The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads!

[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Journey to the Cross-roads
The Two Towers Edition

Come on! Come in! -if you would like to have some seedcakes and a pint and relax a while. (If it is a special occasion, we still have a few bottles of the old wineyards left!)

Our first thread ( New Zealander builds Hobbit hole ) reached 4,100 posts, and we thought that was big. Our second thread (The New Hobbit Hole ) held us for over 48,000 posts, and we loved it dearly. We talked about moving to a new thread for the last 38,000 posts, but we are really slow to muster! Finally, the time has come. Tomorrow (at 12:01 am, to be precise!) The Two Towers comes out, and we start a new chapter.

[Wneighbor]

WOW DT! That's horrible!!! I'm with you. Those women need to be set straight by someone. Don't know who it will ever be but I'm aghast that there are those who are so callous to another's feelings! I know, I shouldn't be. But, I just expect people to be less heartless than that.

If it does any good or means anything, tell the woman with the husband that I'm standing with her. I'm praying for her husband and all those other guys daily. I still think most of us out here are hanging in there for all the right reasons.

That just makes me sick.

[SuziQ]

Many colors available.

I like those Muck Buckets!! They are very helpful around the house! And we do have several in varied colors; purple, blue and red.

[HairOfTheDog]

Good grief. Has 2J responded to this yet?

If not.... Tell them to blow it out their shorts!

[JenB]

That is so wrong! I'm so glad I don't have any liberals at my office. Or other women, for that matter.

I'm just stopping in on my way to class. I had to get some files off this school computer, and I have a few minutes to spare... some maybe good news, I got the computer part I need but it was making hideous rattling noises in the package and the wrapping's all torn up. Also I think my books I ordered last week will be there when I get home.

[HairOfTheDog]

I like those Muck Buckets!!

Did you see the cool muck bucket cart that lady was carryin'?

[SuziQ]

She knew them (worked in the same dept as them at one point) and one of them says: "So I hear I need to be nice to you now." (said in a nasty tone) And the other goes: "Yeah and pay your mortgage?"

She shoulda said "Nah, but you could try being less of a b*tch!

I'm sure that poor woman was stunned at that kind of petty unkindness. Maybe all those who have become aware of it should just SHUN these catty women! And if they ask, let them know just exactly WHY!

[SuziQ]

Did you see the cool muck bucket cart that lady was carryin'?

I wondered what that contraption was! We use ours for carrying stuff around our house and holding boots, etc. during the warm season (all 4 months of it, HA!), so ours never get heavy enough for a cart.

I could see how it would be useful, though, if you were using the buckets for their intended purpose.

[2Jedismom]

You know, you should show that poor woman with the husband in Kuwait a bit of kindness...get a card or something. That is really heartbreaking. God bless her.

On a more positive note, I got the packages mailed!!

[SuziQ]

Those have GOT to be some flat Goldfish by now; maybe even Goldfish Dust!

[HairOfTheDog]

Can this Hobbit Hole be saved? - We miss you! - Corin and the other dwarves have been pinging you and I thought you were just off mining somewhere and would return when you pleased!

I know now that you are mad at me, Corin found it and told me! I am so sorry I didn't answer you! I am not a good host sometimes. - You answered my question completely and indicated you might be around much and I/we utterly failed to even acknowledge it! I musta had a bad day/week/month.

Are you still busy with somethin'? - Too busy to check in? - Don't go away mad! Forgive me/us!

Going to wait here till you answer....

[HairOfTheDog]

ours never get heavy enough for a cart. I could see how it would be useful, though, if you were using the buckets for their intended purpose.

I've got a manure cart for that, the muck buckets are a pretty inefficient way to move poo, but they didn't ask me! - I use them for water buckets!

[Dawntreader]

I would really love to, but I heard it from someone else. I know that woman, but I'm not real friends with her. We share a mutual friend and I heard it that way. So I don't know if I'm supposed to know about it or not yet.

Those 2 better be glad I wasn't in there when they said that to her. I would have had some choice words for them INDEED.

Someone pointed out this blog entry to me by Rachel Lucas. It's under March 29.

"Oh this makes me mad.

I have an acquaintance who's a Naval officer, and he relayed a story to me today about something that happened to his mother. Read it and get mad.

*******

So the other day my mother was driving to Ralph's in her car with a "Navy Mom" license plate frame and a "Support the Troops" bumper sticker, to buy a yellow ribbon to put up in her office. Driving along, minding her own business, she notices a white Mercedes behind her. She doesn't take much notice of it other than the fact that it had followed her for the past couple of turns, but no big deal. When she finally gets to the store, she pulls into the parking lot and parks. The Mercedes pulls in after her. As she is walking into the store, again completely minding her own business, the Mercedes rolls up next to her and rolls down the window.

"Excuse me but I hope you know that your child is a murderer," the woman in the Mercedes yells at my mother. My mother doesn't even respond because she is completely shocked. "Your child is over there killing and murdering and maiming innocent women and children! He's nothing more than a cold-blooded killer! How dare you call yourself a parent knowing you raised a barbarian!"

At this point my mother can scarcely believe what she's hearing. And it's important to understand that my mother is one the most non-confrontational people on God's green earth. She wouldn't know how to yell at someone even if she wanted to, now matter how provoked and justified she might have been. She does manage to muster the chutzpah to say: "You bitch!" (Go Mom!)

This is where it gets almost surreal.

This woman actually has the gall to be shocked and insulted at my mother's response.

I wish I were making this up.

"WHAT?! HOW DARE YOU? YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO TALK TO ME THAT WAY! WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?" she asks with genuine incredulity.

But wait, it gets better.

The woman then proceeds to get on her cell phone and call 911. On my mother. For accosting her.

Simply stunning.

"I just hope you can live with yourself knowing your child is a murderer!" she yelled and then DROVE AWAY. She didn't even have the guts to stick around and explain herself to the police. At this point my mother is physically shaking with equal parts anger and shock because, as I said before, she's completely non-confrontational. So while all of this was happening, an employee of the store had been outside on a smoke break and saw the whole thing. He approached my mother and asked if she was okay and said that he was about to come yell at the lady himself but she drove away. Mom still had trouble responding because she was still trying to make sense of it. Just then the cops rolled up.

"So what's the problem?" they asked.

"I'll tell you what the problem is, there's a psycho in a Mercedes out loose on the streets," the Ralph's guy said and began to retell the story. Mom couldn't even get a word in.

"Well ma'am," one of the cops said after hearing all of this, "completely off the record, thank you! Because you told that lady what we couldn't but would really want to." (Go cops!) Apparently the Ralph's employee got most of the license number and the police asked if she wanted to press charges. My mom, not surprisingly, said no because she's no more vindictive than she is confrontational. The cops understood but said they'd be looking out for her anyway."

[Overtaxed]

Maybe all those who have become aware of it should just SHUN these catty women!

Sounds like a good passive aggression opportunity.

[Sam Cree]

Wish I would be there, but will be in FL on that date...but hope to see you guys some time soon.

[HairOfTheDog]

I hope those cops followed her around till they got her for something... then followed her some more till she did something else, then changed shifts and followed her some more! HA!

[Dawntreader]

LOL! I do too!

[Lil'freeper]

Your stories make me hoppin' mad. What is it with women? Why do they (we??? ack!) think they can just go and say the most outrageously RUDE things? Men don't do that. They bite their tounges and save it for when they're hangin' out with the guys. To quote 'Enry 'Iggins: "Why can't a woman be more like a man?" MANners are not just for mans! Grrrrrr.

Sometimes I'm just so embarassed to be a gal.

[Dawntreader]

Yeah, women can be VERY catty. It gets really annoying.

[HairOfTheDog]

Wimmin act that way because they think they are immune from getting decked, even from other wimmin. Maybe we need to start smacking them.

Men know they might get into fisticuffs if they mouth off like that so they don't unless they really want to come to blows over it.

[Lil'freeper]

Hair, you are BRILLIANT! That's it exactly! It's time to start slappin' the stupid rude broads around!