DEEP THOUGHTS BY MEN WHILE FISHING

Two men are out ice fishing at their favourite fishing hole, just fishing quietly and drinking beer.

Almost silently, so as not to scare the fish, Mel says, "I think I'm going to divorce my wife - she hasn't spoken to me in over 2 months."

Earl continues slowly sipping his beer, then thoughtfully says, "You better think it over - women like that are hard to find."

My job interview today was a joke.

"Spill it, sister" <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Are you just saying that? Or, do you really mean it?

It was not a funny joke.

what's up with the job interview cind?

mlhb

I really meant it, for I felt you were kind of sad... (otherwise you'd write a funny joke)...

A couple of weeks ago, there were some sort of interviews regarding potential promotions in my office. I was not one of the persons talked to. The managers involved called them conversations not interviews. It was totally weird.

So, I called them on it and asked why I wasn't included. My supervisor said it was because I had not told him I was interested in a promotion. I looked at him and asked why they hadn't bothered to look at the list of applicants and he couldn't answer the question. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

So, they had to follow legal protocol - I work in civil service gov't agency. Yesterday, they did the interviews. They were scheduled for 1 hour intervals starting at 8:30. The director knew he had a meeting that was scheduled to start at 9 but started early. I don't know why they scheduled the interviews for morning. Anyway, my interview was an hour late and lasted less than 20 minutes with almost none of the standard questions. NONE!!! I wish I'd taped it. If I'm ever interviewed again by this clown, I will take a mini tape recorder in - in a pocket. So, twice - repeat - twice - during the interview, he took phone calls. (><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /><) One was a non-emergency from his wife (he takes phone calls all the time from her during staff meetings that he commands). <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> It was such a joke. I was offended by the whole thing. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

At the end of the work day, I walked the half mile to the parking lot w/ a co-worker. On the way down the hill, she commented that she hates the way I am treated so disrespectfully by my co-workers, supervisor, and managers. After long discussion about that, I cried and drove home. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/teary.gif" alt="" />

Walked in the house and my son started up. By this time, it was almost 7. I said, "I'm out of here." Then, I picked up my purse and keys and left. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

Went looking (not buying) at one store, bought gas, went and bought box of wine, went shopping and bought a novel, set of 'soul' cds, and 12 packages of mint mojito gum. Then I went to dinner.

When I asked the hostess for a table for 1 she said, "We don't have any." <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> I told her that this was the second time I had been in the restaurant and the second time I had left w/out buying a thing. On my way out, I stopped at the bar and asked to see a manager. Who did I get, the same hostess who had made the insulting remark. We had a long conversation, they poured me a glass of wine, and I waited 1.5 hours for my table which I NEVER got.<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> Don't know if it was because they wouldn't seat me or what the deal was. I think I need to make a bunch of online comments about that place.

At 11 p.m., I sat down on my coudh and had dinner.....a pint of Vermonty Python ice cream by B&J....the day was so bad that my ice cream was full of crystals. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

Yesterday stink, stank, stunk. There are no emoticons for how horrible the day was.

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

Any idea why do you think they (at your company) treat you so? Have you talked to them about it?
(My son woke up... will be back...)

Perhaps it is that I am cut of a different cloth - not gender issues - not racial issues. The lack of respect comes from men and women. And it comes from black and white people. I was there in this capacity in the 80s. Then I left in 1991 to raise children. I came back in 2006. I do my best to treat everyone equally. Perhaps I am too meek....not willing to toot my own horn. Not acting like I am so great. Not cutting up as much as some. Trying not to be snooty. But I do have a learning disability. I also have traveled more. I also like more high-brow things than most of them seem to like. I don't know what it is. I'm not better educated. I'm not better than these people.

Maybe shutting my eyes and waiting to die a couple of times has made me different.

Maybe my view of the world is just different. I don't know.

Meanwhile, is this the thread for which you were searching....oh,my! I even type online in a fairly grammatically correct manner....<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />



[color:"pink"]Weekend Benders[/color]

Isn't it amazing... They will tell you they like some things yet they will buy something else...

I have at work a younger lady (33) who is... a bluff-er... She doesn't know a lot, but when she speaks, it looks she knows everything... and she would never recognize any mistake she makes... Nor she would ever say 'sorry, I don't know' but will be explaining something else, convincing you that you asked that and not what you really asked <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />)... And she does speak so nicely, politically correct and so... And, of course, I "read" her right away... Yet, she's getting promotion every year...
I overestimate people's intelligence (the bosses in this case <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />)... or it's just 'similis simili gaudet' (like takes pleasure in like)...

But, you know, she highly respect herself...
And that makes a huge difference, Cind...
Once I learnt that lesson, I feel and am treated much better...


<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Yes, that one was.

So, a few minutes ago, my son woke up and was calling me
- Did you have a nightmare my love?
- No, mom, I just woke up and thought how much I missed hugging and kissing you.
<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

A few nights ago I told him 'we really have to go to bed earlier', and he answered 'mom, please don't tell me that scary story before sleeping, I'm afraid I will have a nightmare.
<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

And a few days ago:
- Mom, I have one good and one bad news
- Hm... OK, am listening
- Bad news is that I broke the cup, but it was an accident, you know that I would never do that on purpose!?
- And what's good news in that?
- Good news is that you shouldn't worry nor be upset, for I still love you most in the whole world.
<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Can he lay it on thick, or what?

How can you be mad at him? How old is he?

No, I cannot be mad at him (well, I can - rarely <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />... he's such a cute and sweet and smart (and this has nothing to do that he's mine <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />)

He's 5 and 8 months

Just wait.....they get more and more ornery. And more and more dear.

Ok, my boss is a joke.

But, here is a big puzzle!!!!!!!! [color:"red"] How is my dog getting out of the fenced back yard with all the gates closed? [/color]

Finally! A question out here that I can help with. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

What kind of dog? I have a beagle mix that is a real escape artist. I heard that's typical of the breed. She would dig holes under the fence where I have a row of 4' shrubs. I couldn't ever see the holes through those hedges.

I got her to stop by buying an "electric fence" at Petsmart. Basically its a mildly charged wire that runs along the fence line about 6" off the ground. The charge "pulses" through the line and delivers a nice little shock when she touches it.

I spent an entire weekend installing it and when I was done, I let her out and stood on my back porch to watch. Sure enough, she headed straight for her spot under the shrubs and I couldn't see her. All I could see was the hedges rattling around as she approached her hole. Then...

*YIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!*

And she came tearing out of those shrubs like she was scalded and hid behind me. She didn't know what got her, but it was at least a year before she tried to dig out again.

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

She is 30 pounds of blue heeler/terrier mutt - we say she is a lovechild.

I have plenty of holes where she has tried digging out. I don't know how successful she has been that way but, this morning, I thought I figured out she had found a way through the corner of a gate where the chain link was not well tied to the gate frame. So, I tied that stuff down well. This evening, I let her out again and she got out. The fence is 4 feet tall all around the yard. I think there is one section that is about 3 feet tall (at a flower bed) I now think she is going over the fence there.

How much did the electric fence set you back? My x is an electrical engineer and can figure out how to install it and he would - for the children. Good chance to teach son (and daughter some stuff). I think an electric fence needs to be my next investment unless I invest in some tall fencing for the gate. Something light enough to mount on the swinging gate. But tall enough to work at the flower bed.

I really think, after today, that she is leaping the fence. Sheesh! I never bargained for this. This confounded dog makes my life so bloody complicated. You know, I can always send the children to their dad's when I need a weekend away. The dog can't go with them, though. Pain in the neck.

But, we love her.

Um... The boxed kit that comes with the energizer, some wire, and some plastic stakes with eye-hooks (to keep the wire up off of the ground) set me back about $50 I think. There wasn't nearly enough wire in the kit to do the entire perimeter of the yard. I don't know where you live, but even in the 4th largest city in the nation, I was able to find the right gage wire at a small mom and pop hardware store to finish the perimeter. It's basically the same kind of wire that ranchers use for cattle fences. I also had to cut extra PVC pipe for additional stakes.

If your dog is going over the fence then you will want to figure out a way to get the wire to go along the top of it. You might have to get a little creative, but it's not rocket science.

Another alternative is an "invisible fence". It's basically a radio collar tied to a transmitter somewhere in the yard. If the dog goes too far away from the transmitter, he gets a little shock. You can set little flags just inside the perimeter to indicate a warning zone. It's surprising, but animals figure out that warning zone pretty quickly.

My brother set one up for his doberman when they built a new house on a mountainside with no real fence. They also have two cats that learned to saunter back and forth just outside of the dog's perimeter. Drives the dog nuts. Occasionally when he just can't stand their taunting, he'll go for it and blast through the perimeter. He lets out one ugly yelp when he takes a hit. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Damn cats. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

Here's what I got. Looks like it runs about $70. Add some cash for the extra wire and stakes.

http://www.petsmart.com/global/product_d...032911&Ne=2

I thought, yesterday that I had the problem solved. She got out. I thought I had an answer. She got out tonight - I found a tunnel under the fence. I think I'll just string her up and go for the kit thingy.....After I fix the holes.....at the base of the fence. This is not funny........