[nfbwatlk] The SLUT Broke My Cane!
Alco Canfield
amcanfield at comcast.net
Thu Dec 13 23:59:34 CST 2007
Well, Ben, if you got a dog and it tripped, you could write, "The slut
tripped my dog."
Alco
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Well, some of my colleagues suggested that I should get a dog. I'll save
the thoughts I have for that suggestions in this context for the party,
which I plan now to attend. It should be fun!
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> Oh, the notoriety.? Oh, the? shame.? Ben crossing a SLUT at 6:30 in the
> morning and gets his cane broken.? Now who would believe it was the tip
> that caught?? People will ?surely say that you are keeping low company for
> this to have happened, and on a public street!?? This is no excuse for
> missing the *Holiday Party*? Cane or no cane we expect you there.
>
> KB
>
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> From: Prows, Bennett (HHS/OCR) <Bennett.Prows at HHS.GOV>
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> I bet that got someone’s attention. ?The SLUT, which is actually the
> South
> Lake Union Street Car, rather than the more common name, South Lake Union
> Street
> Trolley, has just started to run in downtown
> Seattle
> . ?The tracks have been laid at street crossings in front of the Westin
> Hotel at
> 6
> th
> , Stewart,
> Westlake
> , etcd. ?I was crossing the street this morning, and caught the tip of my
> cane *
> just right
> * in the track at
> Westlake
> and sixth, in front of the Westin Hotel, and it snapped in half. ?Since
> this is
> a wide crossing, and cars run pretty quickly along the street, and since I
> didn’t know if/when the street car was going to come along, I
> didn’t
> stop very long in the middle of the street to try to find the lower half
> of the
> cane. ?Suffice to say, I’m walking at half staff today. ?
> ?
> Sure hope the lower half isn’t stick between the tracks, and
> doesn’t
> cause a derailment. ?I could see the headlines, “someone sabotaged
> the
> SLUt.” ?Believe me, I would have picked up the piece of cane if I
> could
> have found it quickly. ?It had a fairly new tip on it that I could have
> used.
> ?
> Oh, well, no one was around at 6:25 to run out and grab it either.
> ?
> /s/
> ?
> Bennett Prows
> ?
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