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  1. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    If you don’t hem ’em up they might be.
  2. tonyb

    Vintage neon signs

    A person doesn’t have to a fan of the Coca-Cola Co. to appreciate the style of its logo and the place it occupies in the popular imagination. We have Coke in the fridge and a rusty old Coca-Cola sign screwed above the door of one of our sheds. (It’s really the underside of the lid from an old...
  3. tonyb

    Vintage neon signs

    Somewhere in Humboldt County. (I lifted the image.)
  4. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Oh yeah. Almost all my screwups were due to impatience and/or ignorance. And that ignorance often was born of impatience, my not taking the time to learn what all was involved before jumping in.
  5. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I’ve known a couple of people who learned how to upholster — my dear old Ma, who was forever repairing the cigarette burns the Old Man put in the furniture (it’s a wonder he didn’t burn the house down, always falling asleep with a lit cigarette in his hand, or mouth); and a car-restoring uncle...
  7. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^ Nothin’ to it (on the hundredth attempt).
  8. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    Some people just don’t know when to hang ’em up. Maybe they need the money, so they play the tribal casino circuit. Or maybe they live for the applause, diminished as it might be. I’d think a person would have had his fill of that after a couple-three or four decades, but what would I know...
  9. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    At least 45 or 50. Hell, 50 years ago was 1970. The Beatles had broken up by then. Buddy Holly had been dead for more than a decade. And Elvis was getting fitted for a larger girdle.
  10. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I think I could listen for hours to a highway safety engineer riff on what makes for safer and less-safe roads. I suspect that their work over the decades has played no small part in the decline of traffic fatalities.
  11. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Another traffic fatality, yesterday evening, the sole occupant of a vehicle that collided with a light pole right by my “regular” supermarket, 2.2 miles from here via the leisurely, more roundabout route I typically take. Excessive speed is thought to be a contributing factor.
  13. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Montana is a favorite destination for the dewy-eyed bride and me. We’ve been several times. She once observed that Montanans evidently preferred little white crosses alongside the road over guard rails.
  14. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Out Seattle way but not here in greater Denver I’ve seen rear window decals memorializing a departed loved one, often a young person gone way too soon. These people are in terrible pain. They’ve lost a kid and they carry that loss with them everywhere. We don’t wear black armbands these days...
  15. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    In the five years we’ve lived in this house there have been a good half dozen traffic fatalities within a mile of here. Stretch that radius out to a couple-three miles and you run out of fingers and toes. Just a couple weeks ago there was a multi-fatality wreck on a stretch of limited-access...
  16. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Yeah, we got those kind of stores, too, but several of the more well-trafficked sites on the Internet has spelled the end to most of them.
  17. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I take it that a “1 Euro shop” is pretty much the same thing as what we call a “dollar store” over this way? These aren’t the same as the old 5 and dimes (or 5 and 10s), which proliferated as recently as my early years. Among the goods the dollar stores sell is lotsa “distressed” merchandise —...
  19. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Society is collapsing.
  20. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Research indicates that people all across the country tend to regard drivers in their region as worse than most.
  21. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ i just love it when you talk dirty.
  22. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Touchy, touchy.
  23. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Replace “relatives” with “in-laws” and watch the fur fly.

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