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Real cost of Spring break

Postby fasteddy » Mon Mar 19, 2012 4:47 pm

Got back from a week of winter sports in Winter Park Co last night....21 hour drive, 2579 miles, 128 gallons of fuel, $1500 in ski rentals, lessons and lift tickets, $450 in food, (we have a kitchen), $275 in booze....about a $100 bucks in t-shirts....but the real cost was missing the bucket of "wheat heads that went into the machine" the teller told me today. CRUD. The bags went out Saturday. I treat these tellers right...Sonic Cherry limeades, Fuddruckers cookies...You would think they could wait one more business day...They knew I would be back on Monday....CRAP that just bites. They "have no space for bags" CRAP, CRAP, CRAP, CRAP!

While I was there the police caught the "crapper scrapper bandit"...He was stealing the brass from the public toilets in Denver.
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Re: Real cost of Spring break

Postby Morsecode » Mon Mar 19, 2012 5:49 pm

The crapper scrapper :D

I'd put those tellers back on bottled spring water until they make up for it.
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Re: Real cost of Spring break

Postby natsb88 » Mon Mar 19, 2012 5:54 pm

:shock: Spring Break sounds expensive. I attend 30+ dirt track races each summer, 4-5 hours of entertainment each, and eat yummy track food, for less than $1000 a year :D
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Re: Real cost of Spring break

Postby slickeast » Mon Mar 19, 2012 6:41 pm

natsb88 wrote::shock: Spring Break sounds expensive. I attend 30+ dirt track races each summer, 4-5 hours of entertainment each, and eat yummy track food, for less than $1000 a year :D


Nate, I didn't know you were a redneck.

You should try the dirt track here. Red clay = red dust. All your track food will look like someone covered it in Doritos seasoning.

Eddy, I think the girls were pulling your leg. At least that is what I am hoping.
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Re: Real cost of Spring break

Postby natsb88 » Mon Mar 19, 2012 6:59 pm

The little 1/5 mile track (for go karts and micro sprints) on the inside has that southern red clay, but the big half mile is plain old brown. I think it has a fairly high sand content too...no matter how wet it is, it still throws off dust. Good fun though. A regular show is 358 sprints, late models, pro stocks, and roadrunners. Hot laps, heats, and features for all. $10 admission :D
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Re: Real cost of Spring break

Postby tn-dave » Mon Mar 19, 2012 7:19 pm

Nate, we live pretty close to Volunteer Speedway and used to go a lot several years ago. Some good dirt track racing there: http://volunteerspeedway.com/

Spring Break was a pretty good deal for us this year. We bought so many tickets to Disney for the school trip my wife and I always chaperone that our tickets were free. We tried to keep meals there under $20 per meal for the two of us and that was pretty hard to do. Also picked up a stomach bug that has had me weak and pretty much out of comission for the past week
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Re: Real cost of Spring break

Postby Rodebaugh » Mon Mar 19, 2012 7:38 pm

Dirt tracks......red clay?......Guys, come on! Eddy just lost 2 bags of Unc 14-D's cause he was skiing......show some heart. :lol:
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Re: Real cost of Spring break

Postby fasteddy » Tue Mar 20, 2012 10:27 am

My children like to ski and snowboard, I like deer hunting, racing of all sorts, we have a couple of small dirt/paved tracks close by....NASCAR will be in Texas in 24 days. I will be there. Once my brother boasted about tailgating at a Broncos game for three hours...I responded when he was ready to get off of the porch he could come to Texas and tailgate for 5 days...

Hey Doc...My Dad and I opened the JW Blue Label while in the mountains last week....So smooth....we did about half of the bottle...I left the rest with him.
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Re: Real cost of Spring break

Postby Rodebaugh » Tue Mar 20, 2012 11:36 am

Well, shame it didn't find its way to my tumbler over some fresh ice.....but I am happy that pops picked up the slack. :)
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