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Mrs. Lose thought I needed to get away for awhile this afternoon so she told me that if I went down the hill to Escondido with her that she’d buy me dinner at our favorite hamburger joint. Well I needed to mail a package at the post office down there so I agreed to go along if we could stop and mail it. The date was made. Mailed the package and get back in the car and I said where to? and she said ALDI she needed to do some shopping. I’ve driven by Aldi many times but never been in one. We parked and crossed the parking lot to the front of the store and I turned into the cart corral to get a shopping cart and this scruffy looking guy pushing a shopping cart asks my wife for a quarter. She digs around in her purse and hands the guy a quarter and starts pushing his shopping cart and he walks off. I have no idea what’s going on and she says it’s so that the wheels don’t lock up on the shopping cart. She points to this gadget with a little key thing on a coiled cord and a coin slot with a quarter stuck in it. I said why didn’t I just get one of the other carts instead of using his and she said because I would have had to put a quarter in the slot and I said but it still cost us a quarter. Anyway we go in the store and that place looks like a bomb went off. She’s looking for large tomato’s over in the tomato section and I find large tomatoes over with the apples and oranges. I’m looking for bananas and she told me over by the lettuce and cabbage. She wants some sweet onions and the sign says $1.94 per bag but all of the sweet onions are loose not in a bag, so I get a bag and fill it up and she says that’s too many onions and I said what difference does it make? So she puts most of the onions back and we keep shopping. I’m looking for some BBQ rub and amongst the seasonings is a bunch of energy drinks. It just seemed like whoever was stocking shelves just put stuff wherever there was a space. I worked in a grocery store in my younger days and would have been fired if I stocked like that. So we get up to the check out stand and there is no greeting from the clerk, no thank you, no communications at all except for the total that we owed. As we’re walking out my wife recognized the security guard and stopped to say hello. I walked out with the cart and this, I guess you’d call her, statuesque good looking blond lady is walking up to the front entrance and I asked her if she had a quarter. Well I guess that was the wrong thing to ask her because she asked me why I’d ask her for a quarter and just then my wife walks up and asks me if I asked that lady for a quarter. I admitted to it because based on the guy who got her to fork over a quarter on the way into the store I thought it was the thing to do. As I’m getting the “You don’t just ask any body for a quarter” lecture there’s another guy pushing a shopping cart back to the cart corral and asks this lady looking for a shopping cart if she had a quarter and she dug around in her purse and handed him a quarter and takes off with his cart into the store. Well we went to eat at the burger joint and there was another rather nice looking lady that showed up at the counter as I was ordering and I was really tempted to ask her for a quarter just to see what would happen, but I didn’t.

Gunna' buy another this w'end...

Congrats to her for sticking with it and coming out better for it, I’m sure she worked hard! Congrats to you as well!

It’s less about the schools than the fact there’s no functioning family that gives a d**n about those kids’ futures. Kids do well in school when supported by parents and family. Adding on, If a 15 year old kid is involved in a brawl or shooting at 2:00 am, the quality of the school isn’t going to have an impact on their lives.

What’s disappointing is that he found as many as he did!!

send all your cap-n-ball pistols to me, and I will let you know if they arrive. (joke)

I'm going to say again: I'd bet he spent hours out talking to people to get 5 minutes of those responses.

There will not be fireworks at this home. One of the dogs is absolutely terrified of them. I do not know what to expect from the neighbors...

Throw on the stereo, used to help with my dogs when I lived in town.

Well, being a contraband, i thought I'd post a few Rebel Flags.

Yeah! The nutcases around here have been shooting off fireworks for nearly a week already!! It ain’t been real bad, but the dawg doesn’t like it! I used to do a pretty fair fireworks show on 7/4 and Hatfield took over a few years ago, but lately, fireworks have become more expensive than they are entertaining, so we just watch if the weather ain’t to bad. Gonna get the grandson to weed eat and blow off the driveways and sidewalk tomorrow. He loves doing it and I like an excuse to poke a little cash in his pocket! Gotta get him out for a driving lesson tomorrow too! He’ll be here through the middle of next week while he checks out a couple of colleges. Gonna hate to see him go back to his mamma’s next week. AH HELL! There go the fireworks again!! GRUMBLEGRUMBLEGRUMBLE!!

I know right? 🙄

I would really like to see some of your collection some time. I’ve always liked pocket watches I’ve just never really come across them in person except maybe at antique shows and usually its a collectible piece and not suited for daily use - or I’d be worried about something happening to it using it daily.

Good lookin out!

Sharps40, neat little package of power! It reminded me of a picture I saved about 15 years ago, built by Amin Ledbetter.