Subj : Re: Seasonal To : Barry Martin From : Daryl Stout Date : Wed Mar 17 2021 15:40:00 Barry, BM> Nah, I'm not that good. DS> He finally admits it. BM> I can't be superb in everything! You have dashed my expectations of you BM> Internet, are we?!) DS> That's Al Gore. BM> He and I flipped a coin - he won that one. Had to be a 2 headed coin...he said it was "Heads, I Win... Tails, You Lose". :P DS> LOL!! Or, you have an item for 45 cents each or 2 for $1 -- DS> they want the latter. BM> My guess is it sounds better to get two for than one BM> so go for the initially perceived value of the larger quantity. What got me was that several years ago, my parents had stopped at a store to get 1 loaf of bread. They were marked as 3 for $1, but neither the cashier or manager could figure out that they could sell my Dad a loaf for 33 or 34 cents. My late father was a comptroller, so he could do a ton of transactions in his head... he was furious. :P They finally walked out of the store. DS> A guy walks in, and he wants a Whopper Junior With Cheese, with DS> just ketchup only. I told him "I'll sell you a cheeseburger with DS> just ketchup only...it's the same thing, but cheaper"...and the DS> guy replies "No, I want a Whopper Junior With Cheese, with just DS> ketchup only". BM> What, no fries?! Not if he preferred onion rings. DS> They say "the customer is always right", but I say the jury is DS> still out on that. BM> With the mountains of evidence they should have come to a definitive BM> conclusion by now! Not guilty?? :P DS> I'm lucky to set the clock on the microwave oven. Oh, yeah...I DS> guess you need that clock back now. BM> It won't be back until next Fall some time. The first Sunday in November...by then, I'll have funds to send it back via email. DS> when power went out just before midnight...it was out for 3 DS> hours. I heard the transformers blow (sounded like gunfire), then DS> I heard the power arcing. BM> Hopefully it was just the fuse blowing and not the transformer. Most BM> of the fuses they use around here are the ones like you heard: sounds BM> like a shotgun shot. They do have quiet ones which barely make a BM> noise. Apparently, it was several of them. When we lived in south Florida, the transformer behind our home blew, and it sounded like a cannon!! BM> Years ago a feed line to a large apartment complex broke and came down BM> across a four-lane highway. Good news is insulated but I was thinking BM> "oh " driving across it. The line was still energized as the BM> other end was swinging in the breeze and occasionally finding ground: BM> bright flash and BOOM!! I always worry about stuff like that. BM> Pay through your deductible and maybe! I'm glad I have overdraft protection. All the unexpected expenses medically and on the car (not to mention calling an emergency locksmith) will make me overdrawn, if the COVID-19 stimulus and/or the Geico settlement doesn't get in by Friday afternoon. BM> A penny for your thoughts?! That's like the incident where this young single lady at a square dance event years ago came up to me, and said she'd like to ask me a question (looking back, I must've been set up ). After I consented (maybe that's not the right word ), she opened her hand, and there are 2 pennies...one face up, and one face down. She asks if I see any snakes or automobiles there. I replied, "No, you have 2 pennies". She points at the head of Honest Abe, and says "You have a copperhead"...and then points at the Memorial, and notes "You have a Lincoln". The kicker was when she asked if I saw any sex there. I should have seen the red flags, but said "No". She replied "And, you're not going to see any. What did you expect for two cents, you cheapskate??!!". With that, she put the 2 pennies in her pocket, turned around, and walked off...grinning like the cat who had swallowed the canary. To top it off, I kicked over a half full cup of water on the floor below my chair...and another dancer sitting next to me, noticing the water below me, quipped "You just couldn't hold it, could you??". Blushing tremendously, I said "I want to go hide!!" :P Daryl .... Sign on a Maternity Room Door: Push!! Push!! Push!! === MultiMail/Win v0.52 --- SBBSecho 3.13-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - tbolt.synchro.net (454:1/33) .