Re: Barbara

BeH <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:

> 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.

You'll have to change your habits. Or go to IHOP for dinner.

> 
>>>>>>>> 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.

True, true. Everyone needs to be adequately supervised when working.
It is also my understanding from tv shows that if you have an accident, 
the dog will run to the neighbours. "wroof" "wroof"
What's that Lassie? BeH is on the roof?

> 
>>> 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?
> 
Of course.
You don't want the soup to get a skin on it.

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