G&G room

[b4uqzme]

Guns and guitars. These are my old man hobbies...for long after I can no longer swing a golf club.

[Bawanna]

Golf is the playing field of the devil, I'd write that habit off as quickly as possible.

[b4uqzme]

^^^ don't worry. Golf wrote me off long ago. I just go to drink the beer.

[Bawanna]

I bet squirreling around in them golf carts might be fun too, but whacking a stupid little ball and then going to look for it, well that don't make now sense at all.

I'm proud to say I never played it, but I did put up fencing around a couple driving ranges while they were still whacking their balls. Bastards were aiming for me 40ft up in a boom truck. Wish paintball had been invented back then, I would have shot back.

[Armybrat]

When my son worked at a local driving range during his high school summers, he would drive an old Jeep around the range with a rake/scoop thing to pick up the golf balls. There was a gong target on the protective cage, and if a golfer could make it ring they would get a bucket of free balls to hit. Son said he got peppered pretty good if there was a crowd on hand.

[Bawanna]

We had to hire a kid to ride in the bucket with me who's soul purpose in life was to watch for incoming balls. The mean and discourteous fellows on the line were aiming for us. Not a window left in the boom truck, had at lease a dozen balls end up in the bucket after ricocheting around for a long time. Took effort to arch em into the bucket like that.

Boom trucks idle almost all the time and so they run badly. I had it extended all the way up which was scary as it has a horn that went off when you hit max. Even though you knew it was coming it still scared the poop out of ya.

Anyhow the stupid truck quit while I was up there by myself. I could not get one of the arseholes to come out and start it up so I could get down. I ended up having to shinny down that greasy nasty boom. Kind of tricky at the elbow, having to switch directions still probably 25 ft up and me of course scared of heights. It was ugly.

[b4uqzme]

The crap we did for money back then. I had a part time job at a rubber tank lining shop. It was my job to crawl inside those tanks and peel the old rubber off while other goofballs heated up the outside with big propane torches. More than once the guy outside lingered too long in one spot and caught the rubber inside on fire...with me in there too. Never moved so fast.

[yqtszhj]

We had to hire a kid to ride in the bucket with me who's soul purpose in life was to watch for incoming balls. The mean and discourteous fellows on the line were aiming for us. Not a window left in the boom truck, had at lease a dozen balls end up in the bucket after ricocheting around for a long time. Took effort to arch em into the bucket like that.

Boom trucks idle almost all the time and so they run badly. I had it extended all the way up which was scary as it has a horn that went off when you hit max. Even though you knew it was coming it still scared the poop out of ya.

Anyhow the stupid truck quit while I was up there by myself. I could not get one of the arseholes to come out and start it up so I could get down. I ended up having to shinny down that greasy nasty boom. Kind of tricky at the elbow, having to switch directions still probably 25 ft up and me of course scared of heights. It was ugly.

That boom shimmy sounds scary. Would have been nice to have a long rope with some knots in it to climb down. At least then I would have felt like I had some control, maybe?

[Bawanna]

In hindsight I would have been better to just climb down the wire mesh. I was young, in good shape and probably could have climbed down that way much safer than that lousy boom.

Course it would have been easiest for one of the whackers to come out and start the darn truck.

[Armybrat]

Well Bawanna, you should've just had a hole flag from one of their greens in the bucket with you. That would've thrown most of the duffers off.

I've had a couple of dirty summer jobs during my teaching career. One was working in a local sawmill - no such thing there as vacuum equipment or face masks. Sawdust cleanup was especially nasty in August (no A/C of course). Plus there was the joy of getting stung by scorpions when hand carrying lumber into the shop. Almost got fired the first day when I shoved a 2X6 into the 36hp gang rip at the wrong angle - it kicked back and knocked out one of the other guys for a couple minutes. Hard hats? Not in the shop budget.

Another was cleanup slave in a public bus maintenance shop. Wasn't too bad until Fridays when I had to muck the place out, including the grease pits & bathrooms. No A/C there either.

That's when I started applying to teach summer school. The delinquents were a breeze.

[Bobshouse]

Guns and guitars. These are my old man hobbies...for long after I can no longer swing a golf club.

Hey, is that a can of Ballistol I see on your bench? I heard from someone that it really cleans and moisturizes leather sofas! Works really well if you don't have any mink oil on hand.

[b4uqzme]

It's like penicillin for gun lovers...Ballistol is.

[Bills1873]

Guitar & Gun room=fun room. Looks like a great place to hang out.