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Default Broken Water Main

On 6/29/2014 3:36 PM, wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 13:50:01 -0400, jmcquown >
> wrote:
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>> On 6/29/2014 1:26 PM, Ophelia wrote:
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>>> From what I read she takes care of them!

>>
>> Yet she doesn't think it's a good idea to keep extra bottled water and
>> other emergency supplies on hand? Why wait and see if someone else (the
>> water company, whatever) brings it? There is nothing wrong with being
>> proactive.
>>
>> Jill

>
> She's too ****ing old to want to be 'proactive' - you just don't get
> it do you??? I would have thought since you are a young woman living
> in a retirement place for gods sake, you might have more empathy for
> her situation - no wait a minute - at your age I was working hard not
> living with retirees. You need to get out perhaps.
>

Good lord, get over it. My parents were in their 80's and they managed
to keep some bottled water around. It wasn't huge jugs they weren't
able to lift.

You need to stop generalizing.

Jill