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Don't even DRIVE cars! Have no interest in driving.
My BROKE neighbors get door dash meals DAILY!
They have cars...
Clues... No, they don't have ONE of those.
LOL.
All through my seven years during the Seventies as a small newspaper reporter, I even had to roll sheets of paper into a mechanical typewriter. Written articles were called "copy" placed in a wire basket beside always a female typesetter.
I used to date one of those ladies. Her grandma liked me due to my getting her away from a local hoodlum for a boyfriend always in trouble.
Fresh out of the Marines, I was not afraid of much of anything back then.
Kolchak The Night Stalker was my hero way back then~~https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ3X4...
Mention of the military 1911 .45-cal. pistol (one of many products churned out by the company) triggered memories. The gun was introduced to me by the Marines (way easy foir me to aim and hit targets) and was touted for "stopping knock down power" despite gangsters in movies shot by Thompson subguns like in The Godfather tend to dance ridiculously around while being endlessly splattered by big .45 slugs. I was a Marine supply clerk and as yet never shot anyone but I bought a 1911 shortly after I became a civilian. Kept it in my car's glove compartment (too big for concealed carry) and called it my "car cannon." Because it only shoots 7 rounds me dino traded it in at a gun store around year 2002 for a big 9mm that fires 17 shots. That pistol I call my "car blaster" because it keeps spitting shots like a Star Wars sidearm.
Miles Davis - great take!
And they used to clap when you spanked a misbehaving child in public - now you get arrested!
And wife of the year! Excellent!
Loved the finishing panel - brining back the old days....
thanks OGC!!
I've got 6 on the floor in the Mini Cooper I bought in early summer,. . makes driving fun again!
Enjoy!
And one more Hat Tip to our POTUS #47...
We get Lake America.
And apparently the deal with Greenland cost us nothing, except a bunch of mean tweets!
Imagine the guys on the other side of the table.
OMG... We wanted to hold out for a big pay day... But just stop the Mean Tweets, and the Memes... Make them stop... (The deal reads, you protect it, you get final say what counties are there, and PRETEND to let us still rule the place!)
It was probably an insurance executive in conspiracy with a corrupt politician.
Thanks for a bunch of good ones.
My boss (working on a farm) had a '72 El Camino with the bench seats.
I was from a family of 10, so everything that I had I worked for, and Andy (the farmer I worked for) understood what it meant.
He (his wife) fed me lunch every day - they knew that it was going to be my best meal of the day. Had to be on the porch at 12:00, and you had to have everything off of your plate by 12:25 and she would clean everything up.....
I worked very hard for him - but he did take good care of me.
Anyway, he knew that my family had two vehicles and there were 5 drivers.
He offered me his El Camino for $.07/CPM.
I had a five mile bike ride to get to his place, and then five miles back to town and then over 30 miles to get to a bowling alley or movie theater.
So I was looking at 3 hours of work just to get a date to an event and back.
I worked many long hours, and the two times I used his El Camino were well worth it!
Having a date and having an arm around her on the bench seat... do not know why I had forgotten.
Nothing more happened, but it was ..... WONDERFUL....
I was "unavailable" when Andy passed - I will forever chastise myself for that. I was not there to let his wife and children know how much he meant to me -
Everybody around me now has an angle - can't trust anyone....
Can I go back to working for Andy? Just let me have 5 - 6 months of that simple life and I will call it quits....
Sorry to unload - been a loooong time since I had these memories. They were locked away.