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| Re: New Thing [message #50080 is a reply to message #49598 ] |
Thu, 31 May 2012 13:51   |
Katsheare
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| katinseattle wrote on Sat, 05 May 2012 18:44 |
| AJLR wrote on Sat, 05 May 2012 09:17 |
I can certainly empathise re trying to get all of one's possessions packed and into a vehicle for a stressful long journey. There was the time I had been posted (in my airforce days) to a new station and had everything I owned (at the age of 22 this was, so not that much) into my car which - halfway through the journey and when rapidly approaching a major roundabout - decided to lose all the hydraulic fluid in the brake cylinder...
I should like to have had a Joe the Doorman to ask about/fix things. 
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Is this a rule of the universe? When I was 22, I moved to Detroit, Michigan for my first adult job. I stowed everything I owned on top of the spare tire with space left over.
Naturally, I had a flat. During rush hour. In February.
A good Samaritan stopped and changed the tire for me - I later learned to do it myself, but that hadn't been part of my education at that point. He moved everything out of the trunk, then stowed it back in. I hope he earned lots of good karma. I still think gratefully of him.
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My favourite Good Samaritan experience was driving up I5 in California at about 12:30 at night. I don't drive and neither of my companions knew what to do with the exploded tyre we had in the middle of nowhere. We were on the side of the road for maybe half an hour when someone pulled up to help: one was a lifeguard in regular life, the other an auto mechanic. I hope they just roam the roads looking for saps like us who need some rescuing. No moving involved, though.
Most of my possessions fit into one of the hard carriers you strap to the top of your car when I went to college, which meant that when my dad looked up and realized that it was no longer attached, I got to think about how much that meant to me. Enough that I was really happy that some trucker had noticed it and pulled it over to the side of the road about a mile back.
None of it involved schlepping a rose. Thankfully.
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| Re: New Thing -- KES [message #50115 is a reply to message #49169 ] |
Sun, 03 June 2012 08:05 |
Katsheare
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Squee! I love all the anticipation of moving into the perfect (on your own) place without any of the reassurance that it is remotely perfect!!
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Hayley spent her evenings rubbing out scuff marks and reapplying shoe polish. And doing calf-stretching and pelvis-straightening exercises.
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When I was in college taking a playwriting class, we had to observe a stranger and write about them. I found someone exactly like Hayley before she'd graduated. And after I'd read my description about her to my classmates, my prof looked at me and said, "If you were using this person in a play, what might be a vulnerability or, like something we might not hate her for?"
And reading Hayley, I now realize that, for me at least, I no longer envy or hate her, but pity is there. What does one sacrifice to be that put together?
So. Seriously. LOVING. New Thing.
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| Re: New Thing -- KES [message #50174 is a reply to message #49169 ] |
Thu, 07 June 2012 02:48 |
 jjmcgaffey
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Registered: September 2010
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NO FAIR. I'm having to remind myself to breathe - I was literally holding my breath from the second "there was a funny noise", and now it's going to be days before I find out what it is!
Cliffhangers. Mutter, mutter...
jjm
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| Re: New Thing -- KES [message #50195 is a reply to message #50193 ] |
Fri, 08 June 2012 03:59 |
Katsheare
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Registered: December 2011
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| equus_peduus wrote on Fri, 08 June 2012 08:17 |
| shalea wrote on Thu, 07 June 2012 14:10 |
| Katsheare wrote on Thu, 07 June 2012 11:38 |
| katinseattle wrote on Thu, 07 June 2012 15:49 |
| Mockorange wrote on Thu, 07 June 2012 03:35 |
Fascinated, I watched the doorknob turning. . . .
Eek!
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**worriedly** Dogs don't turn doorknobs.
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Depends on the doorknob. And the dog.
This is so good.....
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Yes to the latter, and absolutely confirmed on the former -- both of my tall greyhounds can absolutely wiggle doorknobs and I wouldn't put it past a more object-oriented dog to work it out.
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Also, some dogs (generally assistance dogs) are actually TRAINED to open doors... think of the trouble some of those canines could get into XD
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I woke up in the middle of the night really, REALLY worried that it was the Silent Wonder Dog coming up the stairs, and that we were spoiling the story. Then I tried to figure out what dogs there are in Lovecraft, which is difficult when one hasn't touched the stuff since college (and I never inhaled) and my still-half-sleeping mind decided that it was probably just a rat who was a gardener and I slipped into Ratatouille dreams.
(We live near a training facility for assistance dogs, and I do think about the wonderful trouble they could get into in their off hours, and they'd deserve it. Doggie spa, nah. How about Doggie Vegas*!)
*Of which I like the idea, but only if it's nothing like the real Las Vegas, which I was in for about 12 hours and loathed the entire time. But doggie shows and games, frisbee at all hours. What happens in DV stays in DV.
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| Re: New Thing -- KES [message #50228 is a reply to message #50226 ] |
Sat, 09 June 2012 23:50 |
EMoon
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Same here. Breathlessly waiting, me.
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