I pretty much figured that as I was typing - where the hell do they put the IRS offices? This was a SS office and IIRC when we were making appointments for IRS visits, there were only a few that co-officed with SS and we had to make certain additional info available like SS# b/c you couldn’t get into a SS office w/o…

Here in Seattle the guards for the Federal building/IRS office are from the Federal service but I think I made your point with ‘Federal building’.

Little bunny Foofoo? Picking up the field mice and bopping them on the head (or however that thing goes).

The ‘golfers pickup’ (or whatever it is called when golfers bend at the waist to pick up their  balls (leaving that pun alone)) is still a challenge for me but I stand on one foot while waiting for the bus. Good balance is basic to mobility and it all depends on the foot and ankle.

I am considering getting the test to see if I have any offspring looking for me. The 2 main possibilities are from 1972 (about). Both stories are complicated but generally fall under the heading “Grumpy is too much of an airheaded pretty-boy to be a father” and that was pretty much true back then. I will not actually…

For some reason “Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mommy’s hung you in the closet and I am feeling so sad” comes to mind.

And they fought a secret war in the 1970s to disarm the polygamists here in the PacNW. A friend’s husband was kicking in doors to disarm them when he was shot in the back. It is an interesting story that will probably never get told.

Didn’t you argue about, this is hard for me to say, vinegar BBQ? Cole slaw seems like a valid personal problem but vinegar BBQ!

How do I, safely, tell someone not to wear street-shoes in the sauna? These people will walk up to the top bench and sit there with their outside shoes shedding dog shit, slug squeezings (here in Seattle), et cetera turning a healthy environment into a god-awful soup of ‘stuff’. I wear flip-flops and take them off…

I tried to look at that article but:

Was that after the romantic stroll in the dark when she didn’t know you were there?

Yes, sometimes I resort to asking for curried noodles to get close to the SN that I love.

I have found that Singapore noodles can be ordered in most Chinese restaurants even if it is not on the menu. It is can be found in the ‘Chinese only’ menu or just requested. One time in Vancouver, BC they served my friends first and it took them another 20 minutes to deliver my noodles (my friends were pissed, but I…

Suddenly, a troll appears who supports their opinion with wishful thinking and denigrates others’ with trollish gold “

I once had a lamb shank in a nice restaurant - it was wonderful; but I was not very hungry so I asked for a take home container. When I was paying the bill, I asked about the leftovers and was told it went into some kitchen person’s doggie bag. I was stunned because there was more than half left over. I did not kick…

Ah, I see where we disagree.

People will want to smoke because they are influenced by the people around them and who influence them. No one says I am going to go pick that plant, dry it, chop it, roll it in some paper, and smoke it on a whim.

Parents do not have as much influence over their children as ‘influencers’ do - this has always been true, long before living the digital life. Movies and the people around you had more influence on behavior than any lectures from parents.

I remember when it was considered rude to not let people smoke in your home - almost all homes (even those of non-smokers) had ashtrays. Movie theaters and airplanes had ashtrays built into the arm-wrests (in 1967 in a Plentywood MT movie theater I was smoking pot and someone shouted “hey, who’s burning leaves?”). In…