Went with my daughter to look at a 2018 Jeep for $23k that she was interested in, it has 58k miles. Carfax showed it came from Virginia. Has had 6 different owners. Has had 2 clutches installed during its 58k mile life (very odd). As an auto shop owner/mechanic I was looking it over while my daughter talked to the salesman.
Check engine light didn't work, I also brought my scanner and they let me scan it (surprised actually), lots of codes hidden by inoperative check engine light, underneath it looked like pond scum all over the bottom, it's a Jeep and wasn't real surprised but it was obvious it hadn't been off road much if at all. They seemed surprised that the check engine light didn't work (they knew). She still drove it and realized they're cool to look at but not drive as a daily for her.
I'm in Alabama and see flood cars after floods happen sometimes, she didn't buy it and enjoyed watching Dad own used car salesman, I think she also figured out ole Dad can be how he needs to be when needed. Never let a used car salesman bully you into a car you don't need/want, they tried and figured out it wasn't happening.
Flood cars usually will end up at auctions in different states, beware and be aware.
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Side note: My father, now 81 years old born in 1944, is deaf, 100% deaf since he was 5 years old (he got the measles, mumps and chicken pocks at the same time which destroyed his inner ear and more). I always notice your posts (for a few years now at least) because of that, and appreciate what you offer here, fren. I know more than most about "deaf culture" and, well, you are amazing! I enjoy reading your feedback here on GAW... keep helping "wake up" people to this Great Awakening... it's an amazing time to be alive!
Wow that's horrible to have all at once. My wife's grandfather's brother (or rather my wife's great uncle) had the whooping cough and he became deaf.
Not sure if you've read what I mentioned on here but I was born hearing but became deaf at 18 months old. I strongly suspect it was from the measles vaccine I received and I nearly died from it. I have a gene deletion and didn't realize I have that until we had our baby. Our baby wasn't developing appropriately (delayed) so we saw a geneticist to see if our kid has a condition. Turns out it's a mild condition but my gene deletion was passed down to my kid and my kid has different "symptoms" than mine.
Ever since finding out about how I became deaf from a vaccine I took as a baby and how the aftermath has strongly affected my kid, my wife and I have a strong aversion toward vaccines now, which is why we didn't take the clotshots!
I'm assuming you are fluent in ASL or at least know basic signs? I won't be surprised your father used "old time" signs as opposed to modern ASL. I've been around a lot of older deaf people, closer to your father's age and they sign way different than us "young'uns".
Did your father go through a good school or was he "shamed" for using sign language like getting hit in the hand with a ruler? My deaf friend (who lived in Colorado for a while) have deaf parents and his parents were shamed for using sign language in school.
When they used sign language in the open or in secret and got caught, the teacher had them put their hands out on the desk, open hand and palm down, the teacher struck their hands with a yard ruler. The father said it was painful as hell and wanted to beat the teacher up but he restrained himself. The mother unfortunately had to drop out because they couldn't use sign language, that also mean they didn't have a sign language interpreter at school. With the teacher facing the chalkboard while talking or walking around the classroom while talking, they had zero clue what the teacher is saying. The mother struggled so much, she dropped out after 4th grade.
This is why a lot of deaf people hate Alexander Graham Bell because he embraced Oralism (forcing deaf people to read lips and not use sign language all the time), despite him having had a deaf mother and deaf wife.
https://www.handspeak.com/learn/379/
Fun fact - did you know that Martha's Vineyard once had a huge deaf population and everyone there knew sign language, including the hearing people? It was easy for everyone to communicate as they go through their daily life there.
https://www.britannica.com/science/deafness-on-Marthas-Vineyard
Pede,
Interesting, thanks for the reply! What we're finding out about vaccines is criminal, and the thought that they were perhaps designed for harm to begin with? It's no wonder why [they] won't be able to "walk the streets!"
My father had a bit of an advantage in the sense that he didn't become deaf until 5 yrs old, so his vocabulary was somewhat developed. He went to a deaf school in Detroit (one he swore was haunted lol) when very young, then actually went to public school in Florida when my grandparents moved the family there (here), enrolling him in the 2nd grade. Yes, he was picked on a bit but it made him tough... and he eventually integrated well with classmates. He became a world class lip reader, even at a young age. He graduated high school at 18 as one the stars of his HS baseball team (he pitched in a State Championship game, though lost 1-0). Afterward, he wanted to join his friends in Vietnam but was denied by the Army (where my grandfather served in WW2, live action) due to his "handicap". Instead, he eventually got married to my mother at 22 yrs old and got a job with my grandfather at The Cape, Cape Canaveral/Kennedy Space Center with various governmental contractors... but eventually made a 30 yr career and retired with Rockwell International in Golden, Colorado (he/the family transferred to Colo in 1980). At Rockwell, he was also a Representative for the Handicapped, and his "claim to fame" was that he never lost a grievance. Fact. Pretty tough!
Dad was also my Little League coach from the time I was 6 till 12 yrs old, coaching a few of our teams to LL championships and also coach of our LL All Star team twice (a team I was on at 11 & 12 yrs old). My father did have a slight speech impediment, sometimes pronounce a few words incorrectly but most of my friends/teammates couldn't believe he was deaf. Shamefully, it took me years to finally appreciate how incredible he truly was (I'm 58 now)... guess to me, he was "just dad"... He didn't have nor suffer any handicap (hate that word!).
Oh, to answer your question, though he was fluent in it, he never taught me nor my younger sister how to sign. Not out of shame, we simply never had the need, as long as we were facing him (how we were raised) he knew what we were saying --most of the time. We kind of learned instinctively how to slowly pronounce certain words that might be problematic (and half the time he'd get pissed and say "I know what you're saying!" lol) but communicating was never, ever an issue. Sure, we missed out going to the movies or drive-in theater sometimes growing up, but his being deaf was never a detriment to our upbringing.
Alexander Graham Bell sounds like a dick, and Martha's Vineyard seems like it was actually a pretty cool place at one time, although I wouldn't be able to communicate with parts of the population lol!
Funner Fact: You, fren, write absolutely beautifully, not sure of the educational road you traveled but someone taught you incredibly well... but even then, you had to pick up what they were laying down... so, very high IQ!... Or, fren... you're just another one of those people with a supposed "handicap" which led to superhuman powers! [See: The Telepathy Tapes] God works in mysterious ways ;)