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Offline CC27

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Singing praises for DU and DUers of Bloomington!!!
« on: June 03, 2025, 07:21:21 AM »
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Singing praises for DU and DUers of Bloomington!!!

In the past 48 hours I have experienced one ugly demon nightmare from hell that was cured by the wonderful community at DU.

I am traveling cross country, relocating, and am loaded up with a good sized rental truck with my car on a trailer. Saturday night, as I was trying to find a fuel stop I managed to lose my wallet at a place where I wasn't able to get diesel. I used the restroom and I guess I was so tired I left my wallet on the back of the commode. The great good fortune was that I was the last one to use the rest room before closing and it was found by an employee. Through a series of events, after discovering the loss at the pumps 30 miles down the road, I ended up another 40 miles further away, a long story. All I can say is, Penske is the best rental service, period.

When morning came I had made contact with a friend who secured a room for me so I could get some rest. While I was sleeping the phone rang and it was the manager of the gas station informing me that he had my wallet!

Great! except it's 70 miles back and the rig only goes 67mph and the roads are rough in Illinois with lots of construction, would have been a hard drive up and back. So I remembered that DU always comes to the rescue so I set up my laptop and made a plea to the folks on the Illinois page and in a very short time I had 2 DUers with male family members show up to help me unload my car so I could drive it to get my wallet!! And one came back upon my return to help reload!!

How awesome is that? If not for DU, I'd be in a world of hurt.

So I am extending a MASSIVE THANK YOU to all the DUers who helped me contact those helpers and especially those who came out to help!

Now I'm going to get offline and clear out of here and get rolling again, before I'm late.

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Re: Singing praises for DU and DUers of Bloomington!!!
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2025, 08:51:51 AM »
Being nice is being nice. Not going to denigrate that.

That said, didn't some wise guy say, ~2000 years ago, something like, "Even the Pharisees do that"?
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Re: Singing praises for DU and DUers of Bloomington!!!
« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2025, 12:00:32 PM »
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and in a very short time I had 2 DUers with male family members show up to help me unload my car

Where are all of DUs feminist 'bestest evar' boss women who can do it all? Guess they were too busy laying bricks and working on oil rigs, right?

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Re: Singing praises for DU and DUers of Bloomington!!!
« Reply #3 on: June 03, 2025, 02:09:35 PM »
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in a very short time I had 2 DUers with male family members

A sexist would say!!!! :thatsright: :-)
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Re: Singing praises for DU and DUers of Bloomington!!!
« Reply #4 on: June 03, 2025, 02:29:30 PM »
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in a very short time I had 2 DUers with male family members

A sexist would say!!!! :thatsright: :-)

How could TunaSammich tell? :-)
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Re: Singing praises for DU and DUers of Bloomington!!!
« Reply #5 on: June 03, 2025, 04:13:59 PM »
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While I was sleeping the phone rang and it was the manager of the gas station informing me that he had my wallet!

How did the manager of the gas station know how to get in touch with it?
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Re: Singing praises for DU and DUers of Bloomington!!!
« Reply #6 on: June 03, 2025, 08:19:11 PM »
Quote from: FlippyDoo on June 03, 2025, 04:13:59 PM
How did the manager of the gas station know how to get in touch with it?

aw, come on man, you ruined the story for me....
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Re: Singing praises for DU and DUers of Bloomington!!!
« Reply #7 on: June 04, 2025, 03:38:50 AM »
Assuming this story it true it sounds so typical of so many DU sob stories.  DUmmy does stupid things and makes stupid choices.  This creates some major inconveniences in his life.  So, his first thought is not to solve his problems on his own, but rather to look to the kindness of strangers to solve his problems for him.
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Re: Singing praises for DU and DUers of Bloomington!!!
« Reply #8 on: June 04, 2025, 03:44:52 AM »
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12. They stopped what they were doing, helped
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Mon Jun 2, 2025, 10:22 AM

you when you were vulnerable, even though they knew they were all going to die eventually anyway! And they didn't even need to call upon the toothfairy. Pretty amazing, isn't it? Good on those DUers and everyone who helped.

Let's remind Joanie Ernst what good people do, no matter what their religious beliefs are.

They took a brief break from wishing death upon people to help a fellow member of the Society of Evil because the only thing that Evil loves more than 'hate' is company.
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Re: Singing praises for DU and DUers of Bloomington!!!
« Reply #9 on: June 04, 2025, 08:04:10 AM »
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Let's remind Joanie (sic) Ernst what good people do, no matter what their religious beliefs are.

What good thing did Joni Ernst do to earn this seemingly random gratuitous impotent verbal slap?
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