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[Ayreonaut]

Argh, reading things like that is so frustrating!

[rockyi]

Palm trees and Rock Island go together like foot and glove...

[Ayreonaut]

Minot, ND!

It's what I imagine Fort Mac to be like.

Walmarts, hotels, and car dealerships. I've heard rumours of an actual downtown, but even looking at Google Maps I see one street downtown that isn't mostly parking lots, and its buildings are all 1-2 storeys. Apparently this is in a metro of 70,000+ people!

I've seen four vehicles in this state now that weren't GM/Ford/Chrysler. One is mine, one has Minnesota plates, the other two were SUVs. I would honestly guess that 25% of the vehicles on the road are brand new Suburbans; the rest are pickups. Even half the police vehicles I've seen were Suburbans.

[vid]

It looks too much like Thunder Bay for me.

Except we aren't that big on the American/Canadian built cars anymore.

[rockyi]

Has anybody seen my shoes?

[Buckeye Native 001]

I ate them. Sorry.

[rockyi]

Again?!!! Dammit!!



In other news....seems everything the name Rock Island touches is cursed....
......Recognize this building in Dallas?


A building used by the southern branch of the Rock Island Plow company ends up being the Texas School Book Depository......Yay!

[Cleveland Brown]

I guess Rock Island is the Robert Todd Lincoln of cities.

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

Robert Lincoln was coincidentally either present or nearby when three presidential assassinations occurred.

Lincoln was not present at his father's assassination. But he was nearby and arrived at Ford's Theater shortly after his father was shot. Robert attended his father's deathbed at Petersen House, where the President was removed to after the shooting.
At President James A. Garfield's invitation, Lincoln was at the Sixth Street Train Station in Washington, D.C., where the President was shot by Charles J. Guiteau on July 2, 1881, and was an eyewitness to the event. Lincoln was serving as Garfield's Secretary of War at the time.
At President William McKinley's invitation, Lincoln was at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, where the President was shot by Leon Czolgosz on September 6, 1901, though he was not an eyewitness to the event.
Lincoln himself recognized the frequency of these coincidences. He is said to have refused a later presidential invitation with the comment "No, I'm not going, and they'd better not ask me, because there is a certain fatality about presidential functions when I am present."[22]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Todd_Lincoln

Robert Todd Lincoln was long dead before Kennedy was assassinated, Kennedy was riding in a Lincoln when it happened.

[rockyi]

Originally Posted by Cleveland Brown

I guess Rock Island is the Robert Todd Lincoln of cities.

Pretty much. We should change our name to Bob-Todd, Illinois.

[Cleveland Brown]

^ Or maybe you're the quad cities for a reasons - Lincoln, Garfield, McKinnley, and Kennedy

[rockyi]

......I'm scared.

[Cleveland Brown]

I had problems jacking and I couldn't get it up. I was going at it for a while and it suddenly fell down. I took a break for an hour and came back to it. I jacked it from a new position and kept going until I couldn't jack any more. I needed to use another tool to finish the job. Completion finally! It shouldn't have taken that long, I recently jacked someone else's quickly on the side of the highway - and had to shoo away all the guys who stopped to help. Why did it take hours and three attempts to jack my own in the driveway?

It was my third flat this summer and it's almost as if I forgot how to change a tire (I didn't want to call roadside service again)

[rockyi]

.........

[EuphoricOctopus]

Bought a completely new wardrobe. It felt really good to go through my closet and throw out the shit that is old and worn out and donate the stuff that doesn't fit. I'm not used to not having all my money go straight to bills and loans.

[Rizzo]

I know that feeling. I recently moved to a new apartment in the same building but I sold off or donated a lot of my old furniture, electronics, and clothes for far less things that were newer and better. I like the fact that my apartment has less stuff and feels more streamlined. I bought a ton of crates and decided that with the exception of furniture and my TV, anything that doesn't fit in the plastic crates on my next move is getting tossed in the alley.

[LMich]

Originally Posted by Cleveland Brown

I had problems jacking and I couldn't get it up. I was going at it for a while and it suddenly fell down. I took a break for an hour and came back to it. I jacked it from a new position and kept going until I couldn't jack any more. I needed to use another tool to finish the job. Completion finally! It shouldn't have taken that long, I recently jacked someone else's quickly on the side of the highway - and had to shoo away all the guys who stopped to help. Why did it take hours and three attempts to jack my own in the driveway?

It was my third flat this summer and it's almost as if I forgot how to change a tire (I didn't want to call roadside service again)

I once owned a piece of junk so rusted out on the bottom, that while jacking it up to change the tire, the contact point collapsed, and went right up into the body.

[Ex-Ithacan]

Originally Posted by Cleveland Brown

I had problems jacking and I couldn't get it up. I was going at it for a while and it suddenly fell down. I took a break for an hour and came back to it. I jacked it from a new position and kept going until I couldn't jack any more. I needed to use another tool to finish the job. Completion finally! It shouldn't have taken that long, I recently jacked someone else's quickly on the side of the highway - and had to shoo away all the guys who stopped to help. Why did it take hours and three attempts to jack my own in the driveway?

It was my third flat this summer and it's almost as if I forgot how to change a tire (I didn't want to call roadside service again)

Thank God you included that last sentence. I was feeling kind of ............... "concerned" ( ) about the narrative until the end.

[Cleveland Brown]

Originally Posted by LMich

I once owned a piece of junk so rusted out on the bottom, that while jacking it up to change the tire, the contact point collapsed, and went right up into the body.

That sucks. There was no physical problem, just my stress and the heat causing my own incompetence.

[Cleveland Brown]

Originally Posted by Ex-Ithacan

Thank God you included that last sentence. I was feeling kind of ............... "concerned" ( ) about the narrative until the end.

Who needs "tools" for that or does it for someone else along the highway?

[Buckeye Native 001]

Better than doing it naked on a busy street in San Diego...