I would like to add my name to the ever growing list of people who want to thank you, Puppy. Thanks for not giving up on me even when I refused to listen or couldn't follow through on what needed to be done.
I have learned so much here that will serve me throughout my life. I still need a little pick up or a point in the right direction and someone always comes through when I need it. Thanks for hanging around and helping when you could be going on your merry way, thanking God that you got out of this mess with your M intact and not have to witness the pain that we see people in here every day.
Needless to say, you are always in my prayers as are all the others here. The ones I have connected with as well as those who I know nothing or very little about. I have no doubt that prayers help and we can all use all the help we can get!
Puppy, Congratulations on your 17K post!! I wish to God I had this advice when I just got bombed. To know what I know now...I sure would have done things differently.
Thank you for all you do, all the people you help - so many more than you know I'm sure. You helped me just by reading your posts to others! God bless.
Puppy, Congratulations on your 17K post!! I wish to God I had this advice when I just got bombed. To know what I know now...I sure would have done things differently.
Yeah, looking back, you did get some pretty "softball" advice, I think, back in your very early posts, from the PTBs. I chose to stay out of that, but maybe I should have spoken up sooner.
Just to be contrary, I hated your advice when I first read it. It was just more salt in the wound, more 2x4s that I didn't want swung in my direction.
Now your posts are some of the first things I look to read, in my thread and in others.
God be with you.
I think that's a very fair observation, Pinhead. I could probably "couch" my language more carefully, esp. in the beginning of someone's sitch, but I try to get to as many people as possible, my time is limited, and it's just gotten to where I now cut right to the chase.
In fact, I've been half-tempted to just copy (and keep on posting) the "1/2a/2b" thing to EVERYBODY, and just go from there!
my time is limited, and it's just gotten to where I now cut right to the chase.
In fact, I've been half-tempted to just copy (and keep on posting) the "1/2a/2b" thing to EVERYBODY, and just go from there!
Puppy
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A man is sent to prison for the first time. At night, the lights in the cell block are turned off, and his cellmate goes over to the bars and yells, "Number twelve!" The whole cell block breaks out laughing. A few minutes later, somebody else in the cell block yells, "Number four!" Again, the whole cell bloock breaks out laughing.
The new guy asks his cellmate what's going on. "Well," says the older prisoner, "we've all been in this here prison for so long, we all know the same jokes. So we just yell out the number instead of saying the whole joke."
So the new guy walks up to the bars and yells, "Number six!" There was dead silence in the cell block. He asks the older prisoner, "What's wrong? Why didn't I get any laughs?"
"Well," said the older man, "sometimes it's not the joke, but how you tell it."
What't the code for no foot-rubbing?
M22,H45,W45 S21/18D12 Retain faith that you will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties and at the same time confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
Puppy, please check on Barkley again. He got hosed today and my reply came out a little strident. I think he's gonna need wiser advice than I gave him.
Promise I'll stop sending you referals after this one.
ADAPT. OVERCOME. IMPROVISE. -Tom Highway
Me: 43 W: 40 S12 & S9 Married 17yrs Together 20yrs
