Letter "W" -- Weekend Roundup and Street/Reflections

(E) A Lagniappe, see below.

THE TWENTY-THIRD LETTER FOR THIS SERIES 

 - The Letter "W" Prompts are: (A) Starts with the Letter "W"; (B) "Water" (Tom's Choice); (C) A Favorite; (D) Street/Reflections; and (E) A Lagniappe. 

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(A) Starts with the Letter "W":   Wreck starts with "W".   This toy truck was in a shipping or store wreck and was five dollars off.  I wouldn't give five dollars for the toy, for sure not the 'reduced' $14.98 price at the damaged merchandise sale at Walmart. Boo!!! 

Have you ever been in a wreck?  Your last wreck?  One that totaled your vehicle?  What do you remember about your first wreck?

Our last wreck was with our present family car.  A man in a pickup truck rammed us and fell back, then he returned and rammed us again.  He was on medication driving his way to the hospital.

Our next to last car was totaled when we were hit in the rear by a Ford F250 truck. 

My first wreck was when I was driving my dad's truck on the way home from high school.  A drunk driver drove in head first to us on that gravel road, a  road grader had graded the gravel into a ridge at the side and it kept me from pulling onto the shoulder. 

I wrecked that pickup three times, none was my fault.  I have wrecked my cars several times none was my fault.  I did rear end a lady who stopped a second time going through her stop sign.  And another time when a lady slowed down before she got through her intersection.  One lady ran a stop sign onto a busy street in front of me and off my motor scooter I landed on top of her hood.  

(B) "Water" (Tom's Choice):   Water to use mostly comes when we have rainy Weather.  I took this last Sunday and for today and through next Wednesday the probabilities for water changed considerably,  today 70 %.

"Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Red Ferrari Convertible?
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.


[youngest grandchild, KP, 10 years ago photo courtesy of Billy, son-in-law]

Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends,
So Lord, won't you buy me a Red Ferrari Convertible?

Thank you Janis Joplin. Janis was of my genre, in fact I had a crush on her. May you RIP, you poor free soul." 

http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2011/06/blog-post_07.html

(C) A Favorite:   Our youngest grandchild is looking forward now to be able to drive.  But this photo and excerpt is from my June 8, 2011 post, ten years ago.

(D) Street/Reflections:   Taken December 8, 2019 Abu Dhabi, Uni ted Emirates (Middle East, Arabia). 

We were visiting a Date Store, full of dates and stuff made with or from them.   Dates are a major agricultural product for this part of Arabia.  

(E) A Lagniappe:   This Model A Ford is a different one than I had last week, it was brown but also taken at our church's Saturday afternoon, May 15, "Crawfish and Car Show".  We had 175 cars, I didn't bring my mother's "Grandma's Green Mustang II" to show. (See it here), I think it is either a 1929 or 1930.  Our Tom may be able to differentiate.

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Fine print stuff: 

 - [Click on any picture for larger, click it again for extra large]

 - I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods Travel" (Link here to click for Tom's Weekend Reviews) 

 - I am also linking again this week with James of "Weekend Reflections/Street Photos" (click here for his Street Folk and Reflections Photos).

 - The pictures mostly are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law 

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Janis Joplin Lyrics (link)

"Mercedes Benz"

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends,
So Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a color TV ?
Dialing For Dollars is trying to find me.
I wait for delivery each day until three,
So oh Lord, won't you buy me a color TV ?

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a night on the town ?
I'm counting on you, Lord, please don't let me down.
Prove that you love me and buy the next round,
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a night on the town ?

Everybody!
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends,
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends,
So oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?

That's it!

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