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  1. sheeplady

    Ladies out alone?

    I do like to go out alone every once in awhile. It mostly happens when I am traveling. I do love occasionally eating out alone, and I have a little ritual when I do of laying out everything, even if it is fast-food. It's nice to have a meal that's quiet that I didn't have to cook. Haha. The one...
  2. sheeplady

    The Real Reason Malls Are Closing

    I don't know if there's anything such as "year round" tourism in the true sense. There's always an off-season. Growing up in the Adirondacks the "on season" was summer. In winter there is a thriving ski and snowmobiling tourist market, but it doesn't even scratch the surface of the absolute...
  3. sheeplady

    The Real Reason Malls Are Closing

    So much of this focuses on the larger regional economy. I moved from a rust-belt town to Virginia, which meant moving from a poor economy to a growing one. The last place I lived was barely keeping afloat. Taxes went mostly to road maintenance- too few residents, too many roads. Here taxes go...
  4. sheeplady

    The Real Reason Malls Are Closing

    I see we're playing the sweeping generalizations game about generations. I'll play. Too bad the WWII generation didn't value downtowns and speciality shops. They drove the creation of strip malls and chains. The WWII generation killed our downtowns. Too bad the boomers didn't value downtowns...
  5. sheeplady

    L.L.Bean scraps lifetime return policy

    "The first generation earns the wealth, the second maintains it, and the third spends it" I took a backpack for replacement at an outlet store. It was probably 10 years old, but had broken about 8 years before. I had kept it because I intended to replace the zipper myself and assumed they...
  7. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    As a teen living at my parents, salacious books always went binding in.
  8. sheeplady

    Philosophical: What is real "home(land)"?

    I have now moved 400 some odd miles from what I used to consider my home (and I'm now nearly 500 away from where I grew up). The mountains here are bigger, they are filled with trees, and if I dig in the backyard, there are rocks. The trees are different species, not the beloved evergreens of...
  9. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    It is. Maybe all the people I encounter who are clueless are failing those units, though. I do know that in Virginia they don't require students to memorize the amendments in the bill of rights, which I had to do (25 years ago in New York). They know part of the first and the second.... And...
  10. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I think there's an attempt to educate the general US public about separation of powers, but it's not (overall) well done. Politicians also play fast with the separation and often lead the public to view someone as having legislative power (or responsibility for it) when they have very little.
  11. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I agree. I remember one distinct argument over a candidate between my parents: Father: Where was so-and-so during Vietnam? Mother: Probably avoiding the draft just like you! Mother 1 Father 0 (To note, my mother was not a hawk, in fact, her experience made her very much a pacifist. She never...
  13. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    There's also those who think that the president should have a law (lawyer) background. That's a new argument I've just started to see emerge. My father held the military stance and was always critical of anyone who didn't serve in Vietnam (who was of the age to have served). My father didn't...
  14. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Culturally, there's always been a debate if military service is necessary to seeking the presidency. Given that the president is commander in chief of the armed forces, there are people who (strongly) feel military service should be a requirement, even if it's an unwritten one.
  15. sheeplady

    Agony column?

    You're welcome. I always copy myself on anything important.
  16. sheeplady

    Agony column?

    You can send from your work email... just make sure to send to hr and copy your rep and a personal address. So it can be: From: me@company To: HR CC: rep@union, me@yahoogmail This reassures HR that: A. You sent it from your work account B. You have a copy of the email in an account...
  17. sheeplady

    Agony column?

    Be careful with HR... they are not there as a department to protect the workers- they are tasked with protecting the company. CC your email to your union rep and (if this isn't a violation of policy) a non-work personal email address of yours. (Professional address, just not me@company)
  19. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I'm in academia, the trope is a professor rejects his first wife for a student of his, who becomes the second mrs.* I had a number of quite attractive professors when I was an undergrad. I had crushes on a number of them. But the ones that held my respect certainly weren't the types to cheat...
  20. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    There was a high school swim coach who I'd always felt uneasy around; he liked to massage both the girl and boy swimmers a little too much. Girls would say if you flirted with him, he'd improve your ranking for meets. He slept with a 14 year-old girl on the team (years after I left school) and...
  21. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I went to a public school. The photography teacher was well rumored to proposition girls and touch them in the dark room. Three of us made a pact to never allow one of us to be alone in the darkroom with him. We'd always be aware where we all were and then would dash in the room if he entered...
  22. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Sexual abuse isn't limited to one field or another, but there is something especially hideous about the abuse coming from someone who is supposed to help bring you closer to God. That and how easily this status can be abused (God wants you to do this, if you tell you will go to hell, etc.).
  23. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Assuming that someone who is transgender *looks* and *dresses* like their preferred gender to outward appearances; I would rather, as a mother, see them use the facility that corresponds to their appearance. Sending transgender men who haven't had bottom surgery to the ladies room is a recipe...

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