The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[wdwfan4ver]

I went to a Catholic school through elementary and then my first year of high school. Valentines were not necessary since the boy's and girls were in different buildings for fear of any 1st grade pregnancies, I presume. Then the High School (first year) was all boys school. I had to learn the ways of the world in only the three years left in public High School. It was a good three years, I must say!

You went a similar route as my dad I see with the difference of my dad graduated from high school in the early 1970s. My dad went to a Catholic School through end of middle school with the catch of my dad had my grandpa's aunts as nuns and they were high teachers. Lets say @King Racoon 77 would've been scared of my great great aunts as teachers considering what nuns were capable of doing in my dads era growing up.

Dad went to a Boys only public high school that was a trade/technical school. Dad explained that students at the school would have to find girls from different schools to date during high school years.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

My youngest daughter had a problem with OCD in her late teens and early twenties. I never knew anyone in my family that ever had that. Then I got old and found out that I must have had a inactive OCD gene because I now have to have everything in it place and cannot rest if it's not. I make the bed every single morning and I am the only one that is ever in my apartment without advanced notice. I kidded myself by telling myself that I was doing that as a test figuring if I got to the point that I didn't make that bed it was a sign that I really wasn't feeling physically well. Then I also realized that I think that I have had adult ADHD that I can now trace back through out my working career. I have had a range of occupations, none of which I was fired of laid off of. Once I got through my 4 years of, you don't have a choice, US Air Force I got a job as a manager of the Ben Franklin variety store, two years later I went to work for a weekly shopping paper which led to general manager and assistant publisher for a printing business (same shopping paper), tired of that and got a job as Office manager of a earth-moving construction company, followed by a job in payables and payroll for an actual East Coast building construction company. During that time span I also got a real estate sales license, a short term as a travel agent and bought and operated a Residential Care home dealing with physically and mentally challenged individuals and even just elderly. Then I tossed all that aside and went to work as a commercial bus driver which because a management position in that same company. Then I retired. It's the first thing that I haven't gotten bored with, yet.

I am definitely not someone who puts stuff away. I'm a very clean person. Like, the space is vacuumed, dusted, countertops are wiped down...but organized? Ha. The new vacuum is just migrating from the basement to my room. I haven't put my desk together yet, so there's just stuff kind of everywhere right now.

The weird exception is the kitchen. I think this was because my mother drilled into me that I'd better put stuff back where they belonged there or else. So even my kitchenette downstairs is organized and stuff there goes back where it belongs. It's the only room in my life that's like that. That, and files on my computer are always organized. It's otherwise a struggle.

 

[donaldtoo]

This reminds me of one of my bosses (who was in his late 60s at the time), from a job I had many years ago. We had pulled out of a long downward financial spiral, and the company was hiring more people, with better salaries and benefits.

One of the younger salesmen commented about how it was great to get back to normal. Without skipping a beat, the boss said, "I've learned in life that whenever things get better, people think things won't ever get bad again. And when things get bad, people think things won't ever get better again." From his years of experience, he was sharing that business is an ebb and flow dynamic, and people need to stay on their toes.

Yep, what goes up will eventually come down again…live and learn.
I remember one of the partners having a cartoon panel posted in his office back in the day, that showed a guy praying, and the caption below read…
“Please Lord, make the economy good again. This time I promise not to p*ss it all away.”…!!!!!

 

[donaldtoo]

Okay, what show?? (for the old timers like me LOL)
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Pretty sure, as I read ahead, this has already been answered, but, Munsters…!!!!!
Yes, I’m old enough to remember Fred Gwynne from “Car 54, Where are You?” in reruns, and then also this…!!!!!

 

[rshell68]

 

[FutureCEO]

I feel like the wind is going to blow me away

 

[StarWarsGirl]

I’m old enough to remember Fred Gwynne from “Car 54, Where are You?”

I've seen clips of that. They show it at Prime Time.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

I feel like the wind is going to blow me away

 

[Lilofan]

I went to a Catholic school through elementary and then my first year of high school. Valentines were not necessary since the boy's and girls were in different buildings for fear of any 1st grade pregnancies, I presume. Then the High School (first year) was all boys school. I had to learn the ways of the world in only the three years left in public High School. It was a good three years, I must say!

I went to Catholic school 1-8th grade. Corporal punishment existed back then and I got my share of " discipline " from the nuns. The discipline was used in front of the class. It taught me if I did it again I knew what I got coming. We went to mass weekly as a class. If there were funerals during the week our class was the choir for the service. As an altar boy server the funeral director would give each of us $2 when we were scheduled to work a funeral mass. In 8th grade one of the teacher's daughters got married in the church then the reception was in the adjacent gym. Our whole class was part of the wedding reception staff during the party ( kitchen duties, serving , cleaning etc ) and no we did not get paid but we ate for free.

 

[FutureCEO]

I don't really understand why people think you can tell them.

1) how long is mail going to take to get to me.

2) Can you track it

3) Did a piece (person mentions no name) of mail out of a couple dozen pieces of mail get mailed

People are wayyy to reliant on Amazon and such with trackers.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

I don't really understand why people think you can tell them.

1) how long is mail going to take to get to me.

2) Can you track it

3) Did a piece (person mentions no name) of mail out of a couple dozen pieces of mail get mailed

People are wayyy to reliant on Amazon and such with trackers.

For the record, Amazon came in and unboxed my TV, and 10/10 recommend. I mean, I obviously can do it, but I didn't want to...

 

[Dead2009]

Welp, Baltimore is under a Winter Storm Warning, lol.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

I don't really understand why people think you can tell them.

1) how long is mail going to take to get to me.

2) Can you track it

3) Did a piece (person mentions no name) of mail out of a couple dozen pieces of mail get mailed

People are wayyy to reliant on Amazon and such with trackers.

I mean, though, it is February 16, and my type A personality is not happy that my taxes aren't done because a form 1099-b hasn't come yet. Company said they'd be mailed out by yesterday. *sigh*

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Welp, Baltimore is under a Winter Storm Warning, lol.

You wished this into existence didn't you?

 

[Figgy1]

You wished this into existence didn't you?

He who wishes for snow should spend the entire storm inside a Target

 

[StarWarsGirl]

He who wishes for snow should spend the entire storm inside a Target

Don't threaten him with a good time.

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

He who wishes for snow should spend the entire storm inside a Target

Where do I sign up for this

 

[Dead2009]

You wished this into existence didn't you?

Actually nope lol

 

[Dead2009]

He who wishes for snow should spend the entire storm inside a Target

I was in a Target for 5 minutes earlier

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Actually nope lol

Hmm. One of my coworkers is on vacation in DC from Boston. Must be her fault. She brought it with her.