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Joe Handley

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  1. Him not smoking might be just as bad if not worse at this moment. Knew an elderly man who lost his wife to cancer and was a bundle of nerves and when his Doctor asked him if there was anything he could think of that would calm him down, he said that when he had been a smoker, that would usually help calm him down. The doctor figured that if smoking was about the only thing that calmed him, he could try picking it back up. Granted he was old enough that it no longer really mattered (he still lived for quite a while after this), but if it helps keep the OP's nerves in check, I couldn't fault him for lighting up during these times.
  2. But is it the Cabrio/Convertable? I'd be hard pressed to fit more than a few standard sized model boxes in one.
  3. You should see the late T-Birds and New Beetle cabrios, they're less than worthless!
  4. That right there, wouldn't he a shock........
  5. That isn't one of Will I. Am's (musician, formerly of The Black Eyed Peas) creations by chance......is it? Apparently it is, and it started as an aircooled Beetle?! http://jalopnik.com/exclusive-will-i-ams-900-000-one-of-a-kind-car-is-ac-299528633
  6. Nice, did you get a 4 cyl or V-6 car?
  7. If you talk to people who've worked retail for very long, that can be a very accurate attitude. I'm almost to the point of apathy towards most holidays with this year being the most unusual, since instead of working while the bosses are taking the day off or in a box store that is open because people will shop, to getting the day off while the bosses are working!
  8. Dang, I should have mentitioned something when we were there, I can count the numbers of sales we'd probablt have of it on one hand in my store, but one would have definately been for me!
  9. Wonder how many suckers they find with that?!
  10. A Cummins Ram pulling a gooseneck with a blue with white top Plymouth Superbird on it while running between work and the hospital Mom is currently in.
  11. Ditto, but from what it sounded like, that was the only one existance.
  12. It's gotten to be S.O.P. for just about any big box store any more, kinda why I'm glad to be working for a franchise, we've mostly started talking about hiring for Christmas and expanding the train stock since it's nearly that time of year.
  13. Wow, that literally shook me!
  14. I think he had been performing in Branson, MO for a number of years now too at the theater where Dick Clark had his restaurant and the all 1957 car's museum had been across the street from Dolly Pardon's Dixie Stampede dinner theater.
  15. Wow, that's.............horrible!
  16. I saw a couple buildups of that on Thursday, looked nice!
  17. From what Dad saw with the railroad in train collisions is that the family went for deep pockets, the rail road, their insurer, the guys in the train, possibly the automaker, ect. When it comes to Stewart and NASCAR, deeeeeeeep pockets there for some ambulance chaser to try and dip into.
  18. I'd go with the Buicks unless you can get a good extended warranty on the 300. Reason my sister traded her Charger off is that she kept getting clunky noises from the rear suspension and since her extended warranty was up, it was going to cost a lot to fix since it uses Mercedes parts in the suspension. When she bought the Challenger, she got the same lifetime warranty from the dealer I did on my 200.
  19. No, I'm saying if his parents are anything like the adults I've seen while driving to and from work, they may have never taught him that lesson because they may have not been taught that themselves.....throw in something like an intoxicant, a distracting device, or even the attitude "It can just stop for ME!" then that makes bad decisions worse. Not saying they deserve it, but are in my eyes at least 95% culpable in their own injuries or deaths as well as the mental well being of the operator of the machine that injured or killed them as well as any witnesses due to their own actions.
  20. Judging by what I've seen driving through Geneva, I'm not sure if kids are being taught that, or maybe their parents were never taught that considering the ages of the ADULTS I've seen do that when going to and from work. Another problem is that if somebody's kid gets hit doing something like that, it's not the fault of the child or the parent, it's the fault of the person that hit them for not stopping in time or swerving to avoid their precious child........even if it's a loaded freight train on a single track with no siding and the engineer is hard on the horn and brakes while the person who gets hit is too busy ignoring what's going on around them to notice anything important.
  21. Wow, but it is a Liberty, I think they all deserved that fate.
  22. Always wondered where this originated from, know I know!
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