Bridgeport cart path speed bumps

[samhass]

A crew was working on the speed bumps today. I thought they were lowering them but was told that someone stole one, so they were concreting in some new ones. Supposedly the original bumps were bolted in place. I hate them and wish TV would remove them, but I fear more accidents if they are removed.

[Donna]

I have to be reading this wrong..STOLE a speed bump???

What is going on??? What will they steal next, the guard house????

[redwitch]

I'd love to hear the conversation when it's brought home.

Hey, cool speed bump!

Yeah, figured with a board on it it'll make a cool skate boarding ramp.

Wow!! Cool idea.

Well, yeah, you know ....

Where'd you get it?

Oh, from the old folks in TV.

AWESOME!!!

(Now, let's try to explain how good this idea is to mom.)

It amazes what people will take just because they can.

[samhass]

I think someone just wanted it out of there.

[Muncle]

Since it was just a chunk of wood bolted into the concrete, I thought it looked rather gauche. I mean, a piece of wood screwed into the ground??? But, ya know, it worked. It didn't cost a fortune and it got the job done. I guess we aughta have more stuff like that rather than mucho money solutions that don't work.

[samhass]

I'll bet someone has it in their garage as a car stop.

[Sidney Lanier]

Using it as a car stop would at least be putting it to good use. I was imaginging in my mind's eye someone somehow making it the centerpiece of a piece of sculpture for a lanai, or something such.... For a car stop we 'inherited' a golf ball (what else?) hanging from the garage ceiling on a string, and we can report that it's definitely effective as long as we pull into the garage SLOWLY!

[Boomer]

Using it as a car stop would at least be putting it to good use. I was imaginging in my mind's eye someone somehow making it the centerpiece of a piece of sculpture for a lanai, or something such.... For a car stop we 'inherited' a golf ball (what else?) hanging from the garage ceiling on a string, and we can report that it's definitely effective as long as we pull into the garage SLOWLY!


Sidney,

I have a paintbrush suspended from the garage ceiling for the same purpose but a much gentler touch.

[LindaL]

I use a wiffle golf ball so that it is light and has holes in order to string rope through. Works great. :)

[Boomer]

I use a wiffle golf ball so that it is light and has holes in order to string rope through. Works great. :)


Hi LindaL,

The wiffle ball is the classic solution to the problem. We didn't have one at the time Mr. Boomer got tired of trying to squeeze through between the wall and where I had parked the car. But the wiffle ball is perfect. :)

Boomer

[KathieI]

What is going on??? What will they steal next, the guard house????

Donna, great idea!! The guard house will look cute in my new living room in TV!!

[RCT]

I would have had it in my room, as a teenager, along with the stop, yield, and roadsigns.

[Muncle]

Sidney,

I have a paintbrush suspended from the garage ceiling for the same purpose but a much gentler touch.


B3,
I would think the paint would drip on the car and that due to the heat, you'd have to re-dip often.

[Boomer]

B3,
I would think the paint would drip on the car and that due to the heat, you'd have to re-dip often.


Muncle,

Hey, thanks. I wondered why my car kept changing colors when I wasn't looking. I thought it had something to do with the Easter Bunny.

btw I knew it would be only a matter of time before someone called me B to the third power. I think I like it. But I don't know how to make that little 3.

Now, I must digress, as I am wont to do.

I was agonizing over my screen name the other day. I really must get a life, but Spring only shows up long enough to taunt us and then disappears, and the warm glowing screen calls from the cozy kitchen.

At the time I started here, I was quite taken with the concept of being a "BeBack" only a different version of the one from long ago. I still have the memory of that salesman back in the 80's who said to me, "No m'am, you won't," when I told him that I would be back to talk to him about the timeshare another day. I did not know at the time that salespeople called the likes of me a "BeBack." All I was trying to do was let the guy down gently and get out of that place. -- But we really do plan to be back in TV. I hope before next winter.

But now I have decided that my name is too long. 3B, BB, BBB, B to the third power, just plain Boomer (I can't believe there was not one already.) -- so many choices. I feel like Sybil.

But I guess I will just have to stick with the BeBack thing since it is in place and firmly attached to the Boomer Chronicles or whatever that ever-increasing number of posts is turning into. Besides what I really need to do is go outside and play and stop obsessing about my screen name.

I do so love to hijack a thread. They are going to throw me off this board anyway if I don't stop it. The girl can't help it.

btw, again, Muncle, considering that you seem to be in a mathematical mood, can you find the common denominator here? -- Muncle, Cher, Susan Sarandon, Dolly Parton, Bill Clinton, W., Boomer.

And Muncle, aren't you supposed to be the guest speaker at the TOTV luncheon? The time on your post says you are late.

[villages07]

Bx3...

all born the same year?

Uncle Muncle was a no-show...guess the choices of soups and pudding weren't enough to lure him out into the real world with his aching choppers. We missed him!!!

[Muncle]

B3,

I'll go along with the same year of birth, though since moving to TV, I feel I'm born afresh every afternoon morning I wake (gag!! :barf: nauseating, isn't it).

Regarding typing B cubed, it's really quite easy. Type B3. The hi-lite the 3 and hit the superscript key in the doodads (sorry about the technical terms) above. It's the mainly empty one with small print "sup" across the top. Don't use the one next to it or you'll get B3.

About me giving any type of speech, I was buying something at WalMart today and charged it. The young lady asked how I pronounced my last name. I replied, "Normally without this lisp when I have all my teeth."

[Sidney Lanier]

I suppose I could take down the golf ball (now speared with a nail holding the string) left by the previous owners and put up a wiffle ball (a whole package of which they left as well), but we kind of got used to the golf ball and even the fact that we have to go a half foot past GENTLY hitting it because our Prius has a longer and more sloping windshield than their car did. Whatever works....

[villages07]

Sidney....

I have lots of used tennis balls if you would prefer a gentle green felt impact with your Prius.

[Boomer]

Bx3...

all born the same year?

Uncle Muncle was a no-show...guess the choices of soups and pudding weren't enough to lure him out into the real world with his aching choppers. We missed him!!!


V'07,

Bx3! Yet another choice for my name dilemma. Thank you. Oh my, I will be awake all night.


B3,

I'll go along with the same year of birth, though since moving to TV, I feel I'm born afresh every afternoon morning I wake (gag!! :barf: nauseating, isn't it).

Regarding typing B cubed, it's really quite easy. Type B3. The hi-lite the 3 and hit the superscript key in the doodads (sorry about the technical terms) above. It's the mainly empty one with small print "sup" across the top. Don't use the one next to it or you'll get B3.

About me giving any type of speech, I was buying something at WalMart today and charged it. The young lady asked how I pronounced my last name. I replied, "Normally without this lisp when I have all my teeth."


And Muncle,

B3, B3, B3. By George, I think I've got it! I've got it! I've got it! Thanks for the instruction.

I hope no one finds out that I was sitting here for 5 minutes looking at the top row of my keyboard for those "doodads" until Mr. Boomer came in and showed me the error of my ways. It was the "above" that I was not comprehending. I guess I needed it to be a preposition and there it was being an adverb.

And yes, of course, to both of you on the common denominator. For some reason, I looked up and saw that calendar thing "above" and I started snooping through it. All on my list are much, much older than I am though. I was closer to the end of that early boom year.

And I am so thrilled to know that Muncle gets younger every day that he wakes up in TV. Boomers going backwards. I can't wait.

[Casual Carol]

All of you are so crazy! You always make me laugh. With all of the problems in my life right now, I know I can always go to TOTV and get a laugh. Thank you

[chuckinca]

V'07,

Bx3! Yet another choice for my name dilemma. Thank you. Oh my, I will be awake all night.


And Muncle,

B3, B3, B3. By George, I think I've got it! I've got it! I've got it! Thanks for the instruction.

I hope no one finds out that I was sitting here for 5 minutes looking at the top row of my keyboard for those "doodads" until Mr. Boomer came in and showed me the error of my ways. It was the "above" that I was not comprehending. I guess I needed it to be a preposition and there it was being an adverb.

And yes, of course, to both of you on the common denominator. For some reason, I looked up and saw that calendar thing "above" and I started snooping through it. All on my list are much, much older than I am though. I was closer to the end of that early boom year.

And I am so thrilled to know that Muncle gets younger every day that he wakes up in TV. Boomers going backwards. I can't wait.






BBB

Still can't find the doodads!

Oops - there they are!!!


b3

or is it b3

no maybe b3

[Boomer]

BBB

Still can't find the doodads!

Oops - there they are!!!


b3

or is it b3

no maybe b3





Muncle,

Look at this. You have been an inspiration to Chuck also. You have opened a whole new world. Doodads R Us. :bigthumbsup:

Because I have already hijacked the heck out of this thread, I thought it might be the best place to ask you a question. -- Who is the guy in your picture?

At first glance I thought it was Jonathan Winters but realized immediately that it was not. When you had that picture of Gutenberg awhile back, I finally had to ask you about it. I kept thinking it was Geoffrey Chaucer but it wasn't quite right. It was driving me nuts so I just had to ask.

If you tell me who this one is, I know it will be one of those things where I will smack myself on the forehead and say, "Duh." He looks so familiar. It isn't Orson Welles, is it?

[chuckinca]

I first thought it was J Edgar Hoover or Wendell Willkie, but it looks to be Huey P Long

[Boomer]

I first thought it was J Edgar Hoover or Wendell Willkie, but it looks to be Huey P Long


The Kingfish, huh?

I also have been wondering if you, Chuck, are Jim Ignatowski or is that really you?

[Muncle]

I guess it's soon time to change pix. This one is Whittaker Chambers while working at Time Magazine, likely in the '40s. No real reason for using the pic other than the Chambers/Alger Hiss controversy has always interested me. Like a lot of people, my opinion moderated over time as more info was revealed (and I matured), but I've enjoyed how a lot of Hiss defenders totally ignore Soviet documents rather than admit that there were actually Soviet spies in American government and media.

I also like the picture because it reminds me a lot of Mr. Potter, the real hero of It's a Wonderful Life.

Guess now I'll try to find a picture of Leopold or Loeb or maybe John Scopes.

[marianne237]

My curiosity is aroused. What time of day would someone go and take away a speed bump? If it was done during the day, how'd they get away with it? Do you think it was visitors?

[chuckster]

Chuck.........looks like whats his name from taxi???? ::) ::)

[bime8062]

Speed bumbs replace the the ole air up the skirt trick at the fun house in Coney Island. Now it is the "jiggle effect"

;D
JIM

[chuckinca]

The Kingfish, huh?

I also have been wondering if you, Chuck, are Jim Ignatowski or is that really you?


I'm really me!

The pic is James Caldwell (aka Jim Ignatowski)

[Boomer]

I'm really me!

The pic is James Caldwell (aka Jim Ignatowski)


-- one of my all time favorite characters.

Don't forget. You have had piano lessons.

Wait. I'm back.

Geez...had to come back in to edit yet again. (I am trying to make Easter baskets, watch Suze Orman, and look at the computer all at the same time - oh and I still use my exercise ball for a desk chair.)

OK, let me try this again. You are you. The picture is Iggy. I should not think of you as Iggy. You made that clear in your post when you said that you are really you. OK. I think I've got it now. I need to slow down. You know, as in "What...does...the...yellllloooow...liiiight...meee eean?"

[Boomer]

Muncle,

Thank you for the picture explanation above. Actually I never would have figured that one out.

B3

[Sidney Lanier]

I'm mulling over the 'soft green tennis ball' suggestion. It still amazes us that we bought a car and then were offered the golf cart by the sellers of our house--and they're the same color! Light GREEN!!! The tennis ball might be a perfect match! Nah, then again, we really ARE used to the golf ball with the hole in it hanging by the string, and we are VERY careful to make sure the windshield wipers aren't on for any reason when we pull in....