Ha! me too (petticoat veils), and a towel for playing Nuns! NM

• Did people really wear poodle skirts - in the 50's??
  • Yes they did! And I have a real one and I - love it! The underskirt is a crinoline.
  • Don't buy them on eBay. sm - MT and worn out
  • Ah, Memories! - NYMT
    • Ha! me too (petticoat veils), and a towel for playing Nuns! NM - anon
  • yes some did wear them - They said what
    • Yes, crinolin and puffy also in a wedding... - anonamiss
    • The slips were called petticoats, - linda
      • My mom swears they are crinolines, not petticoats. Unless it's a regional difference. nm - Confetti
        • could be she is right. I just remember - linda
      • They were good to wear if you didn't do - Backwards typist

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Has anyone here who has run a successful business thought about -- or already has -- closed the doors after hitting too many rough spots?

I'm talking about people like me who pay rent, pay lawyers, pay staffers, pay freelancers, pay... well, pay everyone first and pay yourself last.

If you think you get paid first as a business owner, please don't reply.

I want to hear from people who have lost too many accounts, been sued, partners or employees stole from you, rents too high, revenue too low, getting too old, etc.

I'd like to hear what would push you over the edge to quit, or if you have quit, I'd like to know what you're doing now and how you feel about "working for someone else". Yes, I know you're always working for someone else.

But now you don't have to pay the bills, fix the computers, put up with childish and inexperienced workers, non-paying clients, etc.

Yes, as you can tell, I'm thinking about calling it quits and taking the easy way out: taking a staff job with benefits.

with the kid shaking the soda bottle that explodes all over the kitchen and his mom grabs the hose from the sink and sprays him back.  What an example for all the little kids watching TV!  

I personally like the Geico cavemen.  They crack me up everytime.  But I don't think they need a TV show based on them.  That's too much.

Started menopause at 42....took like 10 years....but the sweats at night never do stop for some of us (my GYN tells me he still has an 80 y/o patient who calls him and says she still has night sweats) and I feel I'm probably one of those people.......sleeping on a big towel protects the sheets from having to DO THEM EVERYDAY (laundry).  *LOL*

Happy menopause ladies!!! 

If that kid is old enough to pull on the handle, then that kid is also old enough to drink from a sippy cup! Come on, people! Wake up! This lady could have easily bottled her breast milk instead of whipping it out (discreetly or not) on a plane full of people.  Nothing like trapping a bunch of people on a plane and putting them in a very uncomfortable situation!

I breastfed my daughter until she started walking.  After that, she went on a bottle, then to a sippy cup, then to a regular cup.  She's 18 years old now and quite well adjusted. 

And, we are not living in a third world country where kids up to 5 yrs old run up to their mother and just start suckin on a tit! This is America, where it's more cultured, where there are other options. 

I remember a time when I was a kid at Disneyland and I saw a lady with her baby sitting on a bench.  I wanted to see the baby and walked past just in time to see the woman whip out her tit for all to see.  My mother was so enraged that she reported her and stood right next to the woman until security arrived and they told the lady that there were baby stations all around Disneyland where she could go to have privacy with her baby during feeding time.  BTW, there are still baby stations with seating for mothers to breastfeed their babies.

Mine is too old now to do much more than swat at the grim reaper every now and again.  He's almost 16 now and he's getting kinda stinky.  He always was a grump though.  He'll come in here and park himself right on my mouse...I mean like direct butthole contact with the mouse, and when I try to shoo him away, he flattens his ears and hisses at me and growls.  At least he's still doing that I suppose.

You do mean the person playing character of Mary in this movie got pregnant as a teen? 

Welcome to the 21st Century, m'dear.........*lol* - not many couples are getting married today (although the gay community sure is trying to get married).....but the numbers are WAY down for hetero couples.........

in any event, it's just a flick/movie - what do you care about the actors/actresses who are playing the characters? 

If so, how did they get the scholarship/scholarships to go out of state?  My junior wants to go out of state and I've told her that she has to find the money to go, especially since our state has a lottery paid college education program that pays tuition and some of the books/fees as long as a student keeps their grades at a B-average or higher.  She is thinking about studying broadcasting.  She has no special talents and doesn't do volunteer work or participate in anything but drama club...nothing to make her especially shine.  She is an A/B student.   We don't have the money for out of state tuition and even covering just the expenses that in-state lottery funded fees will be difficult but do-able if we can get her excited about one of the many state schools available.

Anyone have their child figure out how to do this?