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Must keep you pretty busy just delivering stuff to that Wile E. Coyote fellow, eh? He orders a lot of stuff from ACME Products- I seen it on the TV.

I passed a little store right out here on 29 the other day when I was going to Durham. Had an old Esso sign out front that caught my eye. I thought the place was closed but somebody reopened it, selling antiques and collectibles. So I rode out there today to see what they had and to take a picture of the Esso sign anyway...but I forgot the camera- don't tell randyp. They had tons of old signs in there, along with clocks, diecast models, some old soda boxes, couple of pinball machines, and more. Those American Pickers would love all the old signs. They even had a little Jeep out front that I was gonna let Jo ride in but I didn't have a quarter. I bought her an old rotary phone that she wanted for some reason, and I bought this '51 Ford F-6 RC Cola truck. Of course Winfall is in the opposite direction, but I went over there too. Saw a squirrel waiting to cross the road . Saw a girl climbing out of a hole. Then we stopped by the Winfall train station to look at trains for a while... .

I'm out of likes, so I used the new "best answer" feature that Green Dash invented- but you got that right. I'm sure he wasn't packing any heat, but they've got some shotguns there.

I don't know if she made it out to the paving co. or to the individual. But they know who the guy is because he used a West Virginia ID to cash the check. That's how they found out he'd been in trouble in W.V. for doing the same type scam. She said she told him not to cash it until the next day but he went straight to the bank, so she didn't have time to stop payment on it. What they don't know is whether the paving co. regularly screws people or whether these employees do this on their own. I looked the company up on the interweb and they had an office in Appomattox and in Lynchburg. She called the one in Appomattox and didn't get anywhere there- they offered to refund $1500 but wanted her to sign something saying that that would be the end of it. She didn't didn't go for that.

Batgirl meets Supergirl. Superman drops in...

oh...so it does, just noticed that.

A scam is a scam, no matter how big or small. They're still taking advantage of other people, and it just burns me up that those a-holes took advantage of my parents. One thing about it, they might get away with it now, but they'll have to answer for it some day.

Welcome Luis, I think you'll like it here. Great site, the members here are great too good too not too bad either.

wonder if this is a U model? I'm pretty sure this isn't.

yeah, that's about all I can do. I remember the first time I drove the mixer home, going down rt. 24 in Appomattox. The speedometer doesn't work, and my wife was following me in the car. It was loud, springs so stiff you could feel a bump if you ran over a dime in the road, and I was just flying. Thought I was doing 100+ anyway. When I got home I said "how fast was I going?" She said "about 50, except when you went down Rocky Run hill- then you got up to almost 55".

Hi Mack, I talked to Joe a couple of times on the phone this week. He'd been to Oklahoma City and was on the way back to get a boat to take to Georgia.

D'oh!!!

sure does look good in the picture, like a new one!

They have a Logitech security camera at work on top of a building that watches the whole area, except right behind the shop where it can't see. They can check it on the computers in the office, and on their phones. My older brother put a motion detector type camera on some property my parents have a few miles from where they live. You have to drive down a private road into the woods to get to it. It's just wooded with a couple of fields, and their hunting cabin. It was my grandfather's old homeplace. He set the camera up to get pictures of the bears they'd seen there, not for security reasons. Somebody stole the camera.

good answer, good answer! ...but is it the best answer, that is the question.

we give up...why?

She's already checked into it some, and apparently these people had already been run out of West Virginia for doing the same type of scam.

I've seen stories about scammers on the Lynchburg news several times, usually somebody offering to do some type of work real cheap, then they take your money for doing little or nothing- replacing shingles and paving driveways are two common ones. They have some material left over from the last job, you'd be doing them a favor if they could use the leftover asphalt to pave your driveway, just pay for the material used. They especially like to prey on the elderly. I talked to my Mom on the phone last night- i've heard her say maybe half a dozen cuss words my whole life, and I think she doubled the total last night. The driveway paving con artist lowlifes got her and Daddy for $6600. She was hot too, and mad at herself for falling for it. They live in Cumberland county, closer to Richmond than Lynchburg. The paving company was out of Appomattox,Va. They're both right around 80 years old, and it makes me so mad I could...well, never mind. My son stopped by when the crooks were there. When the sheriff came later he asked him why didn't he run them off. He said "because there was like 9 of them and only one of me". He's been driving a dump truck for a long time, and worked on paving many miles of highways around Richmond, so he knows a lot about the paving binness, and he said they used about $300 worth of material on the driveway. And they took Ma's check straight to the bank and cashed it, so she didn't have time to stop payment on it. She said the commonwealth's attorney in Cumberland said they didn't do anything illegal, but they lied to her from the start about what they were going to do and how much it would cost, so that's some kind of fraud, or doing business under false pretenses or something. And she said a young boy stopped there at first, and he was so nice and polite...i'd like to see his ass swinging off a bridge somewhere...by a rope attached to his neck.

you can, just come to Winfall and sit in the ditch until the bus comes along. You might want to bring a sammich with you.

Sorry Mike, a few weeks ago I stopped by Watts Mack on the way home from Pittsburgh. I went in and said "hi there, i'm Mike, and i'm here to collect my winnings". Watts Mack said "nice to meet you Mike, here you go!" Then they handed me a large bag of cash, some hats,T-shirts, tools, clocks, a new Rawhide with a big sleeper,505,18 spd, and a Watt's Mack pen. Nice stuff. When they said "by the way Mike, could we just take a quick look at your ID?" I said "thanks guys, gotta go, see-ya, bye!" and jumped in the red anteater and took off down rt. 22 at a high rate of speed.

I think these two were waiting for the bus.

reminds me of sitting in the chip line in Covington.

I used to have a snatch rope, used it for four wheeling, mud bogging. It was a big blue rope, and you could hook it to a stuck truck with lots of slack in it and take off ''hammer down'' to pull the stuck truck and it wouldn't break. I later made a tire swing for the kids out of it.

Kind of a slow week for pictures, but I did see a nice looking Chevrolet going down rt. 29. I'm thinking 1964? Saw an Autocar too. It hauls in the steel mill in Petersburg all the time. I saw the Liberty University sign on the mountain. Saw this equipment working across the river when I was waiting to get unloaded at Neville Island. This is how far away it was. Yard tractor at Triad Metals in Neville Island. Beams on the ground at Triad Metals. This guy pulled in beside me while I was waiting. Opened his passenger window and asked me where the shipping office was. I told him, and said "by the way, your fuel cap is off". He said "really?..hope I didn't lose too much fuel." Then he gets out and walks inside to the shipping office. Comes back after a few minutes, gets in the truck and pulls inside. Never did put the fuel cap on. Saw this nice looking Peterbilt there too. I hadn't even noticed until Jo asked me tonight why it didn't have a headache rack...good question! Saw a lot of snow when I left Pittsburgh yesterday too. Snowed pretty hard until I was almost out of West Virginia. And I saw the Winfall babe of the week on the way home today.