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23347. Ms. No - 1/10/2008 6:29:51 AM Well, crap, Arky. I'm glad no one was hurt, but I know how bad the whole thing sucks. I'm still humiliated that I did that very thing. How bad is the car wrecked? Salvageable or totalled? 23348. arkymalarky - 1/10/2008 7:48:36 AM Thanks, y'all. I know what you mean, No. I'm just so disgusted with myself. I don't know about the car yet. A hose of some sort is leaking and I can't lift the hood. The policeman was very nice and looked through the gap between the bent up hood and the motor to see if it would be okay to drive. I got it to Mose's house and will have the wrecker pick it up from there. Low population effect: It was a former colleague of mine's mom. 23349. alistairconnor - 1/10/2008 5:38:58 PM Bugger! Sounds like you didn't completely write it off at least. How did you go with yours, No? Do you have wheels? Are they safe and/or legal?
My girlfriend totalled her car just before she met me... ran it into the back of a bus. (Why do women do that?) In her case, she told me it was because she learned to drive at the police academy... you learn to do everything fast. She accelerated to overtake the bus then noticed someone else had pulled out to overtake her... having the choice, she chose the bus... Smart move. The bus sustained no damage.
I really shouldn't mention that she had forgotten to pay her insurance premium... total financial loss too... because that would make her sound like an idiot. Which she certainly is not!
23350. judithathome - 1/10/2008 5:39:03 PM (((Arky)))...sorry about the accident. 23351. thoughtful - 1/10/2008 7:23:52 PM Ow! So sorry, Arky.
You never ever forget that sound of crunching metal.
So glad no one was hurt. 23352. Ms. No - 1/10/2008 8:20:56 PM My car drives, but I'm afriad I'll get pulled over in it if I drive it much simply because I elected not to repair it. My mother is getting a new car so she's driving her current one out here to Cali and leaving it with me at the end of her visit.
I do short errands like the grocery and laundry once every couple of weeks. I'm still insured and registered and all that legal stuff so I'm okay on that front. I just don't feel comfortable driving it in the shape it's in.
And people stare, you know? ;-> 23353. arkymalarky - 1/11/2008 12:49:59 AM Thanks, everyone!
That's awful, Alistair.
I must tell on Bob. He got his first new car, a Hyundai Sonata, in Sept. I'm driving it now, because I don't feel comfortable driving the S10 pickup on my commute. I never drive it, it's a standard, it's old, it's small, and he drives it every day anyway to keep from putting miles on his precious new baby.
Well, this morning I was getting ready to leave and he asked me if I had a key to his Hyundai. I said I did, and he insisted I take the keyless entry. I assured him I was okay with the key and it was sweet of him to take the keyless off his keychain and put it on mine, but it really wasn't necessary. He then informed me that he did not want me using the key to get in his car, because I might scratch it.
I want my car back. 23354. wabbit - 1/11/2008 1:43:10 AM LOL!! Glad you're ok, Arky! 23355. arkymalarky - 1/11/2008 3:23:08 AM Thanks, Wabbit! 23356. alistairconnor - 1/11/2008 10:28:03 AM My god Arky... you're married to a ... a ... a MAN!
I've always known I was some sort of transsexual, because I just don't get that stuff. 23357. judithathome - 1/11/2008 7:29:42 PM Keoni went to a "Business After Dark" networking event (about 900 people) last night put on by the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce and came home happy as a clam. He handed out business cards to dozens of people until he got bored; ate from the sumptuous buffet that was provided; and then decided to hang out with the band hired for the evening. He just walked into the room where they were waiting to go on and asked if he could hang around...they all became great buddies for about half an hour, talking about music and jazz and different things.
He said they motioned to him when they went on stage and he got a place right in front of the stage and was sort of dancing by himself when a woman came up and asked him to dance with her. So they started dancing and the woman was floored and yelled at her friends to come watch them because she'd found a great dancer. The crowd made a space around the two of them while the danced. Afterward, the band applauded them!
Now imagine me sitting here listening to all this from my tipsy husband (he was SO cute talking about it all!) after spending the evening alone eating cottage cheese for dinner and watching home improvenment shows on TV. Seriously, he was so cute telling me all this that all I could feel was happy that he had such a great time. 23358. arkymalarky - 1/11/2008 11:44:08 PM He wasn't one until he got a new car, Alistair. 23359. arkymalarky - 1/11/2008 11:46:43 PM I can see the whole scene, Judith. Perfect Keoni story! 23360. anomie - 1/13/2008 1:59:38 AM Ah if only I could dance! I'd have to chase the women away with a stick. Of course I'd also have to be a little better looking...maybe a bit more charmimg...richer...groomed some. But hey, dancing would be a start. 23361. anomie - 1/13/2008 2:02:30 AM Sorry about your accident Arky. I was hit from behind by a woman in South Carolina. It wasn't her fault or mine. I was exiting a freeway and noticed at the last minute that there was no merge lane onto the road. The exit ramp went right into a lane. So my sudden stop surprised the woman behind me. A mere tap, but it cost over 800 dollars for my car. 23362. arkymalarky - 1/13/2008 9:42:14 PM Thanks Anomie. This one was every bit my fault. No telling how much my car will cost. I have $500 deductible, but I don't know how much my insurance will go up. I've had my first speeding ticket and my first wreck (other than parking dents) since I turned 45. I'll be a total menace by the time I'm 60 at this rate. 23363. wonkers2 - 1/13/2008 9:59:06 PM OK Arky as long as you weren't talking on your cell phone! 23364. arkymalarky - 1/13/2008 10:21:52 PM Haha! Amazingly I wasn't. I have a blue-tooth headset in the car, but haven't been using it. Despite the fact it wasn't a factor, I'm going to use it now. 23365. judithathome - 1/14/2008 5:46:49 PM We went over to our friends' house to watch football yesterday and then out to dinner with them. Both their son and my son joined us there. Had a great time It was about 8pm and very dark when we got home.
The electricity was off yesterday afternoon for awhile...about 2 1/2 hours just as it was the day before. Never occured to me to reset the timers on my lamps...which means we came home to a pitch black house and as a result, I didn't see Keoni's brief case in my path (
i great
place to leave it, in any situation, right where someone is going to be walking in the room) and so I FELL over it and though I didn't break any bones, miraculously, my face smashed into the Oriental rug and slid forward so much that I now have
i carpet burns
on it. Yes, half my forehead, the bridge of my nose, and the top part of my upper lip are
i burned.
My forehead also has a huge bump. And my glasses are bent to the point they sit crooked on my face...making the invisible bifocal function a lot of fun.
Thank God I didn't fall into the Stickley chair and break my entire face on the hard oak frame. Instead, my face ended up
i under
it.
This is one fall I can't blame on the cat...I could SEE her in the dark! 23366. jexster - 1/14/2008 7:26:58 PM Email from Louisiana
You gotta love this lawyer....... it's too good not to share!
Everyone who has ever bought a house will enjoy this. A New Orleans lawyer sought an FHA loan for a client. He was told the loan would be granted if he could prove satisfactory title to a parcel of property being offered as collateral. The title to the property dated back to 1803, which
took the lawyer three months to track down. After sending the information to the FHA, he received the following reply:
(Actual letter):
"Upon review of your letter adjoining your client's loan application, we note that the request is supported by an Abstract of Title.
While we compliment the able manner in which you have prepared and presented the application, we must point out that you have only cleared title to the proposed collateral property back to 1803. Before final approval can be accorded, it will be necessary to clear the title back to its origin."
Annoyed, the lawyer responded as follows (actual letter):
"Your letter regarding title in Case No. 189156 has been received. I note that you wish to have title extended further than the 194 years covered by the present application. I was unaware that any educated person in this country, particularly those working in the property area, would not know that Louisiana was purchased, by the U.S. , from France in 1803,the year of origin identified in our application. For the edification of uninformed FHA bureaucrats, the title to the land prior to U.S. ownership was obtained from France , which had acquired it by Right of Conquest from Spain .
The land came into the possession of Spain by Right of Discovery made in the year1492 by a sea captain named Christopher Columbus, who had been granted the privilege of seeking a new route to India by the Spanish monarch, Isabella.
The good queen, Isabella, being a pious woman and almost as careful about titles as the FHA, took the precaution of securing the blessing of the Pope before she sold her jewels to finance Columbus ' expedition. Now the Pope, as I'm sure you may know, is the emissary of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and God, it is commonly accepted, created this world. Therefore, I believe it is safe to presume that God also made that part of the world called Louisiana . God,therefore, would be the owner of origin and His origins date back, to before the beginning of time, the world as we know it AND the FHA. I hope you find God's original claim to be satisfactory. Now, may we have our damn loan?"
The loan was approved.
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