ChrisL

In the heat of the moment shit happens. Question them sure but unless you have been there & done it it’s easy to sit back & pick apart every action. Middle of civil unrest, meh... I once pulled over an undercover narc officer who was tailing someone and driving like an asshole. When I pulled him over he got out of the car all aggressively and started yelling at me. He promptly found himself proned out in handcuffs.... As I’m kneeling on his neck (yep I did it too) he’s hissing at me I’m fucking one of you, he then gave me the code to the station’s sally port door which only one of us would know..: I called a Sgt over to verify & sure enough he was one of us. Shit happens...

Oh well my night in jail was new guy hazing.... I wasn’t actually arrested.

My favorite arrest story: I was supporting Vice as they were busting John’s thinking they were soliciting prostitutes but the hookers were actually female cops. So we take this really young looking fuy into custody who solicited an officer. He’s like 19 and the kid is scared shitless, crying as the arresting officer is talking to us. So she says, look at him he’s a kid... I cant do it it’ll ruin his life. So she walks up to him and says, you know what kid, it’s your lucky day, Unhook him. I stand the kid up & remove the handcuffs. In between sobs the kid says, you mean im gonna get laid??? Get him the fuck outta my face before I change my mind!!!! Oh we laughed our asses off for hours on that one.

We used to get Chick FIL A frequently. My son played on a field near one so we would hit it up. I would get two plain ole chicken sandwiches, chuck the bread & eat the chicken like two giant chicken nuggets dipping them in their house sauce.

Never arrested but did spend a night in jail.

This goofy Aussie is pretty harmless too.

My mom died at 83 but in her late 70’s was really struggling with loneliness as her friends & social network was dying off. She found great joy with her kids & especially grandkids but lost most of her adult social circle. I would think living to 100 might be a lonely experience for many if their spouse & friends had all passed.

I rarely eat cereal but every once in a while I get a hankering for Honey Bunches of Oats and I let the milk sit in it for 10-15 minutes so it’s like mush. Sometimes I cook a bowl of plain oatmeal, then hit it with extra milk & then mix in Honey Bunches of Oats & then let it cook a bit longer so it’s soft.

I almost had a squirrel in the house yesterday... When I take Jack out for his morning pee I bring some peanuts in the shell & toss them to the squirrels. One is so friendly he takes them from my hand. Well yesterday the greedy little bugger followed me home and as I went to close the door behind me he was standing in the threshold of the door??? I went to the kitchen, grabbed more peanuts and he followed me back out where I gave them to him.

Probably an 8-9. Being diabetic I really can’t let it slide too far down the priority list. Shit yesterday I got a hair up my arse and binged on a bunch of candy and this morning my BG jumped 70 points... Yeah dummy completely self inflicted & back on track today.

Yeah when I was shopping droppers for the anthem I saw there are road bar levers that you can fit on the top or in the bend of the bar. It’s not that complicated but the AXS dropper is completely wireless so I’d think a big budget pro team would go that route rather than string cables through the frame & attach a lever to the bars.

This, many pro teams have to add weight to the team bikes to get them to the minimum weight standard anyway. Something like the AXS system with wireless toggle button on the bar is really light & stealthy too. I don’t believe it’s being done for road racing but totally doable.

Just this lazy little knucklehead and several fish in a 50 gal tank. Darryl the lizard passed and Allie the lizard escaped some time ago so no more lizards.

You would like this one... We had fired a manager who reported to me for sexual harassment. We had texts, emails and testimony of his actions. Boom gone. So we get notice from his attorney of wrongful discharge and we go through months of subpoenas, depositions & meetings. We then get a settlement offer for $100K, no thanks see you in court. Then we get an offer for $50K no thanks see you in court. His attorney says legal fees will be well in excess of $50K, why not settle? Because your client is a sleezball, I’d rather pay our attorneys than you or him. See you in court. Ultimately we did settle but it was around $3K. I wish we just let it go to hearing.

Primarily because our buildings are locked down for Covid and they thought the system was malfunctioning. Come to find out a soon to be former temp let the guy in the lobby then used his access card to let him into the suite...

Yeah who the hell runs that shoddy program anyway??? Oh shit that’s right....

So I just get a call from a frantic office manager. Chris, we had a non employee get into the building and suite 150 (would require getting through two locked doors). Damn OK did he do anything? No just had a question so we helped him and he left. OK what time did this happen? Uh, I don’t remember but it was today. 2 o’clock, 3 o’clock??? I really don’t know... OK what was the guy wearing? Uh I don’t remember? White guy, Asian, Hispanic? Uh inthink he was white. You did in fact talk to this person right? Yes. OK where were you? Uhhhh I think suite 150 but may have been the lobby, or maybe outside???? So I’m looking for a male of unknown ethnicity, unknown clothing at an unknown time today to see how he got in when people are entering & exiting the main lobby all day long and you met with him in potentially one of three locations. Yes... Can you get on it right away??! Sounds like a good job for my afternoon officer....

I had heard that he hired the first female detective but didn’t know who she was. Very cool. Some memorabilia I have in my office: Pinkerton security badge & defective lapel pin.

Neither, I use Splenda when I need something sweetened.

Brings back a memory... One time when I was between jobs I was working for a friend who is a PI. She had me doing several sub rosa’s to help pay the bills. So I’m tailing someone and am camped out about 10 houses down waiting for her to leave the residence. A nosey neighbor keeps walking by my car and finally walks up to my window. What are you doing here?!! I’m the neighborhood watch captain and I know everyone and you don’t belong here. Now I could tell her to buzz off but she’d probably call the police and I didn’t want all the activity so I just tell her the truth. Hey look I’m working for a PI and we’re doing an investigation on someone. I’ll be gone shortly.... Oh it’s that floozy such & such isn’t it, I knew she was up to no good and her husband is such a good guy..... Oh man the woman wouldn’t shut up! I said mam your gonna blow my cover can you please move along. Oh sure, you know she works at such & such bank but I hear she is being investigated..... I couldn’t get the old woman to leave me alone.... I thought Damn I’m gonna need to come up with better cover stories for the community watch people...

Yeah this is a townhouse development so they are all up on each other. They walk the dog several times a day so he feels they ambush him when he takes the dog out.

When my wife set her FB account up she set one up for me. I never once logged in to it and still get all sorts of friend requests & such on my personal email. WOChrisL isn’t very active on it but many of my family in Holland keeps her in the loop on my aunts & uncles as they are getting up there. I also have a niece who is always causing trouble and WOChrisL lets me know who she has pissed off.

We walked dogs last night with daughter & SIL and listened to SIL complain about his neighbors. To set the stage: Both are 27 YO, bought their place a little over a year ago in the townhouse complex SIL grew up in. He lives about 100 steps from where he grew up & where parents still live. Most of his neighbors have known him since he was a child. So he tells me Dave keeps telling him he needs to install a drainage system in his back yard & not cut the trees back. Walt keeps telling him he’s training his dog wrong... SIL’s mom is getting an earful from the neighbors about the work their doing to their house, how can they afford it all, not to get in debt early in their lives, why they drive expensive cars & etc. These people don’t know shit about them, what they do, what they earn etc but feel they need to give their advice... I felt bad for him but did share although misguided they are trying to help because they care. In one ear & out the other & do what’s best for you. I live blocks from where I grew up but not in the same neighborhood. Yeah that would be tough having my neighbors who I have known all my life telling me what to do all the time.

My wife got into the show Alias back in the day. One day around the same time frame I was watching a show of funny out takes & bloopers. Jennifer Garner made a mistake on her lines and they all broke character & started laughing. I remember thinking damn that’s the first time I ever saw her smile.... The show that made her famous was so serious all the time she never smiled on it.