Your interesting life!

[JcMack]

For $5.37 I will send you a 8X10 glossy of myself and a copy of my book "How not to succeed at life without really trying" Fascinating play by play of my life including chapters on "The jail years", "The married years", "Back to jail" and "My life as a door to door squeegee salesman".

 

[arjay]

Back in the day,with the proceeds from a days work,you could hitchhike up to Vail,ski for the weekend,spend the night at the roost and buy a small bag of groceries to live on.If you were up there around Christmas,you'd run into Jerry Ford.Nice guy,but not a very good skier [emoji1]

 

[Iggy]

Does running into a wall of 750 pound bombs at full tilt with a pickup count?

No, they didn't go off as they were unfused at the time. But it was still kind of exciting in the nanosecond when I hit them.

On the other end of the scale. Had a headon collision north of Laramie WY between car and a semi loaded with bomb fuses.
Caught fire and it was plumb exciting for a while. We had the highway closed for 24 hours until the fire went out.

We cleared up the wreck and got traffic moving again.

Then a couple of us good ol boys what was off duty grabbed some gunny sacks and started gatherin' up the fuses that din't go off and had been blown out several hundred yards from the wreck while we were waiting for an Army EOD team from Ft. Carson CO to arrive.

We would drag along that sack until it got too heavy to drag and go fill up another one.

Them EOD boys kinda got excited when they heard what we had done. They plumb had a "tizzy" when they heard we were dragging the sacks.

They made us move back a mile and told us not to enter or let anybody else in to the blast zone.
Damn! We had to shut down the highway again for 6 hours while they gathered up our gunny sacks.

 

[BigBill]

I worked 6/7 days a week building manual and cnc vertical turret and three head lathes with chucks from 36" to 144" in diameter. I built machines for the Chrysler Tank(m1 Abrams), 155mm howitzer us army, NASA, p&w jet engines, general electric jet engines, chuckers for the auto/truck manufacturing. A lead lab tech in the top ten engineering groups in the world. There isn't one thing that you touch during one day that was manufactured on my machines or I help designed.
Or even fly on the jet engines my machines manufactured.
I'm not famous, but I help change the way we live. There are many more like me too were the unsung might of the American manufacturing history.
The manufacturing technology has changed so much in today's times.
The castings are more exact to size, better castings, better machined to the closest tolerances. More reliable products. My engineering tech job included life testing products too before they hit the field so your getting the best quality product. Today every manufacturer wants to mirror image the Maytag repair man with no call backs.

I built a 108" lathe for the Alaskan pipeline.

I helped design and worked on the Disneyland tower of terror ride.

I seen old number 7 Mickey Mantle play in left field. We met Mickey in Ridgewood, nj shopping in a local pharmacy. I was at summer camp with some of the Yankees kids.

I had a new baseball signed by Sandy Kofax my wife gave to my kids to play with.great it's a $1,000 ball today. I guess my older brother got it for me.

I cooked for the NY Jets as a kid after they practiced in Bridgeport,ct while the new meadowlands stadium was being built.
These guys fueled on triple and quad quarter pounders. I made them anything they wanted.

John Travolta and James Gambofini are from my home town. My dad purchased tired from Johns dad's tire shop.

I worked for the Charlie chip guy carrying his basket of chips. A woman would answer the door in bedroom wear and I was told to wait in the truck. I could never figure that out. LOL today.

Life doesn't change but the faces and names do.

Nothing will get me a free cup of coffee but it was kind of interesting.

 

[legelegel]

Firearms Related Experiences of An Interesting Life

Set in a car all night with another special agent watching the aircraft that would fly Ronald Reagan out of Oklahoma City the next morning.

Presidential Candidate Ted Kennedy walked by me on the stairs to the second floor of the Steak & Ale restaurant on S.W. 74th in Oklahoma City. He met with top Democratic fund raisers there after he spoke to others downtown that evening. I was part of group of many protecting him from harm that night. I was carrying my duty gun, a S&W Model 36.

Was on the Oklahoma Governor's Twenty. This honor goes to the top 20 law enforcement pistol shooters in Oklahoma each year

 

[chaparrito]

At the age of 12 I managed to ride an incorrigible horse none of the men could even get on, but it cost me my left collarbone when he tossed me.
I ran the bulls in Pamplona.
I once got a 300 dollar tip from Jackie Gleason.
In the seventies I snuck a peek down Olivia Newton John's blouse while serving her steak and lobster.
I did other stuff too.

 

[rwsmith]

Pretty much a beginner?

Back in the day,with the proceeds from a days work,you could hitchhike up to Vail,ski for the weekend,spend the night at the roost and buy a small bag of groceries to live on.If you were up there around Christmas,you'd run into Jerry Ford.Nice guy,but not a very good skier [emoji1]

I remember Ford taking skiing lessons and he was doing ok on the starter course. They probably edited the parts where he fell down..

 

[rwsmith]

Uh???

Does running into a wall of 750 pound bombs at full tilt with a pickup count?

No, they didn't go off as they were unfused at the time. But it was still kind of exciting in the nanosecond when I hit them.

Uh.....WHAT?

 

[arjay]

I remember Ford taking skiing lessons and he was doing ok on the starter course. They probably edited the parts where he fell down..

Much easier to learn when you're three ft tall [emoji1]My kids tried to teach me snowboarding when I reached 50.It wasn't pretty [emoji24]

 

[arjay]

Ha! [emoji1][emoji1][emoji1][emoji1]

 

[Old TexMex]

Now that I think about it, for 17 years I spent four months evry year on the Great Barrier Reef. Now when I see the Discovery Channel I think, "hey, I lived there!" I was the only American to get a full pilotage endorsement for the entire Reef, from Lady Elliot Island to Thursday Island. Seems like a million years ago...

 

[Bat Guano]

Immigrated from one country to another. Different mentality, different cultures, different languages. Sometimes the two cultures clash within me

That's ok. A lot of us born here feel exactly the same way nowadays.

 

[GaryS]

I rode up in the weapons elevator (not sure if that's the real Navy term) on an aircraft carrier. They were making a port call in Boston and one of the Petty Officers became quite ill. Sick bay was several decks down the only way to get him up was on the elevator.

The officer was not happy about it, but I was pretty insistent that unless we had enough hands to carry him up the ladders to where we could him off the ship, that was the only way to do it.

I don't know how many Navy regulations that broke, but it was more than one.

It wasn't a frivolous thing on my part. The patient needed to be kept flat and I certainly wasn't going to abandon him in the weapons elevator.

 

[Fat Frank]

Back in the early 90's, I was doing a lot of shooting Registered Skeet in and around Omaha. I was privileged to be asked to join the shooting squad of some really good shooters. One of those was General Ken Pletcher. He was a heckofa nice guy and quite a good shooter. For those who haven't heard of him, he was the first president of the Armed Forces Skeet Association in 1975, and a past president of the National Skeet Shooting Association. One of the main shooting events for the Armed Forces meet, at the National Gun Club in San Antonio is the Ken Pletcher Open. He was a quite a guy, and I am honored to say I knew him, and got to shoot with him. Here we are at the Indian Island Open in Grand Island, Nebraska back in July of '92.

 

[policerevolvercollector]

Hmmm...... Got a guided tour of the Empire State Building all the way up into the radio tower. I believe that is 103rd floor. The public observation deck is on the 86th. The view of the city from up there is incomparable! A friend of mine knew the building's Director of Security.

The uniformed Secret Service gave me and three friends of mine a private tour of the White House and the west wing. I stood in the Oval Office. This tour was arranged by Senator from my state while we were in D.C. for Law Enforcement Memorial Week. I had to leave my gun at a little kiosk before going inside. The officer on that post simply asked if any of us were armed. I said "yes" and he put it a lock box. When I handed him TWO guns,he gave me a "look",grinned and let us pass to where our escort was waiting. This was pre-9/11!!

......I got to watch Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead do a "sound check" and warm up when I worked security a one of their shows.

Last Saturday was the best however.I saw my 8 year old daughter perform at her 1st piano recital

 

[LVSteve]

Most of my working life is covered by non-disclosure agreements that run out when the last star fuses the last hydrogen. Weirdly, this is for the protection of the public, as stories about my job can induce a coma at 400 yards.

I made a rock record that was bootlegged in Brazil where they are huge fans of the the New Wave of British Heavy Metal from the early 80s. With that band I played a gig where the support band was fronted by Gary Moore's brother. Everything else in my life that I can discuss will be in my book, "Diary of a Boring Bloke". Check out the chapter, "Watching Paint Dry".

 

[BigBill]

Now exciting things in my life is different. Doing 150mph on my 99 Suzuki 1200cc bandit, doing 120mph on my husqvarna TE610e dual sport both on the highways. Doing 100mph on my 79 390cr husqvarna in the woods. I LOVE SPEED.

Besides watching my three kids being born this had to be the best but they served no beer and pizza.LOL