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Post by billfish on Jun 12, 2020 14:25:46 GMT
I worked in high crime/high fire neighborhoods for my entire career on the FDNY and often used to walk to my firehouse which was 7 1/2 miles from where I lived which took me through some very rough areas.....East New York, Brownsville, Crown Heights and Prospect Heights, all in Brooklyn......Mags will know them
I'm not a big guy but always stayed fit and walked through those neighborhoods like I belonged there, never gave anyone a 2nd look and if there was a group in my way just walked either around or through them.....I never had a problem, not a remark or a look
I did this many times and the old guys playing chess on Eastern Parkway even began to recognize me and said "hello".
Sometimes it's not how bad you are, it's just how you carry yourself
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Jun 12, 2020 21:11:36 GMT
...often used to walk to my firehouse which was 7 1/2 miles from where I lived... Was it uphill in both directions? |
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Post by Michael on Jun 12, 2020 21:32:48 GMT
Was there three feet of snow?
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Post by MBS on Jun 12, 2020 22:03:27 GMT
And gale force winds?
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Post by Magnus on Jun 12, 2020 23:21:28 GMT
..I never had a problem, not a remark or a look I did this many times and the old guys playing chess on Eastern Parkway even began to recognize me and said "hello". Sometimes it's not how bad you are, it's just how you carry yourself Years ago I used to sometimes stop and play a game or two when I worked for the tree service and then later on when I was working for the mechanical contractor. Those guys were good, but the best chess players I ever saw were the Jamaican(?) guys in the parks that played two 'money' games at once with the egg timers. They were pretty much invincible in those super fast paced games, but I did become able to almost compete with them when someone recommended this book.. www.amazon.com/Bobby-Fischer-Teaches-Chess/dp/0553263153 |
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Post by billfish on Jun 13, 2020 20:17:15 GMT
...often used to walk to my firehouse which was 7 1/2 miles from where I lived... Was it uphill in both directions? Absolutely ! |
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Post by billfish on Jun 13, 2020 20:17:56 GMT
Was there three feet of snow? On a good day....usually more  |
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Post by billfish on Jun 13, 2020 20:18:46 GMT
Hurricane force at the minimum |
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Post by Magnus on Jun 13, 2020 20:50:48 GMT
Hurricane force at the minimum When I was a young kid I once snuck off the line for the school bus ride home and walked to my house the long way, cutting through the woods on a super stormy, very windy day, pretty sure it was a hurricane... I eventually got home pretty late from my adventure, police had already been called and were out looking for me... When I opened the front door my mother was crying, but her crying flew into a rage when I said "what's the big deal, I felt like walking home"...I think that was the first time I ever got whipped with a coat hanger... OUCH  |
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Post by vegetus25 on Jun 13, 2020 20:57:25 GMT
Here is what happened to me. I wasn't going to share this story because it is kind of hard to re-live, but it had a happy ending, so...  |
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Post by macky on Jun 13, 2020 22:24:15 GMT
Here is what happened to me. I wasn't going to share this story because it is kind of hard to re-live, but it had a happy ending, so... That looks like the same story that a certain well-known fitness coach based his entire life on.......and his stories. |
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Jun 13, 2020 23:47:52 GMT
Here is what happened to me. I wasn't going to share this story because it is kind of hard to re-live, but it had a happy ending, so... View AttachmentNot too long ago, JP embellished your story, veggietoes. He said you let loose with a "thunderous right hand!" I almost wet myself laughing so hard. Oh. He also enlightened everyone to the fact that Max Baer defeated Primo Carnera because Baer was "Atlas trained".  |
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Post by mr potatohead on Jun 14, 2020 1:58:57 GMT
.... Not too long ago, JP embellished your story, veggietoes. He said you let loose with a "thunderous right hand!" ..... He had that one wrong too. It's "I got thunder in my left hand and lightning in my right". |
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Post by Deuce Gunner on Jun 14, 2020 15:52:39 GMT
.... Not too long ago, JP embellished your story, veggietoes. He said you let loose with a "thunderous right hand!" ..... He had that one wrong too. It's "I got thunder in my left hand and lightning in my right". Or as heavyweight boxing champion Ingemar Johansson would say "toonder and lightning". |
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Jun 14, 2020 18:13:35 GMT
"One fist of iron, the other of steel. If the right one don't get you then the left one will."
Who said that? Huh? Anybody?
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