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"A lemon for my water..."
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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This is one of those things that pissed me off, and I could never quite figure out why, like people demanding hot water instead of cold, it's a trifling inconvenience, and then it dawned on me. You bring someone a water - for free - and they immediately begin to bargain with you. They want the water for free, now they want a lemon for free. If you let them they'd demand their meals for free (and some have). It's just fucking bad manners. If I owned a restaurant I'd throw it on the menu - "Add a lemon to your water - only $5.00", an upsell for everyone that didn't know to leave well enough alone...
A UFO Over Tofino
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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By that I mean probably not a flying saucer, extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof, but looking at the stars, satellites, and I see two moving - towards me, and the rising moon, and as they approach they diverge somewhat, between them circles another light.
Quick, the whole thing maybe 4 or 5 seconds before they disappear into the light of the moon. Now curious, it's not a plane, or two planes, so then...?
It reminded me of once before, when my son was young and we were camping at a lake north of Cranbrook. And - looking at the sky, 3 lights - dim like stars, flying south in a triangle. And high and so you think maybe they're planes flying in formation, but the stars disappear behind them.
Again, no explanation. Sometimes you just got to accept it.
I know of people that swear as to the existence of flying saucers and ET and regularly spot wonders in the night sky, but it's usually a sign of other things. Nelson is home to a lot of alternative thinking, if you get my drift. But I'd consider myself pretty - well, dry and in this - Open, but skeptical.
Just a little mystery I thought I'd share.
A rectangular hole in a rock
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I thought it was curious, spotted while beachcombing, speculating what caused it - perhaps a crystal long since eroded? Who knows.
Election Day
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Election Day - nobody to vote for and everybody to vote against. Politicians were in the building the other day, rapping on doors, trying to put a friendly face on incompetence and broken promises - the crackheads in the alley are generally a whole lot more likable. And while I have to vote it grieves me that regardless of the outcome, all outcomes are poor.
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