It was a bit late and I wasn't highly motivated to go out. The restrictions on stripers this year are absurd. Not only do you have to toss back shorts, now you have to toss them back if they're too big! I might have to take up golf again... However, since the lockdown golf courses have jacked up their prices and every clueless witless idiot has decided that golf is their new hobby.
No!! You asked which comes first. I answered that depends on the person. Obviously, stupid people talk before thinking. Others think first. Which are you?
Had to resurrect myself for a moment to make a comment. I would have done so to create a thread, but I see there's no need. Anyway...
Living and working about an hour's drive away from Manhattan here's what comes to mind.
Several of my students lost loved ones that day. I was in the teacher's lounge on a break period for both strikes. We all thought the first one was some sort of tragic pilot error. After the second one everything changed. Teaching the subsequent classes that day was a surreal experience. Breaking the news to students who were going about their normal day is something I cannot forget.
However, the thing that sticks most in my memory was seeing the smoke from 55 miles away for DAYS afterwards. That day had a direct impact on my life that resonates until today.
One last thought. I wish the unity that happened in the aftermath could somehow resurface. Does there need to be another unspeakable horror to make that happen?
I think I understand your point of view. Everybody that doesn't agree with your thinking is stupid? Maybe I shouldn't tell anyone I'm left handed? They might think... Oh never mind.
I've thought so for years. The concept of the internet was a brilliant one, but it has brought about decay in so many ways that the negatives far outweighs the positives.
Here's the thing, online dating is actually an oxymoron. You meet people and network online. Dating happens in the real world. At least it did when the world made sense.
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What are you doing?
You making any tonight?OT: Going to sit on the dock and hopefully see the egrets.