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Post by Kimby on Apr 12, 2020 1:48:18 GMT
Our auto insurer has volunteered to send each customer a rebate of 20% on our premiums since no one is driving and they aren’t having to pay out for accidents.
My car is getting 2 weeks per gallon!
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Post by bjd on Apr 12, 2020 6:07:26 GMT
Our insurer has also offered a rebate since accident numbers have gone down so much. Either we can get the money back or donate it to a medical fund.
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Post by questa on Apr 12, 2020 12:04:15 GMT
We didn't have self defence lessons, but, boy you learnt to duck quickly, specially when you are dealing with the Saturday night football team who have spent 5 hours on the beer after a loss. unhappy and cantankerous mob!
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Post by tod2 on Apr 13, 2020 9:29:42 GMT
South Africa's Easter holiday road death toll was last this low in 1870 when the Van Tonder's rolled their ox-wagon going over The Sani Pass…….
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 15, 2020 13:28:32 GMT
I put 3 pairs of worn out shoes in my kitchen bin and took 8 other pairs to the charity bin, which had unfortunately been sealed. But people had left clothes and shoes alongside anyway, terrible terrible shoes that were five times worse than the ones I had tossed. I left my two tidy bags there, too. They will have been ripped into in less than an hour, and the raiders should be pleasantly surprised.
I still have another 4 pairs of shoes awaiting a final verdict and one orphan shoe, which is impossible. We all know that orphaned socks are possible and even common, but orphaned shoes? I'll be sorting out the rest of my closet tomorrow (or the next day or the day after that...), so I'm pretty sure that the other shoe will turn up, but it's going in the trash anyway.
The police were out in force and giving the young men of my neighbourhood a hard time -- there were some lined up against my building. My angelic and innocent face allows me to pass through such areas unhindered, but I had filled out my form anyway, saying I was shopping for food since there is no box to tick for giving things away.
There were far too many people out, obviously doing nothing. It is a sunny and mild day and we have been locked up for 29 days now.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 15, 2020 14:05:26 GMT
Shoes - 3 + 8 + 4 and a 1/2 = 15 and a half pairs. Plus whatever you aren't chucking away.
It's funny how in your photo you look male.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 15, 2020 15:35:31 GMT
The thing is, I wear them out but do not throw them out (until now). Some of them were at least 15-20 years old. For example I had a pair of shiny leather dress shoes, appropriate for a funeral. But since the next funeral will be mine, I decided that I didn't need them.
For about the last 5 years, all of my shoes have come from Primark (either London or the Paris suburbs), so I rarely spend more than 10 euros for them. They last about 6 months and then suddenly fall to pieces for some obscure reason.
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Post by htmb on Apr 17, 2020 19:58:54 GMT
I received a call from my 86 year old neighbor that she had an emergency and needed medical treatment. It turned out she’d been pouring boiling water into a glass pitcher and the pitcher had burst, sending a large shard of glass into the top of her foot. Blood everywhere. Not sure how deep the cut was, but she clearly needed stitches. So, for my first time out driving in almost five weeks, I donned my hiking cap, glasses and a mask and drove her to a local urgent care center.
My neighbor is a retired nurse and seems to be in pretty good physical and mental shape. She also has a lot of common sense. She’d been able to control the bleeding fairly well before I picked her up, and she directed me to a medical center I’d never even knew existed. The center, which has several entrances, was all locked up tight except for one set of doors. In front of the doors there were two medical people sitting in the shelter of a tent. Their job was to screen anyone who needed treatment, take their temperature, and have them use hand sanitizer before being allowed to the building, It appeared anyone with covid symptoms was asked to remain in their car, and a nurse was sent out to draw their blood for testing.
I made sure my neighbor got inside okay, then sat in my car with a book while she received treatment. They ended up gluing her laceration, once it was thoroughly cleaned, so she wouldn’t have to return for removal of stitches. They also filled a prescription for oral antibiotics to be taken later in case of infection. The whole trip took about 2 1/2 hours. It’s hard to believe that sitting in the car, reading my book, was actually a welcome respite from sitting inside my house.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 17, 2020 21:10:53 GMT
Htmb, you are a hero! Thank goodness your neighbor is a nurse, as she obviously remained calm and even gave herself first aid until you got there. I guess it's good that you now know about another medical center, although let's hope you never have reason to need one.
And yes, it is hard to believe that just sitting out in the car was a respite from being in the house. Is there anywhere you could take drives occasionally?
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Post by htmb on Apr 18, 2020 0:04:10 GMT
I’m glad she’s okay. I’m guessing she felt a bit faint, and decided it wouldn’t be a good idea to drive herself to the clinic. I didn’t ask that question directly because I wanted to distract her while we were in the car.
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Post by lagatta on Apr 18, 2020 0:10:05 GMT
Just being able to ride my bicycle lets me feel somewhat human. Why on earth is Livia antsy? We have a green alley behind the co-op, but she is still on edge. She misses my friends' doggies, but there are other cats and dogs around. (She and her brother were born in their garden shed, so I guess those humans and their doggies were always part of her life).
I bought two LARGE chicken legs at the Salvadorian shop. Together they came to well over a kilo. They will be roasted somehow, perhaps adding a bit of lemon, wine etc (suggestions appreciating). I picked up 3 lb of small yellow potatoes for $1 so those will be involved,
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Post by htmb on Apr 18, 2020 2:41:56 GMT
htmb 86 year old ladies would be lucky to have you or someone like you as a neighbor. Aw, thanks, huckle. I appreciate that, especially since you and I ARE neighbors.
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Post by bjd on Apr 18, 2020 6:07:09 GMT
htmb, are you not allowed to go out for a walk in the neighbourhood or is it that you don't want to?
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Post by bjd on Apr 18, 2020 8:30:26 GMT
I too miss seeing friends, my children and grandchildren. But realize that I am lucky living in a house (small) with a garden and being in an area where I can still go out. Just went for a run with my husband. We have to make loops not too far from the house and in one street close to the lake, there was a car stopped in the middle of the road. A guy was feeding ducks with the bread he had just bought at the bakery. He told us that he first stopped when he saw two parent ducks with 5 ducklings, then as he started throwing them little crumbs, a whole bunch more adult ducks (all males!) came to be fed. The next time we went around the same street, just the parent ducks and the ducklings were still there.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 18, 2020 8:35:35 GMT
It has been suggested that the next time any of us visit a zoo to reflect upon the real meaning of confinement.
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Post by tod2 on Apr 18, 2020 8:46:40 GMT
Oh so true Kerouac! I know there are some animals who don't mind the confinement but when I see lions, tigers and polar bears in what is supposed to be "a real deal setting' - fake rocks etc., I get very sad. Even some birds need miles of air and space. Our 10 Wooly-neck Storks take off from the roof of our house or from the dead Gum tree across the road on the farm, and soar high into the sky and catch the thermals. Swaying and diving back and forth I can see it would be criminal to cage them.
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Post by htmb on Apr 18, 2020 12:52:01 GMT
htmb, are you not allowed to go out for a walk in the neighbourhood or is it that you don't want to? BJD, I have plenty of green spaces to walk in my immediate neighborhood, and have been going out twice a day for the last five weeks. Other than visiting the large, empty university campus on the weekends, I hadn’t been anywhere else in town. I also don’t have a yard/garden, so sitting outside the urgent care center on a cool day, even though I was in a parking lot inside my car, was a bit of a treat.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 18, 2020 15:30:58 GMT
I’m glad you were able to help your neighbor htmb, but am wondering why a smart lady like her would do a dumb thing like pour boiling water into a glass anything. Unless it was a Pyrex beaker!
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Post by htmb on Apr 18, 2020 16:17:39 GMT
Yeah, I know. Not smart to do. Apparently she has several glass pitchers (not Pyrex) that she’s used in the same way for years without a problem. This time her luck ran out.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 18, 2020 16:26:24 GMT
I had fish in a Pyrex pie plate sitting on top of the stove waiting to go in the oven when I turned on the wrong burner to steam the vegetables.
Even Pyrex does not appreciate sudden temperature changes, I learned. And spent the next half hour picking up glass chips and pieces of fish off the walls and floor...
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Post by whatagain on Apr 18, 2020 18:36:29 GMT
Actually that is how we make tempèred glass. Heat thé glass then blogw cold air. If done sufficiently fast it doesnt give time enough to thé glass to shrink and thé constraints are kept by thé glass... thé glass that is hot in thé center wants to expand but cannot as exterior is already cold.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 18, 2020 19:55:24 GMT
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 18, 2020 20:13:51 GMT
My son and DiL have lost their income (dog walking business) due to coronavirus, they get a paltry sum as benefits but hope that they can build up from scratch once the horror is over. I sent them a bouquet to cheer them up.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 18, 2020 20:25:17 GMT
Excellent! Well done Cheery.
Our local dog walking company are still going.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 18, 2020 20:25:17 GMT
That looks a lot like the Sweet Sixteen corsages we made for our best friend in High School. You wore it all day in class, ate the goodies and pressed the bow and wrappers in your scrapbook...
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 18, 2020 21:30:02 GMT
Will they be able to go to the dentist?
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Post by Kimby on May 8, 2020 13:23:34 GMT
I think it’s about being “edgy”. You can hope they grow out of it.
But maybe if you asked her to do YOUR hair just like hers, it would turn her right off it!
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Post by whatagain on May 8, 2020 15:03:28 GMT
Good idéa. I will ask they make my hair green.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 8, 2020 15:22:45 GMT
Hair colour is not a dangerous abomination at that age. Best to ignore it. After all, they want to be noticed, and if you don't notice the change, it all falls flat.
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Post by tod2 on May 8, 2020 16:31:33 GMT
The most asked for hair colour for little old ladies is a "Blue Rinse" and for the 40 year olds, "Titian" which if I remember correctly is a deep ruby red colour.
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