May, The Tow Force Be With You!

[AccountingDrone]

Gosh, haven't read Callahan's in ages. May have to dig up some ebook versions.
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Baen has some Spider Robinson

[sms001]

Baen has some Spider Robinson

Thanks AD, but I focused my inner orangutan and actually found my deadtree versions in the Tower of Book Boxes within three tries.

[infinitemonkies]

There should be a special place in hell reserved for those that steal stop signs. Street signs? A mostly harmless (if expensive) annoying crime. Stop signs? People get killed when those are missing.

I used to work at a place that was on a quiet side street. There was a popular walking/biking trail that crossed this street, with stop signs on both sides.

One day, some drunk jackass plows full on into it, tearing it out of the ground and sending it into the bushes beside the trail. It took the public works department about 3 days before they got around to replacing it.

Here's the really sucky part: For those 3 days, every car to go through there did so at full tilt, not even slowing. "Hey the signs gone, guess we dont have to stop for pedestrians anymore, floor it!."
As I said, it was a mostly quiet street. All of those people zooming through were people who lived and/or worked on that street and knew damned well the trail was there.

[Jester]

I agree, but unless Argabarga could get around Mr. "We'll Only Be A Few Minutes!", he was stuck with either trying to use logic ... or run over him.

I vote for running him over.

Yes, I'm evil. What's your point?

[wolfie]

I must've hooked him as he was coming down the stairs, because he was pounding on the door up front before I had even finished unloading his car in the impound yard.

This is beyond my powers of comprehension. He was clearly able to get from the "scene of the crime" to the impound yard almost as quickly as you did, but you were driving and he was (presumably, since you HAD HIS CAR) on foot. How did he manage that?

[Argabarga]

Likely hitched a ride from the friend he was there to "temporarily and just for a second" visit

[Cat Herder]

Why do I miss all the good parts?

Don't think of those unheard parts as missed parts; think of them as something like those expanses of white space in traditional Chinese paintings.