Duck Pond Redneckery

[Duck]

Looks like you building a bomb or something there

I'd like to challenge a bomb squad guy some day.

I'll build a fake bomb, with just a loud buzzer that goes off instead of a bang, and see if he can defeat it without setting off the buzzer.

I bet they do that stuff in training all the time.

 

[Rigjockey]

My Dad lost his car at a shopping mall. My cousin found the car a week later not at the shopping mall but at another plaza across the street six lanes of traffic.

The doctors ended up taking away his license. He tried to get it back but could not pass the doctors tests that would allow him to take the ministry tests. He wasn't even close.

Later they gave him some dementia tests like draw a clock. I have seen this test on one of those doctors shows. He couldn't draw the clock.
It got dangerous when he would turn on the stove and forget that he had turned it on. Mother had to take all the dials off the stove and hide them.

He is in a home now. Safe and well taken care of. Still, it is sad to see him like that.
He worked his whole life saving money for retirement so he and my mother could travel and live well. They never got to do all that.

 

[Electric Chicken]

My Dad lost his car at a shopping mall. My cousin found the car a week later not at the shopping mall but at another plaza across the street six lanes of traffic.

The doctors ended up taking away his license. He tried to get it back but could not pass the doctors tests that would allow him to take the ministry tests. He wasn't even close.

Later they gave him some dementia tests like draw a clock. I have seen this test one of those doctors shows. He couldn't draw the clock.
It got dangerous when he would turn on the stove and forget that he had turned it on. Mother had to take all the dials off the stove and hide them.

He is in a home now. Safe and well taken care of. Still, it is sad to see him like that.
He worked his whole life saving money for retirement so he and my mother could travel and live well. They never got to do all that.

To be fair, I can't draw a clock either. I can't draw shit. That's why there are emojis for both.

 

[Duck]

To be fair, I can't draw a clock either. I can't draw shit. That's why there are emojis for both.

Every time I try to draw a clock, it's broken. It's only correct twice a day. The rest of the time it's wrong, no matter what I do.

 

[Duck]

My Dad lost his car at a shopping mall. My cousin found the car a week later not at the shopping mall but at another plaza across the street six lanes of traffic.

The doctors ended up taking away his license. He tried to get it back but could not pass the doctors tests that would allow him to take the ministry tests. He wasn't even close.

Later they gave him some dementia tests like draw a clock. I have seen this test one of those doctors shows. He couldn't draw the clock.
It got dangerous when he would turn on the stove and forget that he had turned it on. Mother had to take all the dials off the stove and hide them.

He is in a home now. Safe and well taken care of. Still, it is sad to see him like that.
He worked his whole life saving money for retirement so he and my mother could travel and live well. They never got to do all that.

Thing is, my dad's been doing absent minded stuff his whole life.

My mom used to tell the story about the time when my sister and I were little, and my mom had to go somewhere & my dad was reading a book with his feet on the coffee table, and my sister and I painted the entire top of the coffee table with white shoe polish and he didn't even notice until my mom got home. He would've been in his early 30's at the time.

When he was my age, he'd be storming around the house all pissed off because he couldn't find the TV remote, and my mom would have to tell him it's in his shirt pocket.

 

[Rigjockey]

Like last week I was headed out of the house on my way to work, then I got into a panic because my glasses were not where I usually put them.
I found them. I was already wearing them.

 

[Duck]

My dad is worried because he can't recall names.

I can't either. I'm horrible with names. For over a year, I thought my neighbor down the road was Scott, til one day I heard his wife call him Mark.

 

[Rigjockey]

My dad is worried because he can't recall names.

I can't either. I'm horrible with names. For over a year, I thought my neighbor down the road was Scott, til one day I heard his wife call him Mark.

When someone tells me they are good with faces they just can't remember names.
I always say I am good with names I just can't remember faces
If they say oh, I am the opposite, I know they didn't get it or are idiots.

Like if you remember names but not faces, how would you know what name to put to a face?

 

[Duck]

When someone tells me they are good with faces they just can't remember names.
I always say I am good with names I just can't remember faces
If they say oh, I am the opposite, I know they didn't get it or are idiots.

Like if you remember names but not faces, how would you know what name to put to a face?

There are a lot of politicians whose names I recognize & I even know a few things about them, but I have no idea what they look like.

 

[Electric Chicken]

Thing is, my dad's been doing absent minded stuff his whole life.

My mom used to tell the story about the time when my sister and I were little, and my mom had to go somewhere & my dad was reading a book with his feet on the coffee table, and my sister and I painted the entire top of the coffee table with white shoe polish and he didn't even notice until my mom got home. He would've been in his early 30's at the time.

When he was my age, he'd be storming around the house all pissed off because he couldn't find the TV remote, and my mom would have to tell him it's in his shirt pocket.

I was running around desperately looking for my glasses. They were on my head the whole time. Not the top. I was wearing them properly.

It's getting bad.

 

[Rigjockey]

I was supposed to train a guy and dispatch told me his name was mark. In the morning a guy came up to me and introduced himself as Kevin and said I was supposed to train him.
I asked him if he was sure his name was Kevin and not Mark?
He said no its Kevin.
Okay, then, if you are sure because dispatch told me your name was Mark. Disptach is never wrong.

Alright let's go Kevin if that is your real name.

He got a good laugh out of that, and it broke the ice.

 

[389 Hood]

It doesn't get any better the older that you get either.

 

[GAnthony]

The only “Duck” I know is this one

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well, this is the only duck i know of from the Chinese restaurant we go to...

 

[GAnthony]

I was supposed to train a guy and dispatch told me his name was mark. In the morning a guy came up to me and introduced himself as Kevin and said I was supposed to train him.
I asked him if he was sure his name was Kevin and not Mark?
He said no its Kevin.
Okay, then, if you are sure because dispatch told me your name was Mark. Disptach is never wrong.

Alright let's go Kevin if that is your real name.

He got a good laugh out of that, and it broke the ice.

meantime, "mark" came in late, dispatch got the drivers mixed up, and Mark is now the terminal manager.

 

[Duck]

So I bought this.... thing.... today fer $700



For scale, here it is in my trailer:



It's a homemade body on a 1949 Crosley station wagon chassis.

The engine is an inline 4 cylinder with overhead cam, 12 volt electrical system, starts right up. Supposedly 26 hp.



I figure it needs 4 tires and some paint.

Since the body is homemade (by some guy's grandfather who has been dead since 1973) there's no value in keeping it original. So I'll just slap some Rustoleum on it, sand it smooth a week later & spray on something clear.

Based on some quick research I figure it'll do about 55 mph.

3 speed stick-shift. Hopefully it has reverse.

Seller had plans for it but decided that he's too old & feeble to mess with it.

 

[Duck]

Crosley - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

This is what the engine/trans/chassis is from.

 

[Electric Chicken]

So I bought this.... thing.... today fer $700

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For scale, here it is in my trailer:

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It's a homemade body on a 1949 Crosley station wagon chassis.

The engine is an inline 4 cylinder with overhead cam, 12 volt electrical system, starts right up. Supposedly 26 hp.

View attachment 88746

I figure it needs 4 tires and some paint.

Since the body is homemade (by some guy's grandfather who has been dead since 1973) there's no value in keeping it original. So I'll just slap some Rustoleum on it, sand it smooth a week later & spray on something clear.

Based on some quick research I figure it'll do about 55 mph.

3 speed stick-shift. Hopefully it has reverse.

Seller had plans for it but decided that he's too old & feeble to mess with it.

You overpaid.

 

[Electric Chicken]

I'd actually throw some good tires on it and drive it to the meetings when the big corporate shits visit. I'd hop out and say this is all I can afford on what you pay.

 

[Duck]

I'd actually throw some good tires on it and drive it to the meetings when the big corporate shits visit. I'd hop out and say this is all I can afford on what you pay.

I'm pretty sure that standard 12" trailer wheels will bolt right up. I need to measure the bolt pattern.

If not, I know the trailer tires will fit it's original rims.

 

[Electric Chicken]

I was thinking I'd probably even put an I STG Logistics sticker on it. Advertise.