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Offline Ghreyfain

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A Confession
« on: May 11, 2005, 02:27:18 AM »
I have a confession to make.

You see, I bought a car just recently.

I figured that was okay because it means I could expand on my career.

I maintained that I would continue rollerblading to work, cycling being impossible due to... uh, anyways, a story for another post. :(  Suffice it to say, it's impossible.  This normally takes all of ten minutes, and there are no big hills I can complain about.

Today, it was snowing at 11:30 in the morning, and the ground was a bit wet after that.

I figured it might be slick.

I was lazy.

I'd rather have been napping.

I wasn't relishing rollerblading home at midnight after work.

I...

I drove to work.  I feel horrible.  I feel slightly less horrible because I got lost on the way, which I figure serves as a sort of penance, but still... I have betrayed both humanity, mother earth, and my own self!  What's a pirate to do?  I'm even thinking about driving to work tomorrow.  Help me!  Arrrrgh!
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Re: A Confession
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2005, 02:30:55 AM »
YOU ARE UNFIT TO WALK THE EARTH.
Well, there was this doggy. He was a very clever doggy. He said things like...like... "I would feel infinitely more comfortable in your presence if you would agree to treat gravity as a law, rather than one of a number of suggested options."

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Re: A Confession
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2005, 02:31:49 AM »
I KNOW.  WHAT DO I DO?

edit: Besides drive everywhere.
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Re: A Confession
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2005, 05:39:19 AM »
Now you will get fat and lazy. :D
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Re: A Confession
« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2005, 06:22:20 AM »
You have squandered your opportunity to be a pinnacle of sustainable development for the community, every pirate out there, the world. Having been so forthcoming about your downfall will at least get you a place with a view...in the hell of complacent consumers. You will soon find out that you have to get in the car to get your mail or look at the backside of your house. You could have blamed the climate, but then again you did not just move there recently.

@edit: Besides drive everywhere.: That was extremely funny and witty, so there may still be hope when summer comes or is it a convertible?
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Re: A Confession
« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2005, 07:17:40 AM »
Yer walkin the plank matey. ARGHH!  :pirate

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Re: A Confession
« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2005, 07:48:12 AM »
Well I, for one, am impressed that you made it so long without a car - but I am in America, home of the gluttons.  And where the standard 16th b-day present is a car.

So I will mourn the passing of youthful ideal # x.

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Re: A Confession
« Reply #7 on: May 11, 2005, 07:57:30 AM »
I wish I could have driven today - well, driven the 5 block walk to the train station, that is.  This morning I left my house just as the nasty high-winds thunderstorm ripped through, and thus in the space of 5 blocks my umbrella was broken by being blown inside out, my water-resistant trench coat ceased resisting water in variouis spots (as did my messenger bag, ugh), and my pants were left utterly soaked through.  So as another person who gets to work without a car, I sympathize.

Oh yeah: Bad Ghrey.  Can't think of some kind of penance, though, so you'll have to come up with that on your own.

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Re: A Confession
« Reply #8 on: May 11, 2005, 09:38:30 AM »
Move to a point in the suburbs not less than 20 km from any place that a pirate might wish to loot.  Make sure that none of the roads have margins wide or sturdy enough to accomodate a bicycalist safely.  That won't help the planet at all but it will cover your sense of guilt with a patina of apparent necessity.

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Re: A Confession
« Reply #9 on: May 11, 2005, 10:14:15 AM »
Does this mean yet another bike's been stolen?
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Re: A Confession
« Reply #10 on: May 11, 2005, 10:46:28 AM »
Now you will get fat and lazy. :D

I'm halfway there, so that's not terribly encouraging.

@edit: Besides drive everywhere.: That was extremely funny and witty, so there may still be hope when summer comes or is it a convertible?

Well, the weather's nice enough these days that I've been blading to work for the past three weeks or so.  Before that I was cycling all winter, which isn't as bad as it sounds because I live downtown and the city clears the pathways of snow.

Well I, for one, am impressed that you made it so long without a car - but I am in America, home of the gluttons.

Calgary was voted most "American" city in Canada by... some magazine or something.  I can't say I was impressed when I saw the headline.  So anyways, there goes your argument.

I wish I could have driven today - well, driven the 5 block walk to the train station, that is. This morning I left my house just as the nasty high-winds thunderstorm ripped through...

That hits upon a point I mentioned last night.  The daily commute should be a gruelling ordeal of strength and endurance, not a pampered trip in an air-conditioned little room where you get to sit down and listen to music.

Also, I have many horror stories about some winter cycling trips to work, but since I have to get going a bit earlier because I'm not driving today, they can wait for later.

Does this mean yet another bike's been stolen?

Yes. :(  The irony was amusing in that it was stolen while I was in the bank signing some forms for my draft.  If only I hadn't forgotten my U-lock and didn't need to rely on the cable I kept on me at all times for emergencies.
« Last Edit: May 11, 2005, 08:08:54 PM by Ghreyfain »
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Re: A Confession
« Reply #11 on: May 11, 2005, 11:14:14 AM »
It snows in May? Shees, you guys have it even worse than we. :P

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Re: A Confession
« Reply #12 on: May 11, 2005, 11:22:19 AM »
I went to a baseball game in Calgary in July.

IT WAS SNOWED OUT.
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Re: A Confession
« Reply #13 on: May 11, 2005, 12:21:13 PM »
The solution is obvious: Cut off your driving hands, so that it will never happen again.

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Re: A Confession
« Reply #14 on: May 11, 2005, 04:11:48 PM »
Now you will get fat and lazy. :D
Good. He needs to gain some weight.  ;D
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Re: A Confession
« Reply #15 on: May 11, 2005, 08:11:45 PM »
It snows in May? Shees, you guys have it even worse than we. :P
I went to a baseball game in Calgary in July.

IT WAS SNOWED OUT.

Which reminds me of a Calgarian saying; If you don't like the weather, wait an hour.

Today it's bright and sunny, and around 20 degrees (real temperature, not that fahrenheit schmarenheit crap).

The solution is obvious: Cut off your driving hands, so that it will never happen again.

But those're also my typing hands, as well as my eating, making-a-living, and feeding-the-hungry hands!

Now you will get fat and lazy. :D
Good. He needs to gain some weight. ;D
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Re: A Confession
« Reply #16 on: May 12, 2005, 01:13:51 AM »
The daily commute should be a gruelling ordeal of strength and endurance, not a pampered trip in an air-conditioned little room where you get to sit down and listen to music.

I always thought it should be the opposite :)

My 25 minute commute everyday is like a decompression chamber (especially after work) where I sort of relax and unwind, or in the case of my morning commute, wake up...

The worst commute I've every had was (with no traffic) 45-60 minutes, but with traffic 2-3 hours... There were days back then when I seriously considered Hot Air Ballooning as a possible transit option...

I used to ride a bike back and forth to work when I was 19-20 and worked closing shift at a convenience store, as I only got my license at the ripe age of 21 (At that point I only needed it to drink, ya see...) Since I got my first car when I was 22, it's been vroom vroom ever since...

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Re: A Confession
« Reply #17 on: May 12, 2005, 09:35:38 AM »
But at what cost?  At what cost, I ask you?

One gallon of gas (US)..... $2.59
All-you-can-eat buffet at the Chuck-O-Rama (US).....$9.99
Watching Ghrey get fat.... Priceless

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Re: A Confession
« Reply #18 on: May 12, 2005, 10:26:06 AM »
* jester suspects glain is a femspambot:

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Re: A Confession
« Reply #19 on: May 12, 2005, 10:44:35 AM »
What?  MILF?
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« Reply #20 on: May 12, 2005, 10:54:03 AM »
 :'(
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« Reply #21 on: May 12, 2005, 10:56:21 AM »
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Re: A Confession
« Reply #22 on: May 12, 2005, 11:05:35 AM »
Am I the only you who had to look up MILF? :( Damn, I am too old for this.
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Re: A Confession
« Reply #23 on: May 12, 2005, 11:07:34 AM »
Hm, why did I know it right away? I think that's far more scary.
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Re: A Confession
« Reply #24 on: May 12, 2005, 11:19:08 AM »
I must confess that this thread has gone downhill fast.
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