7 year old driver

Did you see this on CNN.com?
7 year old driver takes police on high speed chase.

On the live report, they said that the boy learned how to drive by playing car driving games. They said he'd slide off the seat and hit the gas, then sat back up to steer. They also said that is why he did not slow down around the corners, he never hit the brakes.

I am personally happy that he did not kill anyone, and I am happy that he didn't hurt himself.

You would think at this moment I would be saying something like, how wrong he was, or how wrong the parents were for leaving the keys out. But it sparked a memory and I had to share it with you.

I remember at 7 years old asking my father how to drive a car (we did not have video games back then), how the gears worked, what the clutch was, how every thing worked. He explained everything to me. From that time on, I would sit out in our old Chevy truck and pretend "driving". I did this process until I could actually push in the clutch, then I would switch the gears. So from age 7 until age 13 I was pretending driving and switching the gears.

For those that don't know, my father was the Preacher for Landmark Baptist Church for 31 years, our house sat on one side of the church and the office sat on the other. So the parking lot joined our house with the office. (you can see the picture below - love Google maps - if you grab the N with your mouse, you can move the picture) *note* my grandfather built that steeple on the church, he and his brother installed it on top of it.


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I remember this one day that my father was going to his office. I went out with him and asked if I could try. Sure enough he let me. The first couple of times was ruff. I had learned how to shift, but my timing was off. It did not take me long to figure it out. I think I have gotten pretty good at it now. I still drive a stick shift.

So from the age of 13 to 14 I was driving my father to his office and back.

At age 15 I was with my Uncle in Arkansas, we were on a main highway to go see my grandmother. My Uncle was driving at the time, I was talking, and looked over and about freaked out, I nudged my Uncle, he had fallen asleep. He woke up and looked around, he said "I think its your turn to drive" I looked at him with confidence. I was excited and scared at the same time. I took over driving, I was happy that my Uncle let me drive so that he would not kill us.

The entire time I was think of what kind of excuse I was going to tell a cop. At the time I didn't have I.D. and I surely didn't look my age. I drove under the speed limit and we made it to my grandmother's just fine. My Uncle did take back over, but it was hours later.

From 15 to 18 years old most would have had their permits and were already driving on the road. But not me, I had been driving since I was 13, around the church. For what ever reason, I just didn't have the desire to get a license, until I hit 18 then I needed one for work.

At 18 I didn't just get a license, I got a chauffeur license. The chauffeur's license was for work. I must have been a sight to see: a "skinny little kid" driving a Semi truck.

It took me the longest time, to figure out the timing with it, cause it had a push/pull leaver to go in to the higher gears. It took me a couple of days to figure it out completely. The biggest problem I had was backing it up, and pulling out of a dock, (docks are slopped).

Have a great day,

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Revolver Maps

Get Your Own Visitor Map!

I am sure by now, you have seen the 3d world globe on my site. This has to be the coolest thing I have seen in a long time. When I first saw it on Stephens site, I was like cool, got to have it. But I really didn't spend time looking at all the features. It was just a new toy for my site.

Now that its been on my site since July 19th. I have been playing with it. If you click on the arrow keys, it will take you to their site. (or click on the map above) That shows you in text on the right who has recently visited your site. But the coolest part of it, is the map, that allows you to interact with it. Just put your mouse pointer over one of the dots, and it tells you where they are from and what city and how many times they have visited.

Other features allows you to change the color of the dots, the color of the background, & the size of it. You get to choose the 2d style that here in this post or the 3d globe. There are many maps to choose from too. I tried for a while using the red dots, but did not like them, I went back to the site and changed the color of my dots, they have a update setting, that gets all the information from your site and this allows you to change one thing or the whole thing. Then all you have to do is copy the code and paste it on your site.

I give this site 5 Gold Stars!

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Playing with Pictures

I really don't like personal pictures of myself. I take a bunch of them and then weed them out one by one. This picture I thought looked good. So I was looking at it and thought how can I make myself stand out more from the picture. So I started playing, copied the picture, then I embossed one of them, I then took my picture and cropped out me, and pasted it into the embossed picture. Well as time went on, I made a mess of things. Like I thought how I would look with Rainbow hair. (A.C. suggested it) As you can see in the picture below, I look ugly with rainbow hair.

As you can see below, my picture of myself stands out all right, but I think its more of my rainbow hair more than anything. You can click on it to see the largest view. I would not advise it though. Unless you are going to print it off and put it into your garden. hehe

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Greatest Parents Award

This certificate was made at 123 Certificates.

Linda my cousin - Emailed me one day out of the blue and asked do you have a partner? I haven't spoken to her in years, like over 10 years. Her question made me feel a little uncomfortable. I didn't know she knew I was gay. I thought how on earth would she know. Unless she had Gay-dar. Cause the last time I saw her I was with my wife. I asked how did you find out? She said I have known for years. Yep it was Gay-dar, I just didn't know she had it.

I encouraged her to start a blog, she did. smacingreatblog is what she named it. She has only posted a couple of post, but after I read them, I understood why I liked them so much. Her second post "My daughter who came out at age of 15." When I was reading this, I was like wow, I have a 2nd cousin that is gay. But then I came across this:

Oh do not get me wrong, there were certain family members who never accepted who she is. But these are not "important" people in her life. She was hurt very bad and her brother was there to witness this whole display of her treatment by them. She has not gone near them since. She loves them, but she feels they do not feel the same way about her.
I will always support her and her girlfriend. I love them both very much.

As soon as I got done with reading the whole post, I emailed her and asked who? She actually told me the whole story and I was taken back, I thought how on earth family could be so small minded?

Their youngest son is in the Army and from what Linda tells me he really likes it. This is a video of him playing a base guitar. (or at least I think it is. anyone know?)

PFC ROBERT ( SCOTTY ) MCALISTER


I am sure you know by now, why I think they are the Greatest Parents. Here they have their 15 year old daughter that comes out to them, and they accept her for who she is, not for what they want her to be. I wish all Parents were this understanding!

Congratulations Scott and Linda!

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I am living out of boxes again. =o(

Its almost moving day. Sept. 1 is the projected moving day.

I have a lot of my stuff in boxes. I moved all of my furniture out of my room getting ready for a huge "moving sale". I am actually sleeping on my porch swing. I decided that if I cannot fit it in my car, its not going.

I have lived here for over 5 years now. Its hard to believe how much junk I have acquired. I am going to miss this house. I have had some great memories here.

I am looking forward to where we are moving to. Its one of the largest gay population in the country. I am ready to get away from all this corn for a true gay life style. Maybe I can meet someone that will sweep me off of my feet. If not, then I am going to enjoy living on the beach. err well living close to it.

My room mates were talking about who is going to get what room when we get there, like the Master Bed room. I simply said, I will be either at work or at the beach. So I don't care.

Going into the unknown is the scariest part of the move. I am not worried about the move itself, but more if I can afford where we are moving too. I am going down with no job at all.
What I have been told is "good luck on finding a job". I have a cousin that lives there, and he put in 120 applications and didnt find a job for over 6 months. He said its crazy down there.

I will keep you posted on the move. I will be blogging about it, I plan on taking lots of pictures on the way down, so that I can share them with you.

Have a great day,

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Pink Floyd - Senator Evan Bayh - Donald Trump - The Back Street Boys - Dave Smiley

What do all these people have in common? I have met them.

This is my Famous People that I have met page.

Cowboy Bob Show - He had a morning show for kids, on channel 4, with fun stuff and cartoons. I met Cowboy Bob back in the early 70's, when my dad invited him to church. I dont know how much my dad had to pay him to come, but it was worth it in my eyes. Cowboy Bob brought his horse Trigger too. I actually have a picture of me sitting on his horse.

Janie's Show - Back in the early 70's, her show was on channel 4 too, fun stuff and cartoons. I did not meet Janie until the late 80's. My mom at the time was working for School # 114. She told me that Janie was the music teacher there. I went to the school one day, to visit Janie. She was a really nice lady.

Pink Floyd - In the mid-80's I was working for a Tool Rental company - I was a driver, I delivered the tools out to the construction jobs. I delivered a large air compressor out to the Hoosier Dome for a concert that was happening later that evening. For the life of me I could not figure out why on earth they wanted a huge air pump - this air pump was used for jack hammers. Once in the Hoosier Dome, I met the manager, I explained how to use the pump, and the manager said hey follow me. I walked behind him to this room, with two guys standing outside of the door. The manager said he is with me and we walked in, inside was a bunch of people. I at the time was not a fan of Pink Floyd - nor did I know who they were or what they sang. The manager said, Allen, (name on my uniform) I have to go take this call, I will be right back. If you are hungry go ahead and eat. There was a buffet set up. I thought oh how cool. So I grabbed a plate and fixed myself some food. I am not the type that will just stand in the corner, I like to mingle and talk. The topic of the room was the rehearsal that just happened. I worked myself around the room, until I got into the back of the room. There was an open seat, so I thought I will go sit down. The problem was the seat was in between two guys that had their feet up in front of them. I walked over to one of the guys and said excuse me could I sit there, the guy moves his legs and I sat down. Their conversation stopped, they all just looked at me. I say hey how is everyone today? One of them says "Who are you?" oh I am Allen and I just delivered a air pump, as I am chowing down the food. Excellent, now we can get the pig started. I thought pig? I asked what pig? We blow it up and float it down to the stage. I said cool. The manager walks up behind me and says there you are, he chuckles and says "I see you have met the band"

Gov. Evan Bayh - in the mid to late 80's I was working for Indiana State Captiol Security Police Department. I was walking around the Captiol building one night, I saw Gov. Bayh and Mrs. Bayh walking down the street, I walked up to them and asked them how their evening was going, they said it was great, and how beautiful it was out that night. I did my duty and walked them to thier car.

Donald Trump - In the early 90's I was working for Indiana State Conference Center, there was a very large meeting going on in our Auditorium. The news media was there, people every where. I was walking out of the Auditorium, and hit shoulders with a man that was taller than me, and had blond hair. I appoligized to him, and he said no problem. I guess he could see the stress on my face. He said " a piece of advice" I thought here it comes - he said "Real Estate"
I never put it together until I got back to the office. I was telling my boss what happened, and she asked where he was, I said out in the Atrium. She walks out to the Atrium and comes back to the office and said you walked into Donald Trump.

The Back Street Boys - In the late 90's I was working at Walt Disney World, Epcot, Electric Umbrella. One night I worked a double, I was exhausted. The park was closed and had been for over an hour, as I am walking in the tunnel, up to the bus stop, I hear a pargo behind me, so I naturally move over closer to the wall. The pargo was flying, and missed me by inches, I actually saw my pant leg move. I was tired and lost control, and said HEY really loud. I see the front of the pargo go down and hear the squealing tires, I thought oh great 5 teen age boys against me. This is not going to be a pretty site. The pargo goes into reverse, they get to where I am and the diver said, oh man I really got close to you, sorry. As I am looking at them, I was thinking to myself where do I know these faces from, I couldn't put a name on it, but I knew them. I scolded them for driving like that and told them to be more careful. The driver agreed and off they went again. I see the bus, and I wave it down, as I stepped on the bus, I said OH MY GOD that was Howie! The bus driver said who is Howie, I said from the Back Street Boys. The driver said yeah I heard they were in town. I started laughing and said, I just scolded them for driving a pargo crazy. The driver started laughing with me, and said maybe they need to hear it.

Dave Smiley - In mid 2003 I was working for a window cleaning company. I was just about to finish up a job at a bridle shop. This guy walks up behind me and said looks good, we had a short conversation about window cleaning and general things. It was a very nice change. Normally people act like you are not there. Or they say " you missed a spot" trying to sound funny to their family and friends. But not Dave, his conversation was real and not fake at all. After he left and I finished up my work, I went in to get paid, I asked the owner who he was, and they said he was the host for the morning show on WZPL. I started listening to his show.

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Celebration - My Site -1.2 Years Old

I am sitting here with my foot up and figured I would do some writing. I was planing on having a 1 year Celebration, but I forgot.

So toady is going to be the day for Celebration.

Allen's Blog started out just a place for my family and friends to keep tabs on me. I thought this would be a cool way of doing it. I wanted a logo that popped. I think I got it.

I have actually had the site for two years now, but the first year was on another server that I had to write the code for a lot of it. A friend said hey did you hear about blogger? I went and check it out. Blogger is much easier than my old server and I can use any ones computer, so no matter where I am in the world, I can blog. The sad thing about all this is, my friends and family hardly ever comes to my site, if I want them to see something I have to email them the link, or call them on the phone.

1.2 years later I have made 154 posts. I have had 74 comments, 1,871 vistors, and 4,236 page views. Which I am very very happy with. I am actually very excited with my numbers.

On with the Celebration.....

I want to personally thank the following persons for their help and support.

Pzxc.com - Sean is the one that actually talked me into starting this blog. Sean is also the one that gave me programing tips to use on this bog.

Thank YOU Sean for the encouragement to start my blog and thank you for all your support.

John Abuzz - John is a member that follows me, he is my first "online blogger friend". I enjoy reading his post about his home and garden. He takes lots of pictures as well and I like that too. John actually has helped me more than he knows. I look at his site and think wow I should have that on my site too. He wrote Good News! My Blogroll is Changing I really did not know the impact that a blogroll had on ones site. After reading his post, I put it on my site too.

John Thank You so much for being a friend! Thanks for the support and helpful tips. Your last tip increased my traffic by 53%. =o)

New Members

Rae joined my site on 7/13/09 - I met Rea through John, I saw her name on his blogroll. I went to check out her site, I found I enjoy reading about the things that go on in her home. Like giving her husband the "look" or her trip to Wal-Mart. Thank you Rae for joining my site! =o)

Larry Ohio joined my site on 7/16/09 - I went to his site and found out he was a noob to blogging. I like to help noob's. In his second post he said " (Sorry, I'd like to provide a link to Warren's blog but cannot figure out how to do it. I'm a newbie to blogging as well)." I made a How To post about linking a site in blogger. He posted Facebook Badge. In his first paragraph it says, "First I want to thank Allen from Allen's Blog for teaching me how to link to other blogs!"

Larry thank for for Joining my site. I am glad I could help you! =o)

Stephen joined my site on 7/17/09 - I am not sure what I liked more about him, the fact that he is a Actor or that he is gay or that he actually comments on my site. Your site is quite unique and I like that. I really like the world globe widget that you have on your site. I went to their site and got it for myself.

Stephen thank you for Joining my site.

And thanks to all the others that have joined my site. I really do appreciate it.

Thanks again for joining my Celebration!
Allen

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A Painful Lesson Learned

Yesterday was just beautiful. 80 degrees and plenty of sunshine. I had the bright idea to mow the grass. Mowing the grass was a good idea, since the neighbors mowed theirs twice, to my once.

I tend to day dream when I mow. I had gotten used to driving my John Deere and day dreaming. It was pretty simple.

I learned that mowing a yard with a push mower, you have to be extra careful. Every time I got close to the ditch, I would stop day dreaming and pay attention. I did this process for about an hour. So now I am day dreaming, when all of a sudden my foot falls into a hole, my body went one way and the mower went the other, I am glad they put the emergency lever on mowers these days, because as soon as I let go the mower it shut off.

I opened my eyes to see the underside of tree branches, and green leaves. Then I looked around and sat up slowly, I looked down at my foot, and wondered how bad I had hurt it. I did the move it all around trick, pain went straight through my foot. I sat in the grass having my moment, you know, you are cussing yourself out for being dumb. I had to figure out how to get into the house. I sat on the ground for some time, before I figured out how to stand. It was hard to do and it was painful to do. I stood on one foot, pushed the mower a couple of feet and jumped, by the time I got to the shed, I was getting pretty good at it.

Once in the house the "mother hens" went into action. Getting ice for my foot, and something cold to drink. They even put the mower for me. Its great having such caring and loving room mates.

Allen

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Allen's Walt Disney World Vacation Guide

This is a FREE guide.

Walt Disney World is Huge. If you have been you know what I mean. If you haven't then let me tell you its huge. So many people confuse Walt Disney World with Magic Kingdom. Magic Kingdom is like a small city in Walt Disney World. Walt Disney World is so big that they have their own zip code, Fire Department, Hospital, Town, First Aid Clinics, University (D.U.), Transportation Department, Recycling Plant, Studio, Night Clubs, Security Department, Hotels, Wedding Area, Apartment on top of the Castle, Camp Ground, etc.

Here is my guide so that you can save money and time. The + __ hours at the end of each tip is how many hours you would have been standing in line.

Take a light jacket or sweater - The nights in Florida can be chilly in the winter months. I know its not -10 there, but its still chilly. Its better than spending $35-$200 for something warm to wear. + .5 hour added to your vacation.

Take a rain coat - you can buy them in the dollar store. It normally rains every day for a brief time. *note* Disney does not make it rain to spoil your vacation or make you buy their rain coats, and Disney does not have a Dome that they put over the parks. (yes I had a guy ask me when Disney was going to put the Dome up.) + .5 hour added to your vacation.

Take a Camera or camcorder - *note* safety tip - don't ever walk and record at the same time. I cannot tell the number of people that have fallen for that reason. Their vacation was postponed because of one little mistake that could have been avoided. + 2 to ??? hours added to your vacation.

Take Plenty of Film, CD's, DVD's, Flash Cards, or what ever you use in your cameras. +.5 hour added to your vacation.

Take a picture like the pros - Watch the pros when you walk in the gate, see how they are taking the picture and then do the same. You can get some really cool shots that way. *note* do have the pros take your picture, they give you a ticket and a time to view it, please dont wait until the park closes to check on them. You want to talk about a line. Now that is a huge line with lots of frustration. + 1.5 hours added to your vacation.

Take plenty of Batteries - if you have a rechargeable battery station and want to, you can go to guest relation and they will direct you to the charging station that are located in the parks.

Change your eating habits - its simple eat breakfast at your hotel, eat lunch between 3pm and 5pm. Eat Dinner after 7pm. This will save you time and frustration. Trust me on this one, I worked in the Food Department for 5 years. + 4 hours a day added to your vacation.

Know before you go - plan ahead what restaurants you are going to before you ever enter the park. Call ahead all reservations. (if they allow call ins - if not go to all of them first and then enjoy the park.) + 4 hours a day added to your vacation

Take a stroller (if you have small ones) - It saves you money, it will save you on frustration - you have to stand in line to rent a stroller and at the end of the night you have to stand in line to get your deposit back. + 1 hour a day added to your vacation

If you buy anything in the Walt Disney World area, and are staying on their property, have your packages sent to your room. Why carry your packages with you all day, especially if you have children, camera, purse, camera bag, diaper bag, etc. It can save you money, cause if you forget it on a bus, or other places, chances are someone will find it and they don't always return it.
If you are in one of the parks and you are not staying on property, have your packages set to the main hub, its normally one of the merchandise shops in the front of the park. Again, do not wait until the park closes to get your packages. Go about 2 hours early, to ensure little or no lines. + 1.5 hours a day added to your vacation

If you lose your purse or wallet, please don't accuse a Cast Member of stealing it, Cast Members have a strict protocol for a found wallet or purse. They have to deliver it to the manager and that manager sees that it gets to Lost and Found. Go to Lost and Found asap. If they don't have it yet, it might just show up. Leave your name with them.

Do the Opposite - Start in the back of the park and work your way to the front. 99% of the people start in the front and work their way back, which equals to long lines. Don't run, it will be there when you get there.

Don't embarrass yourself and ask a Cast Members what time the 3 o'clock parade is. (this was the number one question that I was asked while I worked in Magic Kingdom)

Parents - watch your kids like a hawk, keep them near you at all times. Now if they get away from you panic a little bit, go as quick as you can by walking fast to the nearest Cast Member and tell them your child is lost.
Have these things ready: Some form of picture id of the child. What he/she was wearing at the time, how tall, weight, hair color, name and it is better if you have this all typed up and ready to hand out if need be. It is hard to understand a panic parent, that can only give you sobbing, blue, sobbing sneakers, sobbing etc. With Disney magic, your child will be found pretty quick.

Drink Plenty of water. Yes I said Water. Sodas dehydrate you quicker than any other liquid.

Now my guide is coming to an end. But just one more thing should be addressed. The Cast Members are people, a lot of them are away from home the first time on the College Program or the International Program. Check out their name tags and see where they are from, you never know, you might know someone that he/she knows.

Couple of short Stories:

Magic Kingdom
One of my Managers at Cosmic Ray's Cafe, Julie Newell was from Lafayette, Indiana, we hit it off, I found out that she went to Prude, and lived in Lafayette most of her life. We became close friends.

Epcot
There was one day while working in the Electric Umbrella, I was on the register taking orders, I noticed this lady in my line, I knew her from Ryan's Steak House in Greenwood Indiana, she used to wait on me every Sunday afternoon. Her name was Becky, but everyone called her Granny. I started my speed taking orders, I wanted her up next to me quick. I was excited to see someone that I knew from my home state and town. When she got to me. I smiled and said hi I am Allen and your name is Becky and you work at Ryan's Steak house in Greenwood, Indiana. Her mouth fell open, and so did four of the people behind her in line. She asked how on earth did I know that? I said its Disney Magic. She smiled really big and said no seriously how did you know. I told her she waited on me every Sunday. She looked me over really good, and said oh yes, you came in with a large family. I said yes and smiled. She said she still see my family but hadn't seen my in a couple of years. She said how did you remember my name, I said I remember names of people I like. I asked her to give my family a message and she did. They told me about it later. It was weird to think out of 100,000 people in the park and she walked up in my line.

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Lilly Allen

Warning - this song has strong language.


Lily Allen - F*ck You Very Much

Look inside, look inside your tiny mind
and look a bit harder
cause we’re so uninspired
so sick and tired
of all the hatred you harbor

so you say it’s not okay to be Gay
well I think you’re just evil
you’re just some racist who can’t tie my laces
you’re point of view is medieval

F*ck you, f*ck you very very much
cause we hate what you do
and we hate your whole crew
so please don’t stay in touch

f*ck you, f*ck you very very much
cause your words don’t translate
and it’s getting quite late
so please don’t stay in touch

do you get, do you get a little kick out of being small-minded?
you want to be like your father
it’s approval you’re after
well that’s not how you’ll find it

do you, do you really enjoy living a life that’s so hateful
cause there’s a hole where your soul should be
you’re losing control of it
and it’s really distasteful

F*ck you, f*ck you very very much
cause we hate what you do
and we hate your whole crew
so please don’t stay in touch

f*ck you, f*ck you very very much
cause your words don’t translate
and it’s getting quite late
so please don’t stay in touch

F*ck you, f*ck you, f*ck you
F*ck you, f*ck you, f*ck you

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A Day With A.C.

Every time I pass this house, I am amazed, its huge and it looks like a mansion.
I was planing on taking lots of pictures, but I only got a couple of them to share with you.

When I arrived at A.C.'s house, she was waiting on me, she said lets go get some breakfast. I said that sounds good to me. We went to Denny's, it was pretty yummy. I had the moon over my hammy. While we ate we talked about our weeks and things that was going on in our lives.

When we got back to her house, I had to show her my site and how many readers I had, and she saw my new widget. Its the world, and it show where all my visitors are from around the world.
She said that is was really cool and she would like to put it on her page. I helped her with it, and she applied it to her site.

After we were done with that she colored my hair, I wanted my blond hair to be frosted, I bought the stuff and she did it for me. The funny thing is, I had been home for over 3 hours, and not one of my room mates said anything about my hair. ugh

(I look awful in this picture)

When she was all done with it, I went to take some pictures outside, but it was sprinkling. I quickly went to the garage and got out the push mower. I mowed her yard in record time. Once the mower was in the garage, Q was home. I spent about an hour catching up with her.

Driving back home I was watching the clouds, I saw this which I thought was very cool. The clouds was dark except this huge circle in the middle.

It was clear only in that circle area, the sun was shinning through.




It almost looks like a ufo beaming something up. hehe




When I first got to A.C.'s house, Lila met me at the door and was just talking to me, I thought it would be cool to post it here.

Thanks again for a wonderful time A.C. !
Allen

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Magical Experience #1 at Walt Disney World, Florida

Magical Experience #1

When I started working at Walt Disney World, I had requested to work in the Magic Kingdom. They put me in the largest fast food restaurant in the country. Cosmic Rays Starlight Cafe. I was a "busser", you know the ones that takes out the trash and cleans off all the tables. (no tips)

The day was slow, and I was walking around talking with our guest. I was smiling and laughing with the families.

I noticed these two ladies looking at me from across the restaurant. I walked over to them, and said hi, how are you today? (with a huge grin) They both just stood there, I thought okay maybe they are deaf, so I signed "hi I allen how you". Still they just stood there, not one word from either of them, they both had a shocked look on their faces. A couple of seconds later the woman on my left started crying hard, and then the woman on my right yelled "OH MY GOD MOM!!!",

and started crying hard too. So now I have the shocked look on my face, but it was more like the deer in the headlight look. I was like what did I do, did I sign the wrong words? my mind was racing and I was trying to figure it out, when I felt this hand on my back and it was Jen, General Manager from Merchandise. She stepped up to where I was and asked the ladies if everything was okay?

The woman on the right got her composure back, she took a long look at me and then looked at Jen, she said "My brother, we buried him two days ago, but now he is standing in front of me", her bottom lip started to quiver again. The General Manager said to them, lets all go over here and have a seat, we all walked over to the table and they sat down, I stood there for a second, and asked if they would like a drink, they both asked for diet, I said I would be right back, as I turned around, there stood my boss, Julie Newell, she said whats going on? and all I could say was two diet drinks. I saw the confused look on her face, when I walked past her. I went up to the counter and 90 % of the Cast Members was all gathering to find out what was going on. I said I need two diet cokes, please. One of them made them really quick while the others was trying to get the scoop. All I could tell them is their bother had died two days ago.

By the time I had gotten back with the drinks, the ladies had gotten their composure. I walked up set the drinks in front of them. They both said thank you. I took a couple of steps back, cause at that point I didn't know if I should stand or sit or go back to work, Jen looked at me and said Allen have a seat. I sat down at the table. The ladies took a long drink, and both was smiling. We sat there for what seemed like a very long time, you know that dead silent where no one says anything. The daughter said, I cannot believe how much you look like Matt, you talk like Matt the mom said, and you even smile like him. She said where is my manners, I am Tina and this is Wilma my mother. I shook their hands and said I am Allen. I turned and said this is Jen and Julie.

Tina spoke up and said, my brother was in a car accident and died, we all was planing this trip together. She said this really is a Magical place. Julie asked them if they was hungry and they said yes, Julie took their order and went to get it. Wilma asked what was my favorite food? I said hamburgers. They both looked at each other, and smiled. I said I am guessing that was Matt's favorite food? They both said yes at the same time. We talked for some time, it was mostly about Matt and that was fine with me. Julie walked over with a tray in her hand, she put the food in front of them and Wilma said how much do we owe you, as she grabs for her purse. Julie said its on the house. They accepted it. Jen had received a text message and said I am sorry but I have to go, Jen gave them her business card and said before you leave tonight you stop by any merchandise shop and ask for me. Jen stood up and off she went. We sat there while they at listening to stories. Julie was being paged (cast member was waving her hand at Julie) to the office, as Julie excused herself, so did I, I said I would be right back. It will give you time to eat. They agreed with that.

As Julie and I was walking to the office, I said you know we are really slow. She said yeah I know, I said we are over staffed, she said yes Allen you can have an (E)arly (R)elease. ER as it is known, means leaving work early. She smiled at me, she knew what I was going to do, I didn't have to explain it.

I skipped over to the table. Tina and Wilma just started laughing. I plopped down on the chair with a huge smile on my face. I said I have a surprise for you. Tina said we already got a surprise. I smiled. I have another one for you then. They smiled and said what is it? If it is okay with you, I would like to spend the rest of the day with you. Julie has already given me the rest of the day off. Would that be okay? They had that shocked look again. Tina said you really want to do that? I smiled really big and said yes I would.

They smiled and agreed, I said I will be right back, I need to go change in to street clothes.

We spent the rest of the day riding rides, going to shows, watched the 3 o'clock parade, watched the night parade. After the night parade was over, we went into the shops, I went up the one of the cast members and said I am a Cast Member and showed her my ID, can you call Jen the GM on the radio and ask her to meet me here. Tell her its Allen. The Cast Member gave me a puzzled look and said is there anything I can help you with? I said yes, you can call Jen on the radio and ask her to meet me here. She called her, I heard Jen on the other end saying tell him I am on my way. I looked at her and said thank you. I walked back over to Tina and Wilma that was looking at snow globes, I just called Jen and she is on her way over.

When Jen showed up she had a package in her hand, she handed to it Wilma. Inside was a snow globe, it had the pink castle inside of it, and a plate on the bottom that said remember the magic your friends at Walt Disney World. Wilma hugged Jen and so did Tina. Tina went on and on to Jen about how I took the day off to spend it with them. She even made the statement "this is the happiest place on earth!"

Before we said our goodbyes we exchanged our addresses and phone numbers.

Wilma said well I guess this is it. Thank you so much for spending the day with us. You will never know how much that meant to us. I said thank you for allowing me to spend the day with you. We hugged and I watched them leave.

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Hateful Comments

I posted this video to youtube a little over a year ago. I have had 100's of comments.
I thought I would share some of them with you.

GO AWAY GAYS

fuckign faggot ass homeosexuals

wonder how many hate comments ill get for saying this o well i f-ing hate gay people :D there you dont like go to hell

I hate gays too! why didn't hitler kill all the gay people instead?

Gays are assholes i cant believe skools even promote it as clubs they jst hire some queer to promote that club i fing hate em they ruined my life i wish theyd just die f** gays jst go to hell dam why do they have to exist

GAYS GO TO HELL!

I hate gays!

marching to hell...

lol thank God for AIDS

The F@GGT$ only went 4 Obama becuase he allowed F@GGOT rights other wise they'll crall in there F@GGOT dens and have G@Y $e%

gay pride is funnyer than black pride, smoke crack allday, don't work, have been breed to be big strong and stupid but we be proud YO!

then you have gays, they litterally get f****** in the A** have AIDS and die of drugs or murder each other at alarming rates, and they are proud of that. what a bunch of fags.

each and everyone of these AIDS infested sickos grew up in a broken home with a parent who is just as sick

thank God for AIDS

Sure in the US you should be able to do whatever you want behind closed doors as long as it is between consenting adults, but prancing around trying to shock ppl just goes to show that all they want is attention, to them any attention is good bc they were ignored as children by their horrible parents, now the tax payers have to deal with them, GDBO! thank you AIDS

I want you to die. :] have a nice day.

Well i do agree with you aids aint just from gays but i do think that being gay would hurt our society.. because if ever 1 where gay, no kids, wich means when gays die, less population, which means no point of living. So i think that gays should either not come out of the closet or like girls, i mean really how old are they? do they like think girls have "cooties" or are they just retarded.

Because being gay is wrong to Everybody i know...

Wow im guessing ur gay. i do not like gay people. i used to not like black people because of my dads side of the family used to be a LITTLE racist. but i now have many mixed or black friends. Few whites. but i have no Gay friends. Nor never will. Therefore i think that almost everybody on the internet wants u to stop posting your "gay pride" on here because its nothing to be "proud" of..

Wait is obama going to let gay's be together?....thats so wrong

The latest one I recieved is this:

A Bunch of f****** fags and dikes SCREW THEM ALL!!! GAYS HAVE NO RIGHTS!!

How true is that statement, coming from a straight person. "Gays have no rights"

At first I replied to all of comments, but then I thought that I was just adding gas to the fire. So I stopped.

While I was working at Walt Disney World, on gay day, had a Father, mother and a baby come up to the stroller shop where I was working. This father was really up set. He was embarrassing his wife, that walked away. He said " why are all these f**** fags ruining my vacation? I am sick of seeing red everywhere. (red is the color that you wore to show your pride) I simply said to him would you like to speak to my manager about this, maybe she can help. He agreed. I went to the manager office, and walked into a meeting, but hey that didnt stop me, I said listen I have a man out here yelling at me about the fags ruining his vacation. He is complaining about all the red being worn etc. One of the manager jumped up and said I will handle this, she grabbed her red coat and walked out to the Father, his back was toward the door, so when we went out, I said excuse me sir this is my manager, as he turned, his face went to white, and then to bright red, and he just walked away and didnt say another word.

How on earth can people be so down right mean?
=o(
Allen

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How To Make a Link in Blogger

I have been reading some new blogger sites, and the owners don't know how to LINK another page or site to their site.

So this is my "How To" post a Link to your blogger post in 9 easy steps.

#1 - Go to the page or site and highlight web address found in the top part of your browser. (see the picture below.) After it is highlighted put your mouse over it and right click your mouse and get a small menu, click on copy.

#2 - Type out your text and then highlight it.
#3 - Click on the link button. (a small box will appear)
#4 - Click inside of the small box window and right click your mouse and click on paste.
#5 - Click on OK


#6 - Click anywhere inside your post box. Look to see if your text has an underline under it.
#7 - Click on Preview


#8 - hold your mouse over the underline text.
#9 - If you did all the steps right, then your web page address will appear at the bottom left of the screen.


That was Easy wasn't?

Allen

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Teen Builds Electric Car

This is a cool story. I have often thought about changing my car into an electric car. I know that I get great gas mileage, 65 mpg on the interstate and about 44 mpg in the city. But it still burns gas. I have read the internet looking at how I can convert my car. But as you can see this Teen went one step further and actually did it.

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Betty Crocker Reese's Dessert Bar Mix

This is a wonderful product. If you like Reese's Cups, you will love this. I am personally not a big fan of sweets. But once in a great while I want it. Not sure if it the chocolate, or the peanut butter. My room mates love Reese's cups, so I thought I would buy this really cool box of mix and try to make it at home.

When I opened the box, I found:

1. one pan
2. topping mix
3. peanut butter
4. clear plastic bag with cookie crumbs
5. clear plastic bag with tan stuff in it.

The instructions on the back, are a bit confusing. Or at least it was for me. I miss looked, there was the cookie crumb and the tan stuff, the bags was not labeled like the rest of the packages. So I mixed the wrong ingredients with the wrong packages. But didn't realize it until the mixes were mixed.

I went ahead and left it alone, cause it looked okay. I made it and put it in the fridge for an hour while it set up. When it was set up I cut it up and shared it with my room mates. They all were happy with it and said it taste just like a Reese's Cup. So even though I messed it up it still turned out okay. =o)

Allen

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The Vocal People

Another group that caught my attention. Check them out, all vocal. Very cool.

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Happy 4th of July

Everyone have a safe holiday. Enjoy time with family and friends.

allen

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July 1st 2009 Record Breaking Weather

The weather is just weird right now. I mean here its the first day in July and it never got over 69 degrees. The nights have been getting down in the 60's. The clouds were moving slow from the north and it looked like snow clouds. I cannot remember the last time that happened. So I looked it up. (don't you just love the internet?)

Hottest July 1st's on record.
1970 - 96/75
1991 - 96/72

Lowest July 1st on record.
2009 - 69/61

I could only find data back to 1948. So in the past 61 years the temperature has never gotten below 70 degrees, until today that is. The week prior to July 1st. It was up in the 90's. Then it dropped quickly, I froze, I was wearing a sweat shirt for the past 2 days.

I am a weather nut, I am the type that will stand out in a electric storm just to watch it, watch which way the storm is coming from and where its going. There are some really cool lightening bolts that come down.

Tornado's however are not my thing.

I was in one back when I was about 10 years old. It was on a church night, and all was in the fellowship room, on the second story of the church, I really dont think anyone knew it was a tornado, we just knew it was storming bad that night. My father told me that we needed to go check on the dogs and put them in the house. (the house was right next to the church as you can see in the picture below, the church is on the left and the house is behind the trees on the right.)

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He had to force the door open and then we took off, I remember the rain hitting my young face and it was stinging, I tried to shield my face with an umbrella, and that was just pointless, cause it was ripped out of my small hands. I remember walking with the wind cause it was pushing us towards the house. Once inside, we let the dogs in and they ran to the basement.

I went into the living room and the enclosed porch that was attached to the house, was no longer attached. It had been pulled away from the house by only inches. Far enough to allow a lot of rain into the house. I remember running over, to the furniture and started moving, as I am yelling to my father to come quick. We got the room cleaned out pretty quick. But what a mess the carpet was. We had to find buckets, the problem was they were all out in the garage. So I had to get pots and pans instead, and take a pot at a time to dump it out. We found out later that a tornado touched down only one block east of us. If my father and I would have left any sooner, who knows what would have happened.

Allen

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