Sorry for the threadjack.

Gray,

I read about 200 pages of your sitch, but since it seems to have gone beyond your situation I did not finish reading the rest. I have always been impressed by how you changed from the way you were to how you are now. I have often wondered if your WW ever contacted you again and how you responded to her.

If you have the time and inclination, let me know.

Thanks

how about "Love Stinks" ha ha funniest darn scene in the Wedding Singer.

I couldn't find the lyrics online, so most of this is from memory. I liked Peter and Gordon's version of this song better than any others I've heard, though...


"Down in the Willow Garden" - Peter and Gordon

"Twas in the willow garden
Where I and my lover did stray
Twas there we sat a courtin'
My lover did these words say:

'Oh Willie my darlin', oh Willie my love
How can you take my life?
How can you stab my fertile young breast
With your long daggery knife?'

I stabbed her with my dagger.
It was a bloody sight.
I throwed her in the river.
It was a dreadful night.

My father often had told me
That money would set me free.
If I did murder that dear little girl
Whose name was Rose Connelly.

And now I sit in my own jail cell
And out of my window can see
The spot where I murdered that dear little girl
Down under the willow tree.

My race is run, beneath the sun
The scaffold is waiting for me
For I did murder that dear little girl
Whose name was Rose Connelly

'Oh Willie my darlin', oh Willie my love
How can you take my life?
How can you stab my fertile young breast
With your long daggery knife?

With your long daggery knife?
How can you take my life?...'"

...that must qualify as a murder ballad, huh? I think it's really old, like 19th cen2ry or somethin'.

-ol' 2long

I also like Van Morrison's "Someone Like You".

Marriage is a crapshoot.

You can sing all the songs about finding that perfect someone, and about all the glories of the whole thing in general...

But you just can't know whether it is a good idea or not.

If you don't want to have anymore kids, or are too old...I don't know what is the point. Sex? Is that the whole point of marriage?

Can you tell I'm getting really cold feet? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Good gawd, we're a sorry lot.

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

In a cavern, in a canyon,
Excavating for a mine,
Dwelt a miner, forty-niner,
And his daughter Clementine.

Refrain:
Oh my darling, oh my darling,
Oh my darling Clementine
You are lost and gone forever,
Dreadful sorry, Clementine.

2. Light she was, and like a fairy,
And her shoes were number nine,
Herring boxes without topses,
Sandals were for Clementine.

3. Walking lightly as a fairy,
Though her shoes were number nine,
Sometimes tripping, lightly skipping,
Lovely girl, my Clementine.

4. Drove she ducklings to the water
Ev'ry morning just at nine,
Hit her foot against a splinter,
Fell into the foaming brine.

5. Ruby lips above the water,
Blowing bubbles soft and fine,
But alas, I was no swimmer,
Neither was my Clementine.

6. In a churchyard near the canyon,
Where the myrtle doth entwine,
There grow rosies and some posies,
Fertilized by Clementine.

7. Then, the miner, forty-niner,
Soon began to fret and pine,
Thought he oughter join his daughter,
So he's now with Clementine.

8. I'm so lonely, lost without her,
Wish I'd had a fishing line,
Which I might have cast about her,
Might have saved my Clementine.

9. In my dreams she still doth haunt me,
Robed in garments soaked with brine,
Then she rises from the waters,
And I kiss my Clementine.

10. Listen fellers, heed the warning
Of this tragic tale of mine,
Artificial respiration
Could have saved my Clementine.

11. How I missed her, how I missed her,
How I missed my Clementine,
Til I kissed her little sister,
And forgot my Clementine.


Well, he didn't kill her but it would appeal to all yourn troubled souls (I was going to say maudlin, but that means sentimental, and I am not getting that at all right now ... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I had another one, but I couldn't possibly post it!

-ol' 2long

UVA, my last conversation with my WW was in October 2004 over the phone. I saw her twice after that, in court, and did not speak to her either time. My last contact was an email response, a few weeks before the divorce was final (summer 2005), in which I (angrily) dismissed her from my life.

My ex became pregnant around the time when the divorce was final and she married her affair partner a few months later. I'm still friends with his ex-wife, who has remarried. Her relationship with them is 100% adversarial but that's all I know. I don't even know where they live. We mostly stay clear of the subject of our exes when we get together.

Since the divorce my ex has never tried to reach out to me, nor have any of her family or either of the friends she kept. It's as if 1993-2005 never happened.

I doubt my ex will ever try to contact me. She doesn't look back. She runs out of gas on something then leaves it behind and is untroubled.

If she ever proved me wrong... I have truckloads of compassion for her but I wouldn't go easy on her.

And now I am unhappy! A fella ran into me with his truck. I was stopped at a yield sign. He apologized, gave me his insurance info, etc. Now he says I rolled backward into him. Jerk!

And weaver, I will not say what I think!

GC

put some socks on Weaver! GC, I hope car4love's new M is happy. At least once her kids turn 18 she can limit the contact with the ahole ex.

I went to a wedding over the weekend. Two very special people. The young woman is Chinese and they met in China where he is a missionary. A good friend of the groom learned a song in chinese to sing during the ceremony. It was lovely.

gc, if you lived in our area, I'd recommend our auto insurance agent 2 you. They're awesome, always have been.

My W got hit in a parking lot a 2ple weeks ago by a kid who borrowed his friends car. Not much visible damage ac2ally, but it still came in at about $750 to repair. The guy called for the estimate before we'd had it done, but hasn't called back since we left him a message. But our agent reminded us that we got a $0 deductible for uninsured motorist accidents (I think I insisted on it after some goof rear ended my van about 15 years ago and produced entirely bogus insurance information and ID at the scene). And it didn't cost us much more for the policy.

Weaver, put on socks. If you let that great guy GB get away, I just might go for him!<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

...not really. Homey don't play that.

-ol' 2long

OOOH, 2long, damage is $800, collision deductible is $500. I'm going after this dude. If my insurance doesn't recover the deductible I'll take him to court. I don't even care if I lose.

Yeah...

We used 2 have a $500 deductible, but reduced it 2 $250 after replacing 2 windshields due 2 gravel trucks dropping rocks on the freeways around these parts.

-ol' 2long

Michigan has no fault insurance.



You are really going to love him when I tell you what he's been up to now on his frequent trips to New Orleans and Gulf Port...

He was down right before Mardi Gras with a couple of his workers trying to drum up business with some other contractors and saw an old hotel that had seen way better days. On a whim he went inside and told the old lady who owned the place that if she would put him and the other guys up for the weekend at no charge they would do some repairs on this old hotel for her for payment for the rooms. Apparently they ended up working their butts off all weekend and got some major repairs done. They had all weekend to kill and GB just can't stand the way they are hurting so badly now after Katrina.

So now GB stays there on the weekends and does whatever repairs she has. Weekend before last they had Sinners and Saints festival, all rooms were booked and for some reason the toilets in three rooms broke. GB fixed the toilets and helped this old lady all weekend long. Her name is Katherine and now they are friends and he will always have a place to stay and someone to have coffee and share stories with. He said even the old black maid came up to him last time and said he was a keeper! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Isn't that neat? Oh, the Sinners and Saints festival is a gay festival, but GB says a lot of Christians come down with their signs and whatnot, trying to save the gays. He said it is the wierdest thing.

Faith, thank you!

Good stuff weaver. Count me impressed.

GC,

Thanks for the update. One thing I guarantee you, even though it may not seem like it right now, is that your WW will find a way to contact you in the future. That is a given.

In any case, I am glad that you seem to have recovered from that nightmare.

Sorry about the accident.

So weave, have you been down to NO with him yet? Sounds like it could be fun to help him down there.

Sorry about the accident Gray, I hate it when that happens.

SS

I can't wait to go with him Ap, and I will once P is at her Dad's for the summer. I just can't wait to get out of this office and rejoin the world. I will help in any way I can. I can cook, clean and tell lame jokes tell the cows come home. I can be a gopher, too. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

My friends daughter just got her degree in horticultural/landscaping design and she is down there now helping with the replanting with a bunch of other kids. Of course their parents are funding these trips.

GB is about out of money, and the business has not been good there because of the political problems with the rebuilding, on a local level even. There are so many scammers and theifs down there that it is difficult to get work as a yankee because the level of mistrust is so high. Because he has spent so much of his life down there, he has a little bit of an advantage but the cards are definately stacked against any trustworthy, ethical builders who are actually trying to help and not make a fortune off of large, cheaply built housing meant to do no more good than make the investors rich. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

Weaver, It's really hard to read about all that has gone on there, and know what to do. We have contributed, but it's difficult to know how much really finds it's way to the people who need it most.

Gray, I thought of you when I saw this -
http://www.offthemark.com/search-results/key/paper%20jam/

SS