| Author | Message | ||
     Freezerburn |
I have my bike in at the dealership getting a service and get an email from the service manager saying they have another Buell getting serviced that was built right before mine. Brothers reunited. Thought I'd share. | ||
| Chadr81 |
That's pretty cool!! What are the chances?!?! | ||
| Nevrenuf |
it's a smaller world than you think. | ||
| Iamike |
I had that happen a few years ago when BluzM2 & I rode out to Thunder In The Mountains at Breckenridge,CO. Kim & Cheryl were some of the hosts and I had such a good time I came back out that next winter to go skiing. After a couple days of hitting the slopes with my wife and daughter we met them for pizza. As the conversation went on Kim made a comment about growing up in Overland Park, KS. I said "Oh really, I did too!" As we compared notes it turned out that we lived just a couple of blocks from each other, went to the same Jr. high and he was just one year younger than me. Unfortunately being such a big school we didn't remember each other. It always amazes me how often you have connections that turn up in general conversation. | ||
| Doughnut |
Had a small world incident at work last night. I was part of a call the got a tec 9 off the street last night (my first gun of this type). While the subject was trying to shoot his cousin he gets his hand cut,severing a small artery. I end up going to the hospital with our subject. While a nurse is looking at his hand, I am making conversation with my subject and nurse. It turns out the daughter of the nurse, my subject and I all graduated from the same high school. It kinda help chill out my subject, he was pretty difficult untill that point,then he started to almost be friendly. | ||
| Court |
Shawnee Mission West? | ||
| Gunut75 |
I'm in the hospital today, waiting for the lil' lady to have the baby, and a friend of mine walks by in the hall. His wife is having a baby in the room next door! | ||
| Swampy |
When I put my had up to my girlfriends hand, they look the same.... Who would have thought?  Coincidence? I should think not... My thumb is the one with the grease under the nail. Best thing is she is Italian and I am known as the "Italian Guy" Want to know womething even cooler? We aren't even related. And something even better? She loves my bike and wants to get another one for up at the lake... | ||
| Doughnut |
Shawnee Mission West? I don't get the reference,what did I miss? | ||
| Nevrenuf |
the daughter of the people i grew up next to in the pittsburgh area was on vacation in florida and while she was casually sitting at a bar, she struck up a conversation with a guy. the conversation went to talking about her brother and the terrible divorce that he was going through. as things would have it, the guy knew her sister in-law and after she had said something that she shouldn't have, it got back to the soon to be ex sister in-law and made the divorce a lot worse. | ||
| Danny_h__jesternut |
So I had been livin and workin in South Fla for quite a few years. The boss says we got a new guy starting tomorow. Next day, I'm at the job site waiting on the crew to arrive. First guy to show is the new guy. I see he has R.I. licence tags on his car, hey that makes us neighbores, I'm orignaly from Mass. I asks where in R.I. Says he, jest my parents live(RI) there now, I grew up in a little town in Mass. Ok where in Ma I say. Names town, I poke a little fun at his old high school, damb Cardnials, I'm next town over Blue Raider, artch rivals, Ha Ha. So seems we have many mutual aquainteses. Hey rember the big brawl back in 76, half the two towns kids were involved, were you there ,yes me too. Took both towns police depts to break it up,funny now. Should we resume where we left off in 76 or ya wana jest get beer & wings after work? | ||
| Brumbear |
I remember going to the mepps station in Newark to leave for basic I meet a guy named Nunez we spend the trip to Ft jackson together I see him in basic as we enter a range his platoon is always leavuing, go to AIT he is in the next barracks see him in the chow hall, Go to Germany 1 year later walking down the street in Heilbronn Germany there is Nunez, fast foward 20 months or so I am walking out of the Eclub at ft Cambell who's there Nunez we laugh fast foward 20 years I am at a function I about shit myself there he is so how are man hows life treated you we just laughed and left it at that | ||
| Teeps |
SDFGWSRTG | ||
| Court |
>>>Shawnee Mission West? High School not far from Overland Park. I went to Topeka High School but had lots of pals at Kansas State University who were all from Overland Park, KS. That's where I did about 80% of my business during the years I owned my company. At that time Johnson County, KS was the 3rd wealthiest county in the nation and a great place to do public works construction. Gorgeous area. | ||
| Iamike |
Court- That's where I would have gone if we hadn't moved to Iowa. I think Kim did. It's fun to go back down there once in awhile. They were just building I-35 by there and we used to ride our bicycles out to the construction. There were also very few houses west of the highway. Speaking of Topeka we had a speaker last week that was in the F5 Parkersburg, IA tornado. Afterwards we were talking and I mentioned that I grew up in Kansas and have never seen a tornado. She lived in Topeka when they were hit. I told her that we had gone over there to look at the damage. Were you there then? | ||
| Court |
>>>>Were you there then? Yes. It was June 8th, 1966. I was on our screened in porch. We were about a mile (in Westboro) from the Washburn University campus.   My friend, Steve Pierce was at the Dairy Queen at 17th & Medford (about a block from where buildings were flying) and tried to crawl in the serving window. He got jammed halfway in and had his butt pummeled with debris (no injuries, just funny). I'd heard, all the time I was growing up, that a tornado sounded like "1,000 locomotives or jet engines at the same time". I always dismissed this as hyperbole; it's not. |
