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Photo2010's Blog – March 2009 Archive (4)

My First Car, Part Three, (RIP)

Picture a sunny summer day in New England. This was how my day started as I left home for my job at the camera store. Got in my MG, it started, and off I went. Parked it under the nice big ole' tree for a little shade, the only tree that bordered the parking lot at work. Comes 5:25pm, time to get ready to close up..suddenly the sky gets very dark. The darkness envelopes the parking lot until literally we couldn't see past the large windows of the shop. Then the wind picked up..strong… Continue

Added by photo2010 on March 31, 2009 at 4:22pm — 5 Comments

My First Car, Part Two.

Once, driving down a hill, I hit a patch of sand on a curve. Suddenly I was driving down the hill..backwards. I felt the car bump, then it felt like I was going up in the air. I came to a stop. I got out of the car and the right two wheels had climbed up a low stone wall in someone's front yard. The bizarre, and extremely lucky thing, was that the wall started at grass level, so my car literally 'climbed' up the wall. No external damage to the car, or me, and relatively minor damage to the… Continue

Added by photo2010 on March 30, 2009 at 3:25am — 3 Comments

My First Car, Part One.

This is a love..and hate..and love..and hate, story. In the 1970's, I was working at my first job after graduating college. I had jobs while a college student, cleaning toilets in a department store, driving people to and from JFK and LaGuardia Airports, but those were part time jobs. My first full time job was as a salesman in a camera store in my downtown area. I accepted the position mainly because I needed the money to pay off my college loans. I rationalized that it was okay to work in a… Continue

Added by photo2010 on March 29, 2009 at 4:00pm — 4 Comments

A Crime.

Does anyone else live in an apartment or condo that doesn't allow pets? We moved here from a house that was in my family for almost 50 years. It was a wonderful old 3-family house. It had gotten too difficult to manage after my Dad passed away, and anyone who has rented to tenants knows what a nightmare it can be, and it often was. So..after trying to sell the house for years, we finally got a buyer. We were lucky to find a condo in a nice area for a reasonable price in a high-rise building.… Continue

Added by photo2010 on March 13, 2009 at 12:52pm — 2 Comments