<p>Go here:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=291896&page=73[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=291896&page=73</a>
for a more fully developed exploration of stogies, pizzas and stooges, according to your tendencies, tastes and timing.</p>
<p>…though everyone is welcome to play, even if showing up a bit late for the game.</p>
<p>We Boomers are pathetic. 50 is not ‘middle’ age–40 is-- but we cannot bear to think of ourselves as old. It’s too horrible! </p>
<p>I like Dorothy X. She’s daring not mean. </p>
<p>p2n–do I know men or what? Off to the site with the tower crane now. Guys called me yesterday. They poured the ground floor slab–don’t I wanna come and see the new concrete?</p>
<p>Now here’s where pizza or clothes could turn my head…but I’ll don the hardhat instead. I’m sure they are loving the costume.</p>
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<p>Exactly! May I quote you on that?</p>
<p>and notice how “stogies, pizzas and stooges, according to your tendencies, tastes and timing.”
works in parallel such that-</p>
<p>stogies/tendencies: habits, perhaps bad ones
pizza/tastes: buds
stooges/timing: comedic timing</p>
<p>and of course always with that lurking innuendo of cross-pollination,…</p>
<p>cheers, you’ve got it right. If a crew is asking for you to visit it’s either:</p>
<ol>
<li> You’re the boss and get them paid …or…</li>
<li> They like you.</li>
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<p>Remember that we men can be pretty clumsy at showing appreciation…sometimes women just don’t get it. </p>
<p>I wonder sometimes what dating must be like at 49 rather than 22, when I last did it. Is it better?</p>
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One correction…it’s not a “garage bedroom,” but rather a bedroom UNDER which there happens to be a garage, rendering sounds floating either UP or DOWN irrelevant! 
Was the image nice? :o The fan collection got good use today as I recently awoke from a dh-suggested V-D nap! :D</p>
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Dottie~</p>
<p>I think I’d have to agree with jym here…maybe this is just one of those “takes one to know one” dealios? 
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I’d also have to agree with this remark, although I’d personally qualify it to say, “AS interesting,” 'cause I’ve found little to be “more” interesting. ;)</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>Cheers- costume? the guys are loving it? Are you wearing Slugg’s frilly apron and feather duster to the job site- with a hot pink hard hat?</p>
<p>rorosen–cheers…much love. </p>
<p>Feel me?</p>
<p>^^I don’t get any love?? <em>pout</em> :(</p>
<p>p2–I ain’t datin’–I am just the long married architect trying to wade through a sea of men on a big construction site. Married 24 years this October. </p>
<p>Of course they like me (see Wilde quote above). Does the hard hat and fluorescent flak jacket–which the gate man gallantly holds for me while I put my arms through the sleeves–fan their imaginations? Absolutely. Their imaginations are in overdrive as it is. No feathers or frillies required.</p>
<p>I’m sure they like me well enough. I don’t swan around with an air of Entitled Architect. I laugh a lot. I am forthright and daring as hell.</p>
<p>Oh yeah–and there aren’t any other women on the site.</p>
<p>OK, so they are interested on lots of levels. The dating question was not specifically for you, but everyone. If the shoe fits…</p>
<p>My wife works in an area where she’s pretty much the only woman as well. I made sure to send the flowers yesterday to her desk. ;)</p>
<p>cheers-
My VD gifts did not contain feathers. Pictures. please. </p>
<p>I have to disagree with your description of “middle aged”. With people living so much longer these days, 50 certainly IS middle aged, not OLD. It has become the new “40”. By comparison, 40 is probably post-pubescent. This makes the 20-somethings absolute babes in the woods. Unfortunately oftentimes quite apparent. </p>
<p>Berurah-
As your patches thread shows, you got lots and lots of love. Don’t feel neglected.</p>
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ummmmmm, no shortage of this either RL or online! 
'twas only a simple attempt at humor, m’dear! ;)</p>
<p>Berurah, I know it was humor— so was my response :)</p>
<p>(however, just in case… wanted to “remind” you of your cyber-support)</p>