A stitch in time saves nine.

This refers to a time when clothes were hard to come by and often homemade. If they tore, a small tear could be fixed with one stitch of needle and thread, but if let go too long, it would take many more stitches to repair a bigger rip.

Change your oil (or tires) in time, or change your car.

I’d bet you dollars to RAM…

Also, I enjoy etymology. To me donuts will always be doughnaughts. (Naught meaning nothing or zero. Essentially zeroes made of dough.)

I came here for this comment. Thanks OP.

People who face challenges learn and grow as individuals. They become better people. The best people usually have had the most to overcome. Lung cancer is a hell of a life lesson and teacher.

The people you don’t respect or you dislike usually haven’t earned it. They’ve had it the easiest.

I believe we set/choose paths that put our own obstacles in our way. Not because we are wrong or stupid, but because we choose to learn or gain strength (spiritual or physical).

And saying God can’t be the light in the sky, a flower in a valley, an antique carbureted engine, or a lung cancer diagnosis is to limit God’s ability to make us better people… and I am not willing to do that.

Change my answer… I wanna join you and your mom and see Elvis in a high school gym.

Im checking for squirrels!

Yup. This is the one.

Trainspotting (although i loved it when i was younger) is a bit grim.

Have you ever heard of “McAuslan in the Rough” by George Macdonald Frasier. Very fun, light hearted, but heartfelt, well written and more Scottish than a dram of the wee creature.

And yer no foolin’ we the Haggis, tatties and neeps.

Great book by a Swede… The 100 year Old Man who Climbed Out A Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson. Surprisingly good and funny. Light hearted. If you like books about people being on the road. Good stuff.