jim
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jim
@thealso
Travel Incompetent & Fiat Whittler and co founder of @AlsoDriven
Anglesey Wales Katılım Nisan 2009
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@thealso Not on the engine I trust. They are pretty much indestructible.
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@thealso Ah! my favourite little French car. The Renault Twingo. Owned one for a few years back in the day. Would have another one in a heartbeat.
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@sheilatebra @CanaryGabriel So lovely.
I work at a cafe, almost leaving for a new adventure, but I think of that one elderly regular customer I didn't see for months.
He's not in our loyalty scheme and I can only hope he's alright.
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Anonymous
I run a small bakery. Woman came in every Friday morning. Same order. Two blueberry muffins. One coffee. Always sat at the corner table. Read her book. Stayed an hour. Did this for three years. Then she stopped coming. After two months I got worried.
Found her number in our loyalty program. Called. She answered. Voice weak. “Oh. Hi. I’ve been meaning to cancel that.” “Are you okay? You haven’t been in.” Long pause. “I have cancer. Stage four. I’m in hospice now.
Those Friday mornings were my favorite part of the week. But I can’t make it anymore.”
My heart broke. “What if I brought Friday to you?” Silence. Then crying. “You’d do that?” “Every Friday. Same time. Same order.”
Showed up that Friday. She was in a hospital bed in her living room. So thin. But she smiled when she saw those muffins. We sat. She told me about her week. Her family. Her life. I listened. Just like at the bakery. Did this for six weeks. Every Friday.
Last Friday she could barely stay awake. But she held that muffin. Took one bite. “Best thing I’ve tasted all week.”
She passed on Monday. Her daughter called. “Mom’s last words were about you. She said ‘tell the baker thank you. Fridays kept me human until the end.’”
Went to her funeral. Her daughter hugged me. “You gave her normal when everything else was hospitals and pain. You gave her Fridays.”
Now I deliver to three hospice patients. Every Friday.
Because sometimes a muffin isn’t just a muffin. It’s dignity. It’s routine. It’s proof that someone still sees you as you. Not as sick. Just as you.
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@thealso @thespafixer FIAT rarely made new hardware for the fun of it.
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There was a 4x4 Tempra @thealso ?
Nicolas ne pouvait plus payer, il est donc parti@NicoNePayePlus
1994, Fiat Tempra 2.0 i.e. SLX 4x4
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@thealso I have much more respect for engineers who can make a cheap car even cheaper than for those who can make one that's much more expensive.
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