- Puzzling computer problem & fix - 4 Updates
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Mar 02 09:36PM -0800 On 03/02/2017 10:20 AM, Michael Black wrote: > We had some warmish weather for the past two weeks, though now it's cold > again, but spring can't be far off, and then garage sales. We aren't the > lucky ones who have them all year around. EXCEPT holiday weekends and weeks when it was assumed to rain on Thursday, Friday or Saturday. Yard sales used to be a lot better when people had to pay to put an ad in the paper. Now, since Craigslist is free, people figure "Oh, I don't feel like getting up this morning, let's do the sale next Saturday...". Even worse, they say "Corner of Longden and Santa Anita" so enraged shoppers can't throw a brick through their window if they drove tens of miles to a good-sounding sale only to find NOTHING. Almost as bad -- the 'corner of' people don't put up a sign, just figure you'll drive around the nearby area until you get lucky. I swear I'd laugh and applaud if I saw somebody else heave a brick through their window. -- Cheers, Bev "My life outside of USENET is so full of love and kindness that I have to come here to find the venom and bile that I crave." --R. Damiani |
| Bob F <bobnospam@gmail.com>: Mar 03 05:36AM -0800 On 3/2/2017 9:36 PM, The Real Bev wrote: > sign, just figure you'll drive around the nearby area until you get lucky. > I swear I'd laugh and applaud if I saw somebody else heave a brick > through their window. Then there are the signs with no date. And the corresponding people that never take their signs down. No date - no go. |
| Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca>: Mar 03 01:02PM -0500 |
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Mar 03 01:26PM -0800 On 03/03/2017 05:36 AM, Bob F wrote: >> through their window. > Then there are the signs with no date. And the corresponding people that > never take their signs down. No date - no go. And the signs on corners with tiny light letters -- suitable for pedestrians, but NOT for drivers :-( OTOH, if these people were smart they never would have bought stuff they were willing to sell for 5 cents or less on the dollar! -- Cheers, Bev "If you put the government in charge of the desert, there would be a sand shortage within ten years." -- M. Friedman (?) |
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