The Real Sentinel News Today, the Future and Uncle Billy 200502

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The Future as I see it. I believe things will change from what was and will never return after this stay in place is over. Schools and colleges will be mainly if not all be online. Brick and mortar stores will become a thing of the past. Banking will all be online. Jobs as we now know them will never come back for the masses. There will be jobs for police, firemen, hospitals, construction, restaurants, computer techs and engineers. Retail clerks, will be gone. 80% of factory jobs will never return, mining and drilling will have a few jobs. Libraries will all be online. Unemployment will become at least a 15-20% permanent thing and the economy will tank in a major way from then on. I hope my vision is wrong, but it seldom is.	Uncle Billy Those of you long-time readers will remember the stories I have written about him. It seems that uncle Billy got into a mess again. I got his call yesterday from a small town 20 miles south of here and yes, it was from a sheriff's station. He was locked up again. Uncle Billy had rented a booth in a store to sell some of his excess equipment. He didn't hear anything from the owner for 3 months, so Billy fired up the old Chevy truck to drive up and see what was going on there. He arrived and his booth had some young family living in there (they had lost their home and the booth was all they could afford). Billy was furious and he asked what was going on? They replied they didn't know what he was talking about. Billy went through a list of what was where in the booth. The father replied he had moved them into an empty space. Uncle Billy headed to the owner and asked what happened to his equipment? The owner laughed and said you didn't show up so I sold it. Billy told the owner that he wanted his things back and Billy was laughed at and Billy gets unruly when he is made fun of. Billy went back and apologized to the family living there and then went back to deal with the owner who had fled by then. See column 3 for the rest of the story.	Uncle Billy's Plight Billy asked about town where that owner lived, found out where and Billy headed full steam over there. He banged on the door until a young man answered and said he didn't know where his father was. Uncle Billy was undeterred and started out to the barn and found that owner. Billy had him in a choke hold with one arm and had his arm behind him with the other. Billy told him that if the owner had sold his things then Billy wanted a check. The owner laughed again and said you aren't serious and I won't give you anything. Uncle Billy let go the man's arm and reached into his pocket for his little derringer pistol. Billy fired a shot and then said I believe I am dead serious. The gun shot got the owner's attention and he told Billy his check book was in his car in a garage a short distance away. Billy held him ready to apply a choke hold if necessary. They walked over to a garage and went inside. It turned out the garage wasn't the owner's, it was the sheriff's department office. The sheriff looked up, the owner said this man has threatened me and the sheriff arrested uncle Billy. So once again I had to bail Billy out of jail. I told uncle Billy that if he had just gone to Ash Tree Antiques in Ash Grove this would not have happened.