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Beautiful country. Beautiful country, And it was, beautiful people. Yeah, it, But, uh, and I'd real, really like to go because, um, I'm fairly recently married we had a great time. and, and my husband has been hearing about these people for years and, uh, but he's never met them, so, uh, I'd like, I'd like to do that....
I think we've been on three cruises. Oh, I've never, been on a cruise. And we, we really love cruises. We've gone on CARNIVAL CRUISE LINES. Uh-huh. And, uh, we've gone fairly inexpensive from, as most cruises go. Uh, we usually book just a month before it's ready to go. Yeah. And we get upgraded. Last last two times, i...
They always have bingo. They have a casino. Uh, they have a massage parlor. They have exercise, I mean, you can do anything. Huh. And that's just aboard ship. And then when the ship docks, you get to go sight-seeing and shopping. Uh-huh. And that's quite fun. Uh-huh. And where have you been on these cruises? Uh, Nassau...
That's all Mexico, I think. Yes, uh-huh. And, but it was wonderful. So we really like those. And, uh, I guess we just like to go someplace, someplace entirely different. We've been to a few places in this country. We still have a lot to see, though. Where are you from originally? We're from Illinois originally. Uh-huh....
I don't know. It's just entirely different world than this Well, I, I grew up in Dallas, so I mean, it's not, it's not like I'm going home. Did you? My, my parents retired first to San Diego, Uh-huh. and they're going now to Florida, and so they're going very nice places, thank God, Uh-huh. that will be a pleasure to v...
and, um, and I've never thought about a cruise. It's so funny. Oh, they, they, they really are. We've, yeah, as I said, we've done them three times. We'd be going again this, this year if circumstances hadn't changed. We, we'd probably go. Uh-huh. My husband would, you know, the minute I said the word, he, he, he's cho...
So I'm kind of looking forward to that, except I hate to see them go. Oh, sure. But, Sure. Well, go in, don't go in the winter. Oh, that's what everybody says, and I, I think it's, I think I'll try to stay away, except my, my second grandchild will be born in in the winter in January. Oh. So that will be hard to stay a...
Uh, you, if you sit at a table with a lot of people for your meals, you meet different people. Uh-huh. You may meet people, you know, thirty years older than you, or younger, and everybody is really interesting, and everybody is there to have a good time and, Huh. How long are the cruises? Uh, we've only gone on the se...
I, go for a long time. Yeah. Well, that, that makes sense, it really does. I mean, oh, we went to Panama too. Oh, that's interesting. Went to Panama last August. Uh-huh. Our son-in-law is from Panama. Oh. And, uh, we went with our daughter and son-in-law to visit his parents, who live there. Uh-huh. And his father is a...
They have mountains. We were an hour away from the mountains or an hour away from the shore. That's really nice. And it, it is gorgeous. They live in a small town called David, which is northern Panama up near Costa Rica. Uh-huh. And, uh, it's, it's just, it's just a gorgeous country. Most people don't realize it. I th...
and of course, Oh, do you like L A? Uh, I'm, I'm, I'm very unusual. I like, You ready? Yeah. Okay. What have you seen lately? Well, uh, it's funny, when I tried, to make the call the other days, I thought, I hadn't seen anything since DANCES WITH WOLVES but today I went to see REGARDING WITH HENRY. Oh, I'm dying to see...
We had both moms and, uh, fifteen year olds and a twelve year old and everyone enjoyed it. Oh, my goodness. And, uh, Oh, well I am just dying to see it. I went to dinner with some friends last weekend and they said get a baby-sitter and we'll all go see REGARDING HENRY Yeah. and I said, ooh, I want to see it so bad. We...
and that may be, no, right before I went in the hospital my girlfriend said come on, we're going to the movies. And we won't, well she goes all the time but I go maybe once every couple of months. Yeah. And when I go, I go see two at a time. So we went to see SOAPDISH, and Oh, was that good? Cause, Oh, hysterical. We l...
But, that's what I was that's the other one that we went to that night. Oh, was it? And, my face hurt so bad, from laughing because I love Billy Crystal. Oh And course, growing up on, on the back of a horse, you know, and being on ranches and stuff, so much of that was so true and I was absolutely rolling in the aisles...
How neat. And, I don't know who was here or whether Jay called a friend and we didn't think we'd have much chance of getting in but we thought we'd try it, you know, free movie. Shoot, yeah. It was so funny and it sounds like, uh, what you were just describing, SOAPDISH, too. I mean, we just, we hurt by the time we cam...
Yeah. I, I imagine the way SOAPDISH was, but, with everyone laughing. Oh gosh I never laughed. And people were just screaming and applauding and, you know, it was just hysterical. Well, I'm glad you did that before your surgery Oh, me too, because I don't even know if I could live through it now. Yeah I mean I'm gett...
Yeah. And then they called me to see if I wanted to work a day. And I said, yeah, and I went and of course it took me the whole weekend to recover from that. And, uh, I worked about three days a week ever since, two to three days a week. And so I went to my doctors last Thursday, and this was my fourth week checkup and...
You've only got two more weeks. I said okay fine, I, I will, I will Whatever you call easy, I'll do it, you know. But and I've been out trying to find a job because this is just not cutting it. Yeah. Yeah And so, I don't, I'm real glad that we didn't go see those funny ones when I was, when I'm still sort of on the sor...
Uh, and that's what he would have liked to have seen REGARDING HENRY, too, but knew that, uh, we've, we've got a lot of company this summer, which is wonderful. We're really enjoying it but some of the different things we're doing, uh there's just not a time, enough time to do it all Uh-huh. and he said, well, realist...
Yeah, me too. And yeah, Supreme. I really, uh, like him a lot. Which is why, DANCES WITH WOLVES was the last movie we had seen for several months Uh-huh. but, Gosh, was that wonderful. It was, I, uh, in fact, uh, a friend from Germany was visiting in March and we wanted, we didn't, ran out of time, we wanted to take...
I wouldn't think. Well, my kids are going to their Dad's tomorrow night so I sort of think I may go do that. Yeah. That's at, that one won't your sides Good Um, it, was this the first time you got to see ONE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIANS? Or, I my parents took me when I was probably somewhere between Ashley and Jamie's ag...
but I don't actually play golf. Well, I'm the same way. I, I go out there and hit the ball. Yeah. Hack it all over the place? Yeah. It's sickening, isn't it? Um, uh, well, in the Carolinas it's, it's just, you know, we've got a bunch of golf courses around here. Yeah. We've got tons up here but I don't know. How do yo...
but, um, I like watching it on T V. Yeah, I like that too. I don't know I try to play, but God, I, a couple years ago I played two, three times a week and got lousy. I guess that's the best I ever got was lousy. And I thought I was really improving and the big break was going to come and then I got worse again so. get ...
Um, I'm that and worse. I, I play next year I, actually I take it kind of seriously but I've been doing so bad. Next year, I always say this every year, but next year I'm starting over from scratch. I'm going to go take lessons and everything. I'm going to do it right, and see if I can actually play this game or not. W...
Just walking around the hollow and making sure there's not really, you know, checking the ground and, and so forth, you know. Yeah. See how it's going to break or whatever. Can you really see it though? Yeah. What about the speed? If you get, if you get down on the ground you really can. Can you tell but can you tell h...
They make you die at the hole every time. Yeah. Oh, it just dies and rolls in. I don't know, But I, it's hard for me. The, the, it's, it's like I said once I get up on the green I'm fine, but that, that tee shot, uh, it, you know, when teeing off I'll go probably a hundred feet across the ground so it, it takes me awhi...
oh, the T V golfers they do that. It takes them two to get there and two to get it in so it's fifty percent. And me it takes me five to get there and five to get it in. Well, it, it, it usually takes me about probably two, two or three to get it there and, and then, that's according to the hole and it uh, uh, maybe one...
For eighteen. Wow, that's pretty good. Yeah. I'm talking to the wrong guy. Your shitty golf is probably the best golf I've ever seen. No, no, no, that's not my golf. That's my friends. Mine, mine, I'm, I'm usually in the eighties or nineties so I'm, I'm not good If, when I'm in the nineties I'm feeling good. I'm usuall...
or I hook it ever single time and, and I alternate. Well, it's a good thing with me I slice it every single time. That's good. I aim, Okay. Okay. Universal health insurance, right? That's right. What would we like to say I think, Uh-huh. I think that's what the subject is about. Did you read, uh, the article in the pap...
I think it's a trend that's, that's, that's, uh, probably may go nationwide eventually because I think national health is something that we all need. It's getting to a point that you have to have it, you have to have some form of health insurance. Well, it's been interesting that we, Extremely expensive, though. Yes. S...
yes. But I have been in a situation, uh, recently where I was laid off from a position as a sales manager of a company and was off work for about a year and my wife developed cancer. We didn't have any insurance. Oh, my goodness. And it was a go to Parkland type situation. That's must have been hard How was your care a...
I'm real sorry. That's all right. Sure. *listen; is this a question? That happens. It does happen, but it's very sad. Yeah, but in any event, uh, I'm in favor of national health. If I had to vote for it. Well so am I. Actually, uh, I'm a pediatrician Oh, is that right? and I feel very strongly about, uh, children, and,...
and my mom worked for the health department, the county health department and we had x-rays every year, we had a dentist come to our school and, uh, check our teeth once a year at least. Uh, we had all our flu shots taken care of, our measles, mumps, rubella and all that other stuff. Um. And, uh, when my children were ...
and it's pretty overwhelming to me. Uh-huh. But, uh, it's pretty hard to be indigent and to be dependent upon indigent health care systems in Dallas county. Okay, so now what are your opinions on recycling? Well, I definitely think that we need to start recycling. I think it has got to be an individual responsibility u...
and that is very inconvenient cause I have to wait until I have enough of them to make the trip worthwhile. Well see, I started saving newspapers and I would take a ton of them Uh-huh. and, uh, that's, I can't remember where I went to take them, but they wouldn't take them. Yeah. It is real hard to find a spot and then...
that's how it is in New York isn't it. Yeah. I think so, just because they have to. You know, Uh-huh. And you get ticketed if you don't do it right. Right, uh-huh. And I think it is going to come to that because some people will just not go to the, it's, It's trouble for me to do what I do Yeah. I mean, I am willing to...
I think there needs to be more places and also I have a real strong opinion. In Iowa, the state I am from uh, I believe it has gone up to a dollar now. Uh-huh. Every time you buy a container, no matter what it is, whether it is glass, whether it's a beer can or a fifth of whiskey or a pop or whatever, you pay ten cents...
Uh-huh. and it even shows the states that, That take them back. Yeah. Well, some of them are five, some are ten cents. I am looking at it right now. Is Texas one of them? Texas is not one of them see. So, I have to throw them away cause there is no place to take glass. Yeah. No, I don't think that there is enough being...
Yeah. And I know there is a lot of computer paper that you can't use. Right. Right. But, uh, we use to have, uh, I mean, I don't even remember how much money that they've, uh, I mean, the money that they've made from the recycling program. They have donated it to charities. Right. I mean they have made a substantial am...
But, Well I know, you see some of the stuff and then when they come out with the new things, you are like, well why didn't you think of that before. Yeah. Yeah. And I think that it's just people have got to be aware. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people that just don't care and they don't want to think about it. Ye...
That's another thing that, see there were no, Then, that's pollution. I know Amway. I use a couple of things from Amway that it says this is burnable material. Well, that doesn't do me any good because I don't have any place to burn it. Yeah, I know. I guess you run into the pollution factor. Yeah. And then just like t...
Well, uh, I myself am not in favor of drug testing in the work place except in, in specific, uh, very specific in this, uh, very specific examples such as, uh, transportation workers, as in, uh, air traffic controllers, bus drivers and that kind of thing. Well. Um, I don't really think that it's, uh, too many, I think ...
Yeah. But, uh, I, I just, I find it to be pretty offensive that, that it's such a, a big deal. I mean, if your employer's not going to trust you or, you know, it, I just, I think it's a whole trust issue. I just can't see it. But, have you ever been in a situation where you, you were drug tested or, Uh, yeah, I have be...
I had it during a job interview, and I just thought it was dumb of the company, at a point where they were trying to convince me to, to want to work for them to do this, Right. and I'm just like, well, uh, I'm not even going to think much about it if you're going to treat me with this much respect even before you've go...
but when it enters into what they're doing when they're not at work, I find that to be fairly offensive also. Yeah, well like you say, I mean, if it's not a critical kind of job where someone could get hurt, then really what people ought to be doing, I mean, the, the employer ought to be judging you on how well you do ...
I think it should be illegal for them to, to want to do that. It should, it's kind of the big brother syndrome, I mean, I just, anything like that just kind of scares me. I tend to, to view it, even though I don't think I'd work for a company that did that, I sort of want to defend an employer's rights as opposed to an...
do you use a computer? And, No, I work with them all day, I'm in computer science, yet I I do everything on paper Oh. Uh-huh. Uh, I don't even use a calculator for the stuff I'm doing because it's all pretty round numbers. Yeah, mine is really simple, because I got all our bills paid off when, uh, he was a Marine, he w...
that, I don't really have this major budget or anything. I just really, I'm real thrifty. I take care of, you know, two children and me and uh, just real careful with the money, you know. What little we have Uh-huh. so, that's what I do. Yes, it's pretty straightforward. It's I can't imagine having to go into real comp...
Actually, I mean, I like using credit cards for everything, but just paying off the bills because that way it's a record of everything Uh-huh. and I don't have to worry about keeping records of anything else because they come in at the end of the month. I don't have too many, I don't have too many weaknesses, but I fou...
I have my own little cleaning business type thing, so, uh, I keep, Do you find trouble keeping the records for taxes and all that or, No, it's not hard, I just keep it in a notebook and write down what I've made and, uh, you know, what it's going to have to go for that month and you know, it's not that, not that hard. ...
Yeah. I mean, it seems absurd that people will pay, you know, some bucks just to get someone to, Yeah, and a lot of them. it's dumb I guess if you had some really complicated stuff, but I don't, so, I don't mess with it. Yeah. But, I don't use a calculator either, you know I, I don't trust myself with using a calculato...
and I always call in and, like, once every other week or so and I will, uh, check off what checks have cleared and, Yeah. Do you do that? We have the same thing. You do too? Yeah. And I always check them off and, you know, check my balance and my book and, you know, because I always want to know exactly what I have, yo...
and, uh, So are they currently practicing capital punishment in your state? Yes, we do practice capital punishment, but the nature of the, uh, courts and the appeals and the stays and all that means that it's a very long haul before anybody's ever executed. Yes, that's similar to Georgia. Yeah. And then, I was reading ...
Quicker maybe, yeah. Yeah, if, if the person who's going to commit the crime knew that they were going to be punished severely, possibly capital punishment, Uh-huh. What, what kind of work do you do? Uh, I'm a research engineer, I work, uh, with Georgia Tech. Um, well, see, I'm a school principal. Um. Elementary schoo...
Um, that's probably true, but I guess there's other factors that, Oh, yeah. But, pumping more money into the school system is a good thing, Well I'm not talking about just in the school system. but it's not going to, Oh, I see. See, I'm talking about, like, in, in, uh, I'm afraid I think that there are kids who just ou...
And, you know, you just see those kids going down the road. Now, not all of them will commit offenses that have to do with capital punishment, but some of them have already been in youth centers. And that kind of thing, Um. and if we had something to do before they get to be full-blown adult criminals, and I'm not talk...
I don't, I don't know that there is an easy solution, but if you could find a way to prevent some of it, and I'm not sure what it would be. It would be money better spent than, Uh-huh. do you know it costs more to keep an inmate on death row than it does to send a kid to Harvard? That's true. I'm sure it is, yeah. Stat...
What kind of crimes would you use it for? Uh, premeditated murder. Crimes of that nature, I think should definitely, Uh-huh. any mass murderer type individual. I, I would consider it for sexual abuse of children, on going. You know, not one instance, but perpetual abusers of children. Um. Uh-huh. Well, you always have ...
and this is supposed to be a very well-known center here in Tyler who had two or three, um, centers, all over, you know, the, um, city Uh-huh. and they would, um, be one way when the parents were there and be another way when the parents left. Yeah. So, um, I think you need to make, you know, if you do, do day care ce...
But they didn't have enough teachers and, Well, this one was set up good. I mean they had two teachers to every room. Um, sometimes three. Uh-huh. And they had a good system like so when you walked in, everything looks cool. Uh-huh. The problem I had was that they did not show affection to the children enough. They did...
Did, did they separate them by age group? Yes. Because I'd think, you know, I think that's one thing that was important. Right. They did, they had like, um, the, the crawlers, the babies that didn't walk in one room. The ones that were starting to walk in one room. Uh-huh. Then they had like the, um, three, three year ...
But their, but their system was, was great but, um, the, you know, the caring just wasn't there. Uh-huh. The one woman that taught that did the babies. I worked with her and she was fabulous. Uh-huh. She loved them babies, and she loved them and cared for them. But, um, every one of the others that I saw was just screa...
Uh-huh. and we knew them from other associations but, uh, it was kind of interesting because she was kind of the strict one, and I think, you know, she would, she'd put her arm around the kids and talk to them and stuff, you know, but he was actually the more, um, the more, uh, what, demonstrative type. The more loving...
that has to be with a day care center. And you know so they, you know, they used, uh, oh, I think they used the, you probably heard where, you know, where you stand in front of the clock and get your power back to control yourself. I've never heard of that. That's, that's a new one, on me. And it's, it's one, Uh, I ca...
Um, I guess that, I mean it all depends really on what kind of bracket you're in. My tax bracket is, is pretty high up there. I pay the, I generally pay the maximum tax bracket. Uh-huh. And, uh, I think that we're paying too much because I don't have any children. Right. And I pay a lot of property taxes. Oh, sure. I d...
Right. How about you? Do you pay too much? Uh, well, no, I can't really complain. I'm a student, um, and I I work as a co-op at, uh, Georgia Tech Research Institute. And, uh, I'm going to get back most of what I earned, I mean most of what I pay in taxes and, uh, and, uh, one of my parents is still claiming me. Well, ...
well I did work, um, just very for some time but I didn't make enough money to really make, too much of a difference. To worry about it. Right. Have you, have you been active in, in politics trying to, concerning this? Have you like worked on political action committees or something like that? No, no, I haven't. I, uh...
Really? And, um, it's causing quite a stir up here, because we're so close to D C anyway. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. It's really kind of curious to watch this thing occur. Oh, sure. Um, I, I, I think we pay too much. And I've, I look at my paycheck and I make, well, let's see. They take out in state and federal taxes Uh-huh. I t...
and it's just too expensive. Uh-huh. I can't believe that I, I'm just thankful that I don't get all the government that I pay for. Huh. You know what I mean? Yeah. Do you, have you used, um, student loans and things like that that were guaranteed by the government? No, no, I haven't. Uh, I, uh, my father pays for my, m...
Huh. Heavy science. Are you like in the particle, particle research or anything like that or is it more, um, applied physics? Um, I haven't, I haven't gotten too terribly much into my major yet. Actually, um, the, the degree I'm getting is physics. There's a different one for applied physics so I guess you could call i...
Yeah. And, um, I know I was reading in the paper I believe yesterday that, um, they're talking, or maybe it was on the I don't think anybody pays too little. No, I would tend to agree very highly. I think that we're all paying a little bit too much taxes and not seeing too much good come out of it. Do you get hit up fo...
but I'll bet that means your state sales tax is pretty high. No, actually there's no sales tax in New Hampshire either. There's no sales tax either? No, what there is, is very high property taxes because that's how they fund schools and everything. Uh-huh. The only problem is I work in Massachusetts, so they they hit m...
But, at least on things like stock options and things like that, they don't tax me. Uh-huh. So that's not too bad. No, I, uh, I really think that, here in Indiana at least we pay a, a whole, uh, just too much tax. I worked in a factory, uh, last summer and, on the average, I was losing twenty percent of every paycheck ...
most people forget about them, because you've you know, you can't always get your F I C A back at the end of the year. Right. But, so, you know, and then, you know, like a five percent surtax, I'm paying forty percent tax. Yeah, which is just outrageous and a lot of it, and if you look at the way the government is run ...
Uh-huh. yeah, they are, they are a fat. You know, I think the military is really fat. I think that a lot of the, the H E W services, although they're providing necessary services, have too much fat in them. Right. there is just way too much bureaucracy and so much of that tax money is going just to keep that bureaucrac...
and yet he supposedly, Well, between him and Reagan, yeah. Right right, yeah. great I mean, I just read something that, two thirds or three quarters, I'm not exactly sure of our national debt are, was created during the Reagan Bush era who are supposedly fiscally conservative. Oh, oh, yeah, they think, Oh, yeah, and t...
you lose, Connecticut goes, so, you know, it's like, you know, it's very tricky to balance off, because then you hurt, you know, if the, if the, if people lose their jobs, then they become a load and they're not contributing taxes. That's right. So, you know, it's, it's very hard to say, you know, this is what we shoul...
I'm glad I'm not the one who has to come up with these policies. Right. But, what's very funny is in our town meeting they were this, this guy had, both for our school district meeting and our town meeting had this proposal which, unfortunately violates New Hampshire constitution for our local town to do it to, uh, hav...
Uh-huh, which are both kind of small. yeah. Uh, so we were thinking mini van for a while and, uh, we're looking at, uh, some just four door, five passenger sedans as well. Uh-huh. Are you looking for an American car or, you open to buying foreign cars? Uh, I don't really have a preference either way I guess. You know, ...
but I feel that the Japanese have really produced a much higher quality product than our, uh, car manufacturers have for a while. Yeah. If I were to buy another car, I would be, uh, I would be partial to buying another Japanese car, but I would also look at American cars, but when I bought the car that I bought now, I ...
Uh I don't really, I don't have a family, so I don't need a, a mini van or such to, uh, haul people around in. Uh-huh. So I'm looking for more a, a two passenger car that, uh, Oh, like a Miata or something like that? Well, I like the Miata, but I don't like it enough to buy it. I would buy something, actually the, the ...
Uh, That's, when I bought the car that I bought, I was looking for mileage, and I was looking for, uh, dependability and something that was going to last a long time. I was that I would get a, for the money that I was going to spend, that I would get a return that was, that was worth that money. Yeah. So, Yeah I I thin...
but uh, the other ninety four thousand have been just fine with it, Uh-huh. so, But, uh, Okay. Uh, I've had, uh, I've had one or two American cars I think, and, and they were okay. I had a Pontiac once and, and I never had a problem with it, but, uh, my mother had a Dodge at one point and I, I had driven it a few times...
it, it's hard to beat some of the, uh, like, I guess, in particular, we're looking at a, like a ninety-one Corsica, uh, buy back at a, they say G M sponsored auction, but I think they're obliged to have these things because Hertz and Avis and those folks have it in their contract that they can sell it back to G M after...
Yeah, I'm sure they did. we keep looking at that mini van. It's just, you know, we can get a, like a Caravan for, twelve, five Uh-huh. Right. but that's a little bit more than we want to spend right now. But, uh, uh, it's interesting, but, uh, I don't know, if, if, uh, it seems to be, Well, Julie, uh, are you in a situ...
And he recently had to have an operation but he just really doesn't want to go to a nursing home. Is he able to, uh, still do everything himself pretty well? Well, he was until this operation. He has arthritis. Oh, yeah. And now I don't really think he's doing that well. And my, a lot of my aunts and uncles live near h...
Yeah Uh-huh. they have can look after a lot of things but there's some of the day-to-day needs that they just are not able to deal with physically anymore. Uh, I know my, none of my grandparents were in a nursing home. They generally were able to have someone care for them at home and they died But they were all, goodn...
But I don't, I mean at least, I mean I think some nursing homes do that. But I think a lot of nursing homes really, uh, are guilty of neglect. Yeah. I and I think it happens more in areas where it's, uh, I guess, uh, a broad social medical system where, uh, you know, there's government medical care and that kind of thi...
Oh. Okay. Yeah. And I, I got a friend who goes there, by the way I want to talk to you about that afterward, okay. Okay Uh, I've, the high school I went to was, uh, was a good one also. And I, well, I guess you could say one of the problems with the public education system is the disparity between different schools. Be...
You know, I think that, uh, I mean I know that in my town, you know, most of the, most of the parents, they're valued education. What And, uh you know, and so the students were, you know, to some extent, motivated to learn. Yeah, that's true. I mean know Yeah. And I'm also I mean, in the, in those places where, uh, ...
I, I, I mean I just can't even picture how that could happen. You know, except maybe to someone whose, you know, really badly learning, uh, disabled or something. Yeah. But these people obviously weren't. That's hard for me to say since I didn't, I didn't really grow, well when I went to elementary school it, it wasn't...
Uh-huh. Yeah. Uh-huh. I think that'd be an interesting experience. But, uh, I haven't done that No, I, I can't say that I have either. But, uh, But I do, I do think that, uh, I mean, public education in general I think can work. And I think it's a good thing. Yeah. I've, I've heard some, I mean I've heard statistics an...
I, I, I, my schools, I mean, there, I have a lot of once, once it seemed I got into high school, they had a lot of, uh, accelerated programs and all kinds of stuff like that. Yeah. That, I mean, that makes a big difference cause I wondered when they're taking classes with, uh, with people that are really, are intereste...
I mean I'm fifty years old and, uh, I've been divorced for, um, eighteen years. But I've two kids and all. But I, uh, I, I've never had a budget and I don't, uh, do any planning and I don't know, I don't, uh, uh, I don't have a long-term financial plan. I don't try to control my expenses. But I'm, I'm glad you're a str...
We hope that there's enough money at the end of the month to pay for the bills and if there's not, then we due for the next month. Wow. A couple of times we've tried some things and they worked but I'm not disciplined enough to keep doing it. Uh-huh. The best program we ever had is at the beginning of the month we took...
And I actually did, my bank account would, uh, I'd, I, I kept bouncing checks, just at the end of the month but I, I had miscalculated. I, well I didn't keep a balance It's one of the problems this very I never had to in the past. I always kept plenty of money in my checking account, but when you're only earning half t...
Uh-huh. And, uh, Yeah. So I, I, I leave a little bit of a slush fund in my checking account and I figure that, so the balance showing in the checking account is always somewhat different that what's really there. Uh-huh. And I figure that gives me room for the mistakes I make. Uh-huh. The, uh, I, I have to say that, le...
people were embarrassed for me. I mean it was, it was a good car and, it still running. Oh, it was great. My, my mechanics loved it because it was an old, it was a sixty-five Buick and it just wouldn't stop. Uh, and it, I, I just didn't feel the need for a new car. It isn't like I couldn't afford one. Uh-huh. Uh, and n...
But, but I'm just, I'm just saying as a single person, that's, that's a drop in the bucket. And so if you're extravagant on how you buy food, it doesn't add up. If you're buying, I mean if you're not going to super expensive restaurants, which I don't care to go to. That's right. So, so that's, I think, one of the reas...
We, we couldn't survive in a in a juror in a trial system without a jury. Right. Uh, one man can never be, one man, one woman can never be objectionable in every case. That's it. Uh, every person has their opinions and that's why jury selection is often very difficult. Uh. Well, I, I feel the other thing too, uh, they ...