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Re: C_C_T
It was mean and unfair. 
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on April 20, 2016 at 4:54 PM
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Re: First I read a poem about sharing
I guess so Kasper, would you believe tins of salmon were a real luxury.
posted by
C_C_T
on April 20, 2016 at 10:27 AM
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No I would rather bury a rat Kabu. Have a chocolate.
posted by
C_C_T
on April 20, 2016 at 10:25 AM
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Re: Fantastic portrait of the teacher; poor girl must have felt very deprived
She was a big fat orrible woman Pat. Yes I suppose it soon goes , but sadly no-one has the will to look after invalids. They would work all the week for a quarter of the cost of keeping mum or Dad in their home. A wife will do it or a husband as a rule, but that's it.
posted by
C_C_T
on April 20, 2016 at 10:23 AM
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Rpresta somethings one cannot forgive , once to keep up our vitamin levels we children were to be given a biscuit each day fortified according to our looks I assume. I remember mine was a nice brown one. On the first afternoon of distribution I was absent . My Dad was crippled up with lumbago and asked me to help him out that afternoon.
I following afternoon when the biscuits were given out, I did not get one. One of the girls who lived near this teacher. Put up her hand and said, 'exuse me Miss. M. hasn't been given a biscuit. 'Well he was not here yesterday afternoon so he will not ever get one.' I mean it was nothing really, but it just seemed mean to me somehow.
posted by
C_C_T
on April 20, 2016 at 10:17 AM
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Re: ChiffChaff
No it is about greed and power Bro. Chocolates are symbols of bribery. Have a creamy one Bro,
posted by
C_C_T
on April 20, 2016 at 10:01 AM
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Re: CCT
Sadly it was almost true Naut. She was always picking on me. Of course it might have been for a reason that she was fighting. 
posted by
C_C_T
on April 20, 2016 at 9:59 AM
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Yes and now his little garden will be untended.
posted by
C_C_T
on April 20, 2016 at 9:57 AM
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Re: FS.
Hm' the firm must be pretty desperate it would be better if they improved the phone in complaints service.
posted by
C_C_T
on April 20, 2016 at 9:55 AM
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Reading this makes me think about my own days in school...I like the idea of using chocolates for customer retention.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on April 20, 2016 at 5:39 AM
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Love the poem. So sorry about the old fellow who fell. Difficult time of life.
posted by
TAPS.
on April 20, 2016 at 2:30 AM
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CCT
Great wartime story! And you've drawn the devious teacher perfectly! And of course I wish Archie's poor old FIL all the best!
posted by
Nautikos
on April 19, 2016 at 8:58 PM
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ChiffChaff
So it's really all about chocolates Bro.
posted by
WileyJohn
on April 19, 2016 at 8:39 PM
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What a great post! Tying the sharing and the chocolates in with the gas company and the free chocolates, intricately weaving the stories so we, as readers, never suspected! Good one. Yes, sharing, that was my first thought. Then greediness, my second. No, don't fall for the free candies. And a home for Archie's FIL, awful, so awful. Is there any other way?
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on April 19, 2016 at 7:11 PM
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Fantastic portrait of the teacher; poor girl must have felt very deprived
with no men left in town and no chocolate, either. Quite cheeky of her to be so open about it. I hope your friend is okay - if he has to go in the home the money from selling his property will be gone too soon.
posted by
Pat_B
on April 19, 2016 at 2:49 PM
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No don't be taken in by their welcome grin and a box od chocolates. ...From China I bet...as they take you to ythe cleaners at the pump.
posted by
Kabu
on April 19, 2016 at 1:46 PM
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First I read a poem about sharing
But later I guess I realized the clue in this entry: a box of chocolate.
posted by
kasperhoe
on April 19, 2016 at 1:15 PM
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