[samhass]

A crew was working on the speed bumps today. I thought they were lowering them but was told that someone stole one, so they were concreting in some new ones. Supposedly the original bumps were bolted in place. I hate them and wish TV would remove them, but I fear more accidents if they are removed.

[Donna]

I have to be reading this wrong..STOLE a speed bump???

What is going on??? What will they steal next, the guard house????

[redwitch]

I'd love to hear the conversation when it's brought home.

Hey, cool speed bump!

Yeah, figured with a board on it it'll make a cool skate boarding ramp.

Wow!! Cool idea.

Well, yeah, you know ....

Where'd you get it?

Oh, from the old folks in TV.

AWESOME!!!

(Now, let's try to explain how good this idea is to mom.)

It amazes what people will take just because they can.

[samhass]

I think someone just wanted it out of there.

[Muncle]

Since it was just a chunk of wood bolted into the concrete, I thought it looked rather gauche. I mean, a piece of wood screwed into the ground??? But, ya know, it worked. It didn't cost a fortune and it got the job done. I guess we aughta have more stuff like that rather than mucho money solutions that don't work.

[samhass]

I'll bet someone has it in their garage as a car stop.

[Sidney Lanier]

Using it as a car stop would at least be putting it to good use. I was imaginging in my mind's eye someone somehow making it the centerpiece of a piece of sculpture for a lanai, or something such.... For a car stop we 'inherited' a golf ball (what else?) hanging from the garage ceiling on a string, and we can report that it's definitely effective as long as we pull into the garage SLOWLY!

[Boomer]

Originally Posted by Sidney Lanier

Using it as a car stop would at least be putting it to good use. I was imaginging in my mind's eye someone somehow making it the centerpiece of a piece of sculpture for a lanai, or something such.... For a car stop we 'inherited' a golf ball (what else?) hanging from the garage ceiling on a string, and we can report that it's definitely effective as long as we pull into the garage SLOWLY!

Sidney,

I have a paintbrush suspended from the garage ceiling for the same purpose but a much gentler touch.

[LindaL]

I use a wiffle golf ball so that it is light and has holes in order to string rope through. Works great.

[Boomer]

Originally Posted by LindaL

I use a wiffle golf ball so that it is light and has holes in order to string rope through. Works great.

Hi LindaL,

The wiffle ball is the classic solution to the problem. We didn't have one at the time Mr. Boomer got tired of trying to squeeze through between the wall and where I had parked the car. But the wiffle ball is perfect.

Boomer

[KathieI]

Originally Posted by Donna

What is going on??? What will they steal next, the guard house????

Donna, great idea!! The guard house will look cute in my new living room in TV!!

[RCT]

I would have had it in my room, as a teenager, along with the stop, yield, and roadsigns.

[Muncle]

Originally Posted by Boomer BeBack

Sidney,

I have a paintbrush suspended from the garage ceiling for the same purpose but a much gentler touch.

B3,
I would think the paint would drip on the car and that due to the heat, you'd have to re-dip often.

[Boomer]

Originally Posted by Muncle

B3,
I would think the paint would drip on the car and that due to the heat, you'd have to re-dip often.

Muncle,

Hey, thanks. I wondered why my car kept changing colors when I wasn't looking. I thought it had something to do with the Easter Bunny.

btw I knew it would be only a matter of time before someone called me B to the third power. I think I like it. But I don't know how to make that little 3.

Now, I must digress, as I am wont to do.

I was agonizing over my screen name the other day. I really must get a life, but Spring only shows up long enough to taunt us and then disappears, and the warm glowing screen calls from the cozy kitchen.

At the time I started here, I was quite taken with the concept of being a "BeBack" only a different version of the one from long ago. I still have the memory of that salesman back in the 80's who said to me, "No m'am, you won't," when I told him that I would be back to talk to him about the timeshare another day. I did not know at the time that salespeople called the likes of me a "BeBack." All I was trying to do was let the guy down gently and get out of that place. -- But we really do plan to be back in TV. I hope before next winter.

But now I have decided that my name is too long. 3B, BB, BBB, B to the third power, just plain Boomer (I can't believe there was not one already.) -- so many choices. I feel like Sybil.

But I guess I will just have to stick with the BeBack thing since it is in place and firmly attached to the Boomer Chronicles or whatever that ever-increasing number of posts is turning into. Besides what I really need to do is go outside and play and stop obsessing about my screen name.

I do so love to hijack a thread. They are going to throw me off this board anyway if I don't stop it. The girl can't help it.

btw, again, Muncle, considering that you seem to be in a mathematical mood, can you find the common denominator here? -- Muncle, Cher, Susan Sarandon, Dolly Parton, Bill Clinton, W., Boomer.

And Muncle, aren't you supposed to be the guest speaker at the TOTV luncheon? The time on your post says you are late.

[villages07]

Bx3...

all born the same year?

Uncle Muncle was a no-show...guess the choices of soups and pudding weren't enough to lure him out into the real world with his aching choppers. We missed him!!!