No, they just just don't get it. Or probably do, but just don't care. I'm gonna fly where I want and to hell with everyone else.
"I also figured I was going to land in the grass, and if anyone got upset so be it."
Keep flying in the hood. Keep starting incidents. Get more people mad at us. Cause more problems. This sure is a different generation than I grew up in.
As I said earlier, these statements don't reflect where and how I was flying, in the LEAST. A deserted beach can't get anymore unoffensive, with nobody in sight for miles. Way far enough from my condo building to be unnoticeable, but I was upwind and close enough so the level soft grass, was a tempting, possibly optimal choice. I did think the bushes would block some of the wind, but the wind hitting the building from the East, produced some really turbulent eddy currents. I couldn't move North, away from the Fearful Ones, towards more remote grass because of the wind out of the North at that point, and my reluctance to be aggressive on the controls. I discovered that the hard on shore Easterly wind hits the building and splits into North and South components, and I know an updraft, because of the Pelican's cruising by all the time.
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Dude, THE BEACH, be 'bout far from the 'hood as yo can get without goin swimin man! And I can't, but might try anyways 'cause I love my drone would drown to save the mofo thing! They's no crack dealer or ho down there as far as the eye can see -- in either which way. So I was sacrificin my alien right to be happy, semi-severely, so my drone won't fall on some crack dealer, or my favorite ho. And I ain't STUPID man -- I KNOW they's all fungible as a ***** , so it's for THE DRONE CAUSE dude!
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Try a little tumble in the sand, and it's a MESS. Plus the grass was basically in the middle of nowhere. Just a hop over some sand anchoring bushes -- I hoped would block some wind -- from the beach (WRONG). Just on condo soil. I'll take a grouchy board member's bitching over losing $1,250. SO PLEASE CHANGE: "...if anyone gets upset so be it", TO: "risk a grouchy board member's bitching over a 'rumored condo no fly zone' (Seriously) versus losing $1,250 I paid for a machine I now love so much I'd rather sleep with it then my wife." (Joke, honey) Thanks. That's what I meant.
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Speaking of "my generation", TO MY HORROR, I AM GETTING OLD! I COULD POSSIBLY BE OLDER THAN YOU! 62 1/4 now.
"This sure is a different generation than I grew up in" though, is not something that I hear coming out of a well educated 62 year old, in the financial or technical fields at least. None of my friends, would utter it, so you must be...68-72+ if a college educated professional (or retired) from a suburban area, or...wow 57, if you live in a rural area, especially in the south, with no college degree, 57 is right in the heart of the "drone shooter age" in this demographic category. In the highly educated Northern profession category, they would never shoot a drone at any age. In NJ you'd be lucky to find a gun to DO it with, and if you got caught just with the gun, it's probably a life sentence. In Miami, fly your drone in the wrong 'hood, and it could get machine gunned out of the sky. Coke smugglers thinking your spying on them, or rival gangs. You like UAVs, but you have the mindset that shoots them. Standard Deviation is huge, so I could be way off.
Plus 62 isn't the normal "bitter, cynical, old and grouchy" point yet, up North anyway. JUST OLD.
It's funny how I could never picture being this old and here I am. It kind of creeps up on you, then here you are. It ah, kind of sucks. I'll take 25! To own one you can't fear technology, that would bring my age guess down. If you're a EE, digital designer defense contractor type, or Portfolio Manager Bond Trader type, (Both ME), you could be in your 70's.
ANYWAY NOW MY GUESS IS 67! If I'm correct, "Sorry sir, no disrespect intended". If younger, then please show some respect to your elders, and don't put words in my mouth **** it! And don't act like an old grouch for a while longer yet, sonny! There's plenty of time left, and if you're a grouchy old guy under 60, what going to happen when you're 70? Scary right? So lighten up!
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During my generation, growing up during the great depression, we learned to not throw away money ($1,250), because some grouch might yell at you, for a possibly imaginary rule! OK, my grandpa passed that wisdom on. But I was taught to be respectful and polite to my elders who were Mr. and Mrs. with my mother's friend "Carol" being the only exception. But I kind of like being called by my first name by my friends kids. I can't believe some of my friends kids. I'll come in the house, and I'll have to say, "Lucas, what's the deal, you can't even say hello?!" "I'm sorry. Hi Glenn." With a nice smile. That softens me right up. But I might add, "I can't believe your parents haven't taught you that!" And he'll laugh because he's smart, and knows I'm teasing his dad.
And if I EVER wrote a disrespectful email -- to an elder no less -- and put words in their mouth they never said, I'd get spanked, my mouth washed out with soap, and forced to apologize ("sound like you mean it too").
Well...OK, that's what I taught my kids, who will pass it along too my young grandchildren. After little Johnny wrote the "I LOVE YOU" Office Macro email attachment, I gave him a choice: The stun gun on the butt (high tech spanking), or the FBI. "You choose!" He only served 1 year, and now makes $250,000 at Google. Totally serious.
Well? Am I older than you?
Are you 67?
