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"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 12/12/2016 10:49 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>> The ogre she was with for twenty years moved
>> to be with some women in the Caroliners, perhaps the creep is shacked
>> up with Jill. But I doubt it, Jill would beat the crap out of him...
>> any man abused her he'd have a nine iron shoved up his ass.

>
> You got that right! LOL No man would ever survive raising his hand to me.
>
> Employees in stores around here tend to strike up conversations and they
> tell me all sorts of things. I know the 36 year old woman at the Exxon
> (gas/petrol) station had a hysterectomy a couple of years ago due to
> medical problems. (She kept emphasizing to me it took a *white
> woman*/doctor to diagnose her condition correctly. Uh, okay. I don't
> know what race has to do with it, you just went to the wrong doctors.)
>
> It all started because I was wearing shorts & a tank top when I went to
> put gas in the car. All the other customers were bundled up as if it was
> cold outside. It was 70F degrees! Of course I was wearing shorts and a
> sleevless top. Comfortable! She said she gets hot flashes. And (like
> you) when she asked my age she didn't believe me. You want t see my ID?
> No, but she thought I might have a suggestion about how to deal with hot
> flashes. Uh... not really. I sleep with the ceiling fan on, year round.
> I thought about it later, there's an OTC medicine, Estrovan? How about
> one of those Chill-O things you tuck in your pillow case? I don't really
> have a problem with hot flashes. I just like to be comfortably cool.
>
> I don't invite conversation, it just happens. Of course I don't go home
> and then email them, either...
>
> Jill


A lot of older people are happy to tell you all of their health problems at
every opportunity which discourages my asking "how are you today" in casual
conversation.

Cheri