Posted on 11/15/2023 4:52:26 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Must have hit a sore spot! I’m well into my 80’s physically but a 13 year old jagoff inside!😁
That’s a fine post, FRiend, well said indeed.
Yes...this is a little off topic, but I always enjoyed the movie “Second Hand Lion” starring Michael Caine and Robert Duvall, two old buddies coming to the end of a life of adventure. In the end, they died in their Seventies or Eighties trying to fly a two-seat biplane upside down through an open barn.
In the movie, everyone who knew them was not surprised that is how they went out, the sudden end to lives well lived. They went out with their boots on and their hair standing wildly on end, rather than in a padded chair just waiting for the end of their lives to come to them.
We should all be so lucky...:)
This story really touched my heart as I had a little Jack Russell for near 17 years. I loved that little dog, but her deteriorating condition caused me to finally have her put down. It was a very sad day when I had to lose my little companion.
But was it the jab?
We don’t deserve dogs!
Not so sore but very irritated.
Irritated oysters make pearls...at least I think I read that somewhere!😀
I agree. Even cars are watching over you today. My new one keeps suggesting I take a break, warns me to put on my headlights and seatbelt, and has a variety of chimes to tell me a door is open, there’s another car crossing behind me, etc.
If the darn thing could only warn me there’s a deer ahead on the dark road I drive, all that would be worth it.
The car “safety” stuff drives me crazy. Absolutely crazy. I love the “adaptive cruise control”, but hate all the other stuff that uses the technology in the car to make that work.
Especially the lane change warning and collision avoidance. I think if you use those because you suck so bad as a driver, looking at your phone all the time and whatnot...well, it is better than an accident.
But when I drive, I don’t use my cell phone, I watch my distance front and back, scan my rear and side mirrors about once every ten seconds, use my directionals, and when I change lanes, I look at my rear and side mirrors first then mechanically crane my head to look in my blind spot.
Where the collision avoidance makes me cuss aloud is when a car is taking a left or right turn in front of you, and you have to maneuver to get around them and the damn car jacks on your brakes as if you weren’t looking where you were going.
And, with your brakes grinding, you have to depress the accelerator to overcome it.
If you get into an accident, I have zero doubt they would subpoena your black box in your car that keeps a few weeks of data, and they would analyze it to see how many times you jammed on your brakes or had collision avoidance engage. Just for starters. I am sure they would look to see if you turned those execrable “safety features” off, and really come after you if you did.
LAWYER TO JURY: “People of the Jury. The defendant, according to data in the auto systems, routinely disables the essential safety features. In addition, he follows close enough that if the collision avoidance system does engage, he often steps on the accelerator to override the feature...”
Agreed...and the man was lucky to have such a fine companion to stand watch over him. May he live a life of luxury, and have the freedom to chase wild animals down their holes!
When he goes, he will meet his master again, and there will be a lot of face licking in there!
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