Tom Geiger

Witness the crazy stuff going on in the world today and you too will become crazy!

Life without model cars and beer ? is simply not worth living

Life without model cars and beer ? is simply not worth living

Sabbath is an important event for most religions

of Chinese brides

There always has to be some jackass neighbor! I have mine behind me, Gary the leaf fiend. He has this huge walk behind leaf blower that must be 25 years old and hence, makes more noise than legally allowed these days. There is a stretch of land between us that is owned by our HOA, was supposed to be a road that was never developed. So everything on my side of his driveway is HOA and everything on his side belongs to him. Simple, easy! Except Gary wants to own it all! The HOA does have their lawn mowed weekly, but Gary chases away kids, dog walkers, and anyone else who he considers trespassers. So Gary walks that loud obnoxious blower around all year long. My house is 100 feet away and it sounds like it's inside. And the minute we have guests either on our rear deck or in our pool, he breaks out the blower just to be obnoxious. During Covid I had a huge cherry tree blow down during a storm. I learned of it because Gary called to inform me, with the question, "When will I clean it up because it's on the grass". I tell him he just told me about it so I didn't have a plan, but reminded him that it's NOT his grass. I put an ad in Marketplace for free cherry wood if you cut it up and take it away. I had a guy respond and show up to retrieve the wood. He drove his pickup truck up on the grass on the HOA property. No sooner out there and Gary appeared, waving his arms at the guy. I went out there and he's telling the guy to get off his lawn! His idea is the guy should have parked at the curb and walked the wood the 300 or so feet from tree to truck. I snapped. I gave Gary a good piece of my mind, that the HOA told me they didn't care if I did donuts in that field and to get the heck back in his house! The potential wood harvester told me it was too intense for him and left! It took me two weeks to find another guy who wanted the wood. This time I was with them the entire time, and made sure Gary kept his distance. We have not spoken since. Two weeks ago we had company and we were back in the pool. Out comes the leaf blower! He heads right for the back fence line, and I stood up and met eyes with him... he turned around and made a beeline for his house.

Instantly Mortimer knew he was screwed when his front tire passed him!

Went out in my driveway this morning and found this! Just when I was thinking “what da?” I remembered! I bought it yesterday! 2018 Opel Touring Wagon was sold here as a Buick TourX. 44k car in immaculate condition. It’s quick!

And elf jury

Better watch out, You better not cry, You better not pout, I’m telling you why… Santa Claus is coming to town!

Just remembered.. when I was in Jamaica on my honeymoon 40 years ago. I kept seeing right hand drive Valiants. We were at an open air market and I asked a lady owner, who pleasantly told me it was American. I later learned it was an Australian car. As a Britisher country they imported them.

Back about 30 years ago we went to Aruba. There was an odd mix of cars there, US, European and South American. I took photos of Ladas too. Then I saw a 1966 era Beaumont.. never saw or knew of one before. I thought it was South American.

Friends of our lived in a neighborhood for 20 years. Then a new family moved in next door. They built an open air covered hang out area complete with a big fireplace. All done with permits that didn’t notice or care that the chimney height was exactly the same as their second floor windows. The teens there had large loud parties nearly every night. They kept the home fire burning nonstop, burning wood, old pallets, green wood and garbage, which made black smoky fires. Which set off my friend’s smoke detectors constantly. My friend contacted the offender who brushed him off that his kids needed to have loud drunken fun and to keep his windows closed! He contacted the town who also refused to admit they gave a CO to this mess. My friend is much more timid than me, put his house up for sale and moved. Me? I would have started action against the town building dept for screwing up, and demanding that the chimney be extended high enough that any smoke went over houses. Then every night these kids had parties I’d have the cops there, checking IDs for underage drinking (these were all high school kids). End of story? The people he sold the house to are suing him for not disclosing the nuisance next door!

An attractive Mid-century chair that looks oddly familiar

Mush! Yelled Jed to the pair of horses that powered his Studebaker wagon back in the 1860s

Filing a claim!

Problems occur when you are available to babysit your kid’s kids and they kinda overuse your services and your pool goes unused!

into roaring fire! ?

Pumpkin spice everything!

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away..

"Pack of Camels!" was a typical convenience store order when I was a counter clerk back in the last century

The art of advertising! The "Somewhere west of Laramie" ad was considered the first automotive advertisement that brought romance and excitement to a car ad. Prior to this it was all price, features and durability. It changed everything! Same with model kit box art. As a kid we lived through the excitement of the box art. How many of us fell for this one? I know I did... several times! It took that simple box full of parts and made it a real live exciting car to us. Great box art sold a lot of model cars! Still true today where the majority of kits are still sold to casual builders, people lured into buying by an exciting package. No different than food products or other goods in the store.

surrounded by seagulls

"Stage comes though these parts around noontime" said Cyrus the old prospector

It's a fact that those who once worked for tips, tip well! I am no exception. When I was 18 I spent a summer delivering pizza. I noticed that when I delivered to working class neighborhoods I was tipped well. When delivering to high end neighborhoods, often not so well! Back then a dollar was a good tip. And there were the folks who would give you a $5 bill for a $4.89 pizza and tell you to keep the change. Today, retired after a decent career, I tend to over tip because I remember the days when every dollar was appreciated.