Fashion Board 5-7-04 to 6-9-04

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by mmm3587
Shoe repair places don't have them.

My local cobblers carry shoelaces.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

Having done so, I think the question should be changed to "why do they have kids' happy meals on the drive thru menu?"

Ever wonder why...

Shit, I forgot my cymbal.

[Aloha Mr. Learned Hand]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
My driver's-ed instructor was also my 9th-grade industrial arts teacher. He would blatantly stare at shapely 14-yr old girls' butts and drop the f-bomb constantly. I don't know how he got away with it, but I do know that he hated my bookshelf.

In high school, I briefly dated the daughter of one of the shop teachers. He seemed like a really nice guy, but I couldn't help thinking there was this undercurrent of "I have a lot of saws and I know how to use them" with him.

[dtb]

Originally posted by mmm3587
(Hi, dtb! I considered the apostrophe, and I think that either placement would be ok. I'm not sure what the class was officially called, but there were definitely multiple drivers being educated.)

Consider your cred suitably established.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
My local cobblers carry shoelaces.

Your cobbler? Which evergreen forest do reside in? And who's your haberdasher?

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
My driver's ed teacher, similar in essential respects to those described above, liked to tell us about his favorite cheap eats -- all you can eat buffets and happy hours at drinking establishments on state highways in nearby towns. Recently he was arrested for statutory rape. But I don't know whether he liked my bookshelf because I don't know what that means.

Similar diver's ed instructor. We used to spend most of our time in the car running errands for him. I blame all of my driving faults on him. He wouldn't let the girls drive as much as he let the boys drive.

I recently celebrated my 15th year of being a licensed driver. Like every Texas (urban) kid, I raced to the DPS office the morning of my 16th birthday to take my drivers' test. It nearly killed me to slow down for the school zones. I waited in line, filled out the forms, and waited forever for the examiner to call my name and walk with me to the mini-van that I brought to take the exam in.

He directed me around back, and I did the parallel parking part of the exam beautifully. After that, he asked me to drive around a nearby neighborhood. I was really nervous, and drove a lot slower than I usually would. Finally, he asked me to turn left onto a major road that headed back to the DPS office. I pulled up to the road, saw my opening and took it. I drove back to the DPS triumphantly, confident that I was now legal to drive without my parents in the car. We pulled into a parking space, and he handed me my results.

I failed. Apparently, my stop at the left turn wasn't a complete one in the eyes of the DPS examiner. I know and everyone else who has ever been in that situation knows that when you have an opportunity to turn left onto a major street, you take it. Otherwise you could be sitting there for days waiting for traffic to clear. There is an exception to this general rule though: Do not take the left if a DPS examiner is in the car.

I cried for the entirety of my 16th birthday.

I went back the next morning and passed the test. The day after my 16th birthday was much better than the day of.

I hear that they’ve gotten rid of the driving test in Texas if the kid has taken and passed driver’s ed. Turns out that something like 95 percent of the kids who take and pass driver’s ed end up passing on the first two tries, so it was just a waste of money to have assholes like the guy who failed me validating the tests of assholes like the guy who made us run his errands. I guess that it’s a good thing, because it means that in general, Texas kids don’t have to worry about having a sucky 16th birthday.

[mmm3587]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
My local cobblers carry shoelaces.

Well, your local cobbler could be my local cobbler. Where is it?

Are they still cobblers?

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
My local cobblers carry shoelaces.

Mine as well, although shoe stores also carry them.

[Berry Hunter]

Link to the home page of the Oregon firm of Cram, Harder

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I recently celebrated my 15th year of being a licensed driver. Like every Texas (urban) kid, I raced to the DPS office the morning of my 16th birthday to take my drivers' test.

You need to be more careful, in an outing sort of way. If we weren't all lawyers, we might be able to figure out your age from this.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I don't remember ANYTHING else I made in shop class.

I do remember that in chemistry lab, my lab partner and I had a goal to discover which substances were flammable. So we basically poured everything we were given on the lab table and lit it or tried to light it on fire.* Apparently, the smoke from iodine** can cause a room evacuation!!

*of course, we were wearing our safety goggles
**I think it was iodine.

At least you didn't drink stuff. http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Southwest....ap/index.html

A student who drank a chemical from his high school lab on a dare was recovering in a hospital, but not before a scare. . . . The student was found last Wednesday in a school hallway, bleeding from the nose and mouth.

Of course, this happened in TX.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I had a dream last night that my nickname was "stinky", except I didn't stink. It was just a nickname, but often people who didn't know interpreted it the wrong way.

I assume I was in the dream, so let me just tell you now that you did, in fact, stink.

TM

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Are you giggling uncontrollably?

The mental image you have just planted in my head is both disturbing and compelling. I may have to go lie down.

[notcasesensitive]

I'm about to head to the checkout with over $600 in my shopping basket on Bluefly. Anyone going to step up and talk me down before the charge hits my credit card?

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by mmm3587
Are they still cobblers?

the ones with elves still are.