Re: Barbara

On 08.11.2023 14.11, Merlyne wrote:
> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:
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>> 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.
Point one: NEVER! Point two: pancakes are for breakfast (or sometimes
for dessert, preferably with ice cream). Pancakes are not proper food
for a growing boy.

>>>>>>>>> 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 would hate to leave my life and well being in the paws of someone so
easily distracted by a stick...

>>>> 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.
Isn't that more a porridge thing - skin? Also do they eat a lot of soup
in Arizona - one would think it would be a little hot for soup.

>>> (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)
(those are the things I elect to not do)

-- 
BeH

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