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nsracing Samba Member
Joined: November 16, 2003 Posts: 9481 Location: NOVA
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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2023 8:16 am Post subject: Re: A true car guy dying of cancer - needs some help. |
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So let me get this - he wants extra money to finish his hobby before he croaks?
For petesakes - we got people who are not eating or have no home and roaming the streets. And this guy got the gall to milk everyone else w/ a go-fund-me?
I litterally watch a friend of mine die from cancer. He worked a business painting cars - owner. He told me -do not feel bad for me man. I wanted to work the cars and made me happy. -is what he said to me.
Why not sell the damn car and use the money for your family before he kicks the bucket?? Sell everything and give the cash to your family. Forget the damn car already and spend time w/ your wife and family instead.
I have worked and covered Oncology units - you will not see people crying there. They are brave as hell and at peace w/ what is coming for them.
If it is my time and I go - please delete my search history. |
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bigdog1962 Samba Member
Joined: August 11, 2010 Posts: 1586 Location: Augusta, Georgia
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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2023 4:43 am Post subject: Re: A true car guy dying of cancer - needs some help. |
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^Wow. Such an empathetic response.
If that's how he wants to end his time on this earth, so be it.
If people want to help him with it, so be it.
We should all remember that we shouldn't place our values on someone else. _________________ Oprn wrote: I'm getting to the age that any self propelled woman (no wheel chair or walker) looks HOT!! Oooo! look at that Babe! She made it from the dining room all the way to the TV room without help!! Hubba, hubba!! |
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outcaststudios Samba Member
Joined: February 09, 2015 Posts: 1732 Location: Maine
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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2023 6:32 am Post subject: Re: A true car guy dying of cancer - needs some help. |
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bigdog1962 wrote: |
We should all remember that we shouldn't place our values on someone else. |
if you believe that, then maybe just let other people have their opinions without trying to make yourself look good? _________________ '88Doka JX td
'69 westy
(rip)couple bugs
(rip)three type III"s
(rip) '81 vanagon
a bunch of french stuff,and 9 motorcycles.
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bigdog1962 Samba Member
Joined: August 11, 2010 Posts: 1586 Location: Augusta, Georgia
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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2023 10:02 am Post subject: Re: A true car guy dying of cancer - needs some help. |
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outcaststudios wrote: |
bigdog1962 wrote: |
We should all remember that we shouldn't place our values on someone else. |
if you believe that, then maybe just let other people have their opinions without trying to make yourself look good? |
It is an observation on human behavior that we all need to be reminded of, if you want to be part of a civilized society.
And yes, I believe that but it doesn't make me look "good." Don't take the one sentence out of context. _________________ Oprn wrote: I'm getting to the age that any self propelled woman (no wheel chair or walker) looks HOT!! Oooo! look at that Babe! She made it from the dining room all the way to the TV room without help!! Hubba, hubba!! |
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Busstom Samba Member
Joined: November 23, 2014 Posts: 3855 Location: San Jose, CA
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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2023 8:59 pm Post subject: Re: A true car guy dying of cancer - needs some help. |
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nsracing wrote: |
Oncology units - you will not see people crying there. They are brave as hell and at peace w/ what is coming for them. |
True that. BTDT, I'm a survivor myself, spent many hours in the infusion (chemo) unit and the radiation center as well, peeps there facing death like Marines in the trenches, whether it's coming sooner or later. Very humbling. _________________ My name's Steve and it's pronounced "Bust 'em" (cuz people think I'm Tom) 😏 |
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oprn Samba Member
Joined: November 13, 2016 Posts: 12744 Location: Western Canada
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Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2023 3:06 am Post subject: Re: A true car guy dying of cancer - needs some help. |
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Fact: No one yet has gotten out this life alive. Most of us, if we live long enough are going to need help. I have plans to downsize my material goods over the next 10 years so that my dreams don’t become a burden on others. Will I succeed in that? I don’t know, I could be hit by a Bus today… _________________ We had the stone age, the bronze age, the industrial age and now we are in the age of mass deception and mind control for corporate profit. (The mass media age) |
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nsracing Samba Member
Joined: November 16, 2003 Posts: 9481 Location: NOVA
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Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2023 10:58 am Post subject: Re: A true car guy dying of cancer - needs some help. |
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I am with you there -
But yesterday, I went to pick up a 120-gal Commercial Air compressor someone left out for dead. Hate it when they do that to a fine machinetool. I could not let her rot -
I suppose we have to live too - I just let people to their hearts' content. If what you is what makes you happy, then be at people and do.
Nobody gets out alive - what you do w/ your time here is on you. Some people want to be remembered and they do all sorts of things to remind others...be a statue or monument.
I planted several trees in my yard -just some wild maple saplings that grew by the fence and I moved them so they can grow. NOw they are some giants - Maybe my children or grand children will cut them down one day and use them to warm the house. That be my last gifts -
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jspbtown Samba Member
Joined: January 27, 2004 Posts: 5157
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Posted: Sat May 06, 2023 12:52 pm Post subject: Re: A true car guy dying of cancer - needs some help. |
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If I make it to the fall I plan on buying several hundred flower bulbs to plants in the yards of people I know. Not gonna tell them. Just gonna sneak over and pop them in. Hopefully they will smile when they pop up the next spring. |
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Abscate Samba Member
Joined: October 05, 2014 Posts: 22671 Location: NYC/Upstate/ROW
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Posted: Sat May 06, 2023 4:03 pm Post subject: Re: A true car guy dying of cancer - needs some help. |
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jspbtown wrote: |
If I make it to the fall I plan on buying several hundred flower bulbs to plants in the yards of people I know. Not gonna tell them. Just gonna sneak over and pop them in. Hopefully they will smile when they pop up the next spring. |
You made me smile today just thinking about it
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jspbtown Samba Member
Joined: January 27, 2004 Posts: 5157
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2023 5:57 pm Post subject: Re: A true car guy dying of cancer - needs some help. |
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LAGrunthaner Samba Member
Joined: March 18, 2007 Posts: 5509 Location: 1st Coast
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Posted: Mon May 08, 2023 1:58 am Post subject: Re: A true car guy dying of cancer - needs some help. |
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jspbtown, they will love seeing you through each pedal. I hope you are there to see the look on their faces.
jspbtown wrote: |
If I make it to the fall I plan on buying several hundred flower bulbs to plants in the yards of people I know. Not gonna tell them. Just gonna sneak over and pop them in. Hopefully they will smile when they pop up the next spring. |
_________________ American Red Cross Safe And Well:
https://www.redcross.org/about-us/news-and-events/...bsite.html
Maui Roadsters
www.mauiroadsters.com
http://www.oacdp.org
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Have you considered simply starting with a nicer bus? I don't know what your skills are, but the race is easier if you can see the finish line. If you are not a runner, don't start off doing a marathon. |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12861 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Mon May 08, 2023 6:27 am Post subject: Re: A true car guy dying of cancer - needs some help. |
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LAGrunthaner wrote: |
jspbtown, they will love seeing you through each pedal. |
He’s planting bulbs, not bicycles. _________________ 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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LAGrunthaner Samba Member
Joined: March 18, 2007 Posts: 5509 Location: 1st Coast
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Posted: Tue May 09, 2023 1:35 am Post subject: Re: A true car guy dying of cancer - needs some help. |
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Petal, smart ass!
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LAGrunthaner wrote: |
jspbtown, they will love seeing you through each pedal. |
He’s planting bulbs, not bicycles. |
_________________ American Red Cross Safe And Well:
https://www.redcross.org/about-us/news-and-events/...bsite.html
Maui Roadsters
www.mauiroadsters.com
http://www.oacdp.org
Lind wrote: |
Have you considered simply starting with a nicer bus? I don't know what your skills are, but the race is easier if you can see the finish line. If you are not a runner, don't start off doing a marathon. |
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Abscate Samba Member
Joined: October 05, 2014 Posts: 22671 Location: NYC/Upstate/ROW
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Posted: Tue May 09, 2023 4:04 am Post subject: Re: A true car guy dying of cancer - needs some help. |
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TDCTDI wrote: |
LAGrunthaner wrote: |
jspbtown, they will love seeing you through each pedal. |
He’s planting bulbs, not bicycles. |
Well struck!! _________________ .ssS! |
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Jon Schmid Samba Member
Joined: May 29, 2012 Posts: 2039 Location: Southern California
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Posted: Tue May 09, 2023 2:07 pm Post subject: Re: A true car guy dying of cancer - needs some help. |
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Abscate wrote: |
TDCTDI wrote: |
LAGrunthaner wrote: |
jspbtown, they will love seeing you through each pedal. |
He’s planting bulbs, not bicycles. |
Well struck!! |
At least he didn't say "each peddle." |
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cdennisg Samba Member
Joined: November 02, 2004 Posts: 20279 Location: Sandpoint, ID
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Posted: Thu May 11, 2023 10:05 pm Post subject: Re: A true car guy dying of cancer - needs some help. |
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nsracing wrote: |
I just let people to their hearts' content. If what you is what makes you happy, then be at people and do. |
_________________ nothing |
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