BobABooey

I wish Red Lobster good luck. With the crazy pricing at fast food places, some chains like Chili’s have taken advantage and filled a void where a family can get an affordable sit-down dining experience.

Put an emphasis on training the wait staff and reconsider restaurant locations and things will work out fine.

I braved the No Kings protest in McKinney, TX to make my weekly COSTCO run this morning around 9:30. COSTCO is about 1/2 mile from the protest site.

When I got back to my car, there were two large trucks (one was an F-250) parked by me and the occupants seemed to be getting prepped for a counter-protest. Two men and a woman and some sort of pitbull mix. Their tshirts said “We The People”, “Liberty or Death”, and the third shirt had a rainbow on it and something about Democrats.

My next stop was Trader Joe’s, which would take me past the protest site. Along the way is a big Raytheon complex. They had American flags out for Flag Day but no more visible security than usual.

I drove past the protest and saw approximately 40-50 people; most appeared to be Tesla protesters with some younger white folks included. They were holding signs but huddling in the shade under trees several feet from the sidewalk. It was 82° and sunny and it was only 9:30AM. To be fair, the protest wasn’t scheduled to start for another 30 minutes but I had to finish shopping and get home to mow my lawn. I’m sure those protesters will lecture D-Day survivors about taking risks.

I was stopped at a light and a woman drove onto the street from a parking lot and hit my car. I can only imagine she was distracted because it was so avoidable. Anyway, I got out to get her insurance info and the driver was deaf. She spoke like deaf people speak.

I went back to my car and told my ex-wife the other driver was retarded. She went and spoke with her and said I was right.

Maybe your theory is fact!

The fact she’s not wearing shoes freaks me out the most.

Very nice job, as usual. The paint job is next level. Are those a couple of .50 cal shells by the window?

I listened to some programs about D-Day from each side’s perspective over the last couple of days and a German talked about unsuccessfully trying to deploy their Goliaths. I had never heard of a Goliath and I found this description below. Supposedly, the Germans got the idea from some prototype they captured while overrunning France. The story I listened to said they couldn’t get them started so they were a non-factor on D-Day.

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It was a diminutive tracked vehicle about 1.5m long that could carry up to 60kg of light explosives and was remotely controlled via 3 cables that spooled out of its rear. Some 7,564 were produced in all, split between 12V battery and gas engine-powered variants. They were largely deployed by assault pioneer (Sturmpionier) units, and were hoped to give the advantage of surprise. They were used on all fronts including German counters to the allied invasions in Normandy.

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Looks like Tamiya has a neat little kit with a Goliath.

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Servicemen after WW2 were given great respect.

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We used to hitchhike between Covington and Madisonville in the 1970’s. It was so common for us, I can only remember one ride. A guy picked us up in a truck and he had a decal on the vehicle or something in the cab and we asked what it meant and he said he fought in Vietnam. Being young boys, one of us asked if he killed anyone. He said it wasn’t all about that kind of thing and he went to serve his country when asked.

He was a good dude we never would have met if we didn’t hitchhike.

I kinda liked that purple and gold bathroom door. Not gonna lie.

Sorry, guys - someone already put a ring on it!

I understand her anger at not getting special treatment. Imagine being elected or appointed to some public position in Louisiana, you try to use your power for shady purposes, and someone says “That’s it! - we’ve put up with this too long! Corruption in Louisiana ends here and it ends now!”