| GOT BOOST |
The weirdest stuff always seems to happen to me. I am not sure how.. I am not sure why.. but I would not trade these experiences for anything. They are pure gold.
Just before leaving the office at 6:50 pm I decide to walk to the window and start my car with the remote starter. I park so I can see my car from my building (even though it is a few blocks away).
I see the headlights come on as a confirmation. I figure since it is a about a 7 min walk to my car, I will take my time finish up some stuff and head down while my car warms up.
In my mind I am preparing for a brisk walk with the -43 with wind chill, but when I get to my car with heated seats it will all be good.
The walk seems to be somewhat normal untill I get to the ABS Casino. There is some lady pushing a kid in a stroller (taking up 1/2 the sidewalk and pushing in the middle). I decide to move over to allow her to pass. As I pass her, not more then 5 seconds goes by and I feel as though I have been hit from the front, loose my footing and hit a near by tree with my left arm and shoulder. No one else was around..left me thinking WTF? Anyways I carry on.
I get to the brick clearance center and the sidewalk is not shoveled. In fact there is a small pact down path tho walk on. I start to walk very carefully and down I go. I end up loosing my footing and hit the building. Pissed off at this point, I walk into the brick clearance center and bark at the guy behind the desk that he should call his contractor guys now and have his sidewalk shoveled as I just slipped on his property and cranked the building. He shrugs his shoulders and says "They tell us it might be done tomorrow" I reply with a "Good luck with that and hopefully no one will sue you and walk out the door" Tomorrow someone is getting a call.
I continue on my journey and decide to cross through the parking lot looking forward to my nice warm car. I spot my car and notice my lights are on, but they are pretty dim.
As I approach it, I notice there is hardly any power to the bulbs. I try to unlock, the doors with the fob, no response. I have to manually unlock it. Hoping there is enough juice left in the battery to give it a few cranks and set me on my way.. Nothing..zap...she's dead. I wait a few more minutes and noting..... :mad:
So I figure I will call my wife, try three times, there was NO SERVICE in that one small spot where I had parked out in the open! :mad:
I get out of my car, walk about 10 feet try to get reception...finally... take off my gloves, can not dial with them on. Fingers are frozen..call goes through... I get out "Can you bring the booster cables to where I park, here is the address....." zap...cell is dead. :mad: :mad: :mad: Try to repower as sometimes that works...no luck Now I have been outside for a long time, car dead, battery dead.. hands frozen to the point I can not move them, can barely feel my legs and hungry, in my suit and trench coat. I decided I will go to the rosies on 106 Ave and 101 st to use a phone and maybe grab a small bite.
I walk in..... OMFG!!!!! I had walked into the middle of the shadiest place in the planet with a suit, trench coat. I was able to ask the kind bar tender to dial my wifes cell for me, so I can reconnect. let her know what to bring and where I am. I accidentally told her I was at "Smitties" When I said that, the whole place went quiet and I thought I was going to be knifed.
I sit down to look at the menu as I feel it will be 30 to 45 min before I see my wife again. With in 1 minute of sitting down, some lady comes in saying there is a man stalking her....ok...none of my business, I do not really care..The female bartender pipes up and says he is not welcome here, and they will kick him out if he comes back in.. (Apparently this has been an ongoing thing :dunno:)
about 2 minutes later the door opens and I hear this gasp of air... I turn around and there is this intoxicated, really heavy set and tall native American threatening that he has a gun and he is going to start shooting.... My imediate thoughts were WTF????????? All I want is the turkey dinner and a coke. Get me the hell out of here. As I am sizing up the situation for exits, and the best possible method of attack to take this guy down, the waitress and another intoxicated patron start to talk to this guy and force him to leave. Apparently him carrying a gun in there and this behavior is normal. :dunno: I order my dinner and pop and while the minutes pass as though they were hours, I could not help but what was going to greet me next. As I flip through the Edmonton Sun, a few drunk dudes come up to me and start chatting with me about my day, etc. Fielding any questions about who I am, what I do, or where I live, I get them talking about them selves. Interesting conversation, and I appreciate them chatting with me as I clearly was not from that neighborhood.
I inhale my food and decide that waiting outside in the cold was my best option. I decide to pay and I leave the waitress a generous 50% tip for what she has to put up with and she provided outstanding service. I make a bolt for the door only to see my wife pulling up the moment I am heading for the door.
The rest of the evening was pretty quiet after that.
If you want to have an interesting time, go to the rosies on 101st and 106 Ave for dinner. CRAZY, CRAZY, CRAZY!!!
With that being said.... I would have done it all over again. Now I can have said I had the experience of being frozen, no batteries, a car that will not work, and a drunk guy coming in threatening to shoot up the place with his gun. :lol:
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| REFLUX |
You know Mike...you do seem to lead a life full filled with oddities that happen in every day, normal mundane situations.
great story though!
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| Twigs_Dee |
| Holly shit! Someone else that has WAY WORSE luck than me!!!!!!!!!!! I feel for you. Carry a portable Booster pack in this crap weather.... So you know you wont be shot 10minutes after finding out your car is dead next time.... :lol: |
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| GOT BOOST |
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Originally posted by REFLUX
You know Mike...you do seem to lead a life full filled with oddities that happen in every day, normal mundane situations.
great story though!
ahhahaha
ahhhh yes Terry... and I would not trade one of my days for something mundane or dull. :D It keeps me on my toes and gives me great stories. :D
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| GOT BOOST |
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Originally posted by Twigs_Dee
Holly shit! Someone else that has WAY WORSE luck than me!!!!!!!!!!! I feel for you. Carry a portable Booster pack in this crap weather.... So you know you wont be shot 10minutes after finding out your car is dead next time.... :lol:
:lol:
I almost purchased one on Sunday when I was at Costco. My exact thoughts were..."I will never need this, I will purchase it and it will sit there for years, unused!" :lol:
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| Twigs_Dee |
| :lol: That was my thought when I got one for a safety award when I was @ DOW Chemical.... Than my alternator went on me.... Hooked the booster pack upto my stiffing cap, and used it togoto the shop, charged it up there, used it home, charged it than to the shop next day and installed the new alternator.... or when my tensor pulley busted.... Put the booster pack on the cap again. got home. charged it, and went to napa than to the shop in the morning. LoL life saver!!! specially when I was living out of town back than! :lol: |
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| ChromeDragon |
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Originally posted by GOT BOOST
:lol:
I almost purchased one on Sunday when I was at Costco. My exact thoughts were..."I will never need this, I will purchase it and it will sit there for years, unused!" :lol:
Mike
I use mine all the time. When I went to use it yesterday the damn casing on the wires snapped off as it tried to bend in the -36 temps.
You want an even better story Mike. Walk around the back side of that Brick Clearance centre around 7 p.m. and have a chat with the crack/meth/smackheads lining up to get their evening fix. I'll buy you a Coke if you don't get stabbed. If you do, I'll buy you a turkey dinner and a Coke.:thumbup: |
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| AudiInProgress |
You fell down twice?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
You suck at walking man... Did you leave a small portion of the story out? Like... "I was drunk." Or perhaps; "I accidentally stabbed myself with a letter opener and was bleeding profusely."
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| accord90 |
| Sounds like he was trying to blend in to his surroundings. :beer: |
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| GOT BOOST |
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Originally posted by AudiInProgress
You fell down twice?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
You suck at walking man... Did you leave a small portion of the story out? Like... "I was drunk." Or perhaps; "I accidentally stabbed myself with a letter opener and was bleeding profusely."
<3 Mike.
:lol:
Nope. I was sober. First time I had no idea why...second time, I lost my footing on the uneven slope of packed snow that was a sidewalk.
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| Invalid Zero |
| Why not park closer to work even if it costs you? I know you mentioned you park for free cause you get to the same spot early all the time, but fuck man, why the hell would you want to walk through such a shitty part of town? |
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| GOT BOOST |
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Originally posted by ChromeDragon
I use mine all the time. When I went to use it yesterday the damn casing on the wires snapped off as it tried to bend in the -36 temps.
You want an even better story Mike. Walk around the back side of that Brick Clearance centre around 7 p.m. and have a chat with the crack/meth/smackheads lining up to get their evening fix. I'll buy you a Coke if you don't get stabbed. If you do, I'll buy you a turkey dinner and a Coke.:thumbup:
:lol:
Closest I get to the back of that is the alley that intersects the two impark lots. I walk along 101 st. I am not interested in chatting with the meth heads in the alley in the morning or night. :lol:
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| GOT BOOST |
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Originally posted by Invalid Zero
Why not park closer to work even if it costs you? I know you mentioned you park for free cause you get to the same spot early all the time, but fuck man, why the hell would you want to walk through such a shitty part of town?
I like the exercise.
The hobo's, drunks, etc do not bother nor scare me. It seems they are more intimidated by someone dressed in a 3/4 length dark navy blue trench coat and leather gloves. :lol:
I have only been hassled for money about 5 times during 2007. I get hassled for money more when I am on whyte ave.
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| midnite |
What a lovely part of town, I used to work a few blocks away. I know that rosies.
Aside from once having to escape a gang of 10 native kids who wanted to kick my ass because I'm white, can't really say I've had much conflict.
It's all about how you carry yourself. Some of the bums around there have the funniest stories and behaviors.
I say next time check out the Milla Pub across the street! :beer: |
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| colossus |
| You mean it's the first time you've ever been in a Rosie's? That's a pretty regular day by the sounds of it. The one on 101 is kinda bad cause of all the drug dealers in the area. The one on 124th was much nicer, but they tore it down. I'm not sure why. It had karoke every night. (but without the shootings or stabbings like the Asian indv. room ones). |
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| GOT BOOST |
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Originally posted by colossus
You mean it's the first time you've ever been in a Rosie's? That's a pretty regular day by the sounds of it. The one on 101 is kinda bad cause of all the drug dealers in the area. The one on 124th was much nicer, but they tore it down. I'm not sure why. It had karoke every night. (but without the shootings or stabbings like the Asian indv. room ones).
Not the first time to one. I have been to the one on 99st a few times. It is a completely different crowd there than the one I was at yesterday, but the service has always been sub par so I refuse to leave a tip. (When there are 4 otehr people in the place and it takes the waitress 10 min to come and take your drink order then we have an issue) The service at this location was outstanding.
This was the first and last time I was at the one on 101st. :D
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| Silence* |
| I always love reading your stories Boost. Always a good read and Always good for a buncha laughs! :thumbup: |
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| THUD |
Synchronicity is a wonderful thing and can lead you into places you have never explored that were right under your nose that and I think karma for you Sir is giving you a hint and entertainment!
Life often gives us the test well before the lesson and in that one's rezilance in seeing the path that lays before he and all creaters will open the mind to the future and the past and all it's wisdom to be deliverd.
I delivered beer there many times a few years back and have eattin there a few times since then and it's really not that bad of a place in the evening.
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| GOT BOOST |
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Originally posted by THUD
Synchronicity is a wonderful thing and can lead you into places you have never explored that were right under your nose that and I think karma for you Sir is giving you a hint and entertainment!
Life often gives us the test well before the lesson and in that one's rezilance in seeing the path that lays before he and all creaters will open the mind to the future and the past and all it's wisdom to be deliverd.
I delivered beer there many times a few years back and have eattin there a few times since then and it's really not that bad of a place in the evening.
:beer:
:lol: I do not believe in Karma.
I have eaten in the grubby dub places many times. In fact there are quite a few that are good to eat at. My turkey sandwich was good same with the coke. :D
I found the whole thing to be quite amusing.
Each day my life is full of random oddities and makes it quite interesting. I would not want to change places with anyone. :D
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| GOT BOOST |
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Originally posted by Silence*
I always love reading your stories Boost. Always a good read and Always good for a buncha laughs! :thumbup:
Glad you enjoy them.
I should write a biography. :lol: Man… the stories I have you would not believe. :beer:
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| THUD |
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Originally posted by GOT BOOST
:lol: I do not believe in Karma.
Mike
Well it belives in you.
HAve you ever had blue candy? |
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| GOT BOOST |
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Originally posted by THUD
Well it belives in you.
HAve you ever had blue candy?
:lol:
We all have choices my friend. I could have walked back to the office which was 7 minutes, walked another 2 minutes to Wendy’s, etc. I chose to go to Rosies as it was close, convenient and an easy spot to keep an eye on my car and to see when my ride was about to arrive.
I suspect if I need you to define it, then probably not.
I have had Blue Lollypops, Blue Cotton Candy, gobstoppers, jawbreakers, etc, but I am sure that is not the definition you imply.
What is your definition of Blue Candy? Is the "Candy" Alcohol for "Blue" Collar workers? :dunno:
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| AudiInProgress |
| Mike... You still suck at walking. I trample snow every day, and ice, and I honestly cannot remember the last time I "slipped and fell" once... Let alone twice in the span of 5 minutes. Get some new feet bro! |
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| GOT BOOST |
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Originally posted by AudiInProgress
Mike... You still suck at walking. I trample snow every day, and ice, and I honestly cannot remember the last time I "slipped and fell" once... Let alone twice in the span of 5 minutes. Get some new feet bro!
:lol:
Ever try walking the same snow in Florshiem dress shoes? It is a little different when the shoes have little to no grip.
Had I been in boots or normal shoes, then I would not have had an issue. :D
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| littledan |
according to google maps milla's pub and rosie's on 101 is the centre of the crackhead universe...
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| midnite |
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| newaccorddriver |
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Originally posted by littledan
according to google maps milla's pub and rosie's on 101 is the centre of the crackhead universe...
who knew :dunno:
i drive past there on an almost regular basis, and its scary as fuck when your passing there at 3am. when i was in my skyline, a bunch of crackheads decided to surround my car on all sides but the front. i almost siht myself, and i ended up running the rear light cause they looked like they were gonna smash up the window and drag me out.
it gets really interesting when its 3am, and you see a bunch of people running down 101st and see a cop car with its lights on a block or so ahead |
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| midnite |
If they were crackheads they were probably just checking out your car, haha
Crackheads are usually like annoying harmless flies. They often don't have the physical or mental ability to do anything daring. They are attracted to shiny nice things, like flies are to lights. They like to buzz around the cool shit. I've had more crackheads compliment me on my car in that area, than people anywhere else. :dunno:
The only ones to watch out for are the young punks who think they are gangsters, because they want to prove to themselves and their friends that they are tough, you know.. living in the ghetto, owning the streets, being 'hard', and all that shit. But an act of random violence is quite rare, at most they will razz you a bit so they can play out their image.
Too bad for them this is edmonton, and you can see one end of their ghetto from the other. |
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| RangerMan |
lol
funny story man
made my day
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| Alpha Gangsta |
You've got a few choice alley ways in that area that are very reminscient of zombie movies. When you pull in with your car, theres like 20-40 of those bums just standing around and wandering aimlessly in a loose pack.
Wasn't too bad a few years ago, they all just hung around 105A Ave in front of the Hope Mission but they're starting to expand their territory/
Anyways, yeah, they're mostly harmless. If anything, an "eyesore" but its not like we have a true "ghetto" situation, yet. |
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| colossus |
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Originally posted by GOT BOOST
. It is a completely different crowd there than the one I was at yesterday, but the service has always been sub par so I refuse to leave a tip. (When there are 4 otehr people in the place and it takes the waitress 10 min to come and take your drink order then we have an issue) The service at this location was outstanding.
This was the first and last time I was at the one on 101st. :D
Mike
LOL That's awesome what you said. Life is funny like that sometimes. The best service comes in the most dangerous of the Rosie's! :thumbup:
Kinda like the movies where the hookers have a heart of gold. ie. Pretty Woman.
It's true what you said about the other Rosies. Totally different crowd. Another scary late night restaurant is Humpty's especially the one by the Royal Alex. And sometimes even the one across from the Garneau. But I think it became a Keegan's then closed. |
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| colossus |
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Originally posted by GOT BOOST
:lol:
We all have choices my friend. I could have walked back to the office which was 7 minutes, walked another 2 minutes to Wendy’s, etc. I chose to go to Rosies as it was close, convenient and an easy spot to keep an eye on my car and to see when my ride was about to arrive.
I suspect if I need you to define it, then probably not.
I have had Blue Lollypops, Blue Cotton Candy, gobstoppers, jawbreakers, etc, but I am sure that is not the definition you imply.
What is your definition of Blue Candy? Is the "Candy" Alcohol for "Blue" Collar workers? :dunno:
Mike
Silly Billy, I think his reference about 'blue candy' is referring to the BLUE vs RED candy that Neo had to choose between in the MATRIX. i.e. one is waking up to reality, and the other was continuing in the illusion.
But somebody should write a book about how Alberta/Edmonton is being affected sociologically n the wake of the boom. i.e. Tent City, more transients and drug dealers on the streets in a greater area. Seriously growing up Edmonton seemed like a quiet backwater, but now we're reading about drivebys, murders and dismemberments, like it's an everyday normal thing. What's happened to Edmonton?
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| GOT BOOST |
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Originally posted by colossus
Silly Billy, I think his reference about 'blue candy' is referring to the BLUE vs RED candy that Neo had to choose between in the MATRIX. i.e. one is waking up to reality, and the other was continuing in the illusion....
:lol:
Perhaps he should have made reference to the correct term. In the Matrix Neo is offered a choice of Two Pills, not candy. I think someone else is out of touch of reality. :lol:
I still believe that Karma is a bunch of crap.
The true definition of Karma is:
karma
One entry found.
karma
Main Entry: kar·ma
Pronunciation: \ˈkär-mə also ˈkər-\
Function: noun
Etymology: Sanskrit karma fate, work
Date: 1827
1often capitalized : the force generated by a person's actions held in Hinduism and Buddhism to perpetuate transmigration and in its ethical consequences to determine the nature of the person's next existence
2: vibration 4
— kar·mic \-mik\ adjective
This is the emphasis on being the "next" life, not this current one. :lol: http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/karma
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| GOT BOOST |
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Originally posted by colossus
LOL That's awesome what you said. Life is funny like that sometimes. The best service comes in the most dangerous of the Rosie's! :thumbup:
Kinda like the movies where the hookers have a heart of gold. ie. Pretty Woman.
It's true what you said about the other Rosies. Totally different crowd. Another scary late night restaurant is Humpty's especially the one by the Royal Alex. And sometimes even the one across from the Garneau. But I think it became a Keegan's then closed.
Indeed my friend. Even from location to location on Rosie’s the crowd is never the same.
I have had crappy service at high end places, and outstanding at lower end dives.
You are correct, Keegan’s was the name, but I believe they closed out. I drive by it every morning on 109st but seldom pay attention to it.. :D
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| THUD |
Blue candy is blue candy I sensed he liked blue candy that is all, Neo was gay and so was Morpheus and in that scene they were scripted to originally have ramp-id butt sex while the others watched hence the line about how far the rabbit hole goes.
K what I mean is that there was a reason for you to be there and what i meant by Karma was that you may have pissed someone off or had a lot of negative energy around you and may have been giving out bad shit too.
A series of events in a row that line up like that can be positive or negative and are usually setup by the person who is experiencing them even if it's stuff you could have never saw coming or had knowledge about...or did you know?
Now I am not say you paid that dude to come in drunk and do shit or to have your battery die and blah blah blah, what I am suggesting is that when you have day's or moments like that there is an opportunity for you control or add extra input.
Think as if it were a lucid dream and with mere thought you could start to perpetuate an already weird or strange event into more or less it's up to you.
I understand that just letting shit happen is fun but I found a serenity in it , a key and i figured I would share that. |
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| GOT BOOST |
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Originally posted by THUD
Blue candy is blue candy I sensed he liked blue candy that is all, Neo was gay and so was Morpheus and in that scene they were scripted to originally have ramp-id butt sex while the others watched hence the line about how far the rabbit hole goes.
K what I mean is that there was a reason for you to be there and what i meant by Karma was that you may have pissed someone off or had a lot of negative energy around you and may have been giving out bad shit too.
A series of events in a row that line up like that can be positive or negative and are usually setup by the person who is experiencing them even if it's stuff you could have never saw coming or had knowledge about...or did you know?
Now I am not say you paid that dude to come in drunk and do shit or to have your battery die and blah blah blah, what I am suggesting is that when you have day's or moments like that there is an opportunity for you control or add extra input.
Think as if it were a lucid dream and with mere thought you could start to perpetuate an already weird or strange event into more or less it's up to you.
I understnad that jsut letting shit happen is fun but I fouind a serenity in it , a key and i figured I would share that.
Thanks for the clarification on the blue candy part. :lol: I actually do not like candy that much. :D I do not have a preference if given a choice of colors.
My day was actually very good. It was even good when that happened and even after, I rarely get pissed off. I know shit happens. Life to me is and adventure from the choices I make. I can either choose to enjoy it, or not enjoy it. I drive the bus in my life, no one else. I have control over my actions, what I say, how I act, who I talk to, what I do, how I respond, and most importantly of all…my attitude.
Thanks for sharing that, but I still whole heartedly disagree with the whole Karma gig.
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| colossus |
| I concur. We wish life was just and there was karma. But unfortunately it's not, the rich get richer, and the innocent are often harmed. Ever heard the saying "No good deed goes unpunished?" Often when bad things happen to ppl, it's easy to say oh well karma, but it's not true. It's more like timing and circumstances. I.e. shitty things happen just because, and a person would be stupid to think it was fate. |
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