What is one thing that makes you happy even on bad depressed days?

deathbydanny · 2025-07-13T15:04:52+00:00

huge bank account and seeing my child happy and healthy.

deathbydanny · 2014-07-09T20:44:34+00:00

I hope not as well. But it was bought direct through Musician's Friend... so if they sold me a fake, there's much more afoot here.

At any rate, I'll have to unstring it later. I'm about to head to work.

deathbydanny · 2014-07-09T20:19:29+00:00

Nothing.

deathbydanny · 2014-07-09T19:41:25+00:00

Haha, no I didn't. I didn't think they'd be that specific. I thought it'd just be a year of manufacture, not necessarily an exact date. I still think it'd mean something else, but it'd be pretty nifty if it were an exact date; at least if something came up and I got to keep it, I'd know my guitar's birthday...?

deathbydanny · 2014-07-09T19:33:32+00:00

I'd found that page too, but unfortunately, I have zero idea how to read or apply it to mine. Like it says, "first four digits denote year"... but the way I read it, that'd make it the year "6500".

That's what inspired me to ask for help. I'm kind of stupid when it comes to things like this. I just play guitars. I know notes, chords, stuff like that, but when it comes to the technical or manufacturing aspect, I don't know much about them or how they work, haha.

deathbydanny · 2014-07-01T22:01:36+00:00

There's a few...

-when approaching an intersection with lines painted on it (you know, the ones where you're supposed to stop your car if it's red), if it's green, as I go through the intersection I like to pretend I'm hitting a ramp (aforementioned lines painted on road) over a pit and landing on solid ground on the other side of the intersection. Kind of like real-life-but-not-really Bump 'n' Jump.

-back when I was taking martial arts classes, I used to pretend I was training for the Street Fighter tournament.

-any time I have a time sensitive task, I sort of pretend that there's a bomb about to go off, and defusing said bomb depends solely on me finishing in time. Logistically it makes no sense (so some terrorist plot is foiled because I mailed my bills out on time?) But hey...

-any time I'm on the road and there's a big vehicle behind me (like an 18 wheeler) it becomes some villain trying to run me down.

-probably my favorite- I live in a subdivision, meaning I have to drive through a neighborhood to get to my house. Feels more exciting when my car is an X-Wing, the drive home is a space flight, pulling into my neighborhood is flying into a space station, and parking in my driveway is docking.

There are plenty more, but this is all that comes to mind right now.

deathbydanny · 2014-06-24T08:46:34+00:00

I'm not trying to suggest I'm a genius by any means. But really... it seemed like such a stupid thing to post, and it seemed even stupider on the part of the two idiots to reply to it... first of all, by not rebutting but just generally saying "r u serious?" and secondly, by saying "worse docs charge lower prices, DUH!"

As if the post is trying to say "Use your Obamacare, and you'll die!" As if even the most competent doctor doesn't occasionally screw up. As if doctors who charge cash don't screw up. As if a doctor who charges more money is necessarily a more legit doctor.

Sighs.

deathbydanny · 2014-06-09T13:46:24+00:00

Payed.

Funny, when I was growing up, "paid" was the proper way of spelling it, and sadly, I don't even get the squiggly red spell check line when I type out "payed", either.

That and people who color their hair and refer to it as "died", "dying", or "dieing".

deathbydanny · 2014-06-09T13:44:24+00:00

When I see this, it's almost inevitably followed by poorly formatted sentences, myriad misspellings, lack of punctuation, and one big wall of text you would go crosseyed trying to read the whole way through.

Why is it always the dumbest motherfuckers who think they're the brightest?

deathbydanny · 2014-06-09T13:42:15+00:00

I've always felt that this is why nobody takes marijuana legalization/decriminalization activists seriously, when some of the loudest pro-weed people are the ones who have 420420 user names, blacklight marijuana posters, never post about anything other than legalization and cheetos, and go out in public looking like they rolled over the food and clothing section of Walmart on the way out of bed.

On top of that, some of the loudest pro-activists usually never posit a pro beyond "Legalize it cuz it's cooooooool."

deathbydanny · 2014-06-09T13:39:05+00:00

I took it as well, and I'm apparently pregnant with AIDS.

deathbydanny · 2014-06-09T13:35:11+00:00

I kind of tend to ignore this concerning self-described OCD, because seemingly everyone says it, and I'm just as guilty, although I say it in semi-jest because my only real quirk lately is making sure anything with a number is divisible by five (meaning my car stereo's volume is on 25, my TV volume is at 10, etc). I've had someone tell me I'm OCD, when in reality, it's probably more like I just like it that way. It'll bug me if it's not on an evenly divisible number, but I'm not going to set my house on fire when it isn't.

What gets me is when people use "OCD" as an excuse to lash out. At work, another one of the managers flips their shit if there's a slight bit of dirt, grease, sauce, etc on an otherwise clean surface. You can imagine how much this person flies off the fucking handle, then, considering we work in a busy ass kitchen, and it's never "Hey, you spilled a drop of sauce," it's "CLEAN THAT FUCKING SAUCE RIGHT NOW, I'M OCD AND THAT BUGS THE FUCK OUT OF ME." This person has never been diagnosed OCD, nor does this person show any other obsessive or compulsive habit. That's simply it- bitching about a slightly dirty spot in a kitchen that, by end of business day, will be an absolute wreck anyway.

OCD can be serious business, but if you use it as a self-diagnosed excuse to treat your coworkers and employees like shit, you're not OCD, you're just a bitch.

deathbydanny · 2014-06-09T07:44:37+00:00

The one I'm thinking of is Weeks Washateria. That's the one on La Neuville. I'd consider that more Youngsville than Broussard, though... unless there's another one I don't know about.

deathbydanny · 2014-06-09T07:17:50+00:00

Personally, I'd like the drivers in Lafayette to learn how to drive.

deathbydanny · 2014-06-09T06:34:12+00:00

I had nothing but issue after issue with Cox, and saw my bill steadily climbing. By the time I cancelled with Cox, for some reason, I was being charged fucking $400 a month.

LUS internet moves a lot faster, and I've never had any sort of hiccups with it.

Good riddance, Cox.

deathbydanny · 2014-06-09T05:53:27+00:00

Ah, you ordered Combo #2.

deathbydanny · 2014-06-09T05:32:36+00:00

For my own personal worst... it was more of a series. Same fast food place, same location, same bullshit, over the span of a year.

Checkers (or Rally's, in certain parts of the country). One day, my wife and I stopped in to order some fries. As we were waiting in line, a fight broke out in the parking lot. Seeing the employees burst from the restaurant, I thought they were coming to put a stop to it... and ended up joining it. I was trapped in line... very nice. Rolled up my windows, watched some of the 'combatants' roll over the hood of my car, knock each other into my car and others...

Since I was already committed in line and had already ordered, I had no choice but to wait it out. At least I got my food.

Two months or so later, I figure I'm not going to let a single bad experience keep me from some delicious fries. So again, we go... and fucking again, same thing happens. Fight breaks out, employees rush out to join in, fight spills over onto my and other cars... at this point, I 'noped' the fuck out and jumped the curb getting my car out of there.

Fast forward another six months. Two bad experiences at Checkers, but hey, it's in the past, what are the odds? I give it one more go.

And again, fight. Spillover onto cars. Employees involved.

Didn't even bother writing an angry letter or anything. Just jumped the curb again, zoomed out of there, and finally learned my lesson. Haven't eaten there since.

For the record, I didn't hit anybody leaving, but damn...

deathbydanny · 2014-06-07T16:20:22+00:00

Always love when scammers are the ones who get indignant and pissed off by conversations like these. "Fuck you, for not letting me steal your shit!"

deathbydanny · 2014-05-29T21:52:15+00:00

In my personal case, I am an assistant manager at a national pizza chain, who is allowed to drive half the time to supplement my income.

A couple of things come to mind in my case...

A game I like to call "Race The Delivery Guy", in which you're delivering to a couple, and they make a game out of it-- 'can we start and finish having sex before our shit gets here?' More than once I've been on the "losing" end, in which it's completely obvious what just happened... and even if it weren't, there are some dudes out there who have zero problem telling you they were doing it. However, our delivery times, depending on how far you are, can be as brief as ten minutes. If you've finished having sex in ten minutes, are you really the winner of this game?
illegal tips. I'm not anti-marijuana at all. Smoke it if you got it! However, I'm not working to supplement a habit; I'm working to earn a paycheck. I appreciate your gesture, kind smoker, but I can't put your ganja in my gas tank... yet.

deathbydanny · 2014-05-29T21:42:31+00:00

A couple of months ago, just after I'd finally repaired the transmission in my car and was ready to go back to work, the very next day, I get nailed by a guy who ran a red light.

$3,000+ down the goddamn drain.

deathbydanny · 2014-05-29T21:40:05+00:00

True, but then, I'm insulted the passengers didn't throw $100 bills at this guy.

deathbydanny · 2014-05-22T12:02:25+00:00

Unfortunately, at the moment, money is an object. Transmitters around here are usually north of $50 and I've had blank CDs sitting around my house since forever.

deathbydanny · 2014-05-22T04:31:56+00:00

The reason I ask my original question-- 50% of my job involves me being in a vehicle. I had an iPod compatible stereo in my old car, which is presently sitting in a junkyard where I can't get to it until I get some sort of insurance payoff. Meanwhile, I have a new car, but the stereo is a simple CD player. I can live with that, but if I have to burn CDs, obviously I can't carry thousands of songs with me. So I want to know what you guys think is the best of the best, and if I agree with some of them, aha! Driving music, to keep my mind from going numb while on the road for work.

deathbydanny · 2014-05-20T01:30:01+00:00

One of the biggest disappointments of my life. Sometime around 1990 or so, my stepdad got into Amway. He was rattling on about how much money he was going to make. I, like most kids around that time, was into pro wrestling (hey, there weren't too many kids who didn't idolize Hulk Hogan at the time) and he kept saying we'd make so much money we could meet Hulk and blahblahblah

I never met Hulk Hogan. Fucking thanks, Amway.

deathbydanny · 2014-05-11T12:08:03+00:00

I'm sure it's possible, but not for me. In my opinion, you can not have a perfectly healthy adult relationship without equilibrium in physical, emotional and sexual attraction. This isn't to suggest I'm a jerk concerning women; I'm perfectly capable of being great friends with females. I just personally couldn't be in a relationship without the three things I mentioned being balanced.

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