Subj : Re: Health Was: Nuts
To   : Barry Martin
From : Nancy Backus
Date : Tue Dec 17 2019 02:26:10

-=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 06-Dec-2019 09:45 <=-

 BM>>> And LIS a while back, sometimes the temporary bad delay is really a
 BM>>> good delay: learned something in the interim which helped to find the
 BM>>> solution, or made the fix better, or an upcoming change nullifying the
 BM>>> original fix.  And other times just an excuse.
 NB>>> True on both counts... :)  Have to be able to figure which is which...
 BM>> I tend not to spend too much time on that -- more learn from the past
 BM>> and apply towards the future.
 NB>> That works, too...  sometimes one can easily tell if one is just
 NB>> making excuses, though... ;)
 BM> Probably more excuses than viable delays.
 
But I bet that some are more obviously excuses in hindsight... ;)

 NB>>>> ... Sorry, Officer, I didn't realize I was driving.
 BM>>> Reminds me of a segment on one of the cop shows we watch: probably 20-
 BM>>> something (does the face have to be blurred out?!) got pulled over,
 BM>>> was trying to get out of getting the ticket/going to jail by stating
 BM>>> wasn't "driving" but was "travelling".  (Didn't work.)
 NB>>> I wouldn't think it would work... He was clearly travelling way
 NB>>> too fast.... :)
 BM>> And his mind not quite fast enough to get himself out of the ticket.
 NB>> Definitely his mind wasn't keeping up.... ;)
 BM> We had two semi-local incidents, one in Iowa and the other in
 BM> Illinois, of drivers speeding: one was 121 MPH, the other 123 MPH. 
 BM> AFAIK the posted limits were 70 MPH.  I remember hearing one excuse was
 BM> "I wanted to see how fast it would go".

They do have things like race tracks and test drive tracks for that sort
of testing out capabilities..... ;)  Sometimes one can get away with
it...  but not if there are police set up and watching the area.... ;)

ttyl        neb

.... My support group for procrastinators hasn't met yet.

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