Using booze to get what you want
12-11-2009, 09:14 AM
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St. Jude Donor '09-'10, '14
History is filled with wonderful stories of alcohol the medicinal & psychological effects .. But my most memorable from my much younger days: "Better a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy." A most memorable moment was when I brought her with test driving C4's .. Getting on to the 101 freeway, I hit 2nd. gear & went sideway's .. She started screaming "Let me out here" .. She came around later, when I let her race in an 'AutoCross' .. ps: with an instructor.
One of the first things my wife said when she took her first ride in the vette "why don't they have an oh chit strap in here?"
12-11-2009, 07:02 PM
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When I met my GF about 4 years ago, I already had my Vette. It was a black 85 that I had bought in 95, drove for a few years until the OD lost reverse. I sanded the peeling clear coat off and ripped apart the engine to rebuild it and it then sat under a pine tree for about 8 years. When she first saw it and I told her my plans for it, she replied "I don't like those cars, they are too pointy". I then proceeded to completely rebuild and paint it in a 2 year period. Now it's "Can I take the Vette to work?" while batting her eyelashes. I then tell her "No, it's too pointy" as I toss her the keys. When she first made that comment, the car looked like it had been pulled off the bottom of a lake, and she prolly didn't think it would ever see the road. She loves all the attention she gets when she drives it, regardless of how pointy she thinks it is. I just laugh....we were married in April of this year. We both quit drinking 2 years ago....so I have to use her fondness for the car as a excuse to purchase stuff for it.
12-13-2009, 12:19 PM
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Boys, don't waste good liquor.....grow a set of rocks and buy whatever you want. Life is short. As long as you have the means and aren't strapped financially, any woman who cares about you won't care what you drive. It really is that simple.
If you having a Corvette is lighting her fuse this badly, perhaps one of you should find alternate housing.
I never understood the whole control thing in relationships. Here's how we do it....successfully for 20 years now.
1. We get paid.
2. We ensure all bills are paid, household expenses etc.
3. We ensure that investment and savings goals for this month are met.
4. We split up the rest and have fun with it.
Both of us have pretty simple needs....ie neither are real materialistic....so what the split ratio is varies. I don't recall every arguing about money over the years. I don't care what she does with her part, and vice versa. If one of us wants a big ticket item, we run it past the other as a courtesy, but I don't recall either of us ever telling the other NO.
Saves us a small fortune at the liquor store.
If you having a Corvette is lighting her fuse this badly, perhaps one of you should find alternate housing.
I never understood the whole control thing in relationships. Here's how we do it....successfully for 20 years now.
1. We get paid.
2. We ensure all bills are paid, household expenses etc.
3. We ensure that investment and savings goals for this month are met.
4. We split up the rest and have fun with it.
Both of us have pretty simple needs....ie neither are real materialistic....so what the split ratio is varies. I don't recall every arguing about money over the years. I don't care what she does with her part, and vice versa. If one of us wants a big ticket item, we run it past the other as a courtesy, but I don't recall either of us ever telling the other NO.
Saves us a small fortune at the liquor store.
12-13-2009, 12:48 PM
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12-13-2009, 12:56 PM
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St. Jude '10
Boys, don't waste good liquor.....grow a set of rocks and buy whatever you want. Life is short. As long as you have the means and aren't strapped financially, any woman who cares about you won't care what you drive. It really is that simple.
If you having a Corvette is lighting her fuse this badly, perhaps one of you should find alternate housing.
I never understood the whole control thing in relationships. Here's how we do it....successfully for 20 years now.
1. We get paid.
2. We ensure all bills are paid, household expenses etc.
3. We ensure that investment and savings goals for this month are met.
4. We split up the rest and have fun with it.
Both of us have pretty simple needs....ie neither are real materialistic....so what the split ratio is varies. I don't recall every arguing about money over the years. I don't care what she does with her part, and vice versa. If one of us wants a big ticket item, we run it past the other as a courtesy, but I don't recall either of us ever telling the other NO.
Saves us a small fortune at the liquor store.
If you having a Corvette is lighting her fuse this badly, perhaps one of you should find alternate housing.
I never understood the whole control thing in relationships. Here's how we do it....successfully for 20 years now.
1. We get paid.
2. We ensure all bills are paid, household expenses etc.
3. We ensure that investment and savings goals for this month are met.
4. We split up the rest and have fun with it.
Both of us have pretty simple needs....ie neither are real materialistic....so what the split ratio is varies. I don't recall every arguing about money over the years. I don't care what she does with her part, and vice versa. If one of us wants a big ticket item, we run it past the other as a courtesy, but I don't recall either of us ever telling the other NO.
Saves us a small fortune at the liquor store.
But then I didn't say anything about arguing. In fact we both like to have a drink once in a while so the liquor money is well spent. We pay our house payment and then some, the 401k grows every month, and we decide together what we want to do with the rest and I don't recall either of us saying no to each other. These stones are doing just fine. There's always another way to peel a cat.
12-13-2009, 01:04 PM
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Jim....you hail from the country that has the art of WHISKY distillation down to perfection. I bet you do drink to that 
PS....and then you go and drink American WHISKEY. Imagine that.
PS....and then you go and drink American WHISKEY. Imagine that.
12-13-2009, 01:07 PM
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Hell FF, sometimes I'll drink to anything
ps: You're welcome up here anytime. Like to day it's a balmy -34C. That should thicken your Texan blood a bit.
Now you wonder why I drinkJim
12-13-2009, 04:39 PM
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-34?? No wonder you drink. I'd be in rehab 3 times a year. I start to shiver in the high 50's. But let's see one of you Canucks roof a house in July in 110 degrees. BTW....I really hate to mention this....but I took the Vette out for a nice long drive today
12-15-2009, 08:16 PM
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Lessons from the Divorce Lawyer
I'm an attorney who has worked in Silicon Valley with small technology companies for the past few decades, helping them raise money, etc.
I had a friend who was a divorce lawyer in Palo Alto... in the 80s, he used to stop by my office and chat about his various cases... he was a very busy man. On his way out the door, he would always say to the receptionist (a happily married woman), "Don't forget the golden rule, once the kids are gone, LET HIM BUY THE CORVETTE".
Words to live by.
- WPK
I had a friend who was a divorce lawyer in Palo Alto... in the 80s, he used to stop by my office and chat about his various cases... he was a very busy man. On his way out the door, he would always say to the receptionist (a happily married woman), "Don't forget the golden rule, once the kids are gone, LET HIM BUY THE CORVETTE".
Words to live by.
- WPK