I definitely believe that. I had a friend who seemed to pick uglier and uglier women to be involved with or marry. When he was about 30, he married his first wife, who had been in a horrible car wreck several years earlier and even after extensive plastic surgeries, she still looked pretty rough. They didn’t last…

A friend’s little brother is an SC, and a total religious nut. His wife suffered through his dealings with the police, the county, the state (Mich) and of course, the federal govmint. About 6 years ago, she gave up on him ever being sane again, and divorced him. He doesn’t talk to his kids at all, and barely talks to…

A friend of mine raved about Justin’s PBCs. Wow, was I disappointed. Even more than the not great Butterfinger PBCs. 

I’m almost 67 and I don’t remember seeing the 3 packs until about maybe 15 years ago, and they are rare. It’s always been 2, at least from about 1959 on, when I probably had the first PBCs I ever ate. From that day forward, they are my all time favorite candy.

My horror show started on August 17, 2007. At a SuperAmerica gas station. I was 51 and like a 51 year old guy tends to do, I had to pee, BAD. So I pull into the station in my Ram 1500, my two dogs with me. I get out and walk quickly towards the door, and that’s when it went bad. As I walked onto the concrete in front…

The baby almost surely got that done for you. When I worked at Las Vegas hotels, people were upgraded all the time, or just given a room for free when something went wrong. A/C and heat in the worst part of winter going out was fairly common. The mainenance guy who worked 2nd shift spent most of his time fixing cranky…

We had another long delay and late arrival on the train from Toledo to Washington D.C. in 1969. near Willard, Oh. Some idiot would make his last stupid move and run the gates at a crossing in an old Chevy pickup. The train went into emergency, and the conductor somehow managed not to get slammed into the front wall of…

A friend of mine, who I’ve known since birth, was a pretty squirelly kid, and he hurt himself doing some really dumb shit until he was in high school. His biggest bonehead move was the time his mother was frying chicken in a cast iron skillet full of oil. He was about 7 or so, and had zero impulse control, or pretty…

I’ve never been stuck on a plane, but my mother, me, my sister, her best friend, and her mom were going to Chicago about August 1969 or so, riding what was left of the formerly great NYC 20th Century Limited, now Penn Central whatever, from Toledo. Everything was OK until Elkhart. The AC went out for some reason, and…

A friend of mine used to rag endlessly about Chevettes. What did he drive? A Pontiac T-1000! We let him go on and on making fun of some of the kids he went to school with driving Chevettes. Then we broke the news to him, “Uhhh Bill, your car is just a Chevette with a Pontiac name on it!”. He stammered, “But but my car…

For decades, Wendy’s was my favorite fast food place, it took over from McDonald’s in the late ‘70's or so. Now, it’s a last resort, only if Culver’s (Best ever, IMHO) or Arby’s is closed. The Arby’s close to my home is closing about 9pm most of the time, which is ridiculous, so if I want it, I have to drive a few…

A friend of mine’s mother was just an amazingly bad cook. There were 7 kids, and they lived on the following:

I haven’t spent much time driving in the NE US, but I have driven in DC, Atlanta, Chicago, and SoCal quite a bit, and most of my true rage producing drives have been in Chicago, with Atlanta right behind it. The trip from Toledo to Northern Minnesota was one traffic jam in Chicagoland after another with one of the 3…

Yeah, it’s a nightmare, for sure. I don’t have any blood relatives who have had it, but I’ve been around quite a few people who did/do. One friend of mine has had a ton of little strokes, and recently, two big ones, and she was pretty much out of it by age 63. Her kids and husband are just hoping it all ends soon,…

Our neighborhood whackjob was an old man who looked like Goldfinger from the movie and drove a beige inside and out Olds 88. It was just one sign of him being demented. Band-Aid color is a perfect description of it.

The best bagged popcorn I’ve ever had is the Pop Daddy original. Red popcorn, popped with olive oil, and some salt. It’s not bad. Not great, but not bad. Worst is the air popped stuff, doesn’t matter who makes it, it’s just sad. 

I haven’t bought popcorn at a movie theater for almost 30 years. It sucks, to put it bluntly. It was never great, even when they popped it while you watched and smelled it. The smell was the best part of it. Overpriced, pre popped at most places, it’s little better than microwave. Give me baby white corn, popped in…

One of the local ones in NW Ohio was shut down for a list of health code violations a mile long a couple of times. I thought it was permanently closed, but I went by it last week and it was open. Hopefully, it will get back to the point it was when it first opened up. Pretty decent back then. Last time I went to the…

I really don’t understand what makes people lose their minds over it. We don’t seem to have much drama at our ever increasing in number roundabouts. Brakes slammed on, and a lot of hesitations is it. No fun there.

The ones where they are going so fast that they go airborne are just so insanely great. I really wish I could talk to them, just to see how they explained it. I know a lot of them are just drunk/high, but the rest of them are naturally stupid and those conversations would be “gold”.