Am I jinxed?

[Forty Rod]

Met a nice man named Mike at the Black & Deckerr/ Price Pfister warehouse.  I explained the problem to him.  He looked at the wrong part.  He looked at the right part.  He said "Come with me".

Fifty minutes later, by trial and error, we decided we'd found the right replacement. 

No charge. 

He walked me out to my car and told me he'd never had anyone come to the warehouse before.  Her asked where I was from.  I told him I was from Seattle.  He looked startled and asked why I'd driven all the way from Seattle for a $13.00 part, then glanced at my license plate.  We laughed.  We talked.  He gave me his home number and wants to visit a shoot.

Sometimes things worrk out better than others.

[Trinity]

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[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

Derned brothers. Someone should tell their mom.



AnnieLee

[Forty Rod]

Really?

...?

Are you sure?

[Trinity]

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[litl rooster]

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[Trinity]

I always thought you was kinda a flat conversationalist, ol' pard!

[Forty Rod]

Trinity, have you been talking to Woodstock again?

[Trinity]

I knew that somehow looked familiar!  Thanks for reminding me!!!

[Forty Rod]

Great God Almighty!!!

My new Husky 1750 psi made in Italy super duper handy home power washer that I haven't had two months yet just did a three-fer crap out.

1. The GFLI keeps tripping.  Now it won't reset at all, even after cooling down and being unplugged.  Same line I used this morning to use other super duper heavy home equipment.

2. The wands won't go in properly and lock.

3. The "turbo" head doesn't "turbo" anymore.

I called the toll free help line three times and they're about  as much help as hemerroids on a 50 mile hike.  I guess I'm expected to know 26 foreign languages to own anything.  I probably should learn a few before it becomes Mandatory.

It's about 650 damn degrees, I'm trying to get ready to go to Vegas tomorrow (which I DO NOT WANT TO DO!!!) and I am losing all of my pateince with everyone and everything.

I hope they have someone with cast iron cojones who reads my e-mail to them.  I'll melt anything less.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

1) Take it back. I don't think you've had that thing a month.

2) Don't go to Vegas.

[Forty Rod]

It goes back as soon as I get back from Vegas.

I HAVE to go to Vegas.  My kids have blown a lot of money for our 40th Anniversary prresent and my protests that:

Vegas in the summer is STUPID

I hate Vegas anyway

Having stayed in the Raffles in Singapore there is nothing in this country I want to see.

I don't like crowds.

I don't gamble.

I detest casinos and all their noise.

Rita Rudner isn't funny.

And last, but far from leasdt, MY anniversary was last weekend, not this one.

All those protests were for naught.  I got outvoted.

Nobody give two whoops and a holler what I want or what I like.

Screw it.  I'll just go, keep my mouth shut, and fort up in the room until it's time to come home.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

GOFWG #1, livin' up to his creed.........Buck

[Forty Rod]

I ain't number 1...I'm number 24.

AN' DON'T YOU FORGET IT!!!

I just feel like there is nothing in this world that's worth the effort to put it in the car and take it home.  It's a helpless feeling because there are things I want, things I need, and I'm afraid to buy them because I know I'll be disappointed again.  It's a waste of money.

I'd like to buy American, but what little is still made here costs so much more than the imports, and it isn't any better, sometimes not as good.  Which isn't in praise of the import crap, either.  It's too often useless before you get it unpacked.

This takes frustration to a whole new level.

[Trinity]

Well, you oughta be bumped right up there to GOFWG number one!


C'mon big brother, join me.  I've decided to give it all up and go up into the mountains to live as a hermit. 

I've got it all figured out... I'll sneak down during tourist season and rip off picnic baskets for food!

... Oh, and please... take another cave because I too believe you are jinxed and I fear that you will cause mine to leak or have bears or snakes or something...

[litl rooster]

C'mon big brother, join me.  I've decided to give it all up and go up into the mountains to live as a hermit. 

I've got it all figured out... I'll sneak down during tourist season and rip off picnic baskets for food!

... Oh, and please... take another cave because I too believe you are jinxed and I fear that you will cause mine to leak or have bears or snakes or something...

No sympathy for your brother, Trinty?

Forty maybe you should have reminded them of the Vegas motto "stays in Vegas"

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Yeah, he might be a little sunnier when he gets back......Buck

[litl rooster]

Yeah, he might be a little sunnier when he gets back......Buck

I would say something whimscial here, but Forty is probably reading these in his suite at the Rio. He would PM Ms. Annie then I would have to duck Elle.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

Since I basically just compared him to a fourth grade girl having a hissy fit over on the comments to Appomattox thread, I HOPE he's not reading these!



AnnieLee

[Trinity]

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