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Mostly incorrect assumptions. It was an Explorer XLT with 28k miles, one owner. Dealership where I bought it was a long time customer of my sign biz. 8 total cars bought from them in my family, 4 of them new. I deal with the Ford dealerships owner. It was State Farm insurance who lowballed the...

Two weeks ago my wife and I left on a trip from Texas to Michigan to attend an uncle's memorial. It was our first road trip in our new to us 2014 Ford Explorer. It was a very nice car, past tense intended. We had it two weeks. We were stopped in construction traffic on 55N in Illinois when a big...

Actually it wasn't countless times but I won't get into the as you put it "he said, she said" I fail to see how I'm airing my/our laundry publicly when I explicitly asked for PM replies only. You don't own this site so I fail to see how you have authority to invite anyone to go away. "Besides...

If you're schooled in a certain text you'll know the rest of the quote goes "The heart speaks". As a long time member of this site who was once a popular regular here with more friends than I can count, I've recently been made aware approximately 10 people have a long standing distaste for...

Marlene my friend, I think the answer to this lies in Gino's challenge to me to "bring it on". I could have overlooked the rest of his remarks as I've been well aware of his propensities for over a decade. But he invited me. Like Homer Simpson says, "what're ya gonna do?"

Hey brother I'm onboard. I can overlook the "foul and perverse" slam for the benefit of ending this. Maybe a virtual beer summit?

I brought it out into the open to show you invited me to "bring it on". Otherwise, there would have been no basis for my thread. If you had been wearing big boy pants when you read my comments about the prolific posters on internet forums you would have realized it was just that, a comment about...

you're hopeless my friend. You as well my friend!

I wish you could respond to a post with a recorded voice message. If you could, you'd hear in my tone of voice a bit of how I'm baffled as to the response I'm going to share with you in a moment to a comment I made and you'd definitely hear a ton of lighthearted amusement. THIS POST IS ABOUT THE...

Every forum I'm on has the hyperposting individual whose life's mission is to become the most well known name on the forum. Kinda makes you wonder how they manage to have a life, right? My back and forth with Gino has ranged from the productive to the downright inane, as it has with the...

After about 8 years my shop computer hard drive finally failed. I wanted to keep winXP but couldn't find a disc for it so I bought a new version of win10. After installing the new solid state hard drive and win10 I tried loading the last version of Gerber Composer. Nothing was compatible. Did I...

I'll never forget the first time I stopped into the first Signs Now franchise to open in my city. There was a 4 x 8 sign they had just finished that was totally devoid of any margins or negative space, completely loaded with copy all in the same size font. They were proud of it. They volunteered...

A good friend of mine in the sign business fell for this scam last year. He took an order for 20 banners for a "Good Reverend", produced the banners, deposited their cashier's check, sent the overpayment amount by Western Union to their "shipper" ($1,300), spent the rest of the money from the...

I've gotten in the habit of having closed captioning on the tv a lot now since a noisy little grandson lives with us. It's absolutely amazing how much "ummm" is in every television character's dialogue. Almost as if it's dictated in a writing standards manual somewhere. Never noticed it until I...

God I miss the old days of being on here constantly to monitor bob's acerbic wisdom. Because I know his real name I used to follow his comments on other forums as well. Wish he was my neighbor, ya know, like Wilson on Tool Time with Tim Allen. I'd spend most of my day at the fence. And no, I'm...

2017 was my first year of my "hobby" business of selling smaller hand lettered interior decor signs at craft fairs. My largest take was a little over $500 in 6 hours one Saturday. It's definitely not a financially lucrative endeavor but is a fun weekend outing for my wife and I in our...

Future Collectibles Signs

Looking back at this old post I'm amazed at how far I've traveled already with this craft fair idea. All of these signs I've posted sold long ago as well as several new ones from the same patterns. Last weekend I sold $470 worth on a 6 hour long Saturday. I still miss the days where hand...

I almost hate having logged in for the first time in quite awhile and seeing this. Joe and I were one of the few dinosaur old school signpainters in here and used to trade comments back and forth years ago when I regularly made signs101 a big part of my day. He was also the only person who could...

You have such a dire lack of replies or comments on this thread because this site is overwhelmingly populated with people who have no clue how to do this type of work. If signs101 had been around online around the late 70's (if there had been internet and no vinyl computers) this thread would...