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If you were at Knoxville and had to be back home for work on Monday what would you do? Tough times make you think you should eat the tickets and get to work but on the other hand would you just call in to work and stay for the races? Of course i'm baseing this question on you travelling to far a distance to be able to make it home for work. I know i'm setting myself up for some comical answers here but also looking for honest opinions as to what you would do.

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Call in sick :3: you didn't go all that way and spend all that money for nothing

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Yes Sir....thats what I would also be doin IF work was still gettin in da way!!.... TIM...Glad to see you're still with us!!....after ur Bday celebration!!........
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If I remember that happened to me in 1982 (somewhere in there) and I drove home afterwards but I didn't live nearly so far away. When I would be leaving one of these long race trips on a Sunday night a friend of mine from Oklahoma City would always say "sometimes a man has got to suffer"

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Tim, this happened to us the other year at the PAS Oval National's. We seen on Friday that Saturday looked like a wash-out so we called the airport to see what it would cost to change our flight to Monday morning. It would have cost an extra 100 dollars per flight ticket, extra night for the hotel, extra day for the rent-a-car, another day of eating out and the loss of a day's work for Karen and I. So to stay for one race (even though it was the big one), it would have cost us about 1000 dollars, so to answer your question:2:, we came home.....:7:

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Ummmmmmmm........Cough Cough..........Don't think I will be able to make it in today.........

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Work is what we do all year so we can enjoy our trips like this.They can do without you for one extra day.Let the dirt fly and the beer roll!!!

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I called in for the Indy 500 that ran on Tuesday(forget which year and too lazy to look it up) and my boss said "why did you bother calling I KNEW you werent coming in". OF course I had only a 15 minute drive each way to the track too.:2:

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The really cool thing about watching a race, then driving home all night, then working an entire work day without any sleep is that you get to have a series of really good hallucinations about the race you saw, last night. I don't know if that would apply to winged racing, though. It might just translate into one extended nightmare.:3:

Jerry

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Tim,

That is good of you to be astute of how important a job ( of any kind ) is nowadays. I used to NEVER miss work. I finally turned a new leaf ,and now it is,, if I am somewhere in your situation,it is call the salt mines and just tell the gal that does the payroll," Put me down for a personal day,or sick day whatever you want". End of story. Unless you really feel guilty in depriving the Ms, and kid(s) of not being there,then that's a different story and I would head back for home!

Take Care

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At the 1982 Knoxville Nationals, a Sunday nighter, I stayed the entire program and left Knoxville at midnight. I had to be to work at 7:00am and got home at 6:30am, took a shower, put on a clean white shirt and tie and was at work at 7:02am. But I should have stayed home because I wasn't very productive all day. Would I do it again? Yes, if I was 30 years younger.

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Tim, you know me well enough to know that I suffer from anal glaucoma. It gets worse as retirement day gets closer (2 years and 7 days as of tomorrow, Monday).

Does that answer your question?

In my younger days I'd have gone to work minus sleep. Key word: younger.:6:

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Then again, in your younger days the Knoxville Nationals hadn't been thought of yet.

Had Iowa become a state yet??? :11:

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Openly admit to having a Methanol addiction and am getting treatment for it and that the treatment required an extra day to be effective and that I will be back on Tuesday..

Chances are if you have the bosses like I have had they aren't smart enough to realize that racecars run on methanol, hell they don't even know what methanol is.

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:5: :42::

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I had to make that decision. I decided to miss the races on Sunday. The factors that made my decision for me. Work is very busy, and we have a bunch of deadlines that can not be missed. The cost of the trip. The forecast for Sunday was not much better than it was for Saturday. Finally, not convinced that there was going to be a lot of racing on a heavy track with only two main events.

I had not been to the Nationals in over ten years. I still thought that the atmosphere was great. The racing was great. The midway was great, and I still loved the parade.

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LOL I had my mom call into school and give me permission to leave and go to that race. I signed out of school stating I would "see you in 500 miles" Luckily for me the principal's daughter was a friend of mine so I got off easy. I believe it was in 1997.

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Yes it was 1997. I was in the summer semester of college and took a radio to class to listen to the race. Luckily I got there early and got a seat in the back of class and no one ever knew i was listening to the race the entire time.

There are priorities in life and racing is #1.

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For a really important race weekend, I always planned ahead and would take Monday off ahead of time. If I didn't need it, I would just show up at work.

That's what I do now for the Dream100 and World100. If the race does run Saturday as scheduled, I look for a track running Sunday (usually Kokomo).

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Ouch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!;):3: