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October 21st, 2005, 19:09
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Anybody notice the insane amount of tours goin on this week? Poor bastards have no idea what they're getting into ;-). They need to learn sidewalk etiquite too...when someone is comin at you really fast on a pair of rollerblades...dont just stare at them, get the heck out of the way.
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October 21st, 2005, 20:08
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Yeah that, I just run into people that do that if I cant stop. Im not gona jump in the grass and fall down! If its a girl, Im usually nice enough to just, as gentle as possible, push them out of the way. They always give you that deer in the headlights look too. Even if you're coming at them from more than 50 feet away. Whats their damn problem??? 
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October 21st, 2005, 20:12
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I like the people that come up here for tours in January and Febuary. I think the school is nuts to offer tours during that time. I think I would rather tour in the summer and get surprised in the winter rather than know what hell I would be living in ahead of time.
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October 21st, 2005, 20:38
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October 22nd, 2005, 19:01
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Oh man, ripping on these people is so much fun. The best are the bikers on the wrong side of the bike lane. Whenever I see them coming towards me, I quickly go to the middle of the lane, and stay there. I make them go on the road. Well, I only do that if I know there aren't cars. Otherwise, that's just asking for an accident.
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October 22nd, 2005, 20:42
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Drivers are only used to looking towards the direction traffic is coming, not a biker coming from the wrong direction.
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October 22nd, 2005, 21:13
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Oh god how I used to love to lock up the brakes on U. when it was icy and people would walk out in front of me. The look of sheer terror was AWESOME. I'd also aim right for them on my motorcycle and rev the crap out of it  Hope neither of you have nice cars, the natives sure beat the crap out of them via accidents, door dings, stupidity etc. lets see in 3.5 year I had: a girl pull out of hte hugos parking lot INTO MY DRIVER'S SIDE DOOR someone rear ended my motorcycle on columbia in front of the subway sorta, totalled it, another aero student from MN. someone rear ended me on 24th and wash while I was stopped at a light, the night before I had a II presentation too. someone hit my car while I was getting financial aid stuff done at the union (no note of course) someone KNIFED my effing car someone put a crease in my back passenger's side door, not just a ding, a damn crease. some little ##### merged onto columbia from the demers onramp when it was solid ice, cut me off, then hit the brakes it got to the point that I had so many NOT AT FAULT accidents it started to jack my insurance. |
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October 23rd, 2005, 05:03
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October 23rd, 2005, 08:02
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look for a white lebaron 3.0 v6 in the parking lot just south of the carwash on stanford. might be a fixer-upper.
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October 23rd, 2005, 15:24
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Some ##### pulled out in front of my GF by the mall on columbia and totalled her 200sx, the insurance company paid a reasonable value, but there was ONE 200sx for sale within like 400 miles and he was asking twice what it was worth, if there had been like 3 more for sale at that price we could have gotten more $$$. the beater is a good idea, long as it'll start in the winter. FWIW optima batteries are effing amazing in the cold. I never plugged my nissan in and it started all but ONE really cold morning in Jan 03 when I was working in fargo (it had to be -35 or better) and that battery cranked the car for 30 mintues while we tried to get it going. | |
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October 25th, 2005, 14:17
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Had my first incedent yesterday. Came out from work and noticed a tiny dent in the front fender. Looked like a truck pulled into the spot weird and hit my car. Im curious how much you must suck at life to hit the front end of a car pulled in head first. Well then I went out at 8p.m. for my stage 46 and notice the trunk lid and left rear fender was all dented. Who the hell seeks out a f$%king olds cutlass. Its the most generic looking car ever. There is absolutely nothing distinct looking on this car to bring attention to it. It is in show room quality condition, but its all dirty right now. I filed a police report. Nothings going to come of it though. I cant be all that pissed because it is JUST a cutlass. Kind of a beater. But it was a damn nice beater. The damage is definetly fixable. I still gotta drive around in a dented up car though. Somthing that absolutly drives me nuts. Im obsessed with clean cars. Needless to say, I was so pissed I had to cancel my stage. CRAP Havent gone out there to day yet. So help me god someones going to f'n die if there is more damage. I guess I should feel lucky going a year and a half with only a few dents.
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October 25th, 2005, 14:20
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sorry man! I must have jinxed you. I had to cancel a stage once because the alternator died on my car in the blockbuster parking lot on 32nd, and I had to walk all the way over to legacy where I was living at the time, then fix the car. The guy was actually mad heh. |
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October 25th, 2005, 17:53
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Well, to give you an idea... My car is 5 years old. For the last 1.4 years of it's lifetime living in Grand Forks it's received 8 door dings. That means for about 4 years it endured a life without a single dent prior to living in Grand Forks... ...I just WONDER which careless #####s are letting their Ford F-8,000,050 Excursion's doors swing into my car.
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October 25th, 2005, 18:26
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October 25th, 2005, 18:39
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Yes, I too have gotten door dinged here more than anywhere else. Dunno if it's just careless people or if the wind here "catches" their doors as they open them. Either way it really pisses me off.
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October 25th, 2005, 19:57
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Allthough Denver can be windy too, and I have hardly a ding on my cars (knock on wood) though some careless idiot hit the back of the audi the first week I had it in a parking lot  Right after I graduated I bought a WRX and shipped it up to GFK, some moron hit the front fender RIGHT in the center of the buldge and digned it. It's the only way you could tell it apart from gregs. BTW GFK isn't as crime free as people would like you to think either, the parking lot of the carmike 10 gets hit A LOT, my GFs car got broken into twice, and literally every car in my apartment building's lot got hit but mine over the course of a year, I had an alarm I imagine that's the only reason I didn't get hit. I actually caught some bastards breaking into a car one night and scared them off before they could smash the window (they were throwing a big rock against it trying) | |
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October 27th, 2005, 12:10
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Thank you! Someone else agrees with me. The Chester Fritz parking lot gets hit all the time. When I lived in Smith, there was a frenzy for about 7 days in a row; 7-10 cars per night. Crookston is even worse according to a reliable source (his truck was raped 3 times).
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October 27th, 2005, 12:15
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October 29th, 2005, 23:03
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GFK and CKN aren't safe places to park your car. kids that don't have anything to do get drunk and break stuff for fun. i consider it lucky that i had a combined total of three vehicles for about 4 years and never got vandalized, especially during that string in the fritz lot.
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October 29th, 2005, 23:29
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The thing with incident is it happend sometime before before 7:30pm. Who the hell is that sloppy drunk at that hour? I guess the police arrested someone. They dont have anyway to prove he did anything to my car, but its nice to see some punk ass that's doing similar crap in jail.
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October 29th, 2005, 23:57
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CKN is... weird. I met a girl from there. Christ she was a psycho. | |
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October 30th, 2005, 08:17
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it's GFK, dude. you can find some people who decide to drink in the AM hours nearly every day of the week.
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October 30th, 2005, 12:30
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Oh yeah, I keep forgetting that this is the number 2 binge drinking town and school in the country.
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October 30th, 2005, 16:20
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that would encourage drinking yah knoooow! | |
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October 30th, 2005, 21:00
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Or a gas station. The locals where amazed when I told them where Im from, Atlanta, there are no huge liquor stores like happy harrys because you can get anything from a grocery store, the mall, small package stores, and gas stations. I always loved walking into Wal Mart and seeing a huge pile in the middle of an isle
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