Jersey Girl wrote:Res Ipsa wrote:Wanna trade?
You'll be home before I'm eating! Guaranteed!
ETA 9:00.
What I learned today!
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ETA 9:00.
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
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Res Ipsa wrote:ETA 9:00.
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb
Chinese Proverb
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Jersey Girl wrote:Res Ipsa wrote:ETA 9:00.
Finally got in. Oh, did I mention this was the first day of family vacation?
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
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Res Ipsa wrote:Jersey Girl wrote::surprised:
Finally got in. Oh, did I mention this was the first day of family vacation?
What an ordeal! Happy Vacay!
;-)
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb
Chinese Proverb
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I started a new project in San Diego today. The project is downtown about a 1/2 mile from Petco Park. If you park on the street you have to pay via a parking meter.
I pulled in and started to put my credit card into the meter when a homeless guy yelled at me not to put put my credit card into the meter. I pulled it back thinking the meter might be bad of something, when he reached over with a quarter somehow attached to a plastic zip tie and he stuck in the coin slot over and over and gave me the maximum time of 2 hours....and then told me he works via "donations." I didn't really know what to do, so I gave him a few bucks and hoped I wouldn't get in trouble by a cop.
He said he would manage it also, and when I came back to feed the meter, it had 1hr and 45 minutes on it...so he kept his word.
I googled it and found this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fXh9eR3Wfc
I pulled in and started to put my credit card into the meter when a homeless guy yelled at me not to put put my credit card into the meter. I pulled it back thinking the meter might be bad of something, when he reached over with a quarter somehow attached to a plastic zip tie and he stuck in the coin slot over and over and gave me the maximum time of 2 hours....and then told me he works via "donations." I didn't really know what to do, so I gave him a few bucks and hoped I wouldn't get in trouble by a cop.
He said he would manage it also, and when I came back to feed the meter, it had 1hr and 45 minutes on it...so he kept his word.
I googled it and found this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fXh9eR3Wfc
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Markk wrote:He said he would manage it also, and when I came back to feed the meter, it had an 1hr and 45 minutes on it...so he kept his word.
Cool - The criminal gave you his word and he kept it! Maybe you should raise the stakes, partner up with him again and do some armed robbery?