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[Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF]

I'm confused!

You say "I HAD a girlfriend...." "we ARE operating on...."

If you "had" a girlfriend then you "were" operating. If you "are operating" then you still have the girlfriend.


Which is it?



On 20-Jul-10 23:42, KD7JYK DM09 wrote:
> I had a girlfriend who needed a new car.  She had her eye on a new Toyota
> Corolla sedan.  She contacted the bank she had been with for several years
> for a loan.  She didn't hear from them for a while so I suggested she try
> the credit union.  They bought the car for her and her monthly payments to
> them were extremely low, the interest rate around 1.5-2% at the time.  Six
> months later, she heard from her bank, they denied her request for a loan.
>
> Currently, we are operating on one income, out mortgage is 12% of that.