Comments on: What were they thinking?

By: LA mary

LA mary — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 23:21:35 +0000

The oranges are pretty crappy this year anyway. Small and hard. I’ve been buying clementines instead.

By: MarkH

MarkH — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:50:00 +0000

Actually, Mary, it’s the damaged oranges that go to the FCOJ processing plant (my understanding, at least, from a network news report this week). So OJ will be plentiful, but not produce oranges themselves.

By: nancy

nancy — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:41:31 +0000

My phone number was one digit off from the request line at Fort Wayne’s only, ahem, “urban” station. I frequently came home to 10 or more answering-machine messages, all from African-American teenagers asking to hear “The Humpty Dance.”

By: Danny

Danny — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:39:41 +0000

Hilarious!

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:18:17 +0000

Some years ago, when the current downtown Holiday Inn was a different franchise (Sheraton?) I frequently got wrong-number calls from people trying to make reservations. I had had my phone number for several years before the hotel existed.

Complaints to the phone company and to the hotel availed nothing, so after a while I just started taking the reservations. The problem went away after a fairly short time.

About thirty years ago I worked for a large company with its own phone exchange. The exchange number was one digit off from the exchange for county government offices, and I used to get calls for the county public health department. Some wanted to know the results for their STD tests, and I was always able to avoid the temptation to tell them they had only months to live.

I was almost overwhelmed by temptation, though, when some very angry and possibly somewhat inebriated fellow called to raise holy hell with me for denying the septic tank permit for his building lot. He threatened to come down there and kick my ass, and it was all I could do to not tell him, “Bring it on, f###er!” and then watch the evening news.

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:20:52 +0000

My sister Lou used to work in a home for pregnant teens in Pittsburgh run by Catholic Charities, not so many years ago. I’m fairly sure it still exists.

Did any of you ever see the movie “The Magdalene Sisters”, about the Irish nuns (true story) overseeing pregnant unwed girls? Good heavens it is harrowing. Gave me nightmares.

By: John

John — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:41:39 +0000

“Speaking of family life, check out this story. I find it very John Waters-esque.”

I bet the girls made their escape to Mortville…

By: brian stouder

brian stouder — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 01:39:04 +0000

And Paris Hilton would make an interesting case-worker…

By: LA mary

LA mary — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:27:57 +0000

I emailed that story to a friend and she agreed on John Waters. She thinks Harvey Fierstein should play the housemother of the wayward girls home.

By: brian stouder

brian stouder — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:03:27 +0000

David Lynch is The Man!! And indeed – if he did a movie about such a home, it would surely be good stuff.

Didja notice it was just outside Salt Lake City?

Sounds like Big Love to me….