falling over the planter at El Perico,, or Tortuga Tavern or whatever the heck it's called this week, Here's nebo falling down the stairs at Circle of Life,,, and here's nebo falling down the stairs and almost dying at the Indy Stunt Show... and here's nebe,,,,
You know you're special when the cute girl MC at the INDY show YELLS at you in particular at the end of the show for our mad, frenetic escape of the extras on the stage,,,,,
YOU.........................WALK! and I still have an indentation in my chest from that forefinger.

Thank you Monica

 

[nebo]

Good evening,, let's see where we stand now:
It's late Moday afternoon, we are back in our room getting ready to take care of business at Downtown Disney,,, then partake in dinner at Planet Hollywood once again to use our 15 bucks off voucher,,, and then see if we can make it across Beuna Vista Drive to the Hess station and pick us up some beer,, we can't just drink whiskey and vodka the entire time we are here dontcha know.

But wow,,,, a day in the sun just sucks all the strength out of you, I felt like Superman and the Yellow Jacket was Lex Luthor who hid some Kryptonite under my lounger, Lord knows she certainly had ample enough opportunity, and was close enough to accomplish that.

After a couple of drinks in the room,,, including the waste of time Chi Chi's Mai Tai pre-made drink that came in a big plastic bottle, we made up a couple of fuzzy cups drinks for the bus ride.

Now,, what i"m going to say is going to sound bad and excessive,,, but,,, um,,, oh well,,A little late now to worry about my image,, a lot of times we get to the bus stop and especially if it's a Downtown Disney bus we are waiting for,,,,which can take the longest we've found out,,, well, most of the drink is gone before the bus even get's there, so I will also carry a 'sipper' to drink first. The Sunny D or the fuzzy cup are either "In transit, or, get through the gates drinks, so I like to keep them pristine at least until the durn bus arrives, ergo,, the "sipper".

In this case tonight it was just one of our very few plasic cups with ice and a nice splash of Black Velvet whiskey in it.

We used to always get a bunch of the clear plastic cups from the maid,,, maybe it is a Value resort thing,, but not this trip,, the only room cups were glass coffee mug type cups. At the last second before we finished packing at home,, Diane mentioned maybe we should bring these old ones just for the heck of it. The amazing thing was that they did't crack in the suitcase.

It's great for sipping,,, but if need be and the bus is there or pulls up shortly after we get there, it can alos be downed in a hurry.

When Diane saw me heading out the door with a fuzzy cup AND an auxilliary beverage, well,, want to guess who ran back in and got her own auxilliary beverage?
She sometimes get's the attitude of, "Hold it, you have something that I don't have? I don't think so!"

I think she even felt left out when I got the eye injections and she didn't.
Oh I'm just kiddin'.

It worked out just fine,,, our wait was close to 15 minutes, but the problem was that we only had a couple of these plastic cups from a previous trip,, and our room didn't come with ANY at all.
After a check of an abandoned maid cart,,, nope,,, they are definately not on the menu at Coronado Springs, so we don't want to give them up, they just proved how invaluable they can be.

Wait,,, shouldn't that be Valuable? What is invaluable? It's not unvaluable, right?
And what was I talking about?
I'm going to go and watch some Mash re-runs instead.

Well, this trick worked out perfectly at CS,,, and probably would at all the mods,,,, but no way really at a Value resort.

Our bus pulled up,,, we finished our drinks, dumped the ice out in the bushes behind the half walls making up these gazebo style bust stops, then we put the cups inside each other and leaning over,, on the ground in the corner just on the outside of the half wall. You can still reach it from the inside,,, good luck crawling through the lizard and gators and snakes to get to them from the outside though.
Now, what do you think the odds are that we'll remember to retrieve them on the way back home?



I mentioned a mission earlier, and, indeed,, it will definately be a first for us.
We know, for sure,,, that there will be definate trips joining in the fun in the next year,,,, and finally,,, first time ever,,, we are going to upgrade to annual passes. We are told that the best place to do this is at DD,, why? beats me, but you can't do it at your resort.
I can't remember the number now off the top of my mind,,,but believe me,,, I'm pretty durn close when I say it's was about 1058 for the both of us to turn our existing passes into AP's.

This also means that for the first time in years,,, we now have Hopper passes.

Everything appeared to go smoothly during this endeavor,,, and the number they came up with matched my pre-ordained number calculated from home to ,,,,,,The,,,

PENNY!

So that's where we stand now,,, passes calling us,,, calling,,, as smooth as it went,,, we didnn't know we should have gotten a bunch of literature with the transaction,,,, we got squat! Now,, we are still figureing out what other specials or deals come with the AP's.

The dumbest thing we ever did,,, was in '07,, when we both lost our jobs with our companies closing,,,, we just kept choosing fantasy over reality,,, and kept going back to Disney......

A huge May trip,,,, a sudden early september trip when my company closed,,,, 4 days after I drove us back home,, we flew back down on a planned,,,big Disser trip,,, a great trip with a great Dis meet at the Poly.
Then our first Holiday trip in December,,, and first time meeting Pop Warner,,,, and finally,,,, a what the heck trip in Feb.

That is 5, count em, 5 trips from May until next February,,,buying tickets individually for each and every trip.

I never mentioned the stupidity in it,,, but it didn't get past Lex Melinda,,,, she made a point of reminding me about every other day,,, "Hey Neebs,,, don't you wish you got annual passes this year? "

I finally had to shoot her.

Which is why she seldom posts here now.

We ewere nervous about doing this though,, according to other threads it can be tricky finding the right employee thatknows how to make this kind of upgrade correctly,, but it appears it went without a hitch.
We'll know for certain tomorrow when we go to Magic Kingdom and use our new cards.

And as far as that goes,, tomorrow was supposed to be a Blizzard Beach day,,, but no way, no how am I trying to climb lots of stairs and do twisty slides with the way my back is, so again,,,, the water parks are S O L again, unless something drastic changes.

Not long after we finished the great ticket exchange, it started to drizzle a bit.

We passed by the big hot air balloon and once again, drizzle or not it's just sitting on the ground, grounded again because of winds I was told.

I really did consider doing it this time, or maybe sometime this trip, just to have SOMETHING different I can write about! Even if I did die from a heart attack,,, but I really think 20 bucks to just go up and down is a wee bit too much, laddie.
Turned out to be a moot point again anyway, I think that hot air balloon is full of hot air. Maybe they should go back to using hydrogen, like they used to use back in the days of the Hindenberg.

Hey, at least that one got off the ground!

But us now? Since they closed the Magic shop,,, and the other place I liked to browse in,, the Magnet shop,,, not much really interests me there anymore, by now we finished our fuzzy cups and got a beer for each of us from a beer stand and just slowly walked around, heading in the general direction of Planet Hollywood to use our 15 buck voucher for dinner, and since they brought the menu back to sensibility,,, I AM getting the Bacon Cheeseburger this time for sure.

This is yet another restaurant that has decided that nobody needs to see anything inside, we went upstairs where sometimes they forget to turn a light off near a table,, and after pleading with a seater to help us out,,, we got a table with just enough light to give me a fighting chance.

I even had a little flat flashlight thingy on my keychain for reading menus at Disney, I tried to take every precaution that I could possibly have any control over, like bringing my own lumination.

Guess what?

Wow, you got it already!

Yep,, unbelievable,,, they all lied to me!

I can't remember for certain what all the menu sites I checked before we left,,, I AM certain that ALL EARS NET is one of them,,, and I think the DIS,,, and WDW INFO, but they almost all had the hamburger at 10.95, the cheesburger at 11.95 and the bacon cheeseburger at 12.95.
Or the Swiss/ Mushroom burger at 12.95 also.

The Reality?
Hamburger,,, 11.95, cheeseburger, 14.95,, bacon/cheeseburger, 15.95! Just like the last time!
And no,, there's no difference in burger price between llunch and dinner. I even went and checked on line when the prices were last updated on the menu sites,,, and one of them was just 2 weeks prior.

I was bummed, once again. No, not because I am that cheap,,, it's just that 16 bucks for a burger seems like I am being held up! That's sirloin steak territory.

But I got it anyway.

I grumbled the whole time I was eating it, but I got it anyway, and it was very good, even the fries were good.

Smidgy got a bbq chicken sandwich that she also really liked, with an ice tea, I ordered a coke with my meal.
And for those that remember, no, we didn't get the waiter that tried to upsell us on everything and make me feel cheap like the last time we were here.

It just ticks me off that they know everybody's got that voucher,,, and peoople that usually USE vouchers,,, are burger and fries kinda people.
One of these years I'm really going to show my displeasure and stop going back there!

And so now,,, bill paid,,, back on the streets, (so to say),
and stuffed to the point of defcon 1,,, we now get to head on out and venture into the vast DisneyWorld Terrain, which is going to have to include the crossage of a major road,, to get to the HEss station to pick up beer.

Ten minutes later with an 18 pack in my hands,,, once again I am waiting for the "Hand" to give me the signal when it's safe to walk.

Did you know that the hand will sometimes go on break for an hour at a time? Really,,, the ligtht will turn green for your direction,,, but not the hand,,,, oh no,,, it stilll senses a Dodge Omni heading this way that has now reached St' Cloud, and it will not change to green until this "K" car has safely passed,,, in 35 minutes,,,, that'a why the hour breaks for the hand.

Back at DD, we hopped a Coronado bus and soon had our beer safely cooling in our little fridge back in our room.

But yu know what?

We both remembered, without even mentioning it,, when we got off the bus we both walked over to where the plastic cups were put,,, and they both still sat there until we reclaimed them.

She put the beer in the fridge, I washed oout the cups and we are now reloaded and good to go for tomorrow.


As I undressed that night,,, I took off my shorts,,,, and removed the little airplaine bottles that I think by now might be getting a complex,,,,, this is two nights in a row now that they came for the ride,,,,onl y to return, unused.

Wow,,,, are we losing it?

 

[Mom&RN]

Oh my gosh, am I the first to comment on the latest installment?? I thought I was going to graduate before you posted another installment, just saying... you know.. we waited a LONG time. Can I say I understand wanting to keep your cups and I hear that you washed them but I have visions of every creepy crawling thing that lives in Florida walking through your cups while they were sitting there - . Doesn't paranoia become me?

 

[orangecats2]

Were these disposable plastic cups or like a mug type plastic cup? Why couldn't you just have two fuzzy cups and throw them away when you finish them?

 

[shan23877]

Yay for annual passes! Do you get food discounts with it, or just merchandise discounts? I'd have liked to see the last waiter from Planet Hollywood's face if you whipped out your voucher and made him tack on an AP discount.

I'm with you, $16 for a burger seems pretty high, even at Disney.

Isn't it funny that something that's supposed to be an upgrade-the real coffee mugs in the rooms-kinda screwed up the game plan?

I don't blame you for taking along a "sipper",I you're on vacation! Glad that you guys remembered to get the cups back from the bus stop.

For the record, I'm pretty hard to offend but if you shot at me, I'd probably stop posting a whole lot too.

 

[monymony3471]

Ok,, this I can understand. this was the Smidgy stepping on the edge of the sidewalk/beach at Coronado, and taking a header into the sand flies.
Did you know that when your spouse is laying on the ground bleeding, the first thing you are not supposed to do is go for the camera and turn it on.

Who knew?

Rolling, sorry Smidgy.....I live with one too.

I came into the house after feeling the entire neighborhood just witnessed my performance and said my husband's name and he must have heard something wasn't right in my voice cause he came running.

I was complaining earlier about my vertigo being bad and I think it had to have played into my fall.

I usually do not fall. I think that is the second time in our 16 years of marriage that I have fallen.

Vikes? I see the Dr. at the end of the month. Hopefully the foot will feel better, it not, maybe I will bring you some presents.

16 dollars for a cheeseburger? Where is the Miller Lite guy when you need him?

Most times my sunglasses are on top of my head, putting them on means actually putting them over my eyes silly.

 

[Heluvsme]

Something .... seems..... oh, I don't know.... wrong, or Twilight Zone-y. This was a very smooth chapter, in fact, you all are such PROS now in Disney that you even thought to have a little flashlight on your keychain! I'm impressed!! And the cup's hiding spots?? Ingenius! Or is it genius? Regardless, (irregardless?? No.) great chapter as usual, glad you got the AP's, what a fun feeling that must be... the AP's give you a message, 'You will be back. Soon! You need more days than what you currently have!!'

~~Dawn

 

[jcc0621]

then partake in dinner at Planet Hollywood once again to use our 15 bucks off voucher

All the times we've gotten this we have never used it.

was close enough to accomplish that.

ARe we going to have to get a paternity test?

our wait was close to 15 minutes,

Wow, that is a short wait for DTD. Last time we waited almost 45 minutes.

but I really think 20 bucks to just go up and down is a wee bit too much, laddie.

Agreed! And after the accident at Hong Kong Disneyland, you couldn't pay me $20 to get on the thing!

the Magnet shop

I loved this place :-(. I would always find at least one magnet a trip here.

will not change to green until this "K" car

With a K car that could take 3 or 4 days! Can't put too much pressure on that lawn mower engine

 

[cjlvsccm]

She sometimes get's the attitude of, "Hold it, you have something that I don't have? I don't think so!"

I think she even felt left out when I got the eye injections and she didn't.

Hey, have you heard of CentraSight? We're looking into it for my dad's double dose of macular degeneration... basically a bionic telescope implanted in one eye!!

Everything appeared to go smoothly during this endeavor,,, and the number they came up with matched my pre-ordained number calculated from home to ,,,,,,The,,,

PENNY!

Love it when something actually works out.

I think that hot air balloon is full of hot air. Maybe they should go back to using hydrogen, like they used to use back in the days of the Hindenberg.

It's really a giant helium balloon... but yeah, since it's grounded after one just DEVELOPED A HOLE, I think we may not ride it again even if it does come back online. It probably won't though, there was something in the news about a global helium shortage, of all things.


I hope everyone is making it ok in the freaky weather. Are any posters MIA due to power outages?? Last year after the big tornado outbreak here, we were out of power for almost a week, but at least the April weather was pleasant enough to manage. Feel awful for those without any relief in this nasty stinkin' heat!

 

[nebo]

Oh my gosh, am I the first to comment on the latest installment?? I thought I was going to graduate before you posted another installment, just saying... you know.. we waited a LONG time. Can I say I understand wanting to keep your cups and I hear that you washed them but I have visions of every creepy crawling thing that lives in Florida walking through your cups while they were sitting there - . Doesn't paranoia become me?

Yes, it does become you. And I don't worry about creepy crawlers going in and out of my cup.
I worry more about,,, "hmm,, now which one was mine, and which one was hers?"

Were these disposable plastic cups or like a mug type plastic cup? Why couldn't you just have two fuzzy cups and throw them away when you finish them?

COME FORWARD! YOU WISH TO RETURN TO OHIO, YET YOU DARE TO QUESTION ME ON MY USE OF FUZZY CUPS?
No, the mugs that came with the room were fancy glass ones. The ones I'm talking about were about 12 ounces clear plastic cups,,, usually a throw out when done cup, but we only had 4 of them.
The Fuzzy cups come 14 in a pack,,, that's only 7 ueses a peice for us,,, so at the beginning of a trip we never know how it's going to go for them, and we try to preserve them.
SO NOW BE OFF, AND BRING ME THE BROOMSTICK OF HARRY POTTER AND I WILL GRANT YOUR WISHES!

Yay for annual passes! Do you get food discounts with it, or just merchandise discounts? I'd have liked to see the last waiter from Planet Hollywood's face if you whipped out your voucher and made him tack on an AP discount.

There are some food discounts I think with it,,, suppose I should look into that more, huh? And oh yeah,, that last guy at PH would have just loved it if we'd pulled that pass out. Wait a minute,,,, the nickel just dropped in,, you're saying I could have just maybe used it NOW at PH for a discount?

I'm with you, $16 for a burger seems pretty high, even at Disney.

Yup

Isn't it funny that something that's supposed to be an upgrade-the real coffee mugs in the rooms-kinda screwed up the game plan?

Yeah again, no kidding. And how do you go about complaining about something like that?
"Take it away, NOW, I want the crappy stuff instead!"



For the record, I'm pretty hard to offend but if you shot at me, I'd probably stop posting a whole lot too.

It took me ten minutes to figure out what hyou are talking abgouyt here,,, then I remembered,,, oh yeah Lexmelinda. Beliieve me,,, by the tenth time she dug at you for not getting annual passes,, you would have shot her too. But she knows I only shoot her in jest. Oh, the bullets are real, but I smile when I do it.

Rolling, sorry Smidgy.....I live with one too.

I came into the house after feeling the entire neighborhood just witnessed my performance and said my husband's name and he must have heard something wasn't right in my voice cause he came running.

I was complaining earlier about my vertigo being bad and I think it had to have played into my fall.

I usually do not fall. I think that is the second time in our 16 years of marriage that I have fallen.


Most times my sunglasses are on top of my head, putting them on means actually putting them over my eyes silly.

Ok, hold it,,, isn't this from something I said on Ponzi's thread? You trying to Gaslight me now?

Something .... seems..... oh, I don't know.... wrong, or Twilight Zone-y. This was a very smooth chapter, in fact, you all are such PROS now in Disney that you even thought to have a little flashlight on your keychain! I'm impressed!! And the cup's hiding spots?? Ingenius! Or is it genius? Regardless, (irregardless?? No.) great chapter as usual, glad you got the AP's, what a fun feeling that must be... the AP's give you a message, 'You will be back. Soon! You need more days than what you currently have!!'

~~Dawn

SWhat is a great feeling Dawn is that you can go to a park for just a short time, and not feel like you aren't getting your money's worth.

All the times we've gotten this we have never used it.

I don't know wy not Janet, it's still a buy one, get one if you stick to burgers or sandwiches.





Wow, that is a short wait for DTD. Last time we waited almost 45 minutes.

No doubt,, DD is the worst.

Agreed! And after the accident at Hong Kong Disneyland, you couldn't pay me $20 to get on the thing!

Oh, I just heard about that,,, still don't know what happened there.

I loved this place :-(. I would always find at least one magnet a trip here.



With a K car that could take 3 or 4 days! Can't put too much pressure on that lawn mower engine

I can't believe you knew what I was talking about when I said K car,,,, or anybody would, for that matter. Nice job!

 

[nebo]

Hey, have you heard of CentraSight? We're looking into it for my dad's double dose of macular degeneration... basically a bionic telescope implanted in one eye!!

Yes Cindy, I have heard of it, hopefully I won't get to that stage for a long long time.

!

However, yoiu are just the person I want to talk to.
Looks like we are driving down next month, and wish to avoid Atlanta.
One time we too 231 from Montgomery down to Dothan and on to Rt. 10..
I hated it. Too many stoplights.

Wwe were now looking at state road 82 out of Montgomery all the way overe back to 75 in Tifton, Georgia, any comments on it?

 

[mmeb144]

However, yoiu are just the person I want to talk to.
Looks like we are driving down next month, and wish to avoid Atlanta.
One time we too 231 from Montgomery down to Dothan and on to Rt. 10..
I hated it. Too many stoplights.

Wwe were now looking at state road 82 out of Montgomery all the way overe back to 75 in Tifton, Georgia, any comments on it?

We just did this drive 2 weeks ago. Avoid Atlanta? Not a chance, my sister lives there. You can't beat free for lodging cost.

We left my house at 6:30, arrived at her place around 5. Left the next morning at 6 am, to beat rush hour. It's not a bad drive in the morning. We returned to her place on the following Saturday, left Florida around 10, got to her place around 6. The traffic was weird, really busy for a Saturday.

My vote is to stop in Atlanta and visit my sister. I'm sure you'll get a long fine....

 

[cjlvsccm]

However, yoiu are just the person I want to talk to.
Looks like we are driving down next month, and wish to avoid Atlanta.
One time we too 231 from Montgomery down to Dothan and on to Rt. 10..
I hated it. Too many stoplights.

Wwe were now looking at state road 82 out of Montgomery all the way overe back to 75 in Tifton, Georgia, any comments on it?

I'll check with my friends who usually drive smaller roads like that (pulling an Airstream to camp at Ft Wilderness every year). It's likely that they have used that route.

We actually HATE HATE HATE driving South through AL (especially that Mtgy>Dothan>I-10 stretch you mentioned), and prefer going over to Chattanooga to pick up I-75. No matter what time of day, we've been lucky to just cruise straight through Atlanta in the HOV lane.


Glad you're eyes aren't near that bad!! Poor old Pop, he's 85, but sharp as a tack (that's him in our signature, the sailor with the ship's wheel! ). He just hates that he can no longer see to drive, and has to depend on us for so much now. He'd be so happy to work his daily Sudoku puzzle without having to magnify it on the tv screen.

We took him to Epcot in '09 after a shuttle launch, and he had a ball! Rode the ORANGE Mission to Mars, TT, Soarin' x3, hung on the troll's nose in Norway like a little kid , met Mickey and played with Chip & Dale at Garden Grill. Oh yeah, that's the one time we rode that balloon at DTD!! We'd love to get him down there again.

 

[Cameo818]

Congrats on the annual passes! How exciting!

Hoping that everyone out there hasn't melted from the heat. Here in the Willamette Valley it's a lovely 73 degrees and sunny, with just a slight breeze. Beautiful weather - we may even hit the 80's this weekend!

 

[smidgy]

Were these disposable plastic cups or like a mug type plastic cup? Why couldn't you just have two fuzzy cups and throw them away when you finish them?

they were disposable plastic cups, which they give you (wrapped in more plastic) at the value resorts, and usually the moderates. I usually "Leisure Suit Larry" a few extra from the maid's cart. (I'm sure no one knows what I mean.. I'll 'splain after I give you a chance to think about it. ok, I'll say Leisure Suit Larry was a more adult themed computer game fashioned after the King's Quest(Space Quest, Police Quest) games of the 90's)

but I digress....novice's cannot discern the difference between a simple plastic cup and a fuzzy cup. fuzzy cups are far more valuable, and to be used discerningly. you can only fit so many in your luggage (esp if flying down).
the difference? the top! yu can bring it on the bus (yeah, technically you can't, but they always let you), even in some attractions.
we brought them.. with coffee and tea in them, really! on the Indy cars speedway in the morning. whiele veryone else was charging for space mountain or fantasyland, we were all alone, happily riding the speedway with our morning beverages, knew it was gonna be a good day, perma grins on our faces.
tried to bring them in the canada movie... no go.. hmm, you would think it would be the other way around. but they are good for "travel" drinks.

the cheap plastic cups are only good for short walks, and then disposed of.. no top. so we were surprised that they turned out to be valuable this trip.. they just didnt' have them at CSR!!! I thought MY idea to hide them near the bus stop instead of throwing them out was brilliant. and we did wash them out well.

 

[smidgy]

Feel awful for those without any relief in this nasty stinkin' heat[/B]!

now I am going to sound "superior" (back in my day..), but we don't have AC , as you all knpw, and we do have power.
nebo and I were just talking about how we both grew up without airconditioning. it just seemed normal.. in the summer, it's hot. ok, of course, I have a fan blowing on me right now, and without power you don't have that.

but, nowadays (boy, am I sounding like an old crabby lady), even without power outages, it's like those "underprivileged" folk without AC need subsidies to help them out. or subsidies to help pay the higher electric billin the summer to run the AC. heck higher electric bills are one reason we haven't had AC in years. just like having cell phones and internet access at home has become a"right" and something else subsidized.

I better stop this sermon, I'm getting "hot around the collar"(pun intended tee hee)

 

[jedijill]

Wow, Leisure Suit Larry...that brings back some memories.

Jill in CO

 

[cjlvsccm]

now I am going to sound "superior" (back in my day..), but we don't have AC , as you all knpw, and we do have power.
nebo and I were just talking about how we both grew up without airconditioning. it just seemed normal.. in the summer, it's hot. ok, of course, I have a fan blowing on me right now, and without power you don't have that.

but, nowadays (boy, am I sounding like an old crabby lady), even without power outages, it's like those "underprivileged" folk without AC need subsidies to help them out. or subsidies to help pay the higher electric billin the summer to run the AC. heck higher electric bills are one reason we haven't had AC in years. just like having cell phones and internet access at home has become a"right" and something else subsidized.

I better stop this sermon, I'm getting "hot around the collar"(pun intended tee hee)

You're not alone in all that.

 

[smidgy]

Wow, Leisure Suit Larry...that brings back some memories.

Jill in CO

wow! someone remembers him! but now, why did I use the term "Leisure suit Larry" as a verb? (hint: mad magazine once did a parody on "what if compueter game characters behaved like that in real life?")