Fender bender. So we were driving on Monalua Road headed for Aiea Heights Drive. We made a green light and was passing through the intersection when a new looking Dodge Charger hit us square in the rear fender of our very used 1963 Plymouth Valiant. By the way Aiea is in the hills of OahuContinue reading “Bumper carsUu Fender bender. So we were driving on Monalua Road headed for Aiea Heights Drive. We made a green light and was passing through the intersection when a new looking Dodge Charger hit us square in the rear fender of our very used 1963 Plymouth Valiant. By the way Aiea is in the hills of Oahu overlooking Pearl Harbor. But anyway, we two accidentarians pull out of the intersection and began to exchange Licenses and insurance papers. The young man, still teenage, told me he just got his drivers license and was driving a brand-new Dodge. I would have to admit he was very forthcoming. He told me everything. His parents ran a florist business just within walking distance from where we stood. He assured me his dad would take care of this. In the meantime a Honolulu police officer stopped by to as if everything was okay. Feeling sorry for the kid, I waved the officer off with a “everything is okay.” I knew of the flower shop the boy spoke of. Been there several times in the past. So the next day I called the flower shop and spoke to the young man’s father. With little discussion he told me to take my car to a body and fender paint shop just down the road and that guy would fix the damage and repaint the left side. I must admit how easy and quick this whole transaction took. The young man was of Japanese descent, his father was a person with many connections, and it all took about a week to transact. We had other collisions years before in California and other places and most took months to resolve. Had this happened on mainland America I would had never agreed to such a proposal. Call the police and let them question the other driver. Have my insurance throw the book at whomever. Be tough. Look angry. But in this case, not. The kid now would be 66 years old. God bless him and his probably deceased parents. I hope he is having a good life. Mine’s been pretty good so far.”
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Do you really need that?
How to control prices. The current president nor any president shouldn’t be blamed for inflation. No sir! This is done solely by the manufacturer or store where product is sold. So why do people believe the president raises or lowers the price on goods sold. Nope. Not at all. The president doesn’t work for GeneralContinue reading “Do you really need that?”
Well, then feel my face.
Bedside Manner? I have discovered there are loonies in the medical profession. Just as much as any other profession. Cashiers, firemen, and even teachers. The first loony was a well-spoken woman physician Assistant I happened to be assigned to when in for a general medical. I knew something was wrong when I discovered she wasContinue reading “Well, then feel my face.”
Satisfaction guaranteed
No more Sears tower in Chicago. Sears could have easily been AMAZON. But some private equity schmuck bought Sears drained it all its cash assets, took out huge loans, filed bankruptcy, and just wrecked Sears. Yes there were some parts of Sears that just didn’t work. Their clothes and shoes just were real junk. ButContinue reading “Satisfaction guaranteed”
Put butter in it and roll it up.
No nothing like it. We were residence on Simmons Avenue in East Los Angeles. Speaking for myself, I lived there for an approximate ten years. Then we moved further east into a quaint and quiet but mostly dull suburb. But back to Simmons Avenue in East L A, next door to the north of usContinue reading “Put butter in it and roll it up.”
A very nice looking bank ROBBER
More than folk lore? Maybe this is American History but I consider it just dark cloud Americana and hardly that. However, this is what was told me by my mother. She was a person born in the early 20th century in southern rural Oklahoma. But here is the caveat, my mom sometimes was given toContinue reading “A very nice looking bank ROBBER”
One man’s car is another man’s low rider
She just walked away from it. It was 1956 and my 18-year-old oldest sister parked her 1937 Ford sedan in our back yard and she never drove it again. Never mind it was almost twenty years old and her very first car. A dusty relic far as she was concerned. A rolling museum antique. ManyContinue reading “One man’s car is another man’s low rider”
When ya gotta go.
posted by Chuck Ayers No quarter moon on this privy. We California Okies would sometimes visit our Aunt Minnie. Aunt Minnie was my mother’s older sister. Minnie lived just off the county road between Love and Carter County, Oklahoma. South of metropolitan Wilson, Oklahoma. A once upon a time oil and gas boomtown. Now withContinue reading “When ya gotta go.”
Blonds and bails of hay.
Summer 1961. It was summer break between my junior and senior year of high school and a friend and I were up in northern California working on a cattle ranch. The ranch was approximately 40-miles south from the Oregon/California border and approximately 700-miles north from Los Angeles. And L A is where we boys livedContinue reading “Blonds and bails of hay.”
Aloha from Washington DC 
People we knew in Hawaii. We’ll just call them David and Becky. He was a captain in the navy and she a stay-at-home mom and both living in Navy housing near Peral Harbor. At that time they had a four-year-old daughter who often played with our three-year-old. We lived in a townhouse up the wayContinue reading “Aloha from Washington DC ”
Chuck the Blogger Guy 