Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
-
Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
-
Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
-
Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
-
Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
-
Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
-
Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
-
If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
-
Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
You may remember I mentioned here about my husband and the CB. He doesn't read anything about the topics discussed here and thought I was nuts for almost three years. Finally he believes me but doesn't want it to dominate his thinking. We get along great but very different in some ways. I'm the investigator in the fam. I preached for over a year he needed to get a CB for communication with the 💩 hit the fan. We are very alike in we research the hell out of something because diving in. He found this guy in NC mountains that post about CBs. This guy was talking about the same thing needing if it went dark. About six months ago he got 1 cb and whatever goes with it (can't remember everything). Now he has about three CBs, amps, antenna and got used hutch for everything. Good thing I'm not the jealous type🤣 I have to admit it's very entertaining. He hasn't watched foreign TV & movies like I have and can't understand people from UK, Scotland and Ireland. Definitely can't understand foreign accents. I'm the interpreter and geography teacher. It's been lots of fun🤩 even though I call him from the den to tell him to shut the door.
There's a local group of men that meet for breakfast every morning and since he's off work he's been able to go a few mornings as long as I get a ham biscuit😉 Dang guess that's over since I'm changing what I'm eating. Oh well it was fun for a bit.
Now he has bought a hand held radio, don't remember name. (GMRS) It works on repeaters and you get a license number. I get annoyed sometimes with CB because it's loud. One of the guys in the breakfast club got him into this radio. Nosey runs in my family's DNA. He's sitting in here listening one night and one guy I know from high school and a few others talk every night about anything and everything. Told him he could have CB & I'd start listening to handheld. I have laughed so much listening to these grown men talk about life and a few local characters and local stuff. I personally think this is better than the CB because you can travel with it. Get your family to get them to be in contact in case of emergency, storms, power outages etc. Any time the phones are down. Having siblings and older parents scattered across the county I think this is great.