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Wanna ride with me in my time machine?

This is a letter I sent to my oldest son about his birth.
Tom,
It was springtime in 1961 and I was working as a foreign car mechanic at Rootes Motors in L.I.City. I had been there about 2 years. Rootes was a British car Co that made the Hillman, Sunbeam and Humber. We had 23 mechanics many of them came from Ireland. Some of the senior mechanics had served in WW2. I believe a few of the mechanics who came from Europe actually served in the Nazi military though they would never own up to that. My workbench was next to Jim Arrington, a black EX NYC cop. The most corrupt man I ever met. I got that job through the NY State employment agency. My starting pay was $2.37/HR which was pretty high at the time. I met your mother and we got married and you were born. By now you're probably wondering what Rootes Motors has to do with your birth, right? Not much, except one day not long after you were born when word went around that my wife, your mom, gave birth to a baby boy, one of the Irish mechanics came up to me to congratulate me, saying, "Good Job, you put a tail on it the first time out." Apparently it was viewed as an accomplishment to have a boy especially as a first time father. My God I thought, it must be rough to be a woman in Ireland.

I just thought it would be cool to take you on a trip back in time for just a moment to see and hear the world through my eyes and ears.
Dad
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I wanna go home

The other day a neighbor asked me if I could take her to the Verizon store in town because she didn't have transportation at the time and she wanted to get a new phone for her husband who was getting hard of hearing and their phone didn't have enough volume for him. She already had a smart phone. So, off we went. We got to the store and a very nice salesman asked if he could help us. We sat at his desk and the business of obtaining another phone began. He had his smart phone which he was using instead of a computer and she had her smart phone out and using it to get the info he was seeking as I sat there silently watching these 2 conducting their business both paying more attention to their phones than to each other, a sudden urge came over me that I had been transported way into the future to a world I was very unfamiliar with. All I could think of was getting away from this place. I guess I was so deep in my thoughts that I just blurted out "I wanna go home." "But we just got here." the woman said and the salesman looked at me like I was a retard. "No, not back to the house, I wanna go back to the 50's when people looked at each other when they talked, I wanna walk around Central Park, I wanna ride my bike, I wanna go across the street to "Baldies" candy store and get a Coke in a green glass bottle, I wanna go fishing in Castle Lake." I wanna hear "Rock Around the Clock", I wanna see Jack Benny." I felt the tears welling up in my eyes and got up and said I'll be outside in the car and walked out of the store.
I went out to the car and sat behind the wheel and wept like a baby. Where did it all go? Where are all my friends? How did I get here? Is this what we all wished for? I felt lost. I wonder where Danny is? Oh yeah, he died a couple of years ago, Cancer. His older brother Jesse the same. Jimmy must be pretty old by now, he's probably dead too. Rudy jumped out of a 4th floor window because he couldn't kick a Heroin habit. Just about everyone I knew as a kid were dead.
A few minutes later my neighbor came out of the store and we went home. "Are you ok to drive?" she asked. "Yeah I'm fine'. I said and we drove back and I dropped her off at her house.
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Three Little Punks

When I was 16, me and Teddy Weinberg 14 and Freddy Thunburg 15 decided to go on a camping trip on our bikes (bicycles not motorcycles). We all lived on 85th St on the upper East side of Manhattan. We had heard there was a nice camping area out on Long Island. So we loaded our camping gear on our bikes and started on our trip. When I say camping gear I mean a 2 man pup tent, a sleeping bag and a couple of blankets. You read that right 1 sleeping bag.
We headed uptown to the Triborough Bridge and over the East River to Astoria Queens where we picked up Northern Blvd aka Rt 25A and headed Eastbound along the north side of Long Island. 87 grueling miles later we arrived at Wading River State Pk. We went to registration to get a camping spot. It was at this point we learned that at least 1 of us had to be 16 years old. Fortunately I was 16 so we were good to go. I sometimes wonder what would have happened if I was only 15. Would they have refused to let us stay there?
We setup our tent and laid one of our blankets on the ground and used the sleeping bag like a blanket. Can you picture it? 3 teenagers under 1 sleeping bag. During the night we were so wound up from what we had just accomplished that we couldn't get to sleep, in fact we were giddy from excitement that we had just done the impossible. We were laughing and telling jokes and making so much noise that a man from a nearby camping spot came over about 1 AM and shined a flashlight into our tent and said repeatedly "Three Little Punks" "Three Little Punks". Well, we were scared what this grownup would do so we clammed up and he left and the rest of the night we didn't make a sound.
The adjacent camping spot was occupied by a male nurse and his wife in an 8X10 Wall tent. We made friends with them real quick and they even let us stay in their wall tent one night . I felt like I was staying at a 5 star hotel sleeping on a cot in their tent. I think they were really impressed with us, and probably felt sorry for us.
To be continued.
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How to lose your job

How NOT to make a good impression on your bosses boss.
One day years ago, 1973 to be exact, my company "Koni America" went to Watkins Glen as was our annual tradition, to service the Formula One race. We had our usual spot in the main garage where we entertained race drivers and crew members that came by to chat on various technical matters referring to suspension setups especially shock absorber settings and adjustments, and also test and set their shocks on our shock dyno as well. On this particular day a driver came by to chat and we formed a rough circle in the bay. There was my boss Ted M. to my right, between us was the driver, opposite to me was my bosses boss John Z., to my left was my co-worker, Bob K., another technician. I don't remember who the driver was, it could have been anybody. Normally an event like that would be engraved on your memory, however what follows is all that I remember of that moment in time.

So there we were chatting and my bosses boss John had a banana in his hand and was mindlessly trying to peel it while deeply engrossed in the conversation. I was trying to follow the flow of the conversation but the distraction of John and the banana made that nearly impossible. My focus kept shifting from his face to his hands and I was getting increasingly agitated. Ted was watching me watching John and he later told me that he could see my eyes going up & down as my attention shifted. He said he could also see my nostrils flare. My frustration grew to an unbearable level. I wanted to rip the banana out of his hand and peel the goddamn thing for him. Finally I couldn't take it anymore and I blurted out "YOU'RE PEELING IT FROM THE WRONG END". Well, Ted nearly had a seizure from laughing so hard. My first thought was OMG . doh what did I just do? Did I just make my bosses boss look like a fool in front of some big Formula 1 driver? Do I still have a job? Lucky for me John took it as a learning experience and flipped the banana over and successfully peeled it.
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A future star in the making

I can't get enough of this little angel.

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Pocket Change

for US members.

What is the best amount of change you should carry in your pocket & which coins?
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Life's Rewards Are Paid in Advance

From the time you're born, through childhood, when you spent all day playing, eating, sleeping, being cuddled, fussed over, treated like you're so special, til young adulthood when you fall in love and have sex, all Summer off from school, don't have to work, hang out with lots of friends, parties, play sports, go away to camp, the list is endless. Then you start on a rewarding career, start making lots of money, buy a new sports car, meet a great partner, have beautiful kids, buy your own house. Then the kids grow to adulthood, they meet that special person and move out and start their own family. One day, becomes hard to tell from the day before, your knees start to hurt, your partner isn't that young hottie he/she use to be but starts to get wrinkles, puts on weight, You remember what they looked like when you met and you try to find some similarity but it gets more difficult every year. Your kids have kids who call you Grandpa or Grandma. All your friends are either dead or far away waiting to die, or you don't even know where the hell they are or even if they're still alive. You don't go to parties or make love or play sports or hang out at the candy store. Your wife or husband gets Cancer and passes away and you find yourself all alone. Everything you did that you enjoyed is gone.

It's about this time when you start to think about the life you use to have, and you realize that life is kind of backwards. You don't get your reward after paying a lifetime of dues, it's given to you in advance. It's not like waiting for Christmas morning when you can open your presents, you already got your presents.... but you didn't even know it.
Until now.
Now, when it's too late to appreciate them. When all that's left is slowly slipping away.
I wish somebody told me about this when I was 5 years old. I think I probably would have done things a lot differently knowing that I was going to lose it all one day. I wouldn't have taken life for granted and I wouldn't have squandered the things I had that wasn't going to last forever,
Time, Youth, and Health.sigh
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1955 The birth of Rock & Roll

Boy they sure don't make them like this anymore.

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Commander in Chief ---Comment blog

Feel free to post comments here.
BTW; Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to be indicted for bribery, fraud

https://www.msnbc.com/velshi-ruhle/watch/israeli-prime-minister-netanyahu-to-be-indicted-for-bribery-fraud-1449929795560


Birds of a feather aye?
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Trump may drop out of 2020 race if poll numbers don’t improve

Well, it looks like something has taken the "Mickey" out of the former tough guy from the 2016 campaign. You can see the look on his face. "Aww, nobody loves me, My wittle feelings are hurt."
comfort There, there Donnie, don't be sad, you did the best you could, Not everybody is qualified for this job, maybe you were just aiming too high. I mean , after all, you're running against a guy with 8 years of experience as a Vice President who knows how the job should be done. I mean, what are you? a failed real estate and casino manager and a talk show host. Let's face it, that background doesn't exactly prepare a person to run a whole country. Especially one as big as the USA. Look on the bright side, I bet you can even get your old job back as the star of "The Apprentice". You seemed a lot happier back then when you were firing everybody on a weekly basis. yay

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-fragile-mood-may-drop-152718908.html
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It seemed like such a great idea

One night when I was about 8 years old, I had a stuffy nose. I was in bed and my nose was so clogged I had to breathe through my mouth. Suddenly I felt I had to sneeze. Maybe I was a little too influenced by watching so many cartoons on TV that I got the brilliant idea that if I sneeze through my nose, the clog would go flying across the room and splat against the wall. laugh So, that's what I did. Unfortunately, my plan didn't work out as expected, instead my nose started bleeding so bad I was soon laying in a pool of blood. I yelled for my mother and she came running into the room and when she saw all the blood she began to go berserk. She was wailing and crying and carrying on like she lost her mind. I quickly realized I would get no help from her. I started to feel a little weak, probably from loss of blood and it dawned on me that I had to stop bleeding real soon or I was going to die. I knew the way mom was carrying on that it was going to be up to me to save my life. I pinched my nose to stop the flow of blood and used the back of my tongue to close off the passage from my nose. I took a deep breath through my mouth and held it as long as possible. I repeated the process several more times until I was able to stop bleeding. I can't remember what happened after that but I think I dozed off to sleep.
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Money saving tips

Flushing the toilet:
People in desert regions must be appalled that in the west we use drinking water to flush a toilet. Dirty dish water and bath water works just as well. All you need is a regular size bucket filled to about 2" from the top to do the trick. Make sure the water level in the bowl is at the normal height, not down low after a prior bucket flush or it wont work. Next, DUMP the water into the bowl, don't pour it in or it wont work. You have to raise the water level up fast. That's how toilets work.

Milk:
It's perfectly alright to freeze milk. It's not quite as good as milk that hasn't been frozen but for coffee or cereal you wont know the difference. I have been freezing milk for years. I have 2-32 oz. yogurt containers of milk in my freezer right now. The energy spent freezing the milk will be reclaimed when you put the frozen container in the fridge as it melts back to a liquid.

Washing dishes:
Hand washing uses less water and electricity if it's only you and maybe 1 other person, If you have a large family and generate a lot of dirty dishes a dish washer is probably a better choice. If you're really creative you might want to rig up a way of catching the water from the dish washer to flush the toilet but this is kind of extreme and can create a big water mess if you aren't careful. A washing machine is another source of a huge amount of flush water but this is even more dangerous than a dish washer due to the large amount of water and the speed a washing machine pumps out the wash/rinse water.

Drying clothes:
Use a clothes line, with pulleys from the back door or window. Not the kind out in the backyard where you have to carry a laundry basket full of wet clothes down a flight of stairs and walk to the clothes line. That may be "country" but it's a lot more work than a pulley system used by city folks. Just imagine if you lived on the 5th floor of an apartment building and you didn't even have a back yard. I grew up in New York city in a row of 5 buildings which had 40 families and no one had a clothes dryer. Most didn't even have a washing machine. Clothes were washed in the kitchen sink by hand.

Soda:
About 2 weeks ago I happen to be at a nearby convenience store when I looked at the little soda cooler near the checkout. I was so shocked that I decided to snap a picture of it. Are people so conditioned to fork over almost 2 bucks ($1.97 with 5% sales tax) for a 20 OZ bottle of soda? I buy Sams Club Cola at Walmart, a 2 litre (68 OZ) bottle costs 65 cents tax included. You can fill 3, 20 OZ bottles and have a cup left over. The final cost works out to 19 cents for that $1.97 bottle of soda. I have several empty soda bottles and it's no big deal to fill 3 of them from a 2L bottle of soda. What would you rather pay, 2 dollars or 2 dimes?
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