Posted on 07/11/2016 6:22:03 AM PDT by Celerity
Afterward, Mae and I ducked behind a curtained-off partition to consider our sleeping arrangements: two metal cots, one broken, and zero blankets, (because blankets are absorbent and, according to local logic, our pores were still “off-gassing” dangerous chemicals). Nighttime in the desert is freezing, and Susie’s house did not have heating. I wanted to be unconscious and regretted my semi-recent decision to start weaning off sedatives.
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What horrible people.
Also, I searched the forum and my god - this search was fast today. Did you guys do something to the server ? It had results from 2014 as fast as I hit the search button.
Pet allergies affect millions of otherwise normal, healthy people yet this ultra-sensitive individual has...a dog?
The “KEY” to this whole outrageous BS article is “......moved to blah, blah, to get her degree in disability policy.”
This is all ADA scamania. Money for nothing and BS out the wazoo. If they are truly that allegic to everything then go live at the frigging North Pole. Otherwise, take the easy way out with a Kervorkian cocktail.
And then there are the scammers who are “allergic” to electromagnetic fields.
“Steen, a neighbor, says he is allergic to computers, Wi-Fi, electricity and ink on paper so he must print off his emails, air them out to dry for 24 hours and then read them”
Crazy.
Read the article. The town they live in is called Snowflake? Wow. Very appropriate.
Then they are just SOL because the earth has both electric and magnetic fields. The fact is there is virtually nowhere on this earth you can escape EM fields without a Faraday cage.
It’s not really so much that these people feel they are somehow being hurt by everything around them... Their personalities are more toxic than anything they claim to avoid.
I have known a kid who was allergic to the mildest “fragrances”. He could NEVER live in a home like that. He had a job, loved to work on cars and had friends.
Knew another kid who had a reaction to most forms of light. He too had a job (Third shift) and wore sunglasses while at work. He had to cover up. Still a nice guy with hobbies and interactions.
Light, for god’s sake. Light.
And these cretins who want the people around them to change everything about themselves to “enjoy” the awful company of these bastards ... yet in the desert just let their guests sleep out in the open, un heated air ?
How caring.
I want to toss a CS grenade into their yards.
At least they have the good sense to isolate themselves, and not try to inflict their monomania on others. Good liberals would attempt to convert entire countries over to their way of thinking.
“Snowflake was not easy to get to. I’d risen at dawn, vomited on a Snowflake was not easy to get to. I’d risen at dawn, vomited on a tiny six-passenger plane, and walked one mile down a busy highway in a town called Showlow (pronounced YOLO, 160 miles from Phoenix), to get to Susie’s car., and walked one mile down a busy highway in a town called Showlow (pronounced YOLO, 160 miles from Phoenix), to get to Susie’s car.”
I gave up on this stupid non story right there. Yolo???????????
SHOWLOW is pronounced ShowLow. At least it was two weeks ago the last time I was there.
the name came from a poker hand between two guys that settled the town. After a falling out, they decided to cut cards to see who went and who stayed. LOSER got the town. Hence the name SHOW LOW.
Since the author decided to take the “tiny six-passenger plane” to Showlow instead of just coming into Phoenix Sky Harbor and rented a car like normal folks. I kinda figure her vomiting is her way of teling lus how far out in the sticks
Showlow and Snowflake are. They ain’t. It is a pretty good hoof out to them, but Arizona ain’t Alaska. US60 to Showlow and SR71 to Snowflake. Both paved and speed limits from 55 to 70. 3 hour drive if memory serves. 4 max. And it is a beautiful trip.
Third point, why did “Susie” not just drive to the airport to pick up the writer?
Just curious.
Better Call Saul!
Snowflake, AZ. Named after two men, one named Snow and one named Flake. Our worthless junior Senator is a descendant.
Everything they said about Snowflake is BS and exaggeration. They make it sound like Snowflake is a town founded and inhabited by nothing but these hippie burnout check takers. It’s a mormon town founded in 1878 by two men settling for the mormon church who had names of Snow and Flake. Clever, huh? The draw is the low cost of living, good weather, and small town freedom. 40 acres for 40k.
You are one of only a handful of people who know that. I was in ShowLow many years back when we were surveying the area. A great factoid of that area is that Doc Holiday and Wyatt Earp surveyed that area. Our survey chief made copies of the plat that Earp signed off.
The unnoticed, unappreciated gift to the rest of us?
These folks self-segregate.
My son was recently diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease. It limits what he can eat. Nothing with seeds, skin, low fiber, no whole grains, no gristly meat etc.
He just got back form two weeks as a camp counselor. At a few meals, he looked at what they had and then made a peanut butter sandwich.
In two weeks, we’re going backpacking for a week. We were clear with the menu planners that while we need to know what they are planning, we don’t want them to make a diet specifically for him. Instead, we need to know which meals to not include him on and he can bring his own food.
For “electrosensitives”, just put them in a large Faraday cage with an antenna and a button. Have a computer randomly turn RF on and off. When they detect the RF, they press the button.
If they’re really sensitive to the presence of a signal, they’ll be able to match the computer’s on-off pattern with their button presses.
I knew a kid who was allergic to, well...just about everything. Sunlight was the biggest one. But there he was, participating in Boy Scouts, in Alabama (not a great place to have allergies). He’d be decked out in long sleeves, gloves, and a wide brimmed hat, in July - ready to camp!
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