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  1. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    It would have been. Both my mother and grandmother tried to get me to help them in their war... no. But it was amusing to see them make any excuse to get in the bathroom... there were a few times the roll went back and forth several times in a single visit...
  2. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Tissue goes over the roll in this household. And black tea is drunk with milk, no sugar. My grandfather drank tea with milk after being stationed in England during the war, I inherited that sensibility. My grandmother put the tissue under the roll, which drove my mother nuts, hence I was raised...
  3. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    There's *two* ways, as you say, The Right Way and The Wrong Way. ;) Ray Birdwhistell talks about how some older rural(?) generations often found frequent flushing wasteful in his book.... he brought a girlfriend home to rural parents, who commented "All she did was smoke and flush the toilet."...
  4. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    When somebody comes to your house, finishes the roll of toilet paper, and puts the new roll on holder THE WRONG WAY. I mean, seriously, did you not just use the last of the previous roll and observe how it was done? My husband used to put roll on the holder all willy-nilly, whichever way it...
  5. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I'm not trying to argue, but just as you are stating that it was/ is the norm in the south, it seems to be the norm here to take your street shoes off, particularly in rural areas. We're also not afraid of being direct in this area either. Cultural difference, class difference, call it whatever...
  7. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I would hope that someone who expressly *didn't* would say something like, "please don't take them off" or "I would prefer if you left them on," or "please keep your shoes on." Part of being nice to guests as a host/hostess is to give them social cues on how to behave in unfamiliar social...
  8. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    True. I'm thinking more of stopping by. And I want to say, I've only asked one person to take off their shoes in my house. That was my mother-in-law and she was being disrespectful, tracking in visible mud around my crawling infant. If guests ask, unless it's winter or mud season and their shoes...
  9. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I think it's largely impossible to not get muddy or salty (depending on the season) around here, even walking in from your car. Seriously. My poor dress boots.
  10. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I've never been in a person's house around here where you didn't take your street shoes off. Signaled by the pile of shoes by the door. And I only know a few Asian families (but those families tend to leave their shoes outside their home on a porch or in the hall). You all would have given my...
  11. sheeplady

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Yes, I've heard that too. Makes me a bit suspicious of buying anything from a big box store unless I intend it to be disposable.
  13. sheeplady

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I have heard and read of this same thing occurring for all sorts of products. For tools, apparently the drill of brand X is a dramatically different drill if you buy it from Walmart versus Lowes. Apparently Walmart says, "we need to sell it for $40" and brand x re-engineers it to meet the...
  14. sheeplady

    What will come next to our society?

    I think the next big thing will be adaptive technologies and technologies that integrate and work behind the scenes to improve our daily lives. When smart phones first came out, they were mini-computers. Essentially "efficiency machines" that shrunk your computer down to allow you to carry a...
  15. sheeplady

    What will come next to our society?

  16. sheeplady

    Circle Skirt Patterns

    GHT wanted to pass this on: My wife says that Vogue 2902, would be useful. It's a vintage pattern of the mid 50's, that can be a dress with a circle skirt, or just the skirt. Tell her that if she just puts: "Vogue dress pattern 2902," into the search box, all the relevant info will come up.
  17. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I fortunately didn't have that issue. I had depression and anxiety during treatment (which I understand is less common than following treatment). Although I still have issues around my diagonosis anniversary, it has improved every year. But mainly I am so irritated by having to visit so many...
  19. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Thank you. I have no idea if this will ever happen, as I've been told by some survivors (different cancers) they go forever on 6-month intervals. To be honest, I am too afraid to ask. My oncologist went from every 3 months visit for the first year, to every 4 months for the second year, and is...
  20. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    So my insurance issue got cleared up relatively easily on my end. One call to the insurer, one call to doctor's office. Got a very nice call back from the doctor's office staff (notably another person and not the "you'll have to pay more) who called me to reassure me that they were in-network...
  21. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My insurance insists one of my doctor's is in-network for health insurance... my doctor's office insists they are out-of-network. I am sure this will be resolved, but man, it really irritates me. I'm especially not too fond of my doctor's office staff, who have been rather rude about the whole...
  22. sheeplady

    Ghosts, Time Travel, and Space / Inter-dimensional Neural Communication...

    Everyone was pretty shocked at my grandfather's capability to take care of himself after my grandmother died. My grandmother helped run his mechanic shop (before he retired), did all the business and household finances, all the cleaning and cooking. It took my grandfather a year to adjust, and...
  23. sheeplady

    Ghosts, Time Travel, and Space / Inter-dimensional Neural Communication...

    Does it really matter? Whenever I get into a "we could all just be brains in jars" the discussions, this is what I ask myself. If I *think* I'm really a body with a brain, that's enough for me. We could all be rats in a maze for some greater being, but none of that has a big impact on my daily life.

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