lol Now you are bragging lol

Walls no, maybe a curb, but the door is open to anyone willing to recieve and return love and respect.

Scootercide=
Didn't get across the intersection fast enough.

Wheelchair bag=
Cover for a portable bed pan.

Sparechange=
Bingo money.

Going to the buffet=
Actuallly the nickle slots casino.

Pot luck=
Some cases food others Chemo treatment.

Her Adorable grandchildren are coming=
Not the Ex Son in laws weekend with the kids.

Family Bathroom=
Some place big enough to get a wheelchair into.

Senior Discount=
Smaller portions and bigger prices.

Pick up Window Time=
The Half an Hour Late the Senior bus gets to be for your ride.

Shipping and Handleing=
Additional fees for not having the inventory in stock until you put in on your Platinum VIsa.

Paper Panties=
Grandma's under drawers.

Let me put my hearing aid in=
I was ignoreing you until I finished my crossword.

Bless your heart=
Wish I could run over you with my scooter.

Go to bed with the chickens=
Waking up six times a nite and before dawn.

He went down the Hall=
Another Room mate croaked.

Weedless flowers=
Artificial flowers

Comfortable shoes=
Slippers

Senior moment=
Forgot what I was doing.

Sundowning
Late afternoon Bitchyness

Magic Bullet=
Suppository or sometimes a Blender

Gait Belt=
Handle to hold on to Grandpa going down the steps

Social Insecurity=
Government Pension

Chat and Sew Group
Stitch and ***** Gossip session

Going to the library=
Bathroom time

TecnoGranny=
Computer Savy

Downsizing=
Throwing out crap your kids don't want,

Ageing in Place=
Too broke for Assisted Living

Recliner Surfing=
Napping

lol Well they sure can cook!

Pretty yes; marriage material no. If you are 21 already with a couple of kids and are saying you want to get married THEN settle down from being a fun girl I would not see you as a good bet.

Marriage material would be a responsible stable Woman, possibly a homeowner as a mother of two children. Someone who has demonstrated a focus of selflessness, committment, responsibility, shareing, and establishing lasting relationships in the community belonging possibly to a church, youth organization, charity, or business association. I see no photos with friends or family, no evidence of car ownership, no reference to schooling or career. No mention of homemaker skills. No explanation of what you want in a man except someone who "accepts your kiddos" whatever that means. Don't they have a father in their life?

Wow I always wanted to visit Australia but reading your description my guess is you don't work for the Tourism Board.

Thinking Cupid is conspireing against me. Finally try to call someone nice and the phone is crapping out.

Maybe I missed the concept in this thread by skimming the writing because my eyes hurt but where does it say that one person's allottment of the 24 hour day is any more valuable than anyone elses.

Far as I know noboy gets an extra allotment and it is all to do with the choices and priorities everyone makes.

And why would you have to buy your time with anyone else? Either they want to be with you enough to give you that time or they are buying your time as you are nothing but a prostitute or an employee to them. I don't know you that well but you seem way too cool for that.

Sometimes I sure feel like I fell off the left side of the world here.

Hey Krupa do they give you advertiseing royaltys for your smiley britches? I bet you could retire as many hits as this thread is probably getting. Have funnnnn!

Perhaps it is being older and understanding some of the hardships of retirement. If I really like someone I don't want him to be in a bind just to be a traditional gentleman so that kind of rules out the lousy date theroy for me.

Panty hose; fake colors, incredibly ugly if seen above the the thighs, will melt to your skin in a surface fire, difficult to get on and off, hot, uncomfortable, sag, run easy, expensive, and only redeeming value they are good for tieing up roses .

That is kind of how it went in mine but seems a lot of people at least try to dictate from beyond the porch and often in couples there isn't a lot of meeting of the minds on family dynamics before the fact. Which seems to doom many to failure. That and teamsmanship.

When dateing when do you think it is approriate to discuss who pays what or how financially capabale a person is to do various things? I ask because I live on a budget and assume most of the people I would date do also. But I am never sure if I am insulting my date by chipping in or making him feel like I am gold digger if I don't. Money seems to be a delicate subject. Any opinions?

Well that is intirely possible. I wonder if it would be an intelligent conversation though? lol

From what I have seen and been told guys will generally date women with children until they get burned at least once sometimes more often.

As a parent I found being honest with a guy from the jump that I had children and until they passed muster as a boyfriend they weren't going to get close to my kids worked. Saved my kids a lot of "wanna be's" .

Because I had other single dad's, guy friends, male family when my kids first met a guy the word "boyfriend" wasn't tossed around until everyone got to know each other and see if the personalities worked.

Never failed if my kids didn't like someone sooner or later there was a pretty good reason. It isn't always something evil they just instinctively know when a match is not a match.

But yes the posters who say some people's kids are "evil" are not too far off. Sometimes it is intentional; never underestimate a child's desire to reunite his family or punish a parent that they see as failed. Sometimes the poisonus crap from an Ex can carry right on through theri kids. Popular premios there is it's better to cut losses in those situations. So making some kind of cival relationship with an "Outlaw" generally is advisable.

generally speaking it is not a lot of fun being a "step parent". Really they have no rights. Get no respect. Accused of henious stuff wheather they would even dream of doing it. And most times get shoved aside if a relationship goes south no matter how well they treat the kids.

Hey Happy B-day to you also. We have enough Mingle love to share. lol

Well jump in the forums you might be surprised some very good people here to befriend.

While many "faith" beliefs are present here I am glad to say that if Jesus were to walk among them he would be impressed with the humanity and careing.

I am so glad that there are online support groups. While I am glad some are disability specific I hope all can pull together to keep funding and new services coming along.

For what my generation, and especially the one older, called Exceptional Parent's (after a ground making publication) it was much different.

For the most part we were lucky if there were a half a dozen people we knew who had special needs kids of any sort. "Babys" were still being allowed to die or institutionalized at very young ages. Mother's who "lost" these children recieved little or no support to geive much less get help.

Iep's were the new thing and more often than not a child was excluded from any school. The idea that a person with a severe disability was ever going to need and education or hold a job was pretty much scoffed. Workshops for people with disabilities were dicey with some being little more than unpaid slave labor. But institutions many times were worse.

The idea of accessibility was fought at every turn. I can still remember being spit on, shoved into the ditch for pleading with Sears Roebuck to make their stores accessible, Going to a resturant ment being drug in through the kitchen, and sideswiped in the parking lots trying to even get in. If you traveled you stayed with friends or in a hospital room.

Unlike today with all kinds of electronics Long distance charges made phone calls prohibitively expensive and the few magazines and mimiocoppied newsletters that existed were passed around until they fell apart.

Parents that actually tried to band together were accused of having some kind of attention seeking neurosis. If you challenged a nurse or doctor you risked being arrested. Specialists were all day and further drives. Ronald McDonald houses didn't exist.

Thankfully groupes perseverred and programs were created often on peoples kitchen tables or in church basements. A lot of the money came out of grocery budgets and cookie sales. Sadly even some out of life insurance policies and money from parents that had endured alone so long they left what little they had left.

While I know we have so far to go we have also come so far.

Having listen to many discussions about what attracts people to others I tend to believe it is an inborn choice and has very little to do with experience or social education.

If trauma and or finess had much to do with it I doubt the human race would have survived.

I know for myself what sexually attracts me is pretty specific but what I can "love" and or enjoy is a much wider base.

As far as "older" women's choices I have to question how much of that is the desire to escape going from being lover to caregiver/servant to a man they love again. A very disconcerting experience.