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[weaver.terrence]

Great pic lph!

[crazycanuck]

Umm, I need some help w our friend that's gone a bit too far...

To make a long story short (am happy to make it longer if need be) our friend broke up with her ex a few years ago in a not so nice way. She's remained friends w her ex & often goes over to his house as he n his bro live in Perth (from nz). My dear called me the other day and told me she's been banned from thier house because she put bleach in her ex's new gf's tampons, shampoo bottles, soap etc. I'm not kidding about this....

We've helped our friend quite a bit over the last few years & know she's on depression meds etc...

What do we do?

Help!

[Crankin]

This is serious. Besides the fact that it could be a legal matter, if the ex pursues it, she needs help. Who does she see for her depression? She needs a psych eval pronto. Does she have family members that you could enlist to help?
This is only my humble clinical counseling intern advice...., but CC, again this is serious. PM me if you want.

[tulip]

CC--PM Crankin for sure. She knows what she's talking about. That's serious, bordering on criminal. Who knows what else she might do. Get some professional advice pronto.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

That's serious, bordering on criminal.

I'm pretty sure it is criminal. Imagine washing your face with bleach and getting it in your eyes.

What's next if nobody stops her?- bleach (or worse) in soda or water bottles?...

[Crankin]

This is a random whine, but it is cycling related.
My exchange student son, arranged for us to buy team gear from his personal training/coaching company. I was very excited to have it arrive. DH went over with him many times, I wear an x small woman's size... he said, no worry, yes the clothes are for women.
What I got were men's size small bibs, with a woman's chamois inserted in the men's bibs and a men's size small jersey, with tons of elastic on the bottom.
I guess this is a good statement on how few women in Europe ride for fitness, although he should have known better, since he lives in Colorado most of the year, now. I called my son and told him the gear would fit him perfectly (he's a men's small), if he didn't mind the "women's chamois."

[Eden]

What I got were men's size small bibs, with a woman's chamois inserted in the men's bibs and a men's size small jersey, with tons of elastic on the bottom.

I feel your pain..... our team gear is mostly men's sizing. (well - they have women's sizing but we can't offer both because we wouldn't make the minimums.... I think our shorts, though not bibs, are womens) Thankfully they go smaller than a plain small on the most important items, but even the xxs size is a little large on me. I am totally locked out of some things. All the long sleeve things (shirts - jackets - skinsuits) only go to small and are *huge*

[NbyNW]

We are in Jasper for family vacation this week and by coincidence Lance Armstrong is also here to do a special ride with a bunch of folks who raised $25k each for breast cancer. This particular event was called Think Pink. The route was kept secret because they wanted to keep media and crowds to a minimum.

So I happened to be riding with a friend today when we decided to split up and meet down the road, since I had pretty much used up my legs and she wanted to continue on another 8 miles . . . the peloton came by while I was waiting for her, and boy was it exciting!

First an RCMP patrol car asked me to move over to the side a bit more, and then here came the peloton. The riders were all wearing yellow but Lance was in red. Got a little "hey" nod from Lance and lead riders!

There were maybe three dozen in the peloton, and maybe a dozen more trailing/dropped. I think it was towards the end of their ride, but all looked tired and happy. It was fun to just cheer on the riders and let them know they done good.

[snapdragen]

Very cool NbyNW

[redrhodie]

You know your massage was good when you forget to leave the tip.

[jelee1311]

I've never had one that good but I did leave the vet without paying the other day

[kelownagirl]

You know your massage was good when you forget to leave the tip.

Are you supposed to tip? (seriously)

[redrhodie]

Are you supposed to tip? (seriously)

I always (I guess mean usually ) tip around 15%.

I'm curious to see what others say to this.

[OakLeaf]

I tip 20% if the therapist works for a salon or bodyworks studio.

If they own their own practice, then I don't tip.

Might be different outside the USA, though.

[crazycanuck]

It's only in the US kids...

BWAH AHAAAA i've never heard of such thing being done down this way...

Perhaps ONLY at a nice restaurant but otherwise no and they don't even think about it.