Bet with my wife.

[Toro 1]

Here is a copy (named changed to protect the innocent):

 

Dear Boo.

 

I have a proposal for you. There are certain things you want and there are certain things that I want. So I figure we can make a little wager. I seem to be motivated by proving to you that I can do something so we will use that to your advantage.

 

I want a motorcycle. Granted I need to get rid of my truck, but that is a seperate issue that I will handle no matter what in the next couple of months. So let's stick the basics here. The two motorcycles I am looking at are going to cost around 7,000 dollars. They are the Honda VTX and the Kawasaki Vulcan and they will be used, either 2004 or 2005 but for the purposes going forward, the budget is 7,000. No more than that. Here's some ideas...

 

Kawasaki: http://motors.listings.ebay.com/Kawasaki_V...ListingItemList

 

Honda: http://motors.listings.ebay.com/Honda_VTX_...ListingItemList

 

 

 

The bet.

 

I quit smoking and dipping on August 1st. For every month that I quit, I will add 1,000 dollars to a special savings account. On Feb 1st 2007, the total in the account will be 6,000 dollars and will be used for a motorcycle. No questions. No arguments.

 

Now, I know what you are asking right now. What's in it for me? The answer is actually a 4 part answer.

 

1) If I do not quit, I will forfeit any chances to get a motorcycle for the next 20 years.

2) Any money in the motorcycle savings will immediately go to you for whatever purposes you see fit. I have no say, no arguments, and forfeit any and all rights to any input on how that money is spent. You want to buy $3,000 worth of pug posters and scrapbooking materials - it's yours. You want to take a cruise with Jacky (our neighbor) - done.

3) Even after I get the motorcycle, I will be forced to sell it with NO QUESTIONS ASKED if you ever catch me smoking or dipping and you will receive that money. No excuses that it's cookoff. No excuses that I was drunk. No excuses. You catch me, I get rid of it. This way you have leverage on me even after that date to make sure that you never have to deal with my bad habit again.

4) The final one. You don't have to deal with me smoking or dipping anymore.

 

Some possible questions:

1) The money is deposited on the 1st of the month. So on August first, the account will get 1,000 bucks. So you don't have to wait a month to have a benefit to winning. If I can't make it a day, you get a grand.

2) I will retake the motorcycle safety course regardless.

3) This will be a very VERY public bet. We will tell all of my friends, your friends, my family, your family. That way you have help. You simply have to let everyone know that there is a bounty on my head. If they catch me smoking or dipping, then offer them a finders fee. You still get cash and they get cash. I think my friends will help me to quit.

4) I will be seeking help in the form of joining a support group from http://www.nicotine-anonymous.org and I will attend meetings for as long as it takes. It is obvious that my current methods of quitting have gotten me nowhere. Time to try something else.

5) I will also be quitting drinking for at least the first 3 month, starting on August 1st. I have learned from my past failures that alcohol is my trigger and intoxication has always been my excuse for failing to quit. If one is going to go, then the other has to as well.

 

Think about this and we will talk about it tonight.

 

Toro

[Mungwater 597]

quitter

 

Honestly, I need to as well, 1K a month and a motorcycle seems like pretty good motivation.

 

I think I need to try something like this..

 

I don't know your wife, but sounds like win/win

[proninja 0]

Good luck man.

[Toro 1]

I don't know your wife, but sounds like win/win

 

That's what I am thinking. I need to quit but the normal motivations just don't do it for me. Pictures of black lungs and commercials with guys with holes in their necks for some reason don't scare me. They SHOULD. But they don't.

[TAS 2]

You will lose. The will power is weak! "A" for effort though!

[edjr 6,593]

Here's to you Toro.

 

*lights up even though he doesn't smoke*

[Brown Eyed Girl 1]

Sounds more than fair to me.

[itsjjw 0]

That is so sweet, I hope she does it for you.

[Jeff Garcia 8]

Why do you need any more motivation to quit smoking? I would think this would be enough. Or how about sitting in a hospital bed dying of some disease while your wife and kids sit next to you crying. Or if you're the "right now" type, lower insurance rates.

[Artist Formerly Known as Big O 0]

Sucks to be you.

 

 

<<<<<sitting here, working from home with a fat dip of Skoal Long cut

[Strike 5,553]

Toro,

 

That is a very fair and reasonable bet. I hope you get your motorcycle

[hoytdwow 202]

Quit being a poosay ass dooshbag and just quit. It's not hard.

[cmh6476 1,025]

go draft homo

[torridjoe 48]

Is this really Toro?

 

sets tangible goal

makes the decision to quit highly public

establishes consequences for backsliding

 

That's exactly what you're supposed to do when quitting smoking/losing weight/whatever.

Which is why I'm wondering who is using your account.

[cmh6476 1,025]

Sucks to be you.

<<<<<sitting here, working from home with a fat dip of Skoal Long cut

 

 

I hate you. I have spent countless wasted hours playing chess at media division since you posted the link

[parrot 789]

Here's to Toro speeding up the natural selection process with a motorcycle.

 

Not that I think you will make it.

[supermike80 1,913]

Why do you need any more motivation to quit smoking? I would think this would be enough. Or how about sitting in a hospital bed dying of some disease while your wife and kids sit next to you crying. Or if you're the "right now" type, lower insurance rates.

 

Yeah yeah yeah...Spoken like a true non-smoker. Fact is, its ADDICTIVE. Hugely, painfully, controllingly addictive. Smokers know all about the risks, it's impossible in this age not to. But nicotine is impossibly hard to quit.

 

I smoked for 20 years and finally quit about 3 years ago and am incredibly happy I did. However it was BY FAR the hardest thing I have ever had to do. Good luck man. Don't listen to the non smokers who simply have no idea what it's like.

[parrot 789]

Is this really Toro?

 

sets tangible goal

makes the decision to quit highly public

establishes consequences for backsliding

 

That's exactly what you're supposed to do when quitting smoking/losing weight/whatever.

Which is why I'm wondering who is using your account.

This is the same Toro who quit the bored forever.

[Strike 5,553]

This is the same Toro who quit the bored forever.

 

We could offer him a motorcycle if he left......i'm not pitching in though. His poorly thought out responses make me laugh

[Artist Formerly Known as Big O 0]

I hate you. I have spent countless wasted hours playing chess at media division since you posted the link

 

 

 

HTH

 

 

They need to update the engine. It's getting way too easy to beat even the hardest setting, but free is always good.

[frank 2,307]

So she could use the money to hire male prostitutes?

[TimmySmith 2,782]

What about the amphetamines?

[edjr 6,593]

I thought bets with your wife usually ended in one of you sucking off a stranger?

[VikesNation 0]

I call BS, you don't earn $1000 per month.

[stop talking cheerleader 0]

I would go for it, of course the wager would have to be a lower monthly amount like $500, but if I think about it, 30FBT prob spends that in alcohol, chew and ciggs alone. Hey 30FBT...if you like this, since I know you want a motercycle, I'll agree to this with you ALL TERMS-----Including quiting as a lifelong thing

 

Good Luck Toro

[Dr. Fill 0]

Why do you need any more motivation to quit smoking? I would think this would be enough. Or how about sitting in a hospital bed dying of some disease while your wife and kids sit next to you crying. Or if you're the "right now" type, lower insurance rates.

 

Just like you would think that Aids would make you want to stop sucking dycks. How's that working for you?

[paulinstl 296]

Seems like a deal she can't refuse. Good luck!

[BlackClouds 24]

Dear Boo

 

I stopped reading after this.

[The Elevator Killer 557]

I call BS, you don't earn $1000 per month.

 

You're calling Barbara Streisand? Why would she care how much Toro makes. Unless she's his MIL.

[phillybear 366]

She isn't going to buy you a helmet. She is trying to kill you.

 

My advice to you is just follow along with her plan step by step. Good luck with that.

[VikesNation 0]

You're calling Barbara Streisand? Why would she care how much Toro makes. Unless she's his MIL.

Why don't you make like an elevator and kill yourself?

[bob_probert_2000 1]

I think she'd prolly like to see you quit smoking cack first, but the tobacco is probably more quitable for you.

 

 

 

 

 

alsogoodluck.

[Electric Mayhem 35]

:cracks knuckles:

 

First, if you quit for a bet or a motorcycle, you will never be an ex-smoker. You will be a smoker that isn't currently smoking, and you will always WANT to have a cig/dip for the rest of your life, and it's a sh1tty way to live. You have to quit because you really want to stop and no other reason. I don't want to poo-poo you efforts, that's just the way it is.

 

Second, this whole thing reeks of "You want me to quit so bad? Then you'd better offer me someting freakin' fantastic!!!". The way it sounds, if you do something she wants, you get a reward, and if you fail she gets rewarded. That pretty much sucks no matter how you look at it. She is the bad guy in this situation. Quit for you, not because she wants you to so badly that she has to be willing to use your SHARED RESOURCES TO BUY YOU A TOY.

 

Third, motorcycles are dangerous. You're probably trading in a slow agonizing death through cancer/emphazehma (sp?) for a quick Rothlesburger-esque mashing.

 

That is all.

[mulletia 0]

why do you hate america?

[The Elevator Killer 557]

Why don't you make like an elevator and kill yourself?

 

 

Careful or I'll delete you. I hate when my alias' smart off to me.

[VikesNation 0]

Careful or I'll delete you. I hate when my alias' smart off to me.

Hey that reminds me, when is the Bad Santa-The Pope championship bout?

[dirty dug 0]

Yeah yeah yeah...Spoken like a true non-smoker. Fact is, its ADDICTIVE. Hugely, painfully, controllingly addictive. Smokers know all about the risks, it's impossible in this age not to. But nicotine is impossibly hard to quit.

 

I smoked for 20 years and finally quit about 3 years ago and am incredibly happy I did. However it was BY FAR the hardest thing I have ever had to do. Good luck man. Don't listen to the non smokers who simply have no idea what it's like.

 

I'm a non-smoker and one of the main reasons (besides the fact that sticking a burning pience of leaves in my mouth and sucking sounds about as unappealing as anything) is that I would never want my family to have to watch me die of a disease that I alone created. I couldn't hug my grandmother when she was dying because it was too painful.

 

Despite it's addictiveness, if that's not motivation enough to quit you a) truly don't want to quit and truly don't care about your family. Addictions are cureable.

[BRANDON ROSS 0]

My secret to quit smoking...Do 10 pushups every time you have a strong urge to smoke. You shift your addiction to the endorphins that are released, but working out is a much easier habit to break than smoking. God bless!

[The Elevator Killer 557]

I stopped reading after this.

 

He married Robert DeNiro's character from To Kill a Mockingbird?

 

 

Hey that reminds me, when is the Bad Santa-The Pope championship bout?

 

 

Right after you finish entertaining football players off shore.

[ArnieBragg 1]

He married Robert DeNiro's character from To Kill a Mockingbird?

 

Right after you finish entertaining football players off shore.

 

Duvall