• Little Bo-Peep Has lost her Jeep

    From August Abolins@2:250/1 to Daryl Stout on Sat Sep 12 08:45:00 2020
    Hello Daryl!

    ** On Saturday 12.09.20 - 00:01, Daryl Stout wrote to All:

    On this day...
    Little Bo-Peep
    Has lost her Jeep
    It struck
    A truck
    When she went to sleep
    Burma-Shave

    Ah.. FINALLLY acknowledging the existence of women drivers!
    <G> Before that, these Burma-things were so one-gender
    centric.
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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to August Abolins on Sun Sep 13 09:42:00 2020
    Hello Daryl!

    Hi, August...


    On this day...
    Little Bo-Peep
    Has lost her Jeep
    It struck
    A truck
    When she went to sleep
    Burma-Shave

    Ah.. FINALLLY acknowledging the existence of women drivers!
    <G> Before that, these Burma-things were so one-gender
    centric.

    I think of the joke where the 2 elderly women were going down
    the road, and they go through 3 consecutive red lights...amazingly,
    they didn't get hit!!

    Anyway, the woman in the passenger seat tells the woman driver
    "You realize that you've gone through 3 consecutive red lights"...
    and the other woman exclaims "Oh!! You mean I'm driving??!!" <BG>.

    Daryl

    ... "Either this man's dead, or my watch is stopped". -Groucho Marx
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  • From JOE MACKEY@1:123/140 to DARYL STOUT on Tue Sep 15 05:59:50 2020
    Daryl wrote --

    and the other woman exclaims "Oh!! You mean I'm driving??!!" <BG>.

    And the one about four little old ladies who were stopped by the highway patrol for going 95 mph.
    The trooper asked did she know how fast she was going.
    She said yes, she saw the 95 sign (for I 95). A woman in back said he
    should have been around when they were on RT 150.
    Joe
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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to JOE MACKEY on Wed Sep 16 10:59:00 2020
    Joe,

    and the other woman exclaims "Oh!! You mean I'm driving??!!" <BG>.

    And the one about four little old ladies who were stopped by the
    highway patrol for going 95 mph.
    The trooper asked did she know how fast she was going.
    She said yes, she saw the 95 sign (for I 95). A woman in back said
    he should have been around when they were on RT 150.

    ROFLMBO!! I needed that today.

    With medical and other unexpected expenses, I had to hold off on getting
    the lawn mowed by my yard man (it's hard surviving on $1150 a month on disability -- then you have these greedy [idiots] in Congress, who lament
    that they can't survive on $250,000 a year...they don't have a clue. They aren't worth the powder to blow them up, and it's a waste of good gunpowder.

    Well, I got cited by Code Enforcement for having the lawn too high. With being allergic to stinging insects, having heat intolerance (I can sunburn
    in 10 minutes), and now after hernia surgery, can't lift heavy items (such
    as a lawn mower), I'm screwed. I told them I'd provide proof of income, and
    the medical condition deal. I have no one to help me, and my yard man has basically "quit"...but I said "I can't afford to pay him $120 a week to do
    the lawn ($500 or more a month)". I helped him and his wife when her cosmetology business was closed due to COVID-19...now, he won't return
    the favor. So, not only do I have to find a new lawn man, but a new barber.

    If worse comes to worst, I'll shut the BBS down, and just use a Wi-Fi
    card when I have to do ham radio communications...that'd save nearly $100
    a month. I had to cancel a testapel implant, and go back to shots, because
    of the cost. I've been eating only 1 meal a day as it is (much to the consternation of my PCP), so I guess I have to fast and starve now. I do
    need to lose weight, but that's not the way to do it.

    To make matters worse, a ham radio operator (who apparently is in the
    hobby for his ego, in seeing how many nets he can check into, was angry
    that I shut down one of these "nets" early. Checkins had "dried up", and
    I had made plenty of calls for checkins. And, I can't see holding a net
    open, just to accomodate someone thinking they can be "fashionably late".

    I basically "reamed him a new butt", and told him "if you don't want to check into any of my nets, that suits me just fine". He sent a reply, but
    I put it "into snooze mode", as I'm not in the mood to deal with it right now...and may not be for awhile.

    So, I'm not a happy camper right now. I feel like the T-shirt with an
    angry vulture on it, that noted "Patience, my [butt]...I'm going to kill something". If my middle name, J.D. (my late father's name) stood for
    "Jack Daniels", and I was into drinking, I'd be going after it, or the
    Jamaica White Rum that my in-laws (and my late wife) would drink on rare occasions (my mother-in-law passed away at the end of August).

    Daryl

    ... I drink too much. My urine sample had an olive in it.
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