Archive for December, 2008
1. You find yourself beginning to like accordion music.
2. You're sitting on a park bench and a Boy Scout comes up and helps you cross your legs.
3. Lawn care has become a big highlight of your life.
4. You tune into the easy listening station…on purpose.
5. You discover that your measurements are now small, medium and large…In that order.
6. You light the candles on your birthday cake and a group of campers form a circle and start singing Cumbaya..
7. You keep repeating yourself.
8. You start video taping daytime game shows.
9. At the airport, they ask to check your bags…and you're not carrying any luggage.
10. You wonder why you waited so long to take up macramé.
11. Your Insurance Company has started sending you their free calendar…a month at a time.
12. At cafeterias, you complain that the gelatin is too tough.
13. Your new easy chair has more options than your car.
14. When you do the "Hokey Pokey" you put your left hip out…and it stays out.
15. One of the throw pillows on your bed is a hot water bottle.
16. Conversations with people your own age often turn into "dueling ailments."
17. You keep repeating yourself.
18. It takes a couple of tries to get over a speed bump.
19. You discover the words, "whippersnapper," "scalawag" and "by-cracky" creeping into your vocabulary.
20. You're on a TV game show and you decide to risk it all and go for the rocker.
21. You begin every other sentence with, "Nowadays…"
22. You run out of breath walking DOWN a flight of stairs.
23. You look both ways before crossing a room.
24. Your social security number only has three digits.
25. You keep repeating yourself.
26. You come to the conclusion that your worst enemy is gravity.
27. You go to a Garden Party and you're mainly interested in the garden.
28. You find your mouth making promises your body can't keep.
29. The waiter asks how you'd like your steak…and you say "pureed."
30. At parties you attend, "regularity" is considered the topic of choice.
31. You start beating everyone else at trivia games.
32. You frequently find yourself telling people what a loaf of bread USED to cost.
33. Your back goes out more than you do.
34. You keep repeating yourself.
35. Cafeteria food starts tasting GOOD.
36. You refer to your $2500 stereo system as "The Hi-Fi."
37. You make it a point to attend all the RV shows that come to town.
38. You realize that a stamp today costs more than a picture show did when you were growing up.
39. Your childhood toys are now in a museum.
40. Many of your co-workers were born the same year that you got your last promotion.
41. The clothes you've put away until they come back in style…come back in style.
42. All of your favorite movies are now revised in color.
43. The car that you bought brand new becomes an antique.
44. You keep repeating yourself.
45. You find this list tasteless and insensitive.
You been spying on me?
Very true!
Funny!
All credit cards, RV and car loan are in my name along with the house. Both salaries are idenitical.
The house will be approximately 50% of my income before taxes. I plan on keeping the house.
My car is paid off.
If you include the RV payment and credit card payments, that will exceed my monthly income. If you include 50% of the payments, then I only have $300 left to live off of per month.
When I do the means test, my monthly income exceeds Chapter 7 limitations. Will I still get to keep the house? How will all of this work?
If you can work with your soon to be ex wife you might come out pretty good, otherwise it’s generally 50/50 split, regardless of who’s name it’s in. Unless it’s in another name other than yours or ex wife
The most popular are:
Cruiseamerica
El Monte RV
Moturis
Just add .com to any of these for more info.
I live in Illinois and was wondering how much rv insurance is. Can't I get it just for the summer?
Fairly expensive, and yes, you can pay for 6 months then cancel, or better yet, get a storage clause set up, so that there is some protection while it sits.
Good luck.
My mom is permantly disabled but never qualified for social security, she lives off my dad social security. they live in an rv as they have little to no income. My dad has a bank account (my mom is not on it) can my moms creditors seize his bank account (1 student loan and various credit cards etc..)
No, creditors should not seize the account. Although when you marry someone you assume their debt, you mom is not on the acocunt. These laws vary from state to state though. The account that your father uses would contain your Dad's social security income which is considered public assistance (governmant money) it is illegal to touch that money. If this becomes a problem then your family may have ground for a lawsuit. If you are interested in protecting your family's financial and legal identity, I have some thing that may help assist with any legal questions or situations in the future. Please go to my website @ www.prepaidlegal.com/hub/kvmclish to see a presentation or call 1-800-394-6919 listen and let me know what you think. I would love your feed back! Please e-mail me back @ k_mclish@yahoo.com and I will be glad to answer any questions you may have. At that point, if you are open to it, we may exchange numbers. Hope this helps!!!
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We are seeking RV/Camper rental in the Pahrump NV. or Death Valley CA area. We are not seeking a RV motorhome that you drive. Also a small cabin would work. We would like this unit in a fixed location where we would not have to move it. I have looked on the net and have not found anything.
Thank you
Pastor Dennis
Pastor Dennis,
Las Vegas has more options for RV / Camper rentals. Walker Rv would be my first choice. . Enjoy your outting . . .
Just when you think you have seen it "all"….
2005 Stella Awards!
Time once again to review the winners of the Annual "Stella Awards." The Stella Awards are named after 81 year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonald's (in NM). That case inspired the Stella Awards for the most frivolous, ridiculous, successful lawsuits in the United State s
Here are this year's winners:
5th Place (tie):
Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas, was awarded $80,000. by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The owners of the store were understandably surprised at the verdict, considering the misbehaving little toddler was Ms. Robertson's son.
5th Place (tie):
19-year-old Carl Truman of Los Angeles won $74,000 and medical
expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Mr. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps.
5th Place (tie):
Terrence Dickson of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was leaving a house he had just finished robbing by way of the garage. He was not able to get the garage door to go up since the automatic door opener was
malfunctioning. He couldn't re-enter the house because the door
connecting the house and garage locked when he pulled it shut. The family was on vacation, and Mr. Dickson found himself locked in the garage for eight days. He subsisted on a case of Pepsi he found, and a large bag of dry dog food. He sued the homeowner's insurance claiming the situation caused him undue mental anguish. The jury agreed, to the tune of $500,000. In my opinion this is so outrageous that it should have been 2nd Place!
4th Place:
Jerry Williams of Little Rock, Arkansas, was awarded $14,500. and medical expenses after being bitten on the buttocks by his next door neighbor's beagle. The beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. The award was less than sought because the jury felt the dog might have been just a little provoked at the time by Mr. Williams who had climbed over the fence into the yard and was shooting it repeatedly with a pellet gun.
3rd Place:
A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, $113,500. after she slipped on a soft drink and broke her coccyx (tailbone). The beverage was on the floor because Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument.
2ndPlace:
Kara Walton of Claymont, Delaware, successfully sued the owner of a night club in a neighboring city when she fell from the bathroom window to the floor and knocked out her two front teeth. This occurred while Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the window in the ladies room to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge . She was awarded $12,000 and dental expenses
1st Place:
This year's runaway winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Mrs. Grazinski purchased a brand new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, (from an OU football game), having driven onto the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go into the back & make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the RV left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising her in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually do this. The jury awarded her $1,750,000. plus a new motor home. The company actually changed their manuals on the basis of this suit, just in case there were any other complete idiots around.
That's hilarious….idiots…..thanks!
I am 17 years old and, after I graduate college, I would like to start my own business. Since I was little, I have had a passion for touring coaches and RVs. I was thinking that, in the future, I would like to start my own RV dealership and, after that, my own touring coach company. But I have a few questions. For the RV dealership: Since I would be selling many expensive RVs, would I buy then sell or would I sell based on a commission (getting a percentage of the profit)? I know there is a large RV dealership a few hours from my house, called the Hitch House, that sells only high end motor homes, between $75-$700, 000. Would they sell based on commission or buy-and-sell? The Touring Coach: How do touring coach companies start? Do they have to take out a loan first to buy the coaches?
These are the types of coaches and RVs I want to be working with:
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the best thing you can do is work as a salesperson for an existing dealership. this will give you the opportunity to get an inside look at the industry and answer all of those questions youre asking.
http://www.canada-rv-rentals.com/rv_rentals.asp
Do the top two RVs look nice which one would you pick I have a family of one adult and one 19 year old and one 15 year old and one 13 year old. And a dog golden retriever. And if you have any other sites that would be great to (for canada, B.C) Thank you.
Get the 24' one because they are far easier to drive and lots of places do not allow anything over 24ft. You won't miss the extra feet at all. Heck we have a truck camper and have had six people and a dog sleep in it.
I bought a nice new car 2 months ago. Then, on the 1st night, i parked it in my usual spot, and a neighbor who drives this big-a$$ed RV (camper van) scratched the front bumper whilst he was manoeuvring his RV around to park next to my car.
I didn’t see him do it, but I know it was him, because when i left for work the next morning, i saw the scratch on my car, he was parked next to me, and sure enough, on the rear corner of his RV, there was a scrape, embedded with paint the same color as my car.
I confronted him about it, but he denied any involvement and said that his RV had been scraped 3 times in the past year and on those occasions,nobody left their insurance details. He said the same thing must have happened to his RV again! He said that as we live on such a congested street, we have to accept the risk of knocks and scrapes.
A$$hole!!!
So as it’s only a light scratch i let it slide, buy a scratch repair kit and fix the blemish on my car.
Then 2 days ago….i go out to my car, and there is a BIG scrape down the side of my car, the fender is buckled, bumper all scraped up, and door dented and scratched. There is a white plastic residue in the scrape (same as there was with the 1st scratch), so i immediately go and look at the guys RV.
Sure enough, on the corner of it…a nice big scrape in the Hard White Plastic Corner protector, embedded witgh my car’s paint again! Now i can tell he’s done the best he can to clean it up, but you can still see it!
I confront him again…he denies it!
What can i do? ….the police can only help if there was a witness, otherwise it’s all just circumstantial, nothing they can do.
So i have to claim the damage on my own insurance and lose my zero claims discount….aaargh!
The guy can’t keep getting away with being a ba$tard of a careless driver and damaging other vehicles.
What do you think i should do???
(I live in the UK by the way…and no, the police won’t attend incidents involving vehicles here, unless somebody was injured!….and i have kept a photo record of both scrapes to my car and his RV)
I don't want to get in a tit-for-tat battle damaging each others vehicles, Besides, if i was to smash his lights/windows etc, i could be seen doing it, as the parking area is overlooked by houses… and could get into trouble myself.
OK….parking elsewhere is not an option, there is nowhere else to park, unless its on a nearby street where the residents will be pi$$ed off with me parking there because parking is tight all round here…i've applied to the local council for a garage to keep my car in..none available in my area at this time!
I guess i just need some subtle revenge tactics.!
Ideas anyone???
wish i knew it happened to me, neighbour got his reg, i phoned the police, and nothing came of it