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Re: Stuff that makes you scratch your head and wonder...
« Reply #80 on: August 17, 2014, 09:29:36 AM »
Either he was trying to charm the tellers or he thought he had a WMD.
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Re: Stuff that makes you scratch your head and wonder...
« Reply #81 on: August 17, 2014, 10:12:04 AM »
Well, I think we'd have to see photos before we could come (easy boys!) to that conclusion.

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Um, why in the world the teller give him money? Obviously he doesn't have a weapon!    :rotflmao:
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Re: Stuff that makes you scratch your head and wonder...
« Reply #82 on: August 17, 2014, 12:46:51 PM »
Went through Fredericksburg this afternoon and saw some more crosswalk morons.  The CW was probably 10 feet away from them and they were trying to cross where they got out of their car.  This is a very busy street and I wouldn't cross it outside of the CW but not them, they're morons.  Then some idiot stopped to let them across the street.  And no, the idiot was not me.
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Re: Stuff that makes you scratch your head and wonder...
« Reply #83 on: August 17, 2014, 02:07:39 PM »
Stuff that makes you scratch your head and wonder...

Calling my phone and not leaving a message.... It was important enough to call me but not to leave a message...
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Re: Stuff that makes you scratch your head and wonder...
« Reply #84 on: August 17, 2014, 02:28:11 PM »
What's your number?  I'll hang up when you answer.   :P :rotflmao:
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Re: Stuff that makes you scratch your head and wonder...
« Reply #85 on: August 17, 2014, 05:34:00 PM »


... going 70+ on the highway and this guy passes us with one of those temporary spare tires on his car. ???

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Re: Stuff that makes you scratch your head and wonder...
« Reply #86 on: August 17, 2014, 05:54:28 PM »
Not to be driven over 50.. and only good for about 50 miles if that.  I see that as well and wonder.
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Re: Stuff that makes you scratch your head and wonder...
« Reply #87 on: August 17, 2014, 06:22:02 PM »
Well, maybe you are right on the cusp Tony; people like you but only enough to talk to you directly and not enough to want to talk to you again in the future?

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Stuff that makes you scratch your head and wonder...

Calling my phone and not leaving a message.... It was important enough to call me but not to leave a message...
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Re: Stuff that makes you scratch your head and wonder...
« Reply #88 on: August 18, 2014, 04:44:37 AM »
Stuff that makes you scratch your head and wonder...

Calling my phone and not leaving a message.... It was important enough to call me but not to leave a message...

That's some nerve you have there. It was an important call but you didn't pick up!    ;)
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Re: Stuff that makes you scratch your head and wonder...
« Reply #89 on: August 18, 2014, 04:45:27 AM »

... going 70+ on the highway and this guy passes us with one of those temporary spare tires on his car. ???

Was the spare on the front?    :o
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Re: Stuff that makes you scratch your head and wonder...
« Reply #90 on: August 18, 2014, 08:34:44 AM »

... going 70+ on the highway and this guy passes us with one of those temporary spare tires on his car. ???

The neighbor's daughter drove her car that way for most of last year (yes, on the front right). Apparently those warnings on the sidewall are just nonsense to cover the backsides of the manufacture.
Probably should mount one on the C10 since it passed the road test.
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Re: Stuff that makes you scratch your head and wonder...
« Reply #91 on: August 18, 2014, 08:43:55 AM »
I'm pretty sure the name of the thread changed again. I think Jim's doing it to make me scratch my head and wonder.

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Re: Stuff that makes you scratch your head and wonder...
« Reply #92 on: August 18, 2014, 08:57:13 AM »
I think I've done that once or maybe it was another thread..CRS.
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Re: Stuff that makes you scratch your head and wonder...
« Reply #93 on: August 18, 2014, 10:45:35 AM »
The neighbor's daughter drove her car that way for most of last year (yes, on the front right). Apparently those warnings on the sidewall are just nonsense to cover the backsides of the manufacture.
Probably should mount one on the C10 since it passed the road test.
:thumbs: Car tire thread!

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Re: Stuff that makes you scratch your head and wonder...
« Reply #94 on: August 18, 2014, 11:38:26 AM »
:thumbs: Car tire thread!

Sorry. Forgot...
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Re: Stuff that makes you scratch your head and wonder...
« Reply #95 on: August 18, 2014, 11:49:37 AM »
Don't be sorry. We're always up for a spirited discussion.  :)

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Re: Stuff that makes you scratch your head and wonder...
« Reply #96 on: August 18, 2014, 01:29:46 PM »
Don't be sorry. We're always up for a spirited discussion.  :)

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Re: Stuff that makes you scratch your head and wonder...
« Reply #97 on: August 18, 2014, 02:56:51 PM »
Was the spare on the front?    :o

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Re: Stuff that makes you scratch your head and wonder...
« Reply #98 on: August 18, 2014, 03:03:10 PM »
The neighbor's daughter drove her car that way for most of last year (yes, on the front right). Apparently those warnings on the sidewall are just nonsense to cover the backsides of the manufacture.
Probably should mount one on the C10 since it passed the road test.

Hopefully she didn't have traction control or had it turned off. Otherwise it would destroy the brakes.

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Re: Stuff that makes you scratch your head and wonder...
« Reply #99 on: August 18, 2014, 04:20:52 PM »
It is hard on the spider gears in the differential also. I saw a Honda hub carrier all 'wore out' due to significantly different diameter tires used on the front end..... for 10's of thousands of miles. Those little gears were just not designed for those kinds of rotations....  ::)

My favorite though is someone, usually a 'soccer Mom' or similar, bucking his / her way through a turn 'cause the grocerie- getter is stuck in 4WD.  ;D  I have noticed that auto manufacturers are continuously 'dumbing down' 4WD into "AWD" and "Full Time 4WD" and various other incantations of [not real 4 WD] mechanisms. I just picked up a GMC Envoy but not after looking at a bunch of recent year 4WD vehicles that either were not really 4WD or were but did not have a low range.

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Hopefully she didn't have traction control or had it turned off. Otherwise it would destroy the brakes.
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