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VanGnomes melodrama set in the sketchy American northwest attempts to paint the altruistic pioneering Canadian spirit with the dark comeuppance of the coming of age one might rightly expect of misguided  international hijinks.  In a  rarely witnessed spectacle of modern literature derring-do VanGnomes cliff hanger style of prose takes the reader to edge of delirious expectancy only to left dizzyingly wanting. 

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Just now, luckylager said:

So did you just pop a squat and run or what?

 

Been through Colorado recently?

 

Are you the "mad pooper"?

Lol, no I eventually found a 76 gas station that had a working washroom. I just didn't realize that I had inadvertently wandered into one of the worst neighborhoods in all of Seattle.

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1 minute ago, nucklehead said:

VanGnomes melodrama set in the sketchy American northwest attempts to paint the altruistic pioneering Canadian spirit with the dark comeuppance of the coming of age one might rightly expect of misguided  international hijinks.  In a  rarely witnessed spectacle of modern literature derring-do VanGnome cliff hanging style of prose takes the reader to edge of delirious expectancy only to left dizzyingly wanting. 

Last slide dude. Last slide.

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Just now, VanGnome said:

Lol, no I eventually found a 76 gas station that had a working washroom. I just didn't realize that I had inadvertently wandered into one of the worst neighborhoods in all of Seattle.

Ahh, but you lived to tell the tale.

 

I almost died and got murdered at the same time, in a back alley in Vientienne, Laos. Due to an almost identical situation...

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4 minutes ago, luckylager said:

Ahh, but you lived to tell the tale.

 

I almost died and got murdered at the same time, in a back alley in Vientienne, Laos. Due to an almost identical situation...

Yeah, I was not confident in my prospects of not being stabbed and/or shot. In the 3 trips between my vehicle and stores, I had no fewer than half a dozen people in total eyeing me up. It really did not help the fact I was in an obviously minority populated neighbourhood, 6'2", white male, shaved head, giant goatee, baggy jeans and black hoodie driving a brand new Jeep, wearing douchebag sunglasses.

It was not until I got home and did some research that I found out just how sketchy that neighbourhood was, lol.

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1 hour ago, VanGnome said:

Yeah, I was not confident in my prospects of not being stabbed and/or shot. In the 3 trips between my vehicle and stores, I had no fewer than half a dozen people in total eyeing me up. It really did not help the fact I was in an obviously minority populated neighbourhood, 6'2", white male, shaved head, giant goatee, baggy jeans and black hoodie driving a brand new Jeep, wearing douchebag sunglasses.

Awkward! Hahaha

 

Similar to my experience in Laos.

 

Except I was taking a dump on a guys doorstoop, while puking, high af on shrooms and food poisoned... When he walked out his door.

 

Awkward.

 

Dude didn't speak a work of English, but I could tell he was really, really angry.

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1 minute ago, luckylager said:

Awkward! Hahaha

 

Similar to my experience in Laos.

 

Except I was taking a dump on a guys doorstoop, while puking, high af on shrooms and food poisoned... When he walk out his door.

 

Awkward.

 

Dude didn't speak a work of English, but I could tell he was really, really angry.

You sir, win the internet.

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10 minutes ago, luckylager said:

Awkward! Hahaha

 

Similar to my experience in Laos.

 

Except I was taking a dump on a guys doorstoop, while puking, high af on shrooms and food poisoned... When he walk out his door.

 

Awkward.

 

Dude didn't speak a work of English, but I could tell he was really, really angry.

you really are "lucky"

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19 minutes ago, VanGnome said:

Yeah, I was not confident in my prospects of not being stabbed and/or shot. In the 3 trips between my vehicle and stores, I had no fewer than half a dozen people in total eyeing me up. It really did not help the fact I was in an obviously minority populated neighbourhood, 6'2", white male, shaved head, giant goatee, baggy jeans and black hoodie driving a brand new Jeep, wearing douchebag sunglasses.

It was not until I got home and did some research that I found out just how sketchy that neighbourhood was, lol.

just pack wet ones in the glove box and do a road squat instead of the life threatening stuff. I learned this after entering a gas station washroom many years ago to a guy shooting up on the sink and two guys doing it in the stall.freaked out a young Jimmy let me tell ya. 

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Just now, Jimmy McGill said:

just pack wet ones in the glove box and do a road squat instead of the life treating stuff. I learned this after entering a gas station washroom many years ago to a guy shooting up on the sink and two guys doing it in the stall.freaked out a young Jimmy let me tell ya. 

ROFL, well at least the washroom in this case was a self contained, single room inside the store; coincidentally much improved from my surroundings outside the store. Half way while sitting on the $&!#ter some Latina woman wanted to get in and was smashing on the door cursing in Spanish. Scary thing is, with my wife being Mexican I half understood her...

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2 minutes ago, VanGnome said:

ROFL, well at least the washroom in this case was a self contained, single room inside the store; coincidentally much improved from my surroundings outside the store. Half way while sitting on the $&!#ter some Latina woman wanted to get in and was smashing on the door cursing in Spanish. Scary thing is, with my wife being Mexican I half understood her...

:lol: thats so funny. 

 

you just never know when life's teachable moments will arrive 

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Had the runs on a seven hour bus ride from Istanbul to goreme.

 

finally stopped at a bus stop Depot. The van was totally full and my sphincter was finished working. Backed up to the sink and let er rip standing up.  Oh the relief.  In plain view of at least six people.

 

staggered back on the bus to the very back and lay down on the ledge behind the last row of seats. Unbeknownst to me that bed belonged to the extra driver. I awoke just in time to him charging at me with his shoe in his hand.  Luckily my Aussie travel buddy intercepted him and the situation calmed.

 

just 19.  Learnin the ways of the world I tell ya.

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59 minutes ago, Jimmy McGill said:

you really are "lucky"

I managed to pull myself together (thanks to the adrenaline) while he was hitting me with a broom. Not like nice mom smacks either. Ninja force broom beating.

 

Anyways, he stops whipping me and goes back inside (for what I assumed was a sword at the time, as I'm tripping balls) so I ran faster than Ben Johnson on steroids.

 

Man, the panic of getting a surprise beat down, while you're desperatly ill, shroomed out in a random dark alley in Laos... Isn't half as scary as American slums.

 

Good thing VanGnome found a can.

 

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