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1. 3 days ago on Drabble

   Per a post below this – we did not have computers then nor did I have a TV in my room (ever until I was married).

2. 3 days ago on Drabble

   I was the opposite. The one time my parents were upset and talking about me being sent to my room -“If you don’t stop doing that you can go to your room”. I went to my room and then refused to leave. Unfortunately my parents had planned on the family going out that night and that had to be canceled as I refused to come out of my room.

   It was some years later (decade or more probably) that mom and I were talking about it. Problem was that I did not take it as punishment. I thought I was being given a choice. “Either stop that or go to your room.” I picked go to my room and did so.

   Yes, I was THAT annoying a child.

3. 3 days ago on Drabble

   Glad to find another fan. I must admit my family (dad, mom, sisters) sang a variation on the song as “Uncle Allen’s restaurant” as my, yes, Uncle Allen had a “restaurant” – actually a lunch counter with 6 stools in an a office building’s delivery deck in Manhattan.

   We actually met Arlo Guthrie once. We both have the same general memory – which neither of us can believe the that details are true as it just too much.

   This was some decades ago – he was performing at a local venue which was basically a bar type setup. We sat in the front of the room near the stage. We both remember him coming over after performing while other performers were on stage and sitting with us during the rest of the show. It seems impossible – but we BOTH remember it the same so it must be true.

   We live in general NYC area. A few years before Covid started Arlo and his sister (his full sister, as opposed to his older half sisters) were the grand marshals of the annual Mermaid Parade in Coney Island (Brooklyn, NY). His mom is from same and the family lived in Coney Island for a big chunk of time while he and his sister were growing up. (We did not go to see it – too busy an event for us.)

4. 3 days ago on Lola

   Why don’t people go there?

   Other than the lack of stores/assortment of same – there is, for example a movie theater. We used to go to this theater back when we went to the movies before Covid. If one wants to go to this one, you have to pre-buy tickets and they are for reserved seats. If you walk in and the person ahead of you is tall (we are short) or is loud and annoying – that is your seat – too bad for you. The seats are those horrible, uncomfortable reclining seats – also the sort of the seat that the last patron may have filled with soda or popcorn or other snack. My feet do not reach the floor when sitting upright (or any other position) of these seats. So they are also terribly uncomfortable sitting with my feet just hanging in the air there.

   While walking around we went to look at what the ticket price is – the only ticket prices showing were for their early matinee – no price for regular matinee or evening or weekend performances. Do they only have early matinees?

   We are big movie goers. Before Covid hit we went every week (unless weather was not permitting, say snow storm) on Saturday night since our first date back in 1973. We would also go additionally on other evenings sometimes. For some time after husband left his job we would also go to their mid day old movies matinee once a week until same was discontinued. (Since Covid we have our Saturday night date night movie on TV at home. and added, from when we were first dating, Friday night midnight movie (on TV also).

   We would really like to start back going to the movies as share love of movies – old and new are what drew us together originally – but not with those awful seats and pre picked seats – the price we can sort of understand.

5. 3 days ago on Lola

   We had never been much to go walking in a mall for no reason, but doing the past couple of years we wanted to go out walking and the weather was either too hot or too cold – but we really needed to get some exercise and get out of the house.

   So we went to a smaller mall, more downscale mall to walk around. We picked this mall as it tends to be much less crowded than the fancier malls and also it has memories for husband as he used to work in a large department store (Gertz if anyone has heard of same) there while in college.

   it is a fairly empty mall – both in lack of open stores and customers. The two anchor stores there now are Ikea and Target. Many of the stores are empty. There must be 4 or 5 small stores which sell the same things – Popz dolls, stuffed animals, Squishmallows, DVDs, old video games and such – the Christmas store there is in the middle of setting up to open. (They are aimed at much younger shoppers than us – but we like walking around in them.)

   The store he worked in is no longer a store and no longer accesses into the mall. But the building is there and we sometimes see people walking in or out of the building and have presumed it was repurposed as an office building.

   About a month or so ago I read in our regional newspaper that the mall is being redone. Back in the 1970s or so it changed to enclosed mall from an open air one – now they are taking off the roof and making it into an open air mall again. (So much for climate controlled walks.) They will be bringing in different stores – good idea, but not the stores they are looking at.

6. 3 days ago on Stone Soup

   I cut my own hair. I wear my hair long and straight. When it gets long enough to annoy me I put it in hair band and pull it over the top of my head. I clip off what I figure is the excess and it is done. I wear it up either in a plastic hair clip or when doing a reenactment in a large barrette (as I need then what is holding my hair to fit under and hide in my cap and the clip would be a problem as it is too bulky). So if the cut is not even – doesn’t matter.

   I also cut husband’s hair. He also wears his hair long (though not as long as I do) both because he kept it long since high school (late 1960s) and because it works well for 18th century reenacting. I cut his with more attention to being an even cut, but since he wear is in a “queue” (pony tail) small differences do not show. He uses a small rubber hair band to hold it in the queue. When doing reenactments I tie a nice ribbon over the rubber band to hide it – men did wear their hair long then with a ribbon to hold it in place.

7. 3 days ago on Stone Soup

   My two sisters and I were never even in the same school at the same time. I am 5 years older than next sister and she is 7 years older than the baby.

   When I was in 5th grade – the oldest grade in the elementary school then – 6th grade was a separate program held in the junior highs – middle sister was in kindergarten so we should have been in the same school. BUT, the school district was overwhelmed by the baby boom and children had to turn 5 by November 30 of the year to start kindergarten and her birthday was in December. Since my parents did not want to her wait/lose an entire year she went to a private kindergarten at a local day camp, and since she did okay there was able to start first grade in the school the following year. By the time she got to junior high I was in high school and by the time she was in same I was in college.

   Baby sister had an even larger spread of years to middle sister so same thing applied to them.

   So there was never a question of any of us “telling” on one of us about what happened in school.

8. 3 days ago on Stone Soup

   I was in second or third grade and something happened – I guess I was not paying attention as the kids were laughing and the teacher was really upset about something.

   “Everyone in this class is staying after school today!”

   She thought a bit – ’Everyone in the last two rows is staying after school today!" (Apparently she decided whoever started the problem was back there.)

   She thought a bit more “Everyone in the last two rows – except Meryl – is staying after school today!” I actually had that good a reputation in school that she knew – whatever it was could not have been done by me, particularly since I had not had laughed. Sometimes being a goody good and day dreaming can help a lot.

9. 4 days ago on Pluggers

   Eye and GP for both of us.

10. 4 days ago on Pluggers

    We go to private doctors offices for everything we need to see a doctor about. We check that they take Medicare. We each have a supplemental plan for overages.