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Lol, I said two boxes totaling 69 pounds, not one 69-pound box. They weighed 36 and 33 pounds. emoticon

The people I was shipping to expect each box to weigh less than 40 lbs. The total shipment was 5 boxes totaling 174 pounds, which averages out to about 34.8 pounds per box. Three of those boxes weighed 36 pounds each and two weighed 33 each. Rather than weighing each bundle before shrink wrapping it and putting it into a box (that would take way too long), I just roughly measure it by how wide I open my hand when I grab each handful and put 12 shrink-wrapped bundles in each box, and it comes pretty close to evening out the load between boxes.

How's that for efficiency? emoticon It would be even more efficient to put them into the boxes without shrink wrapping them first, but some of the other print shops that ship jobs to them don't know how to do that without the newsletters getting torn up en route, so they require all of their suppliers to shrink wrap them in bundles now. emoticon

Your Aunts sound like a lot of fun! emoticon It's a shame they had to go home. Did the gentleman in the nice suit end up paying the bill? emoticon

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Sorry, I misread that the two together weighed 69 lbs, but I'll bet that if you were going to ship a large package, you would stay below the overweight limit.

No, the guy didn't pay the bill. The Aunts fessed up before he had gotten over the shock. They were just looking for a good laugh and they sure got plenty.
When they go out together, they are in the habit of pointing at the other if the bill is put in front of them. They wanted to see what would happen if they pointed to a third party and it actually worked.
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Yep, I would keep it under the limit. emoticon

I'd love to meet your Aunts, and armed with this information I'd point to one of them if I ate with them in a restaurant. emoticon

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Your Aunts sound like a blast! My Grandmother was like that, she just had this 'zest' for life. She was the one who would go on all the FAIR rides with us kids!(even the barfy ones!) emoticon
Me....I have a 'young' mind as my son says, that's why all the teens can relate to me.....but my athletic body died the day I crushed my back falling down a flight of cement stairs......but even with that......the doc said, I'd never have any kids....HAVE ONE incredible son...he also said I'd be in a wheelchair by the time I was 40.......phuck-it dude...I'm 50 and still holding my own! emoticon

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I hate when doctors tell people they'll "never" do something. My (half, through dad and step mom) brother was born more than one month premature and underdeveloped, with physical problems, autism, etc. Doctors told my step mom that he wouldn't live to see his first birthday, would never show affection, never walk, never talk, etc. He's a teenager now, loves to give hugs, laughs often, walks if someone holds his hand, and utters a word or two every once in a while. One time when my step mom was working with him, trying to get him to hold a dog's leash, he kept throwing the leash to the floor, and my step mom kept putting it back into his hand. Finally he threw it down again and said "!@#$". She asked him casually, "What did you just say?" and he repeated it, to her delight. emoticon A lot of parents would be upset if their teenager said that, but when my brother says it, it's progress. emoticon

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I say 'YOU GO BRO!' emoticon
I think Doctors say stuff like that, so you are not disappointed.....if they or you do better, then you are very happy, but if they told you there was hope, and things got worse......well, it's harder to deal with.
I think my doctor actually said the thing about the wheelchair, because at the time I was feeling sorry for myself......lost my athletic scholarship, lost all hopes for the Olympics....almost lost my boyfriend (now husband)..barely could walk....and in a shitload of pain, so he said that to make me angry enough to fight back... emoticon

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You are the kind of person to fight back, so your doctor must have known you pretty well and used some good psychology. emoticon

By the same token, I wonder if doctors had a good idea that my step mom would fight for my brother the same way. I never really thought about it that way because a lot of people would just throw their hands in the air because they think there's no hope anyway, so why bother.

My step mom watches a beautiful little girl (teen or preteen, actually) who needs even more help than my brother. Her mom will bring her over in dirty clothes and hungry, so the first thing my step mom does is feed her, give her a bath, and put clean clothes on her. I think the mom would be happy to give my step mom custody of her, but her father refuses, even though the two aren't together and he doesn't have to raise her. If it weren't for my step mom, that little girl probably would have died a long time ago. But if she sued for custody, the father would probably see to it that she never sees her again, and there's no telling what would happen to her then.

I knew someone else with a special needs child who died shortly before or after her first birthday. They took that little girl everywhere, in all kinds of weather, even though she was prone to getting sick, and I think that's what did her in. I assume the doctors told her the same thing, that she wouldn't live very long anyway, so why bother? It pisses me off that parents could give into this hopelessness and not do the best they can for their children regardless, but if doctors would tell them that if they are vigilant and do x-y-z that their children might have a chance, I think children born to these "hopeless" people might actually have that chance.

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I agree....telling an adult (like myself) something depressing or what not to make them angry enough to say..."Bullshit, and I'll prove you wrong" (probably why the doc did that to your Step Mom...she's sounds like one strong willed Woman....probably was even then)...is one thing. But telling a parent of a disabled child that it's hopeless is another. They've not had time to bond, to see what kind of spirit that child has....so they just say, "why bother, let this "kid" die, move on"....I knew a woman once, sorry to say she WAS my friend, until she had a severely disabled baby......born with all kinds of complications and born 2 months early. After the doctor told her what was wrong, what the outlook for this child's life would be.....she distanced herself. She refused to say, "My baby"...she'd say "IT".......really scary. The baby only live about 6 months......but what if the baby had somehow survived, would this little girl be like the one that your step MOM cares for......unwanted?
I don't know.......I guess I adopt strays....cats, dogs, snakes.....you name it. Even some of son's friends felt more comfortable at our house. I was the one who one of his friends asked to come WITH him, while he told his mom he was gay...Poor kid was scared out of his wits....LUCKY for him she accepted it,(Dad was a bit tougher, but at least mom gave him support)...
Tell your STEP MOM.......I think she is a wonderful human being. emoticon

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This is a shot of my Aunts in Vegas.
One shirt says "I'm the Aunt"
The other shirt says "I'm the other Aunt"
The back says "Las Vegas - 2008"
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Queeny, I don't know how anyone could distance herself from a child so much that she would refer to her as "it". It just seems so contradictory, because trying not to get attached would make her seem sensitive, but going so far as to refer to her as "it" just makes her seem cold and heartless. I guess this just means she only wanted a child to fill her own needs above and beyond any needs the child might have, which would just make her selfish. emoticon

Skokey, your aunts even look like jokers in those pictures! emoticon How did you get so lucky to have aunts like them? emoticon

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