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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Monday, September 21, 2009 - 7:50 pm
Get the receipts and return the items?
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Monday, September 21, 2009 - 10:32 pm
A few years ago my boyfriend (now hubby) bought me the most gawdawful ring ever created from the jewelry store we usually went to for Valentine's Day. It looked like it came from a broken down old gum ball machine. I was stunned for a couple of reasons. 1. He had bought me some far prettier jewelry from the same place on other occasions. 2. He generally knows what I like 3. I was rather expecting an engagement ring I remember wearing it to work and showing it to a friend kinda laughing/crying because it was so ugly. A guy I worked with kept saying what's the matter, are you laughing? Crying? What!?! When he came over for dinner that night, I told him, I was sorry but I really just didn't like the ring. He said, the lady at the store said you would love it. I said she was wrong. We took it back that weekend and he pointed out the saleslady to me. I told him to never buy anything from her again. He returned ugly ring and gave me a pretty sapphire blue ring and earrings too as he felt bad. They were (still are) very pretty. On Monday, I was showing them to my friend at work when one of the "ladies" that sat near her came over, looked at it and said "That's not a real sapphire you know". I withered her with a look and evermore referred to her as the "Rude about my ring" witch.
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Southern_grits
Member
10-08-2009
| Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - 7:17 am
I didn't think it was all that stupid but since dgd couldn't follow my train of thought she sure did. It happened last Wed., she and her sister and my son all got here about the same time for their Christmas visit. She just turned 11 and in the six months since I've seen her has become very grown up. Too grown up for me, her mother lets her wear makeup, streak her hair, and I am wondering what else little Miss H is doing these days. She came into the kitchen where I was and I asked "So... do you date?" Little Miss H gets that tween 'tude going and says "Well that was... random". I felt like an idiot, and very much like the shy, socially backward girl I was at that age. I just said "Okay, so I'm a random sort of person.. do you date?" AAAAH!
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Y2krazy
Member
09-17-2002
| Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - 9:33 am
Not yet, give me time....
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - 4:01 pm
Lol, Southern_grits, I think that was a perfectly normal question, given the changes in your dgd. Of course, I'm older than dirt so I wouldn't see it the same way as the child.
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - 5:25 pm
Pretty sure that I did because now my computer is messed up.
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Sage
Member
07-20-2000
| Thursday, December 31, 2009 - 4:46 pm
Well I had to laugh at myself this morning when I put the Q-tip up my nose instead of in my ear. What was I thinking? LOL!
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Southern_grits
Member
10-08-2009
| Friday, January 01, 2010 - 5:50 am
Sage, I do stupid things like that so often I guess I no longer see them as stupid. Mak, I'm getting there on the older than dirt thing. Maybe H thought it was stupid, maybe she just saw an opportunity to zing one to Granny, I don't know. The girl does need to practice to pull off that "I'm superior to you and want you to know it" attitude teens seem to need to survive today's world. Just my take on it though.
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Friday, January 01, 2010 - 6:31 pm
S_G, another thought is that your question probably took Miss H by surprise and that is her new response to anything that puzzles her. Girls that age have such tough peer pressure now. It's sad they can't just be their sweet little girl selves for at least a few years longer. I did something stupid, but I don't know how or when, which only makes it stupider. I went to the refrigerator to get out the sour cream I bought two days ago for a recipe I was trying out tonight. The sour cream isn't there. I have searched high and low, thinking I must have put it away in the freezer or a cupboard! No luck there, so I went out and checked the car in case it had fallen out of the bag. Nope. I found and checked the receipt to make sure I really did buy it. Yes, I did. Where is it? Darned if I know. I could tell myself the clerk forgot to pack it. Yes, that sounds good. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it. 
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Friday, January 01, 2010 - 6:58 pm
Mak, in a few days if you smell something funny, you may finally find your sour cream! Do you put anything away still in the grocery bag? One time, I stocked up on TP (some bargain at the time), and just stuffed the rolls (still in the grocery bag) into the closet. In the meantime, I noticed I never got the string cheese I paid for. I even took the receipt to the store on my next visit, pointed it out, and got reimbursed. Finally, a month or so later, it comes time to break into my stockpile of TP, and lo and behold I find my stringed cheese. The package was all swelled up and just about to burst. Thank goodness I found it in time! Now I make it a point to unbag everything, as well as consistantly instruct the baggers to bag all the perishables together, and not mix them willy nilly with everything else (which in itself is an endless battle).
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Saturday, January 02, 2010 - 6:37 am
LOL, Who! I love that story. It makes me know that I'm in good company. No, I empty all the grocery bags. I even checked the empty bags to see if somehow I had missed it. If it's here, as you said, it will make itself known in time.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Saturday, January 02, 2010 - 8:42 am
Better check all the cupboards and pantry, Mak1. I bet you put it away somewhere unrefrigerated.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Saturday, January 02, 2010 - 9:03 am
Speaking of sour cream....I had food poisoning yesterday and I think it was from sour cream that I put on taquito. It was within the expiration date. I wont eat sour cream or taquitos for a long time. I threw up about 15 times yesterday, I was dehydrated and would drink a little juice mixed with water and ice, it tasted so good and then 10 min later it came back up. I feel beat up today from the heaving. Hope you find your sour cream, Maks!
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Gumby
Member
08-14-2004
| Saturday, January 02, 2010 - 1:53 pm
How awful Pamy. I hope you're feeling better soon. Not a good way to start the new year.
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Saturday, January 02, 2010 - 5:48 pm
Oh, poor Pamy! I hope you'll feel fine tomorrow and have your strength back. Continuation of my stupid story..... Today I asked dh to pick up some sour cream for me when he went out. I used it tonight. When I went to refrigerate the leftover sour cream, guess what I found hiding behind a big cantaloupe? Yep!
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Saturday, January 02, 2010 - 6:01 pm
Mak1, I guess you're in good company. I've heard that Dolly Parton could never see anything over her big cantaloupes either.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Saturday, January 02, 2010 - 6:02 pm
I hope you feel better soon, Pamy! I keep trying to train DH put to everything back in the fridge where he found it, but it never fails that he puts everything back on the main big shelf. By the end of the week, I have to rearrange the fridge because I can find anything. That's why we end up with 2 of everything. I think we're out, but it's really behind the milk.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Saturday, January 02, 2010 - 6:14 pm
Naja my DH tends to leave stuff in their bags when he puts them in the fridge, so it becomes a guessing game as to what's in the fridge sometimes. Although he is better than I am at finding where to put things when the fridge looks like it's full to bursting.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Saturday, January 02, 2010 - 7:29 pm
ROTF Mak and Hukd! thx ya all, I feel lil better tonite, hoping tomorrow is a feel great day!
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Sunday, January 03, 2010 - 3:26 pm
Lol, Hukd! Good one!
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Friday, March 19, 2010 - 3:57 pm
I pulled a good one yesterday in school. We've had kids in and out of class like crazy this week with field trips, performances, testing, etc. Two girls were gone Wed. when my class took a quiz. We spent the first 10 min. or so Thurs. going over the quiz (my kids can re-test, so I let them see how they did, figure out what they need to study and then collect the tests back). The girls went to the hallway to study together as they were coming in for study hall to take the quiz; I always close the door since I have a "big mouth" and don't want to give up every answer to them. When we finished the quiz, I moved into the next chapter's vocab. which happened to be food, and lots of Spanish words and English recipes were discussed. We then started learning how to conjugate ER verbs, making comparisons to the previous verbs, etc. About 8 minutes before class was over (we have 63 minute classes), a student asked where "Tiff" was. Then it hit me - BOTH girls were still in the hall!! They had been out there almost 40 minutes!! I've forgotten a kid or two for 5 or 10 minutes, but the WHOLE FREAKIN' CLASS??!!! The kids had a good laugh, I apologized up and down (the girls were quite kind about it), and after today's class, I get the distinct impression they're going to rib me about it for quite some time to come! 
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Hermione69
Member
07-23-2002
| Friday, March 19, 2010 - 6:37 pm
Whoops, Teachmichigan! That's pretty funny! I think I've shared this story before on the board, but when I was senior class sponsor, I had to organize the buses for the senior movie trip. They were grouped by homeroom and I accidentally put the students of Mr. Given and Mr. Head on the same bus... Think about that a second. You can imagine the hilarity the students found in that, getting to ride around town in a bus labeled "Given Head." I didn't even realize what I had done until days later when a teacher teased me about it. I thought I was going to fall through the floor in embarrassment. 
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, March 19, 2010 - 7:12 pm
Heh Teach, it'll just teach your students not to miss class anymore, lol, you might leave them in the hallway! LOL Hermie.
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Nickovtyme
Member
07-28-2004
| Friday, March 19, 2010 - 7:50 pm
I started playing Farmville on Facebook.
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Sia
Member
03-10-2002
| Saturday, March 20, 2010 - 3:57 pm
No, but my 11-yr-old DD did. Today she deleted ALL the photos she'd taken with the Kodak EasyShare CD80 camera I gave her a couple of weeks ago. She's been bawling her eyes out. I looked at Kodak and googled and can't find a solution that doesn't require a card reader (what is that?) and downloading a program. I'm off to read up on whatever a card-reader is.
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