'm tempted to ask if there's a back-up plan that involves drowning ....

Heh. No.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SHIR!

Hey, smonster, I sent you an email last week to your yahoo address- did you ever get it?

Oh, Nora AND smonster -- I will be mailing you anti-ds this week! Possibly tomorrow.

Much ~ma for your grandfather, smonster.

As you may have heard, our local Olympia co-op has decided to boycott Israeli goods, the first retailer in the U.S. to do so. As was expected some of the organizers of the boycott were subjected to a flood of phone calls - arguers, hate calls and death threats. The organizer who took the brunt of the calls has been pretty good humored about this, and in fact narrates some of the calls as funny stories. It seems that a lot of the calls were organized by some right wing international list or board.

So he would get calls like:

Hate call "I'm never going to shop at the co-op again you anti-semitic bastard"

Organizer: "It happens that I'm Jewish. And this is a cell phone, so I can see where you are calling from".

Hate caller: crickets

Organizer: "You're in NY, thousands of miles from our co-op. So, yes, it is very unlikely you will do much shopping at the co-op."

BTW, well there a few people in Olympia who have proclaimed their intention to stop shopping at the co-op almost all the "I'll never buy anything from the co-op again" calls did come from NYC. The death threats on the other hand came 100% from Israel. The organizers describes one call

Death Threat: "I'm going to walk over to your house tonight and beat you to death".

Organizer: "that's a long walk over some very rough seas. One Jew to another, are you sure you want to do that? Last nice Jewish boy who walked on water,it did not turn out so well for him."

Also, small town police forces.

Although the organizer pretends to take it lightly, he is taking sensible precautions in dealing with the death threats. So he entered all the numbers death threats came from onto his computer, printe4d them out, and filed a report at the local police station, mainly to have the phone numbers officially on file.

OPD Officer; "Wait a minute. If these death threats are from out of state, why are you bothering to file a report. Just stop answering the phone."

Organizer: No, I really want to file a report.

OPD Officer: I'll be glad to make a note of your concern.

Organizer: No I want to make an official report to have these phone numbers on record.

OPD officer breathes a deep sigh, and with a martyred air goes though the official reporting process, paper clips the numbers to the report, and ostentatiously files the report and attachment.

~ma for your grandfather, smonster.

Cashmere, I tried bribery, food, distraction, and television. Nothing short of magically turning into mommy was going to work with G today for more than 5 minutes. I also tried to get him to nap, which was so not happening despite the fact that he was so tired. He was even still a little cranky when she showed up. We had a nice lunch together and now I am home watching mindless TV.

grandfather ~ma, smonster.

May your grandfather recover smonster.

Nothing short of magically turning into mommy was going to work with G today for more than 5 minutes.

Sometimes, everyone in the world is chopped liver next to Mom. It's one of the perks. I'm glad you're getting to recharge.