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Skriven 2006-05-12 00:37:02 av James Bradley (1:134/77.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Ardith Hinton
Ärende: What's in...  4B.
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Ardith Hinton wrote James Bradley on 05-09-06 15:42


 AH>           Yes.  Most people seem to find a
 AH> comfortable niche... and there they remain until
 AH> the universe slaps them upside the head with a

That image is ingrained! Ya, when slapped upside the head, a sensible person
pays attention.

I just returned from buying a third lot of "scratch + dent" furniture, but I
haven't seen any scratches or dents on the bunch. Tomorrow, I transport it, so
maybe they'll appear later. The previous lot - at its worst - had one missing
chair leg, six missing nuts, five missing nails. Two tables were missing legs,
and had one corner damaged on one edge only, plus a veneer table, that was
missing the leaf, which was purchased by me last fall. The lot guy, just told
me this is the most complete lot he'd seen in years. I need a bigger shop! <L
l/a lunatic>

All I can say, is long live shoddy Chinese management! I have a pretty good
chunk of Mahogany lumber, thanks to some numskull or another. But I am going to
skim over the next two messages, so don't be insulted when I am not too
thorough. BTW, wanna buy a table? <ROTF>


 AH> quite "fit in" may have some advantages over the
 AH> long haul, though.  We tend to figure out who we
 AH> really are a lot sooner.  ;-)

Viva la difference~! Yup, I'd have to agree 100%. 

 AH>           Agreed on both counts.  Another thing
 AH> which made quite an impression on me, however,
 AH> was that nobody cared whether I was a klutz...
 AH> cf. the kids in school who picked me last
 AH> because I couldn't put the ball over the net.
 AH> These people accept others as they are, because
 AH> we all share a common interest.  :-)

Good on ya! BTW, "cf" is a typo, or does it stand for something?

I went to J+HS with nouveau middle class. My grandparents were already pretty
well off, so I didn't have the shock that others might have. During the HS
reunion, I thought everyone would be more tolerant, and sympathetic to others
plights. Maybe some did, but I saw a lot of accentuation of exactly the people
I had kissed off ten years earlier. /-: The world turns.


 AH>           Right.  Dallas caught her grinning
 AH> from ear to ear on her first time out in a
 AH> borrowed kayak with the appropriate adaptive
 AH> equipment.  Since he was using a telephoto lens
 AH> she didn't realize we'd noticed that.  But Nora
 AH> made no attempt to persuade Dallas & me to join
 AH> in because she didn't need to.
 AH>  We saw how much fun she was having & decided
 AH> we'd like to try the same thing....  :-)

I just purchased my first large lens, and used it at a wedding for the first
time. I'm pretty sure I enhanced their photo album. Some of those candid shots
can be priceless, can't they.


 AH>           If you're a divergent thinker, you
 AH> might as well enjoy it... [grin].

I just heard the police helicopter outside for the second time today. When I
left for auction, I learned a neighbor kid was missing since after school. She
was found at a friends, but I just learned of her whereabouts at ten-thirty.
Boy, is she going to hear it from me! <G>


 |flexibility JB>  is part of the fun in good auctioning.

 AH>           Yes, yes, and yes.  Okay, I'm weird!
 AH> But I can relate... [chuckle].

Takes one to know one! <LOL>

 
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