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the ankle spankers or the muffin stuffers. either will work.

maybe he wasn't committed to wearing the trays 22 out of 24 hours of the day. did you ever consider that?

at least it's not scurvy.

i think it's age and being a parent both. i just don't take the stupid chances i once did. it never got me there any faster, and i have far more to lose at this point.

completely understand.

i hear with what your saying, but what's worse, an impaired driver, or a driver who isn't even looking at the road? that's the problem with texting. it starts as a few quick looks at the phone, and slowly it turns into texting full sentences, and people completely not having eyes on those around them. they're both terrible, but i'd almost rather take my chances with someone impaired and trying to drive vs someone who's essentially driving blind. i get it's a weird scenario to talk about, but i think his point was to show how texting can be just as, if not more dangerous than drinking and driving.

wow. that is a long, full life. I always say that my goal is to live to 100. i hope to be in decent health at 100, but it's my goal.

i feel the stretch of the 90 between rochester and syracuse is like that too. it's insanity. everyone is flying, and no one is leaving space between cars. you'll be going 80 and someone is half a car length from your bumper. you'll leave a bit of space of safety, and someone just cuts in to go one car ahead. if one person make a mistake, there's always a big pile up. we got caught in one in july when coming back from the thousand islands. just sat in traffic for over an hour because of a multiple car pile up.

it's a least 2-3 times a week. on occasion you'll see the same driver do it multiple times down the same stretch of road. they realize they're all over the place, correct themselves, then go right back to texting.

oh...GG beat me to it.

then you totally misconstrued what he was getting at. i agree with the second comment though. edit: i don't think you're derailing this thread at all. it's a good conversation. i think in the thread you referenced, the op was just trying to show how dangerous texting is, and how potentially it's more dangerous that drinking and driving. now we all know that drinking and driving is bad, so let's not let anyone be outraged, but texting can be so much worse. a least a couple of time a week i'm sure we all see people driving on the shoulder for a few seconds, or dangerously leaning into someone else's lane. when you drive by what are they doing? texting. i'm willing to be we all encounter far more distracted drivers do to texting day to day than an actual drunk. they are both bad, but texting is far more prevalent.

oh man duff. that's tragic. the elderly is something that needs to be dealt with as well, and this is someone who has parents that will turn 80 this year. a couple of months ago my wife and i were driving down a main road, probably going 55-60. there's a large office park on that road, and we had the green light. well...we watched a gentleman who was well into his 80s drive towards the light a bit too fast. this guy had no intention on slowing. instead of stopping at his red light, he just turned in front of us full speed. we could see the entire thing happening so we could avoid it, but i would have slammed right into his drivers side, and likely killed him considering how frail he was. the guy had no business driving. he wasn't texting, i can't imagine he had been drinking...he was just incapable.

do you really think that's what he was trying to do? come on... people just have to realize you can't be anywhere near the side of a road. a lot of drivers just aren't paying attention. I knew a man who lost his grandson this way. in this instance, the kids saw an accident, pulled over to help, and was hit by a distracted driver, (driver who didn't see him, etc).

oh...that's not good. have you or can you speak to him about it? some people are not open to that kind of conversation.

that's great. i want my kids to have that relationship with my parents too. unfortunately my parents had me when they were older, and i had my kids when i was older, so they won't be able to see them in the teenage years. i moved to a different suburb, but i always see them once a week. my brother lives about 4 minutes away from them, and they'll go weeks without seeing his kids. i don't get it. everyone gets along, and i know his kids are in activities, but how in the world can you live so close, and go weeks without seeing each other. we don't make a big deal out of our meet up once a week...it's usually a dinner together. it doesn't take much to stay connected.

i get along great with my parents, and they were the primary reason i wanted to be in this area. they're both 79 now, and i want to make sure they're well taken care of. we see them at least once a week for playtime with the grand kids. I've always felt i've won the parent lottery. they set me and my brother up for success. all we had to do was work hard.

Oooohhhh snap!

happy birfday!

She might be worth a case of the AIDS.

My wife’s uncle had a condo in the downtown area of Saratoga where we could walk to the racetrack. What an awesome town.

I’m in the Rochester burbs. God knows I’m one to B word about taxes, but I’d never be able to afford the house I live in if it was in another area of the world. Our house did need some remodeling which we’re doing now, but you be shocked by what we paid for the house considering what we got.

this has been a rough few days for gase and jets fans.

it was one of the more bizarre games i have seen in a long time.

the only real thing i worry about with josh is his playing hero ball. i'm not sure if he gets panicky or what, but when he starts to force plays, that when the nonsense starts. i think the turnovers threw him a bit, hero ball came out, and once he settled down, we saw how effective he can be. i'm not worried about accuracy at this point, but i'm sure he'll miss some easy plays a couple of times a game. all qbs do. i know everyone loved the heavy passing, but i'd love to see the run game help him out more.