Post Race!

[dclamp]

Is this thread still going?

I missed you.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Rather came back to life a few months back.

[dday9]

Yeah back in January it was pretty slow.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Few is admirably vague while leaving people with the hope that it isn't many.

[dday9]

I'm so relieved. My current hold time with CitiMortgage is less than 20 minutes.

[dday9]

It could be 1 second or it could be 19 minutes and 59 seconds.

[dday9]

As a guess, I believe my hold time will be 40 minutes.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I believe you are still on hold.

[dday9]

Well whenever I was working up the example where you beat me to it, they picked up. So it was around 11:13ish.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Yeah, that's kind of what I would expect: You call in April, they answer in November.

[dday9]

My friends baby died last night. He was a week and a half younger than my son.

[szlamany]

That is so sad - my prayers go out to them...

[dday9]

I'm afraid to ask how he died, but I'm guessing SIDS because the baby was healthy.

[Shaggy Hiker]

When my mother died, several years ago, she was buried in a very old cemetary. The place had run out of space a long time back, but some kind of modification opened up a dozen or so new plots. Before the service, I wandered around the cemetary looking at the old stones and the dates. Most plots had LOTS of little stones, often with nothing more than a letter engraved in them. Eventually, I realized that those were the stones for all the kids who died young.

When people talk about the life expectancy at the turn of the last century being a bit under 50, that doesn't mean that most people lived to 50 and keeled over. That's the average life expectancy at birth. The average was pulled low by the huge amount of infant mortality. The life expectancy for a guy of 30 in those years was about the same as it is today, it's just that guys didn't often make it to 30. For women, it all came down to whether they survived childbirth, so their life expectancy probably wasn't all that good until they reached about 40. If they made that, then they would be ok, relatively.

These days, we see it as a tragedy when a child dies young. It was a tragedy 100 years ago, too, but it probably wasn't quite as much of a tragedy because it was so terribly common.

[dday9]

I got back from the wake and there is a letter sitting on my mailbox. It is complaining about my dog again, no return address, no name, just the street name. My night wound up pretty ******.

[dclamp]

DDAY10, how old are you?

[dday9]

22 -short post-

[dday9]

Well 23 since you've added a number to the end of my username.

[dclamp]

And you have a son?

[Niya]

Is that so strange ?

[dclamp]

Not strange at all. I am 22. So its weird to think someone my age has a kid.

[dee-u]

I got a kid when I was 23.

[Niya]

Where I'm from, 22,23 is kinda old to be having a kid. No joke.

[dday9]

Same here. Mais my wife's cousin had her girl at 14, that's a little young. Most of my friends have 2-5 year olds. They pop them out around 17 or 18.

[homer13j]

My ex had her first kid at 15 and was a grandmother by 32. Yeah, not uncommon.

I got a kid when I was 23.

Where did you get it from?

[dday9]

Where did you get it from?

The stork, duh.

[homer13j]

The stork, duh.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Good reference.

[homer13j]

Good reference.

I couldn't find a copy of the "giant baby" episode.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Still, very appropriate.

[Shaggy Hiker]

By the way, I only added that last post because this is the post race.

[Shaggy Hiker]

The same goes for that last one....and this one, but the next one has nothing to do with this one or the last two.

[thetimmer]

for sure

[thetimmer]

maybe

[dday9]

post race.

[Shaggy Hiker]

And so it goes...

[moses24]

alive and kicking,,,,

[dday9]

I wonder if dclamp will be arrested for impersonating a moderator.

[peet]

I wonder when dday9 is gonna be arrested for his goddamn sig bug!!! ffs my bug slayer skills sucks...

[dday9]

What bug?