- Apparently we missed being in the middle of a small tornado by about half a mile when we went out to the dealership to buy the new car.
- The storm was about an 8 on my scale, but not hard to drive through.
- We got to the dealership about 5 minutes after it stopped hailing. Luckily, our saleslady had thought to pull our car in under cover before the storm.
- Lights flickered twice, and the main printer for the dealership went kablooey, but other than that, no big whoop.
- Some of our friends weren’t so lucky. No damage to property, but losing electricity in August just after a heavy rain really sucks.
- While we were waiting on the paperwork and all that to be finalized, we looked around the dealership. They had a brand new Shelby Cobra for $67,000 and an F-150 Raptor for $56,000.
- I guess I can finally say I’ve been domesticated. I could find no way to justify purchasing either vehicle, even if I were to have the disposable income to do so.
- Note to teenage girls – It might be fun and cute to use a hot pink marking stamp to leave little bears all over your friend’s neck while you’re out and about, but her father is going to want to speak to you when it looks like she’s got hickies.
- Of course, tomorrow is school picture day, why do you ask?
- Luckily, it looks like they are washing off. We weren’t sure if the stamp was permanent or not when I picked up Girlie Bear.
- Speaking of school pictures, if you want to talk about price gouging and monopoly power, all you have to do is discuss the cost of getting a child’s picture taken at school. I don’t think the dinner I bought Irish Woman the night I proposed cost as much as the small portrait package I ordered tonight.
- A friend of Irish Woman’s is a child psychologist. He suggested that, in addition to the other therapies we have him in, we introduce regular exercise into his morning routine. So I’m purchasing an exercise ball, have a child’s bicycle in my living room, and am contemplating purchasing an indoor trampoline.
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Posted by daddybear71 on September 2, 2013
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/ September 3, 2013Get one of the bicycle style generators and hook it up to a battery system; two for one deal if exercise is needed.
Monopolies in school — yep, try band related stuff also. Jiminy Crickets that stuff doesn’t come cheap. Nor does it last more than a school year.
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daddybear71
/ September 3, 2013Yeah, I ran on that treadmill for two years. $2000 a year, mainly earned through me ‘volunteering’ at a local business.
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Old NFO
/ September 3, 2013Yep, rip off artists at work… and same with the band and athletics stuff…
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daddybear71
/ September 3, 2013You know, I seem to remember that most athletics were relatively inexpensive when I was a kid. The most expensive was hockey, and only because you were expected to buy all of your own pads, sticks, and skates. Now it’s buy all that stuff, pay a bunch of fees, and enroll in clinics and camps. Bah!
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