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How old was the battery? After about three years, you are on borrowed time. May last quite a while or go dead with no damned warning.

Even though it can go dead immediately, your experience sounds like a scam. When he said the “technician needed to come get the jumper because the car won’t start” I would have called his bluff and told him to boost it and keep it running. I’d then drive home and see if it would restart.

If it didn’t start, I’d call for some prices, boost and go replace. If it started fine, I’d scratch that crook off the list of service providers.

Great, cheap way to play with fire and enjoy some beers and a nice meal.

The best cooking fire is after the wood burns down to coals. Drives me crazy on TV shows and movies when they pretend to cook over a roaring fire with huge flames. The meat would be burned crispy on the outside and still raw on the inside.

Coach Ditka is said to have dropped $100 bills left and right when in NY doing TV work.

From a Twitter post:

Jim Nantz says Mike Ditka used to pay and tip for everything with $100 bills, and never ask for change

“I noticed early on that all he carried were $100 bills. All he did was peel off hundreds all the time. Buy a beer at the bar on the way out to dinner, ‘Yeah, give me a Budweiser.’ $100. Keep the change.”

“Coat check, comes into a restaurant, comes out, $100. Man on the street, homeless, there was one guy that kind of understood the routine and he was there every week. Mike, every time, $100 bill.”

“I finally got up the nerve to say, ‘Hey coach, why don’t you ever get change? Why just the hundreds?’ He says, ‘Hey, what’s the difference anyway?’”

“He said, ‘You know, the way I look at it, when I die and they drop me down into the ground, I hope there’s a little opening in that coffin and my last $100 bill comes flying out and goes up into the sky and drifts away. That would make me happy.’”

“So I said, ‘This gets a little pricey, doesn’t it?’ ‘It’s not that bad, Jim.’ He said, ‘Here’s the way I rationalize it in my head. We got 20 weeks. I come every single Friday to New York. I come in with 50 $100 bills, $5,000. And at the end of the season, I’m spending $100,000.’”

“He would say, ‘I’ve allocated $100,000 to the football season to go enjoy myself in New York. And that’s the way it is.’ I take $5,000 in cash in hundreds every single week. And that’s what he did.”

Noticed it behind bars in England, I guess for bloody marys. In Italy, we saw it in grocery stores.

In a nice restaurant in Naples, some Italian high-roller types seated near us ordered a ton of food and had waiters running back and forth. One guy yelled something in Italian, and a waiter brought them a bottle of green Jalapeno Tabasco Sauce, which we thought was sort of funny.

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Make sure they know how long to water the plants so they won't get stressed or die.

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A guy I know hired a college girl to water his multiple potted plants while he was gone. He was very into gardenjng.

He put a colored survey flag in each pot and gave her a color chart that told how long to run the sprayer on each color flag.

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The people who are always upset about the name of a storm is wild to me.

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My brother in law watched FOX Weather and then cried himself to sleep over it last night.

Sorry TN, but LA was fricking up executions long before you.

Wiki: Willie Francis (January 12, 1929 – May 9, 1947) was an American teenager known for surviving a failed execution by electrocution in the United States.[2] He was a convicted juvenile sentenced to death at age 16 by the state of Louisiana in 1945 for the murder of Andrew Thomas, a pharmacy owner in St. Martinville who had once employed him. He was 17 when he survived the first attempt to execute him, as the chair malfunctioned. After an appeal of his case taken to the Supreme Court of the United States failed, he was executed in 1947 at age 18.

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I do wish I'd seen him in concert though, He could have played a medley of his hit.

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His greatest hit album is often in the CD bins. Just that one song over and over.

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How can you tell a number is Canadian?

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I googled the odd looking area code on one recently, and it was out of Toronto.

Every time I open the Travel board, my mind reads this thread as “What to do in Ocean springs for 2 weeks.” Damn, that’s a looong stay in Ocean Springs.

Did the municipal water live up to its billing?