[amphibian]

That's a large tuktuk.

That's not so bad. Bad is motorcycle rides between the buses. Or being tall and crammed into a too small seat on that bus next to a stinky housewife with a 25 kg bag of rice that she insists goes in your much needed legroom.

You and I have dealt with that.

[Andorion]

amphibian, on 20 August 2015 - 02:19 AM, said:

That's a large tuktuk.

That's not so bad. Bad is motorcycle rides between the buses. Or being tall and crammed into a too small seat on that bus next to a stinky housewife with a 25 kg bag of rice that she insists goes in your much needed legroom.

You and I have dealt with that.

Ok from a quick google search most tiktuks are larger and look more comfy than the autos I use. They probably ply in India as well but the country is so big, stuff like this varies from city to city.

Autos are accident prone. They are driven very rashly and obey no traffic laws. One guy sits beside the driver and if you are large then you basically hang half outside.People used to ride on the right of the driver as well but they banned that as it was so dangerous. That law is obeyed sometimes.

As for long legs and buses...my personal and daily nightmare. How tall are you? I am 6 feet 4 inches and my legs get stuck in everything except the new Volvo low floor buses. Sometimes I have to jam my knees under the seat. After a long trip (anything over 20 minutes really) my knees hurt a lot.

Autos are slightly better, unless they have plonked the spare wheel on my legspace. Then my knees rise up a bit and I get the fun experience of having my knees hammered by an iron bar everytime the auto jolts, which is all the time!

[amphibian]

I'm six foot flat and about 190 lbs. It's a tiny bit above average in the US, but in Nepal, I'm almost 1.5x an average person there. You're almost 2x.

The newer buses have seats wide enough for us, but all of the old ones and tuktuks are designed for people 5'5" and 135 lbs.

[Andorion]

amphibian, on 20 August 2015 - 02:58 AM, said:

I'm six foot flat and about 190 lbs. It's a tiny bit above average in the US, but in Nepal, I'm almost 1.5x an average person there. You're almost 2x.

The newer buses have seats wide enough for us, but all of the old ones and tuktuks are designed for people 5'5" and 135 lbs.

The new buses are soooo good. Legspace, seatwidth, even the ceiling is higher. In most old buses I have to bow my head and bend my neck. Often my hair catches in ceiling screws and gets pulled out. But unfortunately the new buses ply mainly on governement routes adndon't go to all the places I need to go.

My main issues with the autos are seat width. The back seat for three is simply not wide enough and people are packed tight. And now with the heightened issues about sexual harassment, (a very real problem) being male I have to be super careful with my hands which is a bit difficult in that confined a space.

What I would give to lose around 6 inches and 20 kilos

[worry]

Not all the joys of typing can be put into words. How ironic!

[Maark Abbott]

King Briar, on 20 August 2015 - 04:38 AM, said:

3 wheelers are bad news to start. They stopped making them here (off road) in early 90's cause of death rate. Now days they making a comeback (on road) but atleast its 2 wheels in front for better control. Harley has always made a Trike. I doubt I'd ever drive one though my old man thinks about getting one. There's a dentist in town that has some 3 wheeler Porsche that is just epic to stare at plus she's hot herself. I don't want to try to imagine the cost of it.

I have no clue why I even typed all this...

Nothing can stop the Robin Reliant.

[Gorefest]

Apart from banana peels, traffic lights and autumn leaves in the road.

[Morgoth]

King Briar, on 19 August 2015 - 09:14 PM, said:

Morg so what's the verdict is she crazy or legit?

No idea. Her approach seems to be along the lines of pretend nothing happened. Which, to be honest, I'm perfectly on board with.

[Egwene]

Morgoth, on 20 August 2015 - 11:47 AM, said:

King Briar, on 19 August 2015 - 09:14 PM, said:

Morg so what's the verdict is she crazy or legit?

No idea. Her approach seems to be along the lines of pretend nothing happened. Which, to be honest, I'm perfectly on board with.

Just having read back over this conversation...

Is there any chance that she might be more serious about you than you about her and that she started crying because she was hoping for some expressions of deeper feelings and didn't get them? If so and there is a discrepancy in what you both hope for/expect from the relationship, then it is probably best that you both go on pretending nothing happened and just concentrate on being friends.

[Maark Abbott]

Do you know what would be fun? Instituting a process change. Now it's a day later. Let's tweak it to this. Now two days on from that. Let's tweak it back to how it was before.

[Morgoth]

Egwene, on 20 August 2015 - 12:12 PM, said:

Morgoth, on 20 August 2015 - 11:47 AM, said:

King Briar, on 19 August 2015 - 09:14 PM, said:

Morg so what's the verdict is she crazy or legit?

No idea. Her approach seems to be along the lines of pretend nothing happened. Which, to be honest, I'm perfectly on board with.

Just having read back over this conversation...

Is there any chance that she might be more serious about you than you about her and that she started crying because she was hoping for some expressions of deeper feelings and didn't get them? If so and there is a discrepancy in what you both hope for/expect from the relationship, then it is probably best that you both go on pretending nothing happened and just concentrate on being friends.

Yeah maybe. We hardly know each other. I'd be surprised if she's developed feelings for me, though I guess you never know. It's been a very honest and simple relationship though. Shame to lose it again.

[Morgoth]

I'm probably not the easiest person to get a handle on these days either. People be mysterious.

[Tiste Simeon]

Morg maybe she has a thing for tiny hands? Might be making her emotional,

[Messremb]

Maark, on 20 August 2015 - 07:47 AM, said:

King Briar, on 20 August 2015 - 04:38 AM, said:

3 wheelers are bad news to start. They stopped making them here (off road) in early 90's cause of death rate. Now days they making a comeback (on road) but atleast its 2 wheels in front for better control. Harley has always made a Trike. I doubt I'd ever drive one though my old man thinks about getting one. There's a dentist in town that has some 3 wheeler Porsche that is just epic to stare at plus she's hot herself. I don't want to try to imagine the cost of it.I have no clue why I even typed all this...

Nothing can stop the Robin Reliant.

Gorefest, on 20 August 2015 - 10:20 AM, said:

Apart from banana peels, traffic lights and autumn leaves in the road.

Not to mention a gentle headwind, cornering at greater than 10mph or failing to sacrifice a rabbit on the bonnet every day.

[Andorion]

One of these days I am going to internalize the lesson that I can't get by indefinitely on 4 hours of sleep. But that day is not today.

Why is the sunlight so bright? I just want to fade into cool darkness

[Maark Abbott]

Andorion, on 22 August 2015 - 05:00 AM, said:

One of these days I am going to internalize the lesson that I can't get by indefinitely on 4 hours of sleep. But that day is not today.

Why is the sunlight so bright? I just want to fade into cool darkness

Dr. Roivas would attest that the Darkness is a bad thing.

[CowboyYojimbo]

Any other mid-to-late 20s, feeling like your behind or doing something wrong?

I'm 24 (25 in January), back home currently, single, and finding each year I lose more friends and family either from death or just moving. Then I'm seeing people I knew from school getting married or rocking their career.
I went to school for firefighting, and I just fight forest fires in the summer for 4 to 4 1/2 months then get unemployment payments while I try to dabble in writing and film or just "live". Fire halls either only hire full time and the competition is brutal. or they start you as a volunteer meaning have something to pay bills and live in that town already. So I have to pick a town, move and hope I get a position, that doesn't pay the bills, so it can evolve in to one that may. Wish I had someone telling me where to go.

I'm by no means dumb or socially inept, just my dream jobs (firefighter and writer) apparently suck and are a logistical nightmare, I don't meet many women I'd want to pursue past date 1, small towns I guess, and I've had some setbacks that werent my fault, a lot of death, bad gigs. Just feel alone these days, and like Im in a waiting room, waiting for life to truly start.

Don't normally vent publically like this but holy hell, can anyone relate? Did shit improve? Can't catch a break anymore.

[HoosierDaddy]

RIP Justin Wilson.

Thanks for all the memories.

[amphibian]

CowboyYojimbo, on 24 August 2015 - 01:43 AM, said:

Any other mid-to-late 20s, feeling like your behind or doing something wrong?

I'm 24 (25 in January), back home currently, single, and finding each year I lose more friends and family either from death or just moving. Then I'm seeing people I knew from school getting married or rocking their career.
I went to school for firefighting, and I just fight forest fires in the summer for 4 to 4 1/2 months then get unemployment payments while I try to dabble in writing and film or just "live". Fire halls either only hire full time and the competition is brutal. or they start you as a volunteer meaning have something to pay bills and live in that town already. So I have to pick a town, move and hope I get a position, that doesn't pay the bills, so it can evolve in to one that may. Wish I had someone telling me where to go.

I'm by no means dumb or socially inept, just my dream jobs (firefighter and writer) apparently suck and are a logistical nightmare, I don't meet many women I'd want to pursue past date 1, small towns I guess, and I've had some setbacks that werent my fault, a lot of death, bad gigs. Just feel alone these days, and like Im in a waiting room, waiting for life to truly start.

Don't normally vent publically like this but holy hell, can anyone relate? Did shit improve? Can't catch a break anymore.

I think getting a bouncer job or a waitstaff job off the books during the off months will let you build enough of a pad to move to a bigger city.

You're young enough and healthy enough to be a firefighter, so go ahead and do that, try for a spot in whatever medium sized city appeals to you.

As for writing, what you may want to do is to practice for an hour a day. Pick a short story and hammer away at it. It'll most likely be junk, but the next will be better and so on. Then after a while, you'll want to write longer things and when you do that, you probably want to find a cheaper version of the Iowa Writer's Workshop. That's where you'll go through a crucible of sorts - getting fierce and occasionally undeserved criticism from your friends and potential rivals.

After you do that, write something great and look to see if you can get picked up by the same agents who rep people breaking onto the scene in whatever genre you're looking to break into.

Your spin cycles of firefighting and unemployment are not unique to you, so don't worry. You're also aware that the spin cycle needs to change and you have two things you want to do already - as lifelong things. That's pretty good too. They can be careers too, but if that doesn't happen, that's ok too.

A friend of mine wanted to be a third generation firefighter. He fucked up his back during the test and went to law school with me. He's now an ADA in Queens, doing good, even if he really still wants to be a firefighter.

Talk to someone older than you in the firefighting industry who got out of smokejumping and into a permanent gig. See what the advice given matches up to what you're doing.

[worry]

HoosierDaddy, on 25 August 2015 - 02:39 AM, said:

RIP Justin Wilson.

Thanks for all the memories.

If you mean the Indycar guy, I wasn't familiar at all, but seeing the video was truly shocking (even without being at all graphic). Those cars are really terrifying and the whole thing is so sad.