Posted on 11/19/2008 7:19:18 AM PST by Daffynition
I bet she wishes she had paid $250.00 to a real professional mover
Or Goomer.
I don’t think so. I don’t see any neo triple X signs.
Why are you posting a pic of the Clinton Presidential Library?
So do you blame the passengers that die in an airplane because they didn’t check to see if the pilot was intoxicated before they took off?
I don’t see obummers logo symbol in there?
If they didn't have life insurance before they flew, then I would blame the inability of their survivors to collect life insurance benefits on the flyer.
No matter how much a pilot drinks he can't drink away your insurance premiums or his airline's.
I'm also unaware of any fatal commercial plane crash in which pilot intoxication was given as the cause of the crash.
This is Kentucky, not Arkansas ...LOL
Can you just imagine the brouhaha over the Obama library ... his birth certificate will be a big draw.
Growing up in a true redneck family we have several similiar stories- though we usually accomplished what we set out to do it could get interesting. We called them “monkey wrastlings” from the get go- we knew what we were doing was a potential disaster in the making. Hubby is a lot more thoughtful and not as redneck as my family was but we still from time to time do things in this fashion- we just gave it a new name- now we call them “great adventures.”
One of my best examples of redneckdom was my brother who bought 10 city buses- got a great deal on them; they did not run. He found out what it costs to tow buses after he got his great deal at the auction. Never fear- he decided to tow them with his pickup. He towed them one at a time from Phoenix to Tucson with his pickup and a towbar he made. He was totally successful, no wrecks and no encounters with police- doing this 10 times. One time a highway patrol officer that was standing by the roadside doing a traffic stop stared at him as he went by but did not pursue him. I think the officer could not believe what he was seeing.
I must say this “adventure” in this article tops anything we have ever done- but as my mother used to say- “poor folks have poor ways” usually it is a matter of not having the money to do things the right way. I am sorry these folks lost their house- I am sure they couldn’t afford to lose it. They are trying to get by the best they can, and usually people like this take care of their own and do not ask for government hand outs so maybe we should cut them some slack on their methods.
I hope someone sets up a fund to help these people get another house- I will donate money to help them get another trailer and household goods.
A neighbor woke us up in the wee hours one time- he was in a mess; he had taken a brand new 4x4 pickup that belonged to his boss (didn’t ask- his boss was passed out drunk) to “borrow” firewood from behind an empty house. He went in the back way so no one would see him and the truck fell into an old cesspool. He wanted hubby to help him or loan him our truck to get the other truck he “borrowed” out of the ground before his boss came to. Hubby was not very nice to him when telling him NO. I did make the remark that at least he asked and didn’t just take it.
In a single wide trailer??????
“...“poor folks have poor ways” ... your mom was spot on.
It is at the feet of our elders that we learn so much.
What did your brother end up doing with his bus collection?
Note to self: Check Angieslist.com before hiring somebody named "pancake" Meyers
Shouldn’t you remove stuff from the trailer before you move - especially if you’re counting on a tractor to pull it?
He resold most of the buses as they were, but he rebuilt two of them into nice motorhomes and sold one to an attorney and the other to guy trying to become a rock star. Before he did this he had successfully restored many old classic cars and sold them- this was his only adventure in redoing buses. He doesn’t talk about it- I know he made money but I think it was a bigger pain than it was worth.
Good question KK but as Tammy8 said above ...”poor people have poor ways.”
All she had to say was that she was moving next door to the Kennedy compound........Everybody here would have started writing checks.
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