[GH85Carrera]

My parents grew up in an era when looking through the Sears catalog was endless hours of dreaming of ordering things, Sears sold everything from guns, toys and of course clothes. They grew up poor, so mostly it was a dream. In the years of retirement they ordered lots of stuff from catalogs, and that brings more catalogs. At Christmas time they would get 20 or 30 catalogs per week. Dad bought a huge mailbox for the front porch since they were in an old neighborhood and got mail at the door. They knew the mailman and gave him a nice tip at Christmas.

I used to get crazy amounts of catalogs after I changed his mailing address to my address. I still get a lot and I never order from them. I am from the future, I order on-line via the internet.

I did have fun with the local ambulance company. He paid (as do I) a "fee" on the city water bill for EMT service. If an ambulance is called, that takes care of any fees for the ambulance ride. He and my mom both used it several times near the end. After the estate was closed, the courts said all is done and any claims against the estate are now moot, it was all over. A couple of YEARS later the ambulance company tried to collect. Ha, yea right. They had been paid. I enjoyed in telling one of the collection guys dad's plot number at the cemetery. It was a pure scam.