What's happening for you all today?

[Sophia]

2023 I got to know àn elderly gentleman who was 100 years old. The proof was in his driving licence!
Yep, he was still motoring along in life as if he had just retired. Nothing more than a walking stick.
He even had his driving licence renewed at 101 years of age this year.
He was a Merchant vessel Captain (also involved in WW2) who travelled the world.
I asked him what his secret to longevity was?
He answered "Marry a French woman" with a smile.
Sadly in April he just got tired, so to speak and for someone who has raised the bat for a century, he decided to pull up stumps and go to where his dreams took him.
It was a pleasure to have known him for 6 months

I love stories like that!
Funny you mention 100 plus year old… I just came back from my bi annual check with my RA specialist… had a bone density scan done too.
He said I’m at the early stages from osteoporosis but don’t need medication yet… then cheekily says… maybe at 85?
Then I said how lately I notice a lot of elderly about 100 or older… all still with it and how amazed I am of them…
Then we discussed it could be less stress or simpler lives…simpler food.

And funny I was thinking on drive home… what I would like on my headstone, or maybe a something smaller fit cremation….”It doesn’t matter what you do, or aquire in life, what matters is how you live your life”

Anyway… Friday the 13th today….
Got home… got a call from one of very few friends in my life (I only have about 5 close female friends) her son had a car accident today. The other car he had bought off his estranged dad… (a mechanic) and it was going terribly… he told his dad and the lad spent 2,000 and it came back worse… finds out his dad used a first year apprentice to fix it as it was cheaper.
This young lad and his partner just had a baby so finances are really low… he’s really down … we said to bring the car here so hubby (a mechanic) will put on hoist and go over the car.
Plus we have a fridge/freezer full of food we are giving him (all comes from hubby’s workplace)
Sad thing his mum tells me is that her son wants to be closer to his dad… and rips him off like this!
Makes me so cross!
So if ever anyone comes in your life path and needs a helping hand… reach out.
Don’t wait for them to ask… they may be so down and out with suicide in mind.

[Jasin]

You and your hubby are good people Sophia. What a wonderful story.
Alas, if the young man comes to reject and/or despise his father. It means he rejects/despises a part of himself.
He has two choices really, to accept his father's shortcomings and learn to live with that for better or worse.
Or find a replacement father figure role model be it God (which was invented for this very reason, for those who never knew their father, etc), a role model or older guys in general that will come into his life with good influence and direction. Even Bruce Batman Wayne had old Alfred.
Dante Allegeri created Virgil as his guide (father figure) through his canto Inferno (Hell) in the Divine Comedy.
But I'm sure, with you both. He'll do well. Just hope he doesn't turn out like his father or he'll rip you both off.

[Sophia]

I like that advice about accepting his father’s shortcomings… and that he does have a choice. I will tell him.
I’ve known his mum since before she was married. When her son came along even at 18 months he reached his arms out to me to pick him up and called me gwamma.

Her daughter says we are like godparents… and I do love those kids. They are 24 and 26 now… but will always be little kids to me… honestly… they are good kids.
Too shy to ask for help when the chips are down… this is an offer to help him…no problem and nothing to be ripped off about.
We will see the car tomorrow morning … I like nosing around mechanical stuff in garages so I will let you know.

I recall when we were a young couple looooong ago
And honestly… I thought I married a guy who had 2 middle names “bad luck”
Geez! He’s either injuring himself, or bingling a car, or just a pain!
So much shit used to happen that made me think the world was crap.
Then I saw my own kids go through struggles, bullying, break ups…
Life is tough for young ones… we need to be the caring supportive older wise ones… what I always wished for in my life… was wise elders… but never to be…
Had this conversation with daughter the other day… and she says I had become what I yearned for… she told me how she remembered things I told her as she was growing up how it actually helped and made her stronger.
One of the advice she recalls I said when she was a teen (I was so worried… school bullies, too much school homework, feeing rejected etc (I didn’t want her to feel suicidal) so I had said this simple thing… don’t worry if things seem all bad in a day or so… it eventually changes and fades away and the bad feelings will fade and the next day will be better. To not let that one bad day make decisions.
And that… saw her through many dark days that turned up, as we all know.
It seems when we have a bad day, we think it’s always bad… but it’s not.
So when I yearned wisdom… I was 15 when I started looking in the school library for wisdom… I found some books with quotes, expressions, and that started my love affair for books and collection for life.

[Sophia]

Huh it’s Friday the 13th today!
I was in Hungry Jacks getting a penny pincher burger for $2.50 (and it is a heck of a lot nicer that McDonald’s burgers… theirs taste like cardboard!)
And the traffic going by on busy Stud Road… I hear car horns blasting …
On way back from RA specialist the cars in front slow to a halt and I see in rear vision a white sedan with P plates skidding behind me going to the side to avoid hitting me… I was so nervous I edged closer to car in front …
We all get going but this white car behind me is never applying brakes and keeps coming too close to back of my car.
Eventually he turns off and I’m going whew!
And all before Xmas these things don’t help!
Im locking myself in the house until after NY !

[Sophia]

I just saw this on tic Tok… could this be true? Amazing
Happened on 12 Dec (yesterday or… today their time over there)

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS61DaGuU/

[Sophia]

Geez I was a chatterbox yesterday

[Sophia]

The prognosis for vehicle is… rhs front wheel needs new rotar as it’s worn down and locks wheel from turning freely which is why the vehicle shudders (its a4WD) and needs to go to a tyre place as they have the equipment. Hubby says it’s not RW pass.
At least the young lad knows the actual problem now.
Good that hubby put it on a hoist and checked it out thoroughly. The young lad asked what he owes to pay and we said nothing! Just your good will and do what Dr. mechanic says to do

[Sophia]

And something else about calliper …

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I just saw this on tic Tok… could this be true? Amazing
Happened on 12 Dec (yesterday or… today their time over there)

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS61DaGuU/

Sorry to be a spoiler

giza pyramids planets.gif

Disclaimer: I did not check either claim myself

[Sophia]

I just saw this on tic Tok… could this be true? Amazing
Happened on 12 Dec (yesterday or… today their time over there)

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS61DaGuU/

Sorry to be a spoiler
giza pyramids planets.gif

Disclaimer: I did not check either claim myself

Geez … why do people do this fake shit? I mean what’s in it for them? Thanks for sorting that out for me.
The fake photo looked good though…