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Welcome To Case's Column

Let me say a big welcome to all of you for joining me here. I'm going to call these blog meetings Case's Column. I wanted to use "Corner", but that was already taken. Since 2008, it's been a real privilege to come on here and share some of my life with you, and it's a big world where we live.

In these blogs, I'll just speak whatever is on my mind, but we will be playing within the rules here. I may pick a particular topic, point out an event, or shoot the breeze. I'm a little bit of an essayist at times, so I'll just speak what's on my mind, and I might tell a story or two. Or, I might spew out an opinion or three. There will be some serious moments, some tender, some poignant, but there will also be those moments that you'll just bust out laughing. But, hopefully, everything will be in good fun here. And, of course, there's a place below for your comments and thoughts as we go along here. So feel free to join me for the ride -- I sure as heck hope I'm doing this right and not making any mistakes.

Thanks for taking your time in reading Case's Column. Hopefully, you'll enjoy being entertained by it as much as I've enjoyed putting these writings together. And thanks for the time you spend in City-Data.com, where it's great to be alive!

Regards,

case44

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A Bizarre Finding On A Hotel Telephone

Posted 12-18-2023 at 06:51 PM by case44


Ol' Case had finally finished his Christmas shopping and gift wrapping, so the time had come to sneak away from Dallas for about a day and a half. Tyler was once again Ground Zero for road trip endeavors.

As great as it was to get back to East Texas, said trip did not go uneventful. It was comical discovering one crazy thing you don't get every day........................on a hotel telephone. You see, I often use it to set the wake-up alarm, as the phone is often next to the bed. Now, fortunately, a Plan B did turn up in the room, as an actual alarm clock was positioned on a desk across the room from the bed. I took the phone and dutifully set it to 5:15 a.m. on Monday morning, which was December 18, 2023. That was to be Day 2 of a brief road trip.

December 18, 2023. But to that telephone, it wasn't!

The previous alarm setting date was set to.........

Are you ready for this?


January 9, 1980!

Nothing I could do could magically change the date to the present time. All I could do is enter the time, so that's what I did. 5:15 a.m., set to January 10, 1980. You can't make this up.

No, your favorite blogger did not go back in time. In 1980, I was still 13 years old and still in junior high, so there was obviously no way I could have driven to Tyler and made a reservation in any hotel. In any event, the reality is, this is 2023 and have a lot more money, a great car, and time. Time to take care of things in the present time. Your writer ended up setting the alarm clock on the desk, and it was only that which set off when the time came. The aforementioned phone didn't do a thing. It remained silent. Nonetheless, I got up and started a new day in the brief time left in the hotel. Oh, overall, the trip went great.


Look, don't ask me why the hotel powers that be had put the alarm clock where they did instead of, say, next to the bed. Things remembered.
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