You handled it ok. I know a few people like that & sometimes I can tolerate it & sometimes no.
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You handled it ok. I know a few people like that & sometimes I can tolerate it & sometimes no.
You are the soul of discretion. :) Who says old dogs can't learn new tricks?
Please have sympathy for me. I have a brother who knows everything about everything and does not hesitate to explain anything to you in great detail. When I "butt in" to tell him I've known that since I was ten years old he scolds me tells me to let him finish. ARRRRGH He once went into interminable detail explaining to me that when buying shoes I should remember that the number refers to the length and the letter refers to the width. We are both in our 70s and it never occured to him that I might have figured that our several years ago. Lord, give me patience.
There are times when I slip into old, or seldom used expressions. I used the term lattice at guild just last week, and no one knew what I meant. I repeated it a couple of times before I could even think of sashing. Then, of course every one knew. Remember cloth stores, or piece goods - how about yard goods? Now they are all fabric stores. Times change, but my grey matter doesn't keep up.Originally Posted by ghostrider
I think you have alot more patience than I do! LOL
How can it not be a word..... "muffin top" is now a word :-D :-D :-D :-DOriginally Posted by gale
This is when losing one's hearing can be a blessing... Or just let your thoughts wander and think about something more important. That's my little "mental rebellion" to having to listen to idiots.Originally Posted by kit'smamma
No kidding... I keep embarrassing myself by refering to my IPod as my "Walkman". 80's much? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:Originally Posted by olebat
Thanks for starting the topic.... and the amusing stories from others.
Duck tape :)
Also liked the "can we call it this today?"
You handled both situations well, Happy Quilting !!
I like it when it happens to other people and not me.. Sorry
My dear late MIL always told me I'd get my reward in heaven in cases like this!
So now it's not only the framing for a square but also now not a word? Oh no, what will we call it and how will we spell it. The agony, the agony. lol. heheheheheh. :) :)Originally Posted by gale
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Oh, well. She'll find out one day.
oh oh....we don't have the same sister do we????? :shock: :shock:Originally Posted by maryb44662
Yea...I remember quite clearly....when I lived in Montpelier Id, we came over Fish Creek Pass (7200 ft), down, down, down into Lava Hot Springs, and before you could shake your little tail, you were in Pocatello. I mean sure seemed like mountains to me...but then I was born and raised in the flat corn fields of Iowa, so what flat lander could tell the difference between old and "new" mountains??? :roll: :roll: :lol: :lol: :lol:Originally Posted by cnolan
Honestly, sometimes people say the stupidest things!!!!
My own experience with this came from a Doctor one night in the hospital.....I was a midwife for many, many years, and one night one of my ladies had to head to the hospital to have her baby (I only did homebirths). This doctor and I (after the baby was born) got into a "heated discussion" about whether there is one bag surrounding the baby...or two. (There are two...the inner bag is called the amnion, and the outer bag is called the chorion. You can separate them)...he swore up one side and down the other that I was just a stupid midwife that didn't know anything...you should have seen the look on his face when I grabbed a pair of gloves and promptly separated the bags before his eyes!!! Priceless :lol: :lol:
Now that's just scary! :-(Originally Posted by kaykwilts
I guess that is just one more example of why they call what the doctors do "Practice"! LOL!!! (and YES, it is scary, too!)
[quote=kaykwilts]Stories like that are EXACTLY why I birthed my 3 with a midwife.Originally Posted by cnolan
On the topic of whether words are words- my grandmother as child was often called out for the fact what she said or wrote was not a real word. She proudly defended herself and would prove that it was because it was in the dictionary. She opened her dictionary and showed them right there- there in the margin hand written with definition and all was the word. She really was ahaed of her time, seems that's the way most words get put into the dictionary.
I am biting my tongue not to say what is on every one's minds. Boy is it hurting. ROTFL!