Grumpy Lunch Bunch, 8-26-10

[Forty Rod]

Thursday, August 26, 11:00am

HOMETOWN BUFFET
5427 Arrow Hwy.
Montclair
(909) 624-3060

Getting more new folks coming out. More new folks being notified every time. Don't be
bashful about bringing guests. Don't be bashful about showing up even if you've never been. We run off very few people...and I keep coming back.   

Like the cannibals who ate a missionary and got sick. As they were puking their gut out one was heard to say, (And you KNOW what's coming!) "It's hard to keep a good man down."

See you there.

[Deja vous]

Stop it I tell you.. lol...   I can't go and I want to... This is so cool I don't understand why more clubs don't do these.. I am so jealous..  Fortys,... you club is so cool..  Okay.. fine I need a drink now so I can be CRAZY Deja... lol..  Take off on Megs evil twin.. loll 

[Forty Rod]

First of all, we aren't a club, we're a group of people who eat together every other week.

We don't have any organization, rules (at least not very many), by laws, membership rosters, secret handshakes, membership cards, club discounts, officers, or any other folderol or BS associated with clubs, organizations, governments, businesses, religions, political parties, or wife-swapping groups.

The day we get any of these things is the day I go back to eating alone.

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

Second, the few rules we do have all relate to things like never eating at the same place twice in a row, going places where the noise level is low (we're mostly old and hard of hearing), cost and service issues of the places we go, no spitting at the table, etc.  We also very seldom have one on a weekend because we have a match someplace close by every weekend, both Saturday and Sunday, and NOBODY will take time out of a match to eat.  As hard as it is for some folks to take a couple of hours off every two weeks, it's a sight more difficult to get 10-15 people together on a weekend.  Besides, weekends find most eating places filled with kids and kids are an aggrievement to the atmosphere of the GLB...not that some aren't welcome, (We even welcome our members' kids and grandkids) but masses of "other peoples'" critters keep us from having OUR fun.

So...and this isn't aimed at you, DV...start tour own GLB.  We will try to keep the franchise costs down to out membership cost levels: $0.00.

Third, the reason any place doesn't have a GLB of their own is because they either don't want to or are afraid it's too complicated, expensive, or time consuming.  It can be any or ll of those things, BUT IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE.

If you want one where you are simply invite a couple of people to lunch and let it grow.

[Deja vous]

Fortys you know you can't offend me .. I was not given a depression gene or a gene to be offended at birth.. thats whats why I am so darn happy all the time.. lol.. 

Whatever it is that you'all do is cool and I am still jealous.. I do have that gene, but only over cool stuff.. loll

[Forty Rod]

So, when are you and some friends going to lunch?

[Deja vous]

Dogwoods and I are going to go shoot together first time we will meet and we did it on sass..  Lunch.. will happend at cassville after every shoot ... yum.. and since I am moving I guess I am lax in my efforts.  Once I get relocated I will work much harder at getting people involved in GLB.. and just any western theme we can come up with.  I was the member of a ski club years ago, and we ended up on hikeing trips into the canyon because of me, 4x4 trips out to find histroy cuz of me, and floating water trips because of a guy with some really cool river property that I met.  it as his idea, I did say coolllll but he ran the thing.  It is so importnt to have fun.. huh?  lol.. 

[Forty Rod]

Lunch after a match isn't the same.  Too much going on.  Let your GLB be a stand-alone thing.  It's more better that way, trust me.

[Deja vous]

I do trust you fortys. you are the wizard of the GLB's.. lol..  I am leaving here, but I will focus my efforts once I get out there, now if we happend to end up in the same club, then heck I will offer to help ya, cuz you are doing the best job of it, why change it?   The house tour was perfect.. that kind of stuff, history of old homes, or places in the area.. people love that stuff..  Very cool idea! 

[Forty Rod]

That tour was Jim's idea.  I knew nothing about it until we were leaving.

I really enjoy old homes like that, but wouldn't own one.  Too much upkeep.

[Deja vous]

None the less the tour stuff adds to the GLB fun!  The mission would be a cool side trip too.   Too much upkeep for ya Fortys?  It did look like he had worked a lot on it.  Homes are a lot of upkeep. 

[Forty Rod]

ALL homes are a lot of work.. 100 Year old wood Victorians are a  lot more than "a lot".

My 5years in college were spent in a 100 year old, three story with a huge basement (with a swimming pool), limestone French revival mansion.

It had spend several years as a dormitory and we bought it in '59 for$18,000.  It was a real money pit.

My second cousin and her husband bout it in '79 or '80 and restored it.  Today it's on a bunch of historical registries and is worth well over a million dollars...an it's still a money pit.

I'd love to be able to own it and afford to have teams of people maintain it for me, but my name isn't Gates, Rockefeller, or Carnegie.

[Deja vous]

Frankly I don't care to be a Gates, Rockefeller, or Carnegie, would rather just be me and live my life and laugh and shoot.  I aspire to little but being me.. lol..   In college I lived in a mansion too.  There were 3 floors, and all rooms were rented out.  We had a community kitchen huge one and a dining area and a huge glassed in area for sitting around a fireplace swaping jokes and BSing..  I came from a large family, but being the youngest my last few years were alone.  It was cool having more victims to torment and tease.  I had more pranks played on me, more people removing my door locks, taking glass panes out of my windows in the winter in Illinois, and stealing my bed was the best one, than I can count.  For some reason I ended up in the best place in town.  Got a chance to really hone my rotten skills, and my tomenting ways, and I was in heaven.. No point in stopping now.  Guess I could have been in the TOP three above, but frankly I dont give a Damn .. from gone with the wind.  Money is notihng without fun, and I prefer fun.. lol..  And picking on you of course.. lol.  Okay, fine picking on everyone.. Deja

[Forty Rod]

Our was a frat house, over 7,500 square feet on the top 3 floors and another 1,300 in the basement.  There was actually another basement about 700 square feet that was a coal bunker and furnace room.

My mom grew up two blocks from there and remembers roller skating parties on the top floor / ball room when she was little.

The pool no longer held water and we turned it into  secret room for the actives.

We were remodeling my second summer there and found  boarded over stairway from the third floor to the second and first, and a second one from the first to the top basement.

The place was built in 1903 and had neat stuff like, built-in vacuum cleaning system, speaking tube intercom system, doorbell telegraphs, a telephone switchboard, humongous pocket doors, bevelled glass i all street-facing windows and doors (including 21 curved panes in the two front corner towers / turrets), and a pair of dumb waiters.

That place was more fun than you can imagine.

[Deja vous]

Ours had a button on the floor in the main dining area for the maid, and of course the back set of steps for the servants of the mansion.  It was a family home in its day, just a very nice family home.  It still had the covered carriage area, the building was torn down, and under the place they opened up garage space.  It was a graceful old lady in its day.  Those times were fun times for sure!  Except the bathroom part.. lol..  Too many people not enough bathrooms.. so you had to wait for your bath/shower.  The place had a really cool kitchen that had been remodled.  The gas light figures were converted to electric power.  It has been torn down not to expand a prep school that was given land from the grand ole family at one time.  Pretty old cut rock place.. huge.. But no Pool.. nope, fireplaces yes!!  No pool..