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moreluck
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Excellent break in the day...a pre-lunch California car chase in L.A. 5 guys robbed a B of A and were running from cops and they were armed.
They threw money out the window several times and it was like confetti. Word got around and the people in the neighborhood ran out to get some money and some came in cars.
Three of the guys had jumped out early and 2 guys were left in the vehicle.
The area became jammed very quickly and they actually were blocked from any forward movement by the number of cars that came out.
Maybe, going around in circles was not the best idea. They basically caused their own capture.
The dummies on the street swarmed the car looking for money.....they didn't care about an armed man.
They threw money out the window several times and it was like confetti. Word got around and the people in the neighborhood ran out to get some money and some came in cars.
Three of the guys had jumped out early and 2 guys were left in the vehicle.
The area became jammed very quickly and they actually were blocked from any forward movement by the number of cars that came out.
Maybe, going around in circles was not the best idea. They basically caused their own capture.
The dummies on the street swarmed the car looking for money.....they didn't care about an armed man.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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menotyou
bella amicizia
That is one of the things I don't miss about Brownville. It's proximity to Fort Drum.
moreluck
golden ticket member
I have friends that live near the Luke A.friend.B. and those jets would drive me nuts....you get used to bombs and machine gun fire.
DS
Fenderbender
moreluck
golden ticket member
Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.
The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have
this green thing back in my earlier days."
The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment friend
or future generations."
She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were truely recycled.
But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.
But too bad we didn't do the green thing back then.
We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.
But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.
Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.
But that young lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.
But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.
But we didn't have the green thing back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.
But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?
Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smartass young person.
We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off.
The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have
this green thing back in my earlier days."
The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment friend
or future generations."
She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were truely recycled.
But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.
But too bad we didn't do the green thing back then.
We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.
But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.
Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.
But that young lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.
But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.
But we didn't have the green thing back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.
But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?
Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smartass young person.
We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off.
moreluck
golden ticket member
They said Microsoft people would not be able to access the internet......I was knocked off for a few hours.
Got 4 Dvds watched.......all caught up now. Got a chance to read the article on Jamie Lee C. in this month's Good Housekeeping. I've always liked her. Did you know she was a golfer?
Got 4 Dvds watched.......all caught up now. Got a chance to read the article on Jamie Lee C. in this month's Good Housekeeping. I've always liked her. Did you know she was a golfer?
DS
Fenderbender
I'm gonna fix you up with some things you don't get there.
DS
Fenderbender
Buy a mac
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menotyou
bella amicizia
It would. But, if you had a personal hotspot, you'd be posting to your hearts content!
(that personal hotspot thing sounds kinda kinky. Lol!)
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
You could always to go your local McDonald's, order something off of the Dollar Menu and "borrow" their Internet.
