The last person to post here wins...

[Handley_Page]

Originally Posted by SweetMaj

Your high pressure system feels sooo good in my Last!

Hi Tio!

I'm off in a minute.

Night-night

[SweetMaj]

Originally Posted by Handley_Page

Night-night

Good night, HP.

[Tio_Narratore]

Originally Posted by SweetMaj

Good night, HP.

Sweet dreams, sweetheart...

[SweetMaj]

Originally Posted by Tio_Narratore

Sweet dreams, sweetheart...

I wish you a night filled with sweet dreams too, Tio.


Good night to all the other Lasters as well.

[YoursSINSerely]

I'm here and I'm wide awake.

[TxRad]

Originally Posted by YoursSINSerely

I'm here and I'm wide awake.

I'm here but headed for bed.

ZZZZZZZZZZ

[YoursSINSerely]

Originally Posted by TxRad

I'm here but headed for bed.

ZZZZZZZZZZ

Good night, Tx.

[steve44uk]

Hello...? <listens to diminishing echoes>

[Handley_Page]

Originally Posted by steve44uk

Hello...? <listens to diminishing echoes>

and in the fog of distance, come the reply:

"What the hell do you want?"

A trifle cool, this morning ?
Hot coffee is indicated.

[TxRad]

Originally Posted by Handley_Page

and in the fog of distance, come the reply:

"What the hell do you want?"

A trifle cool, this morning ?
Hot coffee is indicated.

Morning HP).

It's supposed to be in the mid 70's again today but with a little rain. Then it gets cold and rainy tonight and stays that way.

If ya don't liker the weather around here just wait a day and it'll change. Usually for the worse.

Coffee, yeah!

[steve44uk]

Originally Posted by Handley_Page

and in the fog of distance, come the reply:

"What the hell do you want?"

A trifle cool, this morning ?
Hot coffee is indicated.

Oh, nothing, really. Sorry, did I wake you up...?

Coffee? Having just braved an unfamiliar Sainsbury's for the weekly shop, I believe my response is, "Fuck, yeah!"

[Handley_Page]

Originally Posted by steve44uk

Oh, nothing, really. Sorry, did I wake you up...?

Coffee? Having just braved an unfamiliar Sainsbury's for the weekly shop, I believe my response is, "Fuck, yeah!"

Almost any unfamiliar Supermarket is a frightening experience.

What really peeves me are two classes of shopper:
The ones with a mobile phone welded to their ear, or
The ones with a thousand yard stare.
Neither are switched on to what they are doing. I can [mostly] put up with uncontrolled kids, or even a confused Granny, but the others drive me to distraction.
Then there's the one who has her trolley on one side and clogs up the other while she looks, very carefully, at some product or other, completely oblivious to the hoards in either direction who simply want to get on and get out ?
I cannot get out fast enough.

Do you have "fun" with Ms X who seems to think getting the money out is a job best done the very last of all, and in exquisite slowness, requiring the burrowing down through layer after layer of miscellaneous junk to find a purse ?
Then the sheer unalloyed fun of watching her repeat the process to find the card number in a different purse, of course).
And then being surprised by the machine ?
And don't mention finding her reading glasses.

By this time I'm ready to sympathise with almost any homicidal maniac.

[MistressLynn]

55 and sunny here.

[Handley_Page]

Originally Posted by MistressLynn

55 and sunny here.

Lucky so & so

[Dianthus]

Good day, Last people.

I finally am winning the flu war. Go me!

Originally Posted by Handley_Page

Almost any unfamiliar Supermarket is a frightening experience.

<snip>

Do you have "fun" with Ms X who seems to think getting the money out is a job best done the very last of all, and in exquisite slowness, requiring the burrowing down through layer after layer of miscellaneous junk to find a purse ?
Then the sheer unalloyed fun of watching her repeat the process to find the card number in a different purse, of course).
And then being surprised by the machine ?
And don't mention finding her reading glasses.

By this time I'm ready to sympathise with almost any homicidal maniac.

I've run into those people, yes. At the cafeteria, however, many of us stand with exact change out while waiting in the 20-person long line, while others chatter away and look surprised when they get to the cash register, fumbling in their pockets for some money.

I don't think its necessarily a gender thing.

[TxRad]

Morning Lynn

[Handley_Page]

Originally Posted by Dianthus

Good day, Last people.

I finally am winning the flu war. Go me!

I've run into those people, yes. At the cafeteria, however, many of us stand with exact change out while waiting in the 20-person long line, while others chatter away and look surprised when they get to the cash register, fumbling in their pockets for some money.

I don't think its necessarily a gender thing.

I think it is; at least, it is in our Supermarkets.
At the cafeteria, it makes you want to yell [loudly]
"Oy. Will you concentrate please? Some of us would prefer to drink HOT tea"

[MistressLynn]

Originally Posted by Handley_Page

Almost any unfamiliar Supermarket is a frightening experience.

What really peeves me are two classes of shopper:
The ones with a mobile phone welded to their ear, or
The ones with a thousand yard stare.
Neither are switched on to what they are doing. I can [mostly] put up with uncontrolled kids, or even a confused Granny, but the others drive me to distraction.
Then there's the one who has her trolley on one side and clogs up the other while she looks, very carefully, at some product or other, completely oblivious to the hoards in either direction who simply want to get on and get out ?
I cannot get out fast enough.

Do you have "fun" with Ms X who seems to think getting the money out is a job best done the very last of all, and in exquisite slowness, requiring the burrowing down through layer after layer of miscellaneous junk to find a purse ?
Then the sheer unalloyed fun of watching her repeat the process to find the card number in a different purse, of course).
And then being surprised by the machine ?
And don't mention finding her reading glasses.

By this time I'm ready to sympathise with almost any homicidal maniac.

Not everyone is aware of their surroundings or considerate of others. Many have work, family, bills, and who knows what else on their minds as they shop. They used to bother me. But why give anyone enough power to irritate me? So I just smile, go about my shopping, thinking about something pleasant instead. Simple enough.

Originally Posted by Handley_Page

Lucky so & so

Indeed.

[MistressLynn]

Originally Posted by Dianthus

Good day, Last people.

I finally am winning the flu war. Go me!




I've run into those people, yes. At the cafeteria, however, many of us stand with exact change out while waiting in the 20-person long line, while others chatter away and look surprised when they get to the cash register, fumbling in their pockets for some money.

I don't think its necessarily a gender thing.

Glad to hear you're better.

Originally Posted by TxRad

Morning Lynn

Morning, Tx.

[Handley_Page]

Originally Posted by MistressLynn

Not everyone is aware of their surroundings or considerate of others. Many have work, family, bills, and who knows what else on their minds as they shop. They used to bother me. But why give anyone enough power to irritate me? So I just smile, go about my shopping, thinking about something pleasant instead. Simple enough.

Indeed.

An excellent point. However, why should that stop them thinking about where they are, what they're doing and getting out ?

"Put the phone down, stupid, pay the effin' bill and go away, huh?"

[MistressLynn]

Originally Posted by Handley_Page

An excellent point. However, why should that stop them thinking about where they are, what they're doing and getting out ?

"Put the phone down, stupid, pay the effin' bill and go away, huh?"

Because, as I said, not everyone is considerate.

[TxRad]

Morning Di,

Glad you're feeling better.

[MistressLynn]

Get much writing done this week, Tx?

[Dianthus]

Originally Posted by Handley_Page

I think it is; at least, it is in our Supermarkets.
At the cafeteria, it makes you want to yell [loudly]
"Oy. Will you concentrate please? Some of us would prefer to drink HOT tea"

See Lynn's excellent point, below, HP. Serenity rules.

Originally Posted by MistressLynn

Not everyone is aware of their surroundings or considerate of others. Many have work, family, bills, and who knows what else on their minds as they shop. They used to bother me. But why give anyone enough power to irritate me? So I just smile, go about my shopping, thinking about something pleasant instead. Simple enough.

You put this so well, Lynn.

I would add that, in addition to keeping my own power for positive things, I'm sure that I have been distracted in my turn...not everyone could see that it was because a loved one was ill or dying, I'm sure. And it would make me feel worse to know that I was upsetting or delaying people.

Originally Posted by MistressLynn

Glad to hear you're better.

Originally Posted by TxRad

Morning Di,

Glad you're feeling better.

Thanks very much.

How are things with you?

[MistressLynn]

Originally Posted by Dianthus

See Lynn's excellent point, below, HP. Serenity rules.



You put this so well, Lynn.

I would add that, in addition to keeping my own power for positive things, I'm sure that I have been distracted in my turn...not everyone could see that it was because a loved one was ill or dying, I'm sure. And it would make me feel worse to know that I was upsetting or delaying people.





Thanks very much.

How are things with you?

Yep, family illness, death, job loss, money issues, foreclosure, past due notices . . . distractions others who don't know us don't see.