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donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Goofyernmost said:
I'm not sure why but that reminded me of the time that my "new" 2016 Passat was backed into and hit on the front corner of the plastic bumper. It was a huge dent. I headed to a body shop to get an estimate and when I got there it was gone. It was a huge dimple and it fixed itself.

That also reminded me that perhaps there is a way to judge whether or not people in your area are good drivers or not. Before I moved to NC I had many cars over the 43 years I owned a car and lived in Vermont. No one ever ran into my car and suffered very few parking lot door bumps. Since I moved here my Cadillac had the front end damaged to the tune of $4K, than my 2016 Passat was backed into but healed itself, how I don't know. Then my 2019 bright red Jetta was hit in the front right corner at the tune of $1.8K and one year later the drivers door and front fender was damage by an unknown individual, hit and run. Another $3k in damage. Each time they were legally parked, in clear view and I was not in the car. I witnessed the first two which happened while I was walking toward them. The last two happened in parking garages and only one had the decency to leave a note. The cost of the last one had to be paid for by my insurance and my deductible. You do the math! 43 years vs. 10 years.
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Carolyn and myself haven’t been involved in a car accident or had a car hit in I can’t remember when.
Sarah had her Tiguan run into in her parking garage a few months back, and they didn’t leave a note. Not bad, but, it was a pain gettin’ it fixed, of course.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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Figgy1 said:
View attachment 612546 Yes we are going to indulge later
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Do you make your own batter? Do you have a recipe to share? We have to buy packets from the Asian grocery store in Arnhem, but we don't get there very often, especially when there's a lockdown because there's no reason for us to go all the way to Arnhem if we can't go shopping or to a museum or zoo, etc. I'd love to be able to make tempura myself.
 
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Lilofan

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Songbird76 said:
Do you make your own batter? Do you have a recipe to share? We have to buy packets from the Asian grocery store in Arnhem, but we don't get there very often, especially when there's a lockdown because there's no reason for us to go all the way to Arnhem if we can't go shopping or to a museum or zoo, etc. I'd love to be able to make tempura myself.
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Hi, some I know make. It is just egg whites, flour and water.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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MinnieM123 said:
I dunno about the male name. As for the female name, I've never used it as any trendy expression. Just seemed dumb to me. 🤷‍♀️
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I think it's kind of become a general insult now....it's not even just to describe entitled women who mistreat others. I was called a Karen because I commented on a video about perception of women and relationships and I mentioned that I had been sexually harassed in high school, and I went to my male teacher to ask to move seats because my assigned seat was next to the boy who was harassing me, and the teacher told me it was my own fault because I blushed and got embarassed and giggled when I told him to stop, and that was encouraging, and that there were always going to be people in life that you didn't get along with and I needed to learn how to deal with it, etc. Then he changed the seating assignment, and put the boy right behind me where he had easier access to snap my bra, whisper disgusting things in my ear, stick pencils in my ears, etc. So instead of fixing the problem it got worse, and I think the teacher may have done it purposely to force me into "learning to deal with" it. I said in the comment that I kind of regretted not reporting the teacher. The school was supposed to have a zero tolerance policy and other kids had gotten in trouble for calling a kid "Jimmy" instead of "James". That seemed really tame compared to what was happening to me, and the teacher SHOULD have taken my complaint seriously, but didn't. It didn't stop until my brother slammed the kid up against a locker and told him not to look at me, talk to me, or even THINK about me, and a teacher came out and took both boys to the principal and the principal "advised" him that he might want to stop before I filed a lawsuit against him, because his family was moving, but he wouldn't have been allowed to leave the state if he had a lawsuit pending. His parents wouldn't be pleased if they couldn't move because I was suing him for harassment and his father lost his job. At the time, I didn't necessarily want anyone punished, I just wanted it to stop. I was coming home in tears every day, feeling dirty and gross, and I just wanted him to stop. So I didn't bother to turn the teacher in, because the kid DID stop after the principal talked to him. (Though a couple of teachers, including the one who had caught my brother slamming the kid against the locker, told me that if he did anything, they would conveniently go blind if I slapped his face.) And then he was gone, moved away and I didn't have to deal with him anymore anyway. But some guy called me a Karen because I said I wished I had held the teacher accountable for not protecting me, and because I complained about the boy in the first place. If I had to guess, I'd say the guy who called me Karen was probably someone who had a history of harassing girls himself and didn't see it as a big deal and didn't like someone calling out that behavior as offensive. Guilty conscience. So instead of changing the behavior, he tried to depict ME as the one in the wrong for complaining about men having harmless fun at my expense.

And I've seen other people call women Karens for any number of things....even just simply sending back an order that was incorrect in a restaurant, or not letting someone cut in front of them in a line. It seems to be used for anything that a person doesn't like, including normal behavior that doesn't allow someone to mistreat them. The person who wants to take advantage gets mad that they won't let them and calls them a Karen. It's gotten a bit out of hand.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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SteveBrickNJ said:
I admit it is pretty....but I have to clear that snow later today and my family of three has to take turns driving 2 vehicles back to our daughter's college in Lynchburg VA tomorrow. Yes I understand it will not snow tomorrow, but this is not what we were hoping for.
Tomorrow's high is only 32F . My All Wheel Drive SUV will be fine but my wife is concerned about our daughter's VW Beetle. Will the roads still be icy tomorrow? They should be totally taken care of by then I said. Yet, she is still concerned.
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Do you always go with your daughter when she goes back to school and go get her when she comes home? That's so nice of you to do that! I always just made the 4 hour drive myself. I don't even think my mom went with me when I moved into the dorm my freshman year. Certainly not for holidays like Christmas break.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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Figgy1 said:
Here snow days are now held online. No more extended school years
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We always had a few snow days built into the schedule. Like we would get the Monday after Easter off.....unless we had had a snow day, and then we had to go to school on that day. There were usually 3 or 4 of those built in days that we were supposed to be free, but if we needed to make up days, we did them then rather than tacking them on at the end of the school year.
 

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