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Rudy Canoza[_3_]
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Unusual gifts
On 6/26/2015 6:27 PM,
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On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 19:55:07 -0500, Ignoramus23199
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On 2015-06-27, Jim Wilkins wrote:
"Ignoramus23199" wrote in
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I am wondering if anyone else ever received unusual gifts.
For example, today, a company unexpectedly gifted me sixteen brand
name pallet jacks in great condition.
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My neighbors give me every broken tool they don't want to bother with.
My parents did too, such as a car whose only problem was rear toe-in
from radius rods bent by a dumb mechanic who used them as jacking
points. $15 at a junkyard fixed it.
Very nice story!
Among many other things I have been given was a snow blower that had
lost it's wheel drive -- due to the chain link being installed
bachwards and the clip falling off.
$6 repair.
I was recently given a John Deere 175 lawn tractor
*THERE* you go! You weren't "gifted" the tractor - you were *given* the
tractor, and that made it a *gift*. "Gift" is not a verb - period.
You got it right, and people who use "gift" as a verb get it wrong, and
are stupid.
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