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Re: Valentine's Day and V-Day
« Reply #15 on: January 30, 2007, 05:36:46 am »
Quote from: linnea on January 30, 2007, 05:20:49 am
When did you become a mod, Paul? Have you always been one and I just didn't notice??
Rah for good deeds.

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Re: Valentine's Day and V-Day
« Reply #16 on: January 30, 2007, 06:15:55 am »
Quote from: AugustWest on January 30, 2007, 05:36:46 am
Paul has been a mod since small times.

Man, how the hell did I NOT notice before?
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Re: Valentine's Day and V-Day
« Reply #17 on: January 30, 2007, 04:59:29 pm »
I like to feed other people's parking meters when they are about to expire.  I get an extra kick out of the knowledge that this random act of kindness has been outlawed.  It makes me feel like Robin Hood. 

Once I stuck around long enough (I was picking Pedro up for lunch when we were in college) to see somebody come back to his car, look at the parking meter (which would have been expired for quite some time), do a double take, check his watch, call his girlfriend's attention to the parking meter, and stand there incredulously for a minute before getting in his car. 

It felt good. 

To stay somewhat on topic, however, we do not usually do much for Valentine's Day because it falls so close to my birthday.  We never miss March 14, though. 
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Re: Valentine's Day and V-Day
« Reply #18 on: January 30, 2007, 06:42:34 pm »
Quote from: jldunston on January 30, 2007, 04:59:29 pm
Once I stuck around long enough (I was picking Pedro up for lunch when we were in college) to see somebody come back to his car, look at the parking meter (which would have been expired for quite some time), do a double take, check his watch, call his girlfriend's attention to the parking meter, and stand there incredulously for a minute before getting in his car. 

I like to pay the toll for the next car in line when I go across a bridge.  With the coming of "Fast Trak" automatic tolling to the Bay Area, this is a little act that is probably nearing extinction.  I'll have to figure out something else randomly kind to do.
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Re: Valentine's Day and V-Day
« Reply #19 on: January 30, 2007, 08:19:47 pm »
You can still do that. Just roll through the pay toll area with your fast trak and it'll catch the toll for you. Just hand the toll babe the dinero for the next person and move on.

Takes a little premeditated effort so maybe it's not quite the same.
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Re: Valentine's Day and V-Day
« Reply #20 on: January 30, 2007, 09:03:04 pm »
Sadly, back where I grew up, you could not pay for the person behind you because the NYS Thruway was one of those dealies where everyone pays different tolls, depending on what exit they got on. Some dude who got on in Buffalo would pay four more dollars than I did getting on in Syracuse, both of us getting off in Little Falls.

Of course, if you knew someone who worked at the Thruway Rest Area just outside of town, who would HAPPEN to leave the employee access gate unlocked...
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Re: Valentine's Day and V-Day
« Reply #21 on: January 30, 2007, 11:35:51 pm »
I think the "Clam Jam" I am going to this friday has something to do with Valentine's Day/V-Day.

All I know is, a student band I admire is playing. And it has something to do with pu$$ys.
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Re: Valentine's Day and V-Day
« Reply #22 on: January 31, 2007, 02:47:34 am »
Quote from: linnea on January 30, 2007, 05:20:49 am
When did you become a mod, Paul? Have you always been one and I just didn't notice??

Quote from: AugustWest on January 30, 2007, 05:36:46 am
Paul has been a mod since small times.

That's right, and It's time you started kissing my ass.
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Re: Valentine's Day and V-Day
« Reply #23 on: January 31, 2007, 07:15:57 am »
Quote from: pmcd9 on January 31, 2007, 02:47:34 am
That's right, and It's time you started kissing my ass.

I like your hat, paul.

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Re: Valentine's Day and V-Day
« Reply #24 on: January 31, 2007, 02:02:58 pm »
Quote from: jldunston on January 30, 2007, 04:59:29 pm
I like to feed other people's parking meters when they are about to expire.  I get an extra kick out of the knowledge that this random act of kindness has been outlawed.  It makes me feel like Robin Hood. 

Once I stuck around long enough (I was picking Pedro up for lunch when we were in college) to see somebody come back to his car, look at the parking meter (which would have been expired for quite some time), do a double take, check his watch, call his girlfriend's attention to the parking meter, and stand there incredulously for a minute before getting in his car. 

It felt good. 

To stay somewhat on topic, however, we do not usually do much for Valentine's Day because it falls so close to my birthday.  We never miss March 14, though. 

See, in my city, parking karma is a thing of the past.  All our parking meters got replaced by these solar powered ticket machines, and you've got to put the ticket on your dash, so it's not possible to be nice to strangers.  Also, the joy of pulling up to a meter and discovering that there's still time on it no longer exists.  It makes me a little bit sad.
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Re: Valentine's Day and V-Day
« Reply #25 on: January 31, 2007, 03:21:23 pm »
Quote from: side_show on January 31, 2007, 02:02:58 pm
See, in my city, parking karma is a thing of the past.  All our parking meters got replaced by these solar powered ticket machines, and you've got to put the ticket on your dash, so it's not possible to be nice to strangers.  Also, the joy of pulling up to a meter and discovering that there's still time on it no longer exists.  It makes me a little bit sad.

They've been testing those around me for a year or two now. They claim it's better because the machines take plastic (I'm apparently the last person in America to carry cash) but I think you have to buy the whole two hours, which sucks if you know you'll only be 20 minutes. Plus without the actual meters sticking up to guide people while paralles parking nobody ever parks inside the lines. So now they're actually fitting fewer cars into the busiest streets.
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