Not enough stars. When my younger conservative friends ask me about some of the things I say and inquire if I want “socialism “ my response is no, I want the country I was born in back.

I totally get you. I’m from 20 miles the other direction (Knoxville) and it’s definitely different.

Back in the late 70s I had a little civil defense instruction as part of my junior high outdoor safety class. (Yes there were guns and yes it was public school and no nobody got hurt). At the time the CD guy said that the belief was that there’d be a ratcheting up of tensions between the West and the USSR before an…

Possibly, and this is mere speculation on my part, because it generally only happens to poor people who are also frequently minorities?

Guy I worked with a few years ago told me his brother came home one day to find literally everything in the house gone, down to the toilet paper, except for one place setting in the dining room floor in the spot he used to sit for dinner.

Ok that’s pretty cool too.

This is the prettiest freaking bicycle I’ve ever seen.

All if these are great ideas. Except Torch’s. His ideas, which are entertaining as heck and should be cross posted to Laura’s site, are nonetheless never to be taken seriously.

As long as Torch’s wife’s nickname for him isn’t two-stroke he’s good.

Counterpoint: I have all iron pans. I hate non metal spatulas.

Wow. Hope Steve came through.

He got lucky. On the 6th call he got a Joe Smith that knew the Joe Smith he wanted.

Certainly not a GPS story or as good as yours, but my now departed father in law told me he showed up in LA once in the 50s looking for a buddy named Joe Smith, with no address. He just got a phone book and started calling.

I’ve gotten more lost following GPS than I ever got following Rand McNally.

Did any of these make it over here to the land of baseball, hot dogs etc.? I don’t recall ever seeing one.

Efficiently lazy?

Starred for retail. Holidays suck in retail.

We have Aldis and something called Rulers, which is Krogers answer to Aldis. Aldis is better but Rulers are everywhere here.

Thank goodness. I could be insufferable at 18.

Good on you for having perspective neighbor.