Horrific?

Today? Try over a week. I've been coughing every few seconds, and my throat tickles. Strange thing is, it stops when I lay down.

Quit being so mean to Bri and I will!
Try basic glycerol. Unflavoured, uncoloured, unsugared - you get my drift. It coats your throat nicely.

If it really has been a week though, I'd get to the Doctor pronto. You shouldn't suffer anything more than 5 days imo. In not a hypochondriac either - using this criteria (apart from routine appointments and a pulled muscle) I think I've been once in the last ten years.

soporific.

:snore:

Have plans to see a DC United soccer game tonight with all the families of my daughter's soccer team. The girls are supposed to do a "tunnel" on the field or something like that for the professional players when they come out. Been looking forward to it for a month or so now.

But we are having severe thunderstorms (my office building's lights are flickering and the power is out at home) and a tornado was verified in the area half an hour ago. This severe weather is supposed to last most of the night.

Grr.

Get that wang out of your mouth and it might go away. :eek:

I had to leave the car mechanic without having the work done (state inspection overdue by 2 months, and a long-overdue fuel injection flush) because Minifob had a total and unendable meltdown in the waiting room (over the fact that I wouldn't let him pull the car batteries down off the display shelf and break his toes.) Since I expect the battery display will stay in place for the foreseeable future, this may honestly mean I have to take the car to a different mechanic with a less tempting waiting room to get this work done at all.

We went to one car mechanic *once* who had a display of miniature classic car models on shelves that were a child's height. Signs all over the shelves said "do not touch." This was in the customer waiting room. WTF?

I think I'm missing something Glatt.
It's not as if children would ever be in the waiting room alone, surely?

I agree it might have been more sensible to have them higher, but hey - maybe they look better at that height.

To fill a waiting room with cool toys that say "do not touch" on them is going to cause unneeded stress in customers who might have children.

Perhaps they don't want customers who have children, but are afraid to come right out and say it.

Either way, they lost us as customers.

Edit: It would be like putting a plate of delicious food in the waiting room on a table with a sign saying "do not eat this." Or maybe a stack of magazines on a table saying "do not read these."

glatt, when you go to the gun show, do you let your kids play with all the guns?



I mean, I would, but that' s why I don't have kids.

Firstly they aren't toys. They're models. I'd agree if it was actual toys, that would just be nasty. All it takes is explaining this to the child. So it's more like putting out wax fruit or fake books.

Secondly... if you can't control your child in a customer waiting room you're going to have a lot more stress in your life from other directions.

The school I went to when I was five would always bring out a cake when anyone had a birthday. We'd sing and blow out the candles, but we never got to eat the cake because it was made of cement.

I once had to drive Mrs. Dallas to the emergency room. (Nothing serious as it turned out.) Our daughter was about 1 at the time so we just brought her along.

They had some little play tables for the benefit of kids.

Immediately next to uncovered electrical outlets. :3_eyes:
This is a tough distinction to get across to a kid, depending on their age. Especially if it's the only thing interesting in the room.

But sometimes you can't. The odd thing is you can tell your kids to do stuff and sometimes they just won't. It's certainly true that some parents refuse to even try to control their kids and think it's just darling and oh so clever when they try to disassemble the cash register. But even the most well-behaved spawn of the best parent will have a limit to the time they can sit and behave, and once that limit's reached you're in for a rough time.

I've gotta go with Glatt on this one. For young kids, that has to be an awful lot of temptation. To them, all cars small enough to play with must be toys.