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Posted on 12/20/2004 9:01:36 AM PST by ecurbh
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Well, I hated depending on a Tumwater cop to come and be nice, but I figure maybe they only abuse teenagers.
Yah... knowing them they'd probly just curb-60 the poor guy, which was about the last thing he needed. :-)
But it is true that he has the advantage of not being a teenager in Tumwater.
I'm the sort of personality that often gets taken advantage of by persons begging for help. I always want to think that I'm helping somebody that really needs it. But then I usually find out later that I've been scammed by somebody playing the game of emotions. There's been several times I've given a twenty to somebody on the corner with a really convincing sign explaining how horrible life has been to them.
But then again, I'm the guy that picks up a well-dressed couple in the rain in downtown Seattle, stranded late at night after the buses quit... only to find out that he's a pimp and she's a hooker... and don't I want to party with them? [ack... no... I don't...] Drop them off and find out the next morning that they'd stolen about $2K worth of camera gear from my bag in the back seat.
[sigh] No good deed ever goes unpunished.
Heh - I barely remembered that story!
Hey - this is pretty cool.
Im hardhearted I know.
Yah... it was really a trauma at the time... that was about three months salary back then. I was just a deck ape on the Polar Sea. Took me months to get a new camera.
Got an 80% - Washington state would have been perfect except my finger slipped and dropped it before I could drag it to the right place.
Ooh, that was fun!
Got 90%. Woulda done better...but about the first thing I got was Utah, and I hadda stick it into that biiiiiiig ol' blank western space.
Though I didn't seriously misplace anybody but Delaware. Everywhere else was in the ballpark, with the red "correct position" mostly covered by my placement.
Reading the comments on that thread, I see "square states in the big empty part" was a common complaint.
As for Delaware, I got brain-lock. I believe I dropped it on Cape Cod, knowing I was way off.
Anyone tell me how I could do that for real....
Yeah - it's rough when you get central states first. I got 90 something the first time, but I just pulled a 100% a minute ago this last time around!
I remember. Did you get a call about one of your lenses later found at a pawn shop? I have a faint memory of something like that.
Yep...uncharitable. Thing is I *am* a bad judge of character.
Everyone is afraid of the unknown. Poor people aren't all unknown for me. I wasn't about to give this guy a ride, but he wasn't a threat there in the parking lot. Just really down and out. And hurt. I don't know who beat him up or why, but it makes me feel pretty dang lucky that I've never been totally alone without someone I could call for help.
Nope. Never saw the stuff again. I did report it to the Seattle police, filled out a report, but nothing ever surfaced.
Huh... I have this memory of someone getting a call that some stolen item had been found at a pawn shop. Maybe I am just haveing OT's nightmares. ;~D
I got 88%. Mostly because my first one was tennessee... and I dropped about a whole state away... all the other were pretty much right on.
Dang it.
That happens. I felt lost when I got Kentucky first and just started over ;~D
I'm weak on the dinky NE states too.
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