Mike the Mechanic

@ekim370

Mike - 50 - Southeastern US Veteran - Warrior - Leader - Servant A would-be renaissance and spiritual man, trying to love and see the best in people; also loves puzzles, learning, music, and creation. Values individual freedom, but also respects the role of government and other authorities in establishing boundaries on those individual freedoms for a common good. Friends and would be friends are welcome to comment as long as they play well with others and demonstrate respect. Spammers will be blocked.

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mouthtapedguy

lions are very mean and like jellyfish

posttexasstressdisorder

Something something purple monkey typwriter dishwasher. Such bigly. Much people are saying.

ekim370

May I mumble dogface to the banana patch?

#Youtube

ironychan

My friends and I used to do this thing where we'd dress up on a theme and go do something totally normal.

We dressed up as pirates and went bowling.

We dressed as vikings and went to the grocery store. The security guard told us we had to move our longship because it was illegally parked.

We dressed as Romans and went to Blockbuster. The staff chanted, "toga! Toga! Toga!" at us.

We dressed up all steampunk and went to the museum. Tourists kept taking our picture.

a-krogan-skald-and-bearsark

I used to do historical reenactment when I was at University. I would go to class before session as a Norman knight, and when the session was over me and some of my buddies I did it with would get the bus home in the same kit. Stop at the Tesco's in full armour for beer and supper and ice cream, then get together at Irish's place for a LAN party.

It's enrichment for all involved. I remember being told I was 900 years late for the battle, and asking the bus driver where the horses were.

lastoneout

I genuinely think the world would be a much better place if more people felt comfortable dressing a bit silly out in public.

masterxdanx

zerounwantedvibrations

I got 9 points..

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To all the people in the notes wondering how we got anywhere before GPS: we got lost a lot. Like a lot. If it was a new place we would pull out the maps, we all had local maps in the car and then these huge huge huge books of maps called atlases and we'd have one for every state we'd be driving through

And before a trip we would plot our whole entire route, and go back over it every night at the hotel, and we would write all the directions down on a little note and someone would be in charge of navigation and making sure we didn't miss any turns.

For local stuff all directions would be described in reference to other things. You still see this when older folks give directions. Do you ever get the "do you know where the ruby Tuesday is? No? How about the Buffalo wild wings? Yeah okay so from there go down til you see a Wendy's and turn left..." instead of them just telling u the address so u can plug it into ur GPS? That's why.

I have fond memories of getting helaciously lost in Kentucky because we had to go around a bad accident, and we didn't have a Kentucky map because we hadn't planned on going thru Kentucky and we stopped at a gas station to get a map but they didn't have any and my dad came back to the car swearing up and down about these goddamn Kentucky communists who didn't even sell maps in their gas stations,