-=> ED KOON wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 EK> On Dec 16, 2002 10:53pm, WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to ED KOON:

 EK>> I never thought about that, Probably why he declined the position :)

 WC> Actually I always was above board and paid and filed my taxes.
 WC> The few times I worked under the table it was either
 WC> fixing something for disabled people who were on fixed income
 WC> or fixing electronics for friends for about 20 cents on the
 WC> dollar what a shop would charge.
 WC> Never once worked "under the table" for as much as a day.

 EK> Were you wearing your "Captain America" Costume when
posting this? :)

You find this so hard to believe?
Well let me tell you when I was growing up my disabled
grandfather, diabetic and blind moved in with us and 
I used to read his quarterly reports to him and enjoyed
that. I also used to play cribbage with him and _that's_
when I was wearing my "Captain America Costume", 
as if there's any game in the world I dislike more I've
not yet found it. 
Grampa Joe however positively lit
up when I played with him so I made a go of it, that
and following the stock market were the only thing keeping
him going after his wife died of cancer.
You should have seen the size of those cards and cribbage 
board, such things are available to the legally blind
as were "talking books", on 16 1/3 speed LPS back then.

I liked Joe a great deal and he liked me as well
though I was just a kid.

Joe also suffered terribly at the hands of my father who like 
you enjoyed being nasty to the disabled and this despite the fact 
he inherited some 600 - 700 thousand dollars in real estate and 
stocks from Joe when he passed. I was 12 or 13 when Joe died from
peretonitus.
BTW my sentance above was a bit unclear, the friends I charged
20 percent of value for electronics repair but for the disabled
were it electrical, electronic or plumbing I charged only
my costs of materials and thus was out of pocket for my time
and gas. Now don't get me wrong I wasn't out and about
helping the disabled every day just as something came up 
making me aware of a person in need.
I belonged to no group or organization for helping the disabled.
This was done after work at my regular job.
I've done precisely one such job since I became disabled
and that was running an extention phone line into the bedroom
of a man who lost both legs to diabetes and that was back in 1996,
I charged him 8 dollars the cost of a new jack and the
wire at Home Depot. 
Now pardon me I've something more pressing to do, I have
to edit my Linux Slackware 3.5 in /dev/hda2 /etc/fstab file to 
mount the /dev/hda3 swap file it shares with Slackware 8.1 
residing in /dev/hda4
Shutdown -r now - with extreme prejudice.
PS may the fdisk -d /dev/hda1 be with you because you fsuck. 
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