Taxpayers have to pay for WHAT??!!?? (Page 6): Living in New Orleans will always be among my fondest memories -- I first went there in the late 1970s, when Bourbon Street was still...

Seth

Tug484 wrote:

Oh how sad. We took a bus to the market and walked back to Harrah's by way of Bourbon Street. We had a good time.

Living in New Orleans will always be among my fondest memories -- I first went there in the late 1970s, when Bourbon Street was still completely what it is famous for and the cost of living was a fraction of what it was in N.Y.

My first job there was as a deck hand on a pushboat (a tug that pushes barges). I fell in love with the place the very first day (and night) I was there. The food, the night life, the food, the people, the music, the architecture, the food, the pace of life, the history and culture, the food....

Oh, yeah, and also the food.

Tug484

Seth wrote:

Living in New Orleans will always be among my fond... (show quote)

I can bet.
I went to Morgan City and we went craw fishing.
I love it.
My husband's name was Gill.
On our way out, there was a tug boat named Captain Gill.
I took a picture of it, but when developed, you couldn't read the name.

Seth

Tug484 wrote:

I can bet.
I went to Morgan City and we went craw fishing.
I love it.
My husband's name was Gill.
On our way out, there was a tug boat named Captain Gill.
I took a picture of it, but when developed, you couldn't read the name.

On the boat we did most of our runs between NOLA, Houma and Morgan City (a good Cajun friend of mine is from near there, Bayou Boeuf), and occasionally over to Biloxi, where the company had another refinery.

Good days!

Tug484

Seth wrote:

On the boat we did most of our runs between NOLA, Houma and Morgan City (a good Cajun friend of mine is from near there, Bayou Boeuf), and occasionally over to Biloxi, where the company had another refinery.

Good days!

We were having our crawfish we caught at a Mr. Pools house.
He asked me, do you know why they call it a bayou?
I answered, no Sir.
He told me because it runs bayou house.
I cracked up laughing.
When I got back to Texas, I had a Cajun accent.

Seth

Tug484 wrote:

We were having our crawfish we caught at a Mr. Pools house.
He asked me, do you know why they call it a bayou?
I answered, no Sir.
He told me because it runs bayou house.
I cracked up laughing.
When I got back to Texas, I had a Cajun accent.

Dat's a Coonass for ya!

Carol Kelly

okie don wrote:

We can thank O'bummer for this crap.
" Change we can believe in" oh yeah!!?

No one asked “what change” so we’re all a little at fault.

Tug484

Seth wrote:

Dat's a Coonass for ya!

I guar ron told you!

Tug484

Seth wrote:

Dat's a Coonass for ya!

I guar-ron-told you.

Seth

Tug484 wrote:

I guar-ron-told you.

I got a crash course in Cajunisms on the boat, because the captain, mate and other deck hand were all Cajuns -- we lived aboard a week, had a week off, like that, a "port & starboard" work schedule, and the captain did most of the cooking.

Lots of awesome cookin', despite hauling 100 lb ratchets around and taking the slack out of cables with what had to be one of the only non-hydraulic winches remaining in service, I actually put on pounds on that job.

Tug484

Seth wrote:

I got a crash course in Cajunisms on the boat, bec... (show quote)

I bet. My husband went offshore on a drilling rig.
He said the food was fantastic .

Seth

Tug484 wrote:

I bet. My husband went offshore on a drilling rig.
He said the food was fantastic .

I knew some roughnecks, roustabouts, a couple of tool pushers, a driller and some catering company people who worked on the rigs while I lived there. We all used to go to some of the same watering holes and so forth. They had it pretty good, all the bakery foods were baked fresh right on the rig, too, and they had a BR man to make their beds and do their laundry.

Like with what I did, they also got an 84 hour paycheck.

Tug484

Seth wrote:

I knew some roughnecks, roustabouts, a couple of t... (show quote)

He ran fishing tools.
Today, unless it's changed, it pays a lot more than then.
It's eleven hundred dollars a day.
Reverse rigs are seven hundred a day.
Also unless that's changed.
It was a nice living.

Seth

Tug484 wrote:

He ran fishing tools.
Today, unless it's changed, it pays a lot more than then.
It's eleven hundred dollars a day.
Reverse rigs are seven hundred a day.
Also unless that's changed.
It was a nice living.

Verrry nice. With the cost of living in Nawlins and suburbs when I lived there, very princely indeed.

Tug484

Seth wrote:

Verrry nice. With the cost of living in Nawlins and suburbs when I lived there, very princely indeed.

Yes and the oil field likes their money.
My neice has a house on the lake.
They had to come here to the oilfield to find work after a job lay off.
They bought a travel trailer.
My brother told me they pay $850.00 a month for a lot to park it.
Wages are good, but everything is high priced.

Seth

Tug484 wrote:

Yes and the oil field likes their money.
My neice has a house on the lake.
They had to come here to the oilfield to find work after a job lay off.
They bought a travel trailer.
My brother told me they pay $850.00 a month for a lot to park it.
Wages are good, but everything is high priced.

Guy at the cash register: "Cha-Ching!"