Comments on: Restoration 15K | race report plus

By: Jon Obst

Jon Obst — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:36:51 +0000

Congratulations on a PR @ Atlanta, hell yeah!!! Way to run strong brotha. What a perfect day it was! Peace

By: John Turner

John Turner — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:37:35 +0000

I had a similar experience in 2001. I was in Atlanta for my first time for some business lasting 2 weeks. I had nothing to do on the intervening weekend, so I found that the Chickamauga Battlefield marathon was on that weekend. I set out to drive there, but it turns out the directions were not quite accurate. (apparently some road changes since the previous year). I ended up driving around for a while, feeling somewhat like Christian describes. The “high” point was driving by a Legion that had a sign out front. I don’t remember the exact text, but it was not welcoming to foreigners, and as a Canadian I felt it applied to me. (remember this was 2 exactly months after 9/11).
After all that, I asked a guy I found for directions and he went one better and actually got in his car to lead me right to the race start. So I got some of the hospitality too. I arrived about 1 minute before the start and was running to the start, pinning on my number when the race started.
I had a great time.

By: bigRahn

bigRahn — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:49:49 +0000

Now that’s an adventure!
I can’t help but wonder what’s gonna happen to all these old guys watching the TV in a few months when everything switches to digital, and they’ll actually get a station without static. (Well, assuming their TV works at all.)

By: Spurgeon

Spurgeon — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:25:58 +0000

HAW HAW HAW!! I haven’t heard that expression in years! Thanks for the reminder. I think I’ll use it too! Can’t let the old sayin’s die out.

By: Christian

Christian — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:21:01 +0000

Spurgeon – that’s hilarious dude.

One of the greatest lines ever came out of Babette’s grandmother’s mouth…

“O, she was just as mad as a ol’ wet hen”

I like that line. Will use it someday and see if I get funny looks

By: Spurgeon

Spurgeon — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:08:54 +0000

Christian, I love your reports, but this one has sent me into a homesick depression that I may not recover from until I eat some of my momma’s cookin’. I sure as heck miss talkin’ to folks who’ve got the time and notion to talk to ya about their recently out-of-the-closet lesbian daughter’s car troubles. Lord knows we should all take the time to stop and smell the roses. Life is too short.

And the “it will say some other name” story reminds me of the time I was told that I would save time by taking the short cut … which involved turning left where the old diner used to be. “What’s there now?” … “Nothin’. They even tore the buildin’ down.” LOL!

By: Babette

Babette — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:33:40 +0000

ok, first of all i was NOT listening to Gloria Estefan…it was Donna Summer.

and you forgot to mention “Jay’s Cut thru”.

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By: Matthew Patten

Matthew Patten — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:35:59 +0000

You forgot the piece of straw hanging out of the guy’s mouth who was sitting on the bucket.

That reminds of the top 3 lies told by a hillbillys
1 – My truck is paid for
2 – She’s not my sister
3 – I was just trying to help the sheep get over the fence