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H2O Man

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14. Thank you.
Wed Jan 22, 2025, 11:43 PM
Jan 2025

I was just talking with some old co-workers/ friends from the mental health clinic, and a few others from other county departments. Most of us are retired now. We were all active in the union, as we are in a very, very conservative county ..... the board of supervisors was a republican club. ( I remember the first day of contract negotiations when I was VP. A cranky old hardware store owner/ town supervisor looked at me and sneared, "You social workers are a dime a dozen." I knew that he and my father had argued since they were kids, for my father warned me I would never encounter such a skinflint as this dehydrated miser. So I looked him in his eyes and said, "That's just the good ones. It's the bad ones that are really expensive.&quot

Any how, if my friends were DUers, each of the selections in the OP would have at least one more vote!

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Which number is Blue_Tires Jan 2025 #1
yup. understand your suggestion - I feel it as well. NewHendoLib Jan 2025 #2
Yeah... No bargaining here, just sheer rage (targeted at America's morons) hlthe2b Jan 2025 #4
My number. orangecrush Jan 2025 #15
my husband died in April... stillcool Jan 2025 #3
I am so sorry for your loss. NewHendoLib Jan 2025 #6
thank you. stillcool Jan 2025 #19
Pissed... 2naSalit Jan 2025 #5
"Other." H2O Man Jan 2025 #7
wise response...as always. NewHendoLib Jan 2025 #8
Thank you. H2O Man Jan 2025 #14
Glad to have you setting an example... hlthe2b Jan 2025 #18
Did I miss the "Fulminating Rage" category? hatrack Jan 2025 #9
So many are asking me to make up a revised published cycle! NewHendoLib Jan 2025 #11
Sardonic. My resting state. Solly Mack Jan 2025 #10
Acceptance and hope. I learned my lesson on 2004 when Kerry lost. I was in a miserable funk Silent Type Jan 2025 #12
I'm angry, not bargaining whatsoever. Basso8vb Jan 2025 #13
Feel like I've been hit my a tsunami. LeftInTX Jan 2025 #16
I'm turning upward out of the abyss stollen Jan 2025 #17
I am really, really pissed off all the time alarimer Jan 2025 #20
I do not do the grief cycle Skittles Jan 2025 #21
Total escapism here. ananda Jan 2025 #22
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