Neanderpundit

Remember how you treated me when I bought the Explorer? Remember how the salesperson acted? Remember how well you honored the warranty? Remember what you did to me when we had trouble? Remember what you gave me in trade in?

We do. We absofuckingdamnedlutely do.

That’s why we bought another car from you today. And we were treated just as nicely. Thanks, Carmax.

Listening, BP Amoco?

Pitiably, he got mashed by a drinking glass placed by the wife while I was in Detroit.

Still. All the little herblets will live nicely in my dresser with my spare change.

I don’t travel as much as I used to- but once upon a time, I was gone every week. I travelled so much i felt like I lived in hotels.

Once in a while, though, I got a chance to get out of the plant where i was working to do something other than work. In Baton Rouge, a lot of years ago, one of the locals offered to take me to a “fish boil”. We rode in his battered LandCruiser off to a spot way the hell out of town, I had brief visions of Ned Beatty and toothless hilbillies- but not the case.

We parked the Cruiser in fairly thick brush, then walked a couple miles to a clearing.
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