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Originally posted by bendable:
Ozshadow,
Since getting this Android phone, I am
On it , six times a night reasearching news stories, movie facts, tv show
Trivia, names ,dates, history.

Kinda obsessed.

IMDB and Wikipedia are two of the best Internet things ever.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by ARman:
I drive a School Bus....

In rural Kentucky, down ribbons thin roads, full of yelling kids.

Nothing Scares Me!

ARman

Right after being institutinalized and or incarcerated
Your job is my 3rd nightmare.

For whatever reason, I hear exactly the question I am asked. For example, I had outpatient surgery last week. A nurse asked "can you tell me your name?" Me: "Yes."
I walked into Verizon. The clerk asked "What brings you to Verizon?" Me: "An F-150"
Waitress: "How do you want your burger cooked?" Me: "On a grill."

Then again, maybe my super power is pissing people off.

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Originally posted by bendable:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by ARman:
I drive a School Bus....

In rural Kentucky, down ribbons thin roads, full of yelling kids.

Nothing Scares Me!

ARman

Right after being institutinalized and or incarcerated
Your job is my 3rd nightmare.

No kidding. I'll take the midnight shift cleaning public toilets first.

<Begin Cranky Old Man> I rode the bus roughly an hour each way every school day for 8 years. The bus driver was the Warden! You did NOT cut up, yell, change seats while moving or otherwise misbehave on the bus. Plan A was an ass-chewing, Plan B was getting kicked off the bus for X days or even permanently. BOTH Plans included a phone call to your parents with predictable and often painful results. Nowadays, the kids are running the asylum. I wouldn't last halfway through the first trip as a driver.</Cranky>

I know of parents that quit volunteering to assist on field trips, because they could not deal with the bus rides.
But
They offered to haul kids in their
cars to the day trip location.

Bus drivers ( both school and public )
are 6th on my list of under paid, under appreciated
people.

Another guy that much prefers fixing something than just going out and buying a replacement. My old man was the same so I know where I got that.

I put a blue uniform on everyday and go to work.

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Originally posted by Oz_Shadow:
Research. Need to buy something? I gotta go research it. Problem come up? I gotta go research it. Daydreaming about something I have no chance of having or doing? I gotta go research it.

I'm going to have to say I got you beat on this one. Buying tires for example! LOL

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Originally posted by Redhookbklyn:
I can turn a simple plumbing project into a four trip to Lowe’s experience.

Only four ? You're pretty good.

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Originally posted by PHPaul:

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Originally posted by bendable:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by ARman:
I drive a School Bus....

In rural Kentucky, down ribbons thin roads, full of yelling kids.

Nothing Scares Me!

ARman

Right after being institutinalized and or incarcerated
Your job is my 3rd nightmare.

No kidding. I'll take the midnight shift cleaning public toilets first.

<Begin Cranky Old Man> I rode the bus roughly an hour each way every school day for 8 years. The bus driver was the Warden! You did NOT cut up, yell, change seats while moving or otherwise misbehave on the bus. Plan A was an ass-chewing, Plan B was getting kicked off the bus for X days or even permanently. BOTH Plans included a phone call to your parents with predictable and often painful results. Nowadays, the kids are running the asylum. I wouldn't last halfway through the first trip as a driver.</Cranky>

Unfortunately discipline and consequences are very lacking from the schools, and a large number of parents are of no help.

I'm a sub bus driver, and in my school district we ain't the new guys, you have have at least 3 years of service to be one. We get paid more than a route driver.

Most of the sub bus drivers are drivers trainers. They "unofficially" use me as a mentor to new drivers. Besides that, I do a lot of field trips. Last year I had 189 field trips under my belt. Mind you that a typical school year is between 170 and 180 days!

It can be stressful, and frustrating. With that said I truly love my job! I love the kids, the driving, the Challenge, I work with great people, the other drivers are great, the administration are great, it's like a big family.

I must be nuts, but I truly love my job!

ARman

Killing Sig Forum threads.

I am the best packer or organizer of anything I know of.....When I let it out! Perfection,if not closely watched is a Bitch!!!

My super power is the ability to not give a damn.

My kids hated it. But Dad...sorry, Dad doesn't care. He's unmoved. That's his superpower. The ability to be unmoved, so don't try. Do your homework. Eat your vegetables. Clean your room. You're grounded. No more sports for the rest of the year.

Dad's superpower? Doesn't care. It can't be beaten.

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Originally posted by Texas Bob C.:
Killing Sig Forum threads.

Didn't work, watch this.

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Originally posted by Johnny 3eagles:
I can, single handedly, turn an easy project into an all day cuss fest.

I have that same power! :-)

Not a super power yet, but I’d like to control the animals. If I see a crowd of destructive people, I send in the wasps. Someone driving distracted? In come the locusts. A stack of coupons the size of a car battery at the checkout line on Saturday? Here come the flies.

I can have excellent hearing when I want to, and other times be completely deaf.

I suffer from hyperacusis.

My wife thinks it is a superpower, but it is a curse. TV's make a high frequency sound that nobody I have ever met can hear, yet I can hear it from a neighbors house. I also hear very low frequency sounds, which was part of the reason we had to move from under the flight path of the airport.

My right eye is a tetrachrome.

I can make accurate color adjustments without a spectrophotometer.

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Originally posted by wrightd:

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Originally posted by Redhookbklyn:
I can turn a simple plumbing project into a four trip to Lowe’s experience.

Only four ? You're pretty good.

I finally found the solution to this, I buy all the parts I think I'll need, then the size above and below of each, then a wide variety of other fittings I don't think I'll need as well. Usually I'm able to complete the project after the first trip, left with a large bag of items to return (and these can wait till the next project comes up, if only I remember to take them). Thus, plumbing project with only two trips to the store!