[AmericanInTokyo]

For me, you can't STAND it and DETEST it, (this over and over and over business for almost a month now) and yet, oddly enough, you get used to it on the other hand and get toughened to it and even humor creeps in after a while. Weird.

I guess that is how they felt in Sarajevo after awhile just trying to go out shopping. In fact, what CAN you do about it -- except get right back to work after checking with loved ones, colleagues, the gas meter, elevators, etc. etc.

I sure hope CNN does not blow it out of proportion again and scare everyone back in the USA over it.

[Ronin]

Same here. I have become hypersensitive to them and it often feels like the ground is moving even when it isn’t. I have a coat hanger suspended from a hook over my computer so I can check.

My sense of humor has become decidedly warped. (Note tagline). I figure if I don’t laugh I’ll freak.

I think every time one of these hit, another 500 foreigners decide that it’s the last straw and starts making plans to leave. I can’t. Won’t. I won’t abandon my wife and she won’t abandon her mother.

[COBOL2Java]

I sure hope CNN does not blow it out of proportion again and scare everyone back in the USA over it.

Back at Fox, Shep Smith's already ordered a double-layer of mascara from his makeup artist.