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Skriven 2014-08-19 16:59:53 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 15959 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
Ärende: kitchen aid
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Hi Nancy,

 RH> We showed up about 6:30-ish. (Normally, I try to have supper on the
 RH> table about 6, doing the clean up by 6:30.) If we'd not called ahead,
 RH> we would have doubted anybody was there but the parking lot had more
 RH> cars in when we left.

 NB> Sounds about right to have hit the lull between the early birds and
 NB> the later supper crowd...  :)

I think we did. OTOH, a couple of week ago we went to Texas Roadhouse on
a Friday night. Got there about 6:15 and had to wait about 20 minutes.
But, as we were headed out after eating, the "waiters" looked like they
were having to wait much longer.

 NB>  RH>> Starting with the night we bought it. (G)
 NB>  NB>> Asked it for something it didn't think it knew about, eh...?

 RH> No, we knew the gate closest to where we were closed at 9. We left the
 RH> parking lot about 9:30 as Steve had taken the time to set everything
 RH> up with the GPS. It tried to direct us to the closed gate; we knew it
 RH> was closed so headed toward the open one. About half way down Abecorne
 RH> Drive the thing finally stopped telling us "......in 300 feet make a U
 RH> turn". We'd pass the point and it would say "Recalculating. In 300 feet
 RH> make a U turn". We knew how to get home, it didn't know.

 NB> As I said, you asked it for something it didn't know about... the
 NB> hours for the gate closings weren't factored in, just the closest
 NB> gate... ;)
 NB> I can imagine that a GPS would go crazy around Fort Drum... It has
 NB> some gates that are now closed permanently, some are open
 NB> intermittently and some that may well have regular hours...  I know of
 NB> three main gates,
 NB> usually open all the time, but I've not been by them all hours, so
 NB> don't know for sure if that is true for the wee hours... ;)

At least one gate has to stay open all the time. Deliveries for the
commissary & PX, people who live on post but went out for something or
other wanting to get home, etc, etc neccesitate having a gate open all
the time. At times, those coming on are subject to tighter security (all
show IDs, get car inspected, etc) so if only one gate is open, traffic
can really back up. We saw that on Oahu after the attacks on 9/11. At
the time, we were glad we were living on post. (G)

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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