You're crazy, Reid. You shouldn't be chasing folks like that (I might do it, but then again I carry enough firepower to either start or stop a small war...)
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Pretty lady. Her son, you say? Do tell.

 

Thank you Tom. Yes, I am bold and so are you.
BTW I'm gonna trim down the story about the chase; it's too long.


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OK! this item is more. This item is dedicated to
Bahamamut who inspired me on page two where he said in passing

Quote:

I love your box

Ah, then you all understand how ____ed we should get when our boxes gets a scrape.
Danged beauty! How could I be angry at -her- ? Just look at that face.
Look at her son's angelic expression. These people are....disarming!

 

 

Revelation

the reason I was not upset one bit is because I was not involved in an accident.

 

Get it all straight now? I went out looking for gasoline for the generator.
There was no place to park at the gas station so I parked across the street
at the bus turnout lane.

Pictures do not do her justice. She's so pretty that men melt in her presence.
She's kindly, too.
I set this story up as a humor item but the fact is this:
When we are bold and helpful to strangers wonderful dividends accrue.
I do not know why this is so, but it's true. The real message and the real point of this posting:
to be good and cheerful to deserving strangers while keeping alert
for the few bad guys out there.

Saturday was an interesting day.
Extreme examples of ugly and gorgeous played their scenes in the span of a single morning and afternoon.

By great coincidence I ran first onto the scene of a petty theft
and then later on, encounterd a rare RS2 (not mine) that got into a scrape.

Am amazed every day I live.

 

i dont get it..
she scraped your bumper?

 

nope!



=The lady's RS2 got scraped by some other car at the crowded gas station.
She was waiting for the cops to come to make out the accident report.

I kept them company for a while and took pictures.
I'll tell her son to look into this thread.

I guess if my mom looked like her I'd walk around every day with his expression too!

 

Well why didnt you say that in the first place . I got the story by reading one line. Will her car get fixed?

 

Great Stories Reid!

I'm really sorry I missed this thread earlier!! But I was
offline most of the weekend.

I'm *so* very glad you keep that camera with you.
You tell stories so well with your images, the words are just
icing!

Thanks for sharing, and I hope things get worked out in your
neck of the (fallen) woods!

 

There's more..... but

People say rightly enough that I talk toooooo much!




Why! Even in Coral Gables the stricken residents put up signs of warning
that there is no way out when I'm around

figure that out.

 

 

problem is that I'm way too out/extroverted.

I will intro you to a very good Tree Trimming Comany next.
They are TREE KING based up in Delray Beach, Fl.
Like many other out of town services, they came down with their crew to help
clean up the mess.

Tree King is a good company. I'll post their business card here when I find it.
Highly recommended. Very reasonable prices and really good guys. I'll show off some
snapshots of the crew.

('shacking some photos right now)

 

That's really cool the way you got that guy's chainsaw back for him!
You're lucky the theives didn't jump out of the van with it and cut your xB in half!

 

yep. it was a risk.

So was I, though, to THEM

heh.

 

TREE KING crew pictures. Sunday afternoon.

hot and hard working guys need drinks. I made a run to Circle K to keep 'em happy



I tell you ! he works so hard that he exhales steam in August heat



he has two nicknames: "Amigo" or "Smiley". He does not speak English
His smile tells of his good character. Amigo is a hard-working Mexican immigrant




Mutual respect between the crew members? You gotta be kidding!
PS: George on the left is a tree climber in training. He loves to be photographed.



George is American of Hispanic background.
We tried but could not get a single BAD picture of this guy.
Here are two pics from some quick poses he must keep in stock.
he oughta go into modeling chainsaw advertisements... or something


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thank you for helping out in Miami TREE KING and crew.

*joke*
George, you can put on your shirt now.

 

ooookay.

 

I understand, this is what happened to me last year after Hurricane Jeane hit me. Water came through the ridge vent and saturated the drywall in my ceiling. The panels and insulation fell through, it was a total mess. I just bought the house 1 week prior.

Before:






After:
I installed hard wood floors.

I laid down porcelin tile.

 

wow! sorry about that.

New homes are made with drywall instead of plaster on lathe (which isn't so much better at resisting water, worse, really)

If they would use MR drywall I guess we would not have these messes. I don't suppose any builder or homeowner would ever expect such a thing as to lose a roof, though!

 

I bet ur going to keep those pics of george in ur "private" collection

 

If I ever return to New Orleans, I'll post pictures of whats left of my stuff. I'm in Longview Texas right now. We drove out here in the company van. All the cars in my sig were parked on the median in front of my house when we left. A few of my relatives and friends are still in the city. They have water but no electricity. The streets around my brother's house are not flooded, but there's nowhere to go anyway. We won't be able to get back in the city for at least a month. Interstate 10 is heavily damaged on both sides of the city. We're going to start looking for jobs out here.