Drug dealers make fine neighbors, actually. They don't complain about your music, rat you out to the HOA, and all you ever hear are their vacuums. Of course they have a lot of friends come by for two minutes. LM must move her furniture every day...thump, thump, thump.

Once I had a roommate who was a dealer. I could tell whenever all the dealers in Madison were out of pot because all of a sudden he started getting a bazillion desperate phone calls.

But, but I'm a dancing, apple-cheeked doll! If you kill me, I won't be as much fun to tussle with! I'm certain of it!

This is not even a question.

I'm also fairly certain you're taller than my kneecap, so while I'm wading through anklebiters, I think you're safe...

So I skimmed. We are giving up coffee and taking up heroin?

Sorry about the perfume Vortex. Hate when that happens.

Danke is Thank You. Bitte is You're Welcome.

I thought danke is "thank you" and bitte is "please," as in "please, it was nothing."

burrell=skimmer

It's both.

I'm glad Burrell skimmed, because I can add that my Hubby uses "bitte" as "excuse me, what was that you just said, could you repeat that?" In my house, "bitte" has become reflex for that usage. German is his first language, because he moved there as a military dependent at 3 days old and stayed there till age 7.

Oh Lee, I am such a skimmer. If you only knew.

Connie, that seems like "please" again, as in "please repeat that." All I know is I have found the word to be very useful when trying to stumble around German.

I'm also fairly certain you're taller than my kneecap

I'm pretty short, but unless you're over 20 feet tall, I'm also fairly certain I'm taller than your kneecap.

so while I'm wading through anklebiters

Have your garden gnomes come to life and attacked or something?

TCG is home we are alternating between staring at the mess hoping it will clean itself and trying to convince each other that it really isn't that bad.