OMG!!

 

I'm glad you, Mr. RNR and baby RNR are OK! 

 

I know your upset, but think about this.  Your family was able to walk away from this accident with no injuries.  Thats the most important thing.

 

Hopefully the person that hit you had insurance and that will take care of the car.

I completely agree of course, I am just glad everyone is ok.  I am REALLY in a lot of pain in my stomach/diaphraghm muscle, which was previously bruised and now is even more so, but it's not life threatening and it will go away eventually. 

 

Yes, she did have insurance, she actually called them while we were waiting to find out what she was supposed to do, we have all her information and I'm going to file the claim this morning.  They're going to have to pay for my hospital stay last night as well.

I think the best thing is actually to come out even.  That means they didn't take too much or too little of your money.  That aside, given a choice, I'd rather get a little money back than have to pay, ever, so we try to err on the side of making that happen, hence the federal refund.  But I don't see why we should have to pay the state several hundred every year.  I want to fix it so we don't have to do this.  If I can't get it to "even out," I would rather get $5 back from the state than owe $500 every year, but I can't figure out why it's happening.

You could always just ask your payroll office to withhold an extra $10 every week. This is exactly why there's always an "additional amount" block on tax withholding forms. Then again that tiny person you're carrying will probably be worth close to $500 to you at tax time next year, so you might not need to make any changes at all.

I think the best thing is actually to come out even. That means they didn't take too much or too little of your money. That aside, given a choice, I'd rather get a little money back than have to pay, ever, so we try to err on the side of making that happen, hence the federal refund. But I don't see why we should have to pay the state several hundred every year. I want to fix it so we don't have to do this. If I can't get it to "even out," I would rather get $5 back from the state than owe $500 every year, but I can't figure out why it's happening.

You could always just ask your payroll office to withhold an extra $10 every week. This is exactly why there's always an "additional amount" block on tax withholding forms. Then again that tiny person you're carrying will probably be worth close to $500 to you at tax time next year, so you might not need to make any changes at all.

 

You're probably right.  We will probably leave everything as is for now and just see how it shakes out next year.

I'm glad to hear you and your baby are OK.  Car accidents are very scary when they involve a pregnant lady.  My sister's currently pregnant, and has had two right in a row, but everything's OK.  She wasn't at 8 months, though.

Thanks X.  It was pretty scary and I'm just glad he's doing ok in there.

I miss George Bush

 

Any of the New Yorkers on this board going to be at the Auto Show on Saturday?  I will be there.  I'm trying to think of something to wear so you guys would notice a fellow forumer... I'll have to get back to you on that haha.

Why, how about our authentic, authorized, signatized, lionized, screen printized logo tee-shir....oh, never mind.

Haha, I was thinking about a t-shirt, but they don't have any.  Maybe I'll take my bumper sticker and put it on my camera bag...

Any of the New Yorkers on this board going to be at the Auto Show on Saturday? I will be there.   I'm trying to think of something to wear so you guys would notice a fellow forumer... I'll have to get back to you on that haha.

 

If you see a guy wearing short-shorts and 10 fedora hats stacked on top of each other it's probably MTS.

LMAO...

David you'll probably catch hell for that, but it definitely wouldn't be the first time, and probably won't be the last either.

Seriously though, if mrnyc, eastvillagedon, MTS, or any of the other ny'ers or even other forumers are going, let me know. Maybe we can set something up to meet.

Any of the New Yorkers on this board going to be at the Auto Show on Saturday?  I will be there.  I'm trying to think of something to wear so you guys would notice a fellow forumer... I'll have to get back to you on that haha.

 

If you see a guy wearing short-shorts and 10 fedora hats stacked on top of each other it's probably MTS.

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR8npn4RK6I&feature=player_embedded

 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR8npn4RK6I&feature=player_embedded

 

This is a GOOD one!

Any of the New Yorkers on this board going to be at the Auto Show on Saturday?  I will be there.  I'm trying to think of something to wear so you guys would notice a fellow forumer... I'll have to get back to you on that haha.

 

If you see a guy wearing short-shorts and 10 fedora hats stacked on top of each other it's probably MTS.

 

 

 

I don't think I need a gay christianista explaining my moral failings  :angel:

Any of the New Yorkers on this board going to be at the Auto Show on Saturday?  I will be there.  I'm trying to think of something to wear so you guys would notice a fellow forumer... I'll have to get back to you on that haha.

 

If you see a guy wearing short-shorts and 10 fedora hats stacked on top of each other it's probably MTS.

 

 

 

I don't think I need a gay christianista explaining my moral failings  :angel:

 

Man I love urbanohio. A simple question turns into this...  I love you guys haha.

Any of the New Yorkers on this board going to be at the Auto Show on Saturday?  I will be there.  I'm trying to think of something to wear so you guys would notice a fellow forumer... I'll have to get back to you on that haha.

 

If you see a guy wearing short-shorts and 10 fedora hats stacked on top of each other it's probably MTS.

 

 

 

I don't think I need a gay christianista explaining my moral failings  :angel:

 

Man I love urbanohio. A simple question turns into this...  I love you guys haha.

 

and for starting this, you should wear a 70s sequence tube top to the Auto show!

OMG.... I should.  But I don't own one so it would be hard to find one in just one day.  Maybe I'll find one while I'm in Dirty Jerzey. ;-)

 

If you were going, I would definitely try to find something to make me noticeable haha.

auto show? hmm, prob not this year dj. actually i was looking for plane tix to go to cle for the weekend, but it was too much $ so it looks like i'll be around if you are in town and want do a neighborhood tour.

 

***

 

whew, thank god! & oh, so women WANT to be slaves...!  :wtf:  :laugh:

 

Ok, can someone tell me why a public library would need little panic buttons under the desks to call the police? I know that banks are running out of money, but are people really robbing libraries now? The last time I paid a late fee I think it added up to 35 cents, do they really have that much in the register? And even if they did have a need for panic buttons, why would they put them in the children's section? Are people coming in and holding up the children's section? "I need all your copies of The Cat in the Hat, Goodnight Moon, and Everybody Poops, in the bag now! And don't even think about stamping them so that I owe late fees!" And if there is a good reason for needing a panic button in the children's section, Why on earth would you put a shiny red button at a height that my 12 month old son can reach? If he finds something shiny round and red within his reach, and he can't get it into his mouth, you can be darn sure he's going to play with it, and I don't think thats unusual for a child his age.

 

Yes, the police came.

 

My wife has been informed that my son now must be held at all times while in the library, including during storytime when all the kids are usually allowed to crawl around and play with each other.

 

I've been informed by my wife that this isn't funny and I need to stop laughing about it.

^ hilarious story -- failbutton!

Ok, can someone tell me why a public library would need little panic buttons under the desks to call the police? I know that banks are running out of money, but are people really robbing libraries now? The last time I paid a late fee I think it added up to 35 cents, do they really have that much in the register? And even if they did have a need for panic buttons, why would they put them in the children's section? Are people coming in and holding up the children's section? "I need all your copies of The Cat in the Hat, Goodnight Moon, and Everybody Poops, in the bag now! And don't even think about stamping them so that I owe late fees!" And if there is a good reason for needing a panic button in the children's section, Why on earth would you put a shiny red button at a height that my 12 month old son can reach? If he finds something shiny round and red within his reach, and he can't get it into his mouth, you can be darn sure he's going to play with it, and I don't think thats unusual for a child his age.

 

Yes, the police came.

 

My wife has been informed that my son now must be held at all times while in the library, including during storytime when all the kids are usually allowed to crawl around and play with each other.

 

I've been informed by my wife that this isn't funny and I need to stop laughing about it.

 

He probably saw this button and pushed it because he didn't believe the story that was being told!

 

 

Way to go kid!!!

My friend told me about this cup she saw at a store and I can't find it..

 

It's one of those cheapie looking plastic cups and it says "Jesus Saves" with a picture of Jesus.  And when you put warm water in it, it changes to "Jesus Shaves" and his picture is clean shaven.. I want this cup..

OMG the panic button at the library, that is amazing.  How many times will the police be called before they make the library remove the buttons?

"and for starting this, you should wear a 70s sequence tube top to the Auto show!"

 

SEQUENCE? SEQUENCE?!?

 

It's SEQUINED - as in a shirt with SEQUINS, you DIMWIT!!!

 

"and for starting this, you should wear a 70s sequence tube top to the Auto show!"

 

SEQUENCE? SEQUENCE?!?

 

It's SEQUINED - as in a shirt with SEQUINS, you DIMWIT!!!

 

 

That was a good one dear!  You got me.

 

However.....

 

 

^^ In those films, the slapee always cowers and suffers in silence. If I got slapped like that, I'd grab the slapper, yank her down from the steps onto the floor, and show her that a stomping trumps a slapping every time! :whip:

^^ In those films, the slapee always cowers and suffers in silence. If I got slapped like that, I'd grab the slapper, yank her down from the steps onto the floor, and show her that a stomping trumps a slapping every time! :whip:

 

Apparently you've never met my mother!  My mother was the slap queen.  She could drive and slap my brother simultaneously.

Saw this in someone's signature on another site...

 

http://www.ohiostatesucks.org/

^^ In those films, the slapee always cowers and suffers in silence. If I got slapped like that, I'd grab the slapper, yank her down from the steps onto the floor, and show her that a stomping trumps a slapping every time! :whip:

 

Apparently you've never met my mother! My mother was the slap queen. She could drive and slap my brother simultaneously.

 

Oh, do believe my mom also mastered the slap and drive.  She could even do the reach around to the back seat and slap you while driving.  The all time worst, though was she always drove with a big cup of ice water whenever she was driving from home to somewhere.  Whenever I would piss her off really bad, she would take the cup (we're talking a giant cup that you'd get at a Reds game) and toss it all over me.  In 8th grade she was driving me a school dance, and I was being a brat and yelling at her for making me late, and she turned to me, tossed the water, and said well now you're gonna be late AND wet!

I don't recall my mom ever laying a hand on me except for maybe a swat or two on the butt when I was little. Corporal punishment was always Dad's domain, and believe me, that was something to be avoided! The last of those encounters happened when I was about fifteen; he must have finally realized that you can't beat ADD out of a kid.

 

It was a different time, and "Spare the rod and spoil the child" was considered a time-tested rule in child rearing.

My dad swore he would never lay a hand on my sisters or me, and he never did.  We never really got in trouble, though, so it he was never really tested. 

^^ In those films, the slapee always cowers and suffers in silence. If I got slapped like that, I'd grab the slapper, yank her down from the steps onto the floor, and show her that a stomping trumps a slapping every time! :whip:

 

Apparently you've never met my mother!  My mother was the slap queen.  She could drive and slap my brother simultaneously.

 

Oh, do believe my mom also mastered the slap and drive.  She could even do the reach around to the back seat and slap you while driving.  The all time worst, though was she always drove with a big cup of ice water whenever she was driving from home to somewhere.  Whenever I would piss her off really bad, she would take the cup (we're talking a giant cup that you'd get at a Reds game) and toss it all over me.  In 8th grade she was driving me a school dance, and I was being a brat and yelling at her for making me late, and she turned to me, tossed the water, and said well now you're gonna be late AND wet!

 

Oh yeah the reach around slap was for advanced slappers.  LOL

 

Hold up.  You would yell at your mother?  If I did that I wouldn't be here today!!  How do kids get away with the smart talk/talking back??  That is a no-no in my family.  I'm 43 years old and I wouldn't talk to my parents like that.

I don't recall my mom ever laying a hand on me except for maybe a swat or two on the butt when I was little. Corporal punishment was always Dad's domain, and believe me, that was something to be avoided! The last of those encounters happened when I was about fifteen; he must have finally realized that you can't beat ADD out of a kid.

 

It was a different time, and "Spare the rod and spoil the child" was considered a time-tested rule in child rearing.

 

Yeah, my mom only slapped us, butt my father would beat the hell out my brother and I.  We would fight constantly.  It was like world war three in our house.  I would manipulate stuff and my mom would believe me and not my brother and he was sloppy so I could always provided evidence to his guilt/wrong doing. :evil:

 

Picture it...Shaker Heights.....(around) Memorial Day...1979. My brother and I got into a fight over something so stupid I don't remember what it was.  I think it was a Greg Pruitt or Reggie Rucker pen.  I remember my brother coming into my room via our bathroom and he halled off and sucka punched me.  Luckily I turned a bit and he had me right below my collar bone but he hit me with such force I just hit the ground.

 

I do remember picking up a shoe and chasing him down the hall, down the stairs and into the back hallway and my brother tried to get outside, he flung open the door.  My brother then ran thru the yard toward the street.  I ended then ran all the way down the street.

 

I end chase, and turn to go back to the house.  All of a sudden my mom is like "are you ok?  Are you ok? [there was a rash of burglaries in the area].  She then ask what happen did some try to get you and your brother?  I reply, "no".  She then ask what happen to the door.  I look at the door and I'm like "OMG".  Next thing I know she just flipps out in Spanish!  She said (in Spanish), "I thought a bleeping car ran into the house or that someone was trying to break in?  What the bleep is bleep wrong with your bleep bleep!  I don't even remember the glass breaking.  The entire door was void of glass. I just started to cry.  She said, "don't cry now, got to your room.  No, clean this bleep up!  Don't look at me!  Don't you dare look at me! Where the bleep is your brother?  When I get my hands on him I'm going to bleep the hell out of that bleeping little sneaky bleep!  I don't need this bleep on my day off.  You two act like you don't appreciate anything." She went on-and-on.  I had never seen my mother so mad.  When my brother came back we were out there cleaning up what seemed like a never ending glass.

 

When my father got home, my brother tried to get to him before my mother.  My mother karate chopped my brother and told my father what happened.  It was the worst.  He whipped physically abused us so bad I had to wear a long sleeved shirt to school.  He whipped us so hard my arm and shoulder bruised badly it looked like I was a victim of a domestic violence.  I could barely sit down in school cause my culo was in so much pain.  The weird thing about it, at that time, I was just a little shorter than my father.  He kept repeating, "Oh, you think your too big to be spanked?"  That was the last beat down I got!

^Yeah, wearing clothes to cover bruises crosses the line from a slap or a spank to legit child abuse IMO.

^Yeah, wearing clothes to cover bruises crosses the line from a slap or a spank to legit child abuse IMO.

 

I bruise easy.  Any time I play sports or get a bug bite I bruise.

 

It wasn't like my father was trying to physically abuse us. 

 

As an adult, I would have done the same thing, I think the glass to replace that door was around 600 and that was in the late seventies.  My brother and I would break stuff in the house all the time.  We were both trying to become and only child back then.  Many of our fights resulted in finding something in our house.  Like storage rooms, a safe; a hidden room.  Hell, I'm surprised we didn't  burn down the house. lol

^Yeah, wearing clothes to cover bruises crosses the line from a slap or a spank to legit child abuse IMO.

 

I bruise easy. 

 

g.a.y. lol

wtf am I doing at home on a Saturday night???? saving money, that's what they hell I'm doing. gyeah

^Yeah, wearing clothes to cover bruises crosses the line from a slap or a spank to legit child abuse IMO.

 

I bruise easy.

 

g.a.y. lol

 

HUSH

^Yeah, wearing clothes to cover bruises crosses the line from a slap or a spank to legit child abuse IMO.

Some of what qualifies as abuse nowadays, forty-plus years ago was widely considered normal traditional discipline integral with rearing children, especially boys starting about ages 11-12. My last physical encounter, at age 15, resulted from my getting home late for my assigned work on the farm, and culminated in a busted lip. When Dad and I went back in the house, Mom looked at me and ordered me outside. Despite that old farmhouse's thick, stuccoed walls, I could hear Mom giving Dad an education. It's the only time I ever heard her raise her voice at him, and the last time he ever raised his fist at me.

 

Before my brothers' marriages went sour they had six kids between them, and Mom and Dad ended up pretty much raising those kids, making sure they "washed behind their ears" and wore clean clothes to school, etc. That started in the late seventies and went on for several years, and a couple of the grandkids manifested the dyslexia and ADD that are pervasive in Dad's line. Mom and Dad signed up for parenting classes to learn how to spare the rod (or leather belt) without spoiling the child, and really took the lessons to heart. That even radically changed my relationship with Dad, which had been arms-length from the time I got out on my own at age 18.

^Yeah, wearing clothes to cover bruises crosses the line from a slap or a spank to legit child abuse IMO.

Some of what qualifies as abuse nowadays, forty-plus years ago was widely considered normal traditional discipline integral with rearing children, especially boys starting about ages 11-12. My last physical encounter, at age 15, resulted from my getting home late for my assigned work on the farm, and culminated in a busted lip. When Dad and I went back in the house, Mom looked at me and ordered me outside. Despite that old farmhouse's thick, stuccoed walls, I could hear Mom giving Dad an education. It's the only time I ever heard her raise her voice at him, and the last time he ever raised his fist at me.

 

Before my brothers' marriages went sour they had six kids between them, and Mom and Dad ended up pretty much raising those kids, making sure they "washed behind their ears" and wore clean clothes to school, etc. That started in the late seventies and went on for several years, and a couple of the grandkids manifested the dyslexia and ADD that are pervasive in Dad's line. Mom and Dad signed up for parenting classes to learn how to spare the rod (or leather belt) without spoiling the child, and really took the lessons to heart. That even radically changed my relationship with Dad, which had been arms-length from the time I got out on my own at age 18.

 

Rob I didn't even think about that.  People think raising kids is different, I don't believe in all the "talking", I'm a do as I say kind of person.  I believe children should be spanked.  Put some fear in their asses.  Many kids do not realize there are consequences.

 

Then we had the late 80s & 90's generation of kids having kids and single mother homes so kids never had structure or discipline.

 

Looking back, I knew better, if I were in my parents position today, I would do the same thing.

 

 

 

Wait a minute, I was a single parent in the 80's and 90's and there was never a problem with structure or discipline in my home!

Wait a minute, I was a single parent in the 80's and 90's and there was never a problem with structure or discipline in my home!

 

I totally believe that.  Really I do.

A lot of spanked bottoms, and a lot of yelling on my part!  But I'm still a pushover!  Those girls really knew how to get to me, they still do. 

 

Now, they like to point out to me when I'm angry that they always knew to run when they saw my nostrils flare!

A lot of spanked bottoms, and a lot of yelling on my part!  But I'm still a pushover!  Those girls really knew how to get to me, they still do. 

 

See thats the problem.  Girls get away with murder.

 

My brother says he can't even look at the girls if he needs to punish them. 

 

My oldest niece has him and my father wrapped around her little fingers.  The only thing he won't budge on is boys.

 

Its so unfair.

Yeah, but I just mean I couldn't stay mad at them.  I would guess with boys, the anger stays a bit longer.  I know I am that way with my nephews, although I love them as if they were my own.

Yeah, but I just mean I couldn't stay mad at them.  I would guess with boys, the anger stays a bit longer.  I know I am that way with my nephews, although I love them as if they were my own.

 

Its unfair.  All my niece has to is hug my brother and say "oh papi, can I have X" or "your the best daddy" and he's reduced to blubber!

 

One the boys asks for something, they get a "boy, go sit down somewhere!"

The name on the building wouldn't have meant as much if my grandfather (only son) hadn't had an only son who happened to have 2 sons, one of which has a son!  I had 2 daughters, whom I have told to keep the name!

 

 

"Bah-lroo-ne" building? D@mn, if those walls could talk...

 

I bet those bathtubs reak of Gin. Where do you keep the poker tables?

not enough return on poker, now numbers running maybe!