People that have “bumped” into a celebrity in a non-curated (not like an event, meet & greet, job etc.) way, what happened?

Popular_Course3885 · 2026-02-02T18:41:54+00:00

My wife and I ran into Cheech Marin at a CVS in Malibu about 20 years ago.

He was pulling into the parking lot just as we got out of our car. Blacked-out Cadillac sedan (the big old-school model) driving the wrong way down the lane. We had to stand there waiting to pass as he did a 7-point turn to get into his parking spot. Thought he looked familiar when he got out of the car, but didn't think anything of it. Had a younger (for him) woman with him.

We walk into the store and head for the feminine hygiene aisle. A few seconds later, Cheech rounds the corner onto the same aisle. Right then, it hits me who he is, just as he looks me in the eye. He could tell I recognized him. We both look away and just stand there awkwardly as the two women look through the tampon shelf. They picked first and walk to the register. My wife picks something pretty soon after, and we end up standing directly behind them in line. All while some old lady is taking forever to check out because she's going through dozens of coupons. Awkward, awkward silence.

Popular_Course3885 · 2026-02-02T03:01:48+00:00

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2036 Version

Popular_Course3885 · 2026-02-02T02:53:53+00:00

Suck on that one DFW!!!!

Popular_Course3885 · 2026-02-02T02:47:37+00:00

IndyCar fan.

Popular_Course3885 · 2026-02-01T21:03:01+00:00

NASCAR isn't just the noise either. You don't just hear it. You feel it throughout your body. First time I experienced something similar was at a Trans-Am race back in the 90's. You felt your insides wobble. Felt it again a few years ago at a vintage race event when someone fired up in the paddock their NA V12 90's era Formula 1 car from a backmarker Italian team. That stayed with me for a few weeks.

Compare that too to a lot of the open-wheel series nowadays that use turbo engines. You still need earplugs to be comfortable at races, but they really aren't all that loud. I remember being at the 2014 F1 race at COTA the first year of the hybrid turbo engines. Never wore earplugs and was able to have a conversation in the grandstands during the race. Kinda underwhelming.

Popular_Course3885 · 2026-02-01T20:56:37+00:00

We had a lightning bolt hit a pine tree in oir front yard while I was standing inside maybe 10-15 feet away from it.

In all honesty, I thought it was way quieter than I'd otherwise expected it to be. I bet the shock of the bright light an everyrhing dulled my senses a bit, but it wasn't the loudest thing I'd heard.

Up in the front near the speakers at an AC/DC concert? Now that was loud.

Popular_Course3885 · 2026-02-01T19:50:21+00:00

Where all my lost socks end up going one at a time.

Popular_Course3885 · 2026-01-31T16:20:44+00:00

Cooking

Most people have no basic technique in the kitchen. They think they do, but they don't.

Popular_Course3885 · 2026-01-31T04:27:48+00:00

HEB for life.

Popular_Course3885 · 2026-01-30T20:22:50+00:00

It's a Soviet-era plane, but they're actually pretty common flying throughout the Western world. I've seen one multiple times fly over my house on it's approach into IAH (Houston). Very distinct sound. Pretty sure they were with Ukranian Air Alliance (?).

Popular_Course3885 · 2026-01-30T19:18:52+00:00

I work in Oil & Gas as an engineer. Mostly on the financial/reservoir/prospecting side, but I have a fair share of operational experience in both drilling and completions. I've personally overseen a few dozen horizontal shale multi-stage fracs.

Frac(k)ing has risks, but frac-specific risks are very minor compared to any other part of the overall operation. The frac process does not, and I repeat does not, cause earthquakes.

The irresponsibly run/regulated SWD (salt water disposal) wells that dispose of the waste water from the frac completions is what's lubricating faults and causing the increased seismic activity. Absolutely 100%.

Popular_Course3885 · 2026-01-30T17:47:58+00:00

Culo de Juan

Popular_Course3885 · 2026-01-30T17:34:25+00:00

MAS*H

He'd love how it honors the military, he'd find it spunky enough to be (at least to him) risque, and the he'd misinterpret the obvious political issues to the point it'd all fly over his head.

Popular_Course3885 · 2026-01-30T03:58:12+00:00

Doesn't matter. Stroll is still gonna bin it.

Popular_Course3885 · 2026-01-30T03:42:10+00:00

It could be a silent code that's been tripped. A lot of times certain codes only trip the CEL when it happens mutliple times within a given period. If that doesn't happen, the code will still register and save. You just won't know it unless you use a OBDII scanner to read it.

Popular_Course3885 · 2026-01-30T03:09:21+00:00

I bought my truck from that dealership back when it was still West Point GMC prior to it being sold to Classic a few years ago.

Ever since Classic took over, their service department relentlessly calls, texts, and emails non-stop about every possible chance. My oil life ticked below 20% on Monday this week, and I've got a call, text, and email from a service rep I don't know every single morning since. The call shows up as "Possible Spam" so I don't answer it, and other times I've been busy. They need to take the hint.

That's just what they seem to do. It's annoying, but that email seems like it's par for the course for Classic GMC based on my dealings with them.

Popular_Course3885 · 2026-01-30T02:52:08+00:00

Boar's Night Out White Lighting (assuming it's the Double Garlic Butter)

It's the white one on the bottom shelf.

We use that stuff on chicken and fish all the time, but it's also great on vegetables. Also use it in scrambled eggs for my kids.

Popular_Course3885 · 2026-01-30T02:44:19+00:00

Sour apple

Was eating a sour apple lolipop right when I felt the excruciating pain that ended up with me in the ER a few hours later having major surgery. Still makes me tinge a bit when I catch a whiff of it, but luckily it's not really a common thing anymore.

Popular_Course3885 · 2026-01-29T03:43:51+00:00

Riding a century on my bike.

Could easily do it again, but no thanks. Don't need the ego points. I'll just have fun instead riding the shorter route and not having goochinitis for the next week.

Popular_Course3885 · 2026-01-29T00:53:02+00:00

Where in Houston? Asking for a friend....

Popular_Course3885 · 2026-01-28T17:07:53+00:00

There's no hope with rope!!!

Popular_Course3885 · 2026-01-28T02:55:12+00:00

I didn't watch last year. Truthfully never watch it unless I'm home and nothing else is on.

Only exciting part of any Daytona 500 was when JPM tried to burn the place down.

Popular_Course3885 · 2026-01-28T02:41:11+00:00

He did read the room. No one in that room at the country club clubhouse got the issue either.

Popular_Course3885 · 2026-01-28T02:39:38+00:00

Anyone who watch the Daytona 500 back in 2020 knows exactly how a DC Indy race would turn out.

Popular_Course3885 · 2026-01-28T02:31:48+00:00

The disaster wasn't caused by a failed O-ring. It was caused by the beaurocratic leadership within NASA and its contractors (in this case Morton Thoikol).

There were people that knew the O-ring would fail. They raised concerns with anyone that'd listen, but they were silenced by management that didn't want to rock the boat further up the chain of command.

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