bersaguy

Added my new avatar for 2015.............................. :up: :up:

Ok, Most folks here know about my conditions from back when I got smashed by that truck. Since then I have been able to function almost normally until 1990 when they implanted that mesh inside me and even then I was still able to walk relatively pain free. It has only been in the past 8 or so years that walking and standng has become more and more an issue. I have gone to  doctors in the sports medicine programs and they have all said the same thing. They said over time as I aged the 4 vertebra's that are fused together in my back from that truck are what is causing the pain in my pelvic area. I can walk about 25 feet before the pain and burning begins in my pelvic area and gets worst with each step.   The strange thing I did notice after I began paying attention to times I could walk really well with no pain was a very simple thing. If I was hurting by the time I entered a store and was able to get my hands on a cart with in a few minutes the pain was gone and I could walk around that store for an hour or more pain free. That was when I began testing new ideas. I began not using the handicap spaces but would park as close as possible to one of the cart slots. I would get out of my jeep and and grab an empty cart and push it to the store with no pain and shop with no pain.   On rainy days I would use an umbrella of rain coat and still used the cart. Once I discovered this I seldom if every use a HC space. I figure there are many real handicap people these days with all of our vets coming home wounded that need them. My situation may change in the future but for now it's me and a cart. I did ask the doctor about this and he told me that it was the positioning of my arms on the cart that most likely took just enough pressure off my back to make it work.   I was out just before Christmas with my daughter and we stopped at Krogers and guess who I saw. He was not on his motorcycle but in a unmarked and yep, he was handing out Christmas presents to unsuspecting illegal parking in HC folks. He spend about 4 hours at Kroger and then goes up to Walmart and begins again. Gotta love a dedicated Police Officer................... :up: 

I know exactly were your coming about dolo. I am legally handicapped and they offered me a placard and I requested a permanent license for my Jeep Cherokee and handed the the doctors letter and got my license plate. With that said I have the same issue as you do when it comes to parking at Krogers 99 times out of 100, all the HC spaces are full. One day when my legs were no bothering me to much I actually walked through every space and looked to see if the vehicle had an HC plaque or an HC license plate on the vehicle of the 30 HC places Kroger has to vehicles has plates and all the rest had plaques hanging from mirror or just laying on the dash.   I have several friends that have the plaques because they will carry their elderly parent or handicap member of family with them. I found one parked in a handicap space and watched as she approached her vehicle and she was by herself. The handicap person in her family was not with her. I asked her why she parked in that space when her mother was not with her? She began babbling some excuses and got in her car and left. Her husband called me that evening about my concern and I told him. Needless to say it was not a close friendship and it is no friendship now. It ended with him telling me to mind my own business.   I thought I was considering I am legally handicapped and his wife is not. I waited till I got my chance and I saw him park in a handicapped space in his truck and put a plaque on his mirror and made my move. I called Gallatin P.D. and they sent out a motorcycle officer to see me. I told him why I called him and he said I understand your concern and we will see if he is legal. About 15 minutes later I was out of sight when he came out. The officer approached him and ask him for his ID DL. He then ask him if he was handicapped and he said no, but his mother in law is. The officer ask him if she was still in the store and he said no, she was not with him. The fine signs in Kroger Parking lots are $250.00. I sat and watched him sign his big fat ticket. I know he was looking to see if I was watching. I was not in my Jeep but I was there.   I then went in along with the officer to speak with the kroger Manager as the officer told the manager that they had been receiving a few complaints so for the next few days he would be patrolling their lot and probably writing some tickets and the Manager thanked him because he knew there was issues and he wanted to do something about it.   The use of the plaques by relatives that are not handicapped with out that person in the vehicle is an automatic ticket if caught. I got a chance to speak with that officer about a month later and he said he wrote 67 tickets in 5 days for the same violations and was making plans for another 5 days soon.  I am not having as much trouble locating a handicap parking place there any more.   Yea, I'm the guy your friends warned you about............................... :rofl: :rofl:

  It just gives the Anti-Gun people more ammunition to use about the rationality of some gun owners and how ignorant they can be...........jmho

I had a couple buddies go see it here in Nashville and their rating of the movie on a scale of 1-10 they gave it a 2. They said maybe if the Koreans had seen the movie before throwing the fit they probably would not have bothered having an issue with it....... :ugh: :ugh:

I don't think Buds has as many problems as the guy throwing the fit in the Video. If I were Buds and he called me up raising that kind of hell I would be more than glad to offer him a full refund of all he spent and once Buds received the gun back I would send him the full refund and then refuse to sell him another. It sounds like the guy does not really need to have a gun in his possession with a temper and fit throwing like that.............jmho

My grade. Not bad for and old fart like me I guess!!!!        You got 13 out of 15: You're a grammar genius! You've definitely got our respect! 13 out of 15 is a really, really impressive score. Your grammar skills are so good, you're probably the person that picks your friends up on their mistakes, right? We'll happily admit that this test was pretty hard and we're pretty sure that your friends can't do better – why not test them and find out?

Believe me NE, the last thing the black communities want to hear is statistics showing how many blacks kill other blacks. When the proof is in the pudding and statistics are published it only proves that many black people are the more racist because they will kill their own and very little to nothing is addressed to fix it but let one white man or officer shoot a black person and all HELL breaks loose!!! So in all reality who is the most racist? How many times have you see Al the REV Sharpton or the REV Jesse Jackson or many other so called black leaders protesting a Black on Black Killing? Like I said before. THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING and the pudding is the black community leaders. Lets take a look at Chicago just a second since Chicago has the largest Black on Black murders of any big city. Our President was a Community Organizer in Chicago and went from there to the U.S. Senate and from there to the White House in 2.7 years. If he is trying to organize our great nation in the same way he did in Chicago it is no wonder our country is in shambles. One long look at Chicago and it is evident he failed both the communities of Chicago and his rating in the White House are not any better........................jmvho!!!

Well I agree with you 1000% but is it the fault of the young people or the fault of their  teachers and parents for allowing this type of talk in their educations both in school and at home?

  To the best of my knowledge the next Carrier to come out is the USS Ford to be completed in 2016 and will have 4000 person crew which is about 800 less them most other carriers because of new higher technology being implemented.

I spent time on the Ranger 3 different times while serving in Nam. It is and was a great ship. Sorry to see it go. As to the steel and expenses. Since I don't really trust anyone that can purchase one of our Naval vessels and only pay a penny for it, Makes me wonder if China is not providing the funds necessary to do the tow and already bought the steel................jmho   Thank you very much for your service buck......... :usa:

Sorry for your families loss, Prayers are sent for you all............... :( :(

If I could like this one a 1000 times I would.................................... :up: :up: :up:

A life is a life. Whether taken by a LEO doing his job or one criminal killing another or and innocent person.  I do agree that for many years the Black race was discriminated against. I will also add that Martin Luther King succeeded in bringing that point up better than any other and he was successful in getting the policies put in play to stop the unfairness towards Blacks. After being able to get those great things done for his people in turn a very limited amount of them took advantage of their new found freedoms. If anything they felt they were entitled to even more freebees by the Government. I would like to meet one Black person that has ever been a true Slave. The only thing young Blacks base their actions on are what they are told by men and women that also were never Slaves. I have Black friends that work hard everyday and ask for nothing for free. They never join in protests but they do have many negative views about those that do and as one said the other day as we were talking. He said,  "All they are doing is hurting people like me and my family with their actions." I felt bad for him because he is a good friend. I also have little to no respect for the white people that are also see in these protests. They are only helping to throw fuel on an already bad situation but I also know this is America and they do have that right! .................................jmho

Why Us Older Men Don't Get Hired Job Interview: Human Resources Manager:  What is your greatest weakness? Old Man:   Honesty Human Resource Manager: I don't really think  honesty is a weakness. Old man: " I don't really give a $hit what you think!!" Interview ended at that point!!  

Yes, they were both delicious and as far as the spit mentioned above I could see every move the manager made right up to his writing the note so no spit involved. As far as losing the sleep, my learning I have diabetes type 2 disqualified me from eating there again anyway so didn't lose any sleep over it as much as finding out about the DBT2 did....................... :ugh:

Good minds think a like. I just made a new post about this................... :up:

He brought me Peace and Quiet cause that was all I wanted..................... :rofl:

I honestly feel that every life matters with few exceptions. My question is if they really believed this, why have they not been marching and doing major protests in the City of Chicago were blacks are killing other blacks by the hundreds every year for as far back as I can remember? Do Black lives only count when a white man takes one in the line of duty as an officer of the law? .........................jmho

  ." who would hire from a place known to pass people for no work done??  Answer: The NFL and pays them millions upon millions of dollars and about 80% of them live on the street after they are to old to play because in most cases they are not smart enough to handle money and put back funds for their future...................JMHO

I don't think American Airlines had to respond after what they did. It was evident the man disapproved of the airlines policy so he should have gotten off the airplane and found another company to do business with. Evidently that was how all the other passengers felt also with their applauds when he departed the plane.................jmho   "Merry Christmas one and ALL"

Of course Santa Claus is real!!!!!!   News channel 5 is tracking him right now on radar and keeping folks updated on his journey. If the News can track him on Radar and the post office delivers him millions of letters each year how can anyone argue with that.........I hung my stocking up yesterday..................... :up: :up:  Merry Christmas and please remember to  "Keep Christ in Christmas for he is the reason for this season.......... :up:

Yep, that was great for sure................... :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

It seems that not to many years back a few Black Colleges were running ads telling the young black men and women to attend that college because a mind was a terrible thing to waste. From what I have seen in the last several months they must not have been convincing enough. I have not see very many of them proving they have much of any education so far. There are very few leaders but a whole lot of followers. I guess Obama has rubbed off on to many of them. He is one of the best I've seen at leading from behind like most all I seen on these protests. I'm guessing only about 10% at best could probably tell you what they are protesting for but just following everyone else..........................jmho

Ok, here was an experience I had at local  Arby's about a month ago. I had been watching that commercial about them having the beef steak sandwiches on sale and what I saw on the TV commercial made my mouth water to many times so I went to the local Arby's to get a couple of them. I never ever use drive ups anywhere. I went inside and ordered two sandwiches and Curly Fries. When the clerk handed me my bag I stood right there at the counter and opened up both sandwiches. Each one had two slices of beef you could read a newspaper through on them. I spoke with the clerk about them not looking like they show on television commercials. She told me that they are required to weigh each portion of beef before putting it on the sandwich.   I told her I would like to speak with the manager. He showed up in less than a minute and I explained to him what my complaint was. He began to tell me the same store as the clerk and I stopped him. I told him I brought this to his attention in a normal tone of voice but I could get louder and be much more abrupt if he wanted me to. I said I want a sandwich like they promise in their commercials with all their bragging about they have the beef. I asked him which way he wanted this to go. He took my bag to the back and he personally made me new sandwiches and up sized my Curly Fries to a large. Upon returning he handed me my food in a bag and I didn't even bother to look at it. I thanked him and left. When I got home there was a note in my bag requesting that I find another place to eat in the future.     Now with that said the two sandwiches both had about 4 inches of thick tender beef on each one and looked like what they show on TV. I have no plans of returning to Arby's since my type 2 diabetes was discovered I can no longer eat there but I did get my point across and did consider that a very small victory. Had I not got what I asked for i would not have pulled my gun. I would have just simply requested a refund and went elsewhere.................................... :cool: :cool: