Thanks ex-Marine- still friend, Bob Looney.

Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 12:20 AM

Subject: FW: Story of a Challenged Senior!!!











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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:47:29 -0600















THIS SOUNDS A LOT LIKE SOMEONE I KNOW................









Story of a Challenged Senior!!!







I thought about the 30 year business I ran with 1800 employees, all without a Blackberry that played music, took videos, pictures and communicated with Facebook and Twitter.



I signed up under duress for Twitter and Facebook, so my seven kids, their spouses, 13 grandkids and 2 great grand kids could communicate with me in the modern way. I figured I could handle something as simple as Twitter with only 140 characters of space.



That was before one of my grandkids hooked me up for Tweeter, Tweetree, Twhirl, Twitterfon, Tweetie and Twittererific Tweetdeck, Twitpix and something that sends every message to my cell phone and every other program within the texting world.



My phone was beeping every three minutes with the details of everything except the bowel movements of the entire next generation. I am not ready to live like this. I keep my cell phone in the garage in my golf bag.



The kids bought me a GPS for my last birthday because they say I get lost every now and then going over to the grocery store or library. I keep that in a box under my tool bench with the Blue tooth [it's red] phone I am supposed to use when I drive. I wore it once and was standing in line at Barnes and Noble talking to my wife as everyone in the nearest 50 yards

was glaring at me. Seems I have to take my hearing aid out to use it and I got a little loud.



I mean the GPS looked pretty smart on my dash board, but the lady inside was the most annoying, rudest person I had run into in a long time. Every 10 minutes, she would sarcastically say, "Re-calc-ul-ating" You would think that she could be nicer. It was like she could barely tolerate me. She would let go with a deep sigh and then tell me to make a U-turn at the next light. Then when I would make a right turn instead, it was not good.



When I get really lost now, I call my wife and tell her the name of the cross streets and while she is starting to develop the same tone as Gypsy, the GSP lady, at least she loves me.



To be perfectly frank, I am still trying to learn how to use the cordless phones in our house. We have had them for 4 years, but I still haven't figured out how I can lose three phones all at once and have run around digging under chair cushions and checking bathrooms and the dirty laundry baskets when the phone rings.



The world is just getting too complex for me. They even mess me up every time I go to the grocery store. You would think they could settle on something themselves but this sudden "Paper or Plastic?" every time I check out just knocks me for a loop.



I bought some of those cloth reusable bags to avoid looking confused but I never remember to take them in with me.



Now I toss it back to them. When they ask me, "Paper or Plastic?" I just say, "Doesn't matter to me. I am bi-sacksual.." Then it's their turn to stare at me with a blank look.



HAVE A GREAT DAY!!!

























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Thanks Herma Mills, Sneaky law enforcement

Permit me to add this, Herma. 

The City of Columbus also needed revenue this year.  They set up speed traps on 315 south and had three sets of double patrol cars catching 'speeders' in a quickly 'signed' 45 mph zone due to the off ramp work.  They got me at 62 mph (in what was normally 65 mph) and collected the double fine of $195.  Did I consider this decent public service?  Well ... NO!  Please understand the typo on Well.

Our doctor's office is in sight of the southbound 315 traffic and employees there said the Columbus police were having the proverbial "field days" arresting the 'speeders' one after the other. 

I want the law to be on the side of  the tax paying public.

Subject: FW: Buckeye License renewal










Just wanted to pass on an email a friend shared with me today: This is

not a Joke



Hey Folks,



Just wanted to tell you all of a change in the law for renewing your

licenses, plates and stickers. In the past you had the entire month of your

birthday to renew. BUT..........due to the fact the Ohio State Highway Patrol

is running in a huge deficit, they changed the law so that you must renew

PRIOR to your birthday. This was due to the passage of HB2. They

intentionally did not inform anyone so they can attach a $20 late fee to every

person with a license in Ohio who doesn't know about the change! (I didn't

see any of this on the news or in the paper.) They got me for two cars this

month and they refused to waive it. That was $40 I had to pay. This state

is sneaky so I want to make sure that no other person pays it. Make

certain that you forward this email or one of your own to everyone you have in

your contact book. This is not right and we should not be tricked into

paying for the State's inability to run a business within a budget.



Ohio's license renewal website: _https://www.oplates.com/_

(https://www.oplates.com/)