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Cackalacky2.0 said:
Dirty Dancing, Roadhouse and Point Break is a three movie arc of a man who found what he was looking for in the end. Change my mind.
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Replace "Dirty Dancing" with "The Outsiders" and you may be on to something there. Feel free to move the discussion to the "Movies you just saw" thread and we can give it the full smoking a pipe while wearing a tweed jacket with elbow patches pseudo-intellectual treatment.
 
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Black Irish said:
Replace "Dirty Dancing" with "The Outsiders" and you may be on to something there. Feel free to move the discussion to the "Movies you just saw" thread and we can give it the full smoking a pipe while wearing a tweed jacket with elbow patches pseudo-intellectual treatment.
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Sprouted a leak in my yard near an outside spigot. Spent the morning ripping out the hedges with my truck, then digging in the sticky ass clay muck. Found the leak and it will be fixed shortly.

Unrelated, but did you know it is exactly 7 million degrees F in North Florida right now?
 
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Huntr said:
Sprouted a leak in my yard near an outside spigot. Spent the morning ripping out the hedges with my truck, then digging in the sticky ass clay muck. Found the leak and it will be fixed shortly.

Unrelated, but did you know it is exactly 7 million degrees F in North Florida right now?
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I've got 3 irrigation lines I dug up this morning cuz pool remodelers are terrorists. I'm gonna wait until dawn tomorrow to cut & glue.

In other related happenings, I picked up my nephew from Tallahassee at the airport the other day. It was 113 here and the first thing he said when we walked to the car? "It feels so nice here. It's too darn hot in FL."
 
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My day to vent and unburden myself a bit. Over the past few weeks, a lot of things have gone wrong in my world and I've apparently become the rock that several people have leaned on... to the point that I'm feeling like Atlas with the world on my shoulders.

When I met my wife almost 15 years ago, she had a 6-year-old son from her first marriage who had some major physical & mental disabilities and some very serious health issues. He wasn't expected to make it much past adolescence, and certainly not out of his teens. He lived with us for the first several years of our marriage, but when my wife had cancer in '15, his dad gladly took him and kept him since (we have an excellent relationship with her ex). Three weeks ago, the boy was hospitalized with pneumonia and was expected to go home in a day or two, when he suddenly went south and passed away at 21. As you can imagine, my wife has just been devastated and heartbroken, and I've taken a couple of weeks off to take care of her.

Last week, my sister's husband found out he has a rare and aggressive form of cancer that is stage 4. His prognosis isn't hopeless by any means, but not great either - a five year survival rate of about 40-50%. My sister is terrified. She can't vent and cry to him because she's trying to be his rock, so she calls me almost every day to cry and vent and seek encouragement.

One of my oldest, dearest friends and stepbrother for the past 9 years was diagnosed with stage 3 bladder cancer two weeks ago. His wife is a basket case and falling apart over it, so he calls me to vent and seek support and encouragement.

My ex-wife recently filed for divorce from her second husband (he's a jackass) and calls me a couple of times a week to cry and vent and seek support and encouragement.

My oldest daughter (early 30's) got her heart broken for the first time two months ago and is just in agony and thinks she's dying. I get several calls per week, often at 2 or 3 in the morning, with her bawling and agonizing and certain she'll never stop hurting intensely. I've spent countless hours, often in the middle of the night, soothing and comforting her and helping her through this.

And if all that's not enough, I got a completely surprising blast from the past last week. A woman who was my first love and serious relationship in my early 20 contacted me. We have dozens of mutual friends, so we've certainly sorta kept up with each other's lives over the decades, but this is the first time we've spoken since 1983. About five years ago, she lost her 21-year-old daughter to a drug overdose. The daughter was a bright, beautiful girl about to graduate from college with no history of drug use. Just experimented with some new friends and OD'd on some fentanyl-laced opioids. I'd sent her a condolence card and message when it happened in 2019, but never got a reply until late last week. She's still grieving, unable to continue her career afterwards, and still brokenhearted and depressed. Just needed an old friend to provide a shoulder to cry on. She's been calling or texting regularly the past few days.

So, I've got a wife, a sister, a best friend/stepbrother, an ex-wife, a daughter, and an ex-GF all calling me and texting me 24/7 to cry and vent and seek encouragement. I can't really tell any of them I'm busy or too tired or whatever to listen and be there for them. Sometimes you just man up and be there when needed, I guess. JFC though, I'm tired and feel like the weight of the world is on my shoulders right now.
 
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I'm really starting to regret hiring that guy who's a scUM fan. He's always trying to work the system. Recently, he tells me he needs to attend a wedding in Michigan and then spend several days with the family at a resort. He wants to work remotely, so he doesn't miss these "Life Events" (his words). I tell him he doesn't have any vacation left, but can take the time off without pay. Yesterday I get an email from him saying he needs to work from home. His wife's uncle, passed away and he needs to "be there for her". About a month ago he needed to work from home to support his wife when she was notified her uncle was sick. He's recently had to work from home twice because of car issues, then there was a foundation repair, A/C repair and several other instances. In the nine months he's been here, he's asked to work from home more than the rest of my staff combined. All of this is with him already working from home one day a week. A sharp guy, yet he can never schedule the repairs on his work from home day. Two weeks ago, he stirred up some relationship trouble with the firm we use for our e-Commerce development. He comes to me with his concerns. I tell him I will touch base with them, which he acknowledges. Next thing I know, I get an email from the owner of the firm asking what's going on? I find out he decided to ignore what I said and contacted them himself.

At the age of 30 and as a manager, I don't think expecting more out of him is unreasonable.
 
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Irish#1 said:
I'm really starting to regret hiring that guy who's a scUM fan. He's always trying to work the system. Recently, he tells me he needs to attend a wedding in Michigan and then spend several days with the family at a resort. He wants to work remotely, so he doesn't miss these "Life Events" (his words). I tell him he doesn't have any vacation left, but can take the time off without pay. Yesterday I get an email from him saying he needs to work from home. His wife's uncle, passed away and he needs to "be there for her". About a month ago he needed to work from home to support his wife when she was notified her uncle was sick. He's recently had to work from home twice because of car issues, then there was a foundation repair, A/C repair and several other instances. In the nine months he's been here, he's asked to work from home more than the rest of my staff combined. All of this is with him already working from home one day a week. A sharp guy, yet he can never schedule the repairs on his work from home day. Two weeks ago, he stirred up some relationship trouble with the firm we use for our e-Commerce development. He comes to me with his concerns. I tell him I will touch base with them, which he acknowledges. Next thing I know, I get an email from the owner of the firm asking what's going on? I find out he decided to ignore what I said and contacted them himself.

At the age of 30 and as a manager, I don't think expecting more out of him is unreasonable.
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Irish#1 said:
Bishop, they're all contacting you for a reason. When you figure that out, it won't seem as much of a burden.
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I know. I feel honored in a way and glad they trust me and lean on me. I'm just stretched thin from all of it and the lack of sleep. I appreciate the kind words, my friend.
 
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Just watched a video on the making of the "Thong Song". They sampled the Beatles "Eleanor Rigby" to make it. I have nothing left to learn in this life.
 
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Bishop2b5 said:
My day to vent and unburden myself a bit. Over the past few weeks, a lot of things have gone wrong in my world and I've apparently become the rock that several people have leaned on... to the point that I'm feeling like Atlas with the world on my shoulders.

When I met my wife almost 15 years ago, she had a 6-year-old son from her first marriage who had some major physical & mental disabilities and some very serious health issues. He wasn't expected to make it much past adolescence, and certainly not out of his teens. He lived with us for the first several years of our marriage, but when my wife had cancer in '15, his dad gladly took him and kept him since (we have an excellent relationship with her ex). Three weeks ago, the boy was hospitalized with pneumonia and was expected to go home in a day or two, when he suddenly went south and passed away at 21. As you can imagine, my wife has just been devastated and heartbroken, and I've taken a couple of weeks off to take care of her.

Last week, my sister's husband found out he has a rare and aggressive form of cancer that is stage 4. His prognosis isn't hopeless by any means, but not great either - a five year survival rate of about 40-50%. My sister is terrified. She can't vent and cry to him because she's trying to be his rock, so she calls me almost every day to cry and vent and seek encouragement.

One of my oldest, dearest friends and stepbrother for the past 9 years was diagnosed with stage 3 bladder cancer two weeks ago. His wife is a basket case and falling apart over it, so he calls me to vent and seek support and encouragement.

My ex-wife recently filed for divorce from her second husband (he's a jackass) and calls me a couple of times a week to cry and vent and seek support and encouragement.

My oldest daughter (early 30's) got her heart broken for the first time two months ago and is just in agony and thinks she's dying. I get several calls per week, often at 2 or 3 in the morning, with her bawling and agonizing and certain she'll never stop hurting intensely. I've spent countless hours, often in the middle of the night, soothing and comforting her and helping her through this.

And if all that's not enough, I got a completely surprising blast from the past last week. A woman who was my first love and serious relationship in my early 20 contacted me. We have dozens of mutual friends, so we've certainly sorta kept up with each other's lives over the decades, but this is the first time we've spoken since 1983. About five years ago, she lost her 21-year-old daughter to a drug overdose. The daughter was a bright, beautiful girl about to graduate from college with no history of drug use. Just experimented with some new friends and OD'd on some fentanyl-laced opioids. I'd sent her a condolence card and message when it happened in 2019, but never got a reply until late last week. She's still grieving, unable to continue her career afterwards, and still brokenhearted and depressed. Just needed an old friend to provide a shoulder to cry on. She's been calling or texting regularly the past few days.

So, I've got a wife, a sister, a best friend/stepbrother, an ex-wife, a daughter, and an ex-GF all calling me and texting me 24/7 to cry and vent and seek encouragement. I can't really tell any of them I'm busy or too tired or whatever to listen and be there for them. Sometimes you just man up and be there when needed, I guess. JFC though, I'm tired and feel like the weight of the world is on my shoulders right now.
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Damn, man. That is a mountain of trouble. I can't put it any better than @Irish#1 did, but know that it will get better in time for both your family and friends, and they're lucky to have a good man like you to lean on during these difficult times. Praying for the best.
 
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I was recently reminded of something that happened 40 years ago that's gross, totally inappropriate, but funny in a twisted sort of way.

During my final year at Bama, the girls who lived next door to me had a party one Saturday night and my friend Tom & I were invited. At some point late in the evening I hooked up with a girl at the party who agreed to go back to my place next door for some casual late-night fun. We were soon in bed and most of our clothes off when she informed me that it was the wrong time of the month, but that there were "other things" she could do, which she then proceeded to demonstrate with an abundance of skill & enthusiasm

At the magic moment, she pulled away slightly so that about half my DNA sample went where God & nature intended, and the other half landed on the left side of her face & neck. She hadn't seemed even buzzed up until that point, but apparently she'd had a bit to drink because she immediately just flopped over onto her back and passed out without saying a word or wiping her face. I just let her sleep and went to the den to watch TV. After about 45 minutes she woke up, got dressed, and came out to the den a bit embarrassed about passing out during sex. I laughed it off and we went back to the party.

Tom soon asked me how things had gone next door and all I told him was that she'd had too much to drink and I'd let her sleep it off, never mentioning anything about the rest. About 30 minutes later I decided to call it a night and head to bed. I told Tom I'd see him at noon the next day as we had plans to go to lunch. He asked me if I minded if he took a run at the girl I'd taken back to my place earlier. I told him to go for it and wished him luck.

Next morning about 11:30 I showed up at his place and we were talking about the party. I asked him if he'd had any luck with that girl and he said not really. He said he'd tried to get something going and they'd made out for a couple of minutes, but she hadn't seemed to be into it so it soon fizzled out. I told him sorry and he said it was no big deal and that besides, that girl had been nasty. There hadn't been anything nasty about her and when I asked him what he meant he said, "Yeah man, I was kissing on her neck and nibbling her ear and she had dried beer or vomit or something all over the side of her face. She was nasty." Oh LAWD! I just kept my mouth shut and decided to not ruin my friend's life.
 
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Bishop2b5 said:
I was recently reminded of something that happened 40 years ago that's gross, totally inappropriate, but funny in a twisted sort of way.

During my final year at Bama, the girls who lived next door to me had a party one Saturday night and my friend Tom & I were invited. At some point late in the evening I hooked up with a girl at the party who agreed to go back to my place next door for some casual late-night fun. We were soon in bed and most of our clothes off when she informed me that it was the wrong time of the month, but that there were "other things" she could do, which she then proceeded to demonstrate with an abundance of skill & enthusiasm

At the magic moment, she pulled away slightly so that about half my DNA sample went where God & nature intended, and the other half landed on the left side of her face & neck. She hadn't seemed even buzzed up until that point, but apparently she'd had a bit to drink because she immediately just flopped over onto her back and passed out without saying a word or wiping her face. I just let her sleep and went to the den to watch TV. After about 45 minutes she woke up, got dressed, and came out to the den a bit embarrassed about passing out during sex. I laughed it off and we went back to the party.

Tom soon asked me how things had gone next door and all I told him was that she'd had too much to drink and I'd let her sleep it off, never mentioning anything about the rest. About 30 minutes later I decided to call it a night and head to bed. I told Tom I'd see him at noon the next day as we had plans to go to lunch. He asked me if I minded if he took a run at the girl I'd taken back to my place earlier. I told him to go for it and wished him luck.

Next morning about 11:30 I showed up at his place and we were talking about the party. I asked him if he'd had any luck with that girl and he said not really. He said he'd tried to get something going and they'd made out for a couple of minutes, but she hadn't seemed to be into it so it soon fizzled out. I told him sorry and he said it was no big deal and that besides, that girl had been nasty. There hadn't been anything nasty about her and when I asked him what he meant he said, "Yeah man, I was kissing on her neck and nibbling her ear and she had dried beer or vomit or something all over the side of her face. She was nasty." Oh LAWD! I just kept my mouth shut and decided to not ruin my friend's life.
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ulukinatme said:
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I knew it was coming, but I still laughed at the end.
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To this day, I can still see him sitting across the table and me thinking, "Don't react. Don't react! Just shrug and say nothing!" I'm still friends with him on FB and I have NEVER brought that night up since. He still has no idea... and we're gonna leave it that way.
 
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To this day, I can still see him sitting across the table and me thinking, "Don't react. Don't react! Just shrug and say nothing!" I'm still friends with him on FB and I have NEVER brought that night up since. He still has no idea... and we're gonna leave it that way.
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Not me! I would have told him the minute he mentioned it. lol
 
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