OT - Grumpy Old Man Thread

[MrNubbz]

buncha hayseeds.

Over the phone or on conference calls, people usually guess that I'm from California.  It's offensive.

Prolly shouldn't chime in with "for sure,for sure" when concluding business - that could be problematic

[847badgerfan]

Cali people say "right" after a making a statement. As in a whole lot.

[Honestbuckeye]

Cali people say "right" after a making a statement. As in a whole lot.

🤮

[Brutus Buckeye]

You don't know what they look like? Or were you peering thru beer goggles

They looked like doves, but I'm not an ornithologist. 

I think mama bird crashed out, and papa bird flew it back to the nest in hopes of a full recovery. Seeds and feathers everywhere.

[utee94]

Did they cry?

[Brutus Buckeye]

No idea what accent I have, but everyone always guesses somewhere far away. People in Ohio thought I was from Montana, in Vermont they thought I was from the deep south, in the South they think I'm Canadian, and out west they think I'm from Brooklyn NY.

[MikeDeTiger]

I haven't been to California in some years, but in my trips out there, a few people looked visibly jarred out of whatever they were thinking about and then commented "You're not from around here, are you?"  

Alternatively, once while walking in Manhattan a guy told me he could tell I wasn't from the city just by the way I was walking down the street.  He then asked me where I was from and then told me a lot of locals are scared poopless of Southerners.  He'd never been anywhere in the South, but I guess the stereotypes did him in.  He agreed he would not mug me and try to take my wallet, and I agreed I would not do terrible, violent, swamp things to him, and we had a good laugh.  I liked that guy, as brief as our meeting was.  

[betarhoalphadelta]

No idea what accent I have, but everyone always guesses somewhere far away. People in Ohio thought I was from Montana, in Vermont they thought I was from the deep south, in the South they think I'm Canadian, and out west they think I'm from Brooklyn NY.

I've got a coworker that I was always trying to place his accent... It was British, to be sure, but then it wasn't... It was odd. 

We were out at a customer dinner one night and he said during his childhood he lived in Britain, Ohio, Texas, and then California. 

It immediately made sense. His accent was that of a Limey Newscaster Cowboy Surfer 

[MikeDeTiger]

Every year I can't remember what I did with my Saturdays and Sundays when there's no football.  It's like there's a vacuum, and for some reason I can never recall how I spend my down time once football gets through.  

I thought the Pro Bowl game used to be the Sunday before the SB, no?  It's sometime in the evening this week, I think.  

[Cincydawg]

So called service dogs.  

[847badgerfan]

So called service dogs. 

Lots of mofo's down here buy these things. I hate those people (and that's a lot of people).

They don't give a shit about anyone else, or people like me who are allergic to dogs.

I wouldn't want a hairy naked man who doesn't wipe his ass sitting on my couch and I certainly don't want to dine with one.

F these people.

[Wildcat4E]

They looked like doves, but I'm not an ornithologist.

I think mama bird crashed out, and papa bird flew it back to the nest in hopes of a full recovery. Seeds and feathers everywhere.

I believe doves mate for life.

Kinda sweet and sad at the same time.

No-fault divorce hasn't been implemented, and 'til death do us part still means something in that little part of the animal kingdom.

[FearlessF]

my daughter (and her roommates) wanted a cat in their college dorm - so she asked the doctor to give her a note or something

I just shook my head  - 

[Riffraft]

my daughter (and her roommates) wanted a cat in their college dorm - so she asked the doctor to give her a note or something

I just shook my head  -

I know a number of people who have gotten notes so they could have an animal in dorms, rentals, etc.  Typical unintended consequence of the ADA