Subj : Daryl update
To   : DARYL STOUT
From : JOE MACKEY
Date : Mon Aug 19 2019 06:21:50

  Daryl wrote --

>   I've got a similar app on that for the local taxi deal, but rarely
> have to use that. The bus no longer stops in front of my house.
 
  I had a Christmas party to attend last year.  It was held only a few
miles from here and could have easily ridden my bike but it was raining.
  I thought of a cab but then I wanted to be there sometime that week, not
whenever the cab decided to show up, so used LYFT.  D/l the app and was told
the ride would be there in one minute!  And it was.  I hurried and left the
apartment and when I opened the
  And that fare was equal to what a cab would cost.
  The cab company here filed suit against LYFT and UBER and lost.
  We used to have three cab companies here (and a fella who just cruised
around downtown picking up fares on the side).   Now there's only one.
  Of course more people have cars now, the pop. has declined a lot, etc.

> JM>  The other day I took it out to play a quick game of solitaire and was 
told not to use while driving.  :)
> 
>   You might wreck a good hand otherwise. <G>

  Like the old joke: Don't drink and drive.  You might hit a bump and spill
your drink.  :)
  That happened to me on my trip.
  I was going to visit an FOAF and slipping a cup of coffee when the lid
came loose spilling coffee all over the front of my tee-shirt. :)
  (And it was too late to change it).

> JM>  I generally have that app off.  I don't like the idea of "someone
> JM>somewhere" knowing where I am all the time.
> 
>   I'd think turning OFF the "location" deal would solve that.

  It's supposed to but who knows what the evil geniuses in WA state are up
to?  :) 

> vehicle tracking device was in your tires...and you should cut it off.
> The thing is, that was where you inflated the tire with air. <G>

  Of course.
 
> JM>  Now I have little problem talking with strangers.
> 
>   Never mind those you run across in the echoes. <G>

  It was funny when I was telling about my (then) upcoming trip and meeting
people I only know online.  They were aghast I would meet strangers, like
you guys are axe murderers or something.  (Other than some deranged person,
why would anyone want to murder a
  Saw a funny meme recently on FB about then and now.
  In the past people told not to, among other things, get in a car with a
stranger and now people use UBER, etc.
  I remember my mother telling me when I was a little boy "never get in a
car with a stranger, unless he offers you candy first".  :)
  In parking one day a young woman who worked in the office had given the
attendant in the pay garage a lunch break and walking back to the office.
  I drove up in the cart and said "Hello little girl, would you like a
ride?  I have candy?"  She quickly replied, "Show me the candy first".  I 
nearly
fell out of the cart laughing.

> JM>  On stage he never spoke a word, but off stage he wouldn't shut up. :)
> 
>   Interesting.

  And he had a somewhat thick French accent.

>   Is he still around, or has he passed away??

  He died several years ago.

>   I know Borge and Liberace are dead now...and I think both Rowan and
> Martin are gone as well.

  Yep.
  Joe
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