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Not really. Many people that I know don't even have AC. I only have a single room unit for when my dog was staying home on hot days. He's gone and I didn't even put it in the window this year.

The tractor must have been a Kioti (coyote) and the bear thought it was protecting it's lunch.

You made me think for a minute. :geek: But then I read this... Also; Whoever was at fault, it's safe to say that human error was involved.

Nice pictures, thank you for sharing tbem. Did you know that you stuttered? (2 identical posts)

The article I read included this statement; https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/oversized-trailer-hauling-a-blade-to-a-wind-turbine/

Meanwhile he's the one that everybody is POed at. I bet they don't use THAT third party service again.

I do the same as you. I also have lost things over the years so have been on both sides of the fence.

I believe this was about a job I'd applied for the night before. It just seemed odd that caller ID didn't show who it was. Very similar thing happened today, except the calls showed as Spam. Turns out it likely was UHaul calling about my reserved truck/trailer tomorrow. So WTF didn't it come up...

I was behind a landscaping crew before daylight when a seeder fell out of their truck. I flashed my lights and tried to flag them down but they just sped up instead. I could have stopped and picked it up first, then chased them down but felt I'd done my duty. On another occasion driving down the...

Ditto here. Last fall I was thinking about getting a weekend job, to morph into retirement income next spring. I applied to Lowe's and got a message saying somebody would call me. At 7:30 the next morning as I was joining a "Zoom" meeting at my real job, the phone rang with some unknown number...

Everybody except me. I leave the darned thing in the truck. In 8 months I'll be leaving it at home.

Every little bit helps!!! ;) Up here they just fade into rust.

Oh I don't know. It's hard to believe that AI can think up anything worse than some of the things I've people have done.

The orchardist I worked for years ago told of driving through town with the sickle mower on the tractor. Somebody flagged him down and pointed out the cutter bar had dropped... cleaning out several cars.

I had to think about this for a while. (I also deleted a previous reply.) If you bought a fully stocked grocery store you wouldn't declare all revenue from sales as profit. Rather, you would deduct the estimated cost of the goods you sold. Depletions work the same way. They are extracting oil...

What tax breaks? I've been asking my question for years yet most answers are actually the same expense writeoffs which every other business gets.

This doesn't surprise me. It also will drastically increase demand for copper.

Getting back to the original topic, I looked at my bill this morning. We are paying 23.44 cents/kilowatt total cost.

I have always wondered if anybody has estimated future use vs planned generation and transmission needs based on the new vision.

Until 20 or so years ago a lot of people didn't realize how versatile a tractor is. I often pick up a tree with the grapple, cut it stove length, then pick one of the larger chunks up and hold it over the woodsplitter and split it into more manageable pieces.

I heard the same thing from a trapper years ago, when I returned a couple of 280 Conibears which had fallen out of his pack. I admit I was rather disappointed when I found the tags bearing his name on it. The same disappointment I felt years later when I found an envelope containing $50 cash...

I've picked things off the road and returned them, and other things with no markings I've kept. One day I returned 3 (full) medical O2 tanks with the company name attached, apparently the delivery driver had forgotten to close his doors. A coworker said I was foolish; "you wouldn't give away a...

I'm envious!!! That package is more well travelled than I am.

For some reason this picture and the ongoing discussion has me envisioning Pappy Boyington going out to get each of these started.

Welcome to TBN! If you look closer you will note that the 5th digit from the left (or 4th from the right) is different.

If the water level drops below the sensor it won't register the high temp. Plus... .

I can safely say that the next person killed by an alligator here will be the first.

It's just a redistribution of wealth. Don't get me wrong, I believe we need to keep our air clean. Prevailing winds mean that we get all of the crap which the rest of you spew into the air. Yet I also believe that 30 years from now they will be complaining about the detriments of electric the...

This makes sense. The posts I questioned made it sound like they need a spark, the way that an auto alternator does. What bugs me is that we are spending all of this effort and money to "modernize" our electrical infrastructure; yet I see no attempt to protect it. Look at what one idget did...

Ouch! That stinks!

It sounds like you have tame alligators in Louisiana. Thank Amos Moses for that. :)

So back your starement up with facts. I looked before making my posts, yet couldn't find where these comments had any merit. I drive past a lot of windmills, yet have never seen one with an oil truck parked on top filling a diesel tank.

I call BS on this.

I have to call BS on this!

HOW do you use so much electricity? Are you an Amazon hub?

They also taste like cardboard. When it comes to storing apples, variety matters. Most of your commercially grown fruit is bred for uniformity, eye appeal, and ease of shipping. Raise some old varieties such as Winesap, Golden Russet, Northern Spy or other long keepers and you will be ahead of...

And THIS says it all, no matter what country you live in! (y)

We used to have raw milk delivered in an old '53 Chevy pickup in 2 1/2 and 5 gallon containers. I have one of the small cans up in my shed. When that farm retired we started getting processed milk delivered in 1/2 gallon glass bottles... 6 bottles, 3 times every week.

A few years ago I went to hook up my rotary mower and found that hornets had built a nest under the deck. I carefully hooked it up then started the tractor, engaged the pto, let the clutch out and suddenly there was no nest!

Have you considered a Cool Bot...

I've learned to bring a book into the Dr office.

The problem isn't the Jake. Rather, it's the idiots misusing them. There is no need to come up on a traffic light blipping the throttle with straight pipes, just to be obnoxious. Rather like the above mentioned Harleys.

He also did another with Johnny Cash, later in life. "Murder in Coweta County", based on a true story. https://www.tvguide.com/movies/murder-in-coweta-county/cast/2030125281/

^^^ Thank you!

When you run out of ways to make money...

Water adds a lot of weight to material. I could be mistaken but your tractor likely is fine, you're just underestimating the load.

Driving too fast... I'd call that a gross understatement!

Most definitely! It's downright cruel to post a picture like this with no followup...

I've waited a week, hoping to read about an accident in the paper and maybe find a picture to post. There must not have been any fatalities which would be a miracle. On the way home last Sunday I passed the aftermath of what must have been a headon crash. Both full sized pickups were in the...

I went to NY this spring and didn't have a transponder so had to do it by license plate. I dutifully set up an account with them and waited for an invoice so that I could pass it on to the client. And waited... I was there from April 27 to May 1. They finally sent me a text on 7/16 telling me my...

I thought I was the only person in the world who could say this!!!

I do like my alloy wheels. Unlike steel, they don't have a gap on the ouside for mud and ice to build up in. I've seen times when I had to pull all 4 wheels just to chip the ice out of them.

They seem to be getting shorter and shorter. Sometimes I think that July and August must have been removed from the calendar. And I know just what you mean about mice. I also have red squirrels to contend with, and they are even worse.

It seems like they let you build them but when it comes time to buy the site takes you to "find something similar." That similar is often some decked out overpriced pimpmobile as they really don't make the base model you just built.

I read it, thinking the OP was going to tell us he'd bought the place! Funny how that works sometimes. The spam post reported amd deleted, then it looks like the next poster in line bumped an old thread.

That's when I fasten mine and sit on it.

I don't mind that anymore. If I'm working around my property I fasten the belt behind my back. I've worn my seatbelt religously since 1980, when I was in a junkyard and saw the damage a person's shoulder can do to the door of a '70s Ford pickup. Yet I don't understand why manufacturers need to...

This yellow jacket nest was in an old stump on my mother's lawn. I'd have sprayed it, except that a skunk got there first. There were a few left when I first discovered it. MessieurLePe came back that night and dined on leftovers. We've been mowing past it all summer, my BIL had just done the...

Trucker will argue it's an act of God but that only applies if the rocks are from tires kicked up on the road. This looks more like an insecure load, but good luck getting money out of them.

^^^^ One cold January day we were headed out to work when we came across somebody standing next to his running rental car in his shirt sleeves. We stopped and he explained he was an engineer flown into the local mill and had taken a ride before his meeting. Upon returning from getting rid of a...

I do like my remote locks. When I get up in the morning I push a button to unlock; at night when I get in I lock up again.

You can. As it gets to where you want it, push down (or up) again. I do agree that it's a pain when it starts raining, but my keys are in the truck until I go in for the night anyways.

I don't bother them unless they are in some critical area. Everything has it's purpose, even if we don't like it. Well, except cancer, smallpox, diptheria and other diseases. For some reason I don't get stung as often as other people do. I can walk past a nest and they will fly past me to sting...

In 1988 I bought a book written by the International Green Party, telling what they were all about. At the time they were about shutting down the arms race and wanted to eliminate centralized government. Their plan included splitting up North America, much as you describe. Like a dumbass I let...

I've never understood the gripe against them anyways. Sometimes it's nife to open the passenger and/or rear windows from the driver's seat. I've put hundreds of thousands of miles on vehicles with them and had one window motor fail. I've also had the same number of manual windows fail. Edit...

Two piece lug nuts!

It's the same here with "antique auto" plates. People put them on an old wreck just to avoid safety inspections. Back in the '70s with the oil embargo, guys were putting farm plates on old trucks ao that they could sell firewood, again to avoid the safety imspections. The state wasn't long...

You guys sound like me with my tomatoes right now. As soon as they ripen the damned turkeys get into them. I covered them this morning, thinking I might pick 4 tonight. Nope. Rather than eating one or two and leaving me the rest, they had to peck at all 4.

We did that with a trailer chipper. The truck had a ball on front so one person drove while two of us lifted the butts to feed into the chute. No need to drag it twice...

Nice job!!!

That would make too much sense.

You come up with some good pictures!!! (y)

When I had my lab I used to say I had another dog out in the truck... or at least enough fur to make one.

On giving talks in general I heard ; "If they keep checking their watches, it's time to start wrapping it up. If they look at their watch, take it off and shake it incredulously you've been talking too long.

Agreed. When I was contract cruising I was on my own; I'd leave town with my dog for weeks at a time and never had anybody to check in with. That put the honus on me to be safe. One day I was the first outsider on the scene when a hiker had taken a bad fall. By the time I got there he was...

Who donates more fur when you brush them- the dog or the horses?

Now we're getting back into the realm of Nemoy and Asimov. ;)

We need ai to keep tbe politics out of what was once a good discussion.

My cousin used that phrase so many times in our last phone converaation that I finally ended it and hung up so that I could scream.

Ouch! Don't give up your day job.

I was going to mention Asimov but you beat me to it.

I view AI the way that I do Wikipedia... I skip right over it. Especially when it comes to medical questions I want to know the source.

I stopped by somebody's house yesterday to talk about a shared property line and they had a bull mastiff who was a regular fur factory. "Oh", they said. "He isn't ours, he belongs next door but comes over when they aren't home." The breed always reminds me of a pickerel... big mouth and head...

How many trees do you have? Some mills would buy logs of the size you describe. You won't get rich but limbing and selling the larger stems would be easier than chipping them... and might help offset the price of the new chipper.

Are you alone, so treating yourself or is this for when you have a buddy? Aspirin for heart attack victims. Benedryl for allergic reactions. Clotting powder and some type of bandage. Military tourniquet. I also keep a disabled cell phone when running chainsaw, after pocket dialling my mother...

It's been ongoing for years. When did automation start in Detroit?

Bunchers do have self leveling cabs. I've seen where they've grabbed a tree to pull themselves up a hill. I've also seen where they stepped back off a rock with a bunch in the boom, not realizing there was nothing underneath. It rolled.

I'd been working about 3 weeks straight but took a day off for a gathering at the family camp when 2 JW's came up and cornered me. I tried to politely get away but as you know, they're like stink on :poop: My mother noticed, came over and ran them off... then said "you don't have to be nice to...

^^^^ Nice looking lumber!

That sounds like me when I get out of bed every morning!

I would rather do that, than rent it to them. And I'm an Ace at breaking things myself!

I mention this to my siblings. When my parents ran the greenhouse, a few aunts and uncles would help out durong the busy Memorial Day season. Between customers they would compare notes about what meds the Doctors had them on. We really have become our parents.

On one of the landscaping jobs I worked to keep food on the table, I had a coworker who never held a driver's license. He was a habitual offender frpm having beem caught driving so many times, often drunk. Yet he'd worked all over the country, been a tree climber out west and had even driven a...

I agree there are other ways of punishing them. How much does "alligator alcatraz" cost to run? Let them serve their time doing community service, and go back at night to beans and rice. At least they aren't out endangering another's life.

Also the reason I sold my motorcycle 35 years ago...

First he needs to determine there is damage. Once he can demonstrate there is indeed a leak, taking it to the state level should get it resolved. In a perfect world...

I have to wonder what he ran back for. It looked like a hat but that can't be right.

If they won't do it, you can. There will be a cost involved but if you find a problem you should be able to recover it.

There is another, safer compromise. Cut it off about 4 feet above the ground. Then you have something for leverage, without the risk. It isn't just when you are working it, either. You have a tall, ? hundred pound implement sticking out the back, swaying with every movement of the tractor.

Back around 1980 there was a fatal accident at a nearby Chevrolet dealership. A newly hired salesman was sent out back to help clean up the shop. The story is, he was tasked with filling a 55 gallon drum with water when he used a lighter to see how full it was. I don't know what was originally...

They pushed solar here for a while with incentives... paid for by those of us who didn't jump on the bandwagon. The results far exceeded their goals. Now some are upset because incentives have ended.

I know. Still, there are instances where people use them for nefarious means. Look up license plate cloning... https://lifelock.norton.com/learn/fraud/license-plate-cloning

I had a little CadPlan "Caddigger" BH that a school teacher downstate welded up. I did a surprising amount of work with it, considering that it just rode on the 3pth. You had to be careful and drag rather than push; otherwise you would get slammed into the roll bar. I don't dig trees, I fell...

^^^^ As much as I refuse to talk to a phone or other electronic device, that's when it might be a tad safer to utilize voice recognition.

Nice looking logs! Soft maple? (AKA red) At the risk of sounding paranoid (I am) I like to block out my plate# before posting pictures.

I went from this To this without a pause in between. Perhaps these two should get together! 😲😲

YKYO when you reach your arms out to stretch, hear "SNAP" and your back goes out. 😵‍💫

"But it's for the kids!"

What year is it? If the son doean't want to help you might be SOL. A junkyard won't even touch it without a title.

Yahoo changed their email look a few months ago. It looks like a 3rd grade kid drew a cartoon. The comments when it came out were stupendously accurate. Yet we are stuck with the new "improved" version. I've had my account there since 2000 so it would be difficult to swith over. Yet I use it as...

That used to be how we made toast on the propane stove while camping.

It sounds like the OP needs a reverse GoFundMe. Instead of digging a hole to throw his money into, he can send it to us for disposable.

If you ever find yourself fitted with a pacemaker and can no longer run a conventional saw, this might make a lot of sense.

Dig them, preferably before the berries ripen. Then keep after them. Once the fruit is red, birds spread it everywhere.

I used to buy my dog food at TSC, the ingredients seemed better than the cheap stuff but not overpriced like a lot of dog chow is. They always asked I had rewards, I always said no. One day the clerk said "why not, you don't like saving money?" "I do. That's why I don't normally shop here."...

Just my opinion but any major changes to power infrastructure should include better protection from disasters, whether natural (EMP) or man made. (EMP) We've become way too dependent on a reliable supply and even more complacent about protecting it. Just look at what some idjit with a rifle did...

I have a diverter valve because it came on the tractor. I was constantly dropping things at inopportune times until remembering that I can't curl and close at the same time. You won't even notice missing 2 inches on either side of the grapple

^^^^^ But the weigh wagons are more concerned with ensuring that professional drivers aren't 6 minutes over their allotted drive time.

Thank you. (y)

I've been hearing this for years decades but still don't know anything about it. Can you expand on this comment... in a way that any idiot can relate to? 😁

It's going in the other direction here... A for profit bought up most of the smaller facilities over the past couple of decades. Now they are in free fall so are closing some facilities and cutting services in others.

^^^ Did the flashlight still work?

I believe that the people making money should be the doctors, nurses, and other staff; not investment groups.

That car went through without paying his toll!!!

^^^^ I knew what you meant. It also made me realize I'd misread the previous poster's comment.

I understand this. Yet it shouldn't be plan A. It seems like the poster I referred to is on the same page as you. ;) I do have one outstanding medical bill, to a quack who called himself a urologist. I was working on paying it off but got to the point I had to find somebody who knew what he...

You can say that about a lot of things.

Is that the kind of person you want to be?

I've had an MTL for about 6 years and it's my most used implement. At the time they offered free shipping.

^^^^ Funny that you say that. I had an old upright which my brother bought when he was in college; it was old then. In 1979 when he graduated my sister bought it, and used it until around 1992 when I brought it home. I moved several times over the next 11 years before buyimg and building here...

While I agree with keeping our air clean, much of this is about a transfer of wealth.

My first feeling old experience was when the girls working behind the counter looked young.

There's plenty of space in Africa and South America. Russia will be looking to make some money soon. Now they just need to work on the "magic delivery" system.

I would have to see verified, quanitified numbers for said subsidies before I could even form an opinion. I merely broached the subject because I often see petroleum subsidies brough up but been unable to find out what they are.

The sprocket in the bar tip locked up and little steel balls went flying.

A new one for me... requiring an "APP" to do business. I just reserved a Uhaul via phone. The only way that I can review my order is to download their "app." To do that I would first need to create a Google account. They took my money, the truck better be there when I go to pick it up.

That was a long time ago but... I did. That was the last of many stunts he pulled on me. I left the job because of him.

What are those "subsidies" though? In the past when I tried to find out it seemed like simply writing off expenses... just like any business does. Edit: here's a Forbes article which refutes my statement above, but also does the same for the subsidy argument...

Maybe that's a poor choice of words on his part. Yet cleaning out ash trays in particular is a nasty thing to ask someone to do who didn't make the mess.

I believe that in time and as battery technology improves, many of us will come to the same conclusion. I very rarely never use my corded drill or circular saw. However, we aren't there yet; nor do we have the infrastructure in place to deliver said power. It's the mandates which I disagree...

I had 7 teeth left on my chain and the foreman told me to keep cutting. He barely got out of sight before the bar tip blew up.

This is something general stores do to make you hungry... fry up bacon so that when you go in to pay for your gas you end up buying breakfast. I've also accused them of buying aerosol cans of baking bread scent for the same reason...😋

I like to cook up hamburg, chicken, or pork a couple of pounds at a time and freeze it for quick meals later. I tried doing that with bacon but it doesn't work. A pound of cooked bacon in the freezer is like a bowl of M&Ms on the counter.

I thought that Ozzie was the most overplayed singer on the radio. Obviously that's just one opinion though, otherwise people wouldn't have requested him so much. Both of these were more storytellers than singers. Tom T Hall was another, but I still enjoy listening to him.

That'd be the Purple People Eater. Thankfully, I never had to witness it first hand.

It seems like the Postmaster should be all over that.

I do when somebody's behind me. I also make sure on hills that I maintain speed with my foot accelerator. If noone is behind me I might be guilty of slowing a bit as I look around.

How about Pop Tarts..

Usually 60 is in the places where you could get by them.

Magic, of course.

My latest peeve... cigarette lighter adapters such as my inverter, which don't fit well in the cigarette lighter slot. I am constantly messing with it to keep it working.

Or a lead pellet in corn. I bought some at a farm stand last year and found bird shot in it. I understand they want to keep the crows away but...

I could be mistaken. Somehow though, I doubt that ladies had internet capacities to bring into the bathroom 50 years ago. ;)

I've always tried to do whatever I've been asked to on a job. One of the few times I balked was when I was told to clean out the ash trays in a company truck. I said that I didn't smoke and didn't feel that it was my responsibility. He said to do it anyways which I did; mostly because he was...

Smart dog!

Do you have to be old to remember watermelon seed spittong contests? Now they are all quasi seedless, with just those little white seeds. It was all in fun but somebody must have lost an eye. 🙃

Nah, put tnem on the side of the road picking up trash for 100 hours.

Nice! I got out of the habit of putting a collar on unless we were going out in public. Too much chànce of it getting caught on something.

I have a spreadsheet with all of my bills, when they are due and on what Friday they will be paid. I usually start setting it up in December for the following year and by May I have everything scheduled for the year. This year I pushed it forward to next May 1; that's when I will be getting my...

The only autopay I allow is my phone bill, and that's because they originally gave a $5 discount. That changed, now the only way I get it is if I give them a debit card... I'll shut the phone off before that happens.

That's why they want to do away with the electoral college. The party which claims to be for minorities feels differently when that works against them.

Let me guess; you just invested in an eye bleach company.🤮

The problem is that foil today is aluminum, not tin.

As I said... 4+ years ago.

I will take this one step further. It amazes me that people ***** about the price of gas, yet go out and buy the biggest gas guzzler they can find.

A cousin with kidney disease had to pay $25,000 out of pocket for meds before medicare would kick in.

I should know better than to argue with an economist... especially after the last time. 😲 However, I believe blaming lawsuits is just an easy way out. A quick search of "What causes high health care costs" came up with a plethora of answers yet tort wasn't even mentioned. The leading cause...

WE likely arw discussing a 4+ year old article... https://www.motorbiscuit.com/these-12-states-so-far-want-to-ban-all-diesel-trucks/ States are the usual suspects, including mine.

We'll do it the modern way. All of our food will be grown in other countries and deliveries will be done using magic.

You forget that they had a leader who made it clear he wanted the Postal Service to be privatized. Slowing down service was part of that plan.

https://www.amazon.com/Seventh-Generation-Toilet-Tissue-Recycled/dp/B00D3JA5V4/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.lW4j6hfMvcKQrtrHOHca5JzLeIWbbWA-_IXsgh_gGhSMwptoPVoLZ9g92pgTgKDeXkR3GyUbNNHjIq8WnLK13Tkd74bLrtqifz5L8lxezaaV4zMrw1G6em2-rNHB97Ygq770X6eE167Jtd0FgKttsHRHEmeFuh-9c3LpDexqmzSrh3M2IEPYBoIGa6...

My last dog caught a flying squirrel. I don't know how, I was out tapping trees and noticed he was licking something. I went over and he had completely soaked that thing with drool. It was still alive but I doubt it stayed that way as wet as it was. It may have been sick in the first place. On...

You probably are. Many vehicles including my company truck have dash cams. ATM machines, store fronts... It's really a double edged sword. Look at the recent uproar when a CEO was caught at a concert with his HR head. (Or whatever they are called now.) Conversely, a couple of years ago 2...

It seems like those who benefit most from the current system are the insurance and drug companies, as well as the conglomerates buying up health care facilities. Meanwhile, on this side of the country at least, hospitals and nursing homes are struggling and failing. Drs and nurses are in short...

^^^^ I was typing mine as he posted above. Some things are unpreventable, like growing older and many cases of cancer. Yet if you are a chronic smoker, excessively obese for no medical reason, or a chronic risk taker; should the rest of us pay the same for insurance? I get a 20% discount on my...

Don't worry. That's also NOT a sight I'd want to show.

I would say that considerably less than 10% of drivers can change their clothes or read a book safely while driving down a busy highway. I also am not convinced things are as different as you seem to think. We all are the best drivers in the world; while "the other guy" should be using public...

I'm still trying to figure out what he expected you to say. "Free kittens" maybe?

Wow! This is quite an assumption. There were no crashes before cell phones?

X2. It also looks like pup's life just got better.

I like that. I raise a dog to love people but there always is that one time... I plan to get a puppy next month and am considering the AKC "good citizen" course. My mother moved into assisted living last fall and if we get good enough I would like to bring the dog to see her. Considering she's 4...

Another reason I like dogs more than most people. The first time I worked in NY we were staying at a little inn in the Adirondacks. The owner liked my dog and would go get her if I left her in my room. One night she was laying on the floor minding her own business chewing on a bone. Someone...

Winster's definition of an environmentalist is "Someone who already has their place in the woods."

I got my first bag phone in 1996. I quickly learned that just the sight of me using it would drive people insane. On more than one occasion I'd be pulled over on the shoulder completely off the road, and still have people blowing their horns and giving me one finger waves. On one occasion I was...

What's it going to hurt if I do? It's a convenience, and a good utilization of time sitting watching the road go by. Do you really want to go down this rabbit hole? The same can be said of computers, the internet, microwave ovens, water heaters... That must vary by state. In Maine traffic...

What I really dislike at most health care places I go to, whether the Dr office or for lab work; you sign on the pad after they tell you what it's for. You have to take their word for it as you don't get a copy. The other choice is to decline treatment.

YOU are the reason that people are now required to use clear trash bags!!!! 😄

I would rather tbat, than have somebody dump their refrigerator, mattress, tires, or whatever so that I need to pay to get rid of it. I picked up 3 tires off my mother's property this spring. It cost me 12$/tire to get rid of them. Is there any wonder somebody dumped them instead?

^^^^^ That's the result of charging people to get rid of their trash.

My cousin used to do that while driving down the interstate. I had just bought my first new truck; a 1984 Ranger and was driving down the highway when I saw a car coming up behind me fast. I kept waiting for it to change lanes but it kept getting closer and closer so I laid on the horn in...

Some of you might get a kick out of this... it seemed to fit with this thread.

You're not looking for the right thing. Try searching for "Chamois shirt" and you will get all sorts of hits.

Or a dirty diaper.

A bandaid used to be a mark of courage, meaning you'd done something. Somehow, that same item with Fred Flinstone on it doesn't accomplish the same thing.

At least you had Sears. We had to wear KMart's brand. Not that I blame my mother... it seems like the first thing I'd do with a new pair pf jeans is put a hole in the knee. She'd invariably patch them and it would be the only one I put in them. I memtioned that at a family gathering last...

Yes.

So if I'm riding in the passenger seat I shouldn't be able to make calls? +1. (y) In addition, just because you passed your test in a pickup doesn't mean that you are qualified to hook onto a 12,000 lb trailer and go with it.

Another story... on a different stint as a landscaper I worked with 3 guys who had been roommates in college. They claimed they went an entire semester without toilet paper; preferring to buy beer instead. After doing their business they would jump into the shower. That was the same job where...

Back in my landscaping days I might leave the house in the morning wearing my oldest, rattiest pair of jeans. If I was put on the mowing crew on a hot day I'd go home wearing a pair of cuttoffs.

I look at some of my jeans and think that I must be sitting on a gold mine. Not only do they have holes in the knees but they're splattered with 1 or more colors of paint. I must have thrown out millions of dollars over the years!