-=> Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 04-03-19  05:16 <=-

 >> For a while, I was having to keep up with husband and son, both fast
 >> eaters

 JM> I'm reminded of the old joke where one guy says to another that
 JM> eating slowly one eats less.  The other guy replies, Yeah, it was like
 JM> that in my family as well.

I can relate to that joke... 
 
 >> My baby brother had similar issues with seeing... he got his first pair
 >> of glasses... and could finally see the stars in the night sky

 JM> I remember wearing glasses for the first time and remembering there
 JM> were stars in the sky, and coloured blobs were signs, etc.
 
I know... my brother also found it a bit mind-blowing... as well as an
eye-opener....   "So THAT'S what you were talking about all this
time...."   

 >> I don't get lost either... I just explore.... Sometimes intentionally,
 >> sometimes less so... 

 JM> I recall in '84 I had visited a friend in Erie, saw the Falls and on
 JM> the way to Syracuse. 
 JM> I made a wrong turn in Buffalo at the big traffic circle and was
 JM> completely lost.  I don't remember how many gas stations I stopped to
 JM> ask the way back to Rt 20.  Everyone, to a man said, "I don't know" or
 JM> "Never heard of it".  After a while I was beginning to think I was in
 JM> the Twilight Zone and would spend the rest of my life driving around
 JM> aimlessly looking for that phantom highway.  

duh-dih-duh-dah-duh-dih-duh-dah     Probably the locals only knew it
by the street name, not the route number....

 JM> Needless to say I did eventually find it.

Obviously, you needed to have had a good map with you....   That was
probably already too late to get nice maps from gas stations....

ttyl         neb

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