The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[Cesar R M]

Most states here don't let you get your license until age 16. For Maryland, you can get your permit at 15 and nine months and your license nine months later. In Pensylvania, you can't get your permit until 16.

Not that it matters, really. So many kids put off getting their licenses. An intern at work didn't have her license. She was 22. A friend of mine was 21 getting hers. I know several people who were 18 or 19. It's actually a general downward trend in the US right now.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/13/teen-drivers-license/2891701/

My parents, especially my mom, were very gungho about me getting my license. I swear she wanted me to have it so I could run her errands.

aaah I see,
its kinda different here.. you can get it at 14 as long you get a certified driving class and then a temporal permit.
but then, kids at 14 do everything here nowadays. from drink, naughty stuff (online and offline),to smoking..etc..

 

[Gabe1]

Thanks for the kind words. I have all the bathroom locations memorized in the parks. Well in Magic Kingdom for sure. It's always the first and last stop after/before all that bus riding. Old age doesn't help much. Definitely more trips to the "little girl's room".

A while back before @betty rose visit we were going through the blog lists of the very best restrooms in all of WDW cause it isn't always a matter of where they are but the best of the best and the cleanest. Funny where our conversations lead us.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

19 days until Labor Day.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

 

[Gabe1]

One of them jumped on our table at Typhoon Lagoon and stole my son's fish right off his plate!

Oh My! Little vultures.

Did Disney replace his Fish for him?

 

[Gabe1]

My body doesn't handle the heat well. When we were in South Dakota, it got up to 103 one day and I felt AWFUL. My head was pounding, I felt nauseous and I just felt horrid. At least with the cold I can wrap up in a blanket, or put on another sweater, or drink some hot chocolate...there seems to be nothing I can do that's effective against the heat.

I'd be sick at 103 too. It was warmer up here than Florida most days the last several weeks.Last evening it dropped to 75 as a storm kick by. My DD went to walk the Pup after and we were chilly. It was 75 and I was chilly. Shows I'm adjusting to the 90's and they say the next several days it should get up there again. But I don't have to shovel it.

 

[Gabe1]

Most rediculous August weather in my memory.
No rain for the first half of the month, with temps in the high 90's - low 100's, and heat indices as high as 116.
It's been raining buckets off and on the last 3 days, and is expected to continue through Thursday.
It starts up again on Sunday, and is predicted to continue through Tuesday.
Normally, during July and August the weatherman/woman could just go on vacation because it's pretty much the same forecast every SINGLE day...100+ (101-112) and clear.
Our HIGH today was 78...that's pretty much our normal overnight low this time of year...!

The sky just wants to cool off the roads and rooftops.

 

[Gabe1]

The Takara Plum wine in Teppan Edo is my favorite wine. Ever. Seriously, I'm hoping our liquor store can order me a bottle.

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And I looked...it seems to widely available at Asian grocery stores and all over the internet. Think you'll have no problem finding it.

My favorite Epcot wine was at Germany. Liebfraumilch. The closest place we could find it was at a grocer in Platteville Wisconsin. When the boys went up there for preseason football they'd bring back 2 cases that would last until the next year. So much before ordering online.

 

[Gabe1]

Thanks for the kind words. I have all the bathroom locations memorized in the parks. Well in Magic Kingdom for sure. It's always the first and last stop after/before all that bus riding. Old age doesn't help much. Definitely more trips to the "little girl's room".

I blame Childbirth.

 

[Cesar R M]

Oh My! Little vultures.

Did Disney replace his Fish for him?

Are those at typhoon worse than the ones at AKL? there is one tall white bird that loves to steal BBQ ribs from people.

 

[Gabe1]

Most states here don't let you get your license until age 16. For Maryland, you can get your permit at 15 and nine months and your license nine months later. In Pensylvania, you can't get your permit until 16.

Not that it matters, really. So many kids put off getting their licenses. An intern at work didn't have her license. She was 22. A friend of mine was 21 getting hers. I know several people who were 18 or 19. It's actually a general downward trend in the US right now.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/13/teen-drivers-license/2891701/

My parents, especially my mom, were very gungho about me getting my license. I swear she wanted me to have it so I could run her errands.

Yep, my Mom took me out of school on my 16th Birthday to get my license, my DS got his on his 16th. My DD wasn't ready, she pulled her license 16+ a month on NYE the day before the laws changed. She still didn't drive alone until 6 months later, she wasn't that sure of herself yet and she knew it. Shortly after she started to driving to dawn swimteam practice a stupid 16 year old blew a stop sign and T-Boned her, that was a scarey phone call. She was in my truck and the other kid was in a mini pick-up. My truck one. It did have a 4x4 dent by the front tire, she had a broken left foot. She thinks it slammed against the side of the car on impact. Being in flip flops not a lot to block the impact. I rode my bike to the accident and when the dude was ticketed and we were free to go I had her drive home just so she didn't have to fret about that. I did drive her to work later and to the ortho the next day as I didn't know about the foot 'till much later.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

Have you started back already?

Monday.

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

But most still require you be 15 or 16 before you are licensed.

Is it the same for scooters ? Because over here its up to 50cc from age 14. Then 125cc from 16 . And unlimited cc or car from 17.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

When I had my first car (a '71 Oldsmobile Cutlass), I actually did collect over $60 in coins (nickels, dimes, and quarters) out of that cars console at one point, that I kept dropping in there after cash transactions.
I put all the pennies in an empty 5 gal. water jug.

We have a penny jug too. Right before Christmas we use them to buy something special.

 

[Gabe1]

Are those at typhoon worse than the ones at AKL? there is one tall white bird that loves to steal BBQ ribs from people.

Same plus others. I feed the dude at AK Flame Tree. They say not to but if you don't they help themselves which is worse. It is a vicious circle. The other place we have issues with the birds is the Waffle QS in Liberty. Not as wicked as the Flame birds but they'll put their beaks up on the table top until they get something.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

But most still require you be 15 or 16 before you are licensed.

That's here. 15 with an adult in the car with you.

 

[MinnieM123]

The Takara Plum wine in Teppan Edo is my favorite wine. Ever. Seriously, I'm hoping our liquor store can order me a bottle.

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Plum wine is sweet, so I like it too, and order a glass if I'm ever at a Japanese restaurant--which isn't often enough by the way!

 

[MinnieM123]

Hmpf. I know I'm not suppose to question the teachings of my Nuns, just trust and obey but I've always been a rebel. It was the Catholic's that renamed the day as Christ's day centuries and centuries ago 'till then Christmas was actually Pagan Saturnalia festival. Always found that interesting. More curious that manger sets and Christmas decoration show snow around Christ. If the Shepherds were out tending to their sheep at night, it certainly wasn't winter. Or only in their dreams.

So, "I'm dreaming of a White Christmas" wasn't the song they were singing centuries ago? Can you confirm that--were you there? Pictures or it didn't happen . . .

 

[Songbird76]

During the week one evening I was coming back from my DD apartment about to cross an intersection to which I had the right away, 25mph residential. On the corner to my left is hedges that kinda block site line but they have a stop sign. I tend to drive like a turtle. People call me the right lane hugger on expressways.

So as I'm approaching the intersection I catch something out of the corner of my eye through the branches of the hedges seeming to be on the sidewalk moving towards the intersection quickly and I hit the brakes. A young boy with with phone in hand runs through the parkway portion of the sidewalk across 3/4 of the intersection before he looks up to see he his standing before the hood of my truck and stops like deer in the headlight stops. He just realized what he had done. Meanwhile his friends are on the parallel sidewalk from the one he used catching up to him and they too just run into the street without looking left for cars coming in the opposite direction, I layed on the horn to warn the oncoming car...he looked unnerved cause he had no way of seeing them at the speed they rain into the street. I've seen a lot of people playing this game in our town but this was the first time I ever saw STUPID.

Wonder if the heat and humidity of this heat event we have going here has slowed participation in the game?

Makes me glad our phones don't have the necessary stuff to play that game. I don't have to worry about that. The kids played a bit on my cousin's phone...not sure who had the most fun. But we were only there for a day, so they didn't have time to get into trouble.

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

So, "I'm dreaming of a White Christmas" wasn't the song they were singing centuries ago? Can you confirm that--were you there? Pictures or it didn't happen . . .

Someone on this thread has to be old enough to confirm this ??