Posted on 02/12/2005 2:20:01 PM PST by SheLion
You've got it my FRiend, you've got it!!!!
And the smoking ban proposal was killed here.............so we can be comfortable over our coffee!!!!
Hey, how about the "happy Birthday" for today? Heh!
Toots??
Gosh, even my most distant colleagues have never called me that! ; )
Last week after work, we had a section "Happy Hour" at the Hotel on post.
Because it is Federal property, we were allowed to smoke in the bar.
Federal laws trump State laws, which was something I did not know.
I can't begin to tell you how strange it felt to walk in and actually see ash trays on the tables.
I have really gotten quite accustomed to NOT smoking while out for a few drinks, that it took me one hour to light up my one and only smoke in the bar that evening.
Oh good gawwwwd, where the heck are my dern manners???
PLEASE, forgive my digression.
Indeed, a MOST HAPPY, HAPPY Birthday to you toots.
Calling folks toots is a minor 'quirk' of mine.
Please forgive and pardon me if it offends ;-)
You didn't tell anyone it was your birthday.
Happy Birthday, dear FRiend!!!!!
Hubby's work week is Sunday - Thursday and so Friday is "our" day and our date time while our daughter is in school.
After the smoking ban passed in Delaware we started driving to Maryland on Friday afternoons. It was only an added 5 minutes travel time compared to where we previously went, and was actually closer to the preschool our daughter was in. The owner told us how much her business had increased, and while she felt for the folks in Delaware and worked with some to oppose the ban, she couldn't help but be happy about it. Within 6 months her revenues had increased enough that she was able to fully fund (pay cash) for a bunch of renovations she had been wanting to do for ages.
I don't care what the "studies" the antis put out say about how mandatory smoke-free is good for business.......I've seen first hand how detrimental it is for local business. I've also been privy to the books of many of those places.
Smoker taxes or smoker bans - the results will be the same..........smokers will go elsewhere.
I can drive a 10 wheel cab. Pain in the but, but doable. Load those ciggies in a trailer and I'll run them up. No coffee, I quit coffee. I like hot clear tea with one spoonful of sugar per gallon.
Now there you go again.....LoLs!
Thank you, Neets, however I have to calculate to know my total years on this earth.
I can't dispute that.
I've seen it here.
We aren't that far from the PA border where smokes are cheaper too.
And the revenue that is lost through lost sales tax, gets taken back from us in taxes in other areas, so we are in a lose-lose situation.
What I was really trying to get across earlier tho, is that it is not just cigarette tax off internet sales that NY is trying to collect on. It is ALL internet sales.
Spitzer is drunk with Power...obviously a political animal basking in all his glory for taking on the financial establishment. Governments never run out of ideas to take money from constituents. Getting closer to Russia in my opinion...
You are most welcome.
Ask Gabz, I am just a little ole New Yawwwwaka that wouldn't harm a flea.
If you can believe that I have to start from my oldest sister(she is 58 yrs old and 11 yrs older than I) and count down before I can calculate my total years on this earth.
Why?
It's just another day and another $10,000,000.00.
Who would have noticed anyway except Gieco if I were to be in a car accident today. LoL!
I just hit 29.
Again
1975 must have been such a "FUN" year.
I know SO MANY 29 y/o's....
HAR!!
Cigs are bad enough, and they probably have a case under the Jenkins Act...........but anything else????? UM, where have they been for the past few decades for mail order? Internet sales is no different.
Think about it....I open up my xyz catalog and call in or mail in my order..........if I'm in the same state as the catalog I pay the state sales tax, if I'm not, I don't. The internet is no different........just easier to track than snail mail or phone orders.
I just answered my own question, didn't I????
Yes, you did..LOL...
EASIER TO TRACK!!
I can't disagree with that.
As I said many posts ago - I am glad I left when I did.
Interestingly, when I left, I did so with a plan to come back.........it didn't take me long to change that attitude.
It was a GREAT year to graduate!
Watch the movie "Miracle" and you can see a classmate of mine accepting the gold medal in the Olympics after defeating the USSR playing hockey in 1980.
While watching it if you look closely enough you can see a banner posted at the end of the rink giving salutations from my humble home town. Ah, the good ol' days! Then there was the decades of twenty nine....
You 2 are NUTZ!!!!!!!!!!!
Not sure if you're pecans or cashews - but you're definitely NUTZ!!!!!!!!!
Nope, not gonna go there!!!!!
In fact I think I'm going to go to my pillow..........
But I'm still thinking about it.
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