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Subject: Re: Schadenfreude!


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Lucas (to Jerry (and Alf))
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Date Posted: 04:46:46 12/17/25 Wed
In reply to: Jerry 's message, "Schadenfreude!" on 19:32:11 12/16/25 Tue
 Hey Jerry, if you want to *really* make your Mom furious, you can let her know about the assumption I was making, as I was reading your explanation of all the details regarding the senior center and the services it provides....

.... I ended up making the assumption that your Mom got the speeding ticket because she was *on the way to* the senior center to get her not-quite-free lunch with all the other old fogies! :D

Encouragement to keep out of it? Just spend some time looking at the big Lexan paddle with holes, and doing some imagining....

Here in not-quite-metrified UK, they have gone with 20mph for heavily residential areas, schoolzones during schoolzone times, etc. And even that feels excruciatingly slow. I have never seen a 15mph limit. Some private car parks post 5mph limits but everyone ignores them and I don't know if they're even enforceable.

The default even for residential areas is 30mph. Except in Wales, where the barking mad Welsh Assembly has made the default 20mph everywhere. This has been very unpopular, but I suppose it has saved lives, so.... bleh.

Speeding tickets are one of the examples that Alf and others used to explain why misbehaviour has to have consequences, but I can't quite remember how that's supposed to end up applying to adults....
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Re: Schadenfreude!Jerry (to Lucas)21:02:27 12/18/25 Thu

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