One funnie: (thanks Chris B)
My neighbor works for local county taking environmental readings in his company truck, has done this for 30 years....just offered a buyout. (This is in a very poor state.) The offer is a $900,000 pension with an $83,000 buyout that can be defered to avoid Uncle Sam. He knew I had looked at mine last year. I told him I got screwed good. After nearly 18 years it was worth $131,000 and solid as the ice in Antartica. He had a special deal on Blue Cross/Blue Shield for insurance. I get a special deal from Doorinass Insurance Group of Chicago.
One not so funnie: (thanks Sean O)
About two years ago I got my first Prius. Red, not white. Anyway, my other neighbor had a new blue one that she used in commuting to work 50 miles a day. She was a computer communication specialist, developing ways computers talk. She came over when my red Prius showed up. She discussed gas mileage and manuverbility. I was concerned with safety and survivability. We smiled and waved to each other as we passed by day to day.
She was killed in a wreck two weeks ago. The Prius' wheels hit the curve at 630am and she went airborne, sheared the top of a oncoming Honda, killing my neighbor instantly, the Honda driver was in critical care....in one of my Hospitals. Now I step out and I see a red coffin every day. I calculated that the gas mileage savings pays for our fleet. It's hard to calculate my widowed neighbors loss. Two kids in college.
My neighbor works for local county taking environmental readings in his company truck, has done this for 30 years....just offered a buyout. (This is in a very poor state.) The offer is a $900,000 pension with an $83,000 buyout that can be defered to avoid Uncle Sam. He knew I had looked at mine last year. I told him I got screwed good. After nearly 18 years it was worth $131,000 and solid as the ice in Antartica. He had a special deal on Blue Cross/Blue Shield for insurance. I get a special deal from Doorinass Insurance Group of Chicago.
One not so funnie: (thanks Sean O)
About two years ago I got my first Prius. Red, not white. Anyway, my other neighbor had a new blue one that she used in commuting to work 50 miles a day. She was a computer communication specialist, developing ways computers talk. She came over when my red Prius showed up. She discussed gas mileage and manuverbility. I was concerned with safety and survivability. We smiled and waved to each other as we passed by day to day.
She was killed in a wreck two weeks ago. The Prius' wheels hit the curve at 630am and she went airborne, sheared the top of a oncoming Honda, killing my neighbor instantly, the Honda driver was in critical care....in one of my Hospitals. Now I step out and I see a red coffin every day. I calculated that the gas mileage savings pays for our fleet. It's hard to calculate my widowed neighbors loss. Two kids in college.