Well, poop. There goes the Toy Fund.

Downeaster

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Daughter needs a better car and can't even SEE broke from where she is.

Mrs. Downeaster wants something bigger/more comfortable than the Corolla, and something with AWD and a backup camera.

So, pending actual numbers, daughter gets the 2012 Corolla with 37K miles on it, Mama gets a new 2020 RAV4 and Dad gets the payments.

Sigh.
 
Downeaster said:
Daughter needs a better car and can't even SEE broke from where she is.

Mrs. Downeaster wants something bigger/more comfortable than the Corolla, and something with AWD and a backup camera.

So, pending actual numbers, daughter gets the 2012 Corolla with 37K miles on it, Mama gets a new 2020 RAV4 and Dad gets the payments.

Sigh.
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Way I see it... that's ammo to fight for a new toy... that is... when the RAV4's paid off.
You get to yell MY TURN!! :D
 
650Skull said:
Been down this road before when she had the bolt............no one seems to be learning, teaching or want to learn a lesson here........:oops:
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Sad but true. She DID sell the Bolt at a good price, but then failed to use the proceeds in a manner that I would consider wise. Once again, looked at it as "found money."

It might (or based on experience, might not...) be productive to let her struggle, but in this instance, I worry about the POS she's driving because she cares for my great-granddaughter quite often and I'd never forgive myself if they got hurt in that craptastic car.

Plus, Baby Daughter has had me wrapped around her little finger since she was about 6...
 
Eeeeyyyyyahhhh....three daughters and all great people with good guys for spouses - but one girl is unemployed right now and so the local branch of the CIBD (Canadian Imperial Bank of Dad) is open again.

I already put my retirement off by a year - whats another?

Oh well, as DE says....sigh.
 
Sorry Lads ..this is what happens always has
As i Understand mr Downeaster has a Military Background
As Mr Bob Dylan Puts it You've gotta serve somebody


The wife starts hovering around the Motorcycle out in the garage
Perhaps lifting a cover comments like
" Isn't there a lot of dust on it " ... " Taking up a lot of space "
" Should a man of your age really.... ... "
" Is it safe with the traffic today "
" Out in the wind is that good for your health "
" How many miles do you actually use it "
" Look at those rotten planks at the Porch "

For young lads in their twenties when Push comes to shove it comes down to
" Sell the motorcycle or find a new girlfriend "

More or less a Don Vito Corleone offer.
Like a flash from a clear sky.
Can be a bit different in the USA and Canada and at different age
But in my crystal ball that is what can happen
 
Jan_P said:
Sorry Lads ..this is what happens always has
As i Understand mr Downeaster has a Military Background
As Mr Bob Dylan Puts it You've gotta serve somebody
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Dang took someone from Sweden to introduce me to a song from a kid from Duluth Minnesota, shame is my dad grew up in Minnesota, but a few decades earlier!
 
jetmechmarty said:
I've decided that the one I give the most money to is the one I'm going to live with. I am making my plan to live to be very old and very grumpy.
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Hi Marty,
have you made your daughters aware of your retirement residence plan?
Perhaps it's best you don't.
As my late wife used to say:- "they never catch poisoners the first time."
 
fredintoon said:
Hi Marty,
have you made your daughters aware of your retirement residence plan?
Perhaps it's best you don't.
As my late wife used to say:- "they never catch poisoners the first time."
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A...!, Fred to make that statement and in the same post mention a "late wife" could be misread by some.
 
I think y'all got the wrong approach to the "toy fund." It's like the little boy sitting on the park bench with a double handful of chocolate candy bars stuffing, them down as fast as he can. Business man sits down on the end of the bench and opens his paper, but can't help noticing the little boy stuffing down the chocolate bars. He says "son, did you ever think that much chocolate might not be good for you?" Kid says "My Grandpaw lived to be a hundred and two!" " Business man says, "Is that right?" " Did he eat that much chocolate?" Kids says, "No, he minded his own damn business!" So when the ole lady swells up like a frog cause I have a big box of bike parts sitting on the porch and says, "You mean you got MORE bike parts?" I say, "Did I tell you about the kid on the park bench with a double handful of chocolate bars?" She says "Yeah!" I says "Well, there you go!"
Y'all might not get by with this, but the horses call me "Slick!" :bike:
 
All seriousness aside....any relationship should based on love and a delicate balance of give and take, ying and yang, shoes (and other useless female sh!t like jewellery and purses) and motorcycles.....

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thuban said:
That reminds me of U.S. Grant. He said he only knew two songs. One was Yankee Doddle and the other one wasn't.
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One of my late Dad’s cousins was a pretty famous cartoonist in the Toronto Star in the 1930’s. His name was Jimmy Frise and he drew a strip called Birdseye Centre which was modelled on the pretty little town of Port Perry Ontario - around 45 miles NE of Toronto. The stories in the strip were written by the genuinely famous war correspondant and fellow WW-I vet Greg Clark (on the right in the photo below with Jimmy on the left).

The Birdseye Centre comic strip was seen all across Canada for years. It was sort of like the US strip Lil Abner and was about two old gaffers who lived in a ficticious small town by that name and were always trying get out of doing chores so they could go fishing in Lake Scugog (also a real place near Port Perry).
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Jimmy was well known for a funny old saying: “ What would ya’ rather do or go fishin’?

hehehehe.
 
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Before we got married, I told my wife "If your washing machine and my bike are both broke at the same time and we can only afford to fix one, the bike gets fixed first."

She SAID she was fine with that. Fortunately, it never came to that. I suspect the reality may have been somewhat less agreeable. :yikes:
 
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