Stop answering your phone and having a conversation when we are playing bridge. And turn down the ring volume. It’s sub-deafening.
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Yep. Driving car with one hand and holding waiving full size flag of foreign country out of driver side window is totally safe. As well as trying to see where to drive when during constant stop and go in LA traffic flag is covering entire windshield.
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Dear Superintendent of Schools, when as a result of tornadoes and straight line winds much of the county is without electricity and Internet, sending information in emails is not the most effective way to reach families. Imbedding links and superfluous images was over the top. Text messages would have reached more people in a timely manner.
You should also have someone proofread your messages for tone. Chirpy messages about how the school building were undamaged and would be open as usual on Tuesday morning really did not resonate well with families in affected areas. Your follow up message was not much better. Perhaps instead of sending messages listing places to go for help (hint: county website), you could don a pair of work gloves and actually help.
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Terms of Service also pplies to this thread. There is a thread in the politics forum to discuss the Trump verdict, but any post on the topic here, no matter how veiled a user makes it, will be treated as a ToS violation.
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The left arm has no idea what the right leg is doing! Arrggghhh!!!
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You don’t pay attention to what I’ve told you, or think you knew what I’m said but have it wrong because you rearranged it in your own mind. Then get aggrieved when I get frustrated that you don’t remember.
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Note to self - take the high road, take the high road, take the high road.
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I bought some new sunscreen and it seems to protect well. But I just noticed that it makes me smell kind of funny. 
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for positive interview outcome
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LOL, just gave husband a lesson on how to open a can of crescent roll dough.
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We have to remove a large tree. Spending lots of money to get RID of something stinks, especially when it’s a tree that provides shade in our scorching summers. Sorry to see you go, mighty American elm. 
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I was invited to and just attended the final readings/presentations of my college daughter’s nature writing class. Each student shared a segment of their long non-fiction narrative piece they wrote for class. Brilliant writing. I was blown away, inspired, moved at times to tears. I have hope for the future with these humans in the world.
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The answers given to that question are disappointing and sad.
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I’m not sure what I did to deserve this room. I’m taking a class tomorrow near my kid/GF in nova, so I booked our usual hotel. It’s an older hotel, but the rooms are all huge, the free breakfast is good, I can walk to the kid’s apartment and I also like the surface parking lot instead of a garage. And it’s cheap for the area.
Get here, got to my room and this place is ginormous. It has this super long hallway with 3BR, 2BA, a living room and a full kitchen. Each bedroom has a double closet and there’s an extra gigantic walk-in closet off the hall. I wonder how many suitcases it would take to fill that thing up!
I’m just one person here for one night! I have half a mind every time I wake up to go to the bathroom, to change beds!
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You are the one who said “My highest priority in retirement is X.”
I had my big meeting with HR today and was given forms to do X.
I come home and say, here’s the form to do X; please sign it and put it in the mail tomorrow.
You: why are you being so pushy about X?
Seriously???
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“Non-traditional pronouns”
It seems kind of simple to me - it’s about respect. I don’t call my doctor Mr. - we are deeply ensconced in the age of respect for others who are different than we may be. I work with 35 under 30s and every single one of them has the pronouns “thing” down, with nary a hiccup. Now it’s my (our) generation’s turn to get on board. Think about those godawful terms our grandparents used to use to describe some other people (if you’re not sure what I’m referring to, think Archie Bunker). We (hopefully!) wouldn’t even consider using any of those phrases or words today…thankfully!
“Non-traditional”? Traditions change over time - for a multiple of reasons.
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Man who rear-ended me (I believe I’m fine) - if you’d given me your phone number, I’d call you to tell you how much it will likely be to fix my car before I called your insurance, but since you chose not to, I will have to go right to insurance. Oh well…
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Sitting in our basement because we are under tornado warning - oh boy.
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Please please let one of these job interviews turn into an offer. Jobless for 5 months (after a layoff) and 2 young mouths to feed.
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We are now back upstairs - but serious tornado activity today in our area.
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