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08/04/2017 at 09:24 • Filed to: None
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"functionoverfashion" (functionoverfashion)
08/04/2017 at 09:24 • Filed to: None | 7
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I’ve been driving the truck to work nearly every day this summer, and today I got the Prime Spot. Not the one closest to anything, but the corner spot where there’s just a little more room because they didn’t plan the lot properly, and as a bonus, you get this beautiful building in the background - one of the academic buildings on campus.
Interesting side note: every October someone puts pumpkins on the spires of the clock tower. They are very secretive about it, and only a few people know exactly how it’s done. I’m not one of them. Right now you can still see the remnants of a rotted pumpkin up there that never fell completely off last year. It’s a cool tradition; you never know exactly when they’ll appear - or when they’ll fall! I was walking by the building one warm January day and had one fall right next to me. It was quite soft and rotten, so it wouldn’t have hurt, but I wouldn’t have loved a wet pumpkin on my head, either.
photo credit: the Clock newspaper
That is all. Happy Friday.
XJDano
> functionoverfashion
08/04/2017 at 09:27 |
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Save the clock tower!
pip bip - choose Corrour
> functionoverfashion
08/04/2017 at 09:37 |
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building does look rather good.
MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
> functionoverfashion
08/04/2017 at 09:43 |
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If you ever sell that truck please let me know...I love that thing.
benjrblant
> functionoverfashion
08/04/2017 at 09:44 |
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Man, that looks so much like a bigger version of Plymouth NH!
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functionoverfashion
> benjrblant
08/04/2017 at 09:54 |
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It sure is a life-sized version of Plymouth, NH
Slant6
> functionoverfashion
08/04/2017 at 09:56 |
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Do you ever run into any problems driving a marked fire truck? Granted it’s so old most people would see an old truck before they would see a squad, but curious to see it.
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functionoverfashion
> MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
08/04/2017 at 09:58 |
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Thanks! Don’t hold your breath haha
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functionoverfashion
> Slant6
08/04/2017 at 10:07 |
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Interesting question, but no I’ve never had any issue. I suppose it may be different if it were police? But you’re right, that the age and everything is what dominates the first impression. If I were driving a red 1995 Ford pickup with a light bar on top, with markings, etc. that might be different.
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Slant6
> functionoverfashion
08/04/2017 at 10:13 |
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City of Raleigh, which is properly a city, although surrounded by rural area still has some early 80s Chevys as active brush trucks, and I think one or two 70s fords are at the main shops as reserve units.
Do you know how long yours was retired between service and you purchasing it?
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benjrblant
> functionoverfashion
08/04/2017 at 10:27 |
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Plot twist: Every city is just a smaller version of every other city?
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functionoverfashion
> Slant6
08/04/2017 at 10:30 |
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I know my local FD has a very old jeep in service as a forest fire rig, partly so it can get up into areas where a modern truck just be too big!
My truck was owned by a fire dept. until spring of 2015; I don’t know if it was being actively used, but it was there in the building. It was auctioned that spring, an acquaintance of mine had it for one summer and I bought it the following March (2016).
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functionoverfashion
> benjrblant
08/04/2017 at 10:40 |
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That’s pretty much how it feels when you drive around the Strip Mall District of just about any town in the US.
gmctavish needs more space
> XJDano
08/04/2017 at 12:03 |
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Is the clock tower in danger?
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XJDano
> gmctavish needs more space
08/04/2017 at 12:07 |
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All clocktowers matter!