• @[email protected]
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    408 months ago

    Or the opposite. “Howdy! Need directions? i just cleaned the grill and that clicking sound is the boot on your passenger-side CV joint.”

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      I’m the guy in the neighborhood where the conversations go like this:

      Them: “Hey jubilationtcornpone, do you have a tool for doing [obscure DIY job] and if so, can I borrow it?”

      Me: “Oh yeah, I have one of those. Sure, you can borrow it.”

      Them: “Ha! That’s awesome. I just knew you’d have one. How do you even figure out how to use all those tools?”

      Me: “You start by being too poor or too cheap to pay someone else to do it correctly.”

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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        88 months ago

        And you keep the once in a lifetime tools because you’re too poor to risk having to buy it again some day.

      • Buelldozer
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        If you don’t start off poor then you start by being too cheap to trust someone else to do it correctly. When you get older you graduate to not TRUSTING someone else to do it correctly. That leads to you being poor because you start spending a zillion dollars on tools.

    • @[email protected]
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      I’ve met this guy. He was awesome. He made great food. And the clicking sound from my car was, indeed, exactly what he said.

  • @[email protected]
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    258 months ago

    I’m lucky enough to have a driveway and can confirm it is sovereign land awarded to me by God.

    However, I have not yet reached the age where I conduct active patrols of the border, like the even older dads across the street have done.

  • @[email protected]
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    178 months ago

    My father when turning around in a driveway would always say: “Don’t bake a cake because we can’t stay long.”

  • @[email protected]
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    168 months ago

    Pretty much the same thing when you live along a highway and someone starts slowing down near your house

  • Nougat
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    148 months ago

    How did you get such a clear picture of me? <looks out the window for a camera>

  • IninewCrow
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    58 months ago

    Car stops on the street in front of the house … Garrison at attention!!!

    Car starts backing up towards the driveway … All forces on high alert! Man your stations!!!

    Car starts moving onto the driveway … Cease all operations!! Men at your stations!!! We’re dispatching a warning party!!!

    Car drives away … Cancel all alerts!!! Go back to your patrols!

  • FenrirIII
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    58 months ago

    My grandfather lived on a corner lot. The man hung barbed wire (with a clear sign) across his driveway. Every time we visited, without fail, we heard the sound of someone needing a paint job.

    • @[email protected]
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      Same here, I even live very urban, essentially right in the heart of the city. I still catch myself disapprovingly eyeing people walking by my windows on occasion. Am I getting old?

  • downpunxx
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    If you’re quick about it, no problemo friendo If you stop, for any length of time, for any reason short of medical emergency, we’ve got a problem