doublecutter

I don’t have a dog in this fight, but I can tell you a little about my uncle’s experience working at a plant. When he came home from the Korean War he got a job with the construction crew that was building what came to be Monsanto in Luling. As the plant neared completion they hired a lot of the guys that were on the construction crews. He worked his way up the food chain and became an operator of one of the units. He worked there until retirement in the late ‘90s, working there for 40+ years.

I’m not sure how much overtime he worked, but he had the reputation that he caught more fish, shot more ducks, and killed more deer than anyone in his neighborhood. He sent a son to LSU and he became a college professor. He sent a daughter to Tulane and she became a doctor. He brought his kids on great vacations every summer. He bought some acreage, built a house and barn and pond. He had horses that his kids could ride, and his nieces and nephews.

Unfortunately, his wife, my aunt passed away about five years before he retired. When he retired he bought a brand new Cadillac and used to visit some of the local juke joints to Cajun dance. Supposedly he was very popular with the ladies.

Family lore has it that when he retired, between his pension, stock ownership in the company, etc, he was worth about 1.5 million. He considered the plant his family, after retirement he continued to interact with his fellow workers. Over the years, these guys fished together, hunted, coached little league baseball and became part of each other’s lives.

For a guy with limited education, his plant job at Monsanto was a godsend.

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Whitesnake

I get what all of you are saying about the high car payments. I get it.

But, there are some people that want a fancy, high end car as a sought of hobby. I have a neighbor that lives several houses from me. He gets a high end expensive new car every two years. He told me that he has two year leases on them. He said that he has friends that are into fishing that have +$50K boats and they spend thousands every year fishing and maintaining the boat.

He said he considers having a high end luxury car as his hobby. He leases, doesn’t have to worry about maintenance, keeps them clean, and turns them in at lease end and picks out another car. He just got a maxed out Ford Expedition and he is planning to use it in the Spring, driving to visit the Dakotas, Wyoming, and Montana.

I’m not saying it makes financial sense for him to lease instead of buying, but he chooses to lease.

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astrology?

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WTF you talking about? There’s no astrology in that movie. It’s about faking a manned flight to Mars.

Anyone posting in this thread should watch the movie Capricorn One.

I listed a kitchen table and four chairs for sale for $100. It was solid wood, a few scratches, but it was solid furniture. A oriental guy came to look at it and offered me $5 for it. I thought at first I misunderstood him and asked him to say again, and yes, he offered $5. I told him before I would sell it for $5, I would break it up and and use the wood in my fireplace.

She makes my loins tingle.

So LAPD, Robbery Homicide is investigating.

I bought a laptop today from Best Buy. Ordered online, they said they would notify me when it was ready for pick up (Metairie Veterans store). Hour or so later got an email saying it was ready for pickup. Drove over, entered store, went to pickup counter, showed him the code on my phone to the guy behind the counter, he said he’d be right back, thirty seconds later he reappeared, gave me package, walked out the store to my car.

I was in the store less than five minutes. Couldn’t have been any easier.

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Did I just hear correctly that an OF Model claims that he was DMing her during halftime of the OSU/Mich game?

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That’s what I heard on Fox.

Sophie Marceau