MSGID: 1:153/757.0 a5a890a4   
   REPLY: 1:135/392 1bb40132   
   TZUTC: -0800   
   CHARSET: LATIN-1   
   > Yep.  I prefer the old days when people dressed nicely in public, not   
   > like they had rooted around in the dark for just anything to put on.   
      
   I miss mty nmeighbour in the old buyilding; actually, two of thenm, onewho    
   became a good friend; the first was next door in the apartnent & was 88; the    
   other was at the ooppopsiote end of the hall & was late 60s.   
      
   Neither would leave the house without a tie on.  The older one would be fully    
   dressed up, including a jacket.  Maybe because he walked on his own, while   
   the  other had been in a wheelchair since Polio at age 12.  This one would   
   wear a  nice shirt & tie, but only a jacket if the weather indicated the need.   
      
   > At work I listen to podcasts on my phone I've downloaded and use only one   
   > Bluetooth ear bud.  The volume is down low enough so I can hear what's going   
   > on around me and if speaking to someone that earbud is either turned off   
   > (pausing the podcast) or removed,   
      
   Of course.  Same here.  I only use them for talking on the phone. Asa my    
   hearing ain't qwhat it used to be & I'm not one to put my converasations on    
   loud speaker. I know I'm the odd duck on that these days -- people, young &    
   old, male & female talk in to the speaker with volume at max. Maybe they all    
   went deaf from loud music in headphones when younger. . .   
      
   I never we4nt for cranked in my headphones music -- sometimes loud in the   
   open  room, or outside, but not right near me (ouch)   
      
   My dying hearing is officially tested & diagnosed as presbycutia (normal age-   
   related diminishment of hearing, beginning with the higher registers)   
      
   > I have often been to 10 feet from a student with earphones/buds in and   
   > can hear what they are listening to.  I can only imagine their hearing   
   > problems in the future).   
      
   Yup, as above. . . :P I've witnessed same.  These are the ones who stand up    
   against the concert amps at a concert, or a club.   
      
   I know how sucky it is to start losing hearing -- they'll discover this at a    
   younger age than I did.   
      
   >> or you're calling out transfer points   
   > Our buses have a recording that says things like the upcoming street is   
   > whatever.   
      
   Ours do for the main points, but not every stop on every riote, so the driver    
   is actrually, rtedcvhnially supposed to, to ensure consi99stency.  The GPS    
   trackers arten't always accurate enough to give time to find a bell & push or    
   pull in in time to get the just-announced stop.  So you walk back 2 blocks --    
   that normally won't kill anyone.   
      
   > One of the most annoying messages is when the turn signal is on and its   
   > announced in a very loud voice "this bus is making a left/right turn" over   
   > and over until the flasher is turned off.   
      
   Thankfuly ours don't seem to have that, or it's turned off from the outset.   
      
   If I'm in my wheelchair, facing backwardsm, behind the driver, I often can't    
   get to the strip that's between my chair & the other folded up seat, so I    
   holler out "ding! ding!" (double ding means a wheelchair or other accessible    
   debarking is required.)   
      
   >> Yup, the times they are a-changing! *sigh*   
   > And not always for the better.   
      
   I was going to add thatm, but I figured you'd automatically hear it at the   
   end  anyway, as I do these days. . .   
      
   >> > tattoos and the rest.   
   > I was reminded after I wrote that: Never get a tattoo where the judge can   
   > see it.  :)   
      
   Good plan.  Unlike tyhis one homeless guy whose face is cobvered in prison    
   tatts (obviously his fellow cons in juvey thought it was funny that he'd   
   accede to any suggestion; he's early 30s now & most definitely unemplyable --   
   there's  no mistaking these for bad regulasr tattoos -- definitely prison   
   (using pen ink   
   & cigarette ashes)   
      
   > Of course now some of the judges are inked up themselves I imagine.   
      
   No doubt! I don't care to have it proved. . .   
      
   Never met a judge yet that I'd want to see what's covered up in court.   
      
   > I wonder how many people when they get older will ask themselves about   
   > being inked off over "What was I thinking?"   
   > At least back in my day a lot of foolish things weren't permanent.   
      
   True.   
      
   One elder pal explained how in the '50s girls (& their parents) worried about    
   her kissing on a date -- consequences were mono. Now you got to worry about    
   pregnancy, herpes, & HIV. . . Potentially deadly consequences.   
      
   >> don't wear a hat, even on cloudy days.   
   > I very rarely ever so outside bareheaded.   
   > In the winter I wear a wool cap (one light for cool days, one heavy for   
   > cold days) and my cap.  And I wear a cap year round.  In the summer to keep   
   > the sun out of my eyes.   
      
   I have a cap that's topless, so it's basically a visor with an opaque bill.   
   If  it's cold I have a very heavy wool toque I wear, for sure (hate the cold   
   &  learned that if your feet, hands, & head ar warnm, you're basically warm   
   enough (I hate the cold, but I've gone out in short sleeves when it's   
   freezing, but  those key areas warm & manage it if there's no wind, even a   
   breeze. The visor  cap lets the UV hit my scalp & protects my eyes (I never   
   got the sense of  wearing it backwards or sideways--seriously -- there are   
   photos from baseball  stadiums who have cap backwards & hand shading their   
   eyes!   
      
   > People say they won't wear one because it messes up their hair.  I would   
   > rather have messy hair than pneumonia.   
      
   Ditto. Plus I keep my hair short enough (or gone) that it can't really become    
   messy except maybe on haircut day. . .   
      
   > Nor do I wear shorts outside.  Even to take out the trash.  Though I did   
   > once and felt half naked.   
      
   Got some English in you? In English society, shorts are for children & men   
   wear lonig pants (trousers); I wear "garden shorts" in the house when staying   
   home  on a hot summer's day. I might go check mail in them -- doesn't bother   
   me, but  my time is a bit off from yours. . .   
      
   > People always say the more clothes I have on the better I look.  :)   
      
   You have such nice people around you! They want you wearing a burkha & having   
   a viking beard, eh? *LOL*   
      
   >> like "how does it matter what colour they are?"   
   > I recall one time talking about someone, something silly they said or   
   > did.  Later the person I was telling this to asked why didn't I mention the   
   >fella was black.  I asked "what difference did it make?" and they had no reply   
   > Unless its pertinent to the story/conversation a persons skin colour   
   > means nothing to me.   
      
   Exactly.  I'm afrtaid to report crimes involving operson of colour because    
   apparently the police dispatchers can get rude if you just mention race or    
   colour (I guess especially if it matches their own)   
      
   One woman reported that a browb-skinned man was breaking into her neighbour's    
   garage.  The 911 dispatcher(usually a cop) upbraided her everty which way for    
   being racist then hung up on her! This isn't isolated, either -- I've heard    
   several similar tales.   
      
   If they ask for race/skin, I'll give it, otherwise I'll reserve for when it's    
   going to be necessary for the identification (like in a neighbourhood    
   predominantly the other shades)   
      
   & I'd especially, up here, not mention if a guy seems to be native indian, as    
   then the cops show up ready to hurt them.  I'll go as far as to say "dark    
   skinned" especially if the clothing isn't notable. Of course, I want them to    
   recognize the perp when they find him. . .   
      
   But up here, the cops are towards Natives as a lot of yours are to blacks.   
      
   Sad in both instances -- people are just people, regardless of anything else.   
      
   Tghe % of bad cops is likely similar to the % of bad doctors, teachers,   
   nurses, or even clergy!   
      
   Regardless of all other points, they are all human people.   
      
   > "Have a nice day... somewhere else".  LOL  ==swipe==   
      
   I stole it off a forward way back. . . I think it was a list of Workisms for    
   when you're just tired of everybody's sh*t.   
      
   I've seen it represented as a bumper sticker, or a button/pin.   
      
   I've never aid it & meant it -- but its nice to think about to relieve some   
   of  my own tension after a tense interaction, to know I could've, in all   
   fairness,  used it aptly.   
   --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-5   
    * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757)   
   SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 30/0 80/1 90/1 103/705 105/81 106/201 120/340   
   SEEN-BY: 123/131 129/305 330 331 134/100 153/105 135 141 757 7715   
   SEEN-BY: 154/10 218/700 840 221/1 6 226/30 227/114 229/110 206 307   
   SEEN-BY: 229/317 400 424 426 428 452 664 700 240/1120 5832 266/512   
   SEEN-BY: 267/67 280/464 282/464 1038 292/854 301/0 1 101 113 123 317/3   
   SEEN-BY: 320/219 322/757 335/364 341/66 342/200 396/45 460/58 633/280   
   SEEN-BY: 712/848 920/1 4500/1 5020/1042 5058/104   
   PATH: 153/757 221/6 301/1 229/426