Subj : Extra Sweet [1] To : Dave Drum From : Ruth Haffly Date : Tue Nov 11 2025 16:48:24 Hi Dave, RH> You disappeared off the board for a few days, got me wondering if all RH> was OK. Good to see you back. DD> I've just graduaated from "The dog ate my homewoek" to "The dogs atee DD> my internet". Bv)= RH> I've had those times, glad I have a resident computer guru/geek on RH> premisis. (G) DD> The yappies are why the techs had to make a return visit. The cable DD> they ate was in their yard, not mine. The fur kids we are boarding are DD> much DD> too well behaved to ever do something like nthat. Bv)= Hopefully they learned that cable doesn't taste good and there will not be a repeat experience. DD> 8<----- +++++----->8 DD> If you don't sk questions you don't get asnswers. I put Dr. Pepper at DD> (about) #8 on my soft drinks list. And cream soda even lower. But the DD> combination .... WOW! Right up there with Coke Zero. RH> I like cream soda; I do not like Dr. Pepper. I'll probably never try RH> the combination tho. DD> My first go was when somoene handed me a bottle and I took a drink DD> withut paying attention - until it hit my mouth. I'll ask what it is before drinking. DD> I don't understand how soda route drivers think. Their pay is based DD> partly on how much "profuct" they move. If I was delivering a product DD> that sold out every week I'd leave more and smile all the way to the DD> bank. I was RH> They're not all like that. Steve's last civilian job before he went in RH> the Army was filling soda machines at Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry RH> Point. He had an established route, don't know how often he had to fill RH> specific machines. Came home with some interesting coins from Marines RH> who tried scamming the machines--he would replace them with quarters of RH> his own and the odd ones got added to an informal coin collection. DD> The Mexican cinco centavo (nickle) coin used to was the same DD> size/weight as the US 25c coin (quarter) but worth (in exchange) about DD> 1/3 of a US cent. Las Vegas slot machines were flooded with them until DD> the US mob had a meeting with the Mexican mob - who then got the DD> Mexican gummint to "re-design" their nickel so it wouldn't fool US DD> coin mechanisms. RH> In Steve's case, he got more Korean and European coinage. DD> As they say "A pint's a pound, the world around." What we need is a DD> good five-cent nicklel. Now more than ever, now that the penny is going away. DD> 8<----- SNYP ----->8 DD> I was in the Navy, stationed at NAS Memphis when Danny Thomas broke DD> ground for St. Jude's. He done good. RH> We've driven by it various times either heading out west or coming back RH> from a western trip. Also seen enough fund raising appeals on RH> syndicated tv channels. DD> Memphis is sorta/kinda like Hot-lanta. I take the run-around roads and DD> don't try going right through. Generally quicker and less flustrating. Best experience we had driving thru Atlanta was one January night, about 8 pm. By then, evening rush hour was over so we went thru with no slow downs. We've been on the leading edge of the evening (mid afternoon) rush hour and moved right along but the evening time was even ssmoother sailing. We'd stopped for a later supper about an hour outside the city, gave the traffic time to clear. DD> If I'm not listening to Real Jazz or 40s Junction I can be found DD> getting on on what "the Shadow Knows" on old time radio channel. They DD> did Orson Welles' 1939 "War Of The Worlds" on 31 October. RH> We've listened to old time radio sometimes but it's harder to follow DD> No harder than when we were chirrun - especiallly if you're pre-TV as DD> I wss. We got our first tv when I was 9 years old. Parents didn't listen to radio except in the morning to get latest news/school closings/etc. I don't really remember what we did pre tv, probably read a lot of books. I'll still turn off the tv and grab a book most nights. --- Catch you later, Ruth rchaffly{at}earthlink{dot}net FIDO 1:396/45.28 .... Get shopping while the gettin' is good!!! --- PPoint 3.01 * Origin: Sew! That's My Point (1:396/45.28) .