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Joe Handley

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  1. 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!
  2. 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!
  3. Wonder how many suckers they find with that?!
  4. 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.
  5. Ditto, but from what it sounded like, that was the only one existance.
  6. 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.
  7. Wow, that literally shook me!
  8. 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.
  9. Wow, that's.............horrible!
  10. I saw a couple buildups of that on Thursday, looked nice!
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. Wow, but it is a Liberty, I think they all deserved that fate.
  16. Always wondered where this originated from, know I know!
  17. The weather has sucked the last couple days, huh?
  18. The front reminds me of the Audi R8, the rest makes me think "Batnan, The Animated Series".
  19. What I don't get is that if he was found to not be at fault enough to be procecuted for this kid's death due having him walk out in front of Stewart's car, how can it that he should be sued for wrongful death when his only crime is being on the track when this kid was.
  20. That Turbine Car is the snap kit Johan had out several years,back, the rep told me they bought the tooling after the chance to came up, sounded the same for the '59 Dodge too. I also suggested to her that if they were to do their own detail kit of the Turbine Car, that I believe Chrysler still has at leas one running car and that I knew Jay Leno has one of the running cars too
  21. I wouldn't worry about slivers, didn't a handful of Japanese and Korean cars have airbags with SPIDER related issues in the last year?
  22. That's cool, I live just a few miles from the motel that Twiggy was supposed tp be waiting for Elwood Blues in the original Blues Brothers and at one time, it was owned by the parents of one of my Sister's childhood friends. I think that the lot that gas station was on isn't too far away either, but all that evidence other than the trees is long gone now.
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