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Sorry for your ruined Labor Day experience. But this is Patnet, and what we want to know is: Did you nail one/both of the two adult daughters?

HeadSet says

Sorry for your ruined Labor Day experience. But this is Patnet, and what we want to know is: Did you nail one/both of the two adult daughters?

Assume the female fat cousin cock-blocked

clambo says

Everyone else drank and tried to foist it on me.

I hate this. I'm a drinker too. If you don't want to drink that's cool, not my job to try and get you to. I've never understood that or drinking games. Just have a drink. Handle your alcohol and be a good person. Passing out on a beach during night time hours is obvious overdoing it. Last thing you need is drama.

I also hate shots. I don't drink hard liquor. So when someone buys a round it gets awkward sometimes. Most people I know are respectful, but occasionally they keep pushing me. It's well known in our circle of friends that I won't take a shot, but when it gets pushed I get pissed off. I just like sipping some beer and hanging out and having fun. I don't need to be plastered. One shot always turns into 5 as people feel bad about not returning the favor to the person that just bought the round of shots. And there's always a person that cannot handle it.

I also know my tendencies and have witnessed alcoholism at its absolute worst. Handle of vodka a day or 4-5 bottles of wine daily. Hard booze and wine (sorry Patrick) are the devil. Beer can get you there, but it's a whole hell of a lot harder. My former BIL was drinking "water" all day. Didn't find out about his secret alcoholism until my mom accidentally drank one of those "waters." He'd been drinking vodka all day, everyday for years. Just turned 40. Would be shocked if he makes 42.

I didn't get any play from anyone but I wasn't in the mood.

I saw a stunning pair of girls in front of us at the beach.

One was black, her friend white.

The hag aunt saw me observing and I said "Aphrodite is looking for shells."

She glared at me.

clambo says

The next afternoon the nasty grumpy old aunt called me an asshole in front of the group

Well... Are you?

clambo says

I didn't get any play from anyone but I wasn't in the mood.

I saw a stunning pair of girls in front of us at the beach.

One was black, her friend white.

The hag aunt saw me observing and I said "Aphrodite is looking for shells."

.

Which one, Aphrodite or Afrodite?

So, you need dysfunctional enough to get laid pronto without strings, but not so dysfunctional that they are staggering drunk, querulous, assaultive and collapsing in puke and piss. That's the eye of the needle.

I can’t answer Richwick since assholes probably don’t believe that they are.

I like Headset’s name for the hot black girl frolicking in the Gulf.

Edit:
I wasn’t being an asshole at this time I believe.
This came from a discussion about people buying furniture on credit.
I mentioned furniture stores make money on loans.
Hag: “Poor people can’t buy furniture any other way.”
I: “I disagree, you can buy everything at Goodwill except for a mattress.”
Hag: “Goodwill? Don’t go there!”
I : “Why not? And I do go there.”
Hag “You’re an asshole!”
I: “Did you call me an asshole?”
Hag: “Yes! You’re an asshole, you’re a millionaire and you buy clothes at Goodwill!”
Hag: “When I donate to Goodwill, I don’t do it so people like you can buy it, it’s for poor people!”
Note she contradicted herself; the poor should buy furniture on credit, but I should not go to Goodwill because that stuff is for the poor.

WookieMan says

I've never understood that or drinking games. Just have a drink. Handle your alcohol and be a good person....

I also hate shots. I don't drink hard liquor. So when someone buys a round it gets awkward sometimes. Most people I know are respectful, but occasionally they keep pushing me. It's well known in our circle of friends that I won't take a shot, but when it gets pushed I get pissed off. I just like sipping some beer and hanging out and having fun. I don't need to be plastered. One shot always turns into 5 as people feel bad about not returning the favor to the person that just bought the round of shots. And there's always a person that cannot handle it.

People justify their own drinking by getting others to drink about as much. So if you're not keeping up, you're "accusing" them, at least that's how they see it.

I also avoid hard liquor. Lately I've switched back to beer mostly.

I drink far less now that I don't go out with people from work, or former work. It's pretty nice in terms of saving money and being healthy, though it was basically my social life.

One problem with the Irish is that it's customary in Ireland for each person in a group to pay for a round, and therefore there will be at least as many rounds as people present.

Sounds like the Seinfeld episode, when they all stayed the weekend at a beach house in the Hamptons. And George got caught with shrinkage.

I've known quite a few assholes that vacationed in Sanibel Island.
In my early 20's I had a girlfriend that lived in Boca, I had to travel an hour from Broward to visit her or bring her back to my crib on the weekends.
She lived her snobby Uncle who was a raging asshole, he had a vacation spot in SI. He would always plan a getaway trip, and obliged her to go, anytime we made weekend plans.
He eventually talked her into breaking up with me, because wasn't rich like him. I dodged a bullet I guess.

Compared to the hell of West Palm Beach Sanibel and environs are quaint.

The Gulf is not so nice and I felt like a steamed clam so I constantly jumped into the soup in front of the beach to cool down a bit.

clambo says

Hag “You’re an asshole!”
I: “Did you call me an asshole?”
Hag: “Yes! You’re an asshole, you’re a millionaire and you buy clothes at Goodwill!”
Hag: “When I donate to Goodwill, I don’t do it so people like you can buy it, it’s for poor people!”

LOL! I love Goodwill. Lots of tech nick-nacks, sometimes good vinyl records, and, yeah, clothes. It's a great place to pick up temporary luggage that you can just re-donate when you are done with it.

I purposely grossed out a snob in my neighborhood, who said she would never shop at anyplace less than Nordstrom's, by saying, "Yeah, but for for a hundred bucks, I can walk out of Goodwill with a ton of clothes." She was a POS, so I was glad to bum her out. My wife got mad at me. "Why do you always have to do that?" "I'm always doing 'something' just by existing, so live with it."

clambo says

I can’t answer Richwick since assholes probably don’t believe that they are.

I like Headset’s name for the hot black girl frolicking in the Gulf.

Edit:
I wasn’t being an asshole at this time I believe.
This came from a discussion about people buying furniture on credit.
I mentioned furniture stores make money on loans.
Hag: “Poor people can’t buy furniture any other way.”
I: “I disagree, you can buy everything at Goodwill except for a mattress.”
Hag: “Goodwill? Don’t go there!”
I : “Why not? And I do go there.”
Hag “You’re an asshole!”
I: “Did you call me an asshole?”
Hag: “Yes! You’re an asshole, you’re a millionaire and you buy clothes at Goodwill!”
Hag: “When I donate to Goodwill, I don’t do it so people like you can buy it, it’s for poor people!”
Note she contradicted herself; the poor should buy furniture on credit, but I should not go to Goodwill because that stuff is for the poor.

Haha - in my estimation based on that exchange at least, you're not an asshole, and in fact, the "hag" missed something. Goodwill is not a non-profit.

https://www.countryliving.com/shopping/a18198848/is-goodwill-a-nonprofit/

Goodwill Omaha CEO Frank McGree was fired in 2016 after a World-Herald investigation revealed that he received between $400,000 and $930,000 annually, while more than 100 workers at his stores made less than minimum wage. (Paying employees pennies per hour, by the way, is perfectly legal thanks to a loophole in the Fair Labor Standards Act—something we’ll come back to shortly.)

Likewise, a 2013 Watchdog report found that the married couple in charge of Goodwill Industries of Eastern North Carolina, Dennis and Linda McLain, received close to $800,000 annually while employing workers with disabilities who were paid less than minimum wage.

But I give her credit for explaining why she thought you were an asshole. Now you know her reasoning - now you have some ammunition.

If you took charity or were on the government dole - yeah, I'd say you're an asshole. Goodwill isn't a charity.

richwicks says

Goodwill isn't a charity.

I do not think that statement came out right! Goodwill is obviously a charity, but shopping at the stores helps supports that charity. Also, if one is "environmentally" conscience, buying used from Goodwill is an excellent recycle method.
I did get a good find at a "Habitat for Humanity Restore." I had some old home movie VHS tapes I needed to copy to DVD and my last VHS deck gave out. That restore had a wall full of VHS-DVD combo recorders that were in new condition, including all paperwork. I presume they came from a business that had them all these years but never used them. I bought 3 for $15 each.

I have a story about thrift stores.
One in Santa Cruz was to benefit cat spaying. It’s gone now.

Last year I took my visitor there and she liked a painting.
“Buy it!” It was $160
I said I would think about it.
I went back and it was reduced to $120, I bought it.
We saw the artist signature and googled around, he was a Danish painter, and Christies had sold one of his paintings for $4000 or so.
I hung it and everyone likes it. My friend says it belongs to her.

clambo says

My friend says it belongs to her.

Lemme see. You went back to the store at a later time alone and bought the painting for yourself with your own money, and she thinks it is hers? There must be a puzzle piece missing here somewhere. Was it her birthday or something, and she hinted for this as a present?

HeadSet says

clambo says

My friend says it belongs to her.

Lemme see. You went back to the store at a later time alone and bought the painting for yourself with your own money, and she thinks it is hers? There must be a puzzle piece missing here somewhere. Was it her birthday or something, and she hinted for this as a present?

Everything you have is theirs. It's just a matter of time, persuasion, emotional terrorism, and the final contract signed in blood. The art of the game is being able to shuck and dive and get laid without harm or loss, and splitting before the yowling and howling begins.

Ceffer understands the female mind.

Ceffer says

HeadSet says

clambo says

My friend says it belongs to her.

Lemme see. You went back to the store at a later time alone and bought the painting for yourself with your own money, and she thinks it is hers? There must be a puzzle piece missing here somewhere. Was it her birthday or something, and she hinted for this as a present?

Everything you have is theirs. It's just a matter of time, persuasion, emotional terrorism, and the final contract signed in blood. The art of the game is being able to shuck and dive and get laid without harm or loss, and splitting before the yowling and howling begins.

clambo says

Ceffer understands the female mind.

Right and anybody who tells you their womyn is not even a little like that is not fully honest. If you get married and have a family you can only marry the most grounded and based you can get coupled with hot looks, but there's no such thing as the perfect womyn. Man plans, God lughs.