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jspbtown
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Joined: January 27, 2004
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 Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2019 8:30 am Post subject: Sometimes....when it rains, it pours |
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Big tax bill
Buy new car
Annual auto insurance bill due
Puppy swallows who knows what and needs surgery
Need some oral surgery that's only minimally covered by insurance
Now central air compressor seizes.......
Damn..... |
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Letterman7
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Joined: March 14, 2004
Posts: 3198
Location: Downingtown, PA
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| Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2019 8:38 am Post subject: Re: Sometimes....when it rains, it pours |
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| Yep. |
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Zundfolge1432 
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Joined: June 13, 2004
Posts: 12466
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| Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2019 8:43 am Post subject: Re: Sometimes....when it rains, it pours |
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Little pink houses for you and me, ain’t that America?
Or maybe 3rd verse to old country song, I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison 😀 |
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Letterman7
Samba Member
Joined: March 14, 2004
Posts: 3198
Location: Downingtown, PA
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| Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2019 8:47 am Post subject: Re: Sometimes....when it rains, it pours |
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| If you can, put the car as a business write-off as well as the compressor. Did that last year and was able to save large on the year end tax bill... |
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TDCTDI
Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013
Posts: 12846
Location: North Carolina
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| Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2019 9:00 am Post subject: Re: Sometimes....when it rains, it pours |
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Tornado damaged roof.
No rain for two weeks while waiting for insurance.
Strip off what's left of roof in 95* temps.
Forecast calls for heavy rains for next 7 days.
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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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jspbtown
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Joined: January 27, 2004
Posts: 5155
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| Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2019 9:04 am Post subject: Re: Sometimes....when it rains, it pours |
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No business to write anything off with. New car was just a toy.
I might be able to write off some of the AC upgrade under energy savings equipment.
Of course that doesn't help the old bank account now. |
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skills@eurocarsplus
Samba Peckerhead
Joined: January 01, 2007
Posts: 16853
Location: sticksville, ct.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2019 12:33 pm Post subject: Re: Sometimes....when it rains, it pours |
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| Zundfolge1432 wrote: |
| 3rd verse to old country song, I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison 😀 |
and you don't even call me by my name 
yep...biz insurance due, grundy policy due, 3 cars up for registration, and it was the year to renew the dealers and repairers license.
I have decided long ago I am just a conduit for money to pass thru
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my reason for switching to subaru is my german car was turning chinese so i said fuck it and went japanese....... |
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| Thanks for the correction. I used to be a nice guy, then I ruined it by exposing myself to the public. |
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| Also the fact that people are agreeing with Skills, it's a turn of events for samba history |
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cbeck
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Joined: January 14, 2014
Posts: 2495
Location: high ridge, mo
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| Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2019 12:57 pm Post subject: Re: Sometimes....when it rains, it pours |
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Wife was diagnosed with lung cancer earlier this year.everything else ie petty.
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My cut in half and rebuild thread
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skills@eurocarsplus
Samba Peckerhead
Joined: January 01, 2007
Posts: 16853
Location: sticksville, ct.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2019 1:22 pm Post subject: Re: Sometimes....when it rains, it pours |
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| cbeck wrote: |
| Wife was diagnosed with lung cancer earlier this year.everything else ie petty. |
so sorry 
and you are 100% right...nothing matters really. hope she pulls thru
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| gprudenciop wrote: |
my reason for switching to subaru is my german car was turning chinese so i said fuck it and went japanese....... |
| Jake Raby wrote: |
| Thanks for the correction. I used to be a nice guy, then I ruined it by exposing myself to the public. |
| Brian wrote: |
| Also the fact that people are agreeing with Skills, it's a turn of events for samba history |
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Zundfolge1432
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Joined: June 13, 2004
Posts: 12466
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| Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2019 2:25 pm Post subject: Re: Sometimes....when it rains, it pours |
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| cbeck wrote: |
| Wife was diagnosed with lung cancer earlier this year.everything else ie petty. |
Agreed, 3 deaths in our immediate family in less than a year. Life is short |
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oprn
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Joined: November 13, 2016
Posts: 12690
Location: Western Canada
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| Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2019 4:08 pm Post subject: Re: Sometimes....when it rains, it pours |
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| cbeck wrote: |
| Wife was diagnosed with lung cancer earlier this year.everything else ie petty. |
You stole my thunder! I was just thinking about the wife's cousin who just lost her husband to cancer 2 months ago. The week he died her son was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer too and is now in final palliative care as I type this.
A good buddy of mine had a brain tumor operated on 4 years ago, lost his wife to breast cancer just over a year ago, was called back for a re-occurrence and another brain surgery, Chemo and radiation treatments 4 months back. His 11 year old son had a major melt down over it all and landed in the psychiatric ward. He is trying to hold down a job, meet the bills and raise 2 teenage daughters and his son without thier mother through all this.
Some people just can't catch a break in life!
And yes my troubles look pretty small when I look around a bit... |
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jspbtown
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Joined: January 27, 2004
Posts: 5155
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| Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2019 6:58 pm Post subject: Re: Sometimes....when it rains, it pours |
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Thanks for the grounding guys.....
I think I will call my son. |
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oprn
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Joined: November 13, 2016
Posts: 12690
Location: Western Canada
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| Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2019 4:05 am Post subject: Re: Sometimes....when it rains, it pours |
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Thanks for not taking offence!
Not to minimize your present worries as they are real but sometimes the money end of our existence on this planet takes up more real estate in our minds than it should and crowds out the view of what we are blessed with.
Yes call your son, mine just came home for the weekend and I am going to enjoy him!! |
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cbeck
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Joined: January 14, 2014
Posts: 2495
Location: high ridge, mo
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| Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2019 6:43 am Post subject: Re: Sometimes....when it rains, it pours |
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Sorry, did not mean to rain on anybody's parade. Thanks for the kind words. Try to get this back where it was. I have seen the statements for what the insurance co is being billed, nobody is doing this out of the kindness in thier hearts. It didn't take long to hit max out of pocket. If given the opportunity to become pharmaceutical company ceo, jump on it.
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obus
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Joined: March 08, 2001
Posts: 11063
Location: just off Garden State Parkway Exit 81
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| Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2019 9:52 am Post subject: Re: Sometimes....when it rains, it pours |
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Life sucks. I have learned to take it day by day. My Wife has a rare neurological disease call Huntingtons disease and needs someone around at all times. My Mother in Law stays with us 3-4 days a week to help with her while i work. Yesterday while i was at work my MIL fell and broke her arm. Soonest i can get an aide here is Tuesday so looks like Monday and Tuesday i will be trying to make sales calls from home. You know how that goes...
The weird part is i was going to go to CA last week and merge that with a trip i had earned from work from 6/8-/6/12 in CA. i wanted to go early and do OCTO and some VW stuff before the work stuff week. Well i decided not to go when the work trip got cancelled. Can't imagine if i had been away when all this happened. There is a reason for everything i guess. Good Luck to all of you and your Friends.
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July 1959 Mango Standard Bus aka Obus L346 L347 https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=256592&highlight=
June 1973 Pumpkin Orange Thing aka Othing L30H
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=711775&highlight=
1960 Paprika Red Karmann Ghia Convertible aka Schatze L452 built 5/20/60
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=...highlight=
66 21 window bus built 8/31/65 https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=777273
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bigdog1962
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Joined: August 11, 2010
Posts: 1586
Location: Augusta, Georgia
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| Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2019 3:12 pm Post subject: Re: Sometimes....when it rains, it pours |
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When something goes wrong, people often say "It's always something."
Heck, I'm with you. It's never just one thing it's always two or three or more. 
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Dwayne1m
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Location: Pennsylvania
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| Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2019 7:38 am Post subject: Re: Sometimes....when it rains, it pours |
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| Personally, I feel that we fill our lives with to much "stuff" and when the bad and unexpected things come we get overwhelmed. I'm almost 57 and I'm learning to purge things from my life to make it easier and less stressful. Focus on the important things like family and friends. |
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iamdonquixote
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Joined: January 28, 2003
Posts: 2041
Location: M*ssholia
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| Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 8:02 am Post subject: Re: Sometimes....when it rains, it pours |
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| Dwayne1m wrote: |
| Personally, I feel that we fill our lives with to much "stuff" and when the bad and unexpected things come we get overwhelmed. I'm almost 57 and I'm learning to purge things from my life to make it easier and less stressful. Focus on the important things like family and friends. |
^^^
wise words |
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jspbtown
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Joined: January 27, 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 8:42 am Post subject: Re: Sometimes....when it rains, it pours |
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| So.....as my quotes come in they are going down.....so...lesson learned....some things are more important than others and sometimes you need to just step back. |
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iowegian
Samba Curmudgeon
Joined: February 16, 2005
Posts: 9829
Location: Somewhere between Dubuque and Keokuk
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| Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 10:51 am Post subject: Re: Sometimes....when it rains, it pours |
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| Every day's a holiday. |
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