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[Helene2013]

Love it Muirenn...I'll share too on my desk wall. haha

[Pax]

My wife and I just had breakfast at a locals joint down by the beach, as we were waiting for our food an aging suffer dude came in with three young girls, maybe 14-15 years old. He sat them right next to us and proceeded to pontificate about the ills of women in sports, said it was just unwatchable; then he started enumerating "women's basketball is **** ball, softball, don't get me started! Lez-dyk * ball". This went on for a couple of minutes until I turned around and said COULD YOU GIVE IT A REST! He acted all offended and said "what" I today him the repeatedly saying ****... This started him on a childish "oh I'm sorry I said **** ****". The waitress finally kicked him out and he called us **** a few more times on his way out.


I knew I'd run into this when we moved to a smaller southern coastal town, but it's still disappointing.

[Crankin]

Oy.
There are morons everywhere, but I lived in the south long enough to know the probability is a little bit higher there. I got tired of being told I was going to burn in hell for not believing in a variety of things.
Try to enjoy your day!

[OakLeaf]

So sad for the daughters. Sorry you two had to hear that.

Good on the waitress and management, though.

[Trek420]

We're nearly to 2,000,000 views on TD. Long live TD.

[Crankin]

Going to try and revive this thread, since I have 2 pieces of news that seem appropriate for here. I miss the conversation on this thread!
First, we have been trying to decide, where our future living quarters will be, when we sell our house. We really love western MA, but don't want to move there after DH retires, with no experience living there, except for vacations. We started looking at real estate there, and then started casually looking at condos/townhouses here, too, just in ads. We finally decided that we are good with having 2 small homes for awhile, so we can make a good decision and take our time deciding. DH had been very against townhome living, but came to see my point of view, on his own, really. So, Sunday we went out to look at 4 condos in Concord and Acton. We had never been to an open house in Massachusetts; wow, totally overwhelming. Lots of young couples, families with kids trying to get into communities with good schools, and people moving here from other countries, mixed in with a few couples like us. So, cut to the chase, we are now the (almost) owners of a 2 bedroom/2 bath condo, with a loft, den/sunroom, and full unfinished basement, about 6 miles from where we live now. It's on the edge of west Concord, about 2 miles from the village, 15 units, and very flat roads! We will put our house up for sale at our leisure, and when it sells, pay off the rest of the condo. The good thing is, we can do the renovations we need to do, before we have all of our stuff in there. It's not anything major, though, just take down some ugly wallpaper and paint the bathrooms and kitchen, new appliances and counters/vanities. There is beautiful hardwood throughout. We haven't told anyone yet...
My other news is that my former exchange student called me yesterday, to tell me that I am "kinda going to be a grandmother." I was really surprised! They are moving back to the US next month, to California, where she is from. He has his immigrant visa all set. When I asked him how his mom reacted to the news, he told me that she had a "typical Germanic reaction, like yeah, so what, so I called you right away." In an email to my DH, he said that he hopes his kid will "be smarter than me and do something else besides ride a bike."

[IBrakeforPastry]

Congratulations, Crankin, on both pieces of news! I know we've talked about Cape Cod before, and although I don't think I want to live right on the Cape, I do often think of moving back to New England. Have fun renovating!