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Where in the World Isn't Bob Saget?
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Earlier this school year, on my commute to work, I looked down to change the temperature. As I looked up, I saw a tire blowing off a semi and across the lanes. I was far enough back, so I slowed down. But the truck kept going. And going. And going. Smoke coming out. Quite noticeable. But the truck kept going. So I ended up making the decision to speed up and pass it before something else bad happened, and I got caught in the middle of it.This is not a joke but I just followed a car from the high bridge on 1st Ave to where it turned onto Strode Ave. Driving on 3 tires and a metal rim
Figgy1
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You deserve it more because you have more of them, I only have 2 but they invite friends
Figgy1
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Thank you for sharing, I'm not going to make it down that way until late spring at the earliest. I'm just hoping to make it out to the Scranton area to get some wine before Christmas
Didn't know you made it to Southwest Wisconsin that often. And while wine goes well with it, we're more known for our cheese.
I would agree. The lows the next two days are -13 and -14 degrees. It's not even winter yet, and we've had harsher winter weather this year than the past couple. This will be our first white Christmas in a while.I meant to quote @trr1, Haven't been out your way since my nephew was little but it was nice in summer, winter not so much
Songbird76
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It's not in Oz. The animals were escaping Oz because it wasn't safe anymore. They had to cross that barron area to get to a safe place. At least I think that's what it said....I'd have to watch it again to be sure. I've only seen it once.Could very well be true, but I can't figure out the barron, dead looking area that they were both walking through together. I didn't look anything like the surroundings that OZ was located in.
Songbird76
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I feel so bad!! So, some women of my acquaintance were discussing how bad their men folk (husbands, fathers, etc) are at gift giving, and I was reflecting at the past couple of Christmases, one of which I got nothing. I'm the one who buys the kids' gifts and I got a couple of things for DH as well, but when Christmas rolled around, I was watching them all open presents and didn't have anything myself to open. My husband hadn't gotten anything for me because he assumed I would buy my own gifts or that we would just do gifts for the kids. So last year, I ordered some Disney cookbooks for myself and wrapped them, and those were the only gifts I had besides several sets of dishtowels which my husband bought because he was tired of me getting upset when he used my good dish towels to mop up spills on the floor and such. I have 2 piles of towels....the nice dish towels in matching sets (drying cloth and hand towel) and the miscellaneous stained and/or ripped clothes for mopping up spills. It's very obvious which is which, and I have told him numerous times to please use the stained and ripped clothes for spills and such, and keep the nice towels for the dishes...I only had a few sets, which I wash often and didn't have enough of. So he bought me like 8 sets of dishtowels so he doesn't have to bother to look at which towel he is grabbing. Anyway, I was wrapping the presents for everyone and noticed there was nothing for me again. So I asked my husband if he had gotten me anything and he said "No. I didn't know what you want." Now, to be fair, I did not give him a list. But he KNOWS I'm a big reader, and I have a list in Drive that he has access to with the 700 books I already HAVE, and I have goodreads, which he has access to with all the books I WANT to read. Pick literally ANY book not on the list of books I own. Any book! He knows I like to go out to eat because cooking gets old. Get me a gift certificate for a restaurant. He knows where I buy clothes....get me a gift certificate for one of those stores. He knows I like to craft. Get me craft supplies, or a gift certificate. It's REALLY not that hard, it just involves thinking about me and my interests. Instead, he told me to order some stuff for myself.
So E said no, don't buy your own gifts, I will take care of it and I'll work it out with dad to pay for them. So she's been getting all these things for me. Yesterday, I get a phone call from a number I don't know. I was at work, so I called back after I was home, and it was the bookstore. Very rude....didn't say hello or tell me the name of the store I was calling, just said "We're very busy. We might get back to you later" and he hung up. I didn't even get to tell him what I was calling about. That's literally how he answered the phone...."We're very busy" with no other greeting. But my caller ID then said it was the bookstore, so I called them back this morning, and the woman says my book is in. I do order books a lot, so it was perfectly plausible, but I couldn't remember ordering anything recently that I hadn't already gotten. So I asked her which book it was, and it IS one I had on my list. E and I have a Christmas tradition of gifting each other a book on Christmas eve to read that night, and we make a list of 4 or 5 to choose from so it's still a surprise which one we get. This book was on the list I gave her. I panicked, thinking I had already ordered it and I forgot and she might get me that for Christmas. Then I thought...wait a minute....she was taking over my gift buying...what if SHE ordered it and that's why I didn't remember. I went through my emails to see if there was a confirmation for this book...nope. I never ordered it. It turns out she DID order it, and she even ordered it with HER name and phone number and email address, but when it came in, they checked the physical address so they don't give it to someone with the same name, but they didn't check her name and phone number. They just used the information they had in the system and called ME. So the surprise is ruined, and if I had been a bit quicker, I would have understood what happened and I wouldn't have asked which book it was. I feel so bad. This book store has a HORRIBLE track record with orders. It goes wrong more often than it goes right.
One time, I ordered a book, but they didn't have it on their main source, they had to order it from a different one, and they were busy, so they wrote it down to order later. Months later, it still hadn't come in, and they had told me it could be a while, but I went to check if there was any news. They had completely forgotten to order it....there was no record of that order. Another time, I ordered a book, it was supposed to be in by a certain date. I never got a call, so I went in to ask about it, and they said "Oh! We have that in stock!" They had gotten it in, but instead of calling me to come pick it up, they had put it on the shelf so anyone could buy it. Another time, they told me a book would be in on Tuesday, I went in on Wednesday because I hadn't gotten a call. It was there, but they had forgotten to call. So now, after today's debacle, I think I'm going to have to stop ordering books from them. They are fine if you just want to go in and browse and buy something off the shelf, but ordering almost always goes wrong, and the owner people are not very customer friendly. I recognized his voice as the one who picked up last night. And his wife came into the store where I work a couple of weeks ago and I was the one who helped her and she told me she worked at the book store....Um...I know....I shop there regularly and I see you there all the time. You don't even recognize your regular customers?? I'd also applied to work there several times when I was looking for a new job. How do they not recognize me by now? Anyway, the other people who work there are usually lovely and friendly. It's just the owners, but they are the only regular book store in town. E works at a store that sells books and DVDs and craft supplies, but most of the books are like cookbooks, travel books, self help, and the novels they have are all in Dutch, translated from English. They don't sell books in English, and you can't order from there. So now it looks like I'll have to go all the way to Arnhem for books now.
But I feel bad I ruined the surprise. She tried to do something nice for me to make sure I had Christmas presents that I didn't know I was getting, and now I know. It's only the one present, and it's totally not my fault...why they didn't check the phone number on the order, I don't know. But if I hadn't asked which book it was, it would still be a surprise. I should have put 2 and 2 together a bit faster.
So E said no, don't buy your own gifts, I will take care of it and I'll work it out with dad to pay for them. So she's been getting all these things for me. Yesterday, I get a phone call from a number I don't know. I was at work, so I called back after I was home, and it was the bookstore. Very rude....didn't say hello or tell me the name of the store I was calling, just said "We're very busy. We might get back to you later" and he hung up. I didn't even get to tell him what I was calling about. That's literally how he answered the phone...."We're very busy" with no other greeting. But my caller ID then said it was the bookstore, so I called them back this morning, and the woman says my book is in. I do order books a lot, so it was perfectly plausible, but I couldn't remember ordering anything recently that I hadn't already gotten. So I asked her which book it was, and it IS one I had on my list. E and I have a Christmas tradition of gifting each other a book on Christmas eve to read that night, and we make a list of 4 or 5 to choose from so it's still a surprise which one we get. This book was on the list I gave her. I panicked, thinking I had already ordered it and I forgot and she might get me that for Christmas. Then I thought...wait a minute....she was taking over my gift buying...what if SHE ordered it and that's why I didn't remember. I went through my emails to see if there was a confirmation for this book...nope. I never ordered it. It turns out she DID order it, and she even ordered it with HER name and phone number and email address, but when it came in, they checked the physical address so they don't give it to someone with the same name, but they didn't check her name and phone number. They just used the information they had in the system and called ME. So the surprise is ruined, and if I had been a bit quicker, I would have understood what happened and I wouldn't have asked which book it was. I feel so bad. This book store has a HORRIBLE track record with orders. It goes wrong more often than it goes right.
One time, I ordered a book, but they didn't have it on their main source, they had to order it from a different one, and they were busy, so they wrote it down to order later. Months later, it still hadn't come in, and they had told me it could be a while, but I went to check if there was any news. They had completely forgotten to order it....there was no record of that order. Another time, I ordered a book, it was supposed to be in by a certain date. I never got a call, so I went in to ask about it, and they said "Oh! We have that in stock!" They had gotten it in, but instead of calling me to come pick it up, they had put it on the shelf so anyone could buy it. Another time, they told me a book would be in on Tuesday, I went in on Wednesday because I hadn't gotten a call. It was there, but they had forgotten to call. So now, after today's debacle, I think I'm going to have to stop ordering books from them. They are fine if you just want to go in and browse and buy something off the shelf, but ordering almost always goes wrong, and the owner people are not very customer friendly. I recognized his voice as the one who picked up last night. And his wife came into the store where I work a couple of weeks ago and I was the one who helped her and she told me she worked at the book store....Um...I know....I shop there regularly and I see you there all the time. You don't even recognize your regular customers?? I'd also applied to work there several times when I was looking for a new job. How do they not recognize me by now? Anyway, the other people who work there are usually lovely and friendly. It's just the owners, but they are the only regular book store in town. E works at a store that sells books and DVDs and craft supplies, but most of the books are like cookbooks, travel books, self help, and the novels they have are all in Dutch, translated from English. They don't sell books in English, and you can't order from there. So now it looks like I'll have to go all the way to Arnhem for books now.
But I feel bad I ruined the surprise. She tried to do something nice for me to make sure I had Christmas presents that I didn't know I was getting, and now I know. It's only the one present, and it's totally not my fault...why they didn't check the phone number on the order, I don't know. But if I hadn't asked which book it was, it would still be a surprise. I should have put 2 and 2 together a bit faster.
Goofyernmost
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Just confirms my theory that there is way to much stupid among us. So much so I start to wonder if it might be me that is a very dim light on the tree and all those other three wheelers are at Einstein level intelligence.This is not a joke but I just followed a car from the high bridge on 1st Ave to where it turned onto Strode Ave. Driving on 3 tires and a metal rim
donaldtoo
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I just checked via the interwebs, and La Chouffe is available in a number of places around here, including our local Hā¢Eā¢B grocery store just down the streetā¦!!!
I have yet to try that one, but, so far, I have yet to meet a Belgian/Belgian-style beer or ale I didnāt likeā¦!!!
donaldtoo
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My first job was at a local go-kart track. It was owned/run by a WWII vet and his wife.
He talked quite a bit about his time in the war, but he was never in direct combat, as he was a Navy Seabee (Construction Battalion).
I remember him talking about Saipan and Peleliu.
He actually once made the cover of Stars and Stripes. He was driving a jeep across an airstrip on a recently taken island when a hiding, holdout Japanese soldier took a potshot at him. Bullet went through his capā¦missed his head by about a half inch. Iāve seen his copy.
Unfortunately, he passed many years ago.
On a side noteā¦
That go-kart track was the coolest job a high school kid couldāve ever wantedā¦!!!
Everyone else we knew were workinā at burger places, pizza places, etc., and werenāt very happy about it.
It was hard work, but we had fun.
Hard work in the sense that (among other reasons) the whole outside and inside of the track was lined with old tires to keep riders from goinā too far off the track, if they bumped each other (which they werenāt supposed to do in the first place) or lost control. We were always takinā karts out to go straighten up the tires.
Eventually, the owner came up with the idea of linking them together with baling wire, in numbers that werenāt too large for us to just drag back into place. Either way, the tires were a workout.
It could also get interesting when it rained and the tires would collect waterā¦many a rider got a bit wet when they smashed into āemā¦!!!!!
He also built custom go-karts. He had a pipe/tube steel bender, welding equipment, etc. We helped him build them, as time allowed, and we got to test drive them, before the clients came to pick them up. They had Sachs 2-stroke motors that would make them be able to do up to 60 mphā¦!!!!!!!
Anyway, good timesā¦!!!
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donaldtoo
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This is not a joke but I just followed a car from the high bridge on 1st Ave to where it turned onto Strode Ave. Driving on 3 tires and a metal rim
Not a joke, but Iām still laughingā¦!!!!!
I generally spend 3 days baking Christmas cookies. 12 different ones.
The 12 Cookies of Christmas.
A good few years ago, I wondered whether the people I was giving them to really wanted them, and if it was worth the effort. So I cut back to 6 or 8, and got some feedback that let me know, yes, friends and family (especially family) really did look forward to the 12.
