In New England they specify what night (Sun this yr), and the hours, 5 - 8.

• I need ideas for how to get kids to not ring the doorbell tonight after....sm - Ms Manners
  • give out cans of peas...word gets around fast! Har Har nm - sis
  • Here's what worked....sm - Ms Manners
  • In New England they specify what night (Sun this yr), and the hours, 5 - 8. - It's actually nice this way. nm
  • Trick or treat - Trombone
  • He, he, turn out all lights, disconnect - the doorbell, turn on the
    • Last year, we took the kids out and were not - JACKO
      • That's not cool, however, - See Msg
  • I've seen people put a sign up that says "OUT OF CANDY" - try it
    • That doesn't work either around here....sm - Ms Manners
      • I wish kids came to our house... - IHMT
        • We had maybe four kids total. - me, too.
      • Make the sign very simple to read and put it in a very visible area - try it

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and e-mails throughout the day when we're both taking breaks from our jobs.

We have 400 miles between our homes so we can't see each other as often as we'd like, but when we do get to visit we enjoy every minute of it.  

if you get behind and aren't at poverty level.  They raised our electric rates about 10% this year and there is another increase coming at us next month 15%, not to mention the increased heating oil (which most regions don't have to pay for) plus the increased gasoline.  Isn't that special!  Meanwhile, they are threatening us with rolling electric blackouts when it gets cold.  They are really setting us up. 

Lived in England - 12 miles SE of London for 3 months and people were pretty nice.  This was at the time that cops in England never carried guns, but I think that has changed by today's standards.

My inlaws (now outlaws) live in France and there are 7 first cousins there.  I lived there for 3 months and got to go to Florence and Siena and Feisole, Italy.  They do like Americans in Italy.  As for France, they only don't like Americans in the northern part (the closer you get towards Germany).  They are so much nicer and more tolerant in the South of France...Nice, Aix-en-Provence, and all the wine-growing part of the country.

Also traveled for weeks through Sweden, Denmark, and Amsterdam Holland.  Europe is certainly beautiful!

but she was born here.   Her English does not sound British but a little "fancier" sounding than most Americans.   I get this British hem/onc doctor once in a while who for some reason is just difficult even though he speaks clearly.

you slice it, both companies will still get 8 hours worth of work out of you.

That is the problem I've been having lately being an MT.  Companies want to pay us on production and they set minimum productivity standards, but want us timed in for 8 hours a day.  My thinking is, if they want 8 hours of work out of me, pay me hourly with production incentive.  If they want to pay me on production and tell how much I have to produce in an 8 hour period, then when I hit that mark, I should be able to call it a day even if I've only worked 4 hours.

Seems these companies want it both ways and it is simply not fair to us MTs.  JMO, tho.

I was shocked and horrified!  If you saw it, you know what I'm talking about...if not, here's the short version...

A 16 or 17 YO female employee of a Kentucy McDonald's was strip searched, beaten, and sodomized (sp?) for over 2 hours...by her well-over-40 manager and the manager's bald, fat fiance!  The manager got a phone call from someone claiming to be a police officer, accusing the young girl of steadling a customer's purse...the manager proceeded to strip search the girl, have employees come in to watch the girl, then called her fiance to come in and watch the girl.  They talked to this person on the phone for hours and he was giving them instructions on what to do to the girl...the fiance sodomized the girl, hit her repeatedly on her bare behind until she developed whelps on her behind, then forced her to perform sexual acts on him...all under the direction of this person on the phone!

This is the short version, it goes on, but I was so shocked, I could not believe it! The manager, the fiance, and the caller are all being charged with various crimes against this child.  It is just sickening to think that grown people, adults who are supposedly halfway smart, could do something like this to an innocent child. And the manager was on the show, claiming total innocence in the whole thing...the manager was a female, if I didnt mention it already...

Sorry this is so long, but I am still shocked.  If anyone else saw this, please add your thoughts!