Anyone want to guess the conversations in the insurance office durinng this claimant’s call?
From NJ.com:
HUDSON COUNTY NOW
From the Jersey Journal newsroom
Flaming squirrel ignites car in Bayonne
by N. Clark Judd
Thursday October 18, 2007, 7:29 PMIt’s Rocky the Frying Squirrel!
It’s all the wonderful wife’s fault. We went in there “just to see” and came out with a new car radio and an XM Radio unit. After all these years of marriage who knew she’d go for a second marriage to a radio service, one I’d criticized as total folly from Day One. I guess she figures anything I criticized so badly can’t be all that bad for me to play with now.
It was quarter to five when I dropped the wife off for another of her after-hours classes and it was seasonably hot out there. Of course, when the place place was built they stripped every tree and bush from the large acreage, so there was no shade anywhere to hide. I had bottled water and plenty of reading material for the two-hour wait, but there had to be a better place. Sweaty hands while reading the newspaper make a bit of a mess, and I do not perspire, I do indeed sweat. Profusely.
The 60,000 mile thing was due last week, so I took the car in. One does that when there is the continuation of a 10-year/100,000-mile warranty at stake, and the 60K is a major milestone — a refurb in one sense.
Pennsylvania Man Jailed After Paying for Groceries With $1 Million Bill
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
PITTSBURGH — Change for a million?
That’s what a man was seeking Saturday when he handed a $1 million bill to a cashier at a Pittsburgh supermarket. But when the Giant Eagle employee refused and a manager confiscated the bogus bill, the man flew into a rage, police said.
As I read of the ”300 marathoners stricken by heat; 1 dead” headline of the marathon in Chicago over the weekend I’m thinking about the conditions we had here for our races.
On Friday and Saturday, for the Cross Country Classic, we had periods of moderate to heavy rain falling from some very ominous, low and very dark clouds with rain continuing to fall during the night Friday.
After paying my Comcast bill on-line by credit card I received a confirmation email. The lead paragraph reads:
This message confirms that your credit card payment has been received. You have authorized Comcast to charge the credit card specified below for the amount indicated. It may take up to 3 business days to process your payment.
Video here.
Maybe could have been a bit more graceful, but I’m sick of the PC approach and am more and more in favor of in-your-face.
The local PD says theft is involved and it’s up to the business owner to file charges.
Fifteen months before I joined the Air Force for what would turn out to be a long and enjoyable career, while I was still in high school, General Douglas MacArthur delivered an oft-quoted speech.
