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Did you lose your ticket in 2004 or 2005? in Empire...

Post by TomServo » Sat May 16, 2009 2:31 pm

I took the bus into Empire, from Black Rock City...in around 2004---2005, to get some extra stuff. I found a fresh ticket, by the porta-potties at the gas station. Figuring, the tickets owner would be looking for it, I gave it to the cashier at the Empire store...rather than it be blown away, in the wind..
As the bus returned, turning off the pavement, I saw a girl by her car...with a sign that read "I NEED A MIRACLE!" At the gate, the gate staffer who checked the bus was a complete asshole, and refused to let me exit the bus, run back and let the girl know I had found her ticket. The bus driver wasn't much better..and I had to bribe that fucking hippie with beer, just so he would stop and tell the girl, on his return trip.
This has been bugging me for years, and it would be a great relief to hear that she got her ticket! Was it you? or do you know her? Think I was specific enough with the details...
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Post by oneeyeddick » Sat May 16, 2009 3:21 pm

The " I need a miracle" girl was brought in by one of the locals from my camp, I think it was 2004, she went off to center camp, came back a few hour later, said she found the note on the board right where her friends said they would leave it, I gave her a ride to her camp on my MV and I never saw her again...she wasn't with a themecamp, and I don't remember exactly where her frinds camped (8:00 & D,E ?), she said she lost her ticket at the store....prolly the same ticket/person.

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Post by mdmf007 » Sat May 16, 2009 6:43 pm

One eye made that up so you can sleep better. The gal that lost the ticket ended up a drug addict and is still turning tricks at Brunos for food and meth. If only you could have gone back, she wouldnt have missed the burn, and missed her ride out.

darn.......................

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Post by TomServo » Sat May 16, 2009 7:56 pm

mdmf007 wrote:One eye made that up so you can sleep better. The gal that lost the ticket ended up a drug addict and is still turning tricks at Brunos for food and meth. If only you could have gone back, she wouldnt have missed the burn, and missed her ride out.

darn.......................
If what you say is true..Then I think I met her at the ranch. She's married now, so I really can't say much else. I'm glad she found her way though!!
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Post by ibdave » Sat May 16, 2009 7:58 pm

mdmf007 wrote:One eye made that up so you can sleep better. The gal that lost the ticket ended up a drug addict and is still turning tricks at Brunos for food and meth. If only you could have gone back, she wouldnt have missed the burn, and missed her ride out.

darn.......................

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Post by TomServo » Sat May 16, 2009 8:04 pm

ibdave wrote:
mdmf007 wrote:One eye made that up so you can sleep better. The gal that lost the ticket ended up a drug addict and is still turning tricks at Brunos for food and meth. If only you could have gone back, she wouldnt have missed the burn, and missed her ride out.

darn.......................

SNAP......
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Post by oneeyeddick » Sat May 16, 2009 10:42 pm

mdmf007 wrote:One eye made that up so you can sleep better. The gal that lost the ticket ended up a drug addict and is still turning tricks at Brunos for food and meth. If only you could have gone back, she wouldnt have missed the burn, and missed her ride out.

darn.......................
That description covers every female DPW that works at the Ranch on work weekends.

It's not a bad life, I suppose, except maybe for the brandings.
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Post by Bob » Sat May 16, 2009 10:58 pm

Why do *any* of you people ever leave Gerlach?
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Post by ygmir » Sun May 17, 2009 6:17 am

who says they do, Bob?
you don't know where they are sitting naked (except for pink bunny slippers) at the keyboard, typing and listening to Waylon Jennings........
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Post by Sail Man » Sun May 17, 2009 9:18 am

ygmir wrote:who says they do, Bob?
you don't know where they are sitting naked (except for pink bunny slippers) at the keyboard, typing and listening to Waylon Jennings........
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Post by theCryptofishist » Sun May 17, 2009 3:58 pm

Bob wrote:Why do *any* of you people ever leave Gerlach?
I get chased out with a cattle prod.
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Post by TomServo » Mon May 18, 2009 12:12 pm

ygmir wrote:who says they do, Bob?
you don't know where they are sitting naked (except for pink bunny slippers) at the keyboard, typing and listening to Waylon Jennings........
I was wearing my rubber duck footy pajamas, listening to Johnny Cash...ironically enough. I'm gonna have to invest in some pink bunny slippers though!
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Post by mdmf007 » Mon May 18, 2009 3:26 pm

After losing her ticket in Gerlach. This is what became of the gal. (look behind Brunos bar)

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Post by mykidsdaddy » Mon May 18, 2009 9:48 pm

ygmir wrote:who says they do, Bob?
you don't know where they are sitting naked (except for pink bunny slippers) at the keyboard, typing and listening to Waylon Jennings........
Ya just NEVER KNOW!!!
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Post by ygmir » Mon May 18, 2009 10:01 pm

mykidsdaddy wrote:
ygmir wrote:who says they do, Bob?
you don't know where they are sitting naked (except for pink bunny slippers) at the keyboard, typing and listening to Waylon Jennings........
Ya just NEVER KNOW!!!
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you had to do that........didn't you.......
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Post by mykidsdaddy » Mon May 18, 2009 11:04 pm

Just consider this a "Public Service Announcement". A reminder to young women everywhere...that 6ft 6in sophmore at Stanford, probably isn't~

And besides that...ya gotta admit...funny as hell!!!
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Post by Sail Man » Tue May 19, 2009 3:09 pm

He's 6'6" allright...

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Post by theCryptofishist » Tue May 19, 2009 10:00 pm

I don't see any bunny slippers.
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Post by mykidsdaddy » Tue May 19, 2009 10:35 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:I don't see any bunny slippers.
Hahahahaha...neither does he!!!
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