This Tacoma Costco employee and customer hazard clearly demonstrate that the brain dead are not able to read and understand the fine print, nor do they understand the laws of physics. My recommendation to the manufacturer is to print the safety warning using much larger letters.
Lakewood
Westside Story – Closed Barber Hair Down To Knees
Our governor has taken many drastic actions in his effort to fight the spread of Covid-19, including closing our barbershops. That executive action has had what can only be termed an unintended consequence for me. My barber typically provides me with a private haircut in my home. With social distancing, even I have been missing […]
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I ran for city council a few months ago. I planned to run for ONE TERM and restore citizen representation instead of endorsing career politics. The filing fee was $144. And if I were willing to bother people at home I would have won. Without knocking on a single door or making a call, I […]
Across the Fence: The Ice Saints
Remember last week’s article about making hay while the sun shines and not counting chickens before they’re hatched? And that these adages come from farming – very obviously so? Every once in a while, in a DIY store, I come across the Farmers’ Almanac of the current year, and I wonder whether anybody really uses […]
Boyle’s Double Take – A Knife Connection
Many may have concluded that as Susanne Bacon and I have crossed paths at The Suburban Times, she has become a personal friend of mine. Susanne is an accomplished bilingual author. Additionally, spending even a small amount of time with Susanne leads one to quickly ascertain she is an affable individual. Susanne is from Germany, […]
Bacon’s Double Take – A Knife Connection
When Joe emailed me the below photos the other day, I was stumped. Not only didn’t I get his hint about how that connected us, nor did I have a story about a knife. I thought. The first stayed true, and his story might or might not reveal it. The second is wrong. I have […]
Westside Story – Is Joe Boyle, Racist or Not?
Recently my three-part series titled Westside Story – 8 Themes published in The Suburban Times, evoked a thought-provoking response from one of my faithful readers who is also a very dear friend of mine. If you missed the series, click my LINKS below: LINK: Westside Story – 8 Themes Part ILINK: Westside Story – 8 […]
Letter: Tillicum meeting cancelled; Bill’s Boathouse remains closed
The monthly meeting of the Tillicum/Woodbrook Community that had been scheduled for Thursday, May 7, has been cancelled by board decision. We hope to return to our regular first-Thursday-of-the-month meetings soon. Bill’s Boathouse on American Lake meanwhile will remain closed, even though fishing reopened across the state beginning May 5. Our family, which has owned […]
Westside Story – 8 Themes Part III
If you missed Westside Story – 8 Themes Part I or Westside Story – 8 Themes Part II, please click my LINKS for a second chance to catch up. THEME #7 – MORAL COMPASS At this point, with $200 cash stuffed into my bulging wallet, I faced an interesting dilemma. A total stranger, a Black […]