So what did you learn today?

[Oracle of Delphi]

????? All I saw there when I was on it last weekend was high toll prices just to use it and people ignoring the digital speed signs.

It's in the buildings as you approach the bridge before you actually go into New Jersey ...

[David]

Today I learned that is really does suck to have team members that cannot think out side the box or communicate clearly.

[Satty]

One should never say to a woman, "How are the wife and kids?" then explain that wife=vagina and kids=boobs.

[deftonesfan867]

One should never say to a woman, "How are the wife and kids?" then explain that wife=vagina and kids=boobs.

That is win IMO. I call Kelsey's boobs my other gf's.

[K.C.]

I learned that my daughter in law is pregnant with twins this morning.

[ZL-1]

I learned that my daughter in law is pregnant with twins this morning.

are in order, then!

[Intrepidation]

I learned that my daughter in law is pregnant with twins this morning.

The same one you had to explain the definition of "cocky" to?

[K.C.]

are in order, then!

The same one you had to explain the definition of "cocky" to?

Thanks ZL-1. I am excited about being a grandpa, as are my son as his wife.

DF, my daughter is 15 and she is the one in which had to explain the proper definition of cocky. Still laughing about that.

[ocnblu]

Congratulations, pop-pop KayCee!

[Oracle of Delphi]

I learned that it can rain all day in Delaware until 20 minutes before sundown and then the sun pops out ...

[Intrepidation]

Today I relearned why I hate the area around Boston and the consequences of being told a meeting place is in Boston only to find out it wasn't.

[GMTruckGuy74]

You know, posting pictures of that bridge is not good for people that suffer from gephyrophobia!! I have a very difficult time driving over the Delaware Memorial Bridge - when I went to visit the Wilmington (Kappa) Plant two years ago with my SKY I almost freaked out b/c the top was down and I was completely exposed to the bridge I will be driving over it again this week on a family trip to Washington DC... not looking forward to driving over it, and might just make my wife handle this part of the trip. Yes, I am being serious and not joking at all.

[K.C.]

You know, posting pictures of that bridge is not good for people that suffer from gephyrophobia!! I have a very difficult time driving over the Delaware Memorial Bridge - when I went to visit the Wilmington (Kappa) Plant two years ago with my SKY I almost freaked out b/c the top was down and I was completely exposed to the bridge I will be driving over it again this week on a family trip to Washington DC... not looking forward to driving over it, and might just make my wife handle this part of the trip. Yes, I am being serious and not joking at all.

Hey GMTG, if you tense up, just remember to say 'gooosefraba'.

[Intrepidation]

What could possibly go wrong anyway?

...oh right...

[Satty]

Yeah, after that bridge collapse in Minnesota, I started getting nervous kayking under 60 and 65, since both bridges are rather old.

[caddycruiser]

I learned that it can rain all day in Delaware until 20 minutes before sundown and then the sun pops out ...

Delaware weather. It's a new lesson in WTF everyday.

[K.C.]

What could possibly go wrong anyway?

...oh right...

Not nice! Not nice at all!

Don't worry about that pic GMTG, the Mississippi River bridge that collapsed in MPLS was a steel beam bridge, the Delaware Memorial Bridge is a suspension bridge which is generally a much sturdier structure.

[Intrepidation]

I know, I'm being an ass, and I apologize.

[K.C.]

Thankfully, Civil engineers have learned much from "Galloping Gertie" there.

[Oracle of Delphi]

You know, posting pictures of that bridge is not good for people that suffer from gephyrophobia!! I have a very difficult time driving over the Delaware Memorial Bridge - when I went to visit the Wilmington (Kappa) Plant two years ago with my SKY I almost freaked out b/c the top was down and I was completely exposed to the bridge I will be driving over it again this week on a family trip to Washington DC... not looking forward to driving over it, and might just make my wife handle this part of the trip. Yes, I am being serious and not joking at all.

It's a piece of cake, you scaredy cat, I go over it all the time ...

[ocnblu]

Yes, blindfolded and handcuffed laying down in the back seat. The real reason your wife has to keep handcuffs around.

[Oracle of Delphi]

Yes, blindfolded and handcuffed laying down in the back seat. The real reason your wife has to keep handcuffs around.

Nah, I love the big bridges. I like going fast, switching from lane to lane, looking for timid people with both hands on their steering wheel and their face ashen white with fear. Beep, beep, look out here comes the Bö®gÉr, all they see is my pink and purple Delaware license plate and a purple blur, as I zoom by ...

On a side note, my wife and I went to Cowtown one weekend a few years back, we bought some grapes and she peeled them for me and popped them in my mouth as we drove over the Delaware Memorial Bridge headed back to Delaware. I felt like Julius Caesar as my slave girl fed me grapes, bridge? What bridge?

Edited April 12, 2009 by Pontiac Custom-S

[GMTruckGuy74]

Haha.. you guys are real funny! It's not just high bridges that I have a fear of, any low, long bridge close to the water or narrow bridges high or low freak me out too. I hate driving to Seaside Heights (for those of you familiar) because of the narrow, tight three-lane, low-to-the-water beridge that you haev to cross Of course I drive over all of these bridges, but as PCS already pointed out, I'm the one with both handles glued at "10 & 2" on the steering wheel, head faced straight, sweating, and with an ashen-colored face. And seeing people zooming by switching lanes only further adds to the anxiety. Of course the worse bridge for me is the Delaware Memorial, and I have to set teh cruise control otherwise I'll inadvertantly slow down.

Another reason for my great fear of the Delaware Memorial - around '89 or '90 my uncle who owns a machine shop (tool & die) was contracted to repair some of the pins holding the bridge together. He showed us a video he took (I was 14 or 15 y-o at the time) of him walking on the catwalk under the bridge. To this day I have vivid images still, and I saw that video only the one time. Growing up my aunt & grandmother lived in Morrisville, PA when I wqas real young and we lived in Ewing Twp, NJ. We'd have to take a very narrow and old bridge known as the Calhoun Street Bridge to visit them, and my mom & I visited several times per week. I had nightmares about being on this bridge as it collapsed into the Delaware River - of course the dreams always exaggerated the amount of water below - and still do on occasion today (just now there are worse bridges that appear in my dreams). I've been told to seek counseling that can aid in the removal of this fear, but I feel silly as I don't tackle too many bridges in my daily travels.

Other bridges that scare me include the I-95 bridge heading toward the Philadelphia Airport outside of Philly, the Burlington-Bristol Bridge (although since I've been crossing that one quite a lot in the past 5 years since I moved and use it to go into PA a lot I'm getting better), and the Walt Whitman into Philly (Ben Franklin isn't as bad as it has higher sides that prevent me from seeing over the railing, though riding the PATCO train into Philly rides on the outside of the bridge and offers a clear view of the Delaware ). The funny thing is architectually I love bridge design. I love the Golden Gate Bridge and would love to drive over it, but my fear would prevent me from doing so (I'd rather be a passenger anyway to soak in the design as I look up!). While I have never been over it - and would probably re-route my course to avoid it if I had to go farther south - the Chesepeak Bay Bridge & Tunnel causes me great anxiety when people mention it.

I know, I need help!!

[Satty]

Having lunch with a paraplegic oncologist is far more fun than it sounds.

[ZL-1]

Family lunches that start at 1PM and end at 5PM make me sleepy......

[Oracle of Delphi]

Haha.. you guys are real funny! It's not just high bridges that I have a fear of, any low, long bridge close to the water or narrow bridges high or low freak me out too. I hate driving to Seaside Heights (for those of you familiar) because of the narrow, tight three-lane, low-to-the-water beridge that you haev to cross Of course I drive over all of these bridges, but as PCS already pointed out, I'm the one with both handles glued at "10 & 2" on the steering wheel, head faced straight, sweating, and with an ashen-colored face. And seeing people zooming by switching lanes only further adds to the anxiety. Of course the worse bridge for me is the Delaware Memorial, and I have to set teh cruise control otherwise I'll inadvertantly slow down.

Another reason for my great fear of the Delaware Memorial - around '89 or '90 my uncle who owns a machine shop (tool & die) was contracted to repair some of the pins holding the bridge together. He showed us a video he took (I was 14 or 15 y-o at the time) of him walking on the catwalk under the bridge. To this day I have vivid images still, and I saw that video only the one time. Growing up my aunt & grandmother lived in Morrisville, PA when I wqas real young and we lived in Ewing Twp, NJ. We'd have to take a very narrow and old bridge known as the Calhoun Street Bridge to visit them, and my mom & I visited several times per week. I had nightmares about being on this bridge as it collapsed into the Delaware River - of course the dreams always exaggerated the amount of water below - and still do on occasion today (just now there are worse bridges that appear in my dreams). I've been told to seek counseling that can aid in the removal of this fear, but I feel silly as I don't tackle too many bridges in my daily travels.

Other bridges that scare me include the I-95 bridge heading toward the Philadelphia Airport outside of Philly, the Burlington-Bristol Bridge (although since I've been crossing that one quite a lot in the past 5 years since I moved and use it to go into PA a lot I'm getting better), and the Walt Whitman into Philly (Ben Franklin isn't as bad as it has higher sides that prevent me from seeing over the railing, though riding the PATCO train into Philly rides on the outside of the bridge and offers a clear view of the Delaware ). The funny thing is architectually I love bridge design. I love the Golden Gate Bridge and would love to drive over it, but my fear would prevent me from doing so (I'd rather be a passenger anyway to soak in the design as I look up!). While I have never been over it - and would probably re-route my course to avoid it if I had to go farther south - the Chesepeak Bay Bridge & Tunnel causes me great anxiety when people mention it.

I know, I need help!!

I changed my avatar just for you ...

[K.C.]

I learned that the phrase "too many cooks in the kitchen spoil the broth" is true. I tripped over one of my Newfies while holding my famous homemade carrot cake and it went flying into the wall.

I also learned that a homemade cream cheese icing is a bitch to get out of microfiber.

My kids and daughter in law also learned that I will throw cream cheese icing at them when they laugh at me for falling.

[ocnblu]

Darn n00fs.

[K.C.]

No worries, I put my daughter in law to work making another carrot cake. Icing, too. Since she is family she has to learn to fix all the family recipes.

[balthazar]

I learned that in 2000, in the Maryland county my parents lived in at the time, fully 5% of the households did NOT have running water.

[Intrepidation]

I learned (well I already knew but I'm using it as an excuse) that skimming over before reading the whole thing posts can have fun effects

K.C. I read your first post as "too many cocks" and the saw the word "daughter" and thought you were explaining how she became pregnant.

[Blake Noble]

I have two ancestors who were full-blooded Cherokee.

Wow. I really am a mutt.

[K.C.]

I learned (well I already knew but I'm using it as an excuse) that skimming over before reading the whole thing posts can have fun effects

K.C. I read your first post as "too many cocks" and the saw the word "daughter" and thought you were explaining how she became pregnant.

You youngins have a one track mind. lol Ya need to getcha some already!

[Satty]

Nice weather brings out the LARPers

[K.C.]

Today, I learned that my daughter in law is having fraternal twins, one boy and one girl.

[Intrepidation]

I learned I may be getting a new engine soon

I also learned that my mechanic is very nice...offering to lend me his truck to go pick it up.

[Cory Wolfe]

I learned that Reese's PB eggs are addicting.

[Oracle of Delphi]

To stay out of American Malls ...

[deftonesfan867]

You know, posting pictures of that bridge is not good for people that suffer from gephyrophobia!! I have a very difficult time driving over the Delaware Memorial Bridge - when I went to visit the Wilmington (Kappa) Plant two years ago with my SKY I almost freaked out b/c the top was down and I was completely exposed to the bridge I will be driving over it again this week on a family trip to Washington DC... not looking forward to driving over it, and might just make my wife handle this part of the trip. Yes, I am being serious and not joking at all.

I'm the same way a little bit, but Kelsey hated going over it.

[ZL-1]

Nothing

[Z-06]

Cork Soakers with no teeth are awesome.

[K.C.]

I learned today that I have been given a clean bill of health from my doctor.

[ZL-1]

I learned that looking for a number on your mobile's dialed numbers list while simultaneously looking at the TV and having a MSN conversation ends up in calling the wrong person...

[Cory Wolfe]

Campbell's soup sucks if you water it down.

[Sixty8panther]

No chore will ever suck more than changing a litter box.

[Intrepidation]

No chore will ever suck more than changing a litter box.

Quoted for Truth. Although I've know about that for years.

[K.C.]

I learned all the words for Sunglasses at Night. . only 25 years after the song's release in 1984.

[Z-06]

Columbian food is awesome and fulsome. Makes your belly look like a octamom right before the delivery.

[ocnblu]

A few hours from now I'm sure you'll be dropping those octuplets off at the pool.

[Satty]

There are no strip clubs in Oklahoma. No speed limit signs either.