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What made you smile today?

 
 
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Fri 14 Nov, 2014 09:42 am
@izzythepush,
izzythepush wrote:
How about the air conditioning dude?
Yea, I use that.
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FBM
 
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Reply Fri 14 Nov, 2014 10:37 am
Today's smile was the result of finally selling my second, unused, car. It was offset by finding out that the buyer can't drive a stick shift worth a dook and will soon be menacing Korean traffic and his own physical integrity. I actually feel somewhat guilty for not talking this guy out of buying this car that I so needed to get rid of. Mixed emotions. But I smiled briefly when he shoved the cash into my hand. So there's that.
chai2
 
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Reply Fri 14 Nov, 2014 11:14 am
@FBM,
Smiled at not being able to do something worth a dook.
FBM
 
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Reply Fri 14 Nov, 2014 11:19 am
@chai2,
Disclaimer: Southernisms may happen at any time. Wink
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Fri 14 Nov, 2014 12:49 pm
@chai2,
chai2 wrote:
Smiled at not being able to do something worth a dook.
How much is a $dook worth????
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Fri 14 Nov, 2014 01:55 pm
@FBM,
FBM wrote:
Today's smile was the result of finally selling my second, unused, car.
It was offset by finding out that the buyer can't drive a stick shift worth a dook
and will soon be menacing Korean traffic and his own physical integrity.
I actually feel somewhat guilty for not talking this guy out of buying this car
that I so needed to get rid of. Mixed emotions. But I smiled briefly when
he shoved the cash into my hand. So there's that.
Smiling retroactively qua my recinding my offer of the sale
of a Chevy Corvair in 1975. I dont remember its year.
My purchaser had told me that he was getting it for his
little brother, who was just starting college.
I had sold it, but I smelled gasoline fumes.
I later told the buyer that it was not safe for use.
I did not want the new owner going up like a torch.
For the sake of safety, I had the Corvair towed to a junk yard.
A few years later, I was informed that some of my nabors
had been laffing when it was towed away, but thay did not laff a few days later, when my new
super-beautiful paid in cash, top-of-the-line gold-colored 1975 Camaro was parked in its space.
It was LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT with that car! I named it "The Joyce", after my First Love.
For years, parking attendants were trying to buy that car out from under me.
Street pedestrians were continually leaving me little notes
under my windshield, craving car. It was fun.
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David
FBM
 
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Reply Fri 14 Nov, 2014 10:20 pm
@OmSigDAVID,
Ah, but the car I sold is in good shape. It's the buyer who's iffy. Wink
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izzythepush
 
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Reply Sat 15 Nov, 2014 03:26 am
@FBM,
Over here if you don't take your test driving a manual, you're not licensed to drive a manual, and can only drive automatics.
FBM
 
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Reply Sat 15 Nov, 2014 03:33 am
@izzythepush,
Huh. That's a good system, I think. Over here, it's not only possible but commonplace for people to somehow get a driver's license, yet still be unable to drive. I'm not joking. I wish I were.
izzythepush
 
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Reply Sat 15 Nov, 2014 03:38 am
@FBM,
My dad had a back injury from rugby and he used to drive an automatic, so I learnt to drive initially on an automatic. The first couple of days driving a manual were really tricky. Now though I couldn't go back, driving an automatic doesn't feel like real driving, and my left leg gets bored with nothing to do.
FBM
 
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Reply Sat 15 Nov, 2014 03:46 am
@izzythepush,
Same here. I learned on an automatic, but on the day of my driver's test my friend couldn't let me borrow his car. I had to borrow one from another friend, but it was a stick. I failed my first driver's test. Never even made it out of the parking space, much less the parking lot. Embarrassed

Now, though, I refuse to own an automatic. Driving one is just annoying as hell to me.
roger
 
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Reply Sat 15 Nov, 2014 03:46 am
@izzythepush,
We have the same rule nationally, but only for Commercial Driver Licenses.

I drive a manuel, but twice I've had injuries to my left arm that would have prevented me from shifting, so I think my next will be an automatic. Ya never know.
izzythepush
 
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Reply Sat 15 Nov, 2014 03:51 am
@roger,
I don't think my dad would have driven an automatic were it not for his back injuries.

A lot time ago I had to drive after receiving a series of vaccinations, and that wasn't fun.
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izzythepush
 
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Reply Sat 15 Nov, 2014 06:00 am
Back to the thread topic. This just made me smile.

Quote:
A "major milestone" in the battle to eliminate polio globally has been reached, the US Centres for Disease Control (CDC) has said.

Its experts think a second of the three forms of poliovirus has been eliminated after mass vaccination campaigns.

Wild poliovirus type 3 has not been detected for more than two years. Type 2 was eradicated in 1999.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30056311
chai2
 
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Reply Sat 15 Nov, 2014 09:27 am
@izzythepush,
That's good news.
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farmerman
 
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Reply Sat 15 Nov, 2014 10:07 am
@roger,
Quote:
Quote:
I drive a manuel
and how does Manuel like eet?
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farmerman
 
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Reply Sat 15 Nov, 2014 10:09 am
@FBM,
Quote:

Now, though, I refuse to own an automatic. Driving one is just annoying as hell to me.


yeh but most of the fun cars have gone to paddle shift.
chai2
 
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Reply Sat 15 Nov, 2014 10:26 am
@farmerman,
Is that like the car that Fred Flintstone drives?
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glitterbag
 
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Reply Sun 16 Nov, 2014 07:13 pm
Well, I'm smiling because our grand daughter and son & wife came by for dinner. There was a great deal of horsing around, the older dog Sophie is putty in her hands. The younger of the 2 is also smitten. However, if anyone has ever been the proud owner of 2 crazed vizslas, you will know what a hurricane ensues when you throw a 31/2 year old girl into a small pile of wiggly vizslas. We are bruised but happy.
vonny
 
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Reply Mon 17 Nov, 2014 05:04 am
@glitterbag,
Reading glitterbags' post about vislas and grandchild - sounds like great fun!
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