Conversing With The Cashier

[Aggie_Ama]

Rats?

Karen

We have large roaches.

It accidentally rolled off the desk into someone's mouth

I hope they enjoyed it. It was very ripe was going to be perfect. I actually think I may have accidentally threw it away but I just can't remember!

[OakLeaf]

We have large roaches.

Florida roaches are as big as kiwis, but I don't think they could carry one!

[malkin]

I'm always surprised when people ask questions and more surprised when someone answers.

This morning we rode bikes with another couple out to the middle of nowhere where there's a heavily spray painted empty shell of building and abandoned train car...There were a few people heading off the road into the place, and the Mrs. of the people we were with stepped up to some folks and asked, "Excuse me, Just what do people do out there?"

The answer was innocuous enough, they were heading out to take pictures.

I guess I'm just more of a 'Don't ask; don't tell' kind of girl.

[Aggie_Ama]

Florida roaches are as big as kiwis, but I don't think they could carry one!

Yeah the building was built in the early 80's and is not insulated well. Management gets a lot of "send out the pest control calls" when it rains but it is only every few months.

[GLC1968]

Of course. I build fencing into every conversation, anymore. It's just one of the unanticipated perils of motherhood, I suppose.

See, and I hear the word 'fencing' and immedately think of t-posts, cattle panels and electrified wire! Again...different worlds. That doesn't make it a bad thing, right?

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Of course. I build fencing into every conversation, anymore. It's just one of the unanticipated perils of motherhood, I suppose.

Fencing....is that like exercise?

[Zen]

Getting out of bed in the morning is like exercise with my tight joints.

[MomOnBike]

As I was growing up, fencing involved "bob wahr," 6-foot steel posts and rides in the trailer behind the tractor. And a great deal of salty language.

Now, thanks to Younger Daughter, fencing involves weapons, masks and plane tickets. And a certain amount of strong language.

Different worlds, indeed. I have a foot in each, and sometimes feel as though I'm being ripped in half. I wouldn't trade it, though.

[Aggie_Ama]

When we were house hunting I cut my toe on a piece of re-mesh for laying the foundation of sidewalks. I went to get a tetnus shot and the doc asked why I needed one urgently.

I told him being an idiot I wore open toed shoes to a ocnstruction area and stubbed my toe on rusty re-mesh and it broke skin.

He asked what re-mesh was, which wasn't that odd because I am sure it doesn't ring bells if you didn't toil the days at Lowe's but he is a farm boy from Kansas so I thought he might know. So I said "You know that wire metal that is down before they pour concrete for sidewalks." Crickets chirping. So then I added "it is kind of like rebar." More silence. Finally, I said "My last tetnus was likely in middle school, I am now 25 and it was rusty metal so I think it is just best?"

[Zen]

I know what that is.

Some people are isolated from the realities of life. I have in mind a local NPR host and Judge Judy
They don't deal with dirty little things like that. Or cell phones, it would seem.

[Crankin]

I wouldn't have known what re-mesh is.
I do, however, know about re-bar, because in AZ everyone has a swimming pool. When it is being built, you get to the re-bar stage right before the gunnite gets poured and your pool begins to look like a pool.

[Aggie_Ama]

I wonder if it was a thing like Zen's where context or lifestyle threw him? With the amount of building in Austin area and that he told me once he was building a new house I am *pretty* sure he has seen a sidewalk before they pour concrete because for some reason the re-mesh sits for about a week. But some people don't notice the world around them, my husband is one. But he knows what rebar and re-mesh are from working at Lowe's through college too.

The same doc's advice for a good sunscreen "I like this kid's banana boat stuff when I go out on the boat." I was hoping for a little more concrete answer buddy. I just researched it and asked my gyno of all people since dermatologists have a ridiculously long wait. I switched to the other doc in the practice who seems a little more in tune with the world.

[sundial]

In my area, if I said "pilates" someone would think it's something to eat.

I think region has a lot to do with how progressive the mindset is.