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Random thought for the day

Raven said:
They have snow shovels in Florida ???
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Yeah, we got what you call snow shovels in Florida, but we don't call them that. We call them corn shovels.
They are for shoveling the ear corn out of wagons that don't dump and into the elevator to go into the top window of the corn crib.
They also used to keep the ear corn pushed to the back of the wagon so the wagons will be loaded evenly.
Riding a wagon loaded with dried ear corn is a great place to get bit by a scorpion.
Some people muck the horse stalls with what you call snow shovels, but them people don't call them snow shovels either.
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canamjhb said:
That brought back a random memory from my early childhood. Another neighborhood kid and I got into a price stamping "war" at the local Safeway. We were probably 6 or 7 years old. Remember those sticks that had prices on the end that were used to stamp mostly canned food with prices in indelible blue ink? A tray of them were left unattended and became our weapons. When I went home, I was covered in blue ink. I was worried about what to tell my father because it wouldn't rub off. The other kid said to just say I fell in some blue stuff. That's what I did with my best innocent "Leave it to Beaver" look. Dad's response was... "I don't think so. 29 cents isn't just blue stuff". I had to fess up. Dad and I marched the block and a half to the Safeway store where I had to apologize to the manager. Our family was well known at the store. Looking back now, I think dad and the manager got a little chuckle out of the whole thing. I got a bath.
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canamjhb said:
That brought back a random memory from my early childhood. Another neighborhood kid and I got into a price stamping "war" at the local Safeway. We were probably 6 or 7 years old. Remember those sticks that had prices on the end that were used to stamp mostly canned food with prices in indelible blue ink? A tray of them were left unattended and became our weapons. When I went home, I was covered in blue ink. I was worried about what to tell my father because it wouldn't rub off. The other kid said to just say I fell in some blue stuff. That's what I did with my best innocent "Leave it to Beaver" look. Dad's response was... "I don't think so. 29 cents isn't just blue stuff". I had to fess up. Dad and I marched the block and a half to the Safeway store where I had to apologize to the manager. Our family was well known at the store. Looking back now, I think dad and the manager got a little chuckle out of the whole thing. I got a bath.
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All you got for doing that was a bath? If I had done something like that and got caught, I would not have been able to sit down comfortably for about a week and the peach tree would be missing a nice limber limb. It would have been a memory that did not need to be brought back, because that kind of memory stays with you the rest of your life.
 
Gwolf said:
Yeah, we got what you call snow shovels in Florida, but we don't call them that. We call them corn shovels.
They are for shoveling the ear corn out of wagons that don't dump and into the elevator to go into the top window of the corn crib.
They also used to keep the ear corn pushed to the back of the wagon so the wagons will be loaded evenly.
Riding a wagon loaded with dried ear corn is a great place to get bit by a scorpion.
Some people muck the horse stalls with what you call snow shovels, but them people don't call them snow shovels either.
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One place I worked at we had a 1969 GMC pickup for plowing snow.
We called the "Snow Chevelle"
 
I'm old and have way too much time to reflect and think about stuff. Today, my random thought is about life. Thinking about my life being saved by someone and me saving the life of others. I had my life saved by a friend who prevented me from drownings when I was 14 years old. In my mid 20s I saved a friend from drowning. Later in life, I performed CPR on a customer who collapsed in the lobby of my office. So, the person who saved my life when I was 14 is responsible for saving the life of 2 others. And life goes on.....
 
Peter Aawen said:
Yup, I can think of some 'just desserts' that'd be well earned... :rolleyes: Some pretty painful stuff for that joke, too! 😖
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Sometimes reality is too difficult to comprehend and is explained through ancient legends of heros or villians, sometimes just fictional stories or novels, and even just jokes. Karma does not always seem to be working as it should, but those observing it cannot see all that is taking place. Reality can be extremely painful to accept, but if one does not at least attempt to live in reality, then their life becomes an illusion, and might lose whatever meaning there is in the concepts of good and bad, right and wrong, or fairness. Reality cannot be seen in only two possible terms, it will always be framed with large areas of grey which are neither of the two possibilities.

Mark Twain: "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't." (Often interpreted as: Fiction must be plausible/believable, while reality does not have to be).

Tom Clancy: "The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.".

Albert Camus: "Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.".

Francis Bacon: "Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible".

Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures".


Key Concepts Explained by These Quotes:
Believability: Unlike reality, which can be bizarre, fiction must adhere to a structure that allows readers to suspend their disbelief.
Explaining Reality: Fiction uses imagined scenarios to explore deeper truths about the human experience and reality.
Structure: Stories provide order and meaning to the chaos of real life.

How was that for some random thoughts of the day........ or in this case, for the night?
 
canamjhb said:
I'm old and have way too much time to reflect and think about stuff. Today, my random thought is about life. Thinking about my life being saved by someone and me saving the life of others. I had my life saved by a friend who prevented me from drownings when I was 14 years old. In my mid 20s I saved a friend from drowning. Later in life, I performed CPR on a customer who collapsed in the lobby of my office. So, the person who saved my life when I was 14 is responsible for saving the life of 2 others. And life goes on.....
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Great post!

One wonders about the two people that you saved, perhaps they also saved someone who otherwise would not have been saved, and the butterfly effect goes on and on...
 
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