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Sorry to hear that. Hope you did not lose very much.

I was never aware of a case of headlice when I was at school (the 60's and 70's) and I never had a case of it myself. But the minute my daughter started school, it became a regular occurrence because some of the families in the school would not treat it with "chemicals" but instead favoured...

I just went to the bank to open a new account. I was told, "You have to wait at least a week for an appointment and the next available appointment is Tuesday week". So I tried two other banks - exact same story! When I asked why, it was allegedly because they are short-staffed. Well, of...

I agree. We have tiled floors in every room except the bedrooms and the doors to the bedrooms are closed when not in use. Tiles are so much cleaner than carpet. I used to go barefoot on the tiles but developed plantar fasciitis and my physiotherapist friend told me it is bad for your feet to...

The thing that strikes me most is the decline in personal responsibility. When I was growing up, if you made a mistake, you wore it and you learned from it. Nowadays it seems that the first thing people do when they make a mistake is look for someone else to blame. For example, there have...

The article is a bit misleading because most of these tips are not about reducing the amount of dust that enters the home. They really are more about making chores like dusting and clean-up easier (i.e. by using newspaper and clingwrap etc). Half the dust in your house comes in from outside...

I admit it - I don't like shopping and I don't do it if I don't have to. Sometimes I can go two or three years without buying new clothes or shoes. So recently I decided I needed slippers and one or two new jumpers. I made a trip to a large shopping mall last Friday where I knew there were...

I'm sorry you feel that way but discussion, provision of information and alternative points of view are what forums are all about. If you can't handle people differing with your opinion or commenting on it, you are probably right to refrain from posting.

Seems unlikely given the Scottish name, but it is possible. What is much more likely is that he would have objected to the joke irrespective of whether it featured a rabbi, an American, a Catholic, a lawyer, or a penguin with pink spots. He always makes an effort to find something to offend him.

The cost is mandated by the state, not the local council. The reason the government raised the fines was because non-entitled people were severely abusing these parking spots - it was done as a deterrent. The fines would not be what they are if people didn't break the laws - but everybody has...

If that is the case, how did she not see him, as she claims? I suspect she was caught on CCTV. There is a CCTV camera on a pole adjacent to that area.

Thanks Suzanne. If you think that bit is a beautiful story, wait until you hear the rest of it. Back in the early 1960's, my American mother-in-law-to-be obtained my mother's address from a magazine and wrote to her, asking her to become pen-pals. They began writing to each other and...

There once was a man of slight fame, To undermine jokes was his game, But deep in his soul, The man was a troll, And the rest of us just think he is lame.

My husband proposed to me 21 days after meeting him. We got married ten months later. Everybody said it would not last but we will be married 43 years in October so I guess it just might work out after all (LOL). We are best friends and still madly in love! Like you, we did not live together...

My father did that once (but that was in the days before there were cameras all over the place). :)

I am a bit disturbed by the current trend of people making rude and nasty comments because, for whatever reason, they don't like a joke. If this keeps up, people will just stop contributing jokes and that would be a real shame. If you don't like a joke, that's your privilege but it's not...

Speaking of rude...look in the mirror.

People picking up take-away are a real problem, particularly after 6:00 p.m. Believe it or not, in many places, such as the city, disability bays may not be free. They are fee payable, just like regular bays. And just like regular bays, there are often signs that say "Fee Payable 8.00 a.m. to...

I hear you John - I drive for my mother and my mother-in-law, who both have disability permits and do not drive themselves, and I have experienced the same problem repeatedly. I would say about 90% of the time. On one occasion, the security guard at our local shopping centre and I both saw a...

Translation for the humour-impaired... A human being of the male gender tells another human being of the male gender ''I have a strong desire to live forever, what can I do?'' ''Get married ,'' replies the second human being of the male gender ''And I will live forever?'' ''No, but the desire...