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01/15/09 03:12 PM #58    

Suellen Etzcorn (Foster)

You're coming back to Michigan because no matter how warm and sunny your days are in California, it can't compare to the "warm" relationships you have back here in Michigan or our "sunny" dispositions that we have 365 days a year. Weather is temporary... relationships are forever! That's why you're moving back to Michigan. Isn't life delicious?!

01/15/09 05:04 PM #59    

 

Jim Lanier

Correct me if I'm wrong here, I've evidently blocked some memories: don't yer freakin' nose hairs freeze together when it gets down around zero degrees? Which of my warm friends will volunteer to unfreeze my freakin' nose hairs?!?
Oh, and the way I got the money together to come to CA was weather-related. I was substitute-teaching at Niles High School, this would've been around 1984. They had one of those snow storms, I think you call it, where I would go out and shovel 4 inches off the drive, then come back in and rest for an hour, then go out and do it all over. And over. And over! I believe there was no school for a full week. When we reconvened school, Mr. Potts was getting out of his car there in the NHS parking lot, when he slipped on the ice and broke his arm. Had to have a cast up to his shoulder. He was out for 6 weeks, and since I knew the math thang, I took over. The hardest thing was wrapping my legs around that freakin' podium! But after 2 weeks, they paid more (combat pay, I think they called it), so I saved my money and used my brain and now I've got the doors and windows open, cuz it's about 75 degrees here in CA today! I got to thinking survival of the fittest had something to do with fittin' my ass out of Michigan, but I guess some of you survived there. I get a kick out of explaining "lake effect snow" to unbelieving Californians!

01/15/09 05:16 PM #60    

 

Steve Merica

You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose but you can't pick your friends nose!!

01/15/09 07:39 PM #61    

 

Cheryl Frame (Malinowski)

I would offer to hold an acetylene torch to unfreeze your nose hairs Jim. Hey, what are good friends for? I love your explanation, Sue;)

01/15/09 08:02 PM #62    

Sandy Barker

If we're going to do cliche's - one of my favorites is: Beauty is only a "light switch" away..... All you beauty queens couldn't relate to that in '74...but now???? (I've related to it all of my life"!!)

01/15/09 08:46 PM #63    

Joe Paquette

Jim, my boy will lick your nose hairs. He loves to lick, fortunately I am carefull to see what he has licked before me.

01/15/09 09:30 PM #64    

 

Tom Bonner

Jim I think it was mean of you to push Mr. Potts and then he broke his arm darn you just so you could wrap your legs around the podium, you deserve to have your nose hairs frozen

01/15/09 09:42 PM #65    

Suellen Etzcorn (Foster)

Sandy, as long as we're on the subject of beauty, or lack of it... I was at a bank being robbed, in Benton Harbor, of all places, about 10 years ago. I was the bank Sales Coach. I was in a branch talking to the branch manager when we noticed we were being robbed. The robber screamed for all of us to get on the floor. I dropped like a rock and the manager just sat down very slowly in her chair at her desk. I crawled over to the managers desk and tapped on her legs to let me crawl under her desk (in my chartreuse suit and high heels). A few seconds later, I realized I had left my purse, with my MAKEUP BAG in it, laying next to the chair I was standing by, so I tapped the managers legs again to let me OUT from under the desk. I wasn't about to let some tweeked-out asshole that needed money for a fix steal my makeup bag that had my favorite eyelash curler and cover stick in it!! Can you say, "Heeelll no!!"

The manager could not believe I crawled back out across her office area to retrieve my purse so I could protect my precious makeup bag!!! I didn't give a rats-ass about the money or credit cards. I would have gladly thrown that over to him... but he was NOT gettin' my eyelash curler or the cover stick, without opening a can of "whoop-ass"!

Needless to say, the ONLY person in the entire bank that could i.d. the guy was "moi". I immediately picked him out of a line up at the police station. I testified against him in a court of law and put his worthless ass away! Let it be a lesson to you all, no one messes with Sue's make-up bag! No one.


01/15/09 09:50 PM #66    

 

Tom Bonner

Suellen I had never heard the story about you crawling underneath desks I always loved to hear you talk you amaze me more and more all the time

01/15/09 09:55 PM #67    

Suellen Etzcorn (Foster)

Jim (Brenda, DO NOT READ THIS),

The news just came on and said the temperature is supposed to get down to 35 below tonight, with wind chill. Brrrrr... I guess it's the coldest we've had in 10 years. You miss it, right?!

01/15/09 10:00 PM #68    

Suellen Etzcorn (Foster)

All in a days work for a gal, Tom!

01/15/09 11:04 PM #69    

Sandy Barker

I've always admired "Californians"...until now.. WhyTF would anyone who has Kool Aid for blood (Arizonians, Floridians, Califorians, Jamacians, Bahamanians) go back to Michigan??? No offense but, have them put some of your blood type on hold...you're going to need it.. It's like 40 degrees in Florida, I have a fireplace and I just put down some wood and started a fire on the floor of my bedroom for additional warmth.... (obviously there is no smoldering heat in here.... any volunteers????)Tom??? Let me get those leather pics out.....it is COLD!

01/15/09 11:07 PM #70    

Sandy Barker

SueZQ-
You? Under a desk? Retrieving your make-up bag? Good excuse...Sounds good... Say it isn't so... I think that was a "Sex and the City" episode wasn't it??? Tell the rest......

01/15/09 11:39 PM #71    

Suellen Etzcorn (Foster)

Now that you mention it Sandy... I believe that was the episode when Samantha had the hots for the Brazilian lesbian with the long hair, and we SatC groupies all know how that worked out! Truthfully, that particular bank manager wasn't my type - large and hairy. Of course, large and hairy was what I eventually married!

Who are you kidding?! 40 degrees is bikini weather for we Michiganders! I keep my house at 65, but I got issues. Kool-Aid for blood? More like water stirred with a red crayon! Where's the "rough-tough-hard-to-bluff" Sandy from Michigan we know and love? Oh, that's right... she's on "Pinky"!!


01/15/09 11:48 PM #72    

 

Faith D. Mitchell (Biggs)

Tower Hill for me, Karen, was always with my family...so, I too never had the 'True' Tower Hill experience either. My parents always told me that was a good thing...hmm! And, Brenda, I love calling my family in Michigan during the months of January and February to remind them I'm wearing shorts and sandals and out on the trails rollerblading, biking or running. It took several years, but they finally stopped asking when I was moving back to Niles. What were they thinking?! Can't go skiing in Florida my Northern friends say, but I always manage to fly up for a ski excursion to freeze my tushi off for only a few days (rather than an entire winter) before flying back home to slip into my shorts and sandals again :-) Ahh...that's heaven! Sue – I am glad we have Facebook, the Class WebSite, e-mail and all this unbelievable technology so we can get some of that “sunny” Michigan disposition down here in Florida to go along with our Sunny weather. Technology has definitely made it easier to be located so far away from family and old friends. Get this...the first winter I decided to brave it home for Christmas, I drove up into the worst weather the North had in a few winters with windchill temps at 40 below. Lady at the gas station in Indianapolis felt so sorry for that “Crazy Floridian”; she handed me free hot chocolate to keep the little ones and I warm for the rest of the journey North. Way to go Sue nabbing that robber...NO ONE MESSES WITH THE MAKEUP BAG!!!

01/16/09 12:09 AM #73    

Suellen Etzcorn (Foster)

Hi Faith,

My daughter lives in Orlando and we talk all the time - hard to imagine, isn't it? I'd have to throw myself off a cliff if i didn't have IM, email or access to a cell phone. God love technology!

01/16/09 06:39 AM #74    

 

Steve Merica

Sandy, I think you just mentioned LEATHER again, get the pics ready!!!

01/16/09 04:51 PM #75    

Sandy Barker

I think I may have to now Steve, now that I've been called "rough-tough-and hard to bluff" and ride a pink bike. I need to reclaim the "rep"!

01/16/09 05:07 PM #76    

 

Steve Merica

Thats the Sandy I know!! I can't wait, leather and a Harley you can't go wrong!!

01/16/09 07:20 PM #77    

 

Jim Lanier

Yes, Sue, I heard about the arctic cold sweeping down onto you Michiganders, my condolences! And not only is there nose-hair-freezing, I'm guessing there's major SHRINKAGE! For the story on that, we go now to our correspondent Steve "Dick" Merica...

01/16/09 07:26 PM #78    

 

Steve Merica

No shrinkage here, just frozen!

01/16/09 08:45 PM #79    

Karol Smallwood (Mazzotta)

Hey Sue,

I just read your experience with the Bank Robbery and Makeup Bag....have you ever considered "StandUp Comedy"? You're a riot.

-KAROL

01/16/09 09:20 PM #80    

 

Cheryl Frame (Malinowski)

Oh, that would be like a frozen dick on a stick... so to speak!

01/16/09 10:20 PM #81    

 

Steve Merica

Yes Cheryl a dicksicle!!

01/16/09 11:41 PM #82    

 

Tom Bonner

like m&m's melts in your mouth not in your hand well maybe in your hand

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