So now I’m sitting in D&L’s pickup outside the surprisingly well- attended physical therapy joint in the little town nearest where we live, waiting for Neighbor D to finish up, and it’s likely to be quite a wait because I only had one reason for coming to town…
…a new grain barrel/garbage can (which I had to order almost 2 weeks ago because nobody in town stocks them) and a couple of sacks of cracked corn to replace the moldy bunch I had to throw away earlier in the month. The old plastic barrel with the cracked cover has been demoted to carrying barn trash.
Gotta say, though, sometimes it’s fun living in the future. I’m thumbing this post out on my telephone, something the fifty-years-ago “futurists” did not predict. Kinda resent the thing about the flying cars, though.
Yeah, the whole flying car thing gets me too. Popular Mechanics swore they’d be available in the eighties. It’s Damn near 2020 and no flying car in sight. Dammit!
The future just ain’t what it used to be… I’m still waiting for a reasonable priced jet pack with an endurance of a few hours so I can piss off the neighbors.
😀 Think of the fun you could have hovering over their rose bushes…
I wanted the food replicator from star trek.
heh. think about how bad traffic was when they made that prediction and how it hasn’t gotten better in the interim. now imagine that traffic at 2-5 thousand feet and do you want to be where gravity and momentum direct several tons of flaming wreckage.
I heard that the whole flying car development thing is being quashed by Big 4WD.
Can you imagine how badly that industry would tank if everyone could just fly over rough country to get to their favourite fishing/picnic spot?
[REDACTED], huh? You are out in the sticks, indeed!
[Joel’s note: I was afraid of this, my fault. Let’s keep the speculation or at least outright revelations about Uncle Joel’s location to ourselves, shall we?]
If we have to keep Uncle Joel’s location to ourselves does that also mean the Saturday night parties, bonfires, fireworks and sleepovers are canceled? Tsk. How sad.
I thought I’d point it out quickly so you could take action. Any picture of a store will give you a location in about 35 seconds with a search engine! Don’t worry, I haven’t found your lair yet, and I won’t publish it when I do.
BTW, you might want to remove the top two pics of Landlady’s house. They make it easy to recognize from the air.