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Deposit Slip Swatting
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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I remembered this the other day, a conversation about banks and deposit slips, and I remembered how when I was young a friend of mine and I would pop over to the local bank and while making our own withdrawals or deposits would fill in the back of the deposit slips with notes like "This is a stickup. This is not a joke. Put the money into a bag..." or some such, return the deposit slips to the unused pile, and laugh and joke and imagine what would happen if somehow one suddenly slipped past, a customer didn't check the back of a slip...
...and one day it did happen, our bank, surrounded, they determined it to be a "hoax" but we got wise, stopped doing it, it was a lot less funny when there was a chance someone might get hurt...
Surfer: Teen Confronts Fear
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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Apparently the next big thing, a movie apparently even better - or worse - than "The Room". I didn't know there was a competition, this is not the kind of stuff you can "plan", it just happens, I'll have to go with my son...
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El Dorado
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Thrift Shops
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After a year in the Valley, perusing the same-old-same-old thrift shops, finally, Calgary.
It's an El Dorado. Unbelievable. I feel like a Somalian Child brought to the biggest all-you-can eat buffet ever.
There's nothing I need, and so all this looking, it's a bit for Batshit, he needs some housewarming supplies, but I fall into the same old habits of looking at everything - and there's a lot to look at, antiques, collectibles, housewares, jewelry, clothes, furniture, and seriously at a fraction of what you'd pay in Nelson. The one big drawback Nelson has is there are no reasonably priced thrift shops - Share excepted (reasonable priced, but seldom any bargains...). Calgary, well, it's got it all.
Some finds I left behind:
An antique oak table converted into a coffee table. Cool.
Antique flapper doll...Kewpie?
More on the antique creepy doll theme, I hate leaving a creepy doll behind but these are silent auction and there's no telling how high the bidding will go. And I won't have time to come back and pick them up (and stick them in my locker, jeez!!!)
Uncrazy
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Saw with the Daughter. We lasted an hour, googled the ending, meh. I thought we were going to see "Hereditary", which looks good, but I was confused by the recent publicity "Uncrazy" had gotten, "IPhone 7...bleah bleah bleah" for "Scary as shit horror". My bad. The ending, as it turned out, was entirely predictable (as per Google) and so our time was better spent at the Sushi Bar.
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