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CharleyHorse46 · « **Reply #546 on:** July 20, 2018, 08:21:06 PM »

Quote from: longhorn320 on July 20, 2018, 07:29:59 PM

We made our last house payment last May
Debt free feels good
course now I get emailed twice a week from my bank offering an equity loan

Ha! They’re monsters!

FearlessF · « **Reply #547 on:** July 20, 2018, 10:16:02 PM »

no bankers bothering me

paid off my house twice

first time while I was married - a bit less than 15 years

2nd time after the divorce (1/2 to pay the Ex) for more than I paid the first time

I don't like bankers, and I let them know it early in the relationship

utee94 · « **Reply #548 on:** July 21, 2018, 12:10:20 AM »

I like bankers, they give me money and do my bidding.

FearlessF · « **Reply #549 on:** July 21, 2018, 08:43:55 AM »

they take money, never give it

utee94 · « **Reply #550 on:** July 23, 2018, 12:09:34 AM »

You don't know the right bankers.

longhorn320 · « **Reply #551 on:** July 23, 2018, 08:53:21 AM »

Texas bankers are so tired of winning they cant wait to give you money

MikeDeTiger · « **Reply #552 on:** July 24, 2018, 01:45:47 PM »

I used to be a banker, right out of college. Far as I could tell, it's really just keeping your head down, collecting a check, and going home to play some music and check on all the fuss about high-speed internet.

If I was ever a monstrous soul-sucker or an ATM doing a client's bidding, I was blissfully unaware.

That's probably how they get you.

CharleyHorse46 · « **Reply #553 on:** July 26, 2018, 09:35:28 AM »

You know what I really hate?

I hate it when you're in a restroom stall with a toilet that automatically flushes and it flushes between the time you wipe the seat, spread out the seat cover, turn around and squat.

That's the worst because once you squat on faith, it's really hard to hit the brakes before you hit the seat even though the sadistic toilet has already sucked down the seat cover you had hoped would protect you from third world STDs.

This always seems to happen in some really high-traffic restroom you have no choice but to use - like the ones in airports.

What's even worse is when it just continues to flush randomly and intermittently while you're still seated on it.

I know I'm not the only person this happens to. Sometimes I'll hear guys in other stalls screaming in anguish and saying, "Don't you see me?"

Speaking of that - you know how vampires have no reflection in mirrors? I wonder if auto-flush toilets, auto-sinks, auto-soap dispensers and auto-hand dryers work for them or if they just pretend the vampire isn't there? Can you imagine being a vampire and being unable to wash your hands? Standing in the restroom, screaming "I vant to vash my hands!"

CharleyHorse46 · « **Reply #554 on:** July 26, 2018, 09:44:25 AM »

I may have mentioned this before - because I have recurring thoughts - but do any of you ever go in Dollar Trees?

Not Family Dollar or Dollar General but Dollar Tree? Family Dollar and Dollar General have cheap items but those items sometimes cost more than a dollar. At Dollar Tree everything costs a dollar. Consequently it is like looting for honest, law-abiding citizens who would never actually loot a store.

You go into a Dollar Tree and stuff is scattered everywhere, every aisle is full. People are just pulling stuff off the shelves and going crazy. If you try to look at the readers on the carousel near the register, people will run you down with their carts. It's civil unrest in a Dollar Tree.

But despite all of the crazy "looting" that goes on in the store, people simmer down and their reason is restored when they check out.

I love the people who ask how much items are.

"How much are the peanuts?"

"A dollar."

"How much is this iPhone charger?"

"A dollar."

"How much is this plastic Hawaiian coconut cup?"

"A dollar."

"Is everything a dollar?"

"Yes. Everything's a dollar?"

"Well, how much is this Mylar balloon filled with helium that says 'Happy Birthday'?"

utee94 · « **Reply #555 on:** July 26, 2018, 09:51:25 AM »

I didn't know there was a difference between those dollar stores. I pretty much avoid them at all costs. My i s c & a aggie wife does go to them to buy borthday party balloons, though.

Which, I guess, cost $1.

CharleyHorse46 · « **Reply #556 on:** July 26, 2018, 12:38:54 PM »

Years ago, when my fourth child was born, my i s c & a wife and I made the commitment to take turns spending one on one time with each of our kids every Wednesday. That way we could get to know them better as individuals instead of just a mob. Wednesdays were ideal originally because that's the night when lots of kids eat free.

We've kept it up for 14 years now and I'm very happy to say I still enjoy each turn I have to take one of my sons to dinner - even though they're now 15, 18, 20 and 23.

The oldest can't always make it and the second oldest oftentimes has difficult scheduling but it's still a priority to my i s c & a wife and me.

One of the things we have often done over the years is to eat dinner and then go to a discount movie theater like Cinemark 8 in Round Rock or Lake Creek 7.

Having grown up on the Ea'side, I still think half the fun of going to a discount movie is sneaking food in so you don't undermine the discount by having to buy exorbitantly priced refreshments at the snack bar. But instead of sneaking in 36" pizzas, buckets of chicken and Schlitz Malt Liquor 40 oz like my peeps and I used to do back in the day, we just go down to the Dolla' Tree and buy a box of Junior Mints or Dots. Same $1 box would be $4 at the theater.

And as we walk through the Dolla' Tree, I see many items that would cost somewhat if not a whole lot more at any oher store - like those big sheets of poster board or trifolds smart kids in the smart kid class need five times a year, picture frames for all of those silly certificates employers like to give out, greeting cards for coworkers you don't particularly love but feel obligated to acknowledge, packets of expo markers for dry erase boards, the aforementioned iPhone chargers, headphones, USB ports that plug into the cigar lighter holes in cars, electrical tape, dog treats, flossers, wine glasses, margarita glasses, spatulas, readers, etc....

You'd be surprised how much money you can save on things you didn't even know you needed.

UT-Erin03 · « **Reply #557 on:** July 26, 2018, 12:56:52 PM »

That's a nice tradition of weekly one-on-one dinners with your sons. I wish my dad had done that with me. I had many meals with just my mom before, mostly when we would be shopping and such, but there are not many occasions where I was out with only my dad. It probably didn't happen until I was in my 30's when both of us were in California for a wedding that my mom wasn't able to make it to, so we did go out together that time due to the fact that we were only visitors who made it from my immediate family.

I learned a lot more about my dad as an adult than I did as a kid, so maybe that was by design on his part. He's actually quite a goofy, fun guy, but growing up he had to play a hard-ass along with my mom, who is a staunch no-breaking-the-rules supporter and I guess he got strong armed into that side of parenting. When I got busted with pot as a teen, he would be sitting at the same table while my mom berated me and punishing me, staying silent and not saying anything to my defense. Meanwhile as an adult, I've smoked pot WITH my dad a handful of times and he's relayed stories about how his older brother used to grow it when they were teens.

utee94 · « **Reply #558 on:** July 26, 2018, 01:32:20 PM »

It's all about the hippie lettuce with you, isn't it?

CharleyHorse46 · « **Reply #559 on:** July 26, 2018, 01:42:30 PM »

Quote from: UT-Erin03 on July 26, 2018, 12:56:52 PM

... He's actually quite a goofy, fun guy, but growing up he had to play a hard-ass along with my mom, who is a staunch no-breaking-the-rules supporter and I guess he got strong armed into that side of parenting...

Yep. Happens a lot.
Many times young women are fun loving and carefree until the kids start piling up. Then they oftentimes transform into serious, possibly even uptight, uber-responsible, controlling individuals who deny they ever were fun loving and carefree to begin with - except for the three or four times a year they go out with their cronies.
I see my sons hooking up with these young, adventurous, free-spirits and I want to warn them that if they have kids that woman will be a fleeting dream replaced by somebody just as serious as their mother - but I always stop short. Why spoil their delusions? Why make them feel bad about ending my honeymoon? Might as well let them find out for themselves just like my dad let me.
I was sitting in Whataburger one morning, eating a jalapeno cheddar biscuit bacon egg and cheese sammy doused in salsa - and people watching.
Old guys just get friendlier and friendlier. If America's #1 terrorist cartel dood came in with an uzi in his hands, some old guy would say something provocatively corny to him, like "is it as hot as Texas where you come from, Mister?"
Meanwhile his irrepressibly sweet, cute and adorable wife - seasoned by years of carrying kids, caring for kids, praying over kids, crying over kids and worrying over kids - would inevitably shush him with something like, "Oh be quiet, George, and leave the cartel terrorist alone."

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