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I used to be a fortune teller but all I ever predicted was really cold winters.
It seems the crystal ball shop sold me a snow globe.

My dads suffering from multiple seizures.
So far they've taken his car, his house and his boat.
 
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This is a story that I heard a number of years ago. One day a young lady went in a jewelry store and found a pretty watch with the old-style dial and bought it. After a couple of days, she came back to the store and told them it did not work anymore and ask for a refund. The owner showed a little knob on top and turned it, it would start working again. He also showed her how to reset the time. She also never would have to buy batteries since it did not need them. Her eyes grew wide in amazement and exclaim "What will they think of next?"
 
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This is a story that I heard a number of years ago. One day a young lady went in a jewelry store and found a pretty watch with the old-style dial and bought it. After a couple of days, she came back to the store and told them it did not work anymore and ask for a refund. The owner showed a little knob on top and turned it, it would start working again. He also showed her how to reset the time. She also never would have to buy batteries since it did not need them. Her eyes grew wide in amazement and exclaim "What will they think of next?"
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I can top that with a real-live TRUE story that happened about five or six years ago. I usually picked up my grandson from school when he was a youngster. Cars would line up in the queue that circled around the front of the school, and seventh grade patrol kids would open the passenger door and wait for passengers to get loaded and buckled up. At the time I had a nearly-completely stripped Nissan pickup truck that I bought from my sister-in-law when her husband died - literally no options except basic-basic-basic upgrades: automatic, radio, PS, AC and maybe another option or two. So the young man comes up to the passenger side of the truck and opens the door while we're waiting for the kids to come out. He notices this funny looking crank handle on the door panel with a round knob on it and begins to play with it. He soon discovers that if he turned it counter-clockwise the window would go down! And if he turned it the other way, it would go up! He's absolutely amazed. So he looks up at me with this look of pure wonder on his face, eyes as big as fried eggs, and says, "Who-o-o-o-ah! When did they come out with THAT?!" I told him it was the latest state-of-the-art technology, and it wouldn't be long before all the high-dollar luxury cars would be equipped with option.
 
Back in the late '80s I worked for the local Texaco jobber as a tank-truck driver. Two of the owner's sons operated one of our FULL SERVICE (don't see that anymore) stations. I had the standing offer that, if I needed to service my pick-up or do a minor repair, I could stop in and use a bay if there was one open.
I stopped by one evening to change my oil. One bay had a pick-up parked in it that could be moved so I could use the bay. The mechanic was doing a brake job on another vehicle and had grease to his elbows. He told one of the high school aged kids that worked there to move the pick-up outside. It was a mid-'50s Chevy. The kid got in and sat there a couple of minutes. He finally opened the door and said the engine wouldn't start. I told the mechanic I'd move it and he asked me if I knew how. 'Certainly!' He asked me to show the kid how to start the engine.
I got in, turned on the key, and stepped on the floor starter. The kid actually jumped when the engine turned over. I pulled it outside and parked it. As I opened the door the kid asked me to show him one more time how to crank it. Key on, step on the starter.
As we walked back to the front of the station the kid said, "Wow, what will they think of next?"
 
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