Would you guys rather be marry or single?
I'd prefer to be merry and single.
I'll second that motion.
I'm permanently single. :coffee:
I want to simultaneously marry thousands of couples in a bizarre cult-like environment.
Sigh...can't you just harvest all my personal information in the web like everyone else?
Quote from: agentsteel53 on January 10, 2012, 11:21:32 AM
I want to simultaneously marry thousands of couples in a bizarre cult-like environment.
Now
there's something for the bucket list.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on January 10, 2012, 11:21:32 AM
I want to simultaneously marry thousands of couples in a bizarre cult-like environment.
Sounds like a lot of work.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on January 10, 2012, 11:21:32 AM
I want to simultaneously marry thousands of couples in a bizarre cult-like environment.
I would almost watch a "Polygamist Bachelor" reality show. ("I... choose you all!")
I'm married and wouldn't give it up for anything. I love my wife.
Quote from: Takumi on January 10, 2012, 12:27:51 PM
Quote from: agentsteel53 on January 10, 2012, 11:21:32 AM
I want to simultaneously marry thousands of couples in a bizarre cult-like environment.
Now there's something for the bucket list.
I bet it would be easier after you kick it.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on January 10, 2012, 11:21:32 AM
I want to simultaneously marry thousands of couples in a bizarre cult-like environment.
That would make for one hell of a wedding night!
I know a girl who lives with five single guys, or, as she put it, "five singles". I told her she should trade them for a five dollar bill. :-P
I'd prefer being neither single nor married.
It's better to be single than to wish you were.
Right now? Single. I have too much exploring to do to have to deal with a woman.
10 years from now? Married.
Quote from: Duke87 on January 10, 2012, 07:39:31 PM
I know a girl who lives with five single guys, or, as she put it, "five singles". I told her she should trade them for a five dollar bill. :-P
Maybe you misunderstood her and she lives at Five Guys. :spin:
Quote from: Beltway on January 10, 2012, 09:29:17 PM
It's better to be single than to wish you were.
*rimshot* (http://instantrimshot.com/index.php?sound=rimshot&play=true)
Quote from: Duke87 on January 10, 2012, 07:39:31 PM
I know a girl who lives with five single guys, or, as she put it, "five singles". I told her she should trade them for a five dollar bill. :-P
A really fat guy?
Quote from: Scott5114 on January 10, 2012, 11:43:44 PM
Maybe you misunderstood her and she lives at Five Guys. :spin:
Well, she'd find the fat guy there.
Assuming I ever got with someone, I'd prefer to marry.
Problem being, it's illegal for me to marry another woman here. :P
I look at being single this way: if I want to spend the day chasing bridges, I don't need to get the spouse's permission first :biggrin:
The question reminds me of "How is babby formed'
Quote from: US71 on January 29, 2012, 02:52:07 PM
I look at being single this way: if I want to spend the day chasing bridges, I don't need to get the spouse's permission first :biggrin:
You have bridges that move and can be chased? That's something I'd like to see! :-D
Quote from: hbelkins on January 29, 2012, 03:23:36 PM
Quote from: US71 on January 29, 2012, 02:52:07 PM
I look at being single this way: if I want to spend the day chasing bridges, I don't need to get the spouse's permission first :biggrin:
You have bridges that move and can be chased? That's something I'd like to see! :-D
You must of forgotten the Egners Ferry Bridge. :-P
Quote from: Darkchylde on January 29, 2012, 02:06:26 PM
Assuming I ever got with someone, I'd prefer to marry.
Problem being, it's illegal for me to marry another woman here. :P
Hey, that's big-of-me. :sombrero:
NO marriage for me, thats out... I wont water down my geographic life experience in that sacriligious fashion
A spouse and a love of roads and traveling are not mutually exclusive things :)
There are many times when I wish that I was in a committed relationship with someone (she'd have to at least tolerate my love of roads and the like) and many other times when I'm glad that I'm not.
:spin:
Mike
Quote from: Laura Bianca on February 13, 2012, 11:54:33 PM
A spouse and a love of roads and traveling are not mutually exclusive things :)
Well, where are all the other female roadgeeks :D
The way I figure is that if I spend a good amount of time sitting at home uploading pictures of road signs and/or out on the road driving by myself and not out being social, the girl for me is probably doing exactly the same thing, which considerably lowers the odds that we'll ever actually meet.
I firmly believe the female roadgeeks are out there, but they're hiding, with rare exceptions like Laura.
Quote from: US71 on January 29, 2012, 02:52:07 PM
I look at being single this way: if I want to spend the day chasing bridges, I don't need to get the spouse's permission first :biggrin:
Always the bridgemaid, never the bridge.
I once dated someone who expressed interest in road signs, but she lived in area where her cell phone got horrible signals (something she told me at the start), so things never really got off the ground.
Given this is Valentine's Day, let me wish everyone a Happy VD
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffarm3.staticflickr.com%2F2510%2F4219519877_6efed3afa0_z_d.jpg&hash=8f1405c788c3b06019f5af8d55a6548a0da7e8ee)
Quote from: corco on February 14, 2012, 01:18:46 AM
The way I figure is that if I spend a good amount of time sitting at home uploading pictures of road signs and/or out on the road driving by myself and not out being social, the girl for me is probably doing exactly the same thing, which considerably lowers the odds that we'll ever actually meet.
I firmly believe the female roadgeeks are out there, but they're hiding, with rare exceptions like Laura.
Well, there is Kim in the Illinois-suburban Saint Louis area (ocassional poster in here and on e-mail lists) and there used to be one in the Niles, MI area, back in my MTR days, too. But yes, they are very rare (maybe if one can mix in unscheduled little sidetrips on lonely sideroads as part of the joint roadgeeking routine :nod: ).
Mike
Quote from: US71 on February 14, 2012, 11:19:20 AM
Given this is Valentine's Day, let me wish everyone a Happy VD
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffarm3.staticflickr.com%2F2510%2F4219519877_6efed3afa0_z_d.jpg&hash=8f1405c788c3b06019f5af8d55a6548a0da7e8ee)
Ahh, I don't know . . . that one could be a bit of a 'double-edged' sword....
:wow:
Anyways, there is a little town called 'Valentine' in Nebraska (it's at US 20/83 in the far north-central part of the state).
Mike
Quote from: kurumi on January 10, 2012, 01:26:29 PM
I would almost watch a "Polygamist Bachelor" reality show. ("I... choose you all!")
Well, given it'd take about as long as a commercial break inside any other show, I think we could all handle such proceedings.
For me, i would like a lady who wont mind (and actively enjoy) roadtrips...and can tolerate (if not help) me at various signs shops and depots looking for buried treasure.....my most recent SO would have sat in my car, pounding a hole in the floorboard with her foot as if to say "Will you hurry UP so we can GO somewhere?"
My wife enjoys the car rides into the middle of nowhere, but less so when the low fuel light is illuminated!
She really couldn't care less about the signs, shields, and infrastructure, but she'll listen to my historical blather.
My wife tolerates my roadgeekery. She tries to find things I can use on trips for Christmas or birthday presents. And she has even started taking road and sign pictures when she goes on trips and I'm not with her.
I wonder which is more common, gay roageeks or girl roadgeeks? Both groups have a tendency to be "in the closet" I think, so the answer may be elusive.
Quote from: vtk on February 17, 2012, 12:11:06 AM
I wonder which is more common, gay roageeks or girl roadgeeks? Both groups have a tendency to be "in the closet" I think, so the answer may be elusive.
Gay roadgeeks by 10:1. Everyone knows it.
Quote from: Steve on February 17, 2012, 12:32:58 AM
Quote from: vtk on February 17, 2012, 12:11:06 AM
I wonder which is more common, gay roageeks or girl roadgeeks? Both groups have a tendency to be "in the closet" I think, so the answer may be elusive.
Gay roadgeeks by 10:1. Everyone knows it.
I have a female friend in Little Rock who's sort of a "passive roadgeek". She'll notice things as she's driving along, but doesn't actively seek things out. She has tipped me off to a few Mississippi bridges, though.
I have an ex-GF who saw a North 63B/South 67B in Walnut Ridge and says she thought of me (amazing! She never thought of me before).
Quote from: Steve on February 17, 2012, 12:32:58 AM
Quote from: vtk on February 17, 2012, 12:11:06 AM
I wonder which is more common, gay roageeks or girl roadgeeks? Both groups have a tendency to be "in the closet" I think, so the answer may be elusive.
Gay roadgeeks by 10:1. Everyone knows it.
I know, or know of, I think, six gay roadgeeks (three in one state, one in another state, one in yet another state and one former US resident now in Canada; I think only two of them post here.) I can only think of four female roadgeeks, all of whom post here and only two that I have met. And one of the females is lesbian, so she gets counted in both categories.
Quote from: hbelkins on February 17, 2012, 11:58:04 AM
Quote from: Steve on February 17, 2012, 12:32:58 AM
Quote from: vtk on February 17, 2012, 12:11:06 AM
I wonder which is more common, gay roageeks or girl roadgeeks? Both groups have a tendency to be "in the closet" I think, so the answer may be elusive.
Gay roadgeeks by 10:1. Everyone knows it.
I know, or know of, I think, six gay roadgeeks (three in one state, one in another state, one in yet another state and one former US resident now in Canada; I think only two of them post here.) I can only think of four female roadgeeks, all of whom post here and only two that I have met. And one of the females is lesbian, so she gets counted in both categories.
I know at least triple that number of gay roadgeeks. And no, there will NOT be a thread about this.
Maybe I know more than six but am unaware of their orientation. Which is as it should be. Makes no difference to me. I did refrain from naming them.
Only female roadgeeks I know or am aware of are Laura, Taralyn, Kim and the one who calls herself "Central Avenue."
I believe that I could get a fairly strong show of hands with 'autistic/aspergers' roadgeeks, too.
Mike
Quote from: hbelkins on February 17, 2012, 08:08:25 PM
Maybe I know more than six but am unaware of their orientation. Which is as it should be. Makes no difference to me. I did refrain from naming them.
Only female roadgeeks I know or am aware of are Laura, Taralyn, Kim and the one who calls herself "Central Avenue."
Whatever happened to Erin from Niles, MI?
Mike
Quote from: mgk920 on February 17, 2012, 09:09:50 PM
I believe that I could get a fairly strong show of hands with 'autistic/aspergers' roadgeeks, too.
That's not fair. You can do that anywhere on the internet.
Quote from: NE2 on February 17, 2012, 09:30:06 PM
Quote from: mgk920 on February 17, 2012, 09:09:50 PM
I believe that I could get a fairly strong show of hands with 'autistic/aspergers' roadgeeks, too.
That's not fair. You can do that anywhere on the internet.
Wikipedia rates its editors based on the autism spectrum. You can't get in the door without having issues.
I wasn't trying to start a head count or anything. (I know from experience moderators tend to frowwn on that for some reason.) But on the subject of finding a roadgeek to date, it seems gay male roadgeeks have an advantage over straight males – though I'm not sure 10:1 isn't an exaggeration. Straight girl roadgeeks would have it fairly easy, as long as they don't fall for a gay guy... *
Does sexual orientation matter in roadgeeking? Of course not. Neither does gender, really, which is why this discussion is on the Off Topic board. It would be nice if these things weren't such big deals in other parts of society.
*Not everyone is constrained by dichotomous labels. Yea for ambiguity!
Quote from: Steve on February 18, 2012, 12:00:51 AM
Quote from: NE2 on February 17, 2012, 09:30:06 PM
Quote from: mgk920 on February 17, 2012, 09:09:50 PM
I believe that I could get a fairly strong show of hands with 'autistic/aspergers' roadgeeks, too.
That's not fair. You can do that anywhere on the internet.
Wikipedia rates its editors based on the autism spectrum. You can't get in the door without having issues.
:lol:
I do get a certain pleasure with creating an article, and then watching it be one of maybe 10 a day be the only one that survives. But I have probably made five edits in the last three years, I get the idea that a wiki is probably the worst possible means of communication between humans (perhaps by mentioning that, I am throwing a dart at my particular area of my undiagnosed autism spectrum).
I think females just tend to be less "geeky" in general. Face it, ours is an odd hobby/interest/infatuation/obsession. Even among males, it's not usual.
Even stereotypical descriptions of descriptions have a gender bias. Guys look "geeky." Women look "smart" or "intellectual." :bigass:
Quote from: Steve on February 17, 2012, 12:32:58 AM
Quote from: vtk on February 17, 2012, 12:11:06 AM
I wonder which is more common, gay roageeks or girl roadgeeks? Both groups have a tendency to be "in the closet" I think, so the answer may be elusive.
Gay roadgeeks by 10:1. Everyone knows it.
Not me, though.
We ask only a man's worth, not the accident of his condition.
Quote from: US71 on February 19, 2012, 08:05:47 PM
We ask only a man's worth
$8,120,000, according to the EPA.
My wife likes road trips just fine, up until the point when you just have to get the HECK OUT OF THE CAR because you can't take another hour of it. This is good, considering we drive everywhere we go now that we have kids. We just got back from a 1550-mile round trip for a wedding. She doesn't mind my goofy love of roundabouts, DDIs, and such–even expects me to plan our route to go through them. However, I don't think she'd be up for a twenty mile detour to see a button-copy sign. Fortunately I'm not that kind of roadgeek.
The way in which I am a total geek is that I always have our entire route planned out, including fuel and meal stops, ahead of time. Everyone else chuckles at me, but not my wife.
There are certain things, though, that a person should expect to have to give up upon getting married. I value marriage and family much more highly than I value roadgeekery. The odd lucky person (no pun intended) might find a fellow roadgeek spouse, but don't count on it. I more or less gave up hitchhiking when I got married (except for hitching home from work back in Illinois when she had the car); sure, my feet got itchy every so often, but so what? The value of a praiseworthy wife is worth so much more than mere travel whims.
I would prefer to be married....now if i can find a nice lady who lives in Ohio, and likes to go on the occasional weekend road trips to where ever, and can tolerate signs and a sizable sign collection, i would be all set. (now, the question would be...could she tolerate ME?)
Quote from: kphoger on February 21, 2012, 06:41:25 PM....
The way in which I am a total geek is that I always have our entire route planned out, including fuel and meal stops, ahead of time. Everyone else chuckles at me, but not my wife.
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I do the opposite, especially on fuel. I try to go as far as I can without stopping and I tell my wife that if she needs to stop for the toilet or if she gets hungry, she has to tell me or I may not stop (though often if we're approaching a rest area I will ask if she needs to stop). I base the gas stop on when the yellow light comes on; once that happens, I'll stop quickly if I don't know the area but I'll stretch it if I know I can get away with it. My wife prefers to stop for gas before the yellow light comes on and it drives her crazy that I will check the "Miles to Empty" gauge on the trip computer, see "10 miles" listed, and then drive another 25 miles before I stop for gas. (Thing is, I know the "Miles to Empty" gauge zeroes out early, and I also know it's an estimate. I take it as my signal to start thinking about refueling.) My record in my current car is 455 miles before filling up. I'd like to break that record, but our recent roadtrips have been to the south and the natural point to stop for gas is in the Florence, SC, area. I could go further, but then there are fewer stations.
My wife is willing to put up with SOME road-related detours. She was perfectly happy to go over the Dames Point Bridge east of Jacksonville or to take the FL-417 toll beltway around Orlando instead of going straight through. She doesn't mind my opting for the scenic roads over the Interstate once we've reached, or are close to reaching, our ultimate destination, and she doesn't mind when I'll take a parallel road just because I'm tired of another one (for example, I-295 versus the New Jersey Turnpike). But if a detour or scenic route will add more than half an hour to the trip, she makes her displeasure known unless the detour is due to a significant backup on the main road. Back in 2007 we went out to Wyoming for the UVA at Wyoming football game and I missed a turn on the way back and wound up going 125 miles out of the way. At first she was loving the scenery, but I was quickly made aware that the long detour was not appreciated!
I plan stops every couple of hours due to fatigue issues: neither one of us is good at driving for more than about 150 miles at a stretch without taking a quick break, but we can easily do 700+ miles if we switch drivers every so often. So I make sure to even those stretches out as much as possible, and that there is a choice of restaurants around meal time.
There was one time that having my wife tell me not to take a detour saved me. We were driving I-44 across Missouri in snowy weather, and traffic was all jammed up somewhere along in there. I checked the map and saw a way around the traffic using secondary state highways for about 15 miles or so. Then she told me in no uncertain terms that it is unwise to use the lettered routes during heavy snows. The traffic jam soon ended, and we were happily NOT in a ditch along some farm road.