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Default Well, I retired an old museum piece today!

On Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 8:33:22 AM UTC-10, wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 7:35:46 PM UTC-5, Hank Rogers wrote:
> > GM wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 5:34:06 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> > >> On Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 5:24:58 PM UTC-5, GM wrote:
> > >>> wrote:
> > >>>> My 2008 Grand Caravan after getting her detailed by Final Touch on Natural Bridge today! And I tanked her up with gasoline and parked her out front of my house, the United Church of FACTS! No dogma, no bullshit, only the Facts!
> > >>>>
> > >>>> As revealed by the PBS program Origins, a now absent part of PBS's series about The History Of Africa, detailing how all Homo Sapiens could be traced to the same two oldest fossils ever found. One Male and One Female.. Over 150,000 years old! From Africa! :-(
> > >>>>
> > >>> Why don't you do us all a favor and commit SUICIDE like your mommy did...at least she had the good sense to realize that she was a useless burden to everyone and so it was time for her to "call it quits", shall we say....
> > >>>
> > >>> <chuckle>
> > >>>
> > >>> --
> > >>> Best
> > >>> Greg
> > >> **** YOUI Greg Sorrow! :-(
> > >
> > >
> > > Uh, why did you "tanked her up with gasoline" and park it if you intend to "retired an old museum piece today"...???
> > >
> > > Wouldn't you drain the gas, and then take it to the auto wreckers...???
> > >
> > > You'd get a few bux for the scrap value, at least...
> > >
> > > IMWTK...!!!
> > >

> > No, silly, it's now a shrine at the church of facts.
> >
> > What he should have done is to spend a few hundred thousand and had
> > it retrofitted with batteries and 100% electric tesla drive train.
> > Maybe have some stained glass rainbow windows made too.
> >

> Right now, used car prices have gone batshit crazy. We're thinking about
> selling my wife's car that she bought in 2017 for $7992 because we could
> likely get $9000 for it, with 25K miles on it.
>
> Same with house prices. I floated selling our rental property, and listed it at
> Zillow "Zestimate" price, and even with all its flaws, I might get it.
>
> --Bryan


We checked out an affordable home selling for $600,000. Ha ha, my granddaughter was freaked out about the place. I suppose it looked like a haunted house to her. It looked like a super money pit to me. Interesting architecture. How often does one see a large crack running up the side of a home up to the second floor? Hopefully, never.