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24594. wonkers2 - 10/28/2008 10:35:53 PM iiibbb, ditto on the good wishes for a better day. You may be interested to know that I am representing a member of the Michigan Militia in a legal matter. He is an interesting character but a little scary. He is not happy with how he was treated by his employer and the unemployment agency. He seems to have a bit of a vigilante mentality. I haven't brought up the topic of gun control! 24595. wonkers2 - 10/28/2008 10:53:02 PM Well, at least they aren't Bush supporters. 24596. jexster - 10/28/2008 11:00:09 PM Damn I3...what a bitch...you'll get thru this fuck I am sure
Glad I don't hang out at this thread much...SO depressing..Businesses are closing right and left here too..Even Smart n Final, the Store for the Rest of Us
Just back from my monthly Spaghetti Feed at the Parish's Tuesday Lunch Bunch for the Homeless
My gettis are SO AWESOME that if I don't show up at least once a month, the homeless in the hood come up to me and DEMAND my appearing
No shit...FIVE of them hit me up the other day...they were enjoying cocktail hour on the corner..This is the VERY same neighborhood that yoga fags park their brand new Ferraris...
Where the Rich and Well Heeled of SF dine before opera, ballet, symphony, where by day, the political elites nosh on power lunches
24597. iiibbb - 10/28/2008 11:18:03 PM Message # 24594
Tell him you're against gun control...
...then lock the psycho-traitor up. 24598. iiibbb - 10/28/2008 11:23:08 PM Message # 24596
I've still got a Job Jex... my wife was screwed over here and me taking this job was contingent on her having a job worthy of her degree. They reneged, so we're trying to make something happen to get us to the Northeast rather than the deep South. She's a yankee girl, so it's been a rough year. 24599. jexster - 10/29/2008 2:28:38 AM Wonks will set yall up in Dee-troit 24600. wonkers2 - 10/29/2008 3:59:23 AM Yeah...rrright! 24601. judithathome - 10/29/2008 4:33:08 PM Good morning....got the news yesterday that Keoni needs a CT scan of his chest because an "abnormality" showed up on his annual x-ray.
Needless to say, I am bothered by this. 24602. alistairconnor - 10/29/2008 6:06:52 PM What sort of abnormality? Did they say? Heart stuff? 24603. judithathome - 10/29/2008 6:14:37 PM No, I think it's lungs.
I'm just telling myself the last 2 visits to doctors involving "unusual" things in x-rays turned out to be much ado about nothing and that this one will result in the same.
It did rather miff me a bit that I got this call cold from the doctor...Keoni had forgotten to mention they would be calling with an appointment. 24604. arkymalarky - 10/29/2008 6:36:33 PM Bob and I will be thinking of y'all Judith. Keep us posted. 24605. wonkers2 - 10/29/2008 7:18:37 PM Testing is the way hospitals make their money! When in doubt about the budget round up a few more subjects for tests at $1500 a crack. 24606. wonkers2 - 10/29/2008 7:19:04 PM Doctors also order tests to avoid lawsuits. 24607. anomie - 10/29/2008 10:25:27 PM Because lawsuits make sure doctors run the tests they SHOULD run without the threat of lawsuits. Or something. 24608. judithathome - 10/30/2008 4:14:52 PM Okay, I have a gripe. Keoni and I pay $60 a month ($30 each) to go to LA Fitness to work out. I swim and he uses the machines and sauna and swims in the pool, too. He's a serious swimmer and the pool is set up for serious swimmers.
Ever since we joined, we've had good experiences with the pool and the people who use it. The pool is set up with roped-off lanes...I use the first lane for my aerobic exercises and my swimming laps and Keoni usually works out while I'm swimming and comes in later to the pool, after I've gone home. Last night he decided to swim while I was in the pool because he was so glad I went. (I slacked off all last week.) So we were using the same lane...him swimming and me doing my exercises.
These two guys come into the pool area with their little boys. The age limit for the pool is 18 unless the child is with an adult. These two boys were about 10 years old, at most.
They started to yell and run and jump in and out of the pool, acting like it was a water park. I was finishing up but Keoni was still doing laps...these little punks kept jumping in the lane Keoni was swimming in...while the "adults" they were with lounged in the hot tub off to the side.
I got dressed and went to the desk on my out and asked the manager what the age limit is for the pool...then I complained about the little idiots acting like the pool was an extension of Wet'n'Wild...he said if it happens again, I have to complain while it's going on...in other words, I have to get out of the pool and walk dripping wet to the front desk and lodge a complaint!
I should have gone to the "owners" of the kids and told them to control the little beasts. Which is what I plan to do the next time this happens. And lest anyone think I am just a bitchy old lady who hates kids, there have been others who bring their children into the pool and keep them in line...teaching them to swim, watching over them, and making them behave.
I've never had a problem with that...except for the squick factor of thinking about kids peeing in the pool.
24609. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 10/30/2008 4:39:20 PM  24610. wabbit - 10/30/2008 6:11:30 PM
My niece works in a pet store. People regularly drop their kids off, then go shopping elsewhere, leaving the kids to run around and demand to play with the kittens or rabbits. I told her next time it happens, call the police and report an abandoned child. Let them track down the parent.
Best wishes to Keoni, keep us posted. 24611. Jenerator - 10/30/2008 8:28:58 PM You should have dealt with them directly.
I bet if you had gone to the kids and the dad and said, "Hi. We're not done using this lane, so it's important that no one jumps in and distracts us from our training. Do you think you could go and swim over there? We will let you know as soon as we're done. Thank you so much." they would have done as you asked.
24612. judithathome - 10/31/2008 4:29:41 PM Yes, they probably would have but I wasn't in the mood to "parent" these kiddos...they should have been left in the play area, not brought to the pool. Thats why they HAVE the big room with attendents and games and snacks...for those people who bring their kids to leave them safely in their own place.
The thing that makes me so angry is that this is an adult gym...not a Gymboree. 24613. Jenerator - 10/31/2008 10:01:17 PM But instead of stewing about it, just deal with it quickly and politely.
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