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ajsmom (original poster member #17460) posted at 5:50 PM on Monday, May 6th, 2013
Sometimes even I amaze myself.
On Saturday I had to move my home office furniture to my storage unit. The size of the pieces required me to move up two sizes to a bigger space to hold the furniture as well as the items in my smaller unit.
While there with a male friend (T), another storage tenant who is directly across from my old space came to swap out his motorcycles. T and he got to talking about cycles and such while the young guy put air into the tires of his stored cycle. T came back to me and said it might be a good idea to ask if we could use his air compressor to fill my bicycle tires which had deflated over the winter so that I could use it this summer.
I agreed, so T goes over to him, asks, and sure enough he’s happy to do it. I roll my bicycle his way and we start chatting it up as he starts working on the tires. Knowing NOTHING about motorcycles, I lean toward him and say – actually quite loudly because I have to be heard over the air compressor…are you ready for this?...NO, seriously – are you READY?
“So, how big is your unit?”
As soon as I said it, I wanted so badly to reel those words back in, but out into the stratosphere they went.
His head pops up, he smiles and says, “Oh, my storage unit? *chuckle, chuckle* It’s a 10’ x 15’.”
Y’all need to keep me off the streets, I swear.
AJ's MOM
Fidelity isn't a feeling...it's a choice.
"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always." - Albert Schweitzer
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Me: BW - Him: 200+ # tumor removed 7/09
One AMAZING DS - 34
gonnabe2016 ( member #34823) posted at 5:51 PM on Monday, May 6th, 2013
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive." - Sir Walter Scott
In my effort to be *concise*, I often come off as blunt and harsh. Sorry, don't mean to be offensive.
FaithFool ( member #20150) posted at 5:55 PM on Monday, May 6th, 2013
DDay: June 15, 2008
Mistakenly married Mr. Superfreak
20 years of OWs, WTF?
Divorced Dec 26, 2011
"Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget
to sing in the lifeboats". -- Voltaire
gma56 ( member #19595) posted at 5:58 PM on Monday, May 6th, 2013
Oooooops, just a slip of words but funny as hell.
I find I can get by with "slips" because of my age. You don't need to be kept off the street just always remember the innocent older lady face. 
Then give a little laugh. leave them wondering... 
They will be thinking ,"Does she know what she said??"
Gma
[This message edited by gma56 at 11:59 AM, May 6th (Monday)]
BW-Divorced
It's my life now, my choices, my mistakes to make and my victories to celebrate. His choices made me free of liars and betrayers in my life. That is priceless.
IrishLass518 ( member #34373) posted at 6:01 PM on Monday, May 6th, 2013
That so totally cracked me up this morning
I would so say something like that
Me: 46 BS Divorced
Him: 45 Married OW
DDay: 07/04/2008
Divorced: 06/15/2011
5 kids: IrishLass 27,IrishLad 25, IrishLass 23, IrishLad 21 and IrishLad 12
"You can't run from trouble..there ain't no place that far"
jo2love ( member #31528) posted at 6:02 PM on Monday, May 6th, 2013
lieshurt ( member #14003) posted at 6:04 PM on Monday, May 6th, 2013
No one changes unless they want to. Not if you beg them. Not if you shame them. Not if you use reason, emotion, or tough love. There is only one thing that makes someone change: their own realization that they need to.
wildbananas ( member #10552) posted at 7:36 PM on Monday, May 6th, 2013
Freudian, perchance?
Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light. ~ Yogi Bhajan
persevere ( member #31468) posted at 7:42 PM on Monday, May 6th, 2013
Totally needed that today ajs...lol. Thank you. 
DDay:2011
Status: D 2011
Remarried to a kind and wonderful man - 2017
Above all, be the heroine, not the victim. - Nora Ephron
It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K.
ZenMumWalking ( member #25341) posted at 8:02 PM on Monday, May 6th, 2013
Well at least you didn't say 'that's an awfully big package you've got there'......
Me (BS), Him (WH): late-50's
3 DS: 26, 25, 22
M: 30+ (19 1/2 at Dday)
Dday: Dec 2008
Wanted R, not gonna happen (in permanent S)
Used to be DeadMumWalking, doing better now
nowiknow23 ( member #33226) posted at 8:06 PM on Monday, May 6th, 2013
You can call me NIK
And never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.
― Sarah McMane
She11ybeanz ( member #27457) posted at 8:10 PM on Monday, May 6th, 2013
"Sometimes your knight in shining armor ...is just a douchebag in tin foil!!"
ME - BW - 35
HIM - XWH - 39
D day: November 15th, 2009
Married: 5 Years, together 8
Divorced: December 13th, 2010
New Beginning: Piper/8-3-12
Chrysalis123 ( member #27148) posted at 1:33 AM on Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
Someone I once loved gave me/ a box full of darkness/ It took me years to understand/ That this, too, was a gift. - Mary Oliver
Just for the record darling, not all positive changes feel positive in the beginning -S C Lourie
kernel ( member #27035) posted at 1:39 AM on Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
"On particularly rough days when I'm sure I can't possibly endure, I like to remind myself that my track record for getting through bad days so far is 100% and that's pretty good."
gahurts ( member #33699) posted at 1:41 AM on Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
I'm actually laughing out loud!
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indominable will" - Mahatma Gandi
"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway." - Aubrie
Amazonia ( member #32810) posted at 2:16 AM on Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
"You yourself deserve your love and affection as much as anybody in the universe." -Buddha
"Let's face it, life is a crap shoot." -Sad in AZ
caregiver9000 ( member #28622) posted at 2:45 AM on Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
funny!!
Me: fortysomething, independent, happy,
XH "Stretch" (and Skew!) ;)
two kids, teens. Old enough I am truly NO CONTACT w/ NPD zebraduck
S 5/2010
D 12/2012
iamasurvivor ( member #29728) posted at 2:55 AM on Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
Thanks for the good laugh, I really needed it today.
I will come out stronger!
InnerLight ( member #19946) posted at 2:57 AM on Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
Total Freudian Slip you bad girl.
BS, 64 yearsD-day 6-2-08D after 20 years together
The journey from Armageddon to Amazing Life happens one step at a time. Don't ever give up!
Must Survive ( member #34533) posted at 9:32 PM on Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
Me BS
WS: Just a squished bug on the window of my life!
Divorced-Let my new beginning start
They have a choice: they can live in my new world, or they can die in their old one." — Daenerys Targaryen
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