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TOhioLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 08:34 PM
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Good evening Loungers!
So how is everyone tonight? I'm doing OK. I have a weird story to tel you.

About a mile or so from my house is a new bridge that just opened up. Here's the Wiki page for it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maumee_River_Crossing I drove on it earlier today; I was creeped out by the experience. I do have a fear of heights, however bridges don't generally bother me unless I'm walking. I swear, I could feel the bridge swaying. :scared:

Anyway, that's my weird story for today. Come by, say hi and tell me how weird I really am. I can take it! :rofl:
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 08:37 PM
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1. Good evening, my dear TOhioLiberal!
I'm OK, thanks!

As is my husband.....he's napping...

Go ahead and be weird.....

Anytime you spend a part of the day in a surgical center is weird all by itself!


:hug:
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TOhioLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 08:54 PM
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10. Hi CalPeg!
...I'm glad the surgery was a success. Hope he mends quickly.

I usually enjoy my weirdness. It makes life interesting, at least.
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 08:37 PM
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2. Hi!
You are not weird. Well, not weider than me. Which really give you a LOT of room actually.

I'm doing ok. Feeling quite silly atm. It may have been the 4 giant chewy sweet/tarts I just ate.

...or the booze...

hmmmm

:hi:
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TOhioLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 08:55 PM
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11. You, Weird?
Hell no! :rofl: I love sweet/tarts...the booze not so much. :hi:
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Elidor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 08:38 PM
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3. A swaying bridge isn't necessarily a bad thing
Flexibility is usually a good thing. Although too much of a good thing can be a bad thing.

It's very pretty. (For Ohio.) No. I didn't just say that. Hehe. :D
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TOhioLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 08:57 PM
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12. Are you kidding...
...that's the ugliest bridge I've ever seen. :eyes: :rofl:
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 08:42 PM
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4. Good Evening my dear...
:hi:

You are not weird...in fact, some bridges are made to sway.

I was trapped in stalled traffic once on a bridge on the way to a Grateful Dead show in Hamilton Ontario.

That bridge was swaying a good foot in both directions.

At least I think it was the bridge.
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TOhioLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 08:58 PM
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13. Were you under the influence?
:smoke: :hippie: :rofl:
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 09:00 PM
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16. No...
I don't drive under the influence, but then again, i don't need to be under the influence to feel things that are not there. lOL
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TOhioLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 09:18 PM
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23. That's true...
...I'm glad you don't drive under the influence. (This message brought to you by TADD--TOhioLiberal Against Drugged Driving) :hi:
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 08:44 PM
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5. Woohoo! Swing Low Sweet Bridge!
Hi TOH

How are you?

freaked by bridges?

nah, well unless they get hit by barges:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_I-40_Bridge_Disaster

:scared:

Totally freaky, the bridge collapsed and cars went off the interstate one Sunday morning...
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 08:48 PM
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6. ...
Will you pray with me?
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 08:50 PM
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7. let's hold hands prayerboy
:evilgrin:

:hi:

how's the philboy prayerboy doing?

:D
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 08:53 PM
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8. Not bad my friend...
how are you? :hi:
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 08:53 PM
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9. been worse
been better

but all in all, just plugging along! :hi:
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TOhioLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 09:02 PM
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17. Well...
...I've been in the shadow of this thing for 4 years. I'm no engineer, but I have no idea what is holding that bridge together. Spit and bubblegum is my guess.
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Inchworm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 08:59 PM
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14. Thats a spooky feeling
Edited on Tue Jun-26-07 08:59 PM by Inchworm
I think it's neat if not tooo bad. It's almost like a free amusement park ride. :)

Nothing storyworthy here. Just sayin howdy Tohio!

:hi:
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TOhioLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 09:04 PM
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Hi Inchy!
How are you doin? I don't think I'll be driving on that one too often. :scared:
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Inchworm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 09:21 PM
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24. I'm doing ok
Thanks.

Well, it looks perdy from the side too. I meant to ask you.. have you lived in Ohio long? I was talking to someone about early childhood memories the other day and one of mine came up from Ohio.

I remember enormous flocks of blackbirds flying overhead. Big enough to shade the ground and they took a while to pass.

Whaddya think? I was hallucinating?

:shrug:
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TOhioLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 09:38 PM
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25. I've lived here all my life...
...in fact, I live less than a mile from the house I grew up in.

Enormous flocks of blackbirds? Sounds likely. Perhaps it was fall; when the birds get together to fly south for the winter. I've seen pretty big flocks then. :shrug:
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Inchworm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 09:42 PM
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28. ok cool
I thought I had yet another reason to think I was losing my mind. hehe

I'm safe now.. I think.

:D
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Guava Jelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 08:59 PM
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15. As always..Heading to bed.
:hi: homey
and goodnight :hug:
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TOhioLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 09:05 PM
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19. Night sweet prince...
...Sleep tight! :hug::hi:
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YDogg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 09:04 PM
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18. Enjoy!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=d4XGjAIL--s

:hide:
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TOhioLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 09:13 PM
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21. Nice...
...making fun of my little phobia. :eyes: :rofl: I'm glad the bridge wasn't swaying that much.
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NC_Nurse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 09:05 PM
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20. I'm fine.
Bridges can be spooky. There's one of those swinging bridges on Grandfather Mountain here in NC. When we visited it was really windy and I
didn't go on it. I'm a chicken.

As far as I can tell, everybody's weird once you get to know them.

;-)
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TOhioLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 09:14 PM
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22. I've know me all my life...
...and I can tell you this: I'm the weirdest person I know. :rofl:
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NC_Nurse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 09:40 PM
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26. Of course.
You know everything about you.
I bet you don't know EVERYTHING about anyone else. :-)
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lost-in-nj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 09:41 PM
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27. ok
there is no fucking way
I would drive over that bridge.....
if I was a passenger.... I would cover my eyes
none....
I would have held up traffic....
I had a bridge experience in S. carolina...
I will have to post about it.....


YOU ARE NOT WEIRD
I am right there with you....

:scared: :scared:
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TOhioLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 09:46 PM
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29. I hear ya...
...scared the dickens out of me.
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1monster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 10:04 PM
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30. Your bridge kinda looks like the Dames Pointe Bridge in Jax, FL
and you couldn't get me to drive, ride, or walk across it for love or money! When the wind blows, the thing sways with it. :scared::scared:

http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=59919&rendTypeId=4
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TOhioLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 10:20 PM
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31. It does look a bit like that one...
...here's an artist's conception of the finished bridge.
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Decruiter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-26-07 11:48 PM
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32. First off, you're not weird.
I'm afraid of heights too, and so are a lot of people, and for good reason.
Second, I'm from Ohio, so you can't be too weird. That's Florida.
Third, yes, I'm drinking. Wild Turkey if you must know.
Fourth, thank you for making a comfortable topic to respond to as a Lounge Lizard! Have a great night!
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u4ic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-27-07 01:14 AM
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33. Hey sweetie!
:hug:

I'm doing good, just got back from seeing a play that I enjoyed.

I hate bridges, I get freaked out by a lot of them. Rainbow Bridge is the worst I've been on:



Nothing like being suspended over friggin' Niagara Falls, and looking at the maelstrom below...:scared: :scared: :scared:
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