DINK = Duel Income, No Kids


3/4 of my salary alone covered all the bills and utilities. My wife used her salary to cover all entertainment, travel, and vacation expenses.


Then when kids comes along you have to decide whether to put them in childcare that eats away at one salary and gives substandard care ... or if the wife just stays at home. Either way, you lose one income and gain a lot more bills.

The American way of life is not child friendly.

 

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Nice read.


Cute kids.


Thanks for sharing.

Adventure in the Iron Mines of Ferrum.


I’m sure all of you know this, but the word ferrum is latin for iron. Up until 1915 or so that area used to be an iron mine for the railroad companies. Hence, Ferrum got it’s name. The location of the mines had been an urban legend at the college. A lot of us figured the iron mine was a strip mine/query – but in either case, no one knew it’s exact location.


The records in the basement of the church dated 1905 showed the iron mine a few miles south of the college in between Ingramville Rd and what would be Prillaman Switch Rd.


We (Tami, Myself, and a girl from my analytical chemistry class named Dana) went looking for the mine.

The mine turned out to be an abandoned query that had one shaft going into a mountain side. In good college fashion, we started out on our adventure at 3 in the afternoon – followed the railroad tracks south parallel Prillaman Switch Rd and then turned into the woods when we got just east of the mine. Sunset wasn’t too far off when we finally got to the mine location.

It was overgrown. The query rocks were still evident. We could see segments of railroad track all over the place.

We had an hour, give or take, until sunset and we were excited to see as much as possible. So we stayed and looked around. Dana and I wanted iron samples for our chemistry projects. Tami was along as our wilderness tourguide.

The mine shaft itself looked wickedly unstable. In spite of that, the mine looked like it was still in use for something. There was a lot of evidence that someone knew it was here as there were tire track and a well beaten vehicle path out of the area. Unlike the cave – there was a total absence of any college party scene here. In the cave there were just a bunch of massive drums with tubing.


How many of you guessed Moonshine operation yet?


Yea that’s when the light bulb came on for us too.


Hiking around Ferrum college in the wilderness is a lot like entering the Forbidden Forest in Harry Potter novels. You just don’t do it without armored escort. Instead of monsters you run into Deliverance style hillbillies with gun skills protecting their moonshine or pot operations. And as exciting as it would be to find an old mine – we just chalked this one up to being “occupied”. So we beat feet out of there.

God save us, we never saw the owners of the moonshine operations.

But on our way back it was getting dark – in fact it was dark. We ran smack dab into some slack-jawed yockle teenagers in a pickup truck sitting out in a field near the tracks drinking beer. Hooray!!

We tried going around them … but I think we got too close. I heard a girl yell, “What the hell is that out there!”

“I saw a bear!”

“I’ve never shot a bear before… *click* “

Us =

The three of us said in total unison – RUN! And we hauled ass out of there. I never heard a shot fired, but we just about pissed ourselves by the time we got to the railroad tracks and back to the college.

 

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ROFL


I hope the graves story is just as interesting.

 

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The graves themselves are not interesting in terms of finding them.

The stories around it relate to really good excuses to have all night parties in the theater.


Here's the story:

The theater is building 2 of 3 that is an original from the first building of the college in 1905. The third building left standing is the President of the College's house.

The documents from 1905 had an incident report in it that showed 3 migrant workers were killed when the wall of the theater collapsed during construction. They were buried on the scene due to the fact that their bodies couldn't be shipped back home.


They were buried under the theater "under the southern wall."

Now what does this mean to a senior at college who has keys to ever facility on the campus? Nothing. Except one hell of an all-night ghost party. We didn't plan on a party. We wanted to do our own ghost hunting expidition. Was the theater haunted?

Our second objective was a typical horror movie orgy.


Fact: Thespians are sluts.


We (me, my roommate, and 2 other geeks) invited all the hot ones to our ghost hunting camp out in the theater. And by hot I mean the nerdy looking thespian chicks cause the really hot thespians majors were out boinking the football players.


So at 11pm we got inside and camped out on the stage of the theater. With beer. And chicks. And with enough beer even the nerdy girls started looking tapable.


By 12am the rest of my dorm caught wind of what was going on in the theater - does anything really remain a secret on a college campus? Not really.

So from 12am until roughly 3 the theater started crawling with every smartass who wanted to pull a prank. Finally, at 3am, and roughly 40 college drunk college kids in the theater with music blasting through the theater sound system, College Security showed up and we scattered.

Did we ever find out if the theater was haunted or if the graves were ever really there?

No.

But it's always been a great way to get a hot thespian chick alone in the theater at night.

 

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Very true. Every Thespian I've known has been one horny little chica...Band chicks and Choir chicks are usually just as bad.

 

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lol good stuff

Nice read, interesting stories lol...nice to know a bit about ya!

 

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Hey I grew up in Bedford County which is a short while away from Ferrum.


Have several friends who go there as well.

 

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" My former board name was DrJekyll when I played AC. Once I moved to WoW I made a new handle as Abednego."


*SLAPS FOREHEAD WITH HAND*


This....I did not know.

 

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