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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Tuesday, February 06, 2007 - 1:07 pm
RN...cute story Karuuna. RN # 2...Many years ago, when my Mother worked for a government agency (God that is a scary thought) she was over in Hawaii, driving a company car...she ran the car off of the road and into a ditch as to not hit a couple of birds that flew in front of her.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Tuesday, February 06, 2007 - 1:45 pm
A friend of mine talks to anything: plants, trees animals. She and her husband were hiking along a road when she so a turtle resting on the pavement. She picked him up and moved him off the road and gave him a lecture about the dangers involved in resting on the road. She looked up and saw two hikers were now standing there looking at her. As they walked off she asked her husband how long they had been standing there. "The whole time" he said.
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Tuesday, February 06, 2007 - 2:04 pm
RN you all are very sweet & i appreciate the stories. RN did a mushroom cloud appear over Savannah a short time ago?
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, February 06, 2007 - 2:51 pm
RN: Again, the tears are a flowin. I got back from lunch with my team, they took me to a really good cafe for bistro style sandwiches and salad, and there were two huge bouquets of flowers at my desk and a big "Happy Birthday Rachel" cake. I also got an African Violet Plant. So far, well since I was about 14, this has been the best birthday.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Tuesday, February 06, 2007 - 3:02 pm
RN Happy Birthday Escapee
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Tuesday, February 06, 2007 - 3:07 pm
RN When I was living in Italy my parents came to visit and I drove them all over Italy. On our way to Rome I ran over a cat. I was so hysterical about it that I couldn't drive. Well, neither could my parents! So we all had to wait until I calmed down enough to drive. That was in 1970 and I still remember that cat.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, February 06, 2007 - 3:35 pm
RN: In high school, during my senior year, I hit a bird every day for a week. Not on purpose, just by way of bad luck. I went to school way out in the sticks and either a bird flew into my windshield, or it'd land in the street and I'd swerve to miss it and hit it, or the time I though "i won't swerve, so I don't hit it, then I hit it." My brother and his friend who rode with me every day made fun of me all year long for that. They still refer to it once in a while.
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Tuesday, February 06, 2007 - 3:36 pm
RN: I think I'm in lust! Coworker went to post office and without me asking brought me back not 1...but 4 candy bars!!! I haven't even been bitchy today!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, February 06, 2007 - 3:54 pm
RN, I always hate hitting any critter. My ex was the same way (see, he did have some good attributes). He was like Kar and would make sure the poor creature wasn't left suffering. I remember him going back to make sure a rabbit he hit was really gone and another time I was driving home in the fog, he was following in another car. We lived way out in the country, no street lights, etc., for miles, so were being cautious. First we saw some people stopped by the road watching a small, sickly coyote who was in the road and he helped get him heading into a field, instead of being on the pavement. About 10 minutes later, I was coming down a hill by Irvine Lake and a large, beautiful, coyote leapt off a bank right in front of my car.. there was NO chance to avoid it but I pulled over down the hill.. My ex also pulled over and we went back but before we could get to it someone else hit it and it was over. We all pulled it over to the side of the road and didn't really condider burial but left it for predators (local vultures, even a condor! and possible mountain lions), but it sure rattled me. I guess the only time I'm unsympathetic is when bugs hit the windshield. I've seen animals who seemed to be flirting with death. There was an owl in the canyon who liked (?) to fly low over the front of an oncoming car and I almost went off the road a couple of times very late at night due to this owl. I never hit him, but someone eventually did. And when I worked in El Segundo, there was a big field across from our building (long gone, big hotel there now) and there was a fabulous family of foxes there. But one of the foxes kept running right in front of cars on that road, often very late at night, so I had to really be alert if I left work very late, because he'd just run right in front of my car. RN, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Escapee!! Pretty nice to have a best birthday, huh??? And really nice to have it at work.
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Tuesday, February 06, 2007 - 3:54 pm
Right now ... I'm bugged. It's my second day at work without a boss and no one has asked if I need help or told me who the new chain of command for me is or said anything. I had to call HR to find out who was going to be reviewing my timecard to make sure I get paid! Ugh!!! Rant over. I may need to take a couple of Scoots candy bars!!!
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Tuesday, February 06, 2007 - 3:58 pm
RN...I will gladly share with you Nick!
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Native_texan
Member
08-24-2004
| Tuesday, February 06, 2007 - 4:00 pm
RN, many years ago in order to avoid hitting a cat, I put a car in a ditch so deep that when I stopped I was leaning back in my seat looking at the sky. There was a terrible storm, I was out in the country and I figured if I ran fast enough to the house down the road my feet wouldn't touch the ground long enough for lightning to strike (I was 19, okay). My dad, who is an animal of great magnitude (he cried one time when one of his hatching birds didn't make it) had to come out in the storm and, let me tell you, he was not happy. When we got the car out, he turned around, looked at me and said "next time, hit the cat."
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Tuesday, February 06, 2007 - 4:02 pm
RN: NT said "My dad, who is an animal of great magnitude....." I'm thinking she meant "animal lover of great magnitude"
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Tuesday, February 06, 2007 - 4:04 pm
Right now ... I'm loving all these stories!! Thanks Scoot!!
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, February 06, 2007 - 4:06 pm
RN: LOL I just got off of the phone with a gentleman from Napa Life Magazine. Landi, have you heard of this publication?
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Tuesday, February 06, 2007 - 4:42 pm
right now, yep, my daughter went to pre-school with the daughter of the executive director. i get it in the mail.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, February 06, 2007 - 5:03 pm
RN: I spoke with "jeff". He loves Sunsweet Products.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Tuesday, February 06, 2007 - 5:04 pm
RN I'm thinking of the time a few years ago I was driving through the country from northeast Iowa home to Chicago. All of a sudden there in front of me in the middle of the road was just the hindquarters of a deer!! Sure took me by surprise. It was fall, so I'm thinking some hunters had lost it.
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Native_texan
Member
08-24-2004
| Tuesday, February 06, 2007 - 6:35 pm
RN, ROFLMAO, just my luck Scoot would catch my goof. And what a goof to make! But, if truth be known, my daddy is a great big teddy bear.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 12:27 am
RN I am so glad today is now yesterday and its really already tomorrow. 2:25 AM
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 7:44 am
RN i'll give anyone that wants it my 5% raise to come here and sit through disciplinary actions at 11 with 2 separate employees so i don't have to.
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 7:59 am
Right now ... I'm home sick so my department will be completely person-less! LOL! Sorry Cnd ... I don't like disciplinary actions either. Good luck.
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 10:12 am
RN vacanick, i'm sorry you are sick. thanks for the support on the disciplinary actions. they actually went better than i thought. both had excuses for everything but in the end acknowledged that they made the mistakes that caused us to send out over 590 erroneous water & sewer bills. i was actually there in an observant position and to ask questions if needed for clarification. i let the manager in question do the presentation to his employees. RN the other disciplinary action that my boss will attend (thank goodness) has been postponed until additional data can be gathered. it's a nasty one about personal conduct and verbal confrontations. RN it is beautiful outside and i'm heading to lunch in a few minutes.
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 10:25 am
RN Nick...feel better soon!!! (((NICK))))))
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 10:53 am
Right now, Nic, hope that you are feeling better. Nicholas spread the love, didn't he?
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