Re: Barbara

On 25.10.2023 16.26, Merlyne wrote:
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>> On 18.10.2023 13.55, Merlyne wrote:
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>>>> On 04.10.2023 16.13, Merlyne wrote:
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>>>>>> On 26.09.2023 14.11, Merlyne wrote:
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>>>>>>>> On 23.09.2023 23.14, Merlyne wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>> On 17.09.2023 19.50, Merlyne wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>>>> On 09.09.2023 22.51, Merlyne wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Happy birthday to you, wherever you are...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Arizona?
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Possibly, bud it's not relevant... the birthday happies
>>>>>>>>>>>> applies wherever she is.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> You said 'wherever you are'. So I told you.
>>>>>>>>>>> Geez!
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Actually... *pushes glasses back up on nose* you asked me if
>>>>>>>>>> she was in Arizona. A fact I do not have.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I concede (with some satisfaction), that it's a real place in
>>>>>>>>>> the world... 
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It was less a question and more an offering.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Well, thank you then - but no thanks. I don't want Arizona. I
>>>>>>>> understand that it's full of elderly Americans... Not really my
>>>>>>>> thing. 
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I think you'd fit in perfectly.
>>>>>> With a bunch of old people who most likely drive around in
>>>>>> golf-carts and complain about everything? And eat dinner at 17:00?
>>>>>> I think not... 
>>>>>>
>>>>> Okie dokie.
>>>>> {Nope. Won't fit in at all}
>>>> Well I certainly don't eat dinner at 17:00... that's about the time
>>>> I might grab a bit of lunch if I feel peckish.
>>>>
>>> Which is lunchtime in their time zone.
>>> This is all working out well for you!
>> That will only work as long as the jet lag persists.
> And then what happens?

Then I will want to have dinner at eight and everywhere will have
already closed down. And locked up the golf cart parking, one assumes.

>>>>>>> Also, there's no winter there.
>>>>>> I don't mind winter - it's the cold I can't abide.
>>>>>>
>>>>> There is no cold there, then.
>>>> It's still filled with 'merkans though.
>>>>
>>> And?
>>> You make some new friends.
>> Eeekk!
> It will be good for you.
I have rodents on the loft, what more could I want. Also the neighbours
dog is very friendly - very helpful with the garden work.

>> I don't know how to drive a golf cart.
>>
> 
> You new friends can do that.
But should I trust an ageing american in a rush to make the 5 o'clock
dinner time?

> (also, I don't expect its hard)
(Most things are hard until you know how to do it...)

-- 
BeH

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