Trains. I'm on an Amtrak train and it is making me irrationally happy to look out the window and watch the landscape go by.
Also trestle bridges!!!! :D
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Friday, 24 June 2011 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
OH oh I like train travel!
― you're in the club and the light hits your ass like pow (Laurel), Friday, 24 June 2011 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
I've never ridden anything bigger than commuter rail. I'd probably lose it and start singing "City of New Orleans" every ten minutes.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 24 June 2011 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
Laurel, me, too. My enthusiasm on this trip is slightly hampered by the fact that track work requires us to take a bus partway, but I'm digging the train in the meantime and it definitely beats the hell out of driving.
PP, the conductor leads everybody in a verse when s/he comes through to take tickets.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Friday, 24 June 2011 14:15 (twelve years ago) link
If I had more time, I'd take a train again from here to home as long as I could reasonably expect it to keep to schedule. The only time I did that trip, we were massively delayed and missed our assigned track er crossings/sharings with the freight schedule and had to wait on sidings for HOURS to get back into traffic.
― you're in the club and the light hits your ass like pow (Laurel), Friday, 24 June 2011 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
(Likewise, I can't help but humming "Coming Into Los Angeles" when landing at LAX. Arlo wrote some good travelin' tunes.)
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 24 June 2011 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
I took a train from Colorado to Delaware in my more robust youth - in coach! It was epic and awesome and exhausting and I'm pretty sure I could not do that again.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Friday, 24 June 2011 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
Watching WWE videos on youtube.
― jel --, Friday, 5 August 2011 13:26 (twelve years ago) link
The second, not the first, shave from a razor cartridge. It's always the smoothest and closest.
― L.P. Hovercraft (WmC), Friday, 19 August 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
store yoru razons in mineral oil they say - and smooth shaving all the day
― Goth Cruise to Lynch Land (Latham Green), Friday, 19 August 2011 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
Getting people who are personal heroes popping up in my FB people-you-may-know, even if I am too chicken to friend them.
― Also unknown as Zora (Surfing At Work), Friday, 16 September 2011 10:48 (twelve years ago) link
People who say "Thank you driver" when they get off the bus.
― jel --, Friday, 16 September 2011 10:53 (twelve years ago) link
everyone does that, though, right?
― talking heads, quiet smith (darraghmac), Friday, 16 September 2011 10:59 (twelve years ago) link
hell naw
― Upt0eleven, Friday, 16 September 2011 11:00 (twelve years ago) link
The right to withhold thanking a driver due to arseholeness makes me irrationally happy. It annoys me* in London that so few buses have single-door entry/exit, so 99% of the time I'll thank the driver on the W5 or whatever, but not thanking is just normal London behaviour anyway, so it's not like he'd know he wasn't being thanked on purpose.
*It's outweighed by the speediness of 2-door simultaneous entry and exit.
― Skrillex Ferguson (useless chamber), Friday, 16 September 2011 11:03 (twelve years ago) link
I don't say "Thank you driver" any more than I'd say "Thank you butcher" were I to pick up some sausages. Who says "Thank you driver"?
― Yo wait a minute man, you better think about the world (dog latin), Friday, 16 September 2011 11:11 (twelve years ago) link
i say that too. well, just 'thanks.'
― remy bean, Friday, 16 September 2011 11:25 (twelve years ago) link
i deliver hm a hand printed card that says 'very notably discharged'
― talking heads, quiet smith (darraghmac), Friday, 16 September 2011 11:28 (twelve years ago) link
i always say thanks or thank you. the "driver" bit is unnecessary.
― Yo wait a minute man, you better think about the world (dog latin), Friday, 16 September 2011 11:41 (twelve years ago) link
most ppl in glasgow say 'thanks driver' ime
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 16 September 2011 11:44 (twelve years ago) link
the 'driver' part hardly the core of the issue tbf
― talking heads, quiet smith (darraghmac), Friday, 16 September 2011 11:51 (twelve years ago) link
Because he's not just a driver. Then again, reading his namebadge and saying "Thank you Clive" would be wrong.
― Mark G, Friday, 16 September 2011 12:13 (twelve years ago) link
* Being cold.
― Octavia Butler's gonna be piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiised (Laurel), Friday, 16 September 2011 13:44 (twelve years ago) link
I like putting the new water container on top of the cooler in the office and watching the bubbles go from the nozzle to the top of the bottle. AND THEN, I press down on the valve to fill my 32 oz cup and THE BUBBLES KEEP GOING. WHAT'S THE WATER COOLER THINKING, "WILL I BUBBLE FOREVER?"
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 16 September 2011 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
butterflies from meeting someone new
― Cindy Mancini can ride my lawnmower anytime (thebingo), Friday, 16 September 2011 14:51 (twelve years ago) link
pissing into a bottle on a plane
― talking heads, quiet smith (darraghmac), Friday, 16 September 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
Isn't there a convention of 'drive'/'driver' address amongst people who have regular contact with professional drivers tho? Delivery vans and stuff. London buses I hold my hand up in a wave as I depart the bus occasionally, two-fingered salute if they've missed the stop or made old people fall over by starting suddenly sort of thing xpost.
― Fizzles the Chimp (GamalielRatsey), Friday, 16 September 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
1. A few days ago, I borrowed a coworkers umbrella to run an errand only to find that it was a clear bubble umbrella and it made walking through the rain so much more fun.
2. A coworker at my other job just emailed me to tell me she bought me a pumpkin pie from a delicious local bakery and put it in the staff fridge for me to pick up after class tomorrow. <3<3<3
― pullapartsquirrel (Jenny), Friday, 30 September 2011 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
Listening to my old tapes on an old portable cassette player at my dad's...Impact is Imminent by Exodus sounds great!
― jel --, Sunday, 9 October 2011 11:21 (twelve years ago) link
50% off organic strawberries...and eating some for breakfast. Sooo ripe and lovely.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 October 2011 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
to balance out my post on the other thread:
having a completely random amount of change in my pocket and finding it exactly totals the same amount as a purchase. i figure this to be the consumerist equivalent of a solar eclipse.
― Upt0eleven, Friday, 28 October 2011 12:57 (twelve years ago) link
Bacon.
― WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Friday, 28 October 2011 13:20 (twelve years ago) link
my new lady
― Cindy Mancini can ride my lawnmower anytime (thebingo), Friday, 28 October 2011 13:35 (twelve years ago) link
Missing the bus by about a block this morning, but having a friend drive by mere minutes later and giving me a ride to the train station!
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 28 October 2011 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
dressing up as a zombie for work
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 28 October 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
pics or it didn't happen, etc
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 28 October 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
Makeup is kinda mild atm...fake blood to be added later
http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp201/sharonjoy666/20e71cfe.jpg
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 28 October 2011 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
Oh that's GOOD!
― WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Friday, 28 October 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
Nice!
― They're coming to get you, (Jenny), Friday, 28 October 2011 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
Products that far outlast any reasonable expectation of durability. I love my 20-year-old umbrella.
― D. Boon Pickens (WmC), Saturday, 29 October 2011 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
When handwritten ampersands come off.
― Fizzles the Chimp (GamalielRatsey), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 10:59 (twelve years ago) link
How much everyone else hates the cold. :D
― It means why you gotta be a montague? (Laurel), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
Ha! The cold itself makes me irrationally happy.
― They're coming to get you, (Jenny), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
Yes! me too! i walked 2 miles to school in –14C weather, and I was all invigorated and joyful when I arrived to see the hunkered-down masses bitchin' about a 30 second walk from the car to the faculty lounge.
― gnome rocognise gnome (remy bean), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
"invigorated and joyful" <--- that is exactly it.
― They're coming to get you, (Jenny), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
Before I lived in DC I was really looking forward to a properly freezing winter, and experiencing the - indeed - invigoratingly joyful bite of cold air on my face. And then it turned out to be one of those really mild winters and only snowed a bit.
― Upt0eleven, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
The type of salt packets with two tubes of salt in, as opposed to one. These are the best!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Salt-packet.jpg
― beachville, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 13:22 (twelve years ago) link
Putting on clean socks in the evening and getting in a comfy chair. Bliss.
― *tera, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
The check engine light in the car disappearing as mysteriously as it appeared.
― quincie, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
glass block windows
― beachville, Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:56 (twelve years ago) link