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jwctaco · Sep 28, 2022

Good morning everyone ,ahhh Wednesday, be safe out there, especially you Florida folks.

vssman · Sep 28, 2022

Good morning all. To those in the SE, stay safe.

dewayne · Sep 28, 2022

KRAMERICA said: ↑

It's difficult to give good advice without knowing all the W's. However, I agree with the other comments so far. I'd hope someone I considered a friend wouldn't do something shady to me. If someone did do something shady to me, I would know not to call them a friend anymore.

You can always confront them about whatever occurred, but to me, a friend doing something shady to me would be akin to discovering a cheating spouse. The trust that made the friendship would be broken, and mending that trust would be incredibly difficult.
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I made a rule years ago. I dont do business with friends.I fell out with the Toyota service dept. this year. and the saleman was a life long friend,well i bitched all the way to the owner and carbon copyed my friend on everything. he never reached out so wont be dealing with him or them again.our family, weve bought 5 freaking vehicles there from him. and Yes the dealership sent me a damn check in the mail.

dewayne · Sep 28, 2022

Good Morning

Charlie Too · Sep 28, 2022

Good morning.

Hardscrabble · Sep 28, 2022

Good morning all,

A nice 50 degrees this morning. Well wishes for those who are in the path of this hurricane headed towards Florida. We need some rain here and it looks like this weekend will be wet.

Stay safe out there.

US Marine said: ↑

Good Afternoon

Just got back from the VA and everything is set for October 26th for my knee replacement surgery . I'm first on the list for surgery that day and need to be there in Nashville at 0545hrs hours and will be there overnight then head back home the next morning

Only thing that could cancel the surgery is no beds or staff available due to a spike in Covid cases
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All the best with the knee surgery Chuck.

Tacman19 said: ↑

Good evening folks. Well things came to a halt on the full time traveling the last few weeks. Looks like we'll be here for a while tending to SIL. Did not plan an extended stay but it's called for and we're all in to help.
So a week ago I eluded to seeing some cars, Shelbys to mention a few. Had a friend who called a friend and let me know this shop was looking for a parts guy. Talked to them and they hired me. I was shocked but I'm also a little seasoned and I think that's what they needed. Can't say now who it is because of client data and whatnot, but it's Kindig, Foose and ole Boyd Coddington level stuff. Only a few places that are licensed to reproduce the Shelby. I'm excited and things went great today so glad I made the decision to delay our travels.
I'll post a little more once I get settled in.
Y'all be safe out there and look out for hurricanes and tornados you folks in the South.
Zim
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Oh yeah, Shelby cars! And you can look after your S-I-L.

Crazy Nick said: ↑

You guys have already made some great points. Here are the details.

I have a female friend that I've been friends with since before either of us were married. So she's also known my wife for 20 years and I've known her husband for about 15 years. We've been to each others weddings, birthdays, holiday parties, Super Bowl parties, etc. My wife and I struggled with infertility for a little over 10 years, multiple miscarriages, two failed adoptions, etc. So all of the aforementioned family gatherings were a nice distraction from all of the struggles that we were going through at the time. In 2018 we were finally blessed with our son and after trying for so long he truly is our little miracle. Even when our son was born they were the first to come over a couple of days after and bring us food and the first year or so of his life everything was normal between us. But since New Years 2020, coming up on 3 years we've only seen them briefly twice, and we only live 10 minutes away from each other. I never would have dreamed that now that our son is here he wouldn't even know who our dear friends are. And the recent thing that was extra shitty was my friend reached out to my wife asking for the name of a caterer that we've used at a few parties (all of which they were invited to), as she was planning her husbands 50th B-Day. Not being invited to the party was a minor snub in comparison to the message that was sent by having the balls to ask for the reference knowing that they had no intention of inviting us in the first place, that's not just a snub, that's more like a BTW fuck you guys. We had no idea that's how it was going to unfold, but since they did know how can that be taken as being anything but a deliberate diss ? If all of this would have happened to me as a single guy I would probably care less and move on (like the rest of you) but as a dad to an awesome kid is what really stings the most. I left out the part that they have a daughter that's a few years older than our son and they've never invited my son to any of her B-Day parties, pool parties, etc whereas we were always invited before our son was born. BTW, not a day goes by that we aren't eternally grateful for the blessing that our son is in our lives, but that doesn't mean that we don't have feelings... Sorry guys, it's just been festering for a while.
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Whew, that’s terrible to ask for your caterer, and with the past history of your friendship, and not invite you to their celebration. Sounds like they aren’t the people that you should spent time with. It sucks, but I’d move on.

Tacman19 · Sep 28, 2022

Morning folks. 68* and headed to 90*.
Y'all be safe out there.
Zim

Charlie Too · Sep 28, 2022

46 here, with a high of only 56 due to incoming rain. Weather is more like late October.

MQQSE · Sep 28, 2022

Crazy Nick said: ↑

You guys have already made some great points. Here are the details.

I have a female friend that I've been friends with since before either of us were married. So she's also known my wife for 20 years and I've known her husband for about 15 years. We've been to each others weddings, birthdays, holiday parties, Super Bowl parties, etc. My wife and I struggled with infertility for a little over 10 years, multiple miscarriages, two failed adoptions, etc. So all of the aforementioned family gatherings were a nice distraction from all of the struggles that we were going through at the time. In 2018 we were finally blessed with our son and after trying for so long he truly is our little miracle. Even when our son was born they were the first to come over a couple of days after and bring us food and the first year or so of his life everything was normal between us. But since New Years 2020, coming up on 3 years we've only seen them briefly twice, and we only live 10 minutes away from each other. I never would have dreamed that now that our son is here he wouldn't even know who our dear friends are. And the recent thing that was extra shitty was my friend reached out to my wife asking for the name of a caterer that we've used at a few parties (all of which they were invited to), as she was planning her husbands 50th B-Day. Not being invited to the party was a minor snub in comparison to the message that was sent by having the balls to ask for the reference knowing that they had no intention of inviting us in the first place, that's not just a snub, that's more like a BTW fuck you guys. We had no idea that's how it was going to unfold, but since they did know how can that be taken as being anything but a deliberate diss ? If all of this would have happened to me as a single guy I would probably care less and move on (like the rest of you) but as a dad to an awesome kid is what really stings the most. I left out the part that they have a daughter that's a few years older than our son and they've never invited my son to any of her B-Day parties, pool parties, etc whereas we were always invited before our son was born. BTW, not a day goes by that we aren't eternally grateful for the blessing that our son is in our lives, but that doesn't mean that we don't have feelings... Sorry guys, it's just been festering for a while.
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Find some new friends. Quit worrying about them and why they do what they do. Sorry, I know it hurts, but you gotta move on and put them behind you.
IMGOBO

MQQSE · Sep 28, 2022

ImpulseRed008 said: ↑

If you are watching it, you deserve to be
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Hit him again.

MQQSE · Sep 28, 2022

Good Morning

BarcelonaTom67 · Sep 28, 2022

good morning to all

lynyrd3 · Sep 28, 2022

Morning 50+

lynyrd3 · Sep 28, 2022

CVYota[OP] said: ↑

I have zero chrome on my truck
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X2
Except the door badges

Marty65 · Sep 28, 2022

ImpulseRed008 said: ↑

If you are watching it, you deserve to be
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I had no choice !

MQQSE said: ↑

Hit him again.
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It was a hostage situation!

Marty65 · Sep 28, 2022

Good morning everyone!

MQQSE · Sep 28, 2022

Marty65 said: ↑

I had no choice !

It was a hostage situation!
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Tacoma Mike · Sep 28, 2022

Crazy Nick said: ↑

You guys have already made some great points. Here are the details.

I have a female friend that I've been friends with since before either of us were married. So she's also known my wife for 20 years and I've known her husband for about 15 years. We've been to each others weddings, birthdays, holiday parties, Super Bowl parties, etc. My wife and I struggled with infertility for a little over 10 years, multiple miscarriages, two failed adoptions, etc. So all of the aforementioned family gatherings were a nice distraction from all of the struggles that we were going through at the time. In 2018 we were finally blessed with our son and after trying for so long he truly is our little miracle. Even when our son was born they were the first to come over a couple of days after and bring us food and the first year or so of his life everything was normal between us. But since New Years 2020, coming up on 3 years we've only seen them briefly twice, and we only live 10 minutes away from each other. I never would have dreamed that now that our son is here he wouldn't even know who our dear friends are. And the recent thing that was extra shitty was my friend reached out to my wife asking for the name of a caterer that we've used at a few parties (all of which they were invited to), as she was planning her husbands 50th B-Day. Not being invited to the party was a minor snub in comparison to the message that was sent by having the balls to ask for the reference knowing that they had no intention of inviting us in the first place, that's not just a snub, that's more like a BTW fuck you guys. We had no idea that's how it was going to unfold, but since they did know how can that be taken as being anything but a deliberate diss ? If all of this would have happened to me as a single guy I would probably care less and move on (like the rest of you) but as a dad to an awesome kid is what really stings the most. I left out the part that they have a daughter that's a few years older than our son and they've never invited my son to any of her B-Day parties, pool parties, etc whereas we were always invited before our son was born. BTW, not a day goes by that we aren't eternally grateful for the blessing that our son is in our lives, but that doesn't mean that we don't have feelings... Sorry guys, it's just been festering for a while.
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Ok.
Is this all it is?
And I don’t mean to trivialize this.
I was imagining theft, deception, unkind remarks, etc.

You gave a specific date or time frame.
What did you do to them?
Now just don’t blast back “nothing”
Think real hard..
People change, lives change, people “grow apart”.
Friends come and go no matter the time frame.
This has happened to me a few times.

There are only two choices
#1 Just let it go, forget it.
#2 Call them.
“Hey, can we shoot by for a few min? We need to talk about something.”
That’s it.

Do not get in a defensive position.
They need to be honest.
Ask nicely with no vision of confrontation.

Just ask why we haven’t been hanging out and if you did something wrong?
Obviously they haven’t done anything wrong to you. Cause you want to know they
They stopped.

It maybe Nothing.
It maybe a minor thing.
It maybe just time and direction….

You said yourself it’s festering inside you.
10 min is all it would take..

Cwopinger · Sep 28, 2022

Good morning everybody Have a great hump day.

Breezy and low humidity again, another fire weather warning for us while south FL gets pounded.

Taco-Grinder · Sep 28, 2022

Good Morning

38 degrees and up to mid 50s today.

For our Florida Friends,,, Stay Safe

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