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Last night I dozed off while in the recliner. I had been watching TV and on the IPad. Evidently I must have dropped the iPad to the floor. When I woke up it was laying there but looked fine, it has one of those rubber gumdrop cases. But this morning after getting ready for work and having my ritual coffee while perusing the VRCC board, it wouldn't turn on. I was pissed at myself for breaking it. So today after a long day at work I get on the computer and watch you tubes of how to fix it. None of the solutions work and I'm about ready to give up and call it dead. My wife says "here let me see it". I figured it was toast and if my superior intellect couldn't fix it she didn't stand a chance. She takes it and bangs it on her knee hard a few times.  I'm thinking "what the hell are you doing ?" She hands it back to me and it's turned on ! I look at her dumbfounded and asked how she did that ? Her response was "I have a lot of experience at breaking expensive phones". Well, there is no denying that.  So, I guess the moral of the story is : don't underestimate the efficiency of a menopausal woman with an iPhone (or an iPad)  |
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« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2017, 05:42:18 PM » |
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Never ask a geek 'Why?',just nod your head and slowly back away...  IBA# 22107 VRCC# 7976 VRCCDS# 226 1998 Valkyrie Standard 2008 Gold Wing Taxation is theft. μολὼν λαβέ |
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John Schmidt
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« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2017, 06:53:28 PM » |
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My wife years ago sent me through the roof one time when the car wouldn't start for me. After a short break she announced she was going to make a quick run to the store 'cuz she didn't have something needed for supper. Without thinking I said "OK" and off she went, jumped in the car and took off. It suddenly dawned on me....."wait a minute, that car wouldn't start for me just 30 minutes ago." When she got home I asked if she had any trouble starting it...."nope, just wiggled the stick and hit the key." Her lifelong habit when starting a car is to absentmindedly wiggle the gear shift....automatic or stick, and apparently a holdover for back when 99% of the cars were sticks. I never told her during the rest of our 31 years together, but from that day on when I got in the car I first wiggled the gear shift.  There's another story about a guy that couldn't start his car. His wife came out and while observing him shared the fact that it won't start because the license plate was loose. He smiles sweetly and told her that nothing to do with the motor not starting but he tightened it down anyway just to appease her. Following that he got in the car for one more try and it started, whereupon his wife said "I told you so" and went in the house with her head held high.  |
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DDT (12)
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« Reply #3 on: December 20, 2017, 07:35:04 PM » |
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Way to go, Brenda!!!
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Don't just dream it... LIVE IT!
See ya down the road...
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« Reply #4 on: December 20, 2017, 08:54:13 PM » |
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I understand that didn't work on Hillary's phones.  |
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« Reply #5 on: December 20, 2017, 10:35:26 PM » |
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Over the years, my interstates will eventually lose a low beam headlight filament on one side or the other. But usually, I smartly whack the plexiglass housing over that lamp, and presto, it comes back on. Experience tells me when this starts happening, that bulb (low beam), is going to fail eventually. It's especially fun to ride onto your annual safety inspection, have the guy tell you a light is out, whack it good, and like magic, it's fixed. (until next time)(eventually whacking it doesn't work, and you have to stick in a new bulb)  |
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« Reply #6 on: December 21, 2017, 02:50:52 AM » |
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my superior intellect Here's where you went wrong.  |
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« Reply #7 on: December 21, 2017, 03:58:21 AM » |
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my superior intellect Here's where you went wrong. no doubt |
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« Reply #8 on: December 21, 2017, 04:33:08 AM » |
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My wife is a genius Finally! A Meathead post no one will argue with -Mike
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« Reply #9 on: December 21, 2017, 05:14:09 AM » |
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My wife is a genius Finally! A Meathead post no one will argue with -Mike |
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« Reply #10 on: December 21, 2017, 06:22:44 AM » |
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It works with airplanes, too....  |
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« Reply #11 on: December 21, 2017, 06:42:59 AM » |
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It works with airplanes, too....
I think the term we used was "malletized" -RP |
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« Reply #12 on: December 21, 2017, 07:17:48 AM » |
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When I worked as a Central Office Technician for AT&T, we sometimes had 'Gremlin' like troubles with the large Main Frames (16' tall 3' wide racks of relays)... On occasion, when an 'old timer' returned a completed repair the 'action taken' portion of a Trouble Ticket, would read "Kicked Frame, Trouble Cleared"...  Black Dog |
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Just when the highway straightened out for a mile And I was thinkin' I'd just cruise for a while A fork in the road brought a new episode Don't you know... Conform, go crazy, or ride a motorcycle...  |
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« Reply #13 on: December 21, 2017, 07:48:27 AM » |
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It works with airplanes, too....
I think the term we used was "malletized" -RP We're kinder and gentler now. We say 'massaged'..... |
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« Reply #14 on: December 21, 2017, 04:40:30 PM » |
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It works with airplanes, too....
I think the term we used was "malletized" -RP LOL -RP We're kinder and gentler now. We say 'massaged'..... |
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