Unusual barter arrangement. A clock for a beer. On Fri, Jul 30, 2021, 5:32 PM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> OK in that case I might take you up on it. > > In other news the boy is moving to DC end of the month, so at some point > when I visit you can finally buy me that beer that you promised a few > years ago... and if you want another cat I could probably bring a > couple to you > > --FT > > On 7/30/21 5:21 PM, Andrew Strasfogel wrote: > > No, it's not. Our poor Kitty died last June. > > > > On Fri, Jul 30, 2021, 5:20 PM Floyd Thursby > > <buggeredbenzm...@gmail.com <mailto:buggeredbenzm...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > Is this the El Merde del Gato version? > > > > --FT > > > > On 7/30/21 4:31 PM, Andrew Strasfogel wrote: > >> 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 <mailto: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 <http://www.okiebenz.com> > >> > >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >> <http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/> > >> > >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > >> < > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com> > >> > > -- > > --FT > > > -- > --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
