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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (399268)	7/16/2008 11:11:31 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578280

Seniors have to do their errands during the weekdays. Not weeknights or weekends - that's for the working folks. This actually does drive us nuts... why a retired person would shop on the weekend is beyond me.

To: tejek who wrote (399268)	7/16/2008 12:01:52 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1578280

"There is an Okeechobee blvd, street, avenue," Reminds me of when I sold Coke in Tampa. Learning to get around was a real chore. Street names made no sense. In at least one case, there is an intersection over by McDill AFB where both streets have the same name. And, just because you can hear the Interstate, just because you can see the Interstate, doesn't mean you can actually get on the Interstate unless you know the secret entrance. The whole concept of a feeder street seems to have escaped them. And the drivers are worse than in Houston. Suicides. More than one time, I was nursing a truck that was older than I was, fully loaded and weighing in excess of 20,000 pounds, and some dim wit whips around me and slams on the brakes to make a right turn. Even if the brakes worked right, which was an iffy thing, there just was no way to stop in time. Luckily I was able to change lanes in those cases, but... Then there was the time when I got to drive a brand new truck to the weigh station to get it certified. Full load, because that was required for the certification. Nice truck, cab over, air conditioning, air brakes. It weighed right at 25,000 pounds. I was driving it back to the plant, going down Nebraska when the light at Busch Blvd. changed. Pressed on the brake, big whoosh of air, and that was all. Ok. No problem. Keep the clutch in and flip the emergency brake. Again, big whoosh of air and that was all. Nothing much else to do but lay on the horn, downshift as hard as I could and try to dodge the cross traffic. Luckily, traffic was light and I eventually rolled to a stop on the incline past the light. Why there weren't more dead Tampons at the hands of Tampa Coca Cola, I never could understand. A lot seemed to want it and the company seemed to collude with them on it.