~~~SANDBOX 77~~~

Last taxi I got seemed to have rigged the meter. I noticed halfway home that it seemed to be going up faster than usual. The final price was about 1.5x the usual, and we'd gone a direct route with hardly any traffic.

I felt too timid to say anything when paying (it was a short trip so more of an annoyance than a big deal) but I have his numberplate in the "your car has arrived" text from the cab firm, so I should probably have reported him. Might still do, now this thread has reminded me.

can't you get a quote from the cab company? altho they might always try to screw you $40 for materials

heh that was a problem in china too. you'd get into a cab and there'd be wires hanging out of the meter and the interior would be stripped. xp

open question for people who have a different sandbox user name than their well-known user name on ILX and then force people to try to figure out the connection over the course of several weeks and refuse to confirm or deny the connection: why do you do this? it's not even a bad thing, i just can't understand.

not trying to call out anyone on this thread btw, mainly just thinking about nu-gabbneb

Hi!

oh, see now i'm noticing that he posted on this thread earlier! anyway, again i'm not trying to criticize, i'm just wondering why

lol xpost

WHY!?!

I wondered this too.

i think its to see how obvious it is who you are. i think i posted like three times before it was obvious.

There are some people I know now, but it's still an extra step to go
curious orange = ENDBB = Er!c@

There are others whose ID forgot and I just gave up (e.g. nuhnuhnuh).

xp - no one was obvious to me even on real ILX. Well, a few exceptions, I guess. Most everyone else blended together.

For the most part from coming here in 2004 until late 2010, I only distinguished the identities of people I had met IRL.

I do not blend in. I am liek the lump in the oatmeal.

well see this is part of the fun. i could probably have figured out who dealwithit.gif was from the name alone for eg. but i mean

for the sandbox record, i will state that of those who are using different usernames and keeping it a mystery, i have no idea who 95%+ of you are, and have given up trying

i guess i fail at the game or whatever

Sorry to read about your grandfather, tehresa (and your mugging, Hoos). My grandmother similarly basically chose not to keep living, though she did in fact face an almost certainly fatal illness (but could have lived longer, perhaps more than most, albeit not in great comfort).

This may not be relevant, but I've noticed (in addition to all the December deaths - what's up with that?) a pattern where people die shortly after receiving an award or some other sort of affirmation. In wondering why, I've speculated that it may be that people just want to "go out on top," as it were, having capped a satisfying life in some significant fashion. Conversely, if someone is ill or simply very weak/tired, they may prefer death sooner rather than later, expecting things to get worse (there may be an interrelationship with depression here, for some). Perhaps it's simply (and understandably) about a desire to exercise a measure of agency over a process in which agency is ultimately taken from you.

No more relevant, perhaps, but the only time I've ever been mugged (on a populated high street in broad daylight) was after spending most of a month in the wilderness. I tend to think I had taken off my city "armor."

I do not blend in. I am liek the lump in the oatmeal.

Aimless, you were one of the ones I knew.

But we met. I think?

How long was the sandbox of our discontent back in 2005 (or was it 2006?)? I remember it lasting a whole summer, but I could be wrong.

I have met no ilxors irl. The nearest approach to a meet-up came was when I attended a poetry reading by casuistry here in pdx, but he was so mobbed by well-wishers afterwards that I didn't wade through the crowd to introduce myself. I find it difficult to meet new people voluntarily. They might expect me to be not dull.

I picked my new username bcz it was all the rage and I thought it was an obvious enough spoonerism, but I don't post that much on either ILX so I guess maybe people are seeing my name and (having never noticed my real-ILX persona) wondering if I might be someone they should know about. but anyway

hi, I'm (a passing) spacecadet

and I hope real-ILX comes back because I am pretty sick of this stupid username already

i've noticed - and it took me a minute to figure out - which is about as much time as i feel like devoting to the issue at this point.

Should be "a sassing (case spudette)," perhaps?

I picked up on the spoonerism.

Aimless, I must have you mistaken with someone. But who? A former Chicagoan, that I know.

oh, spacecadet, i did not realise who you were! mostly cos i thought yr sbox username was "casa spudette".

I know one ILX dude who respects boundaries by not posting here even though it kills him. (Hi!!! You rock, ILX dude! xoxo)

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Tuesday, December 27, 2011 5:01 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

MY FUCKING FINGERS WERE FLIPPING OUT WHEN I READ THIS. I WAS LIKE ME! ME! IT'S MEEEEE!!!!!

The were previously flipping out when I read Jagweed Holland's posts.

I don't think it was you.

I made a thread.
Girls thread cont.

Oops, not that one.

Re girls only

This is getting messy.

It wasn't you specifically, although you (and Jeff) also deserve credit for your boundary respecting skillz.

Oh. I bet I know who it was.

Jenny, I think you're posting from the toilet.

oh, spacecadet, i did not realise who you were!

― paid, famous and sad (c sharp major), Tuesday, December 27, 2011 10:17 PM (59 minutes ago)

same

i thought of 'a spassing basscadet' a while ago, too

Jenny, I think you're posting from the toilet.

My cube at work but there are definitely similarities.

-just heard journey's don't stop believin on a chinese 'you've got talent!' show

wish the sandbox had a don't stop believin thread

I dunno why I used 'journey' there everybody already knows

On mah holidays, had every intent today of going to the plant nursery for some more supplies. So far have sat on couch eating xmas leftovers sandwiches, its now lunchtime and Ive done nowt. Gar.

everybody already knows

some of us are slow on the uptake

Burned trash in the burn pit (yes, I'm that far out in the country) and got a few large items ready to sell at the flea market tomorrow. We're hoping to get enough money to pay a bill or two and maybe some champagne for New Year's.

We had a burn pit when I was growing up but we called it a "sump hole."

Aimless, I must have you mistaken with someone. But who? A former Chicagoan, that I know.

Amateurist?

Yes, that's him.

We had a burn barrel. That was awesome as a kid bc we would blow up aerosol cans. And it was fun to hold a burning plastic bottle on a stick - the molten plastic dripped off with a thrilling zzzripp sound. All fun and games until a glob of melting Downy jug landed on the back of my hand.

Last night I broke up with a girl I was planning to marry, all because I don't think I want to be married...to anyone ever. Now I'm having regrets, but I'm 99.9% certain I did the right thing now before we starting throwing a bunch of money into planning and one of us relocates to where the other one lives. The bad part is that I'm at work right now and she's sitting at home in my apartment probably either steaming mad or crying her eyes out and nothing I can say or do will make this any better and her plane ticket home isn't until next Tuesday morning and she doesn't (and I don't) have the money to change her flight to an earlier date and...FUCK...I can't communicate with her with any semblance of forethought or compassion. I just blurted it out because I knew it was now or never and I'm a fucking asshole.

i'm really sorry, johnny.

woah! i thought this girl was 'the one'? is it a about the actual marriage part or the lifetime commitment? (sorry, nosy)

and i'm sorry you have to be at work right now, with that going on at home. that's really difficult. you'll get through this (and so will she).

omg! wow. you're not an asshole.