On Saturday, November 7, 2020 at 10:17:25 PM UTC-6, wrote:
On Sat, 07 Nov 2020 19:46:03 -0500, John wrote:

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On Saturday, November 7, 2020 at 4:39:54 PM UTC-5, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 11/7/20 4:33 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 7 Nov 2020 11:23:39 -0500, Keyser Söze
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On 11/7/20 10:33 AM, wrote:
On Sat, 7 Nov 2020 07:02:08 -0500, Keyser Söze
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On 11/7/20 12:08 AM, wrote:
On Fri, 6 Nov 2020 17:19:24 -0500, Keyser Söze
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On 11/6/20 12:33 PM, Justan O. wrote:
On 11/6/20 11:08 AM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 11/6/20 10:12 AM, Justan O. wrote:
On 11/6/20 9:37 AM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 11/5/20 8:19 PM, True North wrote:
On Thursday, 5 November 2020 at 19:51:38 UTC-4, Tim wrote:
On Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 7:08:45 AM UTC-6, True North wrote:
Must be home in the basement blubbering into his European beers.
Actually Don, he's had cataract surgery and a follow up., so far...
I probably should too, but so far I'm doinng ok



You're way too young for that, Tim.
My mother was close to 90 when she had her operation. She paid the
$200.00 extra for the soft lenses. The older hard type were no
charge...as was the operation.


I had mine done about five years ago, one eye at a time, about six
months apart. My union's insurance paid for most of it, but I had
about a $250 out of pocket each time. Each time, had it done one
day, came back the next for the eye doc to check out the job. Doc
was playing Mozart in the operating room.



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Mine cost me about 5g.

That's what the charge would have been for my Lasik decades ago. But I
ended up not having an out of pocket, since my insurance paid 80% and
as I was the second member of the family to be treated by the same
doc, I got a 20% discount. So I ended up getting the surgery for zero
out of pocket. Sweet, eh?

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Apparently I wasn't treated as a charity case.

Sure you were...the Navy took you in in spite of your mental deficiencies.

Given the fact that the army wouldn't even take you when you offered
yourself up to them, (according to your story) what does that say
about you.?


The army never had a chance to "take me" when I was of draft age because
like most young men of my age back then, I wasn't drafted.

What was your lottery number?


That's really funny. Why would I remember? Being in the military might
have been an important part of your life and the lives of others here
who might have been drafted, but I wasn't drafted and I didn't enlist to
avoid being drafted. Therefore, there was nothing about a lottery number
I would remember 50 years later. I do remember my street address where I
lived for a couple of years back then, but that number was important to
me for various reasons.

You would certainly remember if it was high or low.

Sorry, I don't. All I remember is that each time I moved when I was
draft eligible, I sent a certified letter to my local draft board. Never
got a response. I have a vague and probably incorrect memory that I was
beyond draft age in 1970, but I don't recall when the draft actually ended.

Harry remembers every school teacher's name he came in contact with, his high school's rank in the state, the people he knew at other high schools, the particulars of every person he encountered in his career as a newsboy, the grade he made on his 8th grade English test, ad nauseum.

But one of the most important numbers in his life escapes him now.

Um, yeah.

LOL! That's our Harry!
Just some gee whiz info
https://www.historynet.com/whats-your-number.htm

I would have been over 200 but by then I was 13 months from being
discharged from a 6 year enlistment.

There was a local kid who inlisted and served a tourthen was duly discharged. 4 months later he got a draft notice. LOL