<p>Doubleplay and over30 - Take this as a compliment. As in, nobody could possibly add anything more to your wisdom and insight! ;)</p>
<p>Okay, now I’m laughing. Thanks roshke and doubleplay.</p>
<p>The only reason I have that many posts is that I’ve been here for over 5 years (way back to the original forum)! That’s considerably less than 1 post per day. </p>
<p>Oh yeah, and the truth is I’m considerably over 50.</p>
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<p>Andrew Speaker is the new Typhoid Mary.</p>
<p>“Posts in the cafes aren’t counted…” And this on top of the “no double spaces after a period” awakening. I’m feeling the earth shake under my feet.</p>
<p>“Posts in the cafes aren’t counted…” </p>
<p>:( Some of my most erudite comments have been posted in the cafe.
And some of the most profound ideas I’ve ever read have come from here. We need to stand up for our rights!</p>
<p>Over30 - you don’t have to say you’re in your 50s! My MIL, who is of a “certain” age, has been telling everyone for years that she is “plenty-nine”!!! And now that I’ve gotten up to a very lady-like age, I, too, am plenty-nine!</p>
<p>My favorite age was thirty-through. If you said it fast enough it sounded like thirty-three. I guess I could be forty-through, but it seems like too much work.</p>
<p>One of my favorite parenting stories (from Readers Digest, years ago): an exasperated mom tells her husband “That’s it! I quit!”<br>
His reply, “Honey,if it was a job you could have quit, you would have been fired long ago…”</p>
<p>Along similiar lines, when someone complains about a volunteer not doing a good job, I think “If it was a situation where we could fire them, they would have quit long ago…”</p>
<p>Thanks to all you unsung heroes who volunteer your time: on cc, at school, etc. etc.</p>