The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

MinnieM123

MinnieM123

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Gabe1 said:
While we are both from Northern Illinois there seems to be a large gap between cultures over the counties. We always have borrowed stuff from the neighbors and the neighbors from us. I don't think anyone kept score but all of us would forget bread one day and send a kid to a neighbor for a few slices. Eggs, potatoes, cup of milk our neighborhood kids would ring a bell and hand out an empty cup for milk etc. While it wasn't often but there wasn't likely a week than went bye that someone didn't call or a kid ring a bell. Nobody wanted eggs or a cup of milk returned. I live in a small town where most everyone has each others back. Most of us dual working outside the home and we just were there for each other.

It isn't always food either. When my DD at 9 years old broke her leg she had her friends older wheelchair for months. We borrowed toys, cribs, carseats when we only needed for a day or two for visitors. Few times I'd see a neighbor farther down the road stuck by rain, he never was able to drive and toss him an umbrella. We've borrowed cars, we've lent cars, snowblowers, lawnmowers. One day I agreed to lend my beloved Walter Dog to a petless child. His friends were marching in the pet parade and he didn't have a dog and was sad. Walter was happy to join in. Mother was happy she didn't get con'd into buying a dog.
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Regarding your above response to @BAChicagoGal , I think in her case, it was just that her neighbor, never reciprocated in any way at all--always just took things. That's one-sided on the neighbor's part. That's the difference there, between reading about your area--where everyone contributed, etc. That's a different dynamic, and that's the way it should be.
 
DryerLintFan

DryerLintFan

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figmentfan423 said:
I'm sure there will also be lots of those shirts worn. I don't know when or how but it's always been blue for school functions around here
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There's an American show called Atypical about a teenager on the spectrum, and they use blue, too. So in some areas of the US I think it's blue, too. In fact, I remember it being blue before they moved to the rainbows. But that was years and years ago.
 
DryerLintFan

DryerLintFan

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@BAChicagoGal we parent by the methods in this book:
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Sharing is great, and learning to share is really important. But so is learning to to set personal boundaries and expecting others to respect them. We obviously encourage sharing, but in some cases, it's okay not to share and not to feel obligated to share.

I hope your conversation with the neighbor helps her understand your boundaries, or at least respect them enough to start reciprocating. When we borrow from our neighbors, and we have nothing to give them in return, we at least make them a plate of cookies.
 
MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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figmentfan423 said:
Yikes I'm going to get a late start today with the just posted 2 hour delay. What doesn't get done today will get done tomorrow. There goes sleeping in:arghh::banghead:
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Is it snowing by you? Here it is just super windy. There is a call for some flurries, but that is all. Unfortunately there is a call for up to 4 inches of snow Sunday and possibly into Monday.:arghh: I hope that fizzles away like last weeks snow did for us. I hope the school day doesn't end up canceling on you.
 
Figgy1

Figgy1

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MySmallWorldof4 said:
Is it snowing by you? Here it is just super windy. There is a call for some flurries, but that is all. Unfortunately there is a call for up to 4 inches of snow Sunday and possibly into Monday.:arghh: I hope that fizzles away like last weeks snow did for us. I hope the school day doesn't end up canceling on you.
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THNX it's more the ice than snow:grumpy:
 
SteveBrickNJ

SteveBrickNJ

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dryerlintfan said:
Six more weeks of winter....... looking at the calendar...... it looks like Spring isn't going to start until.... oh wait, it's six weeks until spring anyway :hilarious::hilarious:

I never realized the groundhog doesn't actually get to decide. The guy with the magic stick got to decide.
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Additionally,
The groundhog reportedly ;)reminded everyone that pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training in mid. Feb.
Some teams get in their first full team workout by Feb. 17.
 

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