Smidgy and the Grump, Freaky Friday, 11-06

[dwheatl]

The same thing happened to us (twice) in Philadelphia. We ended up in NJ, and PA charges you to come back!

 

[TigerTown]

Kyle, you're gonna hate me for this I guess, but I don't know what Garret popcorn is! I'm a "what's on sale and throw it in the microwave guy now, although I was pretty darn good at making popcorn on the stove in a pot with Crisco Oil.

We discovered Garretts on our trip to Chicago last summer. We were staying downtown and walked by this little shop with a line out the door. We decided that it sounded good so we would stop by later when the line wasn't so long. The problem with that logic was that every time we stopped by the line was always out the door. After the fourth try we decided to wait. Wow was it great popcorn. We are now hooked but a little one gallon bucket is $39 to get shipped here. I love that popcorn but no popcorn is worth $39 bucks .

Oh, by the way, what happened to you my man? WOW, from Steven Wright quotes to Dave Ramsey? The same financial guy who believes you shouldn't start living until your at least forty? "Don't buy a car until you have the money to buy it outright, don't buy a house until you have 80% down, never ever use a credit card. Yeah, I can't argue with his logic, but it's just not realistic in most cases, unless you have rich parents. Kinda like a doctor saying "Don't ever get sick!" Yes, I know Dave Ramsey, and I think I might have more hair than him. Either that or he's saving it to sell later to a wig company.
Sorry Kyle, I'm just kiddin, I'm sure something made you switch to a Ramsey quote over Stephen Wright.

"I figure I have enough money saved up right now to last me the rest of my life. Unless I ever have to buy anything!" : a bum on the Dick van **** Show.

What can I say, I'm a complex individual..."There's a lotta things about me you don't know anything about, Dottie. Things you wouldn't understand. Things you couldn't understand. Things you shouldn't understand." (sorry the kids just made me watch Pee Wee Herman )

Anyway we have really done well with some of Dave's advice. You just have to pick and choose what is right for your situation.

 

[Underdog369]

Hmm, I was hoping for some feedback on my Spaceship Earth idear, if you don't know what I'm talking about please read the last post, previous page.

Better yet, on the way down, have a quickie of startrek, sg1, starwars, etc. with your face in place of the actors. You would specify whether you were male, female, good or bad, and which side of the force you might want to use.

Ok, I have no idea how this is going to turn out, or how hard it will be to explain it all, so pour yourselves a glass and let's just have some fun.

Mountain Dew poured.... Ice Cold..... ready to go. (Hey, that's the strongest drink I drink. It doesn't make me super )

Once upon a time in a Century long ago lived a lad named Nebo, who's five year mission was to explore new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to BOLDLY go where no man has gone bef......

whoops, wrong narration

Nope. Great start. Then you went to the Brothers Grim side of the fairy tales...

I made the drinks, then ran down to my yo yo for a quickie.
(easy winkers)

I saw you move. Whadda ya mean RAN????? The fastest I saw you move was when I wanted to take a pic of you and smig and you decided to rearrange your food and drink.

If you are scoring this at home, I started on 4, down to 2, up to 3, up to 4, down to 2, down to 1.

I figured out what the problem was. You have a disease. No, really, you just won't admit it yet. The disease is.......



HandsFullNoFingeraAvailableForUpDownButtonofobia!!!!
Yes, that dreaded disease where you have the fear of spilling your drinks because you have to press an elevator button when your hands are full. I really hate it when that happens. Nebo, now you know what it is, you should admit it so that you can move on with your life. You can also anticipate having to drink twice as much because of the other fobia you have.......


H2OSpiritPoorDrinkophobia. The fear of watered down drink.

THE MORAL OF THE STORY IS TO ALWAYS PRESS THE BUTTON!

UNLESS you have HandsFullNoFingeraAvailableForUpDownButtonofobia!!!!

 

[mmeb144]

Better yet, on the way down, have a quickie of startrek, sg1, starwars, etc. with your face in place of the actors. You would specify whether you were male, female, good or bad, and which side of the force you might want to use.



Mountain Dew poured.... Ice Cold..... ready to go. (Hey, that's the strongest drink I drink. It doesn't make me super )



Nope. Great start. Then you went to the Brothers Grim side of the fairy tales...



I saw you move. Whadda ya mean RAN????? The fastest I saw you move was when I wanted to take a pic of you and smig and you decided to rearrange your food and drink.



I figured out what the problem was. You have a disease. No, really, you just won't admit it yet. The disease is.......



HandsFullNoFingeraAvailableForUpDownButtonofobia!!!!
Yes, that dreaded disease where you have the fear of spilling your drinks because you have to press an elevator button when your hands are full. I really hate it when that happens. Nebo, now you know what it is, you should admit it so that you can move on with your life. You can also anticipate having to drink twice as much because of the other fobia you have.......


H2OSpiritPoorDrinkophobia. The fear of watered down drink.



UNLESS you have HandsFullNoFingeraAvailableForUpDownButtonofobia!!!!

I have a FearOfNotBeingFunnyEnoughToPostAReplyOPhobia!

 

[ChelleinNC]

When I handed the drink to Smidgy, she said, "What took so long?"

reminds me of a time, ages ago. the lovely graceful Diana lmaowas home ALLLLLL day with the little ones, awaiting the fine, handsome () prince's return from a day slaying dragons.

now, unbeknownst to Diana, as prince Nebo was approaching the only trail (exit) leading to home, had only to venture past one false trail, a steel dragon moved over into HIS lane! wanted to be exactly where he was! the valiant Nebo had no choice but to enter the rough terrain on his right (grass) and in order to stop from stalling in the gulley of despair had to keep moving! found himself on the afore mentioned false trail (exit ramp to I90) heading east. next exit: Chicago! 20 miles
not to be deterred, Nebo drove all the way to Chicago, exited, turned around about 4 times, found the NEW trail (entrance to I90 west) and drove another 20 miles back to where he needed to be (thus thwarting death from the nasty steel dragon) albeit adding 40 miles to his drive time.
AH! success! he finally makes it home to his fair maiden, Diana, who asks:
"WHERE HAVE you been? WHAT took you so long?!"
prince Nebo "Chicago... don't ask!"

 

[smidgy]

Smidgy, my dh did the same thing coming home from work when he first moved to Asheville. Well, he didn't get all the way to Chicago, but was on the wrong interstate nonetheless! Men.

ok, I better clear this up before I get into trouble. (i know, trying to make it sounds like a fairy tale only made it confusing.) Nebo didn't accidentally get on I90east, he was forced on to it by another car (steel dragon) that moved right into nebo's lane, almost into nebo! he had no where to go but off the road into the grass. the only place to go from there was the entrance to I90. he narrowly excaped death!

at least in the elevator, bieing forced to go where he didn't want, the only thing dying was his ice cubes.

ane I'll let him tell the stories from now on!

 

[cjsteiger]

No, I didn't do anything strange with it in the bathroom. No, not like the time I accidentally had the tip of my cigarette fall off into my pants and start them on fire while sitting there.
Or the time I multi-tasked sitting there and put my shoes on and tied them with my shorts puddled around my feet and accidentally tied my shoelace around my belt.
I still remember standing up and yanking up my pants and almost knocking my teeth out with my knee!

I wish I had had something to drink so I could have spit it on the computer, that was just that funny. You are just the funniest!!!!

Cheryl

Yes, I'm a little behind in my reading but I'll catch up soon.

 

[Backstage_Gal]

Umm, Nebo, Smdigy, I was gone for a whole 2 weeks, where are you?

 

[jcc0621]

DId they go to WDW and not tell us?????

 

[cjsteiger]

I sat all afternoon and read the rest of the TR. I laughed so much my kids wanted to know what I was doing.... "READING, sometimes things I read are funny!!"

Keep up the good work and now I'll be upto date.
Cheryl

 

[monymony3471]

Hi Nebs! Miss me? Let me introduce you to a few of my friends....

 

[ChelleinNC]

Hi Nebs! Miss me? Let me introduce you to a few of my friends....

Love your friends!

 

[monymony3471]

FYI-I printed out the installments I was behind in reading and while the chitlins are out enjoying the sunshine, I'll be sitting on the swing catching up.

This is gonna be a fun series, don't cha think? AND a little surprise is on it's way, I promise today it will be in the mail.

 

[monymony3471]

Aw sucks, here's the whole gang!

 

[TigerTown]

Aw sucks, here's the whole gang!

That was such stressful game. I did love the outcome though......GO WINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[monymony3471]

Thought you'd like to know, I'm all caught up.

School is over for the summer and I gots me some free time to hang around your report and have some fun.

 

[winkers]

If I saw the elevator seen in a movie I wouldn't believe it! You really have the worst luck!!

 

[monymony3471]

Just some thoughts going through my head from the reading........



Isn't it: No gnews, is good gnews with Gary Gnew?

Sure I trudge through a typhoon to get my picture taken in Nebo's chair after asking the pregnant woman to give it up for said shot and you won't because it's only 53 degrees in the sun......tsk tsk, waa waa, violins, and cry me a river. Something like that.

Back in december when we stayed at Pop, we were in the 50's building facing the lake, 3rd floor, rooms 2343 and 2342. We had the big juke box right on our building. The bowling pin pool was in our court. Loved it, especially when the fireworks would go off and we would walk out the door and watch MK's and Epcot's.

I don't smoke (anymore) and I wouldn't care if someone did out on the balcony, but how nice of you to go all the way to the Duncan. I had a white one with a fake diamond on it.

 

[nebo]

Hi Y'all. Yes, it's been a rough couple of weeks. To start with it would appear, (so to speak), that I have some more eye difficulties. Not sure if it's a retinal detachement again or blood vessels breaking through on the retina, and once again, here comes that no insurance thingy back into play again. We are hoping to have that fact rectomized soon, but in the meantime since it's not real bad right now, I guess I hold off a tad longer to have it checked out.
Man, I need a Disney fix with REAL WEATHER! Not that fake crap they piped in when we were last down there.

Ok, for anybody still reading, gonna do some callouts now, let's see who's in the magic mirror today!

ALl I can say is

I see Janet found out about the two for one smiley sale.

Love the accidental elbow bump that closed the doors. Some people are so a)clueless, or b)plain rude (there's your multiple choice quiz).

Danielle, that whole elevator story was mind boggling, you really had to be there. By the way, the names were not changed to protect the rude, they were in fact probably changed because I can't remember what their real names they used were. I think the kid was Betty, but Donna could have been Wanda for all I was paying attention at the time.

Your killin me.
So you are one of them.
Illinois people.


No, I am not Illinois people, just people that live in Illinois. Illinois people head to Wisconsin, I always head south.



instead of laying out in the sun, it's called "tanning bed".

Mari I have never had any luck in a tanning salon. I tried it once about 7 years ago when we first went back to Disney and I didn't want to get fried. But I think I got more of a tan from the Osbourne Lights.

I just had to read that one out loud to my DD and DH. We are all

Great! Mission Accomplished.

Well, I made it through all the trippie so far. Whew! That last bit with the elevator was hilarious!

I went looking for the fish poem from the earlier trip report and here it is, in all its radiant glory:

Ode to a Giant Fish

I do not know from whence it came,
With one lone appendage, it appears to be lame.
I will not, can not eat it, I say--
If I do, I fear I will spray!

Just gimme a beer and I'll kick back.
For getting in predicaments, I have a strange knack.
Sympathy is all I ask because starving I'll be;
Now where's that damn bottle of Sunny D?


Well worth the time to look for. I think Jamie (Whogirl's mom) posted this? I can't remember.

Welcome back, and nice job researching. Yeah, that's Jamie who was checking out the power of manhattans.

now, unbeknownst to Diana, as prince Nebo was approaching the only trail (exit) leading to home, had only to venture past one false trail, a steel dragon moved over into HIS lane! wanted to be exactly where he was! the valiant Nebo had no choice but to enter the rough terrain on his right (grass) and in order to stop from stalling in the gulley of despair had to keep moving! found himself on the afore mentioned false trail (exit ramp to I90) heading east. next exit: Chicago! 20 miles
not to be deterred, Nebo drove all the way to Chicago, exited, turned around about 4 times, found the NEW trail (entrance to I90 west) and drove another 20 miles back to where he needed to be (thus thwarting death from the nasty steel dragon) albeit adding 40 miles to his drive time.
AH! success! he finally makes it home to his fair maiden, Diana, who asks:
"WHERE HAVE you been? WHAT took you so long?!"
prince Nebo "Chicago... don't ask!"

HMMM this sounds familiar........ seems to me we have done the "missed the exit to Rockford ended up in Madison before you can turn around thing" ourselves. Well at least I was asleep & it was Chuck that did it. At that's my version[/QUOTE]

Hey Coffeemom, I think everybody has that kind of story, and I can't even correct Smidgy on what she wrote, it was pretty much right on.

The same thing happened to us (twice) in Philadelphia. We ended up in NJ, and PA charges you to come back!

I remember being on a driving trip with my folks when I was younger, no, it wasn't in the model A DJ, but we were on the NJ turnpike, and I remember my dad doing the Clark Griswald thing, " I can't get off! They just won't let me get off!"

We discovered Garretts on our trip to Chicago last summer. We were staying downtown and walked by this little shop with a line out the door. We decided that it sounded good so we would stop by later when the line wasn't so long. The problem with that logic was that every time we stopped by the line was always out the door. After the fourth try we decided to wait. Wow was it great popcorn. We are now hooked but a little one gallon bucket is $39 to get shipped here. I love that popcorn but no popcorn is worth $39 bucks .




What can I say, I'm a complex individual..."There's a lotta things about me you don't know anything about, Dottie. Things you wouldn't understand. Things you couldn't understand. Things you shouldn't understand." (sorry the kids just made me watch Pee Wee Herman )

Anyway we have really done well with some of Dave's advice. You just have to pick and choose what is right for your situation.

Hey Kyle, I have since talked to a couple of people who are just like you, they love that popcorn, some day I'll have to at least try it.

And I hope you all weren't watching Pee Wee when HE goes to the movies.

 

[mmeb144]

Hey, nice to "see" you again!

Are you waiting for a job to get the health insurance that you need to have the eye looked at? Yikes! I hope that you have some leads. (I hate this economy! )