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Saturday, 26 July, 2014 -( 20\u02daC & Overcast @ 9:33 am = Somewhere NorthEast of Boston \ud83d\ude09 )-<\/p>\n

& Yes, I looked it up- \u00a0Today is Mick Jagger’s Birthday, He was born in 1943. Before me even- Somebody on Maine Radio Station 98.9 WCLZ introduced a song by saying, “This Next singer is a great grandfather,” and played “Beast of Burden”.<\/p>\n

& Now down to business:<\/p>\n

This is copied and pasted from JW2013’s “Our Fredericton Experience” Blog:<\/p>\n

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After Arthur: Eeeek!<\/a><\/h1>\n
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Monday, 07 July, 2014.<\/p>\n

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Our Post-Tropical Storm left a mess here\u2026 I went out looking for an open Tim Hortons at 7 am. Nothing open on the north side. South side, the Timmy\u2019s on Regent street had a very long line of cars, stretching almost all the way up the hill to the Irving station. The Timmy\u2019s on Prospect Street (the one with the temporary trailer for a drive through-) had signs up everywhere \u201cNo Power!\u201d and employees shouting, \u201cWe\u2019re not open, we have no power\u201d to three or four vehicles per minute who did not read the signs. I didn\u2019t think of trying the Tim Hortons on Smythe Street, inside the fence at the Fair\u00a0Grounds (I think that\u2019s the Fair Grounds).<\/p>\n

I turned around drove back to Regent Street and got in line for the Regent Street Timmy\u2019s (a long time before I could see the happy end \u00a0of that line). Some traffic lights were working. Some were not. I did not block intersections, especially when I saw cars coming toward Regent Street.<\/p>\n

After half an hour in line, with many people behind me, line stretching farther than when I joined it, stopped at a red light. Two cars swooped in ahead of me from the west. A grey Honda and a black Malibu. I took down their license numbers. If I had the telekinetic power to explode their heads on the spot there would have been dead drivers and a lot of blood everywhere. Thank goodness I don\u2019t have that kind of power. It took over an hour from when I first got in line until I got to the Tim Hortons. Both of those cars that had jumped in line in front of me turned left against the \u201cno left turn sign\u201d. I saw people standing in line as I was getting my coffee and breakfast sandwiches there. When I turned right on the no left turn street, I noticed that the line of people on the sidewalk waiting to get inside and stand in line until they were waited on went down to the corner and back South on Regent Street. I couldn\u2019t see how far it stretched, but I was glad I did not park and think I would have an easier time going inside.<\/p>\n

When I got home and sipped my coffee and ate my breakfast with \u201cthe love of my life\u201d I thought, hey, if I was just a little bit crazier I might have kept the piece of paper with their license plate numbers handy and some time in the future popped all four tires, or worse.<\/p>\n

The more I thought about that, the more I remembered a friend telling us, \u201cDon\u2019t think about getting even with somebody who goes out of their way to do something nasty, that will only poison your outlook on life and keep you miserable, Pray to transmute that negative energy into something positive. Ask for help with this-\u201d (Us mere humans can\u2019t transmute that kind of frustration and anger by ourselves, we need Heavenly help.)<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m hoping that anybody who would cut in front of people who have been in a line for half an hour or longer will think twice and not do that in the future. If not, they just might\u00a0meet up with some angry son of a gun who doesn\u2019t believe in trying to be a good, decent human being, who just might have had \u00a0a really bad day or two, who might jump out of his or her car in a blind rage and cripple them for life.<\/p>\n

A lot of the Prayers that went out from me on Sunday started out with \u201cHelp! I don\u2019t need this anger-\u201d<\/p>\n

~~~~~I shouldn\u2019t sign this, should I?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n