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WhistlingBadger:

--- Quote from: PaulN/KS on May 20, 2025, 04:40:10 pm ---I forget just why my wife was calling a "help" line but the person on the other end introduced themself, "This is Bob from Wichita". Based on the strong accent and intonation "Bob" was more than likely NOT from "Wichita"... ???

Ever since then, when dealing with those phone "help" lines, the "Bob from Wichita" thing has become an inside joke between us.
 ;)

--- End quote ---

Maybe there's a city in Pakistan called Wichita???   ;D

JW_Halverson:
Well, I had to do one of the worst things a person can have to do. I was making dinner when I heard a commotion out in the street. I saw a man and woman standing in the middle of the street and a dog lying at their feet. When I got to them they had carried the little dog to the curb and laid him down in the grass. He was unresponsive and clearly expiring quickly. The dog rushed into the street running toward them when he was hit by a car. The unspeakable coward at the wheel never even stopped.

The woman was sobbing and her husband was consoling her. They explained it was not their dog. I found the tag and read his name was Pretzel. On the flip side was a phone number and I dialed the number. No answer, so I stammered out a fast message with the cross streets and told them to get there NOW. I was trying to hack out a text to them when they came down the cross street. Mother, father, and a clearly distraught 7 yr old boy.

By then, Pretzel had left us. The father dropped to his knees and cradled the dog, and the boy began to sob. That poor kid's world is utterly wrecked and I feel heartbroken for him.

People think I am some kind of simp because I am always stopping for loose dogs and trying to catch them. Ok, fine, I could not care less what you think of me. If I can save one little kid from this nightmare then I'm justified.

Pappy:
That's sad JW, had that happen to me when I was about 7, was walking down the road to the lake to fish with Buddy my dog by my side, and a guy in a car hit and killed him, lucky he didn't hit me also, just kept going. Wonder if he would have stopped if he had hit me also  :-\ I had to tote him back to the house, still remember it like yesterday. :(
 Pappy

Eric Krewson:
I had the same thing happen with my buddy Butch when I was 12, he was an airdale of incredible intelligence and I was his boy, woe be onto anything man or beast that attempted to harm me. He was running on a hillside while was hiking with my friend Robert and decide to run back to us, he didn't see that coal truck coming down the hill at a high rate of speed, that was the end of Butch, it was very traumatic.

Eric Krewson:
I have had some good luck spotting bargains on the Facebook Market place in the last two days and snaping them up before anyone else got to them.

I was thinking about buying a replacement for my rotted wood raised bed, I wanted a bigger, taller metal one but they are very expensive. A lady posted a huge unused one on the market place for $60, she had bought two of them and had only used one. She showed the original price tag which was $179. I snapped it up a few hours after she posted it. I am thinking about making an asparagus bed out of it.

I have huge shop with every tool known to man, I keep a small tool box in the house for those quick handyman jobs so I won't have to walk to the shop for a screwdriver. My tool box in the house has one tray with everything tossed in a pile and jumbled up, it is a mess. I have been on the lookout for a used portable tool box with drawers so I can organize my tools for easier access. I caught this guy's ad 14 minutes after he posted it. These Craftsman tool boxes sell for around $70 new; I got it for $40.

My toolbox and planter;

 

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