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billt

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Re: Death in the afternoon
« Reply #10 on: February 17, 2011, 10:26:55 AM »
A few weeks back I passed a single car wreck on the way to work. The driver was ejected and a sheet covered his body on the side of the road. I looked like it had just taken place minutes before I got there because there was only one cop on the scene and he had just finished covering the body when I passed. I got to thinking he was probably on his way to work, just like me. His wife didn't even know he was dead yet. Death can come in seconds for any of us.  Bill T.

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Re: Death in the afternoon
« Reply #11 on: February 17, 2011, 12:27:25 PM »
All that is good reason to steal that kiss, eat that Milky Way, shoot up that last box of .357, cause ya just never know.
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Re: Death in the afternoon
« Reply #12 on: February 17, 2011, 01:08:24 PM »
A few weeks back I passed a single car wreck on the way to work. The driver was ejected and a sheet covered his body on the side of the road. I looked like it had just taken place minutes before I got there because there was only one cop on the scene and he had just finished covering the body when I passed. I got to thinking he was probably on his way to work, just like me. His wife didn't even know he was dead yet. Death can come in seconds for any of us.  Bill T.

Wonder if he told his wife he'd be missing her all day and kissed her good bye or if he grabbed his hat and yelled at her to try to have dinner ready on time for a change as he hit the door.

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Re: Death in the afternoon
« Reply #13 on: February 17, 2011, 01:09:29 PM »
I figure I have been on extended play since my first heart attack in '03, so I try to live in such a way that if I were to fall to my death this afternoon the only thing I would need to apologize for is my language on the way down.

Same here, pal, same here (also since '03)....and this philosophy has stood me in pretty good stead so far.
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