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Went to lunch and bought a King size Hershey chocolate bar (which I very seldom do). Threw it in one of the trays in the center console of my truck and forgot about it.. Anyone care to guess how long it takes a King Size Hershey chocolate bar to melt in a Black pickup truck with all the windows rolled up and 90+ degree heat (outside temp). About 15 minutes.

I could put it in the freezer or just drink it as is as Hot chocolate I guess. At least it didn't leak through the wrapper.
 
Dam-, 15 minutes?
Kit-Kats last about 3.7 minutes
 
Has anyone noticed how Hershey bars are wrapped now?

They used to have AL foil folded over them and then slid into a dark brown paper wrapper. Now it looks the same from the outside but the AL foil is gone and the outer wrapper is sealed plastic. I guess the modern wrapper helps to contain things if they get messy.
 
When I was in Iraq my sister in law sent a care package with all sorts of perishable goodies. She then got the APO wrong. Several months later I received the package which had traveled around the world twice. The hard candies were still ok. I took particular relish of the canned ham too.
 
I read of a case where a man in the US Army was at one overseas assignment when he broke his GI-issue glasses; he taped them together. He ordered a new set of frames. At each assignment he was sent to over the next four years he ordered a new set of frames but did not get them. Finally, just before he separated, he got four sets of frames, which had been following him around for years.

When the Ft Jackson Household Goods rep briefed us about shipping our personal items to our first assignment he told us a little story. He was in Germany and an officer had been coming in and asking for his stuff to be shipped back to the CONUS, and grew more disappointed each time he was told "Not yet." Finally the guy demanded his stuff be put on the NEXT ship to the US. So they did just that. The next ship to the US left Germany, went down the Atlantic, into the Med, through the Suez Canal, and on to the PI, after which it headed for the West Coast, which was on the other side of the country from his assignment. The moral was, "Don't P.O. the HHG people!"

A friend of mine was being transferred from Vandenberg AFB to Houston. The truck picking up his HHG broke down on the way to pick them up (so did mine, by the way). He pleaded for them to get a different truck, but to no avail. After picking up his HHG the truck had brake failure and went over a cliff in the CA desert. When he got to Houston, lacking all his HHG, he found that they had shipped in a bunch of the people evacuated from Clark AB in the PI, due to the eruption of Mt Pinatubo. The HHG office was mobbed with people looking to be reimbursed.
 
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So, last night as I was getting ready for bed, I knocked my glasses off and they hit the floor, breaking off both bows. Today I find that my eye doctor is enjoying an extended holiday and I can't even arrange an appointment until Wednesday. So, for the indefinite future I am stuck wearing my old glasses with an outdated prescription which are giving me a headache and double vision.
 
Can you pop the lenses out of the newer ones and put them in the olde frame? I have worn nothing but metal frames for decades, one reason being they are easier to get the lenses out and in.
 
Different styles. The reason I stopped wearing the older pair, aside from the prescription, was that the bows were too thick to comfortably wear ear muffs at work. After switching back to the older pair I now realize that the lens shape was incompatible with progressive prescriptions. Not enough vertical to provide decent zones of vision.
 
Lately I have developed sympathy for RAF Tomahawk pilots.

I use "computer glasses" set so that I can see things comfortably at computer screen ranges. When I last ordered some new glasses I ordered a different style for the computer glasses. They are much smaller, the lens only about an inch high, and rectangular. The idea was that I could look over the top of them easier, since at close range I have 20:10 vision, and that would come in handy when working in the hangar and often have to switch between seeing things very close up and at distances of a few feet. The frames were more expensive, being Titanium, but I figured they'd be worth it.

But they did not work out well in the hangar. They tend to fall off too easily when leaning over and crawling under things. So I swapped them with my older Computer Glasses I use at home. The old ones work better in the hangar and the new ones work out better at the computer, except I have the same problem the RAF Tomahawk pilots had.

When in 1942 they found some Curtiss Hawk 81A's originally bought by France that had never been uncrated in Great Britain they decided to assemble them and use them to train bomber gunners on how to track attacking fighters. The Tomahawks had HF radios in them with wire antennas that stretched back to the tail. The antennas had insulators to isolate the wire from the airframe, and those insulators were located at just the right spot to be seen from the corner of the eye and make the pilots think they were being bounced by enemy aircraft.

Well, these titanium glasses have the hinge set much farther back from the temple than other glasses and the resultant bulge in that location keeps making me think that someone just walked across the front yard as I sit at my computer. This startles me and leads me turn and look for the intruder. I can now appreciate how the Tomahawk pilots felt and I sure as heck am not going to buy a pair of similarly configured glasses for wearing in the airplane.
 
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Yeah. Buying new frames is a crapshoot. You don't know if they'll work until you actually start wearing them.
More on my glasses saga. I took them back to the store I bought them, and, of course, that style frame is no longer available. Now I'm just going to wait until my next eye appointment in 3 weeks before ordering new frames. I hope the next pair is sturdier than my last pair and doesn't cause the headaches of my current older pair.
 
Here in Redding, during summer, that candy bar would have vaporized.
Several years back, I had a can of soda saved for later placed on the floorboard of my black BMW 320i, in the shade.

Keep in mind that it easily gets over 110°F during summer.

So at 5:00, time to go home and I discover that the soda can had exploded, spraying the entire front interior at some point in the afternoon and then hardened in the heat.

Lesson learned...
 
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