So your Good Deed does not go unrewarded I will ship you a jar of my organic jalapeno jelly. Just send me your address off list.
On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 4:17 PM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I stopped at the farmstand at the end of my driveway to get some veg as > I was on my way home from errands. As I was leaving this young pregger > woman with a toddler in tow comes to ask my buddy Lonnie who works there > if anyone has jumper cables. I say sure I can get some but let's check > the problem. While I am getting ready to do that a kid comes with > cables to jump the car. I go look and it is this newish Lexus big SUV > thing. So I'm thinking the nannies might not like this kid with his > clapped out old truck messing with it, so I think about it a minute and > ask the guy of the key does anything. No. It has a button start so you > have to wave the key at the car or something, in any case it wasn't > doing anything. So I think maybe the key fob is dead so I open it up > and it has a 1632 battery in it, smaller than the usual 2032 (by 4mm!). > I don't have any of those so I tell the guy let me go home (which is > right behind where we were) and see if I have any batteries, and I will > bring another battery we can swap in the vehicle to see if it will start. > > So I go home (in the 05E320 to get the 05ML500 that has my tools in it) > to fetch a battery, regular size, and swap it in for the one that is in > there. The one in the vehicle has a 9/20 sticker on it and is > hotternhell. Duracell from Batteries and Bulbs, which I think used to > be Batteries Plus. Now it is like 96F out right now, but this thing I > could barely touch. So I am thinking it has kakked and the alternator > was dumping a LOT of electrons into it, and it was Not Happy. So I got > the battery in and it farred right up. Yay me. > > So the girl is there with her parents who are from Nooyawk and her > toddler and they had just been to the beach and were stuck there, she > was panicked calling her husband to come fetch them, or deal with a > battery, or whatever. Anyway, I told her to go to B&B and get them to > give her a new battery, no crap about having to pay, the thing was > 9months old, left mine in there and told her to bring it back when they > got it sorted. The Nooyawka dad was amazed that someone actually helped > and expected nothing, and the mama never said anything, I think she was > in overload on the whole affair. The preggo daughter was very sweet but > she has lived here for 18yr so she has acclimated to the customs. > > At least today I ain't going to hell but it almost feels like it outside > right now. > > Oh, and while I am there I get a text msg from Fedex saying they > couldn't deliver my dog food. So I am looking and there is no Fedex > truck anywhere around, so that was another good job by Fedex. I did > remember that when I had left a coupla hours earlier a Fedex truck > turned around on the road right in front of my driveway and I had to > wait for it, and I was thinking, why is he not dropping off my dog > food. What an organization. Time before last I think the driver stole > the dog food as it never showed up even though I got a message it had > been delivered. I called Chewy and they sent another package, which was > screwed up too until another driver went and retrieved it, supposedly > off someonenotme's porch. I wonder how much "shrinkage" there is on > these deliveries. > > -- > --FT > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
