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Rep Retirement Lodge: 17th Edition: Summer Isn't Just A Stripper's Name

Rep Retirement Lodge: 17th Edition: Summer Isn't Just A Stripper's Name

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Re: Rep Retirement Lodge: 17th Edition: Summer Isn't Just A Stripper's Name

I could survive in the "camping" situation. I have the knowledge and the skills from when I was growing up. I just have no desire to do it, if it isn't required.
 
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Parallel parking got me on the first attempt, despite weeks of practice. It was incredibly stupid, since I would've passed the actual road test with no problems (and did on the second try). It's just a way for driving schools to milk more money out of students/parents.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Parallel parking got me on the first attempt, despite weeks of practice. It was incredibly stupid, since I would've passed the actual road test with no problems (and did on the second try). It's just a way for driving schools to milk more money out of students/parents.
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Parallel parking got me as well.

Instructor on the second try said he had someone show up with a '76 Lincoln Continental and score zero mistakes on the parallel parking.
 
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I got dinged heavily on and uncontrolled intersection and yielding to right of way. I still passed my test and I'm pretty sure that I remember the correct yielding and right of way for all situations better than most people out there because of what the tester said while chewing me out. He was a classic curmudgeon, made for a gov't bureaucratic job. :)
 
St. Clown said:
I got dinged heavily on and uncontrolled intersection and yielding to right of way. I still passed my test and I'm pretty sure that I remember the correct yielding and right of way for all situations better than most people out there because of what the tester said while chewing me out. He was a classic curmudgeon, made for a gov't bureaucratic job. :)
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I should have failed but didn't. The part of the
test where the instructor says "stop" and you are supposed to slam on the brakes? I was 0-3. Meaning every time I heard "stop!" I came to a slow stop. I just couldn't do it. The instructor looked at me and said "really?" and then proceeded to pass me. :)

I got my license and then picked up some friends at school and went to lunch. An hour after I got my license I received my first and only speeding ticket. I was clocked going 34 in 30. Yes, 34 in a 30.
 
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Twitch Boy said:
I would just like to say don't ever move to Denver. It has the worst weather in the country. It's worse than Seattle. It's worse than Houghton. It's worse than Bemidji.
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I lived in Denver for many years and have lived in Seattle for many years - I would take Denver weather over Seattle weather all day.
 
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gmann said:
I should have failed but didn't. The part of the
test where the instructor says "stop" and you are supposed to slam on the brakes? I was 0-3. Meaning every time I heard "stop!" I came to a slow stop. I just couldn't do it. The instructor looked at me and said "really?" and then proceeded to pass me. :)

I got my license and then picked up some friends at school and went to lunch. An hour after I got my license I received my first and only speeding ticket. I was clocked going 34 in 30. Yes, 34 in a 30.
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Back when I was 16, a Burnsville cop lived in the neighborhood. He said that cops in general were pretty stingy with holding people to the limit in 30 MPH zones. He then said that there were other areas where they'd let you go until you hit 15 MPH over the limit. I have a feeling that leeway has gone away in recent years, as cities look at speeding tickets as much as a funding revenue as a deterrent to speeding.
 
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Passed my road test the first try. Was only hit for one minor violation where I had a bush blocking my view on a side street at a stop sign, crept out closer to the intersection but didn't come to a complete stop a second time. Shrugs.

Parallel parking in a first generation scion xB was a breeze though!
 
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I got a 98 on my first attempt. The two points came off from my front tire being an inch and a half further off the curb than the rear.(parallel parking) Screw that I claim I aced it.
 
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Twitch Boy said:
Parallel parking got me as well.

Instructor on the second try said he had someone show up with a '76 Lincoln Continental and score zero mistakes on the parallel parking.
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Must have been a pretty stiff breeze that day that allowed that land yacht to parallel park to starboard.
mookie1995 said:
Forgot to share.....

Yesterday Mookie was driving and passed a woman walking her hawk
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Are you sure it wasn't just a chicken on a leash??
 
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I passed my road tested on the first try also. I was surprised. Besides for parallel parking, we also had to make a U-turn in a narrow street. (Where you have to back up in order to do it.) IIRC, the parallel parking was only behind a car, not between two cars. That makes it much easier.
 
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Good morning Ralph! ;)

Good morning to the rest of tLodge! ;)
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge: 17th Edition: Summer Isn't Just A Stripper's Name

Garage sale today. Hoping to get rid of some clutter.

The full size hockey net is on the block. :(

Don't have a backyard rink anymore and the third stall needs to be open for the boy's car.

Truth told, it wasn't used much anymore. Time for a new aspiring player to have it.
 
state of hockey said:
I got a 98 on my first attempt. The two points came off from my front tire being an inch and a half further off the curb than the rear.(parallel parking) Screw that I claim I aced it.
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Same here.

Morning, Lodge. Have a road rally today. Apparently you drive all over the county to hit checkpoints. Least miles/time total equals a win. This should be interesting.
 
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How could you forget Freddy Meyer's hack juice from the pole? Or bacon grease?
 
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Good morning Lodge from beautiful (gray and drizzly) Maplewood in cityslickerville.
 
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