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So sorry Charlie and Amanda. Always tough no matter the relationship.

 

Unbeknownst to Amanda, Barb made her the sole next of kin, which left Amanda in charge of everything. This included what to do with her body, planning the funeral, and seeing to it that her too small dogs were taken care of. The coroner tried for almost a day to get ahold of Amanda, and finally resorted to sending a local cop to Amanda’s house; Amanda was at work at the time and got home right after the cop left. The cop did not tell Amanda’s landlady what he was there for. Amanda walked through the door and was told by her landlady that a cop had been there looking for her. Almost immediately she got a phone call from her birth grandparents, who the coroner had gotten ahold of, and was given the news.

Barb’s two elderly Puggles were her pride and joy; Max is 13 and his mother, Lassie, is about 16. The SPCA took them shortly after the body was found.

Amanda had to call the coroner on Thursday and give authorization for her grandparents to be involved in what happens to Barb’s body.

As for Lassie and Max, we were both worried that Amanda would effectively be signing the death warrant for both dogs due to their advanced age; Amanda talked to the SPCA yesterday and found out that the dogs were at a no-kill shelter. Aside from the fact that they were both old and overweight (Max more than his mother), the vet deemed them to both be in good health. Amanda relinquished her rights to both dogs, as she not only has a cat the dogs don’t get along with cats, but with Porter in the picture neither of us can afford to take on two dogs. Lassie and Max will be adopted out, and the shelter will even try to keep them together!

 

Hopefully she is dealing with everything ok, really stressful time.

 

Same here.

All I want to leave behind is what little knowledge I can pass on to others.
No need for permanent marks on the land. Dump a few ashes in the river and in the forrest.
Let me spend eternity in the land I enjoy most.

 

I am pondering donating my body to science...

 

I have no issues with either.

To be honest. Makes no difference to me.
I’ll be dead.

But I’d rather not have a permanent spot.
I don’t think anything should be permanent.
Look at all the land we’ve taken and use for nothing but to memorialize our self’s.
Like cemeteries, all that land and nothing will ever become of it. Just a bunch of stone taking up space.

This obviously my opinion, and I can respect others that choose to be buried with a marker. It’s just not what I want…..

 

I told you this one, and you told me that you almost spit out what you were drinking and started laughing out loud…

“The Navy invented sex, but the Marines introduced it to women.”

 

@ColoradoTJ
@wilcam47

And this is one my dad, a 25-year Navy veteran, told me…

A civilian and a Marine are talking, and the civilian asks the Marine, “The Marine Corps is a department of the Navy, correct?”

The Marine says “Yes, the men’s department.”

 

You have to take a written/road sign recognition test in California when transferring an out-of-state license that is valid or only expired by a month or two, correct? Pennsylvania will let you transfer with nothing more than a vision test if it is valid expired six months or less; PA makes you get a learner’s permit and start from scratch if it is expired for more than six months. Other states have absolutely no grace period and will not necessarily make you start from scratch with a learner’s permit, but will make you take an actual driving test in order to get a license.

 

@ABA180

This brings me back to December 2014, when I’d been working at Puck for less than a month.

I turned 21 in March 2010 and started frequenting Puck with my friends that summer. Sam, who would eventually become my boss, started working there as the assistant manager in like October 2010; I somehow never crossed paths with her until June 2011, and it was tumultuous to say the least, but we ultimately became friends.

Sam lived in Nebraska with her family from like 2001 or 2002 until she moved to the Philly area in 2010, and she had just renewed her Nebraska license. I think a Nebraska license is valid for five years, because she told me she renewed her license at 21, and it expired on her 26th birthday (she was born in November 1988).

She never owned a car for nearly the first decade she lived here, as two different employers provided her with vehicles. She never bothered to transfer her license during the first four years she lived in PA, until she realized it was just about to expire. Then she went to a concert shortly before it expired, got incredibly intoxicated, and ended up losing her entire wallet.

Luckily, PennDOT accepted a certified copy of her driving record. She wrote the Nebraska DMV a check for a whopping $3 to get her driving record mailed to PA.

When we finally got to the DMV, her Nebraska license had been expired nearly a month. She only had the certified driving record, her birth certificate, her social security card, and two proofs of residency. We went to the DMV two days before Christmas; I drove her in the Tacoma. Her license was expired way less than six months, so she only had to take a vision test. They gave her a 2-week temp license, and she got the permanent one in early January.

I asked her if she wanted to take her official drive as a PA licensed driver, and tossed her the keys to the Tacoma. She drove us home, and my knees were touching the glovebox the whole time because my truck has a bench seat and Sam is only 5’3”.

Sam had never owned a vehicle outside the state of Nebraska at that time, and the concept of vehicle inspections was foreign to her. She drove a 2005 Honda Element which was owned by the owners of Puck and registered to the corporation that owned Puck, but largely only driven by Sam. The insurance and registration were up to date, but the inspection stickers (emissions and safety) had expired in September 2014.

In Doylestown, nobody bothered the owners of Puck over something as trivial as expired inspection stickers because they were very influential and were members of the PBA.

In Hatboro, however, the cops had no idea who the Element belonged to and just saw a nearly decade-old vehicle with expired inspection stickers.

On Christmas Eve, the day after Sam finally exchanged her Nebraska license for a PA one, she was driving through Hatboro when a cop saw the expired stickers and pulled her over. It was Christmas Even, and the cop seriously told her that if it had been a newer vehicle he could have given her a written warning, but because it was an “older vehicle” (2005 Honda Element in December 2014) he had to issue a ticket. $128, on fucking Christmas Eve…



I have been driving for nearly 14 years and owned the truck for more than 9 years; I would NOT shed a tear if Pennsylvania totally did away with inspections, especially the goddamn emissions testing!

 

Correct. Written/vision test required when transferring valid out of state license. The second time I had an expired license from CA on record, so I only had to take the refresher written test, not the whole thing.

 

In Pennsylvania as long as you don't do something stupid that results in 6 to 11 points or more, or get your license fully revoked (as opposed to suspended), then all you have to do is get your picture taken every two years...

 

California is a wonderful state. The best. I plan to stay here forever.

“On the hunt” as my location is not foreshadowing. Nope. No way.

 

I feel that it is my duty, as a lifelong car enthusiast, to loathe California with a passion that burns with the intensity of a thousand suns based solely on their draconian emissions testing rules. My uncle lives in Monterey and registers his 1977 Volkswagen Westfalia at his brother's house in Texas. His bus was originally fuel injected, but early fuel injected VW engines are notoriously finicky at best and unreliable at worst. The previous owner swapped in a pre-cat carbureted motor from a 1974 VW Bus. No smog station in his area will touch it because the VIN says it was fuel injected. I know there are some counties in CA that don't require smog testing, but the ones that do should exempt all pre-OBD2 gas vehicles and all diesel vehicles PERIOD from emissions testing. At the same time, it is noteworthy that California does not have safety inspections; I think that safety inspections are more important emissions testing, and New Jersey is a perfect example of this. Jersey dropped safety inspections in 2010, but still requires emissions testing. The result is a ton of rusty shitboxes on the road that can pass an emissions test, but are unsafe due to rust. In the last decade or so, NJ also stopped requiring emissions testing for ALL vehicles older than 1996, even Toyotas (most Toyotas went OBD2 in 1995, including the Tacoma and all cars). I don't think diesel vehicles have to be tested in Jersey.

 

@Just_A_Guy
I was born in California in March 1989, and lived there until the summer of 1990 when my dad was transferred to Pennsylvania. We moved back to the same area of California in 1996 when my dad was transferred back there, and lived there until 1998. California in the years I was born could easily be described as wonderful, and the California of the late 1990s was also pretty good, but even in about 1997 San Francisco was kind of a shithole. I would never live there unless I got a really amazing job offer, and even then it would have to be one hell of a job!

 

I would rather live in Filthadelphia then San Fran.

 

On the subject of Ca.
My uncle's home owners insurance was cancelled.
Finding one that will write a policy is not easy.
He was already paying $12k a year.