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Not to make this Gary Crabtree day (which I suspect Gary does not want it to be), but about three New Years Eve's ago, I managed to lock myself out of my apartment late in the afternoon, and it was Sunday. I ended up calling Gary at his home, and he drove to my place, managing to fix what proved to be a far more complex issue than ordinary, my lock being about 160 years old. All this in the increasing dark and cold, allowing my friends and me to resume New Years Eve Tiger Woods PS3 golf and a beer or two. He also, while I was enduring some physical issues, dropped everything at work to give me rides to the hospital. He did this on multiple occasions, since I live just a block from his shop. I will always be grateful.<BR> <BR>
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From: debismith@moscow.com<BR>To: jampot@roadrunner.com<BR>Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:08:22 -0600<BR>CC: vision2020@moscow.com<BR>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] (no subject)<BR><BR>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>OK, just a moment out of the free-for-all bashing and point-counter-point.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I am a big fan of Joe Campbell. We sort of swing the same way in politics and opinions. He's also a darn nice guy. Sometimes I want him to calm down a bit, but sometimes he probably wants me to just shut up. OK.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I have not been a big fan of Gary Crabtree, but I have never met him in person, so all I had to go on were his postings on V2020. I seldo (well, almost never) agree with a darn thing he has to say. I had no idea if he was a nice guy or a total asshat, but I knew he was not on my page, and probably was in anentirely different book. OK.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>About 4:15 today, I foolishly locked my keys in my car. The spare key was at home. My partner was not. What to do? Call the Locksmith! As I was downtown, I went to Gary's Lockshop--fortunately, he was there. He drove me back to my car, quickly and efficiently got it open, I retrieved my keys from the front seat where they had fallen from my very shallow front pocket just as I slammed the (locked) door, he drove me back to the Lockshop so I could pay him the (reasonable) $40 with the credit card I had cleverly left in my handbag in the locked car. I was thanking him all the way, as I had things to do, and could still do them!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>When Gary saw the card, my name registered with him. He made a comment about me posting negatively about him on the V---I said something about not remembering saying anything about him personally (though, Goddess knows I probably have!). He made me a spare key and gave me a magnet for it (no extra charge) and took me back to my car.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>We shook hands, said we were glad to meet one another in person, and both got on with our day. OK.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Just a reminder to me, and I hope to everyone out there. We can disagree, we can be nasty to one another, we can hold radically different opinions. At the end of the day, Gary got me into my car, and I owe him some organic veggies (at a reasonable price!). We are still a community, win lose or draw. Maybe we can stop hacking at each other on a personal level once in a while? Criticism, contention, refutation, debate----all fine. Let's just try to keep the personal insults to a minimum. Just because we disagree doesn't mean either one of us is evil.....<BR></FONT></DIV>
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