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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
I told my ex-DIL the other day that if I ever win the lottery, I'd buy a house big enough for all of us to live in, including her current husband and my son's last girlfriend. Maybe it's the old hippie in me that enjoys all this weirdness. 
Perhaps we should forget winning the lottery and just go for it. Any time we need money, we could panhandle or sell flowers at the airport.  |
I've often thought that extended large families or even people that were accidentally born to the wrong mother are the way to go. not just in a commune environment either. there's always people who want to do/are structured to do different things. and to have so many loving souls for the littles... ahhhh how nice!
this is one of the reasons I keep family members even when divorce and other issues rear their ugly heads
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Originally Posted by omk3
On a different vent and rant, my mother has been waiting for her new pocketbook 360 for AGES!
I ordered it for her 16 days ago, when her cybook gen3 finally died. It was supposed to be sent via dhl, but as the days passed and the dhl tracking site only displayed the useful "transport to destination country", my mother started a marathon of phone calls that took her from dhl to the normal post office, as for some reason dhl said the parcel was not their responsibility. The post office first told her that the parcel was sitting in Germany for like a week. Then it finally was on its way, but they expected it to take 5-15 days!
Yesterday it finally arrived in Greece, but the adventure doesn't end there. Different post office clerks couldn't agree whether it was actually in Athens or not, but at any rate it was not in the post office. Easter approaching, my parents wanted to leave for the holidays, but wanted to wait for the pocketbook. In vain, because no one can tell them anything definite, plus tomorrow is a greek national holiday so post office is closed, so it will certainly not be any sooner than Monday (which is what they said last week too). They can't even tell her if they will deliver it at home or require her to go get it.
ARRRGHHHHHHHH! I sure hope after all this it won't also be damaged on top of everything else...
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even though our postal system is pretty good, we still have issues occasionally including persistently losing one of our states. for whatever reason there are a
LOT of Americans that can't get it through their heads that New Mexico is a state within the contiguous United States. you don't need a passport, to change your money or worry about shots. the New Mexico magazine has a column; "One of our States is Missing", that has stories about losing New Mexico. a couple of years back I sent my folks a package (they are in New Mexico) that went to Mexico, was refused, was then sent to California to a town with the same name as their town, refused, sent
BACK to Mexico, then went into hibernation somewhere and finally showed up at their place with about $15 postage due because of all of the cross border travels. the mailman refused to collect it. I had shipped it comercially, the address was clearly typed and the zip code was correct.