h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This is just a statistic from our small community. A rather alarming one, if you ask me......
In the past year 17 out of the 200 people in our community have DIED
Some have been unforseen deaths, like accidents or heart attacks in seemingly healthy persons. Others have been a while in coming for some of the very aged.

Just thought I'd speak about that as a matter of interest.







TEENAGERS-
Tired of being harrassed by your stupid parents?
ACT NOW!
Move out, get a job, pay your own bills while you still know everything!!!!






I am going on a date friday night
First off, I'm not sure I really want to go, as it isn't with Mr. O.
Second, my girlfriend Jan told me that if I tried to back out of the date, she would personally drive me down to Saskatoon and force me into the restaurant where the date is supposed to be, even if it meant she would have to borrow gas money to get me there. She says that I need to get back into living, and I need to look at this as an adventure, even if it means I only get a bunch of awful rotten date stories to amuse her with. I know she is right, and has only the best intentions toward me (she is Mr. O's cousin), but I'm afraid.
Third, I haven't the courage to think I'm even half-presentable physically, as I have gained 25 pounds since having had my abortion, and then having had foot surgery which prevented me from even walking around for eight weeks. I'm nervous about being 'ugly'. Physical appearance has always been a big issue for me, as the man who sired me always told me the only thing I would ever have going for me was my body, and I'd probably never amount to anything except if I made my living flat on my back (Definitely NOT father material, wouldn't you say?)
So, here's the plan.
I leave directly from w*rk tomorrow at 5pm, and drive to the big city. I am to meet him at a friend's place, after which we will go and rent an hotel room for me to stay at for the night (paid for by him at his insistence). Then we will go out to dinner at a fancy restaurant, and possibly a movie, or whatever else he has planned. Then he will take me to my hotel room, leave me there for the night, and come to pick me up the next morning to go for breakfast and a day of shopping.
Sounds safe enough to me.
I know this man VERY WELL, as we have been friends for 25 years. I've never thought of him in 'that' light before.
So, I think it will be interesting at the very least.

Jan tells me to go and have fun. I know I should, and it might do me a world of good just to get out with a friend for some innocent fun.
The thing is that when I asked Steve-O (my boss and 'landlord/mortgage owner') to look after the and the farm for the night, he asked why. I told him I had a date, and he got weirded out somehow, and said "So, does this mean you'll soon have somebody other than the to sleep with?" It was almost like he was upset
Then he tells me that he's going to Vancouver for a few days and can't take care of the , so I'd better ask someone else.
I get someone else then. Two brothers that both have real crushes on me, but aren't all that emotionally or intellectually advanced, but are very nice people who have a talent with working with animals. When I called Steve-O to tell him I'd gotten Stan and Keith to do the job, he got even more weird and said "Well. This just gets more interesting. It's obviously not THEM then, is it? Who are you going out with?"
I told him I wasn't telling him, and he wasn't supposed to let anyone know what I was doing.
Then I called him this morning to tell him one of my favorite had a baby girl in the night, and that she might need some care, but......
"Oh, ho!", he interrupts me with. "You don't want to have anyone to care for while you're out on your DATE!" (He says this on the phone while standing next to the biggest gossip in the whole community)
I don't know who pee'd in his cornflakes, but I think he's jealous

I miss Mr. O.
I know I can't keep hoping things will be different with him. We've been apart for a year.
But, I'm nervous about this date.

I need some advice!!!!

Go on the date! Have fun! It sounds lovely, and just ignore the snoops and gossipers.

Weird about that many deaths.
I suppose it deoends on the details

Good advice to compaining teens

Definitely go on the date.
Consider it practice of nothing else.
You have nothing to lose if he is nice guy and your friend approves too!

Hmmm maybe there are a lot of shy guys that want to ask you out but haven't. That is some odd behavior on their parts,could be just plain nosey or jealous of anyone having a date. A percent of the males in town are interested enought to ask qustions!

GOOD LUCK KAREN!

Dating is nerve-wracking.

You have my sympathy,as RK says, it is scary. I tend not to do dating stuff, more likely is i just somehow meet someone on the Friday and they move in the next day.

Probably not the best way.

This sounds much more sensible, you've known him for ages, he has been considerate enough to book somewhere for you to stay, presumably no strings attached unless you want them, so i would say go for it.

If nothing else, it will be a much needed break from ands etc.

Your landlord sounds like a veryperson, steer clear of him as much as possible is my advice!



zdt

I'm on my lunch break from w*rk.

I'M NOT GOING!!!!!!!

I talked to this man yesterday, and he was having an issue with a woman he w*rks with not paying him enough attention. THEN, he gets all about me being quiet when he's ranting about this woman (who is younger, skinnier, and prettier than me), saying that he doesn't appreciate me taking offence.
He said, "We're obviously not ready to do this, Karen. You obviously expect more than I can give. I wanted it to be fun, but you obviously want more. I still have aspirations to go to the coast and get a job there, and you said it yourself, you're a country girl, and I'm a city boy. So, I'm afraid it won't work for tomorrow. Maybe another time."

A might have an immaculate Pedigree, with papers to prove royal lineage, but it can still be a bad .
A chamaeleon may be able to change the color of it's skin to match it's environment, but inside it's still a cold-blooded lizard.
You might be able to dress them up, but the nature of the beast will always remain the same.
MEN
Take a hike.