I've had plenty of encounters with the police and not one of them ended well. I should say first that I've never done drugs, never drank and drove, never even got a speeding ticket. I've never done anything illegal. Now... When I am driving, I get pulled over roughly every six months. Why? I don't know. They usually make something up like a head/tail light out even though it's obviously not. I'm not the only one either, they do it to my family and friends all the time too.
Back in 1999 my hometown was destroyed by a tornado. I was there roughly five minutes after it happened, helping out any way I could. When the police finally got there they wouldn't do anything to help and yelled at anyone who tried.
A few years ago my Grandfather had a massive heart attack, almost died. The people in the ambulance told us we could follow them in our van. Outside of the town of Kalkaska we were pulled over by a state trooper and he threatened to take all of us in the van to jail because we were speeding to follow the ambulance. Not joking in the slightest.
Last year my dog broke off his chain and got hung on a stump in the woods while I wasn't hope. Someone found him and called the police. They and the DNR came out and one or the other shot him.
One last note. I had a coworker, a sweet woman with a baby girl. Her boyfriend beat terribly. She got a restraining order and still he kept coming around, forcing his way into her home and beating her. The police wouldn't do a damn thing about it.
So yeah, I personally have very little respect or use for the police, only for the fact that they hold the ability to take my freedom away. They've never helped me or anyone I know, they've only hurt and harassed.
I'd like to edit that to say not to test the strength of your foot with a nail gun. (Accidentally nailed my foot to a roof with one once when I was working as a roofer.)
*chuckles* Um, ah, hmmmm.... If not for the age difference, I'd say above. *chuckles nervously* but, um, heh... Yeah.... I guess that works. (can't believe I'm posting this)
When I'm in a relationship, I love going shopping with the woman I'm with. Spending hours looking around? No problem, I'd even try and help her pick things out.
Alright, I got a message from someone. She says she rated my picture a ten and asked me to do the same. I haven't looked at her profile yet but this has left me with a bit of a moral quandary.
Should I feel obligated to rate her photo a ten as she did mine? After all, this wasn't favor I asked for and when I think about it, would prefer honest ratings on my picture.
I'm probably not going to rate her picture at all but don't know yet.
Thanks for the flower and teddy bear ladies, it put me in a better mood though being a guy, getting a flower felt a little odd, heh.
The general consensus seems to be that people usually react badly when rejected. That's unfortunate and I'm glad I'm not that immature. I wouldn't react badly if rejected, just go on my way feeling a bit disappointed. If the tables were turned and I wasn't interested, I'd simply say so and if they get obnoxious about it I'd block them from sending me messages.
To TheEnglishman & Zellarrone1: I'm working on my profile right now and changed to a different set of pictures of myself. I also intend to put a lot more effort into outgoing messages now. Thanks for the suggestions.
To HeatherHoney: Not this man.
To firstllight: I might ask why if someone said they weren't interested simply to see if something was amiss with my profile.
To jolemonus: Yeah, this actually is my only way of dating. There are no single girls here and the nearest city is more than an hour away.
To Leana76: Um, the pic I had up was taken on one of the best days of my life, I was smiling. Oh well, I put a different pic up now.
I hate it when women read the messages I've sent them and don't respond. Even a "Sorry, I'm not interested." would be nice. But no, they can't spare the five seconds it would take.
This wouldn't be so bad if not for the fact that my outbox tells me when they have opened the message I sent... It's not like I can say to myself, "Well, maybe they just didn't get it..."
Online or in real life I like it when women make the first move as I'm kind of shy. Although, in real life, it does tend to weird me out for a few minutes.
Personally, I'm into wilderness survival as a hobby so machines, though nice, aren't essential to my life. I could abandon the modern world and live quite comfortably if I so wished. I would miss my video games real bad though.
Well, I've got a Nintendo DS and one day, I couldn't find my games. They are little square cartridges about the size of poker chips and I was missing eight of them...
After a few hours of searching I found them inside of a Styrofoam take-out container from a restaurant... In the trash... I still can't figure out how those things got there.
Picture this: Me on a bicycle, twelve years old, a friend standing to each side of me, one hand on my back, the other on my handle bar, pushing me down their driveway. Me, laughing at the joke, about to release my brakes and watch them stumble and likely fall. My hand easing on the brake, a semi-truck speeds by a mere inch or two from the front of my biki doing around 80 mph. The friends, in a state of shock, stop pushing me and I finally let go of the brakes, lowering my feet and standing there for moment, thinking about what had just happened, what had almost happened.
Had I let go of the brakes when I first had the inclination I wouldn't be here now.
I called my friends every four letter word I could think of and I'm pretty sure I even made up some new ones, I then rode home on my bike, watching carefully for any more semi-trucks.
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Even taking all these things into consideration, it's still depressing as hell.
RE: Has aging given you a fair deal?
Hell no. Started balding at 21.