I like donuts

"Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast" (unknownuknow) 09/08/2015 at 06:48 • Filed to: 4 wheels spinning

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Today my life turned around, and around...

shop-teacher > Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast 09/08/2015 at 07:09

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That’s one of the things I miss from my brief time living in the boonies, is having places to do that.

I can tell you from personal experience, that the CV joints on a rental Impala make a hellacious noise when you’re doing figure 8’s in a fallow cornfield.

Jobjoris > Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast 09/08/2015 at 08:07

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Haha, don’t lose those waste containers!!! And watch those plants.

Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast > shop-teacher 09/08/2015 at 09:11

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Yeah it’s definitely a benifit of rural living. I picked up Sonzilla from daycare and as we drove up the drive way he asked if I could do some donuts, I couldn’t refuse the little fellas request now could I?

Ha ha! Rentals are the best! I know that sound well, the Mazda 323 paddock car is threatening to spit out its CVs.

Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast > Jobjoris 09/08/2015 at 09:14

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Somehow they stayed on! That clip was 15 seconds out of 7 mins of circle work. The plants? What plants? ; )

Jobjoris > Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast 09/08/2015 at 09:35

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7 minutes? What were you planning to do: creating your own wall of death?

ly2v8-Brian > Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast 09/08/2015 at 10:15

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That was winter time with my first truck in a nutshell.

Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast > Jobjoris 09/08/2015 at 10:37

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Ha ha! I was just enjoying the moment!

Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast > ly2v8-Brian 09/08/2015 at 10:41

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Yep! Such fun. I'll never grow out of it! 25 years of driving and a donut still does it for me. : )

shop-teacher > Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast 09/08/2015 at 11:14

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I certainly couldn’t refuse a request like that!

I enjoyed rural living, but I hated commuting more. So back to the suburbs I went.

XJDano > Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast 09/08/2015 at 12:30

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A buddy told me to pump the brakes and it’ll plant the front inside tire. In 2wd I think. It's been a long time since I have had a doughnut.

Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast > shop-teacher 09/08/2015 at 18:45

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I just had to comply!

Yeah commuting would be a killer. I set up my business from home so my commute is a 60 mtr walk!

Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast > XJDano 09/08/2015 at 18:47

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Yeah that works in 2wd, I usually do them in 2wd but tried all four wheels this time.

shop-teacher > Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast 09/08/2015 at 22:56

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Yeah, if I had a business set up like that, I could see moving back out to the country.

Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast > shop-teacher 09/08/2015 at 23:07

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I'd like to say it was planned but like most of the stuff I do one thing leads to another. Plus I avoid disappointment by not making plans. : )

shop-teacher > Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast 09/08/2015 at 23:17

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Such is life. I was never interested in going to college, and next thing I knew I had a Masters degree. Life is weird!

Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast > shop-teacher 09/08/2015 at 23:27

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Huh! Cool. I think we've talked about how school and I didn't get along. Wish it was different sometimes but I really can't complain with how life's going now.

shop-teacher > Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast 09/09/2015 at 00:00

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Eh, we all follow our own path. I found school pretty easy, but I was not a particularly dedicated student in the classes I didn’t care about. I did well, but not great. I’m good at my job, and it pays the bills, that’s what matters.

Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast > shop-teacher 09/09/2015 at 00:49

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Yeah school wasn’t hard, it was just un engaging. From what I’ve seen now with my oldest in school it seems like there are better systems set up here now to deal with all kinds of students. It didn’t help that my first 6 years of schooling was in 4 different schools! By the time I got to secondary school I was over it! My secondary school was a tech school and had all kinds of cool equipment for different trades. Even so I was out of there as soon as I was old enough to get a job legally.

shop-teacher > Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast 09/09/2015 at 07:05

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Ooof, that mind of moving around can be really rough.

Yeah, there are definitely more systems in place to help with all kinds of different kids now.

I went to basically the opposite of a tech school. I grew up in a wealthy community that kicked out its only auto parts and hardware stores when I was in high school so they could redevelop the downtown and put up overpriced restaurants and boutiques. We had one 1-semester woodshop class, and that’s it. My dad had gone to the same school back when it was a podunk farm town, and he was appalled to see that the metal shop had been turned into a studio theater, and the Auto shop was the studio for the district’s “resident artist”.

Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast > shop-teacher 09/09/2015 at 07:44

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Yeah it wasn’t great.

Yep! I was definitely ‘different’, certain teachers hated me but some really tried. It seems so different now, my little girl is doing great at school and we keep hearing from the teachers that she is a year or two ahead on most things which is good to hear. Either the bar is set low or she’s just doing well, she’s has always been quick to learn things.

I hate when that happens, redevelopment can be bad sometimes. The Tech schools were changed to more academic type schools for a while. Luckily after I was out of the system! After a while they realised that there weren't enough trade oriented people in the workforce, DERP, so have brought back more trade type education. No good having office workers if there's no office to work in! Your Dad went to the same school? Mine came from Scotland before I was born so even without the gypsy lifestyle I never would have gone to his old school. That would be cool in some ways I suppose.

shop-teacher > Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast 09/09/2015 at 08:55

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Yeah, my Dad went to the same school. I even grew up in the same house he did. Although since my dad was/is a contractor and we only had two kids (he was one of 11 kids), the house was a lot nicer and less hectic when I grew up there. We even had one of the same teachers, a ridiculously easy English teacher who pretty much let the inmates run the asylum. About once every two weeks he would freak out and jump onto the desk and start screaming for about 10 minutes. Then he would calm down, climb off the desk, and things would go back to normal for two more weeks. Oh yeah, he also made us call him “Captain”. When I told my dad all of this he said, “Oh yeah, he hasn’t changed a bit.”

Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast > shop-teacher 09/09/2015 at 10:02

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Awsome! I can’t comprehend that, would have been great. I’m not repeating the life I had as a kid for my children and don’t want to move anywhere ever again! That teacher story is hilarious. I think I had a couple of teachers like that. Made school fun. Captain? What a strange fellow! Was he ex military or something?

shop-teacher > Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast 09/09/2015 at 10:34

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I think every parent tries to do a better job than their parents. I intend to keep my kids in one place like my dad did (although we live in a much more blue collar area, but still very nice), but I’ve chosen a career that lets me be home a lot more with my kids than my dad was.

Yeah, he was ex-navy. I enjoyed his class :)

Oh, one more story about the house. My parents sold the house about 10 years ago. A couple years ago (after my mom passed away), my dad bought it back!

Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast > shop-teacher 09/09/2015 at 18:46

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Yeah I think most do.

Ah huh! That explains it!

That’s so cool that your dad got the old house back, must be a lot of good memories at that place.

shop-teacher > Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast 09/09/2015 at 18:50

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Oh yeah, tons of good memories there. It’s a great old house