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park_sloper that version of welsh rarebit sounds amazing!
cmu, I knew someone like that, too. They would invite you over for dinner, but then they would only put out a small plate of cheese & crackers. So we would all be famished and have to go out to dinner the instant we left their aparment. Ultimately, we would go out to dinner before we went to their apartment for “dinner”.
Won’t do. They have an indoor pool, so in addition to pakcing an overnight bag. I’ll pack a bag full of food also.
I was really surprised as she’s usually very organized and has meals out on the table and a great hostess. Maybe she had an off day.
I feel really weird helping myself to food in other people’s homes. Opening their refrigerator and looking. I can’t / won’t even do it in my in-laws.
I stayed with an old friend, my old next door neighbor from Brooklyn Heights, a person who I consider(ed) a good friend, who now lives in Berkeley with her husband. It was January and Berkeley can be pretty chilly. The friend hadn’t been feeling well, so some of this falls on her husband, but I swear they were unbelieveable. The place was so cold, it was like camping – probably barely into the 60s. Also, I had to ask about meals. It seems this is a family of grazers with no set meal times and no one offered me any food! I wore my ski jacket in the house and told them it was very cold in my room, but nobody raised the temp! I had no car and Berkeley is suburban – you need a car, so I was dependent on them for food. I wound up taking people out and finding a place where I could walk to eat something myself.
Legion, I’m not even going to watch. Who cares? With all the man is up against, and with people like Fox News and you scrutinizing every utterance for “mistakes” and “proof” of some kind of failing, it’s a wonder he remembers his name. There is no dark conspiracy here, get off it.
It’s nice that you think of your clients as friends, ET.
“I make sure there’s a spread on the table for them.”
I just BET you do.
OK, joking and sexual reparte aside, I find it completely bizarre that friends would host you and your family for the weekend and not offer you breakfast / have food out for you. But, I’m Jewish, and my parents loved having house guests, and loved nothing more than feeding them.
ET, that is so rude. Serving food to guests is one of the few customs in this world that transcend location, religion, and just about everything else.
We didn’t have much when I was a child, but we were always taught to offer guests some kind of food or drink, even if that meant doing without yourself.
President Obama left out “endowed by our creator”
in a recent speech quoting the Declaration of Independence.
Innocent mistake or Freudian in its implications?
You decide.
park_sloper that version of welsh rarebit sounds amazing!
cmu, I knew someone like that, too. They would invite you over for dinner, but then they would only put out a small plate of cheese & crackers. So we would all be famished and have to go out to dinner the instant we left their aparment. Ultimately, we would go out to dinner before we went to their apartment for “dinner”.
“Knock them off your “friend” list right away.”
Won’t do. They have an indoor pool, so in addition to pakcing an overnight bag. I’ll pack a bag full of food also.
I was really surprised as she’s usually very organized and has meals out on the table and a great hostess. Maybe she had an off day.
I feel really weird helping myself to food in other people’s homes. Opening their refrigerator and looking. I can’t / won’t even do it in my in-laws.
Legion, was it a mistake or Freudian slip when Justice Roberts couldn’t get the oath of office right?
ET, CMU.
I stayed with an old friend, my old next door neighbor from Brooklyn Heights, a person who I consider(ed) a good friend, who now lives in Berkeley with her husband. It was January and Berkeley can be pretty chilly. The friend hadn’t been feeling well, so some of this falls on her husband, but I swear they were unbelieveable. The place was so cold, it was like camping – probably barely into the 60s. Also, I had to ask about meals. It seems this is a family of grazers with no set meal times and no one offered me any food! I wore my ski jacket in the house and told them it was very cold in my room, but nobody raised the temp! I had no car and Berkeley is suburban – you need a car, so I was dependent on them for food. I wound up taking people out and finding a place where I could walk to eat something myself.
Legion, I’m not even going to watch. Who cares? With all the man is up against, and with people like Fox News and you scrutinizing every utterance for “mistakes” and “proof” of some kind of failing, it’s a wonder he remembers his name. There is no dark conspiracy here, get off it.
“I stayed at a ‘friends’ over the weekend.”
It’s nice that you think of your clients as friends, ET.
“I make sure there’s a spread on the table for them.”
I just BET you do.
OK, joking and sexual reparte aside, I find it completely bizarre that friends would host you and your family for the weekend and not offer you breakfast / have food out for you. But, I’m Jewish, and my parents loved having house guests, and loved nothing more than feeding them.
ET, that is so rude. Serving food to guests is one of the few customs in this world that transcend location, religion, and just about everything else.
We didn’t have much when I was a child, but we were always taught to offer guests some kind of food or drink, even if that meant doing without yourself.
Knock them off your “friend” list right away.
MM,
President Obama left out “endowed by our creator”
in a recent speech quoting the Declaration of Independence.
Innocent mistake or Freudian in its implications?
You decide.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR61uTGTFoM&feature=popular
>I think McCain was one of the few on national stage that refused to flaunt religion.
Only during his third Maverick incarnation.