Posted on 06/15/2019 1:16:22 PM PDT by BenLurkin
D.E. Turner & Company Hardware Store.
If Y’All are ever in the area stop by and see Jack and Danny.
moderate ‘zap’.
target... feh HAha
Location: austin, Texas (Yes a demonratcommiescumbag stronghold)
Date/Time: 1985/21:00+/-00:30 Hours
Business: What-a-Burger
The Dinner Order: 1 Burger, 1 Fries, 1 Large Soda, 1 Large Chocolate Milkshake. To Go Order.
The Mindboggling Transaction: Ticket Total= $11.29 Amount Tendered $20.00 Kid Rings up the $20.00 I remember that I have $1.29 so I hand that to Kid. Kid gets confused look on face. I say all you have to do is take that and give Me back $10.00. Kid get Dumbfounded look on face, turns and gets Manager to come to the Register and trys to explain it but can’t. I tell Manager what happened as Kid shows $21.29 Cash in hand and Register Tape to Manager. Manager tells Kid to give Me a $10.00 bill and Tender The Money, Apoligizes to Me and goes to back shaking His head.
I get Dinner and leave Thinking to Myself- America is SCREWED if We leave these kids in charge...
yup, seen it over and over again, something costs $5.xx and hand them $11.00
hilarity ensues
More quality H1B IT engineering & support from India.
And prolly not a Mainframe system.
Sounds like fun.
When I was married, we had damage from a hurricane. A felled tree landed on power lines that supplied us and the houses on either side. It snapped the support wire just a couple of inches from the house. That is, it didn’t pull out the eye-bolt out of the house frame, and merely pulled the conduit from the meter out about 45 degrees off vertical.
The guy whose yard the tree was in lost his car, and the detached garage it was in. Branches from the tree just barely punctured his house roof.
We got power back via the pinned line about 10 hours later, but they cut it when they went to remove the tree.
We had a gas water heater, so hot showers weren’t a problem - old pilot light era.
I used the gas grill to heat up water for coffee the powerless first day - stove was electric - then remembered I had bought a backpacking stove on closeout, as well as a can of Coleman fuel.
Oh, and the neighbor two doors down had power, and he was nice enough to let me run an extension cord to power the chest freezer. We had been supplying the guy next to us power for his refrigerator, so he didn’t have a problem crossing his backyard. I had a 100’ 10 gauge, and 50’ 12 gauge for the run.
Nothing compared to what you had, particularly with the fires, water, power, fuel, elderly...
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