Good Morning, Oppo

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 07/31/2018 at 08:26 • Filed to: good morning oppo

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I hope your commute wasn’t too bad this morning. 

E90M3 > ttyymmnn 07/31/2018 at 08:29

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I took the M3 to work today, so no it wasn’t bad. 

pip bip - choose Corrour > ttyymmnn 07/31/2018 at 08:33

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never is when i only travel 2km

:/

ttyymmnn > pip bip - choose Corrour 07/31/2018 at 08:37

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I pretty much travel from the kitchen to my desk.

#stayhomedadthings

pip bip - choose Corrour > ttyymmnn 07/31/2018 at 08:44

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grrrrrrr

Wacko > ttyymmnn 07/31/2018 at 08:46

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I saw a lady driving a C7 and she was taking off at each light. 

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 07/31/2018 at 08:58

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T he commute was easy. Getting out of bed this morning was hard.

ttyymmnn > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/31/2018 at 09:00

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The caption to that picture “ US 59 196 2.” I’m willing to bet that’s Houston, maybe even the stretch just north of Rice that turns into a river when it rains . It looked a lot like that back in 1992 when we lived there.

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 07/31/2018 at 09:15

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You’re probably right. My commute is along the north loop with a short dive down 45 to downtown. It’s 15 minutes with no traffic. The worst was a day where a wreck blocked the left two lanes. It only took half an hour.

If you have to live in Houston and have to work downtown, living inside the loop is the only way to go if you don’t want to sit in traffic for hours every day.

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > ttyymmnn 07/31/2018 at 09:52

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In a world of full sized domestics, be an imported microcar.

ttyymmnn > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker 07/31/2018 at 09:58

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This guy is my hero.

The other day I saw a kid with a T shirt that read: “Always be yourself. Unless you can be Batman. Then always be Batman.”

ttyymmnn > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/31/2018 at 10:02

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We lived in The Montrose for the first three years or so. Damn fine location. Everybody said, “Don’t live there. It’s the gay neighborhood.” I found it to be a vibrant and fun place to live, right close to everywhere I wanted to be. We later moved out to Bellaire/Beltway 8. We drove by there a couple of years ago and it’s now unrecognizable. Back then it was still cow pastures. Now you can barely move.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 07/31/2018 at 10:10

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The Isetta is a 600 model... not that a 250 or 300 would have been a good idea in this kind of traffic. Genuine BMW, not Iso. I spent a few minutes trying to establish a rhyme or reason for which Isettas of which years had the tube steel bumperettes, but I failed - probably ‘58+, though.

The Falcons in the leftmost line are both ‘61 models. The ‘53 Chrysler New Yorker behind the second ‘61 Chevy in row with the Isetta is probably the oldest car present - depending on how old the Plymouth(?) behind it is.

There’s also two ‘58 Plymouths , a ‘58 Ford fullsize , a ‘60 Chevy, a ‘62 Ford fullsize, a ‘59 Dodge wagon, a ‘60 Ford Falcon, a ‘61 Ford fullsize, and one final wagon I haven’t ID’ed.

fintail > ttyymmnn 07/31/2018 at 10:10

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Date checks out, I see nothing newer than 62, those being a Chevy wagon and full sized Ford.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker 07/31/2018 at 10:17

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*”limousine” version of imported microcar

ttyymmnn > fintail 07/31/2018 at 10:21

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And no air conditioning.

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 07/31/2018 at 10:21

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Well, you’re doing much better than I. “That one in the front is a Ford.” Nailed it.

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 07/31/2018 at 10:23

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I live here as a child and again after college. The first time around, we lived near the southeast corner of the loop. I don’t remember much. I was little. The second time around it was in the Cypress area. My wife was commuting 35 miles to the Galleria area. I was commuting 80 miles the other direction. It took both of us an hour and fifteen minutes to get to work.

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 07/31/2018 at 10:28

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Ooh, back seats. That makes it practical.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 07/31/2018 at 10:30

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The final wagon is a ‘62 Chevy as well. (two steps behind the ‘59 Dodge wagon). The car between them is *probably* a ‘60 Chrysler 300.

ttyymmnn > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/31/2018 at 10:32

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It is not unheard of for it to take me an hour to drive 14 miles to the hall on a Thursday evening for a rehearsal here in Austin . And longer if there are 12 drops of rain.

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 07/31/2018 at 11:03

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I was going to comment about that. There are a lot of cars without a/c. Brutal.

ttyymmnn > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/31/2018 at 11:09

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But was it as hot back then? Certainly as humid.

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 07/31/2018 at 15:00

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No. It was hotter. It was also more humid. And they sat in traffic longer and they worked more hours and by God, they liked it.