[Pops]

Secrets you keep from your fellow POer's

I don't talk about it much here but I work on my '69 Ford, short-bed 4wd pickup with the 390 big block, four bbl carb and dual exhaust for enjoyment when I get the chance.

I think about PO sometimes as I tune that engine or work on the upholstery and every time I start it up just to hear it run.


What is the secret activity you keep from your fellow POer's?

Try to keep it at least relatively clean and honest.

[roccman]

Don't do it peeps...

That is why they are called secrets pops...get it?

[eastbay]

I post about this so it ain't no secret.

Good idea Pops.


I ignite way more than my share of oil by flying internationally once or twice a year. This behavior makes me partially responsible for all sorts of Very Bad Things. We're all familiar with what they are.


I try to make up for it by using considerably less than most people in all other areas such as in home heating, gas burning, buying locally whenever possible, practicing vegetarianism, walking, scootering, or biking most of the time, and growing as much food as possible on our smallish plot of land. .

[canis_lupus]

Motocross. I can't help myself. I love flying my dirt bike down huge hills, chasing my brother around.

And fishing. With an outboard. Mrs. Lupus in the bow with her book, a cooler full of sandwiches and pop and the sweet Mississippi River sunset.

[vision-master]

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I don't talk about it much here but I work on my '69 Ford, short-bed 4wd pickup with the 390 big block, four bbl carb and dual exhaust for enjoyment when I get the chance.

I think about PO sometimes as I tune that engine or work on the upholstery and every time I start it up just to hear it run.


What is the secret activity you keep from your fellow POer's?

Try to keep it at least relatively clean and honest.

[DrBang]

I read books. Non fiction of all stripes. I break it up with a bit of fiction too.

I don't bother generally with TV.

Cheers

Dr Bang

[Pops]

Confession is good for the soul Roc, V-M and Dr. B. - if you can't do it here then where?

I ain't asking about the coordinates of your TP stash; just what you do with the portion of your paycheck not going to such things.

At least canis and eb are honest enough to admit their addiction to oil.

Come on everybody, what is your secret?

[HEADER_RACK]

I'm redoing my 85 jeep cj-7. Just put on a 4.5 inch lift kit. 33x12.5 mudders with polished alum rims. Have it striped down and am in the process of painting it hugger orange. Going to pull the inline 6 out and replace it with a 350 smallblock.

Nothing wrong with a nice bug out ride

One more thing I keep my thermostat at 68 in the summer

[Ludi]

My husband and I eat out once a week or so.

We sometimes go to the movies.

We subscribe to Netflix.

I encourage my husband in his automobile hobby - he has restored a 1965 Datsun pickup (our "farm truck"), is in the process of restoring his 1970 Datsun roadster, and recently bought a 1968 MGB GT.

[TheDoctor]

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I don't talk about it much here but I work on my '69 Ford, short-bed 4wd pickup with the 390 big block, four bbl carb and dual exhaust for enjoyment when I get the chance.

[threadbear]

I don't always recycle. Sometimes I look at that empty dog food can with all of that scuz stuck to it, and I just throw it in the garbage.

[Homesteader]

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I don't talk about it much here but I work on my '69 Ford, short-bed 4wd pickup with the 390 big block, four bbl carb and dual exhaust for enjoyment when I get the chance.

[HEADER_RACK]

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I don't talk about it much here but I work on my '69 Ford, short-bed 4wd pickup with the 390 big block, four bbl carb and dual exhaust for enjoyment when I get the chance.

[TheDoctor]

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My wife and I would drive to work separately 2-3 days a week mostly cause she had things she wanted to do after work and I wanted to go home. 25 miles one way, we worked at the same place.

In our defense we both drive cars that get 50 mpg, but just proves the paradox, eh?

[mos6507]

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[mos6507]

I've gone to theme parks more times than I can count. Now that I'm on the verge of leaving southern california, I went back to most of them again including a costly trip to Legoland in San Diego right as gas was starting its most recent upward climb.

There is nothing more frivolously wasteful than visiting a theme park. But damn it, life is about more than conserving every BTU. if I'm going to wind up a die-off casualty, I want to say I had some fun while I still could.

I'd still like to take a trip out of the country, but it may be too late to justify the cost involved unless I'm intending to relocate. The only country I've visited as an adult is Mexico and I was not impressed.

[Roy]

[SILENTTODD]

My one vice is I still go out to the desert each month for my hobby of amateur astronomy. I could actually get rid of my 21 year old truck were I live now, I'm 2 miles from work and ride my bike there each day and to the grocery store.

I haven't gotten rid of the truck only because the round trip to Landers, California I observe from (near Joshua Tree National Park) is 240 miles from home. I use 8.75 gallons of gas each time I do this. It is the only reason I still keep the truck.

I love the desert, and I know in the future it will only be a place to cross, not live. But I still love it!

[Lumpy]

This is a great thread. Thanks for starting it.

UGLY SECRET ABOUT ME:

I am a B**CH with almost zero tolerance when it comes to anyone in my family make unwarranted trips into town.

I know that's not right. But it is (was) my ugly secret.

I have to go into one of four rural town four days a week (my mileage is, thankfully, paid for by the state agency I work for) for my medical practice. I HATE stopping after office hours to grab something someone forgot at the grocery store, hardware store, etc. However, that is something I am willing to do, to save fuel.

Then when someone just wants to go to town because, well, just because they want to get off the farm for a few hours, and they indulge in that (usually by making up some thin excuse for the trip) -- I get REALLY cranky.

So there is my PO secret. I am a PO facist, I guess

Lumpy

[Phoeberose]

I have six TVs in my house. Hey, I'm a noobie (did I spell that right?)