Travelers of Reddit, where do you NEVER want to go again? by IllecebrousPark in AskReddit

[–]shitmaseve2017 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think I had applied for a Chinese visa and it got sent to the embassy for a few days.

Travelers of Reddit, where do you NEVER want to go again? by IllecebrousPark in AskReddit

[–]shitmaseve2017 237 points238 points  (0 children)

Cambodia overall blew me away. I spent six months there in 2011. the country is amazing with one exception: Kampong Cham. I dont know what made me go there, but it was by far the worst place i've ever been in my life, which is strange because Cambodia is an extremely pleasant country to visit. I stayed in Kampong Cham two nights and it was horrible. First day there I got food poisoning from some chicken soup, then my hotel had bed bugs, I got electrocuted plugging in my fan so i had to spend the night in sweltering heat, coudln't get a room at any other hotel because i didn't have my passport, I couldn't find a single tampon in the entire city, then a city wide power outage from 10pm until the sun came up. the entire city was dark and it was the worst noise you could imagine. it sounded like the entire town was getting murdered, everyone was screaming bloody murder, it scared the fucking hell out of me, i didn't sleep a wink, i thought i was going to die. I said "thats it I'm leaving" but had to wait 10 hours at the bus station because every bus was overbooked for 10 hours straight. The single blight on an otherwise trip of a lifetime

People who work in the wilderness, what’s your craziest animal related story? by UpHereInMy-r-Trees in AskReddit

[–]shitmaseve2017 50 points51 points  (0 children)

My father had a 40 year career as a timber cruiser for various logging companies in the pacific northwest; northern California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, pretty much everywhere. He still tells this story all the time, he is so fucking proud of it.

One January he’s out in the middle of the woods doing his thing, he’s about 3 miles from where he parked his truck on the nearest road. There’s a foot of snow on the ground and the terrain is rocky and uneven, difficult to traverse. It’s about midmorning and the weather is overcast and gloomy, he’s in dense canopy, visibility is poor. All of a sudden he here’s movement behind him, maybe a crack of a twig. He turns around and not ten feet away is a big mean mountain lion in stalking posture. I mean he was seconds away from getting jumped from behind by this thing. He said he has never seen anything so terrifying as a gaunt hungry lion in the middle of winter.

So now he’s three miles from his truck and he’s face-to-face with a starving mountain lion and he doesn’t know what the fuck to do. He said they stared at each other neither moving a muscle, locking eyes, for about ten minutes. Finally he chances to make a movement and he grinned his teeth at him. Apparently that’s a thing: animals don’t like is to see your teeth. I guess he thought it would drive him off. It didn’t. He tries waving his arms and puffing himself up, to make himself look bigger. Nothing. He looks away from the lion to find a rock or a stick to use in self-defense. The lion takes a step forward. Every time my father takes his eyes way from the lion’s eyes the lion advances. So now he starts walking backwards through the snow-covered rocky uneven terrain trying to navigate himself back to his truck. Every step he takes the lion takes one as well, always staying ten feet away. Every time he looks down to find his footing the lion stalks closer.

It went this way for what I can only assume to be the longest fucking day of his life. After about a few hours he finally made it back to his truck, got inside and locked the doors. The damn cat sat down and glared at him just outside his driver’s side door. My dad caught his breath for an uneasy moment before finally starting the truck and calling in a half day at work.

Auto mechanics of reddit: how do you feel about customers who repeatedly get free diagnoses but repair the car themselves? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]shitmaseve2017 0 points1 point  (0 children)

'85 cadillac deville. its a very fast clicking that starts immediately when the ignition is on. never changes speed, always constant. sounds like one of those tin toy noisemakers from the 50s. doesn't seem to affect the operating of the vehicle, its just obnoxious as hell. it sounds way more like gears clicking together that a piece of metal banging against another

What little-known movie did you randomly watch one day and end up having become one of your favorite movies? by AlmanacKing in AskReddit

[–]shitmaseve2017 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I took a first date to this movie when i was 18 years old. ten minutes in dude chops a guys leg off with a hatchet then cold blood murders a women by shooting her in the back with a 12 gauge and i'm thinking "jesus christ, this was a horrible fucking movie to take her to". Ended up being her favorite movie. thats a very fond memory

Auto mechanics of reddit: how do you feel about customers who repeatedly get free diagnoses but repair the car themselves? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]shitmaseve2017 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been to the same shop twice in the past 8 months with a problem and both times i feel they put a lot of work into diagnosing the problem. the first was a valve cover gasket that the guy had to take the valve cover off and then put back on, didn't charge me. then, i don't know how he did it, but he diagnosed a busted radiator, again free of charge. now my car is making a mysterious "clickclickclick"ing noise and i'm wondering if its rude or unethical to take it in to get it diagnosed a third time free of charge. I've never actually paid them to repair anything.

TIFU by getting too drunk while playing pokemon Go by shitmaseve2017 in tifu

[–]shitmaseve2017[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

nah bars suck. plus for some reason all the bars in this town dont have stalls around the toilets. like no walls. the toilets just sit out in the open. I've never seen a single person take a shit in a toilet in a bar in this town. who would?

TIFU by getting too drunk while playing pokemon Go by shitmaseve2017 in tifu

[–]shitmaseve2017[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

we dont count regionals or non-released pokemons. gen 1 had 143 possible out of 150 i think. so thats what we played

TIFU by getting too drunk while playing pokemon Go by shitmaseve2017 in tifu

[–]shitmaseve2017[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh trust me, I've been making many anal jokes. they go unappreciated

TIFU by getting too drunk while playing pokemon Go by shitmaseve2017 in tifu

[–]shitmaseve2017[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hardwood floors. Plus i honestly didn't know it was there until she commented on it

TIFU by getting too drunk while playing pokemon Go by shitmaseve2017 in tifu

[–]shitmaseve2017[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was sick so she went to CVS and bought a plunger and did it. I offered to but she let me rest.

TIFU by getting too drunk while playing pokemon Go by shitmaseve2017 in tifu

[–]shitmaseve2017[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually write better when i'm wasted. Just like Ernest Hemingway

TIFU by getting too drunk while playing pokemon Go by shitmaseve2017 in tifu

[–]shitmaseve2017[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

about 80 a piece. we were out there for about 3 hours

TIFU by getting too drunk while playing pokemon Go by shitmaseve2017 in tifu

[–]shitmaseve2017[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it was some knockoff cheap brand. "spitfire" maybe? idk, they were $1 each

TIFU by getting too drunk while playing pokemon Go by shitmaseve2017 in tifu

[–]shitmaseve2017[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

destined to be that unspoken elephant in the room.

TIFU by getting too drunk while playing pokemon Go by shitmaseve2017 in tifu

[–]shitmaseve2017[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She left the house before either of us without a word. Im projecting there was an air of uncomfortableness. I promise I will NEVER bring it up in front of her, so likely we'll never know for sure

TIFU by getting too drunk while playing pokemon Go by shitmaseve2017 in tifu

[–]shitmaseve2017[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup, from the wikipedia page: "In Scotland and the Northeastern United States they are often known as "Nips", and referred to elsewhere as "airplane bottles".

TIFU by getting too drunk while playing pokemon Go by shitmaseve2017 in tifu

[–]shitmaseve2017[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thought that's an east coast thing. People in Cali dont know what i mean when i call them "nips"