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[AlohaDawg]

No telling.

I'm sure that sort of thing happens in a lot of places.

I used to work in an STD clinic so I saw and heard lots of weird things.

[starlight]

I have a story about cleveland, too, but.... it's not of the sexual theme...

I wanted a pastry at this little stand in tower mall.... there were a ton on display... and they said "no sorry, there is a croissant and a muffin, that's it" so I took those.

Then at an Italian restaurant upstairs they said there weren't any tables left... but the whole place was empty.

For some reason it felt like the twilight zone.

Also, a homeless looking man stumbled over trying to open the car door while we were parked somewhere.. that wasn't cool.

I'm sure this story is not so interesting, but 8yrs ago, it was... just the chain of events.  all together.  yes.

[side_show]

I have a story about cleveland, too, but.... it's not of the sexual theme...

I wanted a pastry at this little stand in tower mall.... there were a ton on display... and they said "no sorry, there is a croissant and a muffin, that's it" so I took those.

Then at an Italian restaurant upstairs they said there weren't any tables left... but the whole place was empty.

For some reason it felt like the twilight zone.

Also, a homeless looking man stumbled over trying to open the car door while we were parked somewhere.. that wasn't cool.

I'm sure this story is not so interesting, but 8yrs ago, it was... just the chain of events.  all together.  yes.

Is it possible that you smelt funny?  I mean it would explain a lot - you do not deserve the good pastry if you smell,  you do not get a table if you smell, a homeless looking man will assume you are his buddy and he can live with you in your car if you smell.  I should know, I'm smells.

Or maybe you're non-Cleaveland accent was assumed to not be a non-Cleaveland accent, but rather, a sarcastic tone.  Or maybe you were actually using a sarcastic tone, assuming that it would only be taken for a non-Cleaveland accent, but you didn't pull one over on Cleaveland.  Oh, no, Cleaveland pulled one over on you.  Huh.  So there.

[Turbo Ninja]

Cleveland has no privilege to discriminate based on smell.  I grew up about 35 miles south of the city and the steel mills emit a horrendous, permeating sulphuric stench that form a stink-dome over everything in Cuyahoga County.  North on 71 or 77?  Get ready, because once you get to Independence or so you'll start thinking someone hid a dozen rotten eggs in your glovebox and the odor will stay with you on your way home well past Akron (which sometimes still stinks of burning rubber itself).  The river and lake provide no mercy - although they're not dirty enough to catch fire anymore, they still reek like a sewage treatment plant.

So no, the Clevelanders were probably not thinking that you smelled bad.

[AlohaDawg]

You grew up exactly where?

Akron smelled worse. The tire plants smelled badder than the steel mills, I think.  I had the lucky privilege of living right between Akron and Cleveland, downwind from a shit factory (water treatment plant).

8 Years ago, though, if there was any steel still coming out of Cleveland it was from LTV which I think shut down somewhere in that time frame. So not too much industrial smells to worry about.

The real stench comes from Jane Campbell's office. She's flown that plane right into the ground.

[Turbo Ninja]

Maybe it's not the steel mills anymore but there's gotta be some kind of foundries or factories up there making things smell like Bigfoot's dick.

I grew up in Cuyahoga Falls.  I'm happy I don't live there anymore.

[AlohaDawg]

You grew up in Caucasian Falls? I grew up in Bath Township. My dad had an office on Grant Street right across from Rick Case at State Road. I had to spend an inordinate amount of my youth there.

[side_show]

Cleveland has no privilege to discriminate based on smell.

According to this logic...

Two guys in Cleveland:
A: Hey, it smells like this milk has gone bad.
B: Ah, but there's no way to be sure, since we're in Cleveland and everything smells bad here, so you have to taste it to be sure.
A:  Blurt!  Oh god why!  It tastes so bad!  I wish I could discriminate based on smell!

A tourist in Cleveland:
Tourist:  Gee, maybe I shouldn't go down this alley, since it stinks of hobo pee.  Oh wait, I'm in Cleveland, so it's probably just a cleveland smell, no hobo pee.
Hobo:  Ha, ha, like so many others, you have stumbled into my hobo grotto, unable to discern my hobo pee smell from the regular cleveland air!  Now hand over your spare change before I jesus monkey newpaper you!

My point is, that sometimes you can even smell worse than the normal stink of a place.  It's possible.  

I didn't mean to imply that starlight stinks, btw.  Really it's me.  I'm the one who stinks.  Who stinks?  I do.

[starlight]

I didn't mean to imply that starlight stinks, btw.  Really it's me.  I'm the one who stinks.  Who stinks?  I do.

Heh.  no offense taken!
Perhaps I did smell... I really don't recall that far back.
We were staying at a crappy motel where I didn't even want to sit on the bed.  perhaps the hidden smell of that room attached itself to me.  something to consider....

AND!  hobo grotto!
I almost spit on my monitor.  I'm never drinking anything when I read funny things thankfully.  heh.  this is a one month old laptop afterall!

[V-Adore]

Threads have been split. Go forth and speak of hobos and toaster ovens in their appropriate locations, O my children.

[AlohaDawg]

Would it be possible, when splitting, to put links to the new threads in the split announcement?

Thanks.

[V-Adore]

Dude, it's not like this board is hugely cavernous or poorly-organized. But if you insist:

Hobos and toaster ovens.

And yes, before anyone says anything: I am aware the split is sloppy. I did my best.

[pmcd9]

Sloppy splitter.

~Paul

[AlohaDawg]

Dude, it's not like this board is hugely cavernous or poorly-organized. But if you insist:

Hobos and toaster ovens.

And yes, before anyone says anything: I am aware the split is sloppy. I did my best.

I'm just thinking if you move someone's stuff, it's only courteous to tell them where it is. Even in a small three room apartment, it would be a nice gesture.

[CortJstr]

Well of course the pro should know every place that a golf cart can fit at high speed. I mean come ON.