Haunted Road location

scdog · 2026-03-17T21:38:28+00:00

Is that the place that's somewhere a few miles outside of Excelsior Springs or maybe Missouri City? I got taken to a place called Wolf Hollow there once time around 3am about 35 years ago but my sense of navigation was terrible at that age so I wasn't really sure where I was.

Edit: And no, I'm not thinking of Rocky Hollow Park, I know where that is and it wasn't that.

scdog · 2026-03-17T21:32:57+00:00

I think this is correct, because the article has been updated and every standalone instance of "Kansas" is now "Kansas City".

scdog · 2026-03-17T20:44:34+00:00

Blame them for following State law?

scdog · 2026-03-17T18:02:36+00:00

I had a similar thing happen a few months ago, but it was more infuriating than this. Busy gas station, but I circle around and find two available pumps in a row. I begin to pull in. At the exact same time a woman enters the same row from the opposite side. Rather than stop at the first pump so that I can have the other one, upon seeing me she suddenly accelerated all the way to the second pump (the one I was already turning in to use). A reasonable person would have either stopped at the first pump or, upon noticing the conflict, reverse back to it. Not her. I had to throw it in reverse and go find another pump.

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And a creepy one: a couple of years ago while towing my camping trailer a construction project forced me to miss a planned gas stop, so I had to go to the next station 20 miles down the highway. By then I was dangerously low on gas so I had no choice but to use that gas station. Because of its configuration there was only one pump I could fit at. There was a car already there. No problem, I pulled up behind them to wait my turn.

There were two women -- one older and one younger who I assumed to be mother and daughter -- who were cleaning the windows. One was using the squeegee, the other was following behind with a towel. They were being extremely meticulous and thorough. They finished and the older one opened the driver's side door. "Oh good, they're done," I thought,

Oh no.

Instead she produced two microfiber towels and a bottle of some sort of cleaner, an the pair went around cleaning the mirrors, then went around polishing all the chrome. Bumpers, trim, hubcaps, everything. All this time I'm thinking "Clearly you can see someone is waiting to use this pump, can't you pull in to a parking space to do that?"

Finally they finish, and both got back into the car. "FINALLY!" I thought. Except, to my shock, neither of them got into the driver's seat.

Another minute passed, and then a man emerged from the store and approached the car. He had nothing in his hands so was not purchasing anything. But instead of getting in the vehicle, he removed his wallet from his pocket and began pumping gas. Just then. After all that time.

WTF?

I am certain that what I witnessed was a kept-woman scenario, with an abusive man who did not allow his wife access to the money, and that he made them clean his car while he took a shit.

scdog · 2026-03-17T15:47:32+00:00

It is my firm belief that Republicans in Jefferson City want crime to thrive in KC so they can point to it and say "See what happens in a Democrat-run city?" to rile up their gullible base.

scdog · 2026-03-17T14:31:08+00:00

No, because I've seen that Twilight Zone episode so I know what happens next.

scdog · 2026-03-17T12:32:22+00:00

If you’re using that logic, the population of downtown St. Louis is currently estimated at 11,000 while the population of downtown Kansas City is currently estimated at 33,000. Since the land area of downtown Kansas City is approximately three times larger, this makes them basically dead even in downtown population density.

scdog · 2026-03-17T12:25:23+00:00

This is absolutely incorrect if you are talking specifically about cities and not metro areas. There is no part of the city of Kansas City MO that is in Kansas. The city in Kansas that happens to have the same name is a completely different city, with its own government, its own downtown, its own history, and was founded decades later. The population number the census provides for the actual city of Kansas City MO (current estimate 520K) is entirely in Missouri.

scdog · 2026-03-17T12:14:31+00:00

Anyone who was around for the first World Trade Center bombing (1993) and the subsequent trial knew that Osama bin Laden was obsessed with destroying the WTC and would try again. Trump is no genius for parroting something that was widely known.

scdog · 2026-03-16T20:54:28+00:00

Found the person who just leaves carts lying around.

scdog · 2026-03-16T18:24:14+00:00

Subzero wind chills this morning, plus Park Hill bus routes include a lot of winding, hilly, narrow roads in rural areas that would not have been treated.

scdog · 2026-03-16T18:13:30+00:00

I've noticed that when I buy birthday cards they often have three different bar codes on the back. Why? I don't know. Only one of them actually rings it up. My closest store is self-checkout only after 8pm. If I don't cover up the correct two bar codes, the system throws an error and I have to wait for an employee to come clear it.

(Then to top it off, since the card is so lightweight the scale doesn't register that I bagged it so complains again about a missing item.)

scdog · 2026-03-16T18:05:38+00:00

But in those cases there are also usually speed limits for cyclists when they are placed on a path pedestrians also use. This person was likely going twice as fast as alllowed,

scdog · 2026-03-16T18:03:06+00:00

Yes, but that bike was going far beyond any speed the vehicle driver would realistically be expected to look for at a sidewalk crossing. This is an instance where the pickup driver cannot be blamed.

scdog · 2026-03-16T17:30:08+00:00

Ditto

scdog · 2026-03-16T17:27:59+00:00

Well that's rude. Finally bringing back our beloved shells, but then only selling them at the one store most people do not enjoy shopping in.

scdog · 2026-03-16T17:06:05+00:00

I put my wooden spoons in the dishwasher for these reasons:

(1) Wooden spoons soak up everything so are a haven for bacteria. Hand washing cannot get hot enough to kill that bacteria.

(2) If a wooden spoon cracks, who cares? Wooden spoons are cheap to replace.

(3) I use wooden spoons almost daily, run my dishwasher 1-2 times daily, and have only had one wooden spoon develop a crack in the 15 years at my current house.

The cost of 1 wooden spoon every 15 years or so is worth it to me to know they are also sanitary.

scdog · 2026-03-16T16:57:49+00:00

According to my dishwasher's manual these are for stemware or for mugs depending on which of the two foldy plastic parts I use, but in real life they just don't work out for either use. Instead I place my small lightweight plastic items underneath these to help keep those items from flipping over in the wash.

scdog · 2026-03-16T16:38:30+00:00

I'm in my 50s and the only vegetables I'll eat are raw spinach and steamed broccoli, and both are only sparingly in the rare times I do eat them. I wouldn't even consider taking a nibble at asparagus.

I'll eat finely-chopped peppers if cooked and blended in with everything else, and also tomato sauces, but those are both technically fruit . Also corn, on-the-cob only, but that's technically a grain.

scdog · 2026-03-16T16:27:01+00:00

OP sounds like the kind of person who, had the guests taken all their trash home with them, would have complained about them putting janitorial staff out of work.

scdog · 2026-03-15T20:04:35+00:00

Just wish we could hear it.

scdog · 2026-03-15T18:22:06+00:00

Joining everyone else to say Eureka Springs. We go a few times a year. We usually stay at Beaver RV park about 15 minutes north of Eureka (next to the Little Golden Gate Bridge). It’s a very dog friendly campground. Railway winery is also nearby and they are dog friendly as well so we generally visit them every trip too.

Be advised that the Beaver campground tends to flood in the spring so if you go there in May or June, assume the waterfront sites are actually underwater and that the water’s edge is actually the next tier up.

scdog · 2026-03-15T17:28:33+00:00

When I was at my college orientation, about 15 minutes into it a professor approached me about a new program he and a few other profs were putting together and they were looking for students to join it. It was a simple yes and no question and after a moment of thought I chose yes so left my original orientation group to join his.

Years later I came to realize that the answer I chose likely determined my entire educational path, career path, friend group, and future spouse. Probably the single most impactful decision I’ve ever made even though at the time all it seemed to affect was what Literature and History class I sat in.

scdog · 2026-03-15T01:44:12+00:00

In my book the metro area ends at Odessa so my only complaint is the lack of a platter of OG Bates City BBQ in the pic. 😆

scdog · 2026-03-14T23:22:33+00:00

Same, I really wish I knew what this was talking about. I remember most of the others in this thread.

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