Recent content by cynthiag

Well, the day has come, today is my 40-year anniversary with my employer and also my very last day of work. The thought of retirement is kind of a mixed bag for me - it's a mixture of excitement, a tinge of fear about a future that doesn't involve going to work every day, and a feeling of "how...

Even if the intent was to give credit to the performer, that would still be just Paul Simon - the song is from his fourth solo album so Art Garfunkel didn't have anything to do with it at all.

It seems to me, from the number of references I've highlighted in bold from your post, that you are the one who is trying to make this all about sex and sexual preference. Do you really not understand that pronoun use is in regard to gender and not sexual preference? Saying that my preferred...

I went to work as a bank teller many years ago, when ATMs were just coming onto the scene. A lot of people felt that within 5 years, ATMs would replace actual bank tellers. It worried me a bit, since I loved working for the bank and wanted to be able to stay with them. I also understood that I...

Does the OP perhaps mean a paraprofessional, as in an aide at the child's school? Makes more sense than "paralegal".

I have worked for a bank for 40 years. When a check cashing fee is charged, the transaction would show up on the computer as follows: $100 check received, $95 paid to the person cashing the check, $5 fee goes into an account set up to collect check cashing fees. I'm not sure why you seem to...

It didn't occur to you that it could be a man who has a boyfriend?!

As my mom used to say - "he's well-preserved because he only has a little blood in his alcohol stream".

My cat was strictly an indoor cat so I'm not sure how she ended up with fleas, but she had them pretty bad a couple of times. I treated her, and the house, and eventually got rid of them but before I did, my legs from the ankles to the knees looked like I had a bad case of chicken pox. I'd never...

I am lucky - I already am basically invisible to mosquitos. I got it from my dad, he said if one did happen to land on him and suck his blood, it would pretty much keel over on the spot. That's not to say other insects don't bother me, when I had a cat who had fleas years ago I found out those...

I've heard of this guy before. He's one of those who gives evangelical Christians a bad name. A couple of weeks ago he said if any churchgoers at his church chose to wear masks, he would kick them out. Yeah, he's a real good Christian "man of god", all right.

Yup, but I wanted to assume that if I hadn't killed it I had at least stunned it enough that it wouldn't remember that it could! :)

I hadn't ever seen a cockroach in my life until we found one on the wall in our department many years ago. A co-worker came to me saying "come look at this! What is it?" I went and looked and said it looked like a cockroach. A HUGE one, but a cockroach nonetheless. My co-workers were like "OMG...

I have seen this locally through my lifetime. I live in an area that has a large fishing industry. We have several local canneries to process the fish. Since it is seasonal work, the canneries were the perfect place for college students to work during their summer break. Local kids would come...

My sister has lived in Texas for many years and she regularly texts me pictures of the creepy crawlies they've found on their property. Copperheads, scorpions, and an assortment of spectacularly ugly things that are apparently harmless but look really alarming (kind of like the critter in the...