That subject line refers to my previous attempt. I think this one is better.

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Maybe I'll have more time later

It would be really nice to have a place where we all felt respected. Being made fun of by someone you know is a friend is different than being messed with by someone you can't see and whose motives aren't clear. You have to second-guess everything you do, because you just know they are going to jump all over any loophole. While that's fine enough to leave it at their prerogative to do so, assuming it reflects more on them than you, it's still frustrating to put up with bashing and disrespect. How can you just let it sit there? But then if you address it, and don't do a good enough job, your inadequacies are exposed. Which is lame.

...although who says it's my right to point out someone else's inadequacies... but still, it's just not nice to make fun of people.

A few summers ago I worked at a roadside assistance call center for GM. I learned all the different kinds of GM cars and to tell people how to look up answers in their owner's manuals and how to call a tow truck. I decided never to buy a General Motors car. (I just bought one like a month or so ago!) I made friends with another girl at the call center. We invented a new vocabulary to survive the inanities and follies of working at a GM Roadside Assistance call center, including the phrase, "That's chevroLAME!" Hey, it got us through the day!

Once I had to call around to find a tow truck in Manhattan. HAHA people were sooo rude! The guy with a broken down car had only his American Express card, so I was asking tow companies of they took American Express. One guy says, quick as a whistle, "I take American CASH!"

And I'm sorry, but I really could not understand people's accents in the deep south! My friend loved them, because she used to live in Alabama. She'd tell them where to get the best tomay-tas!

Lulu, those pictures were great. I was just in Tijuana. I hadn't been in a while. It was really fun. It made me want to go back again soon.