My buddy
I don't think he's gonna make it thru this winter, He's 16 yrs old.
I'm doing all I can for him but I think this is the year I find him
dead out in the pastures somewhere.
I'm doing all I can for him but I think this is the year I find him
dead out in the pastures somewhere.
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My buddy is hanging it up at the end of this year. I've worked alongside the man for 12 years, enjoyed every one of them. He works hard, is quite funny, is a kind soul, and I've so enjoyed knowing him. And it all comes to an end in late June.
Sure, life goes on and all that. I've got another 10 years before I can hang it up. Those last 10, I am certain, won't be near as fun as the previous 12.0 -
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When I am on the computer, my buddy Dudley often sits next to me and rests his head on my knee and watches me. My screen saver has fish swimming in it. For some reason he found it interesting and watched it for quite awhile....... 0 -
....recently informed me of his motto.
"Don't shoot the messenger."
I paused for a moment, puzzling over this.
Then I remembered he works for FedEx. [:D]0 -
is from Lithuania. Hes almost 30 years old. He lived through communism up until 1991 when the soviet union fell. He told me, he visited america in 1989, and he told me his favorite thing here in america to do, was to go into grocery stores with his other buddies from lithuania, and take pictures with all the different brands of our food. Coffee, Bananas, Grapes.... Et cetera. He said in Lithuania, only one kind of coffee, and it was bad. But he also said, there was almost zero drug problem, almost zero crime in the streets. But anyways he came here in 1991 and he loves america to death. Now another story he told me, he went back to lithuania, to visit his girlfriend, whos there getting her masters degree, anyways, he and his buddies were sitting around drinking, and they started talking about the old days of communism, so they said hey! lets hop in the car, and drive to Belarus! So they do, he said going there is like stepping back in time 20-30 years. He said they went to this huge bar, parked right in front of a DO NOT PARK sign, cop came over, he gave him 5 bucks, the cop was so grateful he escorted them around town all night! Then after he left that cop, he said they were driving home doing about 120, they get pulled over, gave the cop 10 bucks, he tried to give them back change!!! So i guess communist police can be bought off pretty easily. Silly Commies.
Edit: He also said communism wasnt what i thgouht it was, i always pictured a communist state as Armed Troops on every corner, people being harassed daily, he said there was none of that. He said there was Nuclear sites, with guards and stuff, but they werent on every corner or anything. Wierd.0 -
Stick around a few years. [:o)] 0 -
quote:Originally posted by SuburbanNoize
He also said communism wasnt what i thgouht it was, i always pictured a communist state as Armed Troops on every corner,
He was never in East Berlin. Because there were armed soldiers on almost every street corner. And Jeeps with mounted machine guns driving down the otherwise empty streets. And they did surround me and strip the film from my camera for taking a picture of a guard in the guard tower on the wall. I discovered later that I was lucky with that incident. They shot two Canadian girls the week before, for no reason at all. They were just walking down the sidewalk. They did that occasionally, just to remind people who was in power. People would not look you in the eye. They looked at their feet when they walked. The windows in apartments were curtained. The city was ominously silent. The shops were mostly empty. I was forced through Checkpoint Charlie, so I spent most of a day in East Berlin. Spookiest day of my life.
I took that guard's picture from the west side of the wall when I got back to West Berlin. Stupid thing to do. He could have shot me. They did that too, sometimes.0 -
Your friend was not even born until 1977 so he missed the decades of hard communusim, but mother was from Poland and my father was from Yugoslavia and they escaped to America from that hell behind the Iron Curtain. The drug and crime probelms back in the Soviet days did not exist because the police simply threw anyone suspected of drug use or criminal behavior into prison...Along with anyone else they felt like! There is also damn little crime in Islamic republics, but this is because most people don't want to have their hands cut off or endure a decade of torture in prison. The Baltic States where your friend was from were the most liberal and progressive of the Soviet republics. 0 -
There may be a few soldiers marching around town but everyone else is part of one of the secret police. It's not the ones you see but the ones you don't see. 0
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