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Napolean to Josephine, “I will return to Paris tomorrow evening. Don’t wash.”
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I like those. We have a friend who told us to let him know when we hear of music shows at a certain location, so hubby called him and he told us that he couldn't because he was going to have a 90 minute foot massage...
ok, I picture the balance scale of good live music show in a beautiful outdoor location on a beautiful spring day or 90 minute foot massage which will cost a bundle...it is probably just me but I am not at all into having strange people touch my body, hence an aversion to hair stylists, dentist, doctors and mas·seuses..
What does one do for 90 minutes when someone is giving them a foot massage? Read? but then you are not in the moment. Small talk with a stranger? not a fan.
I'm sure someone disagrees with me
Also had a sis in law complain because we never invited her to shows we went to and she told us to buy her and hubby's brother tickets to the next show we heard about...guess who? Paul McfriggingCartney! "Oh, I've never been into the
Beatles. Not interested." !!!
One of the best shows I've ever seen and I've been to lots...McCartney is history. oh we gave those tickets away for free to the 90 minute foot massage guy...
Several years later sis in law admitted she regretted not going...Well we never included her in our loop again. It wasn't a cheap mistake for us
End rant.
Oh I will take up the challenge (Il surprise)... Due to my polio hip, it's easy for it to become slightly misaligned. This then makes my knee, ankle, foot, hurt.. Physio or preferably a full body massage , regularly, as well as my electric blanket have staved off the need for a replacement.. I also LOVE getting my feet 'done;, which I am blessed to still have 20 minutes worth from my Blue Care workers, once a fortnight... I had many people say they wanted tickets to the Mary Wilson concert, last year.. I ended up $500 out of pocket, due to one excuse or the other.. BIG lesson learned.. SOOOOO rude!!
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Our friend doesn't have your issues with his feet and legs so is not forgiven.
Yes, concerts money first or definite commitment....McCartney is going to be in region again in October...we won't even bother asking.
HAHAHA...yes, the ones who let me down are not forgiven, either...( One ordered 4 tickets, arrived, on her own, and didn't even pay for hers.. I was supposed to go and stay at her house, but rang and thanked and declined..) Lesson learned..
I would add communication technology power struggles to the list. Does anyone else have acquaintances that will only text but not answer their phone? Or people who talk but refuse to text even when they have a reasonably good phone? Sometimes texting is best, sometimes talking. I resent spending half an hour texting with someone when it could have been handled in a 5 minute call. Then again, sometimes texting is quick, efficient and unobtrusive.
While I HATE texting, I will do it at times. My husband will read texts, but won't send them. Ever. But there's hope for him, since when we got married he also said we were never going to have cable TV (I would have had no problems with that) or computer (we couldn't afford one at that time). Not only was he the first to decide we needed cable TV (for sports, etc), but he eventually started using our computer for email and looking various things related to his hobbies up online, plus sports news.
As we don't have access to mobile phone, our landline is the go. Years ago a friend would ring me with the oven timer on set for 18 minutes as her rate went up after 20 mins.. I knocked this on the head by ringing her back.. She had grown up on a farm where the phone was a party line and not for long conflabs..
Lesley wrote: "As we don't have access to mobile phone, our landline is the go. Years ago a friend would ring me with the oven timer on set for 18 minutes as her rate went up after 20 mins.. I knocked this on the..."Back when my mother was growing up on a farm in Manitoba somewhere in between Lake Manitoba and Dog Lake (actually, she said something about growing up on the shores of Lake Manitoba, but I remember visiting and staying at some place on Dog Lake, but that wasn't the house she grew up in; my grandparents left there in the 1950s), they had a party line. Each house had its own ring, so everyone knew when everyone got a call. One woman would always pick up her phone and eavesdrop, so one day, my Amma (Icelandic for Grandma) casually addressed her during a conversation she had no business to be on and that eavesdropper answered. That showed her!
I had friends even in the 1970s in certain places with party lines (but on the shores of the Pacific Ocean) but thankfully as long as I can remember we had our own telephone line.
We still have a landline with a phone that is plugged into the wall, and don't plan to give it up.
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I grew up in the country in upstate NY and we had party lines into the 70's . You could unscrew the speaker and take the insides out if you wanted to listen in. I never did that, but people would yell at you if you were on the phone to long.
Ah, yes, the old party lines. There were a dozen families on our shared line when I was a teen. As a young adult, I generally had 2 family lines which were quite workable depending on who you were sharing with. Private lines were available but at a considerable premium for my budget at the time.
We were so fancy, we even had a second jack in the 1960s for when my dad was on call. In BC we call medical offices clinics (not to be confused with the US term of clinic) and whichever doctor was on call would plug in their extra phone that had a very large plug with 4 prongs (nothing like what we plug into the wall now).Prior to dial phones (which we didn't get in my home area until the year I was born) the switchboard operator knew who was on call and, often, where they were. Sometimes the doctors would get another call at a house where they were paying a housecall and just go straight from one patient to another.
Karin wrote: "Lesley wrote: "As we don't have access to mobile phone, our landline is the go. Years ago a friend would ring me with the oven timer on set for 18 minutes as her rate went up after 20 mins.. I knoc..."Karen, If you take Dog Lake and draw a line straight through Winnepeg, I was born the same distance away on the other side of Winnepeg, in Baudette, MN.
Blueberry wrote: "Karin wrote: "Lesley wrote: "As we don't have access to mobile phone, our landline is the go. Years ago a friend would ring me with the oven timer on set for 18 minutes as her rate went up after 20..."Wow, same part of the world! My mother grew up on a farm near Vogar; that's where she went to school until she went to Winnipeg for high school; I'm not sure why she said she grew up on the shores of Lake Manitoba when that is further from Vogar than is Dog Lake, but perhaps she was being less than specific.
It looks like you might have a somewhat warmer climate. She hasn't lived in MB since she was a teen; she left before she was 20, that's for sure, so back in the 1950s.
Napolean to Josephine, “I will return to Paris tomorrow evening. Don’t wash.”
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