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EtheltoTillie

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  1. I was checking to see if there were posts here about the Walshe case. The New York Post just put up a story that a hacksaw, a hatchet, and blood were found at a garbage transfer station. Also trash bags and cleaning supplies.
  2. Ira Glass--invented the genre--inadvertently, really. Still the master. I still listen to TAL. TAL always has new ideas and themes. Other podcasts get stale after awhile, like TV series. The podcast the kids were doing is a different genre, like morning zoo radio. TAL/Moth is storytelling.
  3. Should there be one thread for the three-hour crossover? I'm almost done with part 3. Did anyone watch? Very comic book feel.
  4. Was Regina giving Lucia a pass to continue the drug operations as leader as long as they caught the killer? Or weren’t they going to be shut down by the federal arrestee turned cooperator? I’m just confused.
  5. Well, I thought this would be the last word on ice cream cones, but I realized I had to add one more thing. The cashier was the person who scooped the cone. So she was already holding it. SORRY, EVERYONE!
  6. One of my friends is obsessed with the Cheshire case. I find it so horrifying I was barely able to read any news about it after the first reports. The police had the chance to save them and did not intervene.
  7. Yes, we just had the switchover, thank goodness. I watch the late night GG/Frasier/Cheers/Reba. Sometimes I switch over to Old Christine on TVLand.
  8. What I hope will be the last word on ice cream cone holders: The Blue Marble ice cream store, literally one block from the Baskin-Robbins, has cone holders.
  9. How did your theater tix work out? I have a lucky friend who saw Merrily last week. She raved. But it will be going to Broadway.
  10. Thanks for the follow up, @KittyMom4. I should have been paying with my phone, like I do most places, duh. Or I should have walked out with no cone at all. Recall that they didn't have my favorite flavor, but I purchased a pralines and cream for my husband, who was waiting outside with our dog. I really was craving that Jamoca Almond Fudge.
  11. Yes, @shapeshifter,I was thinking the same loose ends. But they still haven’t resolved the baseball bat story. This can’t go well. All these people narking on each other will result in more revenge killings.
  12. I understand your thinking here, but it's just too much for the circumstances. To the extent I had any role in escalating the situation, I would not want to take it to that level. It would be a grievous wrong. I just want every store to get cone holders! ETA, my multiquotes didn't work.
  13. I've said before there's a reason I became a lawyer. My father used to call me a Philadelphia lawyer, and I'm still not sure what that really means, but yes, I used to pipe up about everything.
  14. Exactly. He was a young guy too, although unlikely a high school student--older. I don't want to get him fired. Again, I just get frustrated about how people look at me like I have three heads when I ask about obvious things. Don't they see people struggle 50 times a day with the change and the cones? Then I feel like a Karen.
  15. I understand, but I won't do that. I'll just let it go. Won't go back there. I'm more peeved that I'm always the one who asks about things like this and no one else does. Everyone else just sucks it up! Everyone who goes in there (they've been open for a month) just accepts that they have to struggle with their cone and money. Why do I have this personality and no one else does? And, gee they invented cone holders decades ago. Why is this not in every store? I now think I never want to buy an ice cream cone any more rather than face this problem again. This isn't the first time, but it's the first time someone threatened to throw a cone at me.
  16. Here's my peeve: I went to the new combo Dunkin/Baskin Robbins in our neighborhood, and not only did they have only a reduced complement of ice cream flavors (they didn't have my fave, Jamoca Almond Fudge), but then they didn't have the handy cone holder at the cash register so you can pay and get your change before having to pick up the cone. I've seen this less and less often lately, unfortunately. The manager got so angry at me for asking the cashier to hold the cone while I put my change away that he threatened to throw it at me. He came very close. I won't be going back there.
  17. Last night we made a Hello Fresh meal with a new recipe. A Dutch Baby giant pancake with ricotta cheese and pears. Yum! It came with two eggs LOL.
  18. Kind of dull. Why now? I was learning nothing new and turned off after 10 minutes. Apparent the big reveal was the inclusion of deposition testimony, but I don’t need to sit through hours of this or listen to that psycho.
  19. Well, this tip from a dormant thread was oddly prescient 6 months before Covid LOL. I love household tips but don’t have any to share at the moment.
  20. @shapeshifterI'm just throwing one more idea out for you, you may want to leave your daughter her inheritance in a spendthrift trust. I also know people who have done this. But of course, then someone else has to manage it and her expectations. In one family I know, two brothers will be trustees for the third. I don't know if your other children are up to that task or willing. Again, there are no easy answers. But it can prevent quick losses of the money.
  21. I don’t understand this post. Can you explain.
  22. I didn’t want to mention the S word, but since you have I will say that yes it is in the mix, and I see you understand this. I could recommend an amazing memoir that I recently read that dealt with this as part of the narrative. The writer was a sibling. It’s called What’s So Funny?, by David Sipress, a New Yorker cartoonist. It was the most compelling book I have read in a long time. Read it if you feel up to it. Your suggestion for your daughter to live with you is a good one, and I know other people who do it that way. The sister in that book sounds very much like your daughter.
  23. The nuggets have arrived. No pet peeve here so I’m taking it to Chit Chat.
  24. I’m so sorry to hear this @shapeshifter i feel you are a friend although we haven’t met. I am not a parent but I know parents who have this situation. It’s more common than you would think. Some of these people have enough money to support the child for life. They do this because the child really is incapable of self support. You would not want to see your child suffer but you cannot bankrupt yourself. I don’t have any easy answers.
  25. That wedding episode was on last night! Great episode. I hadn't watched this show in months because of the Hallmark Christmas movie hiatus. I really like this show, but over the years it had such upheavals in plot, as in a typical soap. Drunk Cheyenne never made sense to me. I still think they had great acting and writing.
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