17:38 Apr 28 2008
Times Read: 656
Five hundred and ninety five dollars. That's the quote I was given for 4 new tires to be put on my husband's truck. I've compared prices and that's a little high, but not outrageous. The good thing about getting them at this place, I tell my husband, is that we can make payments. Yes, it's more expensive than the other place, but at the other place, I can only get 2 tires today because that's all I can afford. At this place I can get all 4 tires and make payments.
Ok..I've talked him into it. He's paying more for them, but he's getting all 4 tires. I feel safer that way with all the driving he does.
So he shows up and tells them he's there for four new tires. He tells the salesman that his wife has been talking to someone already. They find this guy and he sets down with my husband.
......The price has gone up...I shit you not, it hasn't been 30 minutes and the price on the tires has gone up by damn near $200.00. Of course I tell my husband to get the hell out of there. One, I don't want to do business with someone who'll jack around like that. Two, ..what an ass!!
So, Wal-Mart gets the business. I get two tires today, one next week and one the following week.
This guy sucks and anyone who asks me will be told why.
15:21 Apr 18 2008
Times Read: 712
Last night, I'm playing my usual round of Poker. My little one comes in after her shower and hands me the brush. This is a routine we've had since she could walk. Yes, she can brush her own hair, but I'd like to do it for as long as she'll let me.
Anyway, off topic. So I turn away from the computer, she's standing in front of me and we're both facing the big picture windows.
We see a tall, skinny person run up to our front porch and it looks like he's holding a cell phone in his hand because I can see the bluish tinted light move with his arms as he's running. I immediately think it's my son up to his tricks, so I didn't get startled, but Sara, on the other hand, get's scared enough to let out a little scream. The windows are open, the front door is open, it's just the screens and a storm door between us and him/her/whoever.
As soon as she screams, this tall lanky person, makes an about face, and hauls ass, away from us, going in the same direction from where he came.
I really still thought it was my son, but something made me go check his room. We both walk over, open his door and he's sitting on his bed talking on the phone. Ok...strange!
I check my daughter's room and she's there too. Ok, NOW I'm a little worried. I call my husband who is in the pool room. He didn't see anything, but from the direction the runner came, he wouldn't have. Plus, he's watching his WWII movie..nothing distracts him.
I explain the situation, he checks outside, tells me to call the cops and gets his keys. He's going to check the neighboorhood.
The unit arrives, after having canvassed the neighborhood himself. He's seen nothing,but will have someone keep an extra patrol on the place.
My youngest tells me she thinks it was some kids playing the 'Ding Dong Diggity' game. Which is apparantly the equivilant of knocking and/or ringing the doorbell and then running away without getting caught.
Could have been...dunno..will probably never know. It spooked me a little. If this person had been intent on actually getting into my house, he would have had no problem. That's pretty scarey.
A long read..but worth it
17:30 Apr 09 2008
Times Read: 760
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce .
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
PS. - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick'
You lovers of the English language might enjoy this:
There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is 'UP'
It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the mor ning, why do we wake UP ? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP ? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write-UP a report ?
We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car . At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.
And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.
We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP ! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP , look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP , you may wind UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP.
When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP
When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP
One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP , for now my time is UP, so........... it is time to shut UP !
Oh . . . one more thing: WHAT'S IT MEAN WHEN A PERSON SAYS, "UP YOURS?"
AND???
What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do at night? U-P
Oh well, I won't keep this up .....
21:59 Apr 04 2008
Times Read: 778
I stopped going to the rooms for a while. Hadn't been a regular there in oh, a few years.
I decided today to visit for a while. I had a great time visiting with people that I hadn't talked to in ages.
Then the news came. He was gone. He'd had a fatal heart attack.
It shouldnt' have hit me the way it did, but it did. I feel a sorrow that I'm not sure how to handle. There's nothing I can do for his family. Hell, I didn't know his family. I only knew what state he was from.
I didn't know him well. We met in a chat room. He was intelligent, funny and very sweet. Off and on, I'd say we'd been talking in the rooms for maybe a couple of years.
I just ...I don't know..it just hit me and I'm very sad about it.
It's strange that someone I knew so little about can affect me like this.
22:05 Apr 02 2008
Times Read: 798
MOM, it’s what I answer to most often. I’m the worst mother, I am SOO unfair, I’m too old to understand what it’s like to be 16!!(I could kick her ass for that one!) Yes, I have teens..... I won’t give the kids their own cell phones, They have to save up for their own first vehicle. I sing out loud in the car when their friends are with us. They have to learn to do their own laundry, they have chores that they don’t get paid for, I’m sure there’s a ton more that I do to dis-qualify me from worlds best mom, hell the list would go on and on, but at the end of the day. I hear a “Goodnight. I love you Mom” and I know we’ve made it through another day. I pray to have another day, crazy and hectic or peaceful...it’s all about another day with them, and in the end it’s all worth it.
COMMENTS
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sockpuppet
00:13 May 01 2008
You found a gentleman on VR? One with manners? I'll get the peasants out to drive a stake through his heart!
SeleneTremere
14:27 May 01 2008
I've found quite a few gentlemen on VR; however, this particular gentleman isn't from here.