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[bk]

Why?

[bk]

I'll tell you why.

[bk]

Because there was this huge WIDE LOAD truck next to me who just couldn't stay in his lane and went into my car, which made a horrible sound. I honked at him, and what did he do?

[bk]

He turned left before I could get a photo of his truck or the license and was not in a position to get over to turn left. S out of luck, as they say.

[John G.]

Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine, Esquire

A character’s name in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. Orlando calls them Shel for short.

[bk]

I'll call the insurance company and get their advice.

[bk]

But the drive to the appointment was pretty easy for all that worrying. It's hard to know what it would have been like thirty minutes later, but I made it in forty-seven minutes, a little over an hour early.

[bk]

The part of the drive I was most worried about turned out to be a piece of cake.

[bk]

The examination took about an hour - VERY thorough testing of the eyeballs, but no dilation. I do have to have the open MRI and he wants me to have one more thing of bloodwork just to rule out one very long shot possibility, so I'll be told when that is going to happen. I have another appointment in six weeks and he'll have all the info he needs at that point and then we'll discuss how to proceed from there.

[bk]

Very nice doctor.

[George]

TOD:

Zero bars
Heath bars
Almond Joy
Mounds
Reese’s
Mallow Cups

I'd forgotten the Zero bars and Mallow cups.  They were great!

Back in the 90s, I bought a Zero bar from the then candy machine at work and they (the Zero company) were having a giveaway, and I won a portable CD player!

[bk]

Then I came back to the Valley, a much quicker ride. I went directly to the bank. My gal was out sick, there was one guy who'd apparently been with the teller for forty minutes and the other teller wasn't usually a teller but was trying to pick up the slack. So, I was in there about fifteen minutes.

[George]

I already had one, so I gave it to my dad.

[bk]

Then I went to my bank - just one person in line ahead of me but only one teller and for the second time some jerk who'd been there forever doing heaven knows what. In fact, he was STILL there when I left after a second teller opened and the gal in front of me was done. Anyway, that's all done now.

[bk]

Is George having a day off?

[bk]

After that, I decided to go to Chin Chin and I got peanut noodles and Chinese chicken salad. Way too much food to eat all at once, so I had half of each and will have the other half in a few hours.

[George]

Speaking of food from days gone by, the McRib is back and I had one for lunch.  It was really good!

I had one a couple of days ago.  I never "loved" them as much as my sister (back when she ate meat she loved them), but I did enjoy it.

[bk]

I kept seeing the word payday when reading posts and I thought everyone had gotten a check.

[bk]

Then I realized that it was the candy bar.

[George]

TOD: I mean I’ve probably eaten more Twix and Kit-Kats than any others, but I have a fond memory of Marathon bar. On Saturday nights, we kids would have our baths, Mom and dad popped corn on the stove for us to eat while we watched our fave TV lineup, culminating in the Carol Burnett Show. And as an extra goodie, my dad had usually brought us all Marathon bars. It was a caramel “braid” covered in chocolate. One foot long, you could see by the ruler on the wrapper. Good days.

I didn't care for Twix bars and don't remember Marathon bars.

I remember Marathon bars, but I don't remember the braid part of it, unless I'm just remembering a different bar, thinking it was a Marathon bar.

[bk]

Growing up, probably due to the incessant commercials for the, I loved the big three - Three Musketeers, Snickers, and Milky Way.

[bk]

Couldn't get enough.

[bk]

This page is flying by, like a gazelle eating a frozen U-No bar.

[bk]

You know.

[bk]

I know.

[bk]

We all know.

[bk]

Is George eating a burrito for lunch?

[George]

Nope.  I just looked it up and the braided Marathon bar is NOT what I was thinking of.  I'll have to do some research to see if I can find what I was thinking of.

[bk]

And that's been my day so far and I'm exhausted.

[bk]

Oh, and the damage to the motor car - one long deep gash from the bumper to just before the front door. Thankfully, it's very low and doesn't show too much, but it's bad.