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it's a start..
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: where I need to be..
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ewe.
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Your Cuddly Sociopathic
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: The red pill is the antidote for the kool-aid.
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***pgni***
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on leave
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: somewhere altogether ooky
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Llama.
Edited to add: What's "ew" for? I don't get this place. All I did was quote SR a coupla Johnny Cash lyrics. Then suddenly this giant hook came outta nowhere... |
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Your Cuddly Sociopathic
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: The red pill is the antidote for the kool-aid.
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on leave
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: somewhere altogether ooky
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Goonsquad
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: In your worst nightmare
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And if you simply bake the good nuns next door, Mel will serve it for a special tomorrow.
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on leave
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: somewhere altogether ooky
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OK. I just went into the basement of my apartment building to get some laundry out of the dryer. A homeless guy was in the laundry room, stripped to his soiled skivvies, filthy clothes spread over the folding table, washing himself in the sink. He was using a towel. Thank Dawg, it wasn't mine, though I suspect it was borrowed from one of the dryers.
*pours self an especially large drink* I went to tell the live-in super that a strange man was in the laundry room. The super came down with me, addressed the guy by name, telling him he'd have to leave as soon as he was done washing up, since "now is not a good time to be here." After the guy left, the super explained to me that the man was harmless, and he comes in to clean up and rest now and again. *sees glass is empty; refills it* I've lived in NYC for a while, and in general it's hard to really throw me for a loop. I admit that did so. 'Cause, like, it's scary to walk into your laundry room and see a nearly naked disheveled stranger. It doesn't help that we've had a few recent robberies in the neighborhood (one in the building), and not long ago there were a string of rapes in Manhattan (some of which were never solved). We've got a notice in the lobby warning tenants not to let anyone in the building who doesn't belong there. The guy may well be harmless -- I don't know. But he doesn't belong in my basement, especially at night. I have just decided that having a washer and dryer in my actual apartment will be a priority when I move. Edited to add: In answer to Ken's implied criticism (if I'm reading his "diagram" correctly) -- I feel bad for the homeless guy. I donate to homeless shelters, to a program that tries to get the homeless back on their feet, and to various charities. I've given food and money to people in the subway. It's not that I'm not sympathetic. I am. And if my super wants to help the guy, fine. But the way to help him is *not* to let him into the isolated laundry room of a small apartment building (one largely filled with young women, too) and leave him alone there. It's not only that it's against building rules (it is) -- it could be downright dangerous. The super might think the guy is harmless, but he doesn't really know that. He's just seen him hanging out on the steps of the building. The guy might rob, assault, or rape someone. It would not be the first time something like that has happened in an apartment building. If the super wanted to let him clean up, he could have brought him into his own apartment instead of letting him strip down in the laundry room. I suspect he didn't do that because of his wife and kids. But he might have thought about the scare some other woman might get when she suddenly finds herself alone in the basement with a mostly naked stranger. And of the possible consequences if the guy wasn't as safe as he thought. At the very, very least, my super could have hung out outside the laundry room to make sure the man didn't take anything or attack anyone, and to give people a heads up so they didn't jump out of their skin. Sorry to get all serious in the cabby. It won't happen again, honest. Last edited by CassandraW; 04-05-2012 at 10:28 AM. |
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practical experience, FTW
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: gang aft agley
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Liquor pie? How well do you know her?
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on leave
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: somewhere altogether ooky
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*pokes head in*
Huh. Apparently that homeless dude in my basement scared everyone here, too. Either that or yer all mad at me for not makin' him a sammich. So. Liquor pie. Ken, I don't think you need to know someone well to serve her liquor pie. I know I always appreciate a slice. |
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practical experience, FTW
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Are you being purposely, personally, or professionally obtuse?
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113k on WIP! Someone tell me to shut up! Severe allergic reaction to the slightest traces of reality Kenneth Folta available on Smashwords |
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I dunno.
But apparently I am obtuse. Or at least confused. |
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practical experience, FTW
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*hands Cass a diagram*
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113k on WIP! Someone tell me to shut up! Severe allergic reaction to the slightest traces of reality Kenneth Folta available on Smashwords |
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No, I'm afraid you'll have to be more explicit.
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practical experience, FTW
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I don't be explicit. Not my thing, man.
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113k on WIP! Someone tell me to shut up! Severe allergic reaction to the slightest traces of reality Kenneth Folta available on Smashwords |
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practical experience, FTW
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By George, I think she's got it!
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Riff-Raff
Join Date: Jul 2009
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George?
Quick, somebody get the noob chair! |
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Riff-Raff
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Cass should get 'B-A-R-E-H-A-N-D' tattooed across her knuckles.
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Goonsquad
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Those things aren't foolproof, you know. Abstinence is still the only sure thing.
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.. and the 'voices'
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Moose Rapids, Quebec
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GOOOD MORNIN !!! I Feel ... Like taking a sponge bath
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http://porterstarrbyrd.blogspot.com/ We have met the enemy and he is us - Pogo The reason I spend so much time out of the box is that somebody crapped in it Porter Starr Byrd |
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Your Cuddly Sociopathic
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Location: The red pill is the antidote for the kool-aid.
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Riff-Raff
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.. and the 'voices'
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I think that was his favorite sister, not that that isn`t a habit Hag would like to get into.
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http://porterstarrbyrd.blogspot.com/ We have met the enemy and he is us - Pogo The reason I spend so much time out of the box is that somebody crapped in it Porter Starr Byrd |
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Goonsquad
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Starscream
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Join Date: Apr 2008
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You know what they say, Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder, or real ugly people good looking. Whatever.
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A DOG OF WAR Click the cover, it's a link Loyal Tierza struggles through the heartache and despair of WW2 to find her boy. My First Blog-Marriage My Second Blog-The Boy In The Striped Pajamas Help find Tracey Cooeedownunder's sister is missing No Rest For the Wicked Click to buy. Haggis has a story in it. |
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