Auto insurance

But how can you know if the coverage will be comparable, until something happens?

Exactly. I also wonder about The General. They have the hip commercials trying to lure teenagers and twenty somethings. I wonder how much they come through when needed.

I was telling a friend about Geico and he said "Everybody knows that".

Captain, I have also found this to be true in NE. Have checked Geico online and they are always 20% or more higher that Farmers. I will probably stay where I am. Never any claim problems and a local agent.

DonDiego concurs. USAA handles all of DonDiego's insurance needs, and DonDiego does not even open competitors' mail. He obtained his current mortgage through USAA.

However, DonDiego became qualified for USAA Insurance himself, through a fateful decision made by his parents in the Spring of 1947. Ahhhhh, . . . Spring !

On December 1, 1969, the Selective Service System of the United States conducted two lotteries to determine the order of call to military service in the Vietnam War for men born from 1944 to 1950. The days of the year were represented by the numbers 1 through 366 written on slips of paper placed into separate plastic capsules that were mixed in a shoebox and then dumped into a deep glass jar. Capsules were drawn from the jar one at a time.
DonDiego's birthdate resulted in a draft-number pretty much guaranteeing he would be drafted, . . . which he was 3 or 4 months later. He served as a Junior Officer in the US Navy.

Had DonDiego's parents delayed their copulation for 3 days, or 2 days, . . . or even 1 day DonDiego's birthdate-based draft-number would have kept him out of the military, and he would never have qualified for USAA insurance.

Life is funny, . . . about such things.

Yikes! Waaayyyy TMI there, DD.

Having had a student deferment while I was in college (waaaay back then), my Draft Board notified me that I would be drafted into the military as soon as I graduated. This was just a few months before the lottery system was initiated.

I opted to join a Marine Corps Reserve unit, which reduced my active duty commitment from two years to six months. I was in San Diego “enjoying” Marine Corps boot camp when the first lottery drawing was held. My birthdate-based draft number was 293 out of 366, which meant that, under the lottery system, I would never have been drafted. I was pissed, but I never really knew who to be mad at, until today.

Thanks, DonDiego.

Had clcjim's parents, . . . whether legally married or not, . . . copulated 3 days earlier his number would've been 29. Would that have made clcjim any less angry?

Well, they say as we age, the memory is the first thing to go. Actually, I think it’s the SECOND thing to go, but that would be a whole different thread. Anyway, it turns out that my memory is for shit. When I look up the 1969 lottery results, I see that my draft number was actually 230, not 293. So, It wasn’t nearly as high as I somehow remembered it, but it was still high enough to avoid the draft.

On the other hand, in keeping with your line of thinking, DD, if my parents had done the deed just two days earlier, my number would have been . . . 9!! So, what the hell, I was probably just destined to spend a little time in the military no matter what. In retrospect, it wasn’t so bad, so I guess I can’t complain too much.

The question here is whether Double D came out exactly on time. If so then it was his parents fault for not fornicating on the right date. If Double D came out early, then it isn't their fault.