96vidalias

@96vidalias (344)

United States • Age 73

Joined myLot 17 years ago

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Were you ever completely turned off by something silly?

96vidalias @96vidalias (344) • United States 25 May 07

Romantically, I mean. There was a person I had a crush on at work. A lot of eye contact and laughing together and even breaking into dance (you had to be there to understand that one) but nothing ever spoken. Then one day, I...

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What Are You Looking At?

96vidalias @96vidalias (344) • United States 25 May 07

Every time I log on, I see that at least two people have looked at my profile that day, I'm sure some of you have many more. However, they are not reading my discussions, and I think I have a little something for every taste- lots...

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Upside down tomatoes

96vidalias @96vidalias (344) • United States 19 May 07

Has anyone tried growing tomatoes or anything else, upside down? I ordered a small set for cucumbers and a large "tree" set for tomatoes. OK, I was late ordering them. The small set was delivered but the large one is still on...

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Does it make you feel better to know that other people are worse off than you?

96vidalias @96vidalias (344) • United States 19 May 07

I don't think it really helps way down on the gut level. It is something we can console ourselves with, and it makes us feel better intellectually. But everyone has his own brand of misery or comfort, no matter what your situation...

comfort

intervention

misery

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My electric company is in the protection racket.

96vidalias @96vidalias (344) • United States 16 May 07

I'm sure mine is not the only one. The bill from my electric system includes an offer to purchase (from them) a surge protector and a service agreement. This is to prevent accidental overloads from "damaging or destroying your...

Were you born with addictions?

96vidalias @96vidalias (344) • United States 7 May 07

My mother said that the reason my brother smoked and I didn't was that she smoked while she was pregnant with him, but not with me. At the time (the 1950s) this was an old wive's tale. It was years before we started hearing about...

people

I'd like some 8 by 10s of that, please!

96vidalias @96vidalias (344) • United States 20 Apr 07

I know what photo I will NOT be using as my avatar. Today I went to get my driver's license renewed with a new photo. My old ID photo didn't look like me and I didn't like it. The new one is worse- it does look like me. At...

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I sometimes hear myself thinking something really stupid.

96vidalias @96vidalias (344) • United States 14 Mar 07

This happens when I am doing something else and my brain is running on auto pilot. Once I was not really watching a TV program about a farmer in Canada. He was calling out commands to his large work horse in French. I thought,...

inner dialogue

stupid statements

thoughts

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You can trust me in your bathroom- can I trust you in mine?

96vidalias @96vidalias (344) • United States 21 Feb 07

When I go into someone else's bathroom, I never look in their medicine cabinet or snoop through their stuff. I'm afraid I will find out things that I don't want to know. But some people say they figure anything in there is fair...

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At what age do you start believing your pains might be symptoms?

96vidalias @96vidalias (344) • United States 6 Feb 07

I was reading a list of possible symptoms of a heart attack. When you are young, you automatically think it doesn't apply to you, but at some point it does. They include: 1:Chest discomfort, pain or discomfort in arms, back,...

aging

heart attack

symptoms

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What causes Phobias?

96vidalias @96vidalias (344) • United States 31 Jan 07

I am NOT afraid of spiders. No, really. And I should be. When I was very young I saw the movie Tarantula, and for months after that I kept picturing a huge spider leg crashing down through the ceiling of my room. So if anyone...

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Where are the flying cars we were promised?

96vidalias @96vidalias (344) • United States 25 Jan 07

By now we were supposed to have robot servants, self cleaning houses and flying cars. They were promised to us in science fiction and even science fact films predicting future marvels. Well, we got the robots- sort of. There...

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Is English the only language that has spelling bees?

96vidalias @96vidalias (344) • United States 16 Jan 07

I know Spanish and German are spelled like they sound- and sound like they are spelled, and many other languages are the same. Sure you might have difficult rules of grammar and have to choose whether inanimate objects are male,...

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