Can the adults please smoke?- Page 178
Can the adults please smoke?
#4425the adults will continue smoking, in this or another thread.
Posted: 8/25/04 at 11:35am
Thanks BB! That was needed! 
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
#4426the adults will continue smoking, in this or another thread.
Posted: 8/25/04 at 11:36am
Coffee time!
Sorry I'm late. There's nothing quite like Kaitlin Hopkins singing new songs in your living room in the morning to create a surreal experience.
#4427the adults will continue smoking, in this or another thread.
Posted: 8/25/04 at 11:38am
Just get me my coffee and give you Daddy some sugar on the cheeks. 
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#4428the adults will continue smoking, in this or another thread.
Posted: 8/25/04 at 11:40amCoffee!! Did some wonderful person mention coffee??!!
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#4429the adults will continue smoking, in this or another thread.
Posted: 8/25/04 at 12:58pm
bb - thanks for the Memo!
I'm on my 3rd cup of coffee...what a day!
I'm finally getting to my breakfast....for lunch...an ice cold egg white and tomato omlette....yum!
There are just NOT enough hours in the day!
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
Updated On: 8/25/04 at 12:58 PM
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#4430the adults will continue smoking, in this or another thread.
Posted: 8/25/04 at 1:01pm
A friend just emailed this to me...and I just had to share...
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Only a woman will TRULY relate to the following, but it's a "hoot" for all!
My mother was a fanatic about public bathrooms. When I was a little girl, she'd take me into the stall, teach me to wad up toilet paper and wipe the seat. Then, she'd carefully lay strips of toilet paper to cover the seat. Finally, she'd instruct, "Never, NEVER sit on a public toilet seat.
Then she'd demonstrate "The Stance", which consisted of balancing over the toilet in a sitting position without actually letting any of your flesh make contact with the toilet seat. By this time, I'd have wet down my leg and we'd have to go home to change my clothes.
That was a long time ago. Even now, in my more "mature years", "The Stance" is excruciatingly difficult to maintain, especially when one's bladder is full.
When you have to "go" in a public bathroom, you usually find a line of women that makes you think there's a half-price sale on Nelly's underwear in there. So, you wait and smile politely at all the other ladies, who are also crossing their legs and smiling politely. You get closer and check for feet under the stall doors. Every one is occupied.
Finally, a door opens and you dash in, nearly knocking down the woman leaving the stall. You get in to find the door won't latch. It doesn't matter. The dispenser for the new fangled "seat covers" (invented by someone's Mom, no doubt) is handy, but empty. You would hang your purse on the door hook if there were one - but there isn't - so you carefully but quickly hang it around your neck (mom would turn over in her grave if you put it on the FLOOR!), yank down your pants, and assume "The Stance".
Ahhhh, relief. More relief. But then your thighs begin to shake. You'd love to sit down but you certainly hadn't taken time to wipe the seat or lay toilet paper on it, so you hold "The Stance" as your thighs experience a quake that would register an eight on the Richter scale. To take your mind off of your trembling thighs, you reach for what you discover to be the empty toilet paper dispenser.
In your mind, you can hear your mother's voice saying, "Honey, if you would have tried to clean the seat, you would have KNOWN there was no toilet paper!"
Your thighs shake more. You remember the tiny tissue that you blew your nose on yesterday - the one that's still in your purse. That would have to do. You crumple it in the puffiest way possible. It is still smaller than your thumbnail. Someone pushes open your stall door because the latch doesn't work. The door hits your purse, which is hanging around your neck in front of your chest, and you and your purse topple backward against the tank of the toilet.
"Occupied!" you scream, as you reach for the door, dropping your precious, tiny, crumpled tissue in a puddle, and sliding down, directly onto the insidious toilet seat. You bolt up quickly knowing all too well that it's too late. Your bare bottom has made contact with every imaginable germ and life form on the uncovered seat because YOU never laid down toilet paper - not that there was any, even if you had taken time to try.
You know that your mother would be utterly ashamed of you if she knew, because you're certain that her bare bottom never touched a public toilet seat because, frankly, dear, "You just don't KNOW what kind of diseases you could get."
By this time, the automatic sensor on the back of the toilet is so confused that it flushes, sending up a stream of water akin to a fountain that suddenly sucks everything down with such force that you grab onto the toilet paper dispenser for fear of being dragged off to China.
At that point, you give up, you're soaked by the splashing water, and you're exhausted. You try to wipe with a gum wrapper you found in your pocket, and then slink out inconspicuously to the sinks. You can't figure out how to operate the faucets with the automatic sensors, so you wipe your hands with spit and a dry paper towel and walk past a line of women, still waiting, cross-legged and, at this point, no longer able to smile politely.
One kind soul at the very end of the line points out that you are trailing a piece of toilet paper on your shoe as long as the Mississippi River! (Where was it when you NEEDED it??) You yank the paper from your shoe, plunk it the woman's hand and tell her warmly, "Here, you just might need this".
As you exit, you spot your hubby, who has since entered, used and exited the men's restroom and read a copy of War and Peace while waiting for you. Annoyed, he asks, "What took you so long, and why is your purse hanging around your neck?"
This is dedicated to women everywhere who have ever had to deal with a public restroom (rest??? you've got to be kidding!!). It finally explains to the men what really does take us so long. It also answers their other commonly asked question about why women go to the restroom in pairs. It's so the other woman can hold the door and hand you Kleenex under the door.
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
#4431the adults will continue smoking, in this or another thread.
Posted: 8/25/04 at 1:02pm
NYadgal...I think I need to be your assistant. I work very fast and get things done efficiently. You would have lots of time to play.
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#4432the adults will continue smoking, in this or another thread.
Posted: 8/25/04 at 1:04pm
except that you and I wouldn't get ANYTHING done...except adding about a million posts to this thread!
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
#4433the adults will continue smoking, in this or another thread.
Posted: 8/25/04 at 1:08pm
Is that a bad thing???
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#4434the adults will continue smoking, in this or another thread.
Posted: 8/25/04 at 1:10pm
No. It would be a good thing...
like my new friend?
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"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
Updated On: 8/25/04 at 01:10 PM
#4435the adults will continue smoking, in this or another thread.
Posted: 8/25/04 at 1:17pmokay, when do you need me to start??? I'll pack a lunch for us everyday. Do you want the Partridge Family or Bobby Sherman lunch box? I got the H.R.Pufnstuf one(sorry).
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#4436the adults will continue smoking, in this or another thread.
Posted: 8/25/04 at 1:21pm
I have a better idea.
Let's start our own company. You do the finance, I'll do the advertising. We can sell all things related to our childhood... There's a market for that, right? (I think we're called Boomers....)
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
#4437the adults will continue smoking, in this or another thread.
Posted: 8/25/04 at 1:23pm
I'm ready..we'll talk about when we get together. This just might work NYadgal. 
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#4438the adults will continue smoking, in this or another thread.
Posted: 8/25/04 at 1:27pm
Or maybe we don't have to work at all.
Maybe we can spend all day playing with Aleksei...
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How do we make that happen?
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
#4439the adults will continue smoking, in this or another thread.
Posted: 8/25/04 at 2:01pm
Don't tease me like that NYadgal.
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#4440the adults will continue smoking, in this or another thread.
Posted: 8/25/04 at 2:04pm
sorry boobs, but a girl has to have a dream...
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#4441the adults will continue smoking, in this or another thread.
Posted: 8/25/04 at 2:10pm
...suddenly her head is swimming with "When I First Saw You" from Dreamgirls...
happy smile....
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
#4442the adults will continue smoking, in this or another thread.
Posted: 8/25/04 at 2:31pmohhhhh he is cute!!! ummm abot the washroom thing (there really is NO rest there) I usually grab a couple of the papertowels before I go in. Because usually the toilet seat is covered in pee from women with no aim! Sorry for the over sharing!
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
#4443the adults will continue smoking, in this or another thread.
Posted: 8/25/04 at 3:42pm
Lord help me. I hate aparmtent hunting in this city. Seriously, I think being homeless on the streets would be an easier thing to do.
Don't mind my pessimism, guys. It's just been a nasty day already.
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#4444the adults will continue smoking, in this or another thread.
Posted: 8/25/04 at 3:42pm
mom - paper towels - important safety tip!
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
Updated On: 8/25/04 at 03:42 PM
#4445the adults will continue smoking, in this or another thread.
Posted: 8/25/04 at 3:46pm
I'm sorry bwaysinger...just breathe. You'll find something. Do I need to come over and massage you tonight?
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#4446the adults will continue smoking, in this or another thread.
Posted: 8/25/04 at 3:49pm
bwaysinger - it's the worst!
Are you having ANY luck??
Are you renting or buying?
I've decided I'm never moving again. At least not to another NY co-op. The co-op board process is such a nightmare!
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
#4447the adults will continue smoking, in this or another thread.
Posted: 8/25/04 at 3:52pm
See you guys later..gotta get going. Ciao for now my friends.
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#4448the adults will continue smoking, in this or another thread.
Posted: 8/25/04 at 3:53pm
See you tomorrow.
Have fun tonight....without me....weep....weep....
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
#4449the adults will continue smoking, in this or another thread.
Posted: 8/25/04 at 4:07pmBBis leaving?? sniff sniff... bye bye
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
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