Pet Peeves, Politics, & Potpourri
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We have got to call our politicians in Washington to stop all of our jobs from going overseas. Let's take our country back. I thought at least one industry was sacred. I got a prescription filled today for Fosamax. It was made in India. I don't trust the Indian people that much. When I called about my computer problems in the past, every Indian that answered the phone was named Jim or Jerry.. Besides that, they consider the cow as sacred. I do too, when it is stuffed in a hamburger bun. Do you suppose the FDA might have an inspector in those pill factories?
It's hot, but you know that. I just read somewhere that in 1954 there were some record breaking temperatures in Southern Illinois. I was 16 at the time, but I don't remember any especially hot days. I think most people were used to the heat. Air conditioning was unheard of. My summer job was picking up hay bales and tossing them on a truck. Didn't matter if it was 85 or a hundred, we were still soaked with sweat and drinking lots of water. We were doing the right thing and didn't know it.
I remember driving on Route 146 between Vienna and Golconda when we came to a section of road buckled up so high dad had to drive around it. He gave me my first physics lesson that day.
Micki's cell phone died last week. Both screens went black and stayed that way. We all have that 5 dollar a month insurance, right? So I called the insurance company and answered a lot of questions. Has it been wet, dropped, stepped on, etc. No to all the questions. She then informed me she could do nothing, and referred me to Verizon. Before she hung up, I asked if I had told her I dropped it in my dishwater could she have done anything for me. Yes was her answer, for a $50 deductible. This is after $130 in insurance payments over 26 months. Guess what is going to happen when my phone gives up the ghost.
Sailors have more fun!
Marines grin and bear it!
Jack Hargis is a columnist for The Randolph County Herald Tribune.