Stijn!!

[RKDinOKC]

When in R/C planes there were a large number of guys that have RV's pulling a trailer with all the plane stuff. They just drove around the country going to R/C events and following the good weather. The RV part was fitted out for the wives and the trailer was their R/C shop. Most used little motor bikes to get around on once the RV was parked at the flying field.

One even had the RV's main room labeled "The Hen House/" It was kinda funny to see all the old ladies motor off on their little scooters.

At the 928 Gathering in Marble Falls TX one of the guys wives tows in a travel trailer with their big crew cab. The trailer becomes the parking lot bar/snack kitchen/midnite chill cookoff...The wives all go tooling around together while their husbands go play with their 928s. I bet it's not long before the event sponsor rents a big van/bus for the wives. Last year the wives that didn't go on the 928 tour with their husbands were drunk and out antiquing before noon. They plan their antiquing so they have lunch with the 928 tour group. At first the wives don't come to the event, then once they find out the fun the wives have together, they don't want to miss it.

[RKDinOKC]

morning...fa fa fa frrIDAAYYY ! !

[Jim Richards]

Yep! I'm taking today off to run errands. It's the weekend!

[GH85Carrera]

TGIF Folks

One of the businesses across the street and down the street form my office just a bit must have the nosiest dumpster pickups in the country. It sounds like they are throwing away 5 gallon steel buckets full of steel and concrete into a steel walled dumpster. It is a lot of low rumbling boom bam thump BOOM. It is good they are in an industrial area. I would hate that noise in a neighborhood. It is loud enough that inside our steel building I can feel the noise. I have no idea how any dumpster truck can make that much noise. It is good I have not started my morning nap yet since I am still drinking coffee.

[Jim Richards]

It's like that in the city. I can sleep right though it nowadays.

Took the wife's clapped out Jetta for safety/emissions tests. It passed. Amazing.

[GH85Carrera]

The area around our office building has no houses or housing at all. It is pure light industrial. The largest independent food company in the country is right down the road. They make jams, preserves and jellies, syrups, mayonnaise and salad dressing products, apple butter, barbecue sauces, mustard, vinegar, and peanut butter. They have 18 wheelers coming and going all the time. Some of them are some kind of bad drivers. The two companies at the other end of the street bot spend a LOT of money on landscaping and they look real nice. Several times a year one of the idiot truck drivers will cut the corner and drive over the manicured lawns. Bot side have LARGE boulders on the corner to reduce that. The truckers just smash over them.

[Jim Richards]

Those drivers must've received their training here.

[flipper35]

Glen, we had that problem here with the city buses dropping people off. The corner isn't particularly sharp but they keep running into the grass and making big ruts. One of the local hospitals remodeled and donated the limestone block from their wall to us and we lined the parking lot with them. They are between two and three tons each. Evidently a couple people have tried to move them inadvertently as we find broken parts every now and then.

[RKDinOKC]

I was at a stop light waiting to turn left. It was two 4 lane streets with left turn lanes. A truck was turning right to the left of me. He went clear into the left turn lane to start is turn and missed my Cayenne by about a foot to make the turn. His right rear trailer tires went over the curb by the same foot that he missed my Cayenne by. In other words, for him to miss the curb he would have had to hit my Cayenne to make the turn wide enough, and that was using 2 full lanes on both streets to make the right turn.

[flipper35]

He went around you and nearly hit you?

[GH85Carrera]

Years ago a buddy of mine lived on a street that was the top of a T intersection. Cars were supposed to turn left or right after a stop sign. About every 4 years so some dipstick that was flying along would blow the stop sign and crash into the trees he was trying to get to grow. The trees kept stopping the cars but it destroyed the trees They would almost get big enough and some other idiot would take them out. He finally built a large berm with rail road ties facing out and planted flowers. It was a large berm and he drove rebar down through the ties and into the ground. He was real glad he did all that when yet another fool in a big F-350 hammered it at a good clip. The dumb ass driver was trying to drive off so my friend threw a logging chain through the wheels and locked it to a utility pole and waited for the cops.

The driver had gone through the windshield (no seatbelt) and was bleeding profusely. The cops took the driver to the hospital and then the county jail for drunk driving. It was amazing that he had survived the crash. He was at the drunk and never dies in the crash level. The drunks often kill an entire family and the drunk walks away from the crash.

My friend just built the berm bigger once again with the property damage insurance check from the pickup driver.

[RKDinOKC]

Nope, the truck was heading East making a right turn to go South, I was headed North making a left turn to go West. Me waiting to turn left kept him from using more than 2 lanes to make his right turn.

At a party in HS. Party goers were parked on either side of the stree for a couple of houses in each direction and they were 150 ft house lots. There were a LOT of people at the party but the street in front of the houses was wide with no curbs so plenty of room for two way traffic was left in the street. We are in the back yard around the pool at night. We hear a crash crash crash crash crash crash boom sound. Find a drunk had hit a tree in a yard a couple of houses down the street and was attempting to stagger away. He had bounced back and forth off of almost every car at the party going down the street before reaching the end of the cars and going off into a yard hitting the tree head on. The drunk driver was not associated in any way with anyone at the party.

[GH85Carrera]

I just had a phone call to a customer and his first name is "Buddy" it just seems strange to call a stranger Buddy. He needs to go a job at the tire shop and mechanic I sometimes use. His first name is Guy. Again it is always strange to fee a man I know only as a service provider and say Hi Guy. Then he also should hire a man named Dude. I can see it now Guy, Buddy and Dude the casual automotive experience!

[Oh Haha]

If he was a pro driver he most likely knew exactly where he wanted the wheels to be make the corner. Only once in a while have I had to move for a trucker to make a turn like Richard described. Some of those guys are just amazing in how they can maneuver those rigs.

[RKDinOKC]

Knew a Guy in HS, he played Tuba. Mechanic Guy worked a Kimray for years before opening own shop. He ran the motor pool, when he opened his own shop did work on Kimray vehicles as first customers.

Have a cousin named Buddy. He was named after my Mom's older brother Bud Bavinger that died in the war. Everyone just calls Buddy Bud. He and his wife Brenda are big into tournament Bass fishing and have over a thousand trophies.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Oh Haha

If he was a pro driver he most likely knew exactly where he wanted the wheels to be make the corner. Only once in a while have I had to move for a trucker to make a turn like Richard described. Some of those guys are just amazing in how they can maneuver those rigs.

Years ago I went to a local freight yard to pick up the entire rear suspension of a 993. It was the Porsche factory presentation piece for the War Bonnet Tech. I still have some of the 993 suspension parts in my garage. As i was standing in the dock area I watched a trucker drive slowly past a single open trailer spot with an 18 wheeler already parked on each side. He pulled far enough foreword, and backed up perfectly centered on the first try. It was cool to watch a real pro at work. I bet there was maybe a foot on each side and he was perfectly lined up.

Then the fork lift operator picked up my crate and hauled ass down the dock to the borrowed pickup I was using. He hardly slowed down as he turned and put it in the bed of the truck. I walked down there expecting to see the bed of the pickup banged up. That crate was placed perfectly. Cool. Another competent pro.

[RKDinOKC]

That name stuff is confusing.

My Dad's Dad was William Patrick Davis. My Dad was the oldest and Named George Alva Davis. He had two younger brothers. Jack Wayne Davis, and William Patrick Davis Jr the youngest brother.

My Dad was called Alvie by all his 9 sisters. Everyone else from back then called him Little Pat or Pat. Only much later after having a boy he named George Alva Davis Jr did he start going by George. George Jr just always went by George Jr.

My Dad's brother Jack Wayne was just called Jack. Named his boy Jack Wayne and everyone called and still calls him Wayne. Wayne has downs syndrome and is amazingly still alive at 56 years old. He is mentally 14.

My Dad's youngest brother William Patrick Davis Jr was called Junior and only on official occasions goes by Bill.

My oldest brother Robert Eugene Davis goes by Bob, Robert, Bobby, Eugene and Gene. All the family members call him Bob. Bob had two boys, Kendal Allen and Kelly Neilson. They each just go by their first names. However, Kendal married a girl named Kelly so they are referred to in conversation as Kelly Boy and Kelly Girl to keep it straight.

My half brother was named after his dad that died in a car wreck two weeks before he was born. Thomas Austin Hill. He alway went by Tom. His Wife calls him Tommy. His oldest son is also named Thomas Austin Hill. He grew up being call Trey until college then started going by Thomas. He sighs everything T3 or TAH3 though. Thomas also named is oldest son Thomas Austin Hill. He goes by Austin.

My name is Richard Kent Davis, hence the RKD. I went by Kent until Junior High. Got tired of always telling the teachers to call me by my middle name so started just going by Richard. For a while people that knew me as Kent called me Richard Kent, then just Richard. Several times people suggested I shorten Richard to Rich, Rick, or Dick, but I just told them if they wanted to call me something shorter they could just call me by my middle name, Kent. Result is that have been The Richard for my adult life. It is amazing how many times I've tried to register on-line and RKD, Richard Davis, Kent Davis, and Richard Kent Davis are already taken. That is why I like to use RKDinOKC. Did get RKD@MAC.COM for my Apple ID though.

Another interesting thing...My Dad had 9 sisters. Every single one of them were school teachers and every one of their daughters were school teachers as well. And if not weird enough the sister's daughters that had daughters are school teacher too. Don't know if that has continued or not, but it's still pretty weird.

[flipper35]

I go by my middle name. I never liked doing it much since it causes all kinds of hassle. Drivers license in Iowa they wanted me to legally change my name after I argued with them and finally showed them my SS card with first initial middle name.

Then H Norman came into the limelight and I figured it wasn't so bad.

[GH85Carrera]

My wife never changed her last name for work since she had a career and everyone already knew her and we have no kids. She uses her middle name as her name. When she is at Porsche club events she just uses my last name to make it easier for the other folks to know her since most of them know me.

When I get name badges made up for Parade I use her real middle name and my last name for her name badge. Her driver's license of course has her first name and her last name not my name so it is a total alias.

It has never been a problem.

[flipper35]

In my wife's case, how could she not change her last name. I mean how cool is Dolphin, right?