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Melfie1222
Member
07-29-2002
| Friday, November 19, 2004 - 8:47 pm
oops. double post
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Friday, November 19, 2004 - 9:10 pm
When I was 18, I worked at Chi-Chi's Mexican restaurant. I had the time of my life working with some of the best people I've ever met at any restaurant. The free chips & salsa throughout the shift was a perk too.
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Sunday, November 21, 2004 - 11:21 pm
When I was a teenager I spent my summers waitressing/prep cooking in the Officers' mess of a cadet training camp/DND base. I had the 5:30am - 1:30 shift serving very fit and good looking 18-30yr old men in uniform their breakfast every day. Best darn job to be had in the Okanagan...*sigh* Oh, to go back there... IF you had to name the one thing about your life right now that you absolutely would not change, what would it be?
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Graceunderfyre
Member
01-21-2004
| Sunday, November 21, 2004 - 11:59 pm
my family
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Llkoolaid
Member
08-01-2001
| Monday, November 22, 2004 - 4:57 am
my great canasta skills just kidding, my immediate family
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Monday, November 22, 2004 - 5:03 am
family and friends (which includes everyone here )
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Monday, November 22, 2004 - 12:11 pm
My figure. But seriously: my mother. Best person I've ever met in my life.
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Wink
Member
10-06-2000
| Monday, November 22, 2004 - 12:50 pm
My age, ever again.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Monday, November 22, 2004 - 2:46 pm
My family. My age. and DD. DH, I would change a lot.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - 7:34 am
My husband.
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - 10:21 am
My bf and my cats. IF you had to name the one TV show that you are embarassed to admit that you watch religiously, what TV show would it be?
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Lancecrossfire
Moderator
07-13-2000
| Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - 11:03 am
I don't have any that fall in that group. I watch Survivor, AR, Mole (when it was on) BB and Apprentice consistently. Those are the only ones these days. I have no problem admitting to those.
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Cindori
Member
07-25-2003
| Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - 11:14 am
Charmed
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - 12:07 pm
Any CURLING that is on.
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Cher
Member
08-18-2004
| Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - 12:24 pm
My family and friends!
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - 12:26 pm
I'll admit to being embarrassed that a fifty-something grandmother doesn't miss Degrassi-the next generation. I love those kids!
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - 12:52 pm
king of the hill
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Justavice
Member
07-12-2003
| Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - 6:23 pm
I don't think there are any shows I am too embarassed about to share here , but IRL, Big Brother, Seventh Heaven, Antiques Roadshow, and I tape every episode of Starting Over.
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Llkoolaid
Member
08-01-2001
| Thursday, November 25, 2004 - 5:53 am
Bachelor
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, November 25, 2004 - 7:55 am
Teen Titans
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Thursday, November 25, 2004 - 12:38 pm
train 48. if you're canadian, you know how horrible this show is. but it's like a train wreck (no pun intended!) i cant... stop... watching... In the spirit of Thanksgiving, and seeing as so many people are travelling this weeekend, thought I'd throw this one out there today: IF you had to recall your worst travel experience, what would it be?
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Thursday, November 25, 2004 - 2:58 pm
That is an easy one! In January of 1971, my husband was overseas so I decided to go home to Upper Michigan to visit the folks right after the holidays. We were living in Norfolk, Virginia at the time and I was 6 months pregnant. Being that it was a beautiful day in Norfolk, I decided to pack my winter gear in my luggage wearing only my heavy coat. They didn't tell me in Norfolk, that it was snowing heavily in the U.P. of Michigan so off I went merrily to make my connection in Chicago. When I arrived in Chicago, I noticed the dreaded CANCELLED next to my flight number. I found my way to the desk to find out what the deal was. Marquette, Michigan was snowed in! The airport was closed and no flights were leaving heading north. I spent all day at the airport, and later that night they were able to get the airport in Green Bay plowed out...so off we went to Green Bay. Me and my merry band of college students trying to return to NMU after the holidays. When we got to Green Bay, the airline arranged for a van to take us to the bus station. It is now way past my bedtime, but we hop on a bus that headed up north. I catch a few z's. Now the bus passes right in front of my in-laws house and I beg the driver to let me off, but he won't. He says I have to arrive at an official bus stop. Well, the bus stop in my home town is a gas station that I know is going to be closed and there will be no one there to meet me as no one is expecting me by bus! I finally arrive at the bus station at 2:00 am and everything in town is closed up. There isn't a pay phone around and I knew if I could call someone it wouldn't do any good because the streets are not passable. I know that the only thing to do is walk to my parents house. There is a LOT of snow and of course my boots and gloves are in my luggage which is still in Green Bay. I learn that the snow plows have started to try and move the snow...so all east/west streets have been cleared. But I need to go ten blocks north! So I walk in snow almost up to my knees then I reach an intersection where I have to climb up a bank of snow that the plow left cross the street, climb over another bank of snow and walk another block in knee deep snow...in my loafers! And then repeat...nine more times! Finally I reach my parents house...and of course everyone is sleeping ....no one is expecting me...and my little brother is a sleepwalker so the house is locked up tight. I start banging on the door...scaring the bejesus out of everyone...but finally home! My luggage arrived three days later! I will never, ever forget that exerience.
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Monday, November 29, 2004 - 10:19 am
Is Mary the only one with a travel horror story? Anyone else have anything they want to add before I post a new question? I think my worst travel story would have to be trying to take a 12-hour Greyhound trip while hungover to the point of constantly dry-heaving. (gross, I know. sorry). But I was SO sick that day, and the motion of the greyhound was not doing anything to calm my tummy. Wouldn't you know it... my seatmate was an 8 year old boy who -- you guessed it -- was prone to motion sickness. About halfway into the trip, he vomited in his seat and ended up splashing me as well. I had to wait 3 hours before the bus got to the ferry, then BEG the driver to grab my bag off the bottom so I could change out of these stinky, vomit-covered clothes. And yes, I had to get on that ferry, too. Already nauseous and getting on a 2hr boat ride. Not enjoyable. I still shudder thinking about that trip.
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Monday, November 29, 2004 - 12:26 pm
Sorry, I was working most of the weekend, and to type out a long story was too tiring a thought. One year, when lived in Montreal, I wanted to take a trip back home to Winnipeg, but being a starving student, I bought a standby ticket. Anyways, I was oblivious to the fact that it the Monday after Indy F1 weekend, and I arrived at the airport at 6am only to see the place was PACKED. Normally a flight to Winnipeg from Montreal goes through Toronto and connects to a different plane. Start at 6am, you're usually in Winnipeg by 9am local time. So, I wasn't able to get on the first flight, and I got onto the second flight, which was only an hour later, because flights between Montreal and Toronto in the morning are every hour. So I get to Toronto, and have missed the first flight to Winnipeg for the day. Only two more left before I'm STUCK in Toronto, with nowhere to go. So....I get bumped off the SECOND flight to Winnipeg as well. Grrrr. Finally, for the THIRD flight, the lady at the gate says to me, something to the effect of the direct Winnipeg flight only has something like 2 seats available, and I was 4th in line. However, she had seats on a Thunder Bay flight, and then a flight from Thunder Bay to Winnipeg that had a better chance of getting me on. So I took that option. So I fly to Thunder Bay. One of the many armpits of Canada. This airport is SO SMALL. Only two gates, and a seating area that holds about 50 people MAX. Well, it's like 2 hours until the connecting flight, so I decide to go OUT from the "secure" gate area, to get some food. The airport is even SMALLER outside the gate area. There were like two payhones, and a little coffee/donut counter, about the size of a food fair counter. And there are only something like two tables of four. The two women working the counter looked like backwoods people that I didn't trust to feed me. So I went back into the "secure" gate area. I put my bag down on the ONLY conveyor/X-ray belt, and the only person working does the metal detector thing, and I go back in. So it's now something like 4:30 pm, and the flight is at 630. There is only ONE other person in the entire gate area. So I sit down, and I guess I fell asleep. I wake up to someone sort of nudging me. I open my eyes, my mouth is hanging open, so I close it, and I am embarassed to see this tiny gate waiting area is now standing room only with like a hundred people in it. I say to the man, "Oh my god I'm so embarassed, my mouth was hanging open!". He replies, "If you think THAT's embarassing, you were snoring too." So ten minutes later, the plane boards, and I was the LAST standby person to get on the flight I recognized other people who had been doing th same journey as me, from the Toronto gate. I felt SO sorry for them, because that was the last flight out from Thunder Bay to Winnipeg for something like two days. Holy crap was I ever lucky. In any case, that was one of the longest travel days of my LIFE. I will never fly standby again. I just don't go anywhere!! hahaha. Oh, and I don't recommend going to Thunder Bay. If it isn't the ARMPIT of Canada, then it is the BUTTHOLE for sure.
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Monday, November 29, 2004 - 12:45 pm
Ha, Eeyore, that sort of reminds me of a cross-canada trip I took on the train. I left Montreal at abut 6pm and took the train to Toronto. Well, the train got in at 11:30pm, and the Toronto-Vancouver train didn't leave until NOON the next day. I had literally $5 in the bank to get me across the country in five days, so needless to say I didn't have money for a hostel in Toronto, let alone one of those baggage lockers. I couldn't leave to grab a coffee, because the doors of the station were locked, and if I left, I couldn't get back in. Plus, since I was MOVING from Montreal home to BC, I had one large suitcases and two large bags with me, which I'd have to lug around with me, given my desperate financial situation. I spent the night locked inside the Toronto train station -- just me and a janitor -- curled up on the cold, marble floor, a week before Christmas. When I got off the train five days later in Vancouver, I don't think I've ever been so happy to see my Mommy.
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