Those "did I just see that" moments

[jbox]

    

[ChadTower]

Seriously... if that guy hadn't been paying $350 + $100 trade for an average condition MVS one slot cab, I'd have told him to bite it and come back with help.

[Xam]

Along the lines of  "throws I could never duplicate"

Living in Austin, snow is a rarity. We had a blizzard a few years ago...must have been 3-4 inches of the stuff completely covering the ground. Of course all the kids were out enjoying our winter wonderland. They were out building dwarf snowmen, throwing snowballs, etc. A white truck appears on the horizon, creeping slowly towards us. When it reaches us, a kid jumps up out of the bed a starts hurling a flurry of snowballs (pretty funny I thought). Well...he hurls one at me! With a deft "Matrix style" avoidance move, the projectile falls harmlessly to the ground. I quickly fashion a crude snowball, and hurl with all my might, intent on just hitting the truck as they are roughly 75-100ft away. The snowball hits the kid square in the face! All the neighborhood kids cheered their champion. It was the luckiest throw I have ever made. My kids still sing my accolades of that day.

Xam

[ChadTower]

 

A blizzard is three feet, bro.  Around here 3" is a wednesday.

[Samstag]

Some people are pretty proud of their 3 inches.

[shmokes]

That happened to me once when I was in junior high school.  Except it was a nice, ripe apple instead of a snowball.  I threw it with all my might, as far as I could possibly throw it, without even making an attempt at aiming, and it flew through the air in an giant arc and nailed a girl right in the head who was walking home with a couple of other girls.  From my vantage point her head snapped sideways so fast upon impact it practically looked like the apple had knocked her head clean off.  The girl was unpopular and her family was really poor and she strikes me as someone who did not enjoy her childhood very much.  I'm haunted by it.  Even at the time I was haunted by it; I never imagined the apple was actually going to hit her.  But I never had the gumption to apologize.  It never came back to me.  She apparently never told anyone, or at least her parents didn't take it so far as to talk to my parents. 

There are very few things in my life that I truly regret, that I think about often and wish I had done differently.  I wish I could track her down and tell her what a little ---uvula--- I was and how ---smurfy--- I feel about it, but I don't even remember her last name and her family moved away when I was a freshman or sophomore in high school. 

[saint]

Got one of those moments myself that I'll never repeat the details of to anyone. Wish I could take it back though, and it's 23 years later...

[Xam]

 

A blizzard is three feet, bro.  Around here 3" is a wednesday.

When you have snow once every seven years or so, 3" is a blizzard...at least the people act like it is...LOL!

[More Cowbell]

I have an accidental suave moment like Saint's pen throw. It just happened yesterday. My 8-year old son likes to help me with the arcade hobby so I try to find things for him to keep him busy. I bought 5 boxes of coin doors at the Milwaukee auction so I had him go through and remove all of the coin mechs. In doing this he came up with about a dozen tokens. A little while later I was standing there and he held out the tokens in his hand in sort of a taunting way like "haha I have your tokens". Without thinking, I slapped his hand upwards and caught all of the tokens when they hit their apex without dropping one. I nonchalantly dropped them in my pocket and walked away. He just stood there for a minute because he experienced that "did that just happen" moment. I'm sure I could never do it again in a hundred years, but it worked out that one time which is all that matters. 

[Kremmit]

 

A blizzard is three feet, bro.  Around here 3" is a wednesday.

When you have snow once every seven years or so, 3" is a blizzard...at least the people act like it is...LOL!

Too true.  Around here, we get snow in town about 1 in three winters.  There's mountains all around, so a lot of people know how to drive in it, but there are more and more city rats that never have learned.  Co-incidentally, the same city rats drive like, well, like they're from the city.  Me first and F. U.

So, one night when it was snowing, I was getting ready to get on the freeway.  I'm crossing an overpass, approaching the left turn on the far end that'll take me down the on-ramp.  Some jackass in a Datsun B210 is approaching from the other side of the same ramp, getting ready to make a right onto it.  Mr. Datsun apparently simply cannot bear the thought of getting on the freeway BEHIND me, even though I'm clearly going to beat him to the ramp.  He gooses it as hard as he can and squeals his tires around his right turn, slotting his car just in front of mine and onto the freeway.

Or, at least, that's what he must've pictured in his head, right before he goosed it as hard as he could and spun his back end out in the snow.  Dude did 2 360s as he swung partway through his right turn and then over the embankment between the onramp and the freeway.  Lucky for him he came to rest against some bushes that grow on that embankment, or he'd have slid right onto Interstate 5.  As it was, he got some injured pride, an expensive tow call, and possible legal trouble; I don't really know for sure, since I just drove on past him laughing.  Hey, I was headed out to go spin some donuts in the Montgomery Ward parking lot- it's not everyday we get snow in town, you know?

[jbox]

A blizzard is three feet, bro.  Around here 3" is a wednesday.

When you have snow once every seven years or so, 3" is a blizzard...at least the people act like it is...LOL!

What is this "snow" thing you guys keep talking about? And I thought Blizzard just referred to a company that makes great RTS games? 

[shmokes]

Forget snow where I am now.  Ain't gonna happen.  But where I lived up until a few months ago it was entirely common to get 24" of snow on the ground in a single storm.  And that was down in the valley.  The ski resorts might get five or six feet.