Neanderpundit

At Home Despot today, I overheard someone returning a soaker hose because it leaked.

Everyone needs to comment, I need numbers. I want to know how many consider it rude to call anyone after ten. My inlaws LOVE to call here after ten in the evening. I myself never place a telephone call after five PM unless it is an emergency. So? what say ye, phone calls after ten at night, good or bad? Ogwife says “only in YOUR world”. I say she’s wrong. A late night phone call is an intrusion into people’s personal lives, and an unwelcome one at that. I was thirty five before I ever heard the phone ring after six, unless someone had died.

Richmond mentions nearly being creamed by a truck here, and it reminds me of one of my own brushes with the reaper.

I had just gotten home from my very first day at Purdue. I needed a drafting set to do the homework I had that weekend. The only place I was likely to find a set was in Crown Point, five miles away.
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