Lie and don't tell your Dad.
I've got two words that are going to make all the pain go away. Miniature Golf.
Mayor ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Spike's Bitches 39: Cuppa Tea, Cuppa Tea, Almost Got Shagged, Cuppa Tea...
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Trudy Booth - Dec 30, 2007 5:35:01 am PST #139 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
dcp - Dec 30, 2007 5:41:12 am PST #140 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
No call forwarding feature on your home account?
Anne W. - Dec 30, 2007 5:41:27 am PST #141 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Just leave a message saying that if someone needs to reach you quickly, call your cell number. No need for an explanation.
vw bug - Dec 30, 2007 5:42:35 am PST #142 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
I'd have to pay extra for it. And I really don't want Omaha Steaks and other random people just being directly forwarded to my cell, which will actually have a message saying that I'm out of town and only returning urgent calls.
Laura - Dec 30, 2007 5:45:37 am PST #143 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
I agree with Anne. Please call my cell, no explanation. People that matter know you are out of town, others don't need to know.
Ginger - Dec 30, 2007 5:51:11 am PST #144 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
There are no circumstances under which your father thinks a lie is acceptable, vw? Does he go around telling women that their dresses make their butts look fat?
I think lying to protect life and property is perfectly okay. You don't want to tempt burglars to sin, do you?
Trudy Booth - Dec 30, 2007 5:52:09 am PST #145 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Most of those sales calls are automatic anyway. They're not hearing what you say on the message. And anybody who knows you would likely call your cell if the couldn't reach you at home, right?
Hil R. - Dec 30, 2007 5:53:06 am PST #146 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Just leave a message saying that if someone needs to reach you quickly, call your cell number. No need for an explanation.
This.
Sorting through my grandfather's photos is interesting. His filing system consisted of little wax paper bags and cigar boxes. And he took pictures of everything. So I've got one cigar box of pictures of protests, with each protest in a separate little wax paper bag. Another of vacations on the east coast, with each vacation in a separate bag. Yet another cigar box of vacations to places that didn't have oceans. One entire box of pictures that he took of the TV screen when interesting people were on. A box that seems to contain every article from every NY English and German newspaper about the liberation of Buchenwald.
It makes for interesting browsing. And for the vacation pictures, he always sorted the pictures of people from the pictures of places. However, if I'm looking for something specific (like, right now, some photos of a family vacation in the thirties that I know I saw last time I looked through these), I have no idea where to start.
vw bug - Dec 30, 2007 6:09:17 am PST #147 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
Thanks for the advice, guys.
In I-love-my-life news, I just looked up the books I'll need for Spring, and they total $29.95. Cheapest semester yet!
Fay - Dec 30, 2007 6:36:09 am PST #148 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Apparently the people I live with don't own a coffee pot. How am I supposed to go 17 days with no coffee???
In Britain, people mostly drink instant. Even if there's a working coffee pot sitting around, in many cases. We haven't really grasped coffee as a concept. My Mum does like "proper coffee", but my Dad won't touch it. Meanwhile in Bangkok I have a coffee maker and my blender has a coffee grinder attachment, so I'm all coffeed up; however, at work there's only a kettle & instant coffee. I therefore have one of those mini one person cafetiere things, from Starbucks (this is a French press, right?), and so I keep a stash of ground coffee in the fridge at work and make my own coffee that way, one cup at a time. I would recommend it.
Also, I agree with Hil and Anne that brevity of phone message is the way to go.
Just been to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park with my parents for a nice bracing walk - it's remarkable how mild the weather is (but still much colder than Bangkok, obviously. Duh). Tomorrow I'm heading down to London to spend New Year with a good friend who is, happily, no longer living in Pakistan.