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Mar 31, 2022 | 10:50 AM

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Papa Tiger

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Cloudy days seem long and sort a boring !

Apr 6, 2022 | 03:51 AM

#422

BIGKEN

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Hold your child's hand every chance you get. The time will come all too soon when he or she won't let you.

Apr 6, 2022 | 05:34 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by BIGKEN

Hold your child's hand every chance you get. The time will come all too soon when he or she won't let you.

Something that speaks to that very thing BigKen:

One more just for the good feeling:

Apr 6, 2022 | 11:32 AM

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Its a great day out there again !

Apr 6, 2022 | 12:00 PM

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SCAMS come in many forms and thought I'd share one with you.

I got a call on my home phone offering to reduce my credit card's interest rate. The caller knew nothing about me, my banking, my credit card company, or anything else so it was an obvious scam. Being something of a practical joker I decided to have some fun with him. When he asked me how much I owed on my credit card I told him $12,000 (I have no running balance). He asked me which credit card I used and I gave him the wrong answer. My zip code mysteriously changed from the West side of town to the East side. The last 4 of my credit card number was my house number from the 80s. The last 4 of my social security number was the last 4 of a friend's phone number. Every answer was wrong, but every answer was one that I could repeat. Thinking he had a "live one", he called "his manager" over and the two tried to hack into my account. Of course they had no luck. They asked me to repeat a couple of answers and I was prepared with the same answer. Finally one of them asked me if I was sure that everything was correct. "I'm sure they're not" was my response. A puzzled, "huh?" was all they could muster. "Well, you guys called and lied to me... I thought that's the game we were playing." A few seconds of cursing and they slammed the phone down.

I had fun screwing with these two and for 5 minutes anyway, they weren't scamming anyone...

Apr 6, 2022 | 02:34 PM

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I'm gonna remember that! Great idea!

Apr 6, 2022 | 02:37 PM

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Speaking of taking matters into one's own hands, this dude installed a flash bang in/on the center console after 7 breakins in a few months. And all caught on video!