OMG They Found the Cure for Stupid

gardengumby

yeah - I've always hated being called honey or dear by someone I don't know (and don't care to know).  One time I actually did say, "I'm not your honey" and PO'd the person off to no end.  She was offended that she didn't get to call me what she wanted. 

marywh

Or sweetie-where do you get off calling me sweetie? I only use sweetie on my kids when Im pissed off at them...

proudtospin

well my bosses wife when  I was working in a shoe store during high school called me honey but that was cause she was 75 and could not remember my name

and she was...a sweetie too!

marywh

It doesnt bother me if that person is older than me, its just if theyre young enough to be my child...and you guys arent going to believe this, future dil called me tonight and said I sounded really "chipper"....omg, just shoot me now...

Alyson

Didn't know the term was used in the US. Quite common here and it is the young who are using it again.

chabba

I've only been hearing it used by younger adults referring to "old people".

Wren44

I associate it with my great grandparents. And English novels.

GmaFoley

I'm hoping this will be me:

gardengumby

that's a plan!!!

Anonymous

I went shopping today with my son.

Question: Did anyone get a fuzzy face after chemo? What did you do about the fuzz?

marywh

Veggy, I never got fuzzy, but I did have a few wild hairs that grew on my chin...I just shaved them off.

Anonymous

I had an inch of fine fuzz, like sideburns and beard. I shaved them off last night. I just hope it doesn't grow back.

proudtospin

sounds like a reaction to the meds, pal of mine got that when she was on cortizon years ago, it went away eventually

Alyson

I got fuzzy veggy and it did go away. It was quite a downy fuzz- no hair anywhere else though at the time. There is a topic on BCO 'Facial hair after chemo'

Gma I sitting with you on that bench planning what wicked thing to get up too next. Which makes me think - what am I going to do now, Think its coffee time.

Be good.

marywh

Oh Alyson I cant believe you would EVER be wicked.... Is it my imagination or is the board getting slower and slower computer wise? Anybody else having trouble?

Scottiee1

Mary.....it's not you.....it's happening to all of us.....the mods are working on it.

Wren44

It's been slightly better for me today. Lately it's been slow for everyone - watching paint dry. Maybe they're trying to get the impatient people to leave (like me).

proudtospin

guess you can count me as impatient, was blaming my computer but nothing else is a problem

someone needs a new IT manager~~

Alyson

Alyson

Mary thought for a minute that you meant we were getting slower!!!

Told DD I was slow today  and her reply was -'can't you find your broomstick?'  They are never too old to clip round the ears; problem was she was on the other end of the telephone.

marywh

Must have been Snippy DD Day today...Mine was full of herself too. She found out her husband is engaged again, he and dd arent even divorced yet. His girlfriend is her ex-best friend. He is such a butt-wipe...

juliaanna

OMG, had a follow up appointment with my PS. First words out of his assistant's mouth, "My, you look chipper today." I literally stopped in my tracks, saw each of your faces in a huge group and blurted out, " How am I supposed to look? Everything is good." 

gardengumby

what's with this "chipper" thing?  A chipper is what you put sticks in and get out wood scraps to put in your yard. 

GmaFoley

Comparision shopping lol - What Does Chipper really mean??

Were they calling you a chipmunk?? 

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Or was it a smiling lion?

I think I would have growled myself - I try not to take the things people say wrong but is hard to do..

gardengumby

maybe they were saying that you looked mean enough to chew sticks????

Anonymous

People who call us chipper.

proudtospin

remember the guy in CT who put his wife through the wood chipper?  they finally got him as they found a piece of fingernail along the highway or something?

eek

GmaFoley

I think that was on "Bones" - they woodchipped someone there too. Being a Forensic Anthropologist in my prior life, I could see that happening.. 

Anonymous

Bad news

I don't want to talk about it.

proudtospin

there really was a case in CT years ago, I think some cop got hooked on finding the solution and finally, after years, solved the crime!

I used to torture my BIL as he had a little chipper...he promised me no persons would be chipped