Merc said to Secretagent.................... " what I'm saying is, being that he was so overweight, I think he should have been softer in the way he said she should lose a few pounds".
I AGREE................
He could have suggested that maybe she "misplace" a few pounds..............
Yeah; one of the doctors I had as a kid in high school smoked a pipe. Of all the people who should be setting an example, it should be a doctor not smoking.
I guess it's like that old saying............." Do as I say, not as I do."
My cremation is already paid for. Sounds as if Recompose realized the money they were missing out on, and came up with an alternative to cremation.
I wonder if there is a charge for this process. I doubt it; as many people would accept a free way to dispose of one's remains, especially if there were no other family members or relatives, nothing to help pay for the final expenses, etc.
Like Popeye used to say............... " I am what I am."
I am not ashamed to admit that I cried when my Mom died, and even tho it has been 25 years since she passed away, my eyes still sometimes leak when I think of her.
Society tries to pigeon-hole us into different categories; and that just won't work because each person is their own individual. No one should live their life according to a perception of what is expected of them by others.
I have always pretty much done whatever I felt like doing, sometimes to the embarrassment of my younger Sister. On more than one occasion, she said " I don't know you " whenever I did some particularly crazy thing. Some of the things that I did do, are cause for dis-belief, but I had a lot of FUN doing it. My motto growing up was " don't say I won't do something, because I will do it just to make you a liar ."
But my picture has never been in the Post Office among those of " Most Wanted ", and most of the people who I went to High School still talk to me at our annual High School reunion. Little kids and puppies seem to like me, so I can't be too awful bad.
So, if I could offer a suggestion..........As you go thru life; show respect for Women, regardless of your personal opinion of the individual. Show respect for elders, even tho you are much more intelligent than they are. And treat everyone fairly...it would be a bummer to have your tombstone sledge-hammered by someone you screwed-over.
Life is short....live it to the fullest, but do it YOUR WAY.....and to hell with what others think.
Maybe I better start picking up pop cans, then, to redeem them for money. Either that, or maybe I can just take a box of Jello with me......you know, a do-it-yourself dessert.
Because you're not leaving this house until you do
I'm sure all of us have heard similar responses from our parents or older siblings as we were growing up, or when we wanted a reason for the punishment that was threatened or actually meted out to us.
I wish I had the opportunity to go back in time, to correct some of the things that I did, which caused others to suffer the consequences of my actions....burning down my Grandfather's barn from playing with matches, taking his car without permission, and causing necessary repairs to the differential because of my driving.
I would like to be able to tell my Mother that I loved her, because the last time I spent with her, I left on a Sunday to return to my home.
After her Husband died, she had made it a practice of saying " I love you " to us kids (adults), and prior to that, it wasn't something that was heard. I guess I was never comfortable saying that, so maybe that is the reason I didn't say it to when I left.
Two nights later, I got the phone call that she was dead; the guess was that she had had a stroke.
So to anyone who might be reading this................IF you have someone in your life that you truly care about, make sure they KNOW your feelings. Tell them, because little words can have such a profound impact. And tomorrow is not a given. You never know when you leave their presence, that you might never get to see them and speak to them again.
You should get a bucket for yourself, and go out and pick up some of the leaves that fall in your yard. Then, go out in the night time when she is asleep, and sprinkle your leaves back into her yard.
RE: Nobody told me there would be days like these........!!
Days, Hell............It's going on 13 YEARS for me !!!