That's scary and frustrating, Sue.
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Calli - Jan 25, 2012 1:09:25 pm PST #18351 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Sue - Jan 25, 2012 1:20:35 pm PST #18352 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Thanks guys. I told her to ask her doctor for tests, but her memory is not good and she's as stubborn as a pike, so who knows if she will or not.
amyth - Jan 25, 2012 1:23:40 pm PST #18353 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
x-posted with Bitches: after twelve years, I just bought a (used) car. I can go places when I want to go places.
I'm kind of freaking out.
Jesse - Jan 25, 2012 1:34:22 pm PST #18354 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That's exciting, amyth! I sometimes dream of driving, but am too scared.
Sue - Jan 25, 2012 1:37:17 pm PST #18355 of 30001
hip deep in pie
That is exciting Amyth!
amyth - Jan 25, 2012 1:41:44 pm PST #18356 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
You don't drive, Jesse? Sometimes I dream of an urban life where I never have to drive again, but here in NC, 12 years with almost no driving has been pretty limiting.
Also, hivemind: anyone on here Scottish, or know anyone Scottish? A FOAF is writing a book set in Scotland and has a question about a turn of phrase.
Jesse - Jan 25, 2012 1:54:17 pm PST #18357 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Nope. I have a license, but haven't driven in years. Not regularly since high school. Boston is the kind of place where you can do without, but it is better to have a car. Or at least access to one....
le nubian - Jan 25, 2012 2:22:36 pm PST #18358 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
When I was last in Boston, I feared for me life: while being a passenger in a car, while being a pedestrian. I could not believe the extent to which people drove fast and badly and didn't seem to care about basic rules of the road.
I give Boston drivers the side eye to this day!
Ginger - Jan 25, 2012 2:25:07 pm PST #18359 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Boston is the worst place I've driven. People pass on the right in a single lane. They sit a lights with one foot on the accelerator and one on the brake.
Jesse - Jan 25, 2012 2:25:22 pm PST #18360 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Heh. And people who didn't grow up here wonder why I seem to cross the street at random: I am going when it is safe, which is not at all the same thing as when I have a walk sign!