And the shitstorm that is my life rolls on...

[Fire Me Boy!]

I'm getting really tired of bad shit happening.

Starts in November, when my wife's contract was canceled. Since then, she's been down to part time work that doesn't pay very well. I've been dealing with car problem after car problem after car problem. Finally sold that hunk of crap. The wife's grandpa died a couple weeks ago, and she was closer to him than just about anyone else in her family. More car problems.

Get up this morning and some prick stole my $400 bicycle right off my front porch while my wife and I sleep.

I don't know how much more of this I can handle before someone goes down.

[cookster50]

Claythan did it, he should go down! (Err, anyone else disturbed by that sentence?)

[MOhillbilly]

Welcome to life.

[LaChapelle]

Don't feel like the lone ranger, money's tight for a lot of folks. Hocking thebike helps though, thanks :thumb:

[Fire Me Boy!]

Don't fell like the lone ranger, money's tight for a lot of folks

It's not just the money... I know things come in waves but this feels like one big damn wave that's been pretty non-stop for the past seven months.

Would like to go a couple of totally uneventful months.

[Fire Me Boy!]

Hocking thebike helps though, thanks :thumb:

Fuck off.

[LaChapelle]

It's not just the money... I know things come in waves but this feels like one big damn wave that's been pretty non-stop for the past seven months.

Would like to go a couple of totally uneventful months.

Boredom does get underrated.

[Saulbadguy]

Check with Rain Man. He'd be the first suspect on my list.

[Mr. Flopnuts]

When did you move to SC?

[Stewie]

Smoke a pork butt, you'll be fine. Food is the great elixir.

BTW, maybe you and Rain Man should team up and find these bike thieves.

[JOhn]

Preaching to the choir here....


Not for Bad Luck must days I wouldn't have any.

So I just let most of it roll off me nowadays. just try to remember what's really important...My kids, my health etc...

I know easy to say, harder to do.

[Buehler445]

That sucks, FMB!. It is really unfortunate you can't put any defensive devices in that mame/kill people. When I was in college some motherfucker kiped mine in a similar situation. Me and my roommate had ours chained to the building and someone assassinated the chains and stole them.

Cops did nothing. Didn't even try to go look for it.

Keep your head up though dude. It will get better. In the interim, just enjoy the things that go right.

[Fire Me Boy!]

When did you move to SC?

A year and a couple months ago. End of March 2008.

[Buehler445]

Smoke a pork butt, you'll be fine. Food is the great elixir.

BTW, maybe you and Rain Man should team up and find these bike thieves.

I was going to say ribs, but yeah.

[Fire Me Boy!]

Smoke a pork butt, you'll be fine. Food is the great elixir.

That would be a good idea if my upstairs neighbors weren't pricks and complain to the HOA when I grill/smoke. And since they own and I rent, they win.

[Buck]

Sorry FMB.

LOTR is coming out on Blu-Ray soon if that makes you feel any better.

[RJ]

Sorry to hear of your troubles.

Is the wife still joining the military?

[beach tribe]

Man I'm going through hell right now too bro. I can't wait for the day this shit turns around. Ohh Yess. It will turn around. It always does.

[Demonpenz]

if I had that much invested in a bike I wouldn't leave it outside. I think my 89 ford tempo vosted me less

[The Franchise]

My fiance and I are getting married this Sunday.

Last Thursday a pipe burst in the master bathroom and flooded half the house.

Saturday our washer went to shit.

Yeah.....we're having fun over here. I feel your pain.

[Fire Me Boy!]

Sorry to hear of your troubles.

Is the wife still joining the military?

Yeah. She actually got sworn in last Saturday. On the way home, the battery cable came off the post... no problem right? Except the latch that holds the hood down seized up and wouldn't open and broke the release cable. Had to have it towed so someone could open it up just to put the terminal back on the battery post.

[Fire Me Boy!]

if I had that much invested in a bike I wouldn't leave it outside. I think my 89 ford tempo vosted me less

It was in a screened in porch with no street visibility. It quite literally is breaking and entering and since they did it while my wife and I were home asleep, it's first degree burglary.

[Deberg_1990]

Sorry to hear about your troubles FMB. I think we have all been there at one time or another.

[Simply Red]

I think we should whip up some taco-burgers, and compare recipes. Taco-burgers help any problem.

mmmm,


http://i40.tinypic.com/inturr.jpg

[Iowanian]

You should probably pass "GO" and collect $200.



How do you do this?

Easy, go to a better part of town, and steal a $600 bike off of someone else's porch.

I heard that Mohillbilly leaves $500 cash under the passenger seat of his truck at work....

[angelo]

I know that I am going to sound like Jiminy Cricket.

I have found that most people concentrate on the bad things in life and not the good things. When you wake up with a self defeating attitude it is hard to see the forest for the trees.

Make your self a list of all the bad things and all of the good things.

90% of people will have a longer column in the good things list and even if the bad list is longer at least you know where to start.

I sure money is tight but this is what I would recommend.

Try to remember the one of the first meals you and your wife had together. I know you are a great cook so one night this week or this weekend cook it for dinner. I would do a few romantic things also candles etc. (if the wife is in to that)

After dinner No TV or Computer go straight to the bedroom and have extended foreplay. Then make sweet love to your wife.

I have always found it difficult to worry about problems when aroused.

Do this every night for two months and you will fulfill your own wish.

Best of luck

Ang

[Rain Man]

Sorry to hear about your troubles FMB. I think we have all been there at one time or another.


Just the other day, my butler came to me and said that he'd dropped one of the bone china plates. And then not 20 minutes later, the gardener said that he'd accidentally spilled some weed killer on the grass outside the guest villa. Why does all the bad stuff seem to happen to me?

[Buehler445]

Yeah. She actually got sworn in last Saturday. On the way home, the battery cable came off the post... no problem right? Except the latch that holds the hood down seized up and wouldn't open and broke the release cable. Had to have it towed so someone could open it up just to put the terminal back on the battery post.

Aint that a bitch?

Wife called me a couple weeks back and says the car won't start. Go out there, cranks fine, just won't fire. Crank and crank and crank. Let it set, put gas in it, beat on the gas tank in hopes of engaging the fuel pump, crank and crank and crank. Nothin. Battery is trying to die so I throw in the towel and call a tow truck. Of course the mechanic is closed, but first thing in the morning, starts right up. All diagnostics and measurements are fine. :banghead:
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[Iowanian]

Maybe you could find someone to trade with?

My youngest brother got out of the army about 2 years ago after a long tour in the sand....started a business, worked long, long days to build a reputation and a client base, got a letter from his needy uncle Sam welcoming him back into service and leaves for Iraq July 5.......

he'd trade.

[wild1]

i would secure such a valuable item behind something other than a screen

[Old Dog]

In the title you say, "Life rolls on" that in and of itself is one bright thing. It could be worse.
Keep your head up, your luck will change.

[Fire Me Boy!]

Maybe you could find someone to trade with?

My youngest brother got out of the army about 2 years ago after a long tour in the sand....started a business, worked long, long days to build a reputation and a client base, got a letter from his needy uncle Sam welcoming him back into service and leaves for Iraq July 5.......

he'd trade.

Obviously there are people that have it worse. Doesn't make someone stealing my shit any better.

[FAX]

I'm very sorry about your difficulties, Mr. Fire Me Boy!. Sometimes life is just hard and makes no sense, whatsoever. All you can really do is just roll with the punches then get yourself right back up and dust yourself off and get yourself down to the local pawn shop and get yourself a gun and get yourself right over to the nearest financial institution and rob that place blind.

FAX

[Fire Me Boy!]

i would secure such a valuable item behind something other than a screen

You know... there's a fair amount of truth to what you say because of the society we live in, but I ought to be able to put my fucking bike out on my goddamn porch without worrying about some worthless piece of shit coming along and STEALING my property.

I don't need a fuckin' lecture, I live in a pretty nice part of town and my porch faces a sidewalk at the bottom of a steep hill full of flowers and ferns. This was a thief looking to find something worth stealing. He didn't see my bike from the street and think it looks nice.

Bottom line: This is not my fault. This is the fault of a thief.

[Iowanian]

Obviously there are people that have it worse. Doesn't make someone stealing my shit any better.

You should go down to the end of your block and beat the shit out of a jaywalker, Walt Kowalski. that'll let em know what is waiting next time.

Maybe cut the head off of the next stray that is stealing from your cat food and stick in on a post in your front yard....

[Deberg_1990]

I know that I am going to sound like Jiminy Cricket.

I have found that most people concentrate on the bad things in life and not the good things. When you wake up with a self defeating attitude it is hard to see the forest for the trees.

Make your self a list of all the bad things and all of the good things.

90% of people will have a longer column in the good things list and even if the bad list is longer at least you know where to start.

I sure money is tight but this is what I would recommend.

Try to remember the one of the first meals you and your wife had together. I know you are a great cook so one night this week or this weekend cook it for dinner. I would do a few romantic things also candles etc. (if the wife is in to that)

After dinner No TV or Computer go straight to the bedroom and have extended foreplay. Then make sweet love to your wife.

I have always found it difficult to worry about problems when aroused.

Do this every night for two months and you will fulfill your own wish.

Best of luck

Ang

Very good advice.

FMB, try to look at the positives. YOu have a good job. You have a great website you maintain, Beaker is a great wife etc....

Sucks about the bike, but it is just a bike in the grand scheme of life....

[Radar Chief]

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[wild1]

You know... there's a fair amount of truth to what you say because of the society we live in, but I ought to be able to put my ****ing bike out on my goddamn porch without worrying about some worthless piece of shit coming along and STEALING my property.

I don't need a ****in' lecture, I live in a pretty nice part of town and my porch faces a sidewalk at the bottom of a steep hill full of flowers and ferns. This was a thief looking to find something worth stealing. He didn't see my bike from the street and think it looks nice.

Bottom line: This is not my fault. This is the fault of a thief.

I merely pointed out that I would not leave commonly stolen items outside where the general public has access to them.

[FAX]

Our society is all screwed up.

A few months ago, I came home to discover that my mailbox had been destroyed. Pieces of it laying everywhere. I mean mashed and splintered, man. I'm talking postal demolition.

Anyhow, I speak to one of my neighbors about it and he tells me that some kid on a red scooter was driving and ran into my mailbox. Then, a little later, this kid's mother (or somebody) comes and picks him up.

They leave my mailbox in tatters. They do not, however, leave a note. I fully expected that they would drop by in a few days to tell me what had happened and offer me a check. But no. Nothing. Nada. Bastards.

Crap like this doesn't happen in the forest.

FAX

[ROYC75]

This all part of life dude, drop to your knees and look up for you answers and relief..

[ROYC75]

Our society is all screwed up.

A few months ago, I came home to discover that my mailbox had been destroyed. Pieces of it laying everywhere. I mean mashed and splintered, man. I'm talking postal demolition.

Anyhow, I speak to one of my neighbors about it and he tells me that some kid on a red scooter was driving and ran into my mailbox. Then, a little later, this kid's mother (or somebody) comes and picks him up.

They leave my mailbox in tatters. They do not, however, leave a note. I fully expected that they would drop by in a few days to tell me what had happened and offer me a check. But no. Nothing. Nada. Bastards.

Crap like this doesn't happen in the forest.

FAX


They drive by in pickups with kids in the back, swinging ball bats at the mail boxs.

[Demonpenz]

This all part of life dude, drop to your knees and look up for you answers and relief..

Sucking dick for money doesn't solve all your problems BELIEVE ME

[burt]

Yeah, I left my wife out on the screened in porch, ans some son of a bitch stole her....

[KcFanInGA]

I'm very sorry about your difficulties, Mr. Fire Me Boy!. Sometimes life is just hard and makes no sense, whatsoever. All you can really do is just roll with the punches then get yourself right back up and dust yourself off and get yourself down to the local pawn shop and get yourself a gun and get yourself right over to the nearest financial institution and rob that place blind.

FAX

Now that is what I call a stimulus package. Believe me, I have debated it. And Fire Me Boy, I refuse to blow sunshine today, somedays I feel like taking a chaingun, mounting that son of a bitch to a golf cart and driving by the neighborhood pool, and WalMart, and...well you get the point. Sorry for your run of bad luck!

[KcFanInGA]

This all part of life dude, drop to your knees and look up for you answers and relief..

I want to be a godly person, man I do. And maybe I am just depressed or a negative person, but how do we know if it's God or Aliens up there. Or are they the same thing? I look for relief from a sidewalk view, I can't get up for life kicking the hell out of me! :D

[Frazod]

You should go down to the end of your block and beat the shit out of a jaywalker, Walt Kowalski. that'll let em know what is waiting next time.

Maybe cut the head off of the next stray that is stealing from your cat food and stick in on a post in your front yard....

Here's your Good Christian Thought For The Day.

I feel like a better person just reading it! :thumb:

[FAX]

I know that I am going to sound like Jiminy Cricket.

I have found that most people concentrate on the bad things in life and not the good things. When you wake up with a self defeating attitude it is hard to see the forest for the trees.

Make your self a list of all the bad things and all of the good things.

90% of people will have a longer column in the good things list and even if the bad list is longer at least you know where to start.

I sure money is tight but this is what I would recommend.

Try to remember the one of the first meals you and your wife had together. I know you are a great cook so one night this week or this weekend cook it for dinner. I would do a few romantic things also candles etc. (if the wife is in to that)

After dinner No TV or Computer go straight to the bedroom and have extended foreplay. Then make sweet love to your wife.

I have always found it difficult to worry about problems when aroused.

Do this every night for two months and you will fulfill your own wish.

Best of luck

Ang

Hot girls and lesbos and chicks with big boobies
Cigars and whiskey and guys who ban N00bies (sp?)
BJs and hummers and 'ginas that cling
These are a few of my favorite things.

When my bike's stole
When my wife's gone
When I'm feeling saaaaadddd
I simply remember when I last had sex
And then I don't feeeeeel soooooo baaaaaadd

FAX

[Fire Me Boy!]

Hot girls and lesbos and chicks with big boobies
Cigars and whiskey and guys who ban N00bies (sp?)
BJs and hummers and 'ginas that cling
These are a few of my favorite things.

When my bike's stole
When my wife's gone
When I'm feeling saaaaadddd
I simply remember when I last had sex
And then I don't feeeeeel soooooo baaaaaadd

FAX

This last stanza is not going to ring true when my wife leaves for basic and tech school for five months. I'm guessing around December if I think back on the last time I had sex it won't make me feel any better.

Can you compose an alternate verse for when that time comes?

[stevieray]

I was sad when I saw I had no bike
then I saw the man with no feet.


hang in there

[wutamess]

You could be paying ANOTHER $2400 to Humana for health insurance deductable. And that's on top of the almost $5k we've already sent in towards the deductible.

Sorry to turn this into a Political thread but...

Bring on Universal Healthcare!

[FAX]

This last stanza is not going to ring true when my wife leaves for basic and tech school for five months. I'm guessing around December if I think back on the last time I had sex it won't make me feel any better.

Can you compose an alternate verse for when that time comes?

Absolutely. But, for now, I think it's best to just take it one step at a time.

Right now, it is vitally important that you make love to your wife as frequently as possible before she leaves for training.

Oh ... and take pictures.

FAX

[dtebbe]

You could be paying ANOTHER $2400 to Humana for health insurance deductable. And that's on top of the almost $5k we've already sent in towards the deductible.

Sorry to turn this into a Political thread but...

Bring on Universal Healthcare!

In which case you would be bitching that you had been trying to see a doctor for six months, but had not been able to. I've lived in countries with the "Utopia" of Socialist Medicine, trust me it's not good.

DT

[LaChapelle]

Search for ROYC75 threads and count your blessings.

[Otter]

I was sad when I saw I had no bike
then I saw the man with no feet.

hang in there

Six Flags Amusement Resort really needs to shut that ride down already.

[El Jefe]

Welcome to life.

Boy you're SENSITIVE

[kc rush]

Sorry to hear it.

I've pretty well documented all of the crap thats happened to me over the past year here and I can feel for you.

A couple of months ago I was having a day like you are today and I lashed out. One of my friends said, "If it makes you feel any better, there are a lot of people going through this type of thing right now" All I could say is that it didn't make me feel any better, it only makes me fell bad for them as well.

Good luck to you, hopefully things get better soon.

[Halfcan]

Sucking dick for money doesn't solve all your problems BELIEVE ME

wtf????

[Frazod]

When we first moved to Naperville somebody stole my wife's bike from the train station parking lot. It was worth several hundred dollars. She had it chained up, but they just cut through the chain. The most frustrating part was we had just moved out of Chicago to get away from all that shit, but even in one of the nicest suburbs in the area there is simply no escape from crime. One of my friends who lives 15 miles outside of Jefferson City got his house broken into a few years ago. It's a pretty sad reflection of the times when even the country isn't safe.

[wild1]

When we first moved to Naperville somebody stole my wife's bike from the train station parking lot. It was worth several hundred dollars. She had it chained up, but they just cut through the chain. The most frustrating part was we had just moved out of Chicago to get away from all that shit, but even in one of the nicest suburbs in the area there is simply no escape from crime. One of my friends who lives 15 miles outside of Jefferson City got his house broken into a few years ago. It's a pretty sad reflection of the times when even the country isn't safe.

Public transit transports crime as well. You find nicer cars to break into and nicer homes to burglarize, stores worth shoplifting at, etc., at the end of the bus/train line. It can help a smalltime crook out quite a bit.

[Rain Man]

Sometimes I think China does it right. Stole something? Line up and collect your bullet.

[kepp]

That sucks. I had my $600+ mt bike stolen from our apartment garage when we lived in LA because our neighbor left it open. The thing is, she had been warned about it several times by the building owner (who also lived in the apt). The stole my bike and tore through the owner's car. The ditz never so much as apologized to anyone.

[Frazod]

Public transit transports crime as well. You find nicer cars to break into and nicer homes to burglarize, stores worth shoplifting at, etc., at the end of the bus/train line. It can help a smalltime crook out quite a bit.

The train station parking lot is a regular crime bonanza. Huge lot, obviously not adequately patrolled (despite the money they charge for parking), and one of the few Section 8 apartment complexes in the area is just a few hundred yards away (I couldn't escape that shit either). I can't say I see broken car window glass all the time, but far more often than I should. And after Reerun's thread about how the thieves used his garage door opener to get into his house, I don't leave my garage door opener on my visor anymore - that's a recipe for disaster. At least I have a bland-looking car, and as long as I don't leave anything sitting out, I should be fine.

[Frazod]

Sometimes I think China does it right. Stole something? Line up and collect your bullet.

Works for me. It's not like we're an endangered species.

[Bob Dole]

Works for me. It's not like we're an endangered species.

Plus we'd have the main ingredient for some Soylent Green to feed the poor!

[Frazod]

Plus we'd have the main ingredient for some Soylent Green to feed the poor!

THIS!

[googlegoogle]

dude. you car broke because some cars are unreliable.

you had your bike stolen because you should never leave $400 bike on your porch unless you live in gated community.

sell your car and buy a reliable brand. buy another bike but worth only $50 used. Leave it outside again and have surveillance camera on it with some alarm. Then kick ass. get revenge.

[Rausch]

I'm getting really tired of bad shit happening.

Starts in November, when my wife's contract was canceled. Since then, she's been down to part time work that doesn't pay very well. I've been dealing with car problem after car problem after car problem. Finally sold that hunk of crap. The wife's grandpa died a couple weeks ago, and she was closer to him than just about anyone else in her family. More car problems.

Get up this morning and some prick stole my $400 bicycle right off my front porch while my wife and I sleep.

I don't know how much more of this I can handle before someone goes down.

I like you, you're my kinda' guy, but you sure do fucking cry a lot for a grown man...

[007]

sorry to hear about all of that FMB. I certainly hope you and your wife see a change in fortune soon.

[Rausch]

Plus we'd have the main ingredient for some Soylent Green to feed the poor!

Wait....I don't want to eat just fucking anybody.

[007]

Wait....I don't want to eat just ****ing anybody.ROFL I am certainly glad I was not taking a drink when I read that post.

[Earthling]

The wife of a friend I know decided to leave his banjo outside on the porch, with the idea that it would get stolen and she would not have to listen to him playin' it anymore. First thing in the mornin' she checked her porch and found two more banjos.

[Bwana]

Our society is all screwed up.

A few months ago, I came home to discover that my mailbox had been destroyed. Pieces of it laying everywhere. I mean mashed and splintered, man. I'm talking postal demolition.

Anyhow, I speak to one of my neighbors about it and he tells me that some kid on a red scooter was driving and ran into my mailbox. Then, a little later, this kid's mother (or somebody) comes and picks him up.

They leave my mailbox in tatters. They do not, however, leave a note. I fully expected that they would drop by in a few days to tell me what had happened and offer me a check. But no. Nothing. Nada. Bastards.

Crap like this doesn't happen in the forest.

FAX

This is true Mr. Fax, but on the other hand, there is alway a chance you can be eaten by a grizzly bear in the forest, which would be even worse luck.