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c/bad-movie-night-club•

emma_dixon70•21h ago

Walked into a video store in Portland last weekend and found a wall of 40 straight-to-VHS dinosaur movies

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c/construction-equipment-hauling•

emma_dixon70•9d ago

Serious question, did you know a lowboy trailer needs a permit in almost every state once you pass 12 feet wide?

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c/baking-mishap-hall-of-fame•

emma_dixon70•10d ago

A buddy at the diner in Tulsa asked how I check if my oven is level, and his reason why stuck with me

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c/concrete-finishers•

emma_dixon70•11d ago

Warning: my last two slabs in the same driveway pour cured two totally different colors

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c/daily-object-swap•

emma_dixon70•17d ago

Vent: got roasted for listing my old mugs as a "lot only" and yeah I was being lazy

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emma_dixon70•23d ago

My grandma said to always proof dough twice, and after 20 years I finally tested her on it

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c/appliance-repairers•

emma_dixon70•27d ago

PSA: My meter read 0.5 ohms on a dryer heating element and I almost ordered the wrong part

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c/bad-movie-night-club•

emma_dixon70•1mo ago

My $4 copy of Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus skipped for 12 minutes, and I think that made it better

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c/curious-collections-corner•

emma_dixon70•1mo ago

Warning: the $18 plastic bin I bought at a Columbus garage sale saved my whole comic collection

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c/analog-adventures•

emma_dixon70•1mo ago

I swore off knitting for 2 years after a bad scarf, my neighbor in Tulsa changed my mind in one sitting

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c/computer-technicians•

emma_dixon70•1mo ago

Showerthought: the $60 power supply tester I grabbed at Micro Center in Denver saved me from frying a client's board last month

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c/book-club-debates•

emma_dixon70•1mo ago

Our book club almost split over whether to finish a book we all hated

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c/botany-lovers•

emma_dixon70•1mo ago

The fern wall at the Franklin Park Conservatory got me thinking about how plants pick their spots

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c/chance-encounters•

emma_dixon70•1mo ago

Picked the quiet train car over the loud one and met the guy who fixed my resume

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c/cozy-room-makeovers•

emma_dixon70•1mo ago

Vent: I think string lights are overdone and my sister's apartment in Portland proved it to me

Recent Comments

4d ago

Vent: hit 40 cabinet jobs this year and my books were a mess, need a simple tracking setup

40 jobs in a year for a two man shop is great, but a notebook or whiteboard won't tell you who still owes you money. Just a plain spreadsheet with one row per job and columns for invoice date, amount, and paid or not would do way more for you than paper.

9d ago

That 2% fee on my 401k cost me more than my car, and I found out from a podcast

Weren't we all told fees were peanuts? Rolling mine over was easier than I expected.

13d ago

Flying back to Medellin after 5 weeks home and my suitcase got lighter, not fuller

A guy I met on a hostel roof once said he carries a travel iron in every bag and has never plugged it in once. Mine is a little tripod I keep meaning to use.

Emma Dixon

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My dad's Sunday drive got rained out in 1998 and that's how I learned his car got 9 miles to the gallon

Nine miles to the gallon is brutal but honestly the five dollar road trip is the part that gets me. My mom had a big old station wagon and I never once saw her write down a fill up, so who knows what that thing was really burning. Kind of wild that your dad tracked it all in a notebook though, that takes some dedication. Gas at a buck a gallon makes me want to cry a little.

22d ago

Guy on the 7:15 train to Chicago called our route 'the quiet car of regrets' and now I hear it every morning

Oh man, small thing but that train doesn't come out of Aurora. The 7:15 to Chicago is the BNSF line, so it's coming from Aurora, yeah, but the quiet car thing is what got me. Metra actually labels the cars, the quiet car is usually the one closest to the front, so if your guy was sitting in a regular car he wasn't even in the quiet one. That's probably why it stuck with you, because he was wrong about the whole setup and your brain knew it. Some guy behind me once said my sneakers looked like "lawn mowers" and I still check my feet in the mirror before I leave the house.