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| RottieWoman |
Posted on September 10 2009 09:15 PM
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jus' 
we will also need many many copies of these sheets for those who lose them, as well as various "sheets on tape", and diagrams and pictures of the appropriate amount of contact described in those sheets. For us "body contact" people we we'll end up with pillows to share and extra clothes for accidental spillage of ingested items due to Spontaneous Hug Overload Syndrome.
And Duct Tape. For taping the pillows to us so we can give different softness of hugs and taping up the body contact diagrams so people can always see them, and also for attaching the Sheets on Tape to the bookbags that will be distributed so participants can also carry the actual sheets in the bags. And their extra clothes.
we will also need many assorted digital and voice-activated clocks
which will also fit nicely in the carrying bags |
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| CheshireKat |
Posted on September 11 2009 12:05 AM
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This sounds like an awful lot of organizing for us... half of these things will probably be forgotten in the process, LOL.
"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings." - Eric Hoffer |
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| justfoundout |
Posted on September 11 2009 12:26 AM
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RottieWoman, that was so funny. Now I have tiny little 'laughing tears' in my eyes from trying not to LOL in my college's computer room.
I think that the best-selling item would be the carrying bags. Another thing that would do a good business at our International Dyscalculia Convention would be a key-making kiosk,... like maybe even more important than a hot-dog kiosk.
My family loaded up the car for a trip when I was a little girl. The trunk (I think the English call this the 'boot'?) was filled with every imaginable suitcase and article for survival for a two week trip. One adult checked the contents of the trunk, re-positioned a few things, and shut the trunk. However, in order to re-position those items, she had laid the keys down in the bottom of the car trunk and hadn't picked them up again before shutting the trunk.
Yes, we did get to go on the trip,... after the back seat of the car had been removed, part of the contents of the trunk removed through the 'holes' behind the back seat, through those same 'holes' part of the contents had been re-positioned (yet again), and the keys had been 'fished' out from the floor of the trunk. I think that lots and lots of sets of keys are better than jewelry. - jus'
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| CheshireKat |
Posted on September 11 2009 01:26 AM
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Jus - My car is almost locked-in-key proof. If you try to lock the doors after you've turned the car off, if the keys are still in the ignition (even if it's off) the doors will immediately unlock themselves and make a noise at you. If you open the door at all with the keys in the ignition, it beeps incessantly until you remove them.
The only downfall is that there is no reminder to not set your keys on the passenger's side seat while you're going through your purse to make sure you have everything... that is how I have ended up locking my keys in my car several times. I will take them out of the ignition, set them on the seat, check my purse, then get out and lock my door and upon shutting it, realize what I left sitting on my passenger's seat.
I wish I had a hide-a-key on the underside of my car, but I don't, so I keep a spare car key with me in my purse for when those sorts of things happen. The man I bought the car from several years ago actually had THREE copies of the car key... considering Toyota keys cost about $90 to make a copy of, I thought that was a little excessive, until he described to me how frequently he and his wife locked their keys in the car. It ended up costing them less to pay $200 to get two spares made than it did having one of them take off work to drive across town to unlock the door, or for them to have to wait for AAA to come forcibly unlock the door.
Edited by CheshireKat on September 11 2009 01:27 AM
"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings." - Eric Hoffer |
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| justfoundout |
Posted on September 11 2009 04:14 AM
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9/10/09
Kat, what you've just described sounds just like something I would do. And for that reason, I keep a copy of my car key and a copy of my front door key in the little zippered pocket of my billfold. It's 'saved' me on several occassions. An much as I'd hate to loose a set of keys and leave an establishment (work, a restaurant, a party) without finding my keys, there can't be a much lonlier feeling than standing in an empty, dark parking lot, with a freezing wind blowing, wanting nothing more than to go home, and not having the keys to just get in your car and drive. On a couple of occassions, that's happened to me, but I was able to drive home with that key from my wallet. I didn't used to keep a key to my front door in my wallet, but experience has taught me that this is folly, too. (The glass window in my house's back door is still broken, and covered up.) Toyota's keys cost $90 dollars?! - jus' |
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| Mohinga |
Posted on September 11 2009 06:29 AM
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Now that's exactly why my husband and I have a set of all the important keys each..
Oddly enough, I have never lost my keys. I've lost gloves, a shoe once when I was a kid, buss passes and a coat.
I've forgotten more things than I care to remember, though.
My ex lost the house keys once and decided that I didn't need my keys until we had a new copy made, selfish git. I wasn't able to leave the house for a week because of this because the door could only be locked from the outside using a key.
When we moved here, we got one set of keys. One fine evening, we went to the basement to pick up the laundry and closed the apartment door and suddenly my husband looked very funny - he'd forgotten to take the keys from the table..
I was not impressed and may have muttered a few words under my breath. We hadn't had our dinner and I wanted our clothes which we couldn't get to because the basement is locked.
The story had a happy ending after all. My husband had the car keys in his pocket and the owner of the apartment had a spare set of keys so off we went on a two-hour trip, wearing slippers and no jackets to get the keys.
I'm a violin so stop trying to make me sound like a piano!!
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| justfoundout |
Posted on September 11 2009 05:21 PM
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9/11/09
Good story, Mohinga.
In South America, I was a guest of a couple who had a concrete, second floor patio. The clothesline was out on the patio. You could all probably take these 'facts' and each of you write your own story with them. And we could have a contest... Okay, but here's what actually happened. I went out on the patio, one fine sunny, but cold, day, for 'who knows what reason', probably to check to see if my socks were dry. I was wearing nothing but a long 'housecoat' and slippers. I had a great view of the city, and the city had a great view of me, when... the metal roof door went shut! Yeah, it went shut with the finality that only a metal door can provide. There were wires on the roof. They were holding the 'ham radio antenna' up there where it was supposed to be. And there was a coil of coaxial cable on the roof, and precious little else. So, although I knew that I was 'home alone', I banged on the metal door and yelled. Then I eyed the coil of cable and the other 'electrical' looking items that were laying around. Banged some more. Looked over the edge and contemplated any possible 'footholds', which, combined with the coaxial cable, might provide me with my freedom. But, (to my credit) I decided that cold, hunger, and boredom were a small price to pay for not having to go to the hospital, and so I waited,... and waited. Okay, since you've 'told us your story', Monhinga, I'll tell mine, too. My (now) ex thought that this was just really, really funny. Well, I have to admit, it was kind of funny. - jus'
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| elena532 |
Posted on September 11 2009 06:37 PM
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noise, - i can zone out... a bit more than i should. i can also hear small things others cant.. they drive me nuts!!! i can also be mental with the repitive noises. and if some one repeats something 2 times i just stare and im like, i hear you the firist time!!! but thats my personality type (INTJ) we pretty *** off with that
light, not so much
smells- of ceritain food genraly.
some touches- jep. but not clothes. any one touching my hand drives me nuts or my arm.
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| reverend blamo |
Posted on September 13 2009 12:34 PM
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OK, here's a locked IN story for ya' ...
I was installing a stereo in a car at my parent's house. I had mostly everything hooked up and was making final adjustments to the amp in the trunk (yup) I had the key on in the "assc" position and the stereo on (not loudly) so that I could adjust it. As I thought to myself that I should stick my foot out of the trunk so that the lid doesn't close on me I heard "thunk" and was in the dark. 
It was about 10:30/11:00 in the morning and I knew that my mom came home at noon for lunch so worst case scenerio would be that I would be there for an hour.
My mom did not come home. At about 3:30 I started disassembling the lock/latch with the few tools I had in the trunk, a screwdriver and wire strippers...in the mostly dark trunk. I had a little light as I peeled some of the weather stripping away for fresh, cooler air.
I got out at about 4:45. my mom got home a little after 5:00.
"I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
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| justfoundout |
Posted on September 13 2009 05:03 PM
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That was a terrible thing to have happen to you. I'm so sorry. Why do car manufacturers make trunk locks so that they can't be opened from the inside? Were they intending for car trunks to be used as 'temporary detention' sites? - jus' |
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| elena532 |
Posted on September 13 2009 05:20 PM
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justfoundout wrote:
9/13/09
That was a terrible thing to have happen to you. I'm so sorry. Why do car manufacturers make trunk locks so that they can't be opened from the inside? Were they intending for car trunks to be used as 'temporary detention' sites? - jus'
i think its a safely hazard.
what if your kidnapped and in the trunk/boot???
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| CheshireKat |
Posted on September 13 2009 06:27 PM
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Wow Rev, that sounds like a horrible day! I guess it's people like you who are part of the reason why all new cars are required to have a safety release latch on the inside of the trunk now. When I was in high school me and my friends used to put each other in the trunks of our cars and drive around the school parking lot in the morning (stupid, I know) but I would never go in the trunk because I am very claustrophobic... I can't even imagine what it would be like to be stuck in there for hours. *shudder*
"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings." - Eric Hoffer |
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| dhakiyya |
Posted on September 13 2009 11:25 PM
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elena532 wrote:
justfoundout wrote:
9/13/09
That was a terrible thing to have happen to you. I'm so sorry. Why do car manufacturers make trunk locks so that they can't be opened from the inside? Were they intending for car trunks to be used as 'temporary detention' sites? - jus'
i think its a safely hazard.
what if your kidnapped and in the trunk/boot???
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I read somewhere that you should kick the tail lights out, then wave through the hole, the driver apparently won't notice but other car drivers will and will probably dial 999/911
that doesn't help if you're stuck in the boot of your own stationary car though!!! |
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| RottieWoman |
Posted on September 14 2009 03:12 PM
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jus'
just wanted to get back to ya' - glad you liked my satirical ramblings |
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| RottieWoman |
Posted on September 14 2009 03:19 PM
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My mom has story about when she had just moved to the area in her 20'ss, from Indiana, and had just met my dad. They were both buyers for high end clothing places and my mom was renting a room from an older woman - she was renting the finished attic space of this person's house. She sometimes would have my dad pick her up in morning to take her to work - she hadn't learned to drive yet <like me, she learned to drive out of need - much later she had me, and she had me late because she had complications> . One morning for her new job, she got ready as usual and went out in the morning - leaving her keys in the upstairs room she rented. She called my dad and he came over with his roommate and they found a ladder from somewhere and used it to get to the second story where they managed to get into my mom's area and get her keys. I am not sure how they got the ladder but I think they broke in to get to the keys - |
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| EarlyWarning |
Posted on December 08 2009 08:56 PM
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I am crazy hypersensitive!!to everything! it's my fantasy to own one of those deprivation chambers to sleep in or just to get away from stuff.. *sigh* that would be so nice..
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| saruna |
Posted on December 08 2009 10:19 PM
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I'm a very light sleeper and usually I can "tune" out all of the distractions that keep me awake but last night there was a strange smell that kept me up. I think I drove my husband nuts searching for possible sources of the smell, especially when he couldn't smell it until much later.
I'm still not sure what the smell was but we identified that it was coming from outside the apartment and was 'sneaking' in under the windows and doors with the wind. Fortunately the odor is gone now but I wasn't able to sleep much last night.
I don't know what I'll do if a smoker moves in next door. Does anyone have some ideas? |
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| twistedxkiss |
Posted on December 08 2009 11:05 PM
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Saruna, that happened to us once, and as it turns out I was smelling a fire three floors up from us in BF's dorm that NOBODY else could smell, and the smoke alarms in that kids room had not detected.
Sometimes it pays to be so sensitive! |
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| argentnox |
Posted on February 11 2010 07:14 AM
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I have horrible problems tuning things out. It is so bad that I literally bring my iPod with me everywhere and got earbuds that help block out sound. I turn on my iPod to songs that I know I can tune out, and that is the only way I can study. I have even been known to sleep with my iPod in and on because otherwise little sounds drive me nuts. Interestingly enough, normal sounds my animals make never bother me. In fact, the ABSENCE of those sounds can get me stressed or wake me up from a sound sleep.
8 + 1x = 0.04x IS the same as 8 + 1x = 0.4x, I swear it is! (And I had to check this 5 times to make sure I had written that [in]correctly!) |
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