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#155731 - 10/12/11 03:14 PM Cell phone to the rescue again!
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Lori - were you in on this SAR escapade?

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#155739 - 10/12/11 06:39 PM Re: Cell phone to the rescue again! [Re: Glenn]
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LOL. I thought the folks lost in sight of the lake (and all the cabins around it) who called on the cell were a little funny.... A corn maze takes the cake.

You can walk through stalks of corn even if you're holding a baby, right?
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#155740 - 10/12/11 06:53 PM Re: Cell phone to the rescue again! [Re: lori]
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One would think so - but I suspect we're wading in the shallow end of the gene pool in this case.

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#155858 - 10/14/11 09:21 PM Re: Cell phone to the rescue again! [Re: Glenn]
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Didn't these people see Field of Dreams? What next, rescuing people lost in parking garages or Home Depot? OMG! I'm trapped on aisle 7!
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#156111 - 10/19/11 11:47 PM Re: Cell phone to the rescue again! [Re: TomD]
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you don't spend a lot of time at Wallys do you??? cool
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#156134 - 10/20/11 02:25 PM Re: Cell phone to the rescue again! [Re: Jimshaw]
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Not a minute. I was in one a few years ago. Probably the biggest stores I have been in are Ikea and the Fry's in North Sacramento. The Fry's is about the size of an aircraft assembly plant or so it seems.
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