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Friday Struggle Bus

Showing exceptionally poor taste for 8 weeks now!

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Don’s Corner

This is turning out to be more of a journalistic “time-out” corner for me than a regular feature, but I am working through that gradually.

This week we marked the return of fan-boy! If you recall, we had a bedroom ceiling fan that made too much racket for sleeping. So we looked until we found a good replacement fan to stop the noise.

We ended up having to wait weeks and weeks, ostensibly because of covid. Late in the summer, it finally arrived, and we sought out and engaged FAN-BOY to install said fan.

As he was leaving, he mentioned, almost as an afterthought, that this fan now was making some noise, too.

After several animated conversations between the manufactured and my wife, an agreement was struck and Fan II was shipped.

Upon its arrival, we sought out and engaged FAN-BOY II to install the new fan, FAN II. as he was removing the old (new) FAN I from the ceiling, he remarked that the wiring was rubbing on one of the moving parts, making the noise.

He simply repositioned the wiring correctly and the fan was quiet.

We re-packed FAN II to return to the manufacturer and paid FAN-BOY II roughly the same amount as we had paid FAN-BOY I. The only difference is the overhead light now is operated by the remote control over beside the bed.

My big excitement, in the beginning, was to finally have a light to turn on when entering a dark room without having to grope my way to the bedside table, a situation which we had achieved with thunder-fan, FAN I. Now again, we had no light switch at the door but we surely couldn't hear the fan.

At the end of the ordeal, I still have to carry a flashlight to go into my bedroom, but I have paid a fair amount of money twice. The fan is silent. So am I. I will not ever mention it again.

(Nobody puts Baby in the corner this week)

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Thank you, however to those who have started following me and especially to those who subscribed. I will not go into my usual soliloquy regarding the value to you and to me of subscribing. But THANKS!!!

Coming Attractions

“Upcoming attractions too good to pass up.” These stories are in the process of being written and will be published soon for your enjoyment. This too may become a regular feature. “Previews without Trailers,” a daring look into the future is now. As soon as we can afford it.

With a past like we had this week, we can now only hope for ONE SUCCESSFUL OUTCOME.

  1. Our imminent private newsletter, closer every day. This all-consuming struggle of its own is nearly at its end, waiting to be put out of its misery! One lovely newsletter each week, free of charge, each containing some of my humor and confusion. I will continue to make it more and more enjoyable and worthwhile to you each issue.

There will be no bad news, no sales pitches, no politics, no spammy commercialism. just a smile each week, probably on Thursdays. Please check it out and subscribe.

Tap Right HERE!

If I am talking to an editor about publishing something of mine, and they ask how many subscribers I have to my website or newsletter, help me be able not to reply “duh…”

Thanks so much.

Last couple of Struggle Buses

Don’s a keen observer and prolific reporter of truth, common sense, humor, & life. He is a WRITER|CREATOR|HUMORIST — [email protected] — Follow him at twitter.com/DonMartinBooks —

Neither of my high school English teachers thought I would ever amount to much. Well, I showed them — now I’m a big-time writer! I can teach you how to be one too! Click HERE to grab my PDF guide on how to become a Big-Time Writer. Enjoy the BTW life!

Funny stuff and extra content from the Big-time Writer Club — It’s free to join our community, where weekly, I share tips and give feedback to the followers of my publications. Get an inside look at how I fell into being a Big-Time Writer, how I live as a BTW, and how you can be one too if you wish.

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