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What’d you pay for that Segway?

Post author:Jim McClain
Post published:October 24, 2013
Post category:Going Going Health Random Opinion Technology
Post comments:6 Comments

How much did that thing cost you?

It seems like a fairly innocuous question. I get asked that question every time I am out gliding about on my Segway. I know it’s an unusual device, especially where I live – I think I’m the only one in Plumas County, CA that has one, or uses one regularly. But I sure wish people would think about that question before they blurt it out.

What would be your reaction if a stranger walked up to you and asked how much you paid for your car? A person you have never met comes up and asks, “what’d you pay for your watch?” Someone stops you in your tracks and says, “how much you pay for that bike/ring on your finger/bag of groceries? (more…)

Enough With The Anti-CHP Rhetoric

Post author:Jim McClain
Post published:October 19, 2009
Post category:Going Going Random Opinion
Post comments:4 Comments

In response to so many letters to the editor of Feather Publishing newspapers…

CHP Shoulder Patch Can we finish up with the complaints about our local California Highway Patrol real soon, please? It’s getting tiresome and some of you are sounding like whiners. Really. Because there have been so few cheering for the CHP, allow me.

I’ve been driving the roads of Plumas County most of my adult life. That totals around 12 (more…)