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"island of Sint Somme Whar Ehlse "

Loved that story!

Teri, I will try and post pictures if anyone is interested.
Juanita, Did George ever arrive?
trw, you continue to crack me up. I had a similar experience a few months ago at Gallows Bay Nursery when I asked if I could have a guarantee on some fruit trees that I purchased. I was told no. A lady there very loudly started saying "in the states those plants would have a warranty" She went on and on complaining how bad things were on STX. I finally just said, "honey this isn't the states". She left in a huff and I got smiles and nods all around. As I was leaving I said, "by the way if the trees die I will bring them back for store credit." The lady at the register said "ok".

Good morning all.
George did arrive. Here's a NICE story of a STT taxi driver. When George told the taxi driver he wanted to go to the ferry to STX, the driver said he didn't think it was running, got out his cell and called to check and then took George to the Seaplane. All's well!

trw...Although, I don't live on the islands yet...I still cannot help but read this hilarious thread you started! I am looking for a new story every day. I sure hope I get to meet you when we visit!

Tamara

I can now die happy. Coming home from work an unmarked police car pulled over a safari attempting to get in the middle lane from the left lane to get to Havensight faster (which really slows traffic down.) He got a ticket! There is a God.

well i see the owner of the gas,crack and weed station by the pearl b larsen elementary school is letting the guys sell rock and weed in his lot again,i wonder what his commission is.

hey Trade,i think i like this Vasaturo guy you have over there!!!

I'll say, trw. I do too!

trw, I wonder who the person who owns the gas is related to.

he's arab as far as i can tell, hey Trade i think we need to start the "sound of a small child crying award" and i nominate the bartender at work that walked out because he was getting picked on and the STT taxi drivers association. Hahaha, i'm so ready for a day off tomorrow actually a whole day and a half off, so i can post some stories and clean house and torment the other half

You know only taxi drivers are allowed to earn a living here, don'tcha?

All of my friends and family left today and my husband left yesterday to go back to the states. The house seems so empty and quiet. JJ is sad so I made him a nice dinner of granny smith apples, black olives and cheese, (his favorites) and let him sit on my bed to watch his preschooler cartoons in my room. I made a big deal of having mommy and JJ time together watching his favorite shows but I got side tracked by business phone calls. He kept coming out and asking me to come in the room with him to share his dinner and watch tv with him and I kept telling him I would be there in a minute. Two hours later I finally went into the bedroom and found him under the covers with about 30 hermit crabs and his entire dinner. They were all crawling under there having a great time sharing the dinner. When I yelled in horror at the mess on my bed he started to cry that the crabs were his friends and he was lonely, all I could do was clean up the mess and pray that I collected all the crabs. I am sure that when I go to bed one of them will crawl on me. It's ok. Sometime during the night JJ will wrap his arms around my neck while he is sleeping and say, " I wuv you mommy". Just another day in paradise.

yeah Trade i figured that out in like 2 days when i stayed over there, i relearned how to shriek and scream quite well at the entrance to gov hill by the post office there when i was trying to get up the hill for work,and then i got an airhorn and that was FUN,traffic did not move any faster but it made me feel better to let loose with that thing and then when walking i'd get so tired of "Princess" "Princess" i'd turn and yell "i told you to stop calling me that in public" and just keep walking,oh the fun you get out of tormenting taxi drivers

A200 dougtamjj

Oh, poor JJ. Hope all his friends survived. I think you best make some time for him today.

so i was talking to my hr director at one of my jobs and she managed to call me "honey" "sweetheart" and "baby" in a less than 5 minute conversation,i love living here because the pcness is so low,lol my idea of pc is to tell people that PETA means "people eating tasty animals"

Hey, trw here's the emoticon for your crybaby award:

lol,cool

Oh, Tam, please tell me those hermit crabs were pets and that they don't just come crawling in the front door? I love to keep my windows and doors open all the time (during appropriate weather conditions, that is) and that is certainly one of the things I fantasize about being able to do down there. If little creepy crawlers of that sort are just making themselves at home, I don't know if I can handle it!

Tamara

Well Tamara, the hermit crabs were brought into the house by my son. He collects them where ever we go and they always get loose in the house. I usually find a few every day. We also have small lizards that always manage to find their way in. Part of the problem is that the center of my house is completely open with 4 wings surrounding a courtyard. Also some of our screens don't fit properly. After raising 5 children, 3 who were very adventurous I am used to finding all manner of things in the house and their pockets. JJ is worse than the others however. There was the time when he collected purple sea snails in his pockets and stained his skin for a month but that is another story. I will have to defer to other posters on this board who don't live in an open house to give you advice on what creatures find their way inside. I would imagine if you had a newer house with properly fitted windows and screens that you wouldn't have the same experiences that I do.

Trade, JJ and I are spending the whole day together doing such things as making secret potions with the left over food from the party. We have a village of tents made from stripped bed linens and towels waiting for their turn in the washing machine. Finally we have a reverse treasure hunt planned with a huge pile of items to be returned to their proper places using a map of the house. Whoever returns the most items to their proper places gets to have leftover birthday cake in the pirate ship we made on the bed. We will be watching pirates of the caribbean and we will have sword fights complete with our pirate costumes. ARRR. I just hope I am not the one who has to walk the plank.

If I might add...A goat was loose this morning & landed on my porch where it just stood there,peering in my window! I thought it was our dog making the noise,until the dog started barking. Went to the window.....large goat just standing around. How do you get a goat to go away? I'm not sure....but I'll tell you what I did. Got my shoes on,opened the door,goat still wouldn't move. Got my broom & started swinging it in the air. Goat took off down the hill. Thank God! Besides the broom,I was outta ideas.

Whew, that is a relief Tam! I am not one for large spiders or crabs. Crabs freak me out a little unless they are made into dip or cakes...LOL! (Sorry all of you non-seafood eating vegeterians.) As for the goat...that I could handle. That is funny that he just showed up on your doorstep.

Tamara

PS-Tam playing pirates sounds fun! I remember when my kids loved to do that sort of thing!

This made my day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuuesBhOR9g

I love youtube...you can find just about any subject on there....

I am so tired of being a pirate today. I did get to watch survivor. JJ patiently watched half of it and then announced that he was tired and going to bed and then stomped off in disgust. Mom and I giggled and I said, "spoken like a true man".