02-16-2022, 07:28 PM | #271 |
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My wife lists me as her contact in case of emergency and the doctor's offices still call me instead of her.
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02-16-2022, 09:28 PM | #272 |
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02-17-2022, 09:05 AM | #274 |
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Back on stuff that never happens in real life....
Meet cute(s). What the holy hell does that even mean, anyway? People meet or they don't. The rest? Meh. Hitch |
02-17-2022, 10:45 AM | #275 |
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02-17-2022, 01:36 PM | #276 |
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I met her at a kind of club dinner in a hotel. She'd come with someone else, but they'd not spoken for a week. She was keen to talk to me as I was the only alternative. I'm rubbish at small talk or casual dinner conversation. So I described something I knew.
"How come you know so much about this hotel?" she asked eventually. Probably bored and wanted to stop me. "My mum's the manager." I realised by this time it wasn't the time to mention that I'd known the receptionist for about fifteen years, she having been the girl next door for nine of them from when I was about six. Anyway turned out I wasn't as boring as her companion. It was the last time she saw him. |
02-17-2022, 02:55 PM | #277 |
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I tell people that my wife picked me up at the Cincinnati Airport.
It is true. We both worked for the same company traveling all over the US. She picked me up there and we drove to Rhode Island. We have been together ever since. Apache |
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04-20-2022, 09:44 AM | #280 |
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04-22-2022, 04:16 PM | #281 |
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It's been almost 40 years since I last read that book and I barely remember even broad plot points, but for some reason the word "hrududu" for a tractor has stuck with me.
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