7.24.2011

Waiting for Jerry the Ice Cream Man


Back in the day, our refrigerator's freezer was the size that fit two ice trays and a pound of chop meat. Then that small cool space froze over and there was never room for ice cream except at your birthday!
It was the same way up and down the block on Gless Avenue in Belleville, N.J. Anybody who got rid of their ice box and got an electric refrigerator had about the same amount of freezer space.
This is Jersey. It's hot in the summer in New Jersey. We were hot. We sweated and drank tap water from the garden hose to cool off. We ran around in the sun, got sun burn, it peeled, and we went back out in the sun.
In the summer, it was hot. We played in the heat. We kids kept cool by running around outside and making our own breezes. We played hide-and-seek and learned to count to 100 by fives. At our peak on that one dead end block we had up to 28 kids. (We're talking baby boom, here.)


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7.09.2011

Good Money in Spam


£800,000.00 willed to you (Contact My Accountant)
May the peace of the Lord be unto you, I am Mrs. Agueda Carlos, 89 Years old
woman and the wife of Late Sir Mendo Carlos who died in a Plane crash 
on Monday
the 7th of September 1998 GMT 14:22 UK while they were flying from New York to
Geneva. Please see site below for more information.
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/index.html

We (my husband and I) have the sum of GBP800,000.00 (Eight Hundred Thousand
British Pounds Sterlings) with Halifax Bank PLC UK; I have not made any
transaction with my account for over a year now because of my illness and the
doctor said I have few months to live. Right now I want to give you 
the said sum
for you to help the less privileged in your country and for your own personal
use.

You have to contact Halifax Bank Plc now for the transfer of the funds to your
personal account with this information below;

Contact Person: Dr. Wilson Cole
Email Address: drwilsoncole @hallifaxbnkplc. co. uk

Phone:+447024020945
Fax: +4472 111 5980

I also want to let you know that I have prepared the change of ownership
affidavit, power of attorney and the insurance bond, so please, do not pay for
any of this documents I just mentioned, you will be given the said 
documents as
soon as you contact the bank with the below information.

Full Names:
Postal address;
Direct telephone number;
Age:
Occupation:
Gender:

When contacting them, also include this code number: (4033/spce/9ty), 
you are to
also present it to them for verification.

the only money you are expected to pay is 180 British Pounds for the account
activation, i have not used the account for a long time, so the Bank might ask
you to pay for the account activation.

I know all this may sound surprising to you, I do not know you, but I want to
trust you will use this fund to help the less privilege and for your own
personal use, please if you know you cannot be able to carry out this
transaction, discard this email.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Agueda Carlos