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that there's trouble in paradise!
JUST KIDDING!!! Obviously you two are way too cutely in love,and if that rumor actually starts, you know it's NOT me. 
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Re: Hehe!
#232960 - 12/20/05 05:44 PM
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Nelly
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I've met eleven people, so I know there have got to be at LEAST twelve on the boards. Plus Heather and all her alter egos...!
~nelly~
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Hey Bev
#232963 - 12/20/05 06:04 PM
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Nelly
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That whole part of Georgia Ave. is pretty seedy.  They're supposed to be closing the hospital, but I know soldiers are still being evacuated to there. I'm not sure what they have planned for the area, but DC and PG county have been undergoing a regentrification project, so there might be some other housing/beautification projects in the works.
The only part of GA Ave that's undergone any overhaul is thearea by the courthouse on Cameroon St. which is home to the new AFI Silver Theater. But it's only the 3 blocks or so around the Silver Spring Metro-- great if you're a tourist or live right exactly there, but kinda uot in nowhere for the rest of us.
I didn't know you were an Arlington gal! I was born in DC too at George Washington University Hospital, and we lived on Mass ave until we moved to the Montgomery County suburbs in 1975, the year Grosvenor Metro on the red line opened up! 495 is still a parking lot, though 270 has gone from a 4-lane highway to a 12-lane super highway-plus-technology corridor.
Woodies! Of course! There was one in Montgomery Mall too, where I used to go with my mom as a kid. The building you're talking about remained as is for a while after the merchandise moved out. It looks like it was vacant for the better part of a decade before the Swedish chain H&M moved in.
Man, I haven't thought about Woodies in a while!
~nelly~
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Gee, Nelly, what a shame to hear that my grandma's place is "seedy." I remember putting on my roller skates and skating all around that apartment complex by myself. I was so lonely, but there were no other kids to play with. I used to play hopscotch on the sidewalk in front of that ugly apartment building, by myself....
.... sigh ....
Yes, I was born in Garfield Hospital in 1944. It burned down.
I left D.C. before the metro ever opened up. Hard to imagine how it is now.
What is H&M? They occupy Woody's old building? Did they do any renovations to the OUTSIDE? Gosh, that was a beautiful old building. I used to love to ride the old wooden elevators. There was always a little lady with white gloves sitting inside on a little stool and would ask as we walked into the elevator, "What floor please?" I looked up at her with such admiration; I always wanted to be an elevator operator lady when I was grown....
..... how stupid was I?!
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Gosh, that was a beautiful old building. I used to love to ride the old wooden elevators. There was always a little lady with white gloves sitting inside on a little stool and would ask as we walked into the elevator, "What floor please?" I looked up at her with such admiration; I always wanted to be an elevator operator lady when I was grown....
..... how stupid was I?!
Wanting to be an elevator operator lady doesn't sound stupid to me. Helpful, pleasant, professional, nicely dressed, meeting new people every day, beautiful wood-paneled office. What's not to like?
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My grandmother took me to Woodies all the time. I loved to ride the elevator. It was a cage-like device, and the little lady with the white gloves would close the cage door with a huge crank. She'd always smile down at me. I liked it.
Once my mother came shopping with us but let go of my hand. I wandered all over the store and had a wonderful time, ending up in the front cage where all the nice ladies with headphones on their heads sat in front of a huge switchboard. I went from one lap to another; it was fun. I told them my name and they used their headphones to speak very loudly over a microphone kind of thing throughout the store, saying my name. It was cool.
Then my mother and grandmother came, and my mother grabbed me off a nice lady's knee. I looked up at her and said, "You got losted." She was not amused.
Woodies was a fun place.
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Good stuff!
#233067 - 12/21/05 10:02 AM
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Nelly
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That building was absolutely beautiful. I remember when they took off the original cursive writing that spelled out the store's name to replace it with the bubbly script that was the new logo. I was very unhappy that they were "updating" the look because I loved the swirl on the "W"...
When I was in Liverpool in March we went shopping at the mall, and they still had a cage elevator and man in a hat and uniform (with gold tassels, excellent!! ) who asked us "floor, ladies?" I reacted like a squeeling tourist, I'm sorry to say.  I could have ridden that elevator allll daay.
I loved switchboard operators! They were so helpful! I used to try to talk like the ones from the '50's movies, with the American accents and telltale nasel twang I only got to experience on TV. I can't imagine anyone really talked like that, but I thought it was so cool and efficient. 
~nelly~
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A suggestion
#233507 - 12/23/05 06:57 AM
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After reading all the posts about multiple handles, I realize there are a couple of good reasons for posting under an alter ego, but I still cannot stomach the duplicity of it. However, I think there's a way we can all have our cake and eat it, too.
Here's my suggestion: If you want to post under an alter ego, say that you're doing so and explain why. That way you preserve your anonymity while I (and anyone else who cares) can make an informed decision about whether to respond to your post.
As an IBS-related bonus, I've got to think being up-front about it would decrease anxiety and thereby ease IBS symptoms. I know that if I were posting under an alias, I'd be so anxious about getting found out that I'd never get out of the bathroom and would have to invest in a wireless connection in order to keep posting. (Okay, icky visual, but you get my drift.)
Thanks to everyone who chimed in on this- it's really helped me sort out how I feel about it.
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Yes, and when we take ourselves out of the phone book we'll keep our name there and just not have a phone number listed. And have a brief explanation next to our name detailing to our stalker why we've decided to keep our number private.
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