Forum: Lost Stories

Thanks. Didn't do it in 30 seconds but you're close. I opened the story and the first line contained the kid's name: David Olsen, and I knew you had the right one. Thanks

I wasn't logged in when you posted your query, and then I had to go through the list of Argon's stories because I could not remember the title myself.
David and Mel also make guest appearances in https://storiesonline.net/n/48299/teaming-with-the-shrew and maybe one other story.

I spent the entire day reading; Argon is always a great read but somehow I didn't associate this story with him. What's weird is that I've read the rest of his stories about that town but still didn't connect them. Anyhow, hours later I've finished 12 chapters and need to rest my very tired eyes. Thanks for responding so quickly; it made my day!

In reality, that's true (if more than a little tired). But in fiction, there may be a third option.

I sometimes think that I would prefer the third option. Especially if I was able to choose, when, where, and how.

Old Age Sucks

That's why it's age restricted.

When I meet with a person and he says "Got to see you." my response is, "That's better then being Viewed."

I am compelled to point out that not getting old would suck more.

I'm 81 years old. There are days when everything hurts so badly that I disagree with your compulsion. But then, an hour with my great granddaughter makes me want it to last forever!

Welcome to the club

Thats debatable

Thats debatable

You think dying young is preferable to getting old? Because those are the only two options in the real world.

ya no trouble i had stints put in at 43 due to smoking mostly 68 currently. life goes on

ya no trouble i had stints put in at 43 due to smoking mostly 68 currently. life goes on

My first stint was at 54 (65 now) and was in and out of the hospital in under 48 hours. They shaved everywhere from naval to knees and then went in at the wrist.

When I went in for dye testing they weren't as shaver heavy with me. No dignity, but also no shame. Odd.

Here's a question, you have two cute young nurses shaving your privets moving your dick and balls around, which would you find more embarrassing, getting a hard on or not getting a hard on?

At my age, it would take more than that to get my pump primed, unless the nurses were students and this was their first time, and... crap, there I go again, starting another story I'll probably never finish.

I hear that there are pills to help with that these days. :)

If there are pills to help with finishing all the stories I start, I could really use those!

LOL! ME TOO!

SunSeeker

Old Age Sucks!

But does it swallow? Or just spits it out in your lap?

Sadly it just sucks the life out of you.

I'm 71 and have not received any calls or emails about funeral insurance. Must be lucky!

Well to be honest, almost all the calls are either spam or scam calls. It starts with a computer program that picks my number and goes to a pre-recorded speech asking a few questions and if you answer correctly (I always do) it sends you to a live person (Almost always with an east-Indian accent). OH and also the number on the caller-ID is fake.

Or it is political crap from someone running in a state across the country. Or it is someone wanting to buy your house. Or it is an unknown charity with an urgent need for money. Or the latest, there is one ring or even no ring, and it immediately goes to voicemail, and it is one of the above. I live in Arizona and I regularly get calls for someone in Indiana to buy their property. I've had this cell number for 25+ years and I still get calls for the previous holder of this number, usually from a bank.

My top 2 was from someone claiming they are from Publishers clearing House and one from someone claiming to be from Custom and Boarder Protection.

The one from PCH told me I won $4.5 million and a new car and they were waiting right around the corner to give me it BUT before that could happen I needed to make a "Good Faith effort" and go to my bank and withdraw $1,200 and then go to the Post Office and buy money order checks and while still on the phone read him the check numbers I kept him on the phone for an hour and gave him fake numbers then hung up.

For CBP they told me they intercepted a package at the border with my name on it and asked if I was expecting a package, I said yes, a very important one. They then asked what was in the package, I told them 10 kilos of meth and my life depended on getting it.

It's my cheap entertainment.

A couple of decades ago there was a comedian who went to telemarketing convention and started calling the attendees at 3AM to 'sell them time shares'.
He had a series of recorded conversations where he screwed with telemarketers that called him at home, the best was pretending to be a sheriff at a murder scene, who starts interrogating the telemarketer, accusing him of being the murderous gay lover checking up on the scene of the crime. I think he went by the stage name Two or Too and was a furry. If you can find an archive it may give you some good material for the future.

stage name Two or Too

Tom Mabe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Mabe

Thanks.

Well to be honest, almost all the calls are either spam or scam calls. It starts with a computer program that picks my number and goes to a pre-recorded speech asking a few questions and if you answer correctly (I always do) it sends you to a live person (Almost always with an east-Indian accent). OH and also the number on the caller-ID is fake.

Please do not answer any questions!
It is now fairly easy to record a few words and then have a computer convincingly sound like you, saying whatever the scammers want it to.

You should only say one word, "Hello."

It is now fairly easy to record a few words and then have a computer convincingly sound like you, saying whatever the scammers want it to.

Every now and then I get a call from someone claiming to be my Grandson (voice sounds like my brother) and that they are in jail for a hit and run and could I come up with the bail. The one big problem with that is in order to have grandkids one must have kids in the first place. I do not.

Out here in the Phoenix, AZ, area, those calls are a regular occurrence.

You start getting half a dozen or more calls a day selling funeral insurance. I always ask "But I already have died. So do they pay retroactively?"

I have a fully paid funeral package, grave plot, and headstone missing the expiration date. Only thing needed left to do is fill in the lines for the date of my passing and survived by for the newspaper obituary notice of which there uses to be 9 papers in print when I bought the package but now there are only 3 left and 1 doesn't print any notices at all any more. Heck newspapers getting so bad you have to pay extrsa if you wish to have the coupons in the Sunday paper and none of them have comics or movie viewing times ;(