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   JOE MACKEY to DARYL STOUT   
   Windshields and temp tags   
   08 Mar 21 06:13:16   
   
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     Daryl wrote --   
      
   >  There might be one out at Little Rock National Airport    
       
     I've not been to the airport here in years, no need to.   
     When last there around '03, I guess, there were several car rental places   
   that had no in/near town offices.   
      
   >   They're giving the wipers to me, as it'd normally cost nearly $20 each,   
      
     The last time I brought wipers they were like $5.  Of course that was   
   over 30 years ago.   
     One thing I can't understand about modern wipers.   
     You have some big car, like a Hummer, with dinky little wipers on it.    
   But little death trap has huge industrial strength wipers.   
      
   >   And while the populace screams "throw the bums out", they still vote the   
   same idiots back in.    
      
      I had a discussion along those lines with a former super (I was temping   
   then) and said his condition the same now as it had been for years and the   
   same people claim they will do something different and never do and why   
   continue to vote for them?   
      He had no good reply, just he had always voted that way and worried    
   about voting differently.   
      One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over hoping   
   for a different result.   
       
   > It makes as much sense as tits on a boar hog   
      
     How boar phobic!  Or something like that.  :)   
      
   >   It'd be my luck that they'd get me. If they need money for their ticket   
   quota, they'll do it.   
      
     Actually that did happen to me once.   
     Its a long story but I was pulled over in Ohio going to visit my mother   
   in a nursing home and waiting for my tax refund to renewal my license and   
   all.     
     Had to go to mayors court in this small town.   
     Everyone who went before the five person panel before me was found   
   guilty.  If you got a citation it was because you were guilty in first place.   
     By now I had gotten up to date and my fine was slightly reduced.   
     Later on a local call in show people told stories of dealing with these   
   people.  The upshot was if one paid by cheque it was never cashed.  The   
   "judges" divided all the cash among themselves and pocketed it.   
      Ah, small town politics, ya gotta love it.   
     Joe   
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