It doesn’t fit anywhere else, so put it here

[KUGRDON]

19 minutes ago, trickydlck said:

Ha! That was nice of him to wait until you got outside though.

Especially After I threw him under the bridge.

[trickydlck]

46 minutes ago, KUGRDON said:

Especially After I threw him under the bridge.

Thank you folks, he'll be here all week. Try the veal and tip your waitress, etc, etc

[Orange]

20 hours ago, glduck said:

i have absolutely no fear of heights. i think i could totally do that.

that said, i am violently afraid of confined spaces/being trapped somewhere. some friends want to do this panic room thing that opened up here in town (are these everywhere? apparently you are locked in a room and have to solve clues or some shit to get out?) and i'm having severe anxiety over it. being trapped in a confined area is NOT my jam (see also: heavily medicated glduck on any plane excursion no matter how short). 

I have no fear of heights, or airplanes, or even confined spaces (I crawled all the way to the very end of the Lava River cave just south of Bend, where you're literally doing an Army-style belly crawl to the end).

Meanwhile, everyday existence gives me the kind of crippling anxiety that my 5 pm appt this afternoon with the doctor will hopefully address.  So, long story short, I'll trade you.

[Orange]

1 hour ago, trickydlck said:

Ha! That was nice of him to wait until you got outside though.

He's a war vet, he's hip to strategy and playing it cool in tough spots.

[KUGRDON]

1 hour ago, Orange said:

He's a war vet, he's hip to strategy and playing it cool in tough spots.

I know, man hasn’t been afraid of shit for 60 years and let me do that to him.

[Quack 12]

21 hours ago, KUGRDON said:

I’ve always been skittish about heights and now on some medication that makes me scared shitless of heights.  Not afraid in an airplane oddly enough.  A couple of summers ago I was driving north from Seaside, OR, heading for Castle Rock, WA.  I was staring up the road at that bridge over the Columbia at Astoria for what seemed like an eternity, getting more and more anxious.  As I got closer my anxiety neared panic attack levels.  My 85 year old Korea War Veteran Uncle was with me.  I pulled off the road and stopped at a coffee shop.  I surprised my Uncle when I stopped the waitress and said, “My Uncle is 85 and has a weak heart and he’s scared to go over that bridge.  Is there another, lower bridge we can use?”  She directed us to another bridge 30 miles away.  And yes, when we got outside my Uncle called me a pussy.

Funny thing is, the Astoria/Megler Bridge has a clearance of 197 feet. It's exactly the same height as the Lewis and Clark Bridge at Rainier/Longview, which is, I assume, the bridge you ended up taking. I have family in St. Helens, so I cross the L&C bridge almost every time I go to Oregon. I hate the thing, not because I'm afraid of heights, but because it's so narrow, and it gets a shitload of truck traffic, so it shakes and vibrates like crazy.

[Orange]

8 minutes ago, Quack 12 said:

Funny thing is, the Astoria/Megler Bridge has a clearance of 197 feet. It's exactly the same height as the Lewis and Clark Bridge at Rainier/Longview, which is, I assume, the bridge you ended up taking. I have family in St. Helens, so I cross the L&C bridge almost every time I go to Oregon. I hate the thing, not because I'm afraid of heights, but because it's so narrow, and it gets a shitload of truck traffic, so it shakes and vibrates like crazy.

[Quack 12]

Not quite Galloping Gertie, but still semi-unnerving.

[Orange]

Hope you weren't driving a top-down Miata.

[KUGRDON]

31 minutes ago, Quack 12 said:

Funny thing is, the Astoria/Megler Bridge has a clearance of 197 feet. It's exactly the same height as the Lewis and Clark Bridge at Rainier/Longview, which is, I assume, the bridge you ended up taking. I have family in St. Helens, so I cross the L&C bridge almost every time I go to Oregon. I hate the thing, not because I'm afraid of heights, but because it's so narrow, and it gets a shitload of truck traffic, so it shakes and vibrates like crazy.

Makes sense but I wish you hadn’t told me.  I always use that bridge.  I guess it’s that you don’t get a good look at it on the approach and I think the view down to the river is obstructed going over the bridge.  That’s the thing about irrational anxieties, they are irrational.

[KUGRDON]

1 hour ago, Orange said:

Hope you weren't driving a top-down Miata.

When I was younger, I went over the Golden Gate and some bridge in Portland on a Kawasaki 500.  My cousin and I rode from Seattle to Ensenada, Mexico on identical bikes.  Man I hated those bridges.  Can’t tell you what bridge it was in Portland.  That was 1972.  Great trip though.  My cousin and I had $40 and a gas credit card between us and had a blast.  We stopped at an uncles in San Diego and he gave us another $40 which we spent on steaks that night and headed home broke again.

Here’s the bike:

We started with the 500s and moved up to Kawasaki 750 the next year.  We were crazy, I think they were the fastest street bikes at the time.  

heres a bit about those bikes

https://www.motorcyclistonline.com/two-stroke-1972-kawasaki-mach-iv-h2-triple-widowmaker-classic-motorcycles-review-roots#page-3

[Quack 12]

27 minutes ago, KUGRDON said:

 Can’t tell you what bridge it was in Portland.  That was 1972.  

The Fremont (405) didn't open until 1973, so If you were headed south through Portland on I-5, it was probably the Marquam. You would have been on the lower deck.

The northbound lanes of that bridge on the east side of the river are treacherous. 

[Orange]

2 hours ago, KUGRDON said:

When I was younger, I went over the Golden Gate and some bridge in Portland on a Kawasaki 500.  My cousin and I rode from Seattle to Ensenada, Mexico on identical bikes.  Man I hated those bridges.  Can’t tell you what bridge it was in Portland.  That was 1972.  Great trip though.  My cousin and I had $40 and a gas credit card between us and had a blast.  We stopped at an uncles in San Diego and he gave us another $40 which we spent on steaks that night and headed home broke again.

Here’s the bike:

We started with the 500s and moved up to Kawasaki 750 the next year.  We were crazy, I think they were the fastest street bikes at the time.  

heres a bit about those bikes

https://www.motorcyclistonline.com/two-stroke-1972-kawasaki-mach-iv-h2-triple-widowmaker-classic-motorcycles-review-roots#page-3

That's positively Che Guevaraesque.

[KUGRDON]

 

22 minutes ago, Orange said:

That's positively Che Guevaraesque.

We were aiming more at Kerouacian.

[Orange]

Che was on a bike, Kerouac in a sedan.

 

Also, you need way more chicks for that, don't you?

[KUGRDON]

24 minutes ago, Orange said:

You need way more chicks for that, don't you?

I said aiming.  I think the guys with Kérouac had more prostitutes than chicks.

[Orange]

2 minutes ago, KUGRDON said:

I said aiming.  I think the guys with Kérouac had more prostitutes than chicks.

Since when are prostitutes not chicks? I mean, unless they were gigolos.

[KUGRDON]

GL, Papa, Rogue, Quack, which of you is it?

 

 

[Quack 12]

LOL. They have reason to be excited in Nashville, but that's a bit much.

[Orange]

1 hour ago, KUGRDON said:

GL, Papa, Rogue, Quack, which of you is it?

 

 

That dude looks retarded WITHOUT the tattoo.