Useless Facts/Chit Chat Thread

[marybrat]

1369 (don't ask)

 

[cajunpeach]

I don't work but I do have two kids who know absolutely everything. Does that count?

And on coffee: Community Dark Roast, made strong, served black with lots of sugar. Hubby thinks Starbucks is one of the harbingers of the downfall of civilization as we know it. We BYOC.

Jennifer

I didn't have to look at your location to know you are in LA....We drink Community too!!! DH drinks dark roast (he's the LA native). I drink medium roast (GA girl)

 

[MomOfDisneyBoys]

I have no interest in coffee or tea, in fact, I would have to be on the verge of death from dehydration to drink either one!
I am quite thankful that wegoshop can bring me my Mt. Dew and Dr. Pepper. I take my caffeine cold! I like Coke, but I need some variety!

 

[NO NO NO E-Z-GO!]

I don't care for coffeee... it makes your teeth yellow.

I love tea... with lots of lemon!

However, my true weakness is Dr. Pepper. I go through about 10 of those a day.

 

[marybrat]

Big Dr. Pepper fan here! The diet tastes like the original

 

[tellnotails]

dr. pepper and captain morgan.........does not get much better......

 

[Colson39]

Bacardi and coke fan here. I love Dr. Pepper, and I don't mind Captain Morgan, but the combo of both of those would just be too sweet.

As long as it's rum

 

[MomOfDisneyBoys]

So, Colson, I thought I read somewhere that you were going to share an interesting "Throw girlfriend from the golf cart story" here today. I'm on pins and needles!

 

[bigdisneydaddy]

So, Colson, I thought I read somewhere that you were going to share an interesting "Throw girlfriend from the golf cart story" here today. I'm on pins and needles!

rumor is he pushed her out

 

[tellnotails]

rumor is she had him by the hair.....

 

[Colson39]

Sorry, been really busy at work, I have a few minutes though so I'll try to fit it in now

Unfortunately for the conspiracy theorists, I didn't throw her out...lol. Long story short, this was about 4-5 years ago, I had been dating this girl for about 6 months, we went to Disney, were staying at the Fort. One night, we were headed back from Pioneer Hall, and about halfway back to our campsite I realized that we needed to go back to Pioneer Hall (I can't remember why anymore). My ex was sitting in the passenger seat, passenger in the back as well.

I was at the entrance to Little Bear/Big Bear Path, so I turned in, and then swung around for a U-Turn. I was making a left hand U-turn so I was looking away from the cart. All of a sudden I heard a "Chrissssssssssssss!!!!!!" from the back seat passenger, I turned my head back to the right.

It's still something that weirds me out to this day, where my ex was sitting, was now an empty seat. She had been there a second before when I was making the U-Turn, so I knew almost instantly what had happened. As my eyes moved up from the chair, and into the street, there I saw my ex sprawled out over the concrete, laying flat on her back. There were about 3 or 4 cars that had all stopped (the u-turn was safe, but there were cars in the distance that were now on the scene). A crowd quickly formed around her, and you got the typical "I'm a nurse, I'm a fireman, I know first aid"spiel from about every other person in the group.

I could tell almost instantly that she wasn't hurt seriously, although she had hit her head on the concrete. A bus driver had come out of this bus and asked us if we needed him to call anyone, but we didn't. There was this one guy in a golf cart, that would just not leave us alone. He wanted to drive us to the hospital, and he followed us in his cart all the way back to our campsite. To be honest, it was kind of weird, I'm sure he was concerned but it was a little bit over the top.

Her arms were all cut up, and she had a knot on her head. Since it was a head injury, we decided to go to the Celebration hospital to get a checkup. Took almost 4 hours to get any kind of service, even though it wasn't that busy and it was 11 o'clock at night. They did a cat scan, bandaged her up, said there was no evidence of anything serious, and we were on our way. She really bruised up the next day, and I felt absolutely horrible.

The cause was that she was hanging onto a drink in one hand and wasn't hanging on to the edge when I made the U-turn. Although I didn't whip it around at all (I never do), her balance must have been off enough that it basically threw her right out of the cart and onto the street.

We dated for a few months more after that but it wasn't meant to be. Her mom and step-dad really turned me off because they kept on talking about suing Disney, which I thought was totally uncalled for. I actually paid for all her medical bills, and other than that there was no monetary or physical loss. But they hired a lawyer and kept on talking about how much money there were going to get, I found it totally idiotic. They never did actually sue, mainly because I wouldn't agree to help them out. Sorry, but I really didn't think anyone was at fault, it was just an accident.

There is a sad end to this story however. For the year or so we dated, we spent nearly every waking minute together, which probably lead to our demise, but we also had an absolute blast. She was actually my brother's wife's best friend, so even after we broke up I would still run into her, hear about her, etc... About a year ago I found out that she had died in her sleep from an unknown heart condition. Basically she went to bed, and when they went to wake her the next morning she had been dead for a few hours.

So as much as that story will always be a part of my Disney experience, every time I tell it I'm reminded of how young she was when she died (she was only 25 when she died unexpectedly). At least I'll always have that story

P.S. This was her, the image below. She really died young, it's a shame when that happens. I just hope that she was happy when it happened

 

[MomOfDisneyBoys]

Wow, I'm sorry. I didn't know it was a "someone really got hurt" story. I was glad to hear that her parents didn't go through with the lawsuit. Like you said, no one was at fault, it was an unfortunate accident.

It is very sad when someone passes away so young.

 

[Colson39]

lol, no reason to be sorry. I've summarized the story before, but that was the whole shindig.

Like I said, it's something we look back on now and laugh. Although my wife doesn't enjoy the story that much..lol

 

[MomOfDisneyBoys]

I can especially imagine her not liking the part about you spending "every waking moment" with someone else.

Even if DH said that about someone from years before I met him, I wouldn't like to think about it

At least I don't have to think about DH at Disney with anyone else! Now THAT would be hard to take He wasn't much of a fan before me.

 

[Colson39]

Well, my wife knows I've been to Disney with other people, let's just say I it took me lots of tries before I found the perfect girl

And every waking moment was not a good thing. That's actually why I said it that way, I actually find it to be counter-productive to a healthy relationship. My wife and I often do things on our own, and it just makes us miss each other more

I did the whole "attached at the hip" thing one too many times, it just isn't fun in the end run, at least for me

 

[Gatordad]

Holy schnikies what a story.... and she was cute, nice blue eyes.....

 

[Colson39]

Now you know why I never brought out the full story before, it takes forever...lol

 

[bigdisneydaddy]

Okay... if you didnt push her I think it must have been Vince Foster

thanks for sharing your story. Where we have been makes us who we are now.

Scott

BTW... I vote for changing your username to "mudslide39"

 

[Colson39]

bah, I don't drink the mudslides, my wife does. I'll take a sip/bite, but I'm a rum/beer kind of guy. Changing my name to BacardiBud39 would be more appropriate...lol.

And you are absolutely right, where we have been makes us who we are now. I learned a lot in that relationship, and I think that my wife is lucky that she got me AFTER that one.

I'm proud to say that she has yet to be pushed, oops, I mean fall off a golf cart!

P.S. Here is a fun fact for the day. Not to be just talking about myself here, but since we're on the topic. My wife and I started dating 3 years ago. We went on a blind date, and I met her out at a local bar. We had an absolute blast, and we soon became close.

About 3 weeks into the relationship, I just had the feeling I knew her from somewhere else. At first I just threw it off as some kind of weird "feeling", but then I asked her where she went to high school. Cooper City High. Hey, that's where I went. Where did you go to Middle School. Pines Middle. Hey, that's where I went. When did you graduate Cooper? 1993. Hey, that's when I graduated.

Come to find out, we went to school together from 6th through 12th grade. I actually knew her back in those days, it's just that it had been 11 years since and we both looked different, so I couldn't place her. We had a bunch of classes together, hung with the same crowd, talk about a coincedence. I even had a small crush on her at one time, but thought she was way out of my league (which she probably still is...hah). I almost knew instantly that something was different about this time, kind of like it was meant to be...heh.

And the part that really freaked me out? She had her yearbook from 6th grade (I only have one yearbook from my senior year), so we decided to open it up and look at our pictures. We were going through our class, in total, she had about 5 names highlighted (you know, that stupid thing you do when you're young so you can mark your friends and stuff).

4 of them were good girlfriends of hers. One was a guy. She had my name highlighted, the only guy in the whole yearbook, and the first year we actually ever "met". At first maybe I thought she had done it after the fact, but this all happened in one night, so she couldn't have, plus the outline was all faded, you could tell it was old.

That REALLY freaked me out. Talk about destiny....lol.

Sorry about another "story", it's Friday, and work isn't exactly chugging along today like it was yesterday

 

[bigdisneydaddy]

bah, I don't drink the mudslides, my wife does. I'll take a sip/bite, but I'm a rum/beer kind of guy. Changing my name to BacardiBud39 would be more appropriate...lol.

And you are absolutely right, where we have been makes us who we are now. I learned a lot in that relationship, and I think that my wife is lucky that she got me AFTER that one.

I'm proud to say that she has yet to be pushed, oops, I mean fall off a golf cart!

P.S. Here is a fun fact for the day. Not to be just talking about myself here, but since we're on the topic. My wife and I started dating 3 years ago. We went on a blind date, and I met her out at a local bar. We had an absolute blast, and we soon became close.

About 3 weeks into the relationship, I just had the feeling I knew her from somewhere else. At first I just threw it off as some kind of weird "feeling", but then I asked her where she went to high school. Cooper City High. Hey, that's where I went. Where did you go to Middle School. Pines Middle. Hey, that's where I went. When did you graduate Cooper? 1993. Hey, that's when I graduated.

Come to find out, we went to school together from 6th through 12th grade. I actually knew her back in those days, it's just that it had been 11 years since and we both looked different, so I couldn't place her. We had a bunch of classes together, hung with the same crowd, talk about a coincedence. I even had a small crush on her at one time, but thought she was way out of my league (which she probably still is...hah). I almost knew instantly that something was different about this time, kind of like it was meant to be...heh.

And the part that really freaked me out? She had her yearbook from 6th grade (I only have one yearbook from my senior year), so we decided to open it up and look at our pictures. We were going through our class, in total, she had about 5 names highlighted (you know, that stupid thing you do when you're young so you can mark your friends and stuff).

4 of them were good girlfriends of hers. One was a guy. She had my name highlighted, the only guy in the whole yearbook, and the first year we actually ever "met". At first maybe I thought she had done it after the fact, but this all happened in one night, so she couldn't have, plus the outline was all faded, you could tell it was old.

That REALLY freaked me out. Talk about destiny....lol.

Sorry about another "story", it's Friday, and work isn't exactly chugging along today like it was yesterday

I graduated a little bit before 93

I met my wife when she walked into a bowling alley with a girl I had broken up with a month or so before, a few tequila's later and before you knew it we had a house and kids etc etc.
A similar story to your yearbook one..... I had a lowrider truck that I stored winters and only drove on nice days. We met in December and later that year in July or August we were driving down the road in the truck and my wife flips down the visor and a piece of scrap paper falls down. SHe looks at it and asks why her license number was written on it. The summer before I had been driving down the same road (by myself) and the car in front of me threw up a big rock and busted the windshield in my truck, I wrote down the plate number of the car just because I was angry at the driver. I stuck the paper on the visor and it had stayed there till my future wife found it. I always tease her about tearing up my truck because she really liked the truck and truth be told I probably wouldnt have hooked her without the sweet ride.

Scott