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- John
- When I'm not working I try to find time to get some exercise, play with my kids, court my wife and serve my neighbor. Life goes by so fast.
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Musings on seemingly random topics - politics, economics, religion, sports, boardgames - best left alone if you want to keep your friends. However, if it itches I can't help but scratch it.
Think about this
The curious task of economics is to illustrate to men how little they know about what they imagine they can design.
~ F.A. Hayek
~ F.A. Hayek
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- Watch it now, watch it
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4 comments:
Your financial mate thinks that the blue one is an especially great asset for our family to enjoy, especially since I'm about to put Mason in the suburban to drive only him to his piano lesson...
Matt is talking about getting a motorcycle right now - kind of freaks me out. Those things can be scary!
I've seriously been thinking about it as well. I think a motorcycle would be so fun.
when Aaron was 3 months old and we lived in Killeen TX Dad had to travel back and forth to the base. I wanted to have the car incase of emergency and to do the shopping and laundry while he was "at work" for uncle sam.
He bought a sensible motor scooter just a little larger than the vespa seems to be. He wore a helmit at the insistance of his wife even though it was not the law. He was cautious. Avoided the main highways etc.
I was then and still am VERY anti-motorbikes/ cycles after having one childhood friend after another killed because of them and not to mention Brett Remington who will never walk again nor many other things.
Dad was very careful on the motorbike, no messing around just inexpensive transportation. Just as it was getting to be fall and the sun set earlier and the tempertures dropped lower it happened. With Helmit on and just going around the corner two houses before our house the bike slipped out from under him as a truck was immediately behind him going around the same corner. I heard the bike go down, knew it was Bill, ran out the front door in time to see the truck righting itself onto the proper driving lane after a loud screech and life saving swerve . Bill was still in the road with the bike on his leg as he had gone down sideways.
That was the last time he rode the motorbike.
When I see these people on these "cute" motor bikes, scooters, cycles without helmits, with flip flops on, with another person hanging on to them right out in traffic I am literally ill.
It just takes a moment to loose life or limb in a car accident. what real chances are there on a thing like these? The are not worth it...even at $4.00 a gallon.
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