I pretty much lost my fear if heights when I started climbing telephone poles and later buiding towers. When you are hanging from a tower a few hundred feet up by a strap you have to get over it or change jobs. lol
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Hey Tx and thank you for the welcome! Yeah, my son was at the game and one of our star players is seriously injured. Marcus Lattimore is a great kid, so humble and darn it, just a sweet young man. One thing I hate about watching these games, the injuries. I know, it goes with the territory, but some of the injuries are career crushing, I just hope it is not so with Marcus.
Thanks again for the welcome!
OK, that caught my eye, taste buds and envy! My bride of 43 years is hyper hyper (yes, no mistype there) allergic to any peanut product!
I actually lived on boiled peanuts for two days down in da Keys during lobster season once, intentionally!
Welcome to our lil' corner of da world! Since ya already have two grown kids, several dozen over grown kids should be right up your alley...
Hey y'all!
I'm over 55 (60 to be exact) and thought maybe this would be a good place to start in this forum. ........
........ I've enjoyed reading this thread this afternoon/evening, but didn't get caught up - not with 900+ pages! Y'all are funny, witty, but most of all such a caring, encouraging group, kudos to you all! I'll go backing to reading now, while I listen/watch Texas A&M kick Auburn's beehinds and babysit the boiled peanuts I have on the stove. Yep, total southerner here, just shy of a redneck, lol.
Anyway, it's nice to be here and I hope I can contribute to the conversation and happy vaping!!
Hello Greenmint - glad you found this thread. I think you'll like. hmmm, must be the yankee in me, never heard of boiled peanuts. Ya gotta stick around and learn us some more of your southern ways.
Oops wrong game. I live in the West and we only know about USC as Univ of Southern California. I forget Univ of South Carolina also goes by USC.
That was sad about Latimore. He is a very good running back. I hope it doesn't affect his pro carrer.
Roasted, Fried, Baked - love peanuts. Boiled - soggy things... (LOL)... Wife loves them - more for her that way... and here in Ga. they are on every corner. Welcome Greenmint...
hey Tex, thought i remembered reading a few months that somebody did catv construction..i did too, 34 years until 2 years ago..was still climbing at 60 til aches and pains got to be too much..small world...
Yep, I worked for Telephone for ten years and CATV for about 20. I started in CATV in 1964 in its infancy. I retired from Telecommunications and went to work commercial fishing mostly in the Bering Sea and North Pacific. I did that for my last ten years of working for a living.
I knew a guy that did cable work that was from Wichita Falls. His name was Monty but I don't remember his last name. My son also worked for Cable in Burkburnett for awhile.
I did do a little Cable work after I quit fishing and also climbed my last pole at 60. It was a litte harder to belt off than it was at 19 when I climbed my first pole in the Army. lol Gut was a little bigger and took more strength which I didn't have as much of either.
Yikes! You not only climb high towers you did this? I don't like being on a 20 ft ladder and I don't go salt water fishing on my buddy's boat because I get nervous when I can't see land.
know that feeling, don't think they make a belt to fit me now...climded my first pole in 68 with ma bell in maryland, got into cable in 76 after i got out of the air force..worked both w.f. and burkburnett..spent most of my time splicing.and ran a couple of mom & pop systems ...right now my mind says i can still do it, but the body just keep laughing....
My father was the same way. Used to make my sister and I stand at the edge of a butte and look down at the river way, way below. In my case it back-fired. I can't even look down when riding an escalator with out my stomach clenching up and feeling physically sick.
My father's father was not a good man or a nice one, but one thing he did that worked for my father is that his dad took him out in a boat on the Delaware river in Philadelphia. Dad had to be under 7 years old. When they got to the middle he tipped the boat and told my father sink or swim and left him out there. Fortunately Dad learned to swim well enough to get to shore and when he was older people tried to get him to the Olympics because he was such a good swimmer. Back then there was no money so he never got to go, but also his Dad was long gone by then. I don't know if Dad was ever afraid of water before that incident, but there weren't pools around then so the River was where you had to go if you wanted to get wet. Dad won bets on being able to actually swim across that river so you can imagine how wide it was. Can you imagine someone doing that to a kid these days?
Yikes! You not only climb high towers you did this? I don't like being on a 20 ft ladder and I don't go salt water fishing on my buddy's boat because I get nervous when I can't see land.
I wasn't on a crab boat but would have loved it if I would have been a little younger. I fished the same waters as they do in the Deadliest Catch and I'm very familar with all the places they fish. We also fished out of Dutch most of the time. The Skipper on the Seabrooke, Scott Cambell, is from here in Walla Walla. His daughter was in my daughters class where she teaches second grade.
It is my favorite show when it is on. It brings back lots of memories for sure.
Isn't that strange. We talked to a pilot friend about his fear at being on top of a building, but he had no fear of flying. Of course our son is afraid of heights, but it didn't stop him from doing a free fall parachute jump! I guess when you're up really high it just doesn't look real. You brain can relate to being 1 story or so off the ground, but way high like that it just doesn't look real. Vertigo is a whole 'nother issue though. I don't really understand why that happens. When Mike and I went to the Grand Canyon our first thought was Ok, there it is and it's very beautiful. But we sat there for awhile just looking at it and we suddenly realized the distance we were looking at. Our brains just can't compute it until we took the time to digest the plane and birds we saw down there. Wow. What a revelation!
guess since i got this started and it is a vaping forum,i should introduce myself a little..started the smoking thing in early teens, got up to 1 1/2 to 2 ppd..caught a lot of aggravation from wife and kids,wife is an oncology nurse, for years.. last march just decided one to try a disposable. wasn't that bad, ordered a lookalike 808 from smoketip..found out it was just the habit not the actual tobacco i was addicted to. haven't smoke a cigarett since. found ecf, mainly the echo thread, ordered them and been reading (lurking i guess the term is) ever since...so i guess i owe Tex a thank you for getting me off the lookalikes and into the bigger and better things in vaping..so thanks Tex and the other guys on the echo thread...
sorry about the ramble..but i would also like to THANK ALL YOU HERE!!!been a big help and i have learned alot from all of ya'll...now i can be quiet again...
Thanks Gordon I do enjoy helping others succeed at vaping and staying off cigarettes. That is why I like ecf so well and how willing most are to help others on the same trail.
Hey Gordon we enjoy all the conversation and learning more about each other. That is why we have this particular thread.
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