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Yes it is all just a price ticket FS
posted by
C_C_T
on August 6, 2012 at 10:37 AM
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A whole lot of stuff going on with Archie...An interesting encounter with the guy selling the pears. At the grocery store it has become very impersonal.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on August 6, 2012 at 9:14 AM
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Well it was a sackful , I expect the sack smelled of paraffin, but everybody used it in those days. A shilling,20 to the pound i,e 5p today. Might buy a plum.
posted by
C_C_T
on August 6, 2012 at 9:08 AM
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A "shilling" for some pears? Is that a good price? 
posted by
JimmyA
on August 6, 2012 at 8:17 AM
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He may have done Lion, but he was well for not giving a farthing away.
posted by
C_C_T
on August 6, 2012 at 7:57 AM
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Re: CCT
Yes well these are so purty Wiley, not like those old rough ass mice of yours.
posted by
C_C_T
on August 6, 2012 at 7:55 AM
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CCT
Hey we do the same thing with mice, catch and release except we use Mr. 'G' but when he releases 'em they ain't breathin' any more. LOL
posted by
WileyJohn
on August 6, 2012 at 7:14 AM
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Perhaps he appreciated being out smarted, for some people it is a game and they admire a good player
posted by
lionreign
on August 6, 2012 at 3:11 AM
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Re: LOL....again at your journal. How could I survive without your daily
Thank you Kabu. I shall have to get a secretary. Don't forget the tabs.
posted by
C_C_T
on August 5, 2012 at 11:46 PM
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Re: Reading the stories of your early days puts me in another place,
Hi Pat, I suppose at the time one takes such incidents as they happen. To us everything is modern unto tomorrow and then we think, how strange.
posted by
C_C_T
on August 5, 2012 at 11:35 PM
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Re: Adnohr
Well the old Dad would not have done that trick on anyone else, but he thought the old miser was fair game I suppose. As for Archie, once up on a time he would have slammed the phone down, but he is slowly being subdued.
posted by
C_C_T
on August 5, 2012 at 11:01 PM
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Lesson taught and lesson learned. Even now there is enough to complain about without complaining for nothing! Your dad was a smart fellow. I admire his quick thinking, and you got to eat the pears!
As dor Archie's phone cutting off - I've done that a couple of times myself when a caller is too high strung!
posted by
adnohr
on August 5, 2012 at 8:27 PM
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Reading the stories of your early days puts me in another place,
of hard-knock stories by Irish authors moved to the USA to make their fortune in publishing. Tales of slight rascalism and a bit of the twist in business transactions, making a bit extra on the side - papa's wily little deceptions. Love these little journeys in another place and time. :)
posted by
Pat_B
on August 5, 2012 at 12:51 PM
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LOL....again at your journal. How could I survive without your daily
jewells of information and the flowers and poetry.
posted by
Kabu
on August 5, 2012 at 12:36 PM
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