Neanderpundit

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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Today I have to get a new set of shelves put in the pantry, get the damned lawn mowed (neighborhood kids are putting notes in my mailbos “Need halp(sic) mowing your lawn?”) and try to get the last 95 feet of drain pipe buried in the yard. A lazy day for me, really. I just hope to get one Zatoichi movie in before I start.