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    >   I think when they set that up, it was stations east of the Mississippi   
    > River began with a W, and otherwise, they began with a K. I don't think   
    > there has ever been a W station in K land, and vice versa.   
      
   If Io'd beejn more waake & less dain bramaged, I'd'cve recalled that the   
   station I usaed to listen to from Seattle was KISM & KISW, & could infer that   
   east of Mississippi would be W...   
      
   If I was in the USA, & starting a radio station, I think I'd deliberately set   
   my call letters to be the opposite "K/W" from expected!   
      
    >   But, the seats were so cramped up, that my legs turned to water, and   
    > when I stood up (I was the last person off the bus), my pants fell down.   
    > Had I not been wearing Depends, it would've been "full moon rising"   
    > (never mind the song "Bad Moon Rising"...I think Credence Clearwater   
    > Revival did that one). I haven't been outside of central Arkansas since.   
      
   My last bus ruide, up north to see my sister, I sat on the right side, thinking   
   I'd have my working right hand to keep from tipping over into the empty seat,   
   but I just w9ound up having my sensitive to pain left shoulder pummelled   
   against the window/wall.  At one poin, when the bus stopped at an intersection,   
   I rushed back to the teeny bathroom, as Nature was screaming "flash flood a-   
   coming" at me. I made it in, closed/locked the door & then, as I was unzipiong,   
   the bus started up & shook heck out of me until I realized sitting was my only   
   option.  I finished my urgency & struggled to get zipped up again, & standing   
   long enough to unlatch the door & get iot open.  I saw the seats diorctly   
   across from the bathroom were empty(as predicted), so next intersection, I   
   leapt across the aisle & hit them on my belly & grabbed on tight, & efventually   
   got sitting.  At the next break stop, I was finally able to get up & move to my   
   seat, to grab my wallet & head out for a snack (but no coffee! *L*   
      
   On the way back, I tok a seat on the right side & leaned against the   
   wall/window & was quite comfortable all the way.  Next time (oh, nm, no   
   Greyhound in the west any more. . boo) I'll book the front right seat.   
      
   I also have the option to ride in my wheelchair, but no waym, I'll be so   
   uncomnfortable strapped in tight. . . & bathroom option (not that there really   
   was one from me anyway!)   
      
   Now it's as cheap to fly as to use Greyhound, so that's how I'll do my next big   
   trip. (my biggest by bus was 51 hours from northern Ontario into BC)   
      
    >   I never was one for grapefruit, and I recently heard if you're on    
    > certain heart or blood pressure medicines, you have to avoid it. I was   
      
   My theory is, for that & other drugs with that warning, it's because the   
   grapefruit helped your condition, so the meds looked ineffective when compared.   
      
    > entire state's citrus crop was wiped out, and the price of orange,   
    > grapefruit, and other juices, went through the roof.    
      
   Yup, I recall  that & mu grapefruits are toast uyntil new trees can grow to   
   maturity & begin producing. . .   
      
    >  GP> Got a ravenous 12yo son, & a slightly less ravenous self, wife, & adult   
    >  GP> daughter, to take care of!   
      
    >   You've got your hands full.   
      
   You'd best not be calling my wife fat!   
      
    >   I avoid the flame echoes like the plague. I like what Christian comedian   
    > Mark Lowery noted..."I never knew much about politics, but that never   
    > stopped me from offering an opinion".    
      
   Woerks for me. . . & "Opinions are like farts--everybody has them & only your   
   own don't stink."   
      
    >  GP> But good times while it lasted as a casual chitchat place. . . & that's   
    >  GP> all I seek in here. . . :)   
      
    >   That's what you'll find.   
      
   I've never been 25% of a Fido echo before!   
      
   Nor have I ever boosted membership 33.3% just by joining!   
      
   Boirn in '67, I'm hardly as old as some of yas, but I feel older & per m,edical   
   science I'm closer to 74 than 54, as those with a major disability age quicjer   
   than those without. Plus I did some advanced living & lawarming when I was   
   young, & spent mosdt of my years listening to my elders (my friends were   
   typically 20+ years older than me; the problem with that now is I 'lose' these   
   friends too regularly from death &/or disease.  Lost two really close friends   
   this past year. . .   
      
   So I feel more of a kinship here than in the typical Fido echo (although now   
   all have mellowed as it's just us old veterans of '90s' BBSing left_on Fido)   
      
   Your friend,   
      
   <+]:{)}   
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