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Ordering a milk shake

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Yesterday I drove past the local ice cream parlor that closes during the winter.  It has just reopened for the season, and there must have been about 200 people in line waiting to order their ice cream!  I had to chuckle – every time I drive past that place I remember the first time I went there with my hubby.

My hubby has a very distinctive New England accent – he pronounces his “r” more like a “w.”  We went to order some milk shakes, and my hubby ordered his as a “lawge” shake.  The guy behind the counter was one of the recent immigrants who barely speak English at all; his native language being Spanish.  He could not, for the life of him, understand what “lawge” was.  My hubby kept repeating “lawge lawge lawge” and the counter boy kept saying “what?”

Finally I leaned into the counter window and interrupted the comical scene by saying “BIG – you know GRANDE!”  Then the kid said “OHHHHHH!”  and my hubby gave me a really dirty look, but he got his large shake!

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Instructors on cell phones

Friday, April 11th, 2008

This morning when I was leaving work, I was noticing a class of school bus driver trainees being instructed on the pre-trip instruction part of a school bus driver’s exam.

I noticed that the instructor was talking on her cell phone, and it sparked a memory that I wanted to share/vent with you.

When I was in training, a large portion of the training consisted of sitting in a classroom and watching hours and hours of instructional video tapes.  They were dry and boring tapes, and difficult to watch.  What made it MORE difficult was the fact that the instructor would put the tape in the vcr and start it going, and then sit down at the table next to the tv and spend the entire time talking on her cell phone!  So essentially all I could hear was her conversation on the phone, and not the instructional video tape.

That was very disturbing to me, and I thought it was very rude of her.

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Motion sickness

Friday, April 4th, 2008

I drink a lot of ginger ale because I seem to have a queasy stomach, and get motion sickness easily.  I haven’t found an “over the counter” product that will settle my stomach any better than ginger ale that won’t make me sleepy.

I guess my predisposition to a queasy stomach is something I was simply born with, and I’ve just had to deal with it all my life.

My mother told me a very long time ago that when she was pregnant with my older sister (her first born) that she was too poor to buy a rocking chair.  She would sit on the edge of the bed for many hours with my sister, rocking her back and forth to calm her down when she was fussy.  She vowed that she would have a rocking chair for all of her following babies!

True to her word, as soon as she found out that I was on the way, she went right out and bought a rocking chair.  Much to her dismay, every time she would sit in that chair and start to rock me I would spit up all over her!  I got motion sickness every single time!  I guess now I understand why I’m NOT her favorite child!  LOLOL!

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