Confessions

cengle · May 2011

Musical: My ILs call those people "organ donors." My brother doesn't always wear his helmet when he takes his motorcycle out, and it makes me want to scream.

In 1999, I was a freshman in high school, and I also saw the BSB millennium tour then.

I've never watched Grey's Anatomy either.

There was something else I was going to say, but now I've forgotten it. Harumph.

hlq2011 · May 2011

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_confessions-41?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:48f47ee0-57f8-4e37-8143-6fd53d26dbe7Post:41d77c52-5dd6-40c7-a032-706e25c6c21a">Re: Confessions</a>:
[QUOTE]Musical-South Carolina doesn't have a helmet law for motorcycles and for the life of me I cannot figure out why people think it's a good idea to not wear a helmet. Says the girl who was on a regular bike when she was 12 w/o a helmet and got hit by a pick up truck. Also-I realized that through these posts today I sound like the clumsiest person EVER!
Posted by ggirl2001[/QUOTE]

I think part of it is that (and someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember this argument being made in debates over helmet laws in Massachusetts and Connecticut) if a motorcyclist is in a high-speed collision, a helmet probably won't save them.

But the flip side is, I knew a girl in high school who's dad was killed in a motorcycle accident. He was wearing a bike helmet instead of a full helmet, and skidded on gravel (lower speed).

To this day it makes me angry. He was an EMT and he knew better, dammit, and was stupid and left his daughter without a father.

baystateapple · May 2011

Rosie, I really wouldn't worry about it. Don't change your order if the price makes you uncomfortable.

I'll tell you right now, if I spent $500 on a cake, even if it was for a surprise for my H, he'd freak the fuuck out.

LDYGTR13 · May 2011

In FL, they had a motorcycle helmet law, and then the lady who pushed so hard for them (one of the main lobbyists) was killed about a month later in a motorcycle crash with head injuries and wasn't wearing a helmet. KARMA.

(k, that could totally be an urban legend, but I've heard it a few times. I'M NOT CLAIMING FACT, but I've heard it!)

musicalsunlight · May 2011

I just checked MN laws. I don't think they require helmets here either, unless you are under 18. It doesn't change my opinion or feelings though. Responsibility should still extend beyond what is actually a law or not.

mob2689 · May 2011

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_confessions-41?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:9Discussion:48f47ee0-57f8-4e37-8143-6fd53d26dbe7Post:1f8b21b8-24e8-43c1-8def-f259f683a8b2">Re: Confessions</a>:
[QUOTE]In my (rather weak) defense, I think I would have passed it the second time if I hadn't gotten the same crotchety old tester who failed me the first time. He scared me so badly that I made a big error right in the last ten seconds, and that's how I failed. I confess that even though H told the Vicious Trollop to stop sending him skanky texts, I'm pissed that she put an picture of him and her as her FB profile picture. I REALIZE that I am splitting hairs about this, and probably making it a bigger deal than it should be, but it still irritates me.
Posted by baystateapple[/QUOTE]

I have like 3 voodoo dolls that I share :)

ggirl2001 · May 2011

In 1999-I had just finished up my sophmore year of high school and was entering into Junior year.

Yeah, I get the whole it might not prevent anything, but on the flip side, it could. I would rather err on the side of caution. it just makes no sense to me.

[Deleted User] · May 2011

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[QUOTE]I was in 5th/6th grade in 1999.
Posted by musicalsunlight[/QUOTE]

H came down to FL for college in 1997...I was in 6th grade (I think). He sounds so old when I think of it like that. By the time I graduated high school, he had already been engaged once and owned his own business.

LDYGTR13 · May 2011

Our combined wedding cakes were $775 and "my" cake was barely eaten. GRR. H's dragon cake was GONE though. And his cake was only about $275

baystateapple · May 2011

GG -- we were the same year in high school

sarah0725 · May 2011

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[QUOTE]I confess that I get the urge to lightly tap bikers or motorcyclists with my bumper when they don't wear helmets just for the pure reason that they are being idiots for not wearing helmets. I want them to learn their lesson, to the extent that they fall over and get a scrape or two but not like, die or anything. Which I of course would never actually do but it goes through my head and makes me kinda feel like a terrible person. ETA: clarity
Posted by musicalsunlight[/QUOTE]

My brother got in a bike accident recently where he got his front tire stuck on some railroad tracks and flipped over the front of his bike, and he told me that as he was flying through the air, he was thinking, "THIS IS WHY I WEAR A HEEEEEELLLLMMMMEEEETTTT!" *crunch*

I think it's kind of hilarious that he actually had time to think that thought while he was crashing, and I am glad his helmet kept him safe. And I am really hoping he went and bought a new one, because you should always get a new helmet after you crash with one.

LDYGTR13 · May 2011

I was a senior in 1996. I graduated in 2003. His friends are always messing with me b/c I'm so young in comparison.

ggirl2001 · May 2011

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Confessions : This is mine, too. I am flying up to Calgary tonight and driving home to Phoenix with my H over the weekend. It will be the first time in our almost four-year relationship that we will have lived in the same country, let alone in the same house. I'm excited and terrified at the same time.
Posted by Celles[/QUOTE]
But still so exciting! It will all make it worth the wait in the end!

cengle · May 2011

A girl I went to high school with is in a persistive vegetative state because she wasn't wearing a helmet when she was in a motorcycle collision with a pickup truck. She still would have been hurt pretty badly, but she had major head trauma, most of which wouldn't have happened had she had on a helmet.

musicalsunlight · May 2011

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Confessions : I think part of it is that (and someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember this argument being made in debates over helmet laws in Massachusetts and Connecticut) if a motorcyclist is in a high-speed collision, a helmet probably won't save them. But the flip side is, I knew a girl in high school who's dad was killed in a motorcycle accident. He was wearing a bike helmet instead of a full helmet, and skidded on gravel (lower speed). To this day it makes me angry. He was an EMT and he knew better, dammit, and was stupid and left his daughter without a father.
Posted by hlq2011[/QUOTE]

That is a silly argument. Like you mentioned with the girl you knew, there are so many circumstances where it would help save the person. I feel like many motorcycle crashes that I hear about, are more of the motorcyclist losing control of his own vehicle into a ditch/tree/side of the road, not necessarily a high speed crash with another car.

ggirl2001 · May 2011

I'm not doing a grooms cake. In fact, no one in my family did. Maybe it's not common in my area? I don't know.

cengle · May 2011

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[QUOTE]I was a senior in 1996. I graduated in 2003. His friends are always messing with me b/c I'm so young in comparison.
Posted by LDYGTR13[/QUOTE]

??

musicalsunlight · May 2011

I think my bike helmet anger goes back to when a kid in my class crashed his bike in 4th grade and had some head trauma because he wasn't wearing a helmet. He was ok in the end, but had amnesia for a few days and from that time on, he was never really "all there", if you know what I mean.

Celles · May 2011

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Confessions : But still so exciting! It will all make it worth the wait in the end!
Posted by ggirl2001[/QUOTE]

Yes! This is my hope for both of us. :) (And, really, it's stronger than just a hope. I'm fairly confident. But I totally get how you feel because I feel it too!)

musicalsunlight · May 2011

Yeah LDY those years don't make sense.

Bubbalub · May 2011

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Confessions : Way to make me feel old. My younger sister graduated from high school in 1999. I graduated from college in 2000.
Posted by mica178[/QUOTE]

Me too, Mica. Graduated HS in 1995 and college in 2000. I turn 34 today. I feel old!

I have never been to a boy band concert. That kind of music, except for NKOTB, was mostly after my time and I hated NKOTB. I was more of a Metallica fan. :P

ggirl2001 · May 2011

So-I just looked into boudoir photos for FI. Now I can call to make the consultation, but I'm so nervous to do it. I know there was a post on SB about it the other day.

LDYGTR13 · May 2011

OMG I CAN'T TYPE TODAY.

H was a senior in 1996. I graduated in 2003.

I'm sorry kids. Stupid trying to ninja knot at work.

hlq2011 · May 2011

I went to a Sugar Ray concert freshman year of college. Almost got to touch Mark McGrath.

waltzingmatilda13 · May 2011

I confess that I'm kind of mad/scared/upset that my H is doing WW with me. I just know that he is going to lose all his weight way before me and then I'll hate him. Not really hate him, but hate that he can lose it faster without really trying. He's only eating better and I'm doing it with many many less points and working out 3-4 a week. It hasn't even happened yet and I already snapped at him once because of my fear.

katieisawesome · May 2011

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[QUOTE]SHUUUUUUUUNNNN KATIEISAWESOME. SHUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN. But the gunman episodes, AKA last years season finale? I think was probably 2 of the best ever hours on TV.
Posted by crfische[/QUOTE]

<div>I have terrible taste in television at least half the time. It works for me lol.</div>

Arayx2 · May 2011

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Confessions : Me too, Mica. Graduated HS in 1995 and college in 2000.<strong> I turn 34 today</strong>. I feel old! I have never been to a boy band concert. That kind of music, except for NKOTB, was mostly after my time and I hated NKOTB. I was more of a Metallica fan. :P
Posted by Bubbalub[/QUOTE]

Happy Birthday!!!!!

laurenpm · May 2011

Fi was in a bike wreck and if he had not worn a helmet he would probably be dead because he landed on his back/head. I think people who don't wear helmets are stooopid!!

musicalsunlight · May 2011

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[QUOTE]So-I just looked into boudoir photos for FI. Now I can call to make the consultation, but I'm so nervous to do it. I know there was a post on SB about it the other day.
Posted by ggirl2001[/QUOTE]

DO it! J LOVED the ones I did for him, and it was actually kinda fun when I went to get them done.

annakb8 · May 2011

Happy birthday Bubba!

I have no freaking clue what to do for a groom's cake. I really wish FI would just take care of it himself but I know that's not really how it's supposed to work.

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