3/21/07

I was just about to go “Full Luddite” when John called a moment ago. Here’s the story. I was online trying to buy mom some flowers for her birthday. The site was taking forever. After waiting five minutes for the billing screen, staring at the white screen and spinning AOL logo while watching the little “progress” bar at the bottom do nothing, I finally said, “Screw this!” and closed the damned window. I went to Geico and changed my preferences to “paper bills.” I went to Cingular and waited ten, count them, TEN minutes for the login to take effect, and changed it to “paper bills.” I went to all of my other e-bill sites, I think, and changed them to regular mail as well. I was just about to send a message to the Birkin Owners mailing list telling them that if they wanted to talk to me from now on, they’ll need to call, but decided that Bernie Long and/or Dick Brink can find me if they really need me. I may send a message to the guys organizing the Tail of the Dragon thing this summer and let them know. We’ll see. In fact, I will probably do that when I send this to Spiderman. Anyhoo, to make a short story long, this may well be the last time you hear from me so I thought I'd share one last Grumpy Old Fart George story. Some time back, it was mentioned that George had said he wouldn’t sell anything to John or me because we would want to “low-ball” him and wouldn’t be willing to pay what he wanted for things. Apparently, we’re too cheap. Well, the scuttlebutt I'm hearing is George stopped by Steve/John’s place to look at the 620 truck that is for sale out front. What he didn’t know was John and I know to whom it belongs, but I'm not sure how relevant that is. Anyhoo, he went in and asked about it. Steve/John said something to the effect of, “I don’t know, make an offer.” George replied he’d give him $500.00 for it. Steve/John said the owner was looking for something in the $2,300.00 range to which George shook his head and left, grumbling something along the way. Now, I haven’t inspected this truck myself but I have seen it. John says it is one of the nicest, if not THE nicest, most complete, 620 King Cab in the area. Perhaps not worth $2,300.00, but worth well over the $500.00 George offered. Now who’s too cheap? Now who won’t offer enough money? Hell, I may go buy the thing just to prove George wrong when he cast aspersions on my spending habits. Perhaps I'll look into that. Well, unless John finds a way to make this computer faster, I'm through with the internot. I hope y'all enjoyed my ranting over the, has it been years? Anyhoo, have a nice life. Unless you’re George, then just be grumpy and stuff, it’s what you’re good at. Bye.