George,

 > the lights flash, the siren goes off, and the speaker shouts with the
 > sign "DIDN'T WASH HANDS!!". 

 GP> That may be coming; I'd like to see a crotch-height fisdt ram out into
 GP> guys who delibertey pee o the floor st the urinals (I can't get shoes
 GP> that fit, so I'm in sock feet when I'm out -- not fun to stand in a
 GP> puddle of pee & then know the bacteria/etc are breeding betwixt my toes
 GP> until I get home & can wash them. . . :(

  No kidding. There are country folks that say "you haven't lived until
you've walked barefoot through a cow pasture". Uh, no thanks. :P

 GP> I saw a guy, once, standing two feet back, aimming straight down,
 GP> creating quite the bounce-up on the floor; I felt like wheeling up
 GP> behind him & using my size 13 to ram him into the urinal!

  There should've been a sign:

  "WE AIM TO PLEASE -- YOU AIM, TOO....PLEASE." 

 GP> Seesm a few guys standig way back & arcing it into the urinal (seems
 GP> they have no conxcept of what happens as you finish your stream & where
 GP> that'll go)

  With incontinence, I don't have the luxury of a fly anymore...so everything
"drops". Years ago, I had put a pair of long underwear on BACKWARDS, and did
NOT realize it...and I thought "Crap!! They've sewn the fly shut". :P

 GP> One lady at the grocery store's single roomn cusatomer bathroom
 GP> obviously squatted o the seat & xcovered it in yellow liquid, as I'd
 GP> waited long enough she did use the facilitiers & couldn't say she took
 GP> one look at what someone ELSE did, & left without sitting.  Middle
 GP> aged, so "old enough to know better," I'd say. . .

  No one has any concern for their fellow man or woman anymore.

 GP> At my work when it was in person, downtown, in a heritage buildig, they
 GP> had the one accessible washroom on the first floor.  I waited a long
 GP> time, to see a young dissheveled couple come out, apologize sheepishly;
 GP> I did my "smells like something crawled up & DIED" routine, & exited,
 GP> only to see them headed for it again, giggling; I didn't wait to see
 GP> their non-romantic reaction to following my performance., but I
 GP> pictured it & guffawed, inside all day. . .

  Wow.

 >   To me, doing that, is overkill.

  It is. I think of ventriloquist Jeff Dunham's dummy, Walter, who wondered
"Why are these folks wearing a mask but not covering their face?? It's like
wearing a jock strap down on your knees. :P

 GP> Some yowns sday you must & uit's an obvius cash grab only, not a health
 GP> concern. People who are wearting a mask in their car, I presume are
 GP> just saving time by keeping iton for their next indoor destination,
 GP> &/or preventing germs landing on car surfaces of a car that aged 70+
 GP> Grandpa also uses.

  Hard to say...but when I was growing up, kids ate dirt, made mud pies, 
etc., and built up resistance to all the germs. Nowadays, everything is 
over-sanitized, so the kids have no chance to build up resistance or
immunity to these diseases.

  I did get both COVID-19 shots, looking at it like any other innoculation.
If you get the disease (notice how NO SHOT is "100% effective"??), it'd be
a milder case than you would've gotten otherwise. In the last year, I've
had shots for flu, tentanus, shingles, B-12, Low-T, and now COVID-19. 

 GP> You're one of the rare few who actually reads up & understands what's
 GP> going on -- most especially rare in your country, sadly. . .

  I have a 4 volume "Medical Encyclopedia" (my late wife would've loved
reading that). I was looking in the section of appendicitis, and it said
"If the appendix bursts, that can lead to peritonitis"...and added "This
is a very serious condition". In reading that, I thought "What was your
first clue??!!".

 GP> The fax they are listening to me & so eager to poke me scares my wife &
 GP> me somewhat, but. . .eventially not having it will close employment
 GP> doors to me, so might as well conform, I guess. . .

  The same applies to the "Real ID" with the drivers license (at least here
in the US). Eventually, without the Real ID, you can't enter a federal
building, or fly...and it may apply also to having had the COVID-19 shot.

 GP> Of all our delivery apps, Uber has the biggest selection; they must
 GP> give the better deal to the restaurants.

  I got Uber eats from Wendy's last week...as I had a coupon to use. 

 GP> Since discovering a fave food court restaurant(Bourbon Street Grill) is
 GP> on Uber, my fam & I been ordering it regularly. For $15 each, it's
 GP> enough food for 2-3 meals, mostly meat!

  Not bad. I went to a local restaurant that offered this huge plate of
spaghetti and meatballs...made like my late mother used to do. My brother
gets 3 meals out of it...and he said "If you eat that whole thing, I'll
give you $10". So, after munching on some garlic cheese sticks, and some
vegetable beef soup, I ate everything there, plus a slice of lemon icebox
pie...and washed it all down with sweet tea. He had stepped outside for a
smoke, but some of his other friends were there, and said "I was at the
table the whole time, and did eat everything" (he thought I had thrown
some of it out). So, he gave me $10, which I promptly gave to the waitress.
He then said "I'll give you $5 if you'll order and eat the meatball
marinara sandwich"...to which I said "Forget the $5, I want $100". 

 GP> Thge one that gets me ois how fruit & milk(& others) farmers
 GP> deliberately destroy(bulldozing it under) at least 20% of their crops
 GP> just to keep prices higher. . .Grrr. . .

  Now, they're saying there's a shortage on fuel truck drivers to get the
gasoline from the refineries to terminals to gas stations. Well, you also
apparently have to have a CDL, and HazMat certification, before you can
drive those tanker trucks.

 >  >   If you smoke during sex, you're doing it too fast. 

 GP> I love the Dunham Bunch! Especially Walter & Achmed!

  Did you see the recent one where Jeff changed the 4 Wi-Fi passwords,
and Peanut didn't have a clue??!! It was Jeff's version of the classic
"Who's On First?" routine. And, in the original routine, there was no
name for who was in right field (no, who is on first! )...so I named
him "When". So, with the Baseball Dice door from Sunrise Doors, I renamed
all the players in there to characters from the skit. 


 GP> Not sure I'll ever visit LR, AK, as I heard it's against the law to
 GP> mispronounce the state name there (I like to say ar-Kansas too much)

  First, AK is Alaska...AL is Alabama, AZ is Arizona, and AR is Arkansas.
You wouldn't believe how many get those confused. Second, residents are
known as Arkansans, not Arkansawyans.  However, I'm a native Floridian,
myself. At one time, some called it SASNAKRA (Arkansas spelled backwards),
because they said "NO GAMBLING"...but you could bet on the horses at Hot
Springs, and the greyhounds at West Memphis (a double standard).

  I am in the process of putting the BBS into the cloud. I've been doing
ISP roulette, and dealing with weather issues. Hopefully by late next
week, the BBS will be back up...but with a different address (I'll
advise of it once everything's in place).

  Today is the BBS's 29th birthday...in looking through the bulletins,
especially on the one thanking users for contributions, etc., your name
is in there. :)

Daryl

... Support bacteria. It's the only culture some people have.
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