IF your resume has been sitting on your to-do list forever, or IF you know that it, in its current form, isn't doing you a bit of good with employers and IF you know yourself and that you can't just read a resume book or two and poof! yours is done to perfection, then save yourself the grief and get it done right.
Definitely DO take referrals. And check that the writer is a specialist in YOUR specialty if your referrer isn't in your industry. It’s like a good mechanic, once you find a good one, you pass the word around. This one sounds great. I wouldn't necessarily refer my resume writer because he was pretty weird, but it still got the darn thing off my to-do list, it’s much better than what I had, and I DID get a better job with it.
This is the type of thing that I SAVE my money FOR - so I can afford to have the important things done by professionals. Like, I wouldn't go to the cheapest dentist, know what I mean? Meanwhile I put banana peels and coffee grounds in my garden to save a little cash on fertilizer...
Although my member is already enormous, I'd sure like to have the video Cars. I'm sure it includes 'Vettes, Lambo's, Maybach's and probably a Rolls Drophead Coupe ot two, just to give the old boy some aspirations.
I just got 'terminated' from my government job of 2.5 years without explanation by a letter. Yes, that's right, they sent me a letter. I did not get asked in for a meeting, nor did I get a phone call -- all I got was a lousy, certified letter.
It's a sad story. I mean, c'mon, I'm a poor, underpaid, yet over-worked college student and I just got terminated. A free movie would definitely right all those wrongs, don'tcha think?
hahaha.. i'm sorry, the fact that some one thought the liquid actually passed through the drivers license is really really funny! i've tried it with two different sized glasses and if done correctly it still works great, minus a lil bit of dripping at the opening. all you do is put ur drivers licence or credit card(preferably something with a smooth surface) on top of the water shot flip it upside down without spilling and put it directly on top of the other shot glass, then slide the drivers licence back about 1mm, such that there is a very small opening between the two glasses. if done with equally sized shot glasses, the surface friction in the fluid will stop liquid from just spewing out. if you want to be honest say that 99% of the liquid must be transferred., and its best to have a little bit more water in the once shot, than the whiskey.
The reason people are saying Google Desktop is evil is because when it index's your files it sends a list of the keywords it finds back to google so they know what kind of ads to show you. They do the same thing with Gmail. All emails are scanned and keywords are saved for advertsing purposes.
So for those who think google isn't evil dont be so sure. The company is a great company, but some of the things they do are evil.
A great substitute for google desktop is copernic desktop search. Indexes tons of file formats and is pretty fast to search and displays the entire file right there in the results window. Pretty awesome...
Basically, you have a less leverage because you can't threaten to leave or disconnect. I would mention the deals the other service providers are offering right now, see if they can cut you some slack on the price. They will usually give you at least 1 year at a discount (after that, you are already a customer and can haggle). And don't pay the installation fee. It's a rip off. I hooked mine up myself, I bought the self-install kit. If it goes wrong, Comcast will send a serviceman out to fix it for free. At least, several of my friends have got that deal. Good luck Damien.
The thing is if you go to a mechanic, unless they are a personal friend or its a real easy fix, they are going to charge you the going rate. Bill's idea is good in that you want someone with the experience to diagnose the problem. Some mechanics will charge the exact time they worked on it, others will charge the exact book time for the repair, even if it took half the time.
It seems the question you were originally asking if there are any tricks to get a cheaper price from a mechanic or dealer. In most cases, avoid the dealer, they usually charge a premium price. The work usually is decent but some are crap. The real advantage is most usually will not charge beyond the book time, even if it takes longer. The best mechanic I know runs his own shop pretty much solo, but he is not the cheapest. If you get to know him though he tries to give the best price he can. The thing is that a mechanic's time and knowledge is all he has. If they give away too much of that it costs them money. Then there is the incredible investment they need to make just for the tools to do the job. If you have ever worked on cars you also notice the physical abuse to your body. Some repair jobs are easy, most are not. So you not only are paying for time and knowledge, but you are paying to not beat yourself up with a repair that will take you 3 times as long as the professional.
The cheapest route is to DIY as much as possible, then use a mechanic for the things you can't do. This will vary with your abilities. Having knowledgeable friends can be a big bonus if they know what they are doing. In your particular case, you own a Honda. They are well supported on various online boards, some more than others depending on the model. One of the big ones is honda tech, if you search you can find others. I would post what the issue is with much detail, watch out for jerks, but be very nice to the people there. They could save you big bucks. Not only can they help diagnose, but there are many tech write-ups on how to do many types of repairs.
Yan had it right. The question you have to ask ultimately is, how much is it worth to you? I have access to my old school's student autoshop, and I have a friend who knows about cars. Especially mine since he has the same model Honda. So I spent 12 hours two Saturday's ago swapping the transmission. It was rough, but the money saved was well worth it. Most people do not have those kind of resources. So for an older car learn as much as you can and do what you can yourself. Keep track of the money you spend on it and compare it to the price of a payment for a new car. If you start spending too much on the old car, its time to dump it. If you reach a point where you can do many of your own repairs, getting a decent used car is a better bargain. That said, Honda's are popular, especially the older ones, so keeping them running on the cheap is possible.
Those are great ideas! I make an apple prune compote and it lasts forever in the fridge - it's great on yogurt or oatmeal, with cheese plates, as a side to a meaty dinner, and so on. I don't have the recipe with me now, but it involves baking about six apples and a bunch o prunes with brown sugar and water in a dutch oven for a couple of hours.
I am a headhunter for IT and engineering professionals and read hundreds if not thousands of resumes each week. If you are going to hire a resume writer, make sure it is someone who is familiar with your field of work. I usually spend at least 30-60 minutes rewriting resumes before sending to the client. Unfortunately, quite a few of theses were "professional" resumes that they paid good money for. Check out your local state or city job service. They often have free classes on resume writing. Ask people who are in your field to review your resume. Check out other people's resumes, either samples on the web or from books. When you talk to a recruiter or HR person ask them how you can improve your resume. I am not saying resume writers are bad, I am just saying before your spend your hard earned money, make sure you are getting your money's worth.
I've been without cable service for about two years now. I stopped watching television, and have been leeching WiFi from a coffee shop across the street ever since I canceled my account with Comcast.
I will, however, be shopping for dedicated high speed internet service in the near future (I'm basically tired of the weak signal, lack of control over security, slow speed, etc.) and articles like this are a huge boost to my confidence in knowing I'll have at least SOME control over what I'll be paying.
Anyone have any good ideas on how to first approach Comcast to set up an account and get the best possible deal?
I need you to give me Dead Man's Chest immediately. Do it. NOW. I have such a case of the hots for Captain Jack Sparrow, and have worn out my copy of Curse of The Black Pearl, by watching it and creating various fantasies in my mind's eye (Aye!) about the two of us in various states of pillaging and plundering our booty (booties!) together! I have worn out my fantasies with this version of the movie, and to not give me Dead Mans Chest would be depriving a 40-ish single woman, in her sexual prime, of new material and future orgasms! Perish the thought!
I'm simply fascinated by the melodious squeaks that are produced by rubbing your finger over the labeled side of a DVD. It warms my heart so...
By giving me the movies, you are contributing to the world as a whole. My happiness from the squeaky fun shall pass on to others, and from there, it shall continue further and further until we achieve world peace!
Please, let us heal the world. Give me them squeaky disks.
I would very much like Pirates 2 because I never got to see all of it at the theater. My boyfriend and I went to see it at a theater we had never been to before. The nice thing about this theater was that it had a bar. We spent some time at the bar before going in to see the movie. We must have been drinking too much because we walked into the wrong movie and never realized it. We accidentally walked into an earlier showing of Pirates which had already been playing for an hour. Seeing that the movie had started we figured we had only missed the first few minutes or so. Throughout the movie we were very confused since we had missed the events of the first hour. I kept wondering why Keira Knightley was dressed up like a boy (???). It was still great though! We left the theater happy and didn’t realize anything was wrong until the next day when we were talking about how “short” it had been. Not a very crazy story but it made us laugh our butts off afterwards. We don’t get out much really.
This is a great article - and it actually resonated with me in a way that money articles never normally do! As it is about punching kittens I wonder what that says about me...
But I also loved the lunch money example - really good stuff. Thanks!!
I'll take cars off your hands, no one wants to see it but I'll destroy it for you.
Plus it's also taking up precious space in your house.
The plastic wrapper is also dangerous to small children.
No one else can possibly enjoy a movie about a car.
You don't want to get associated with rednecks by watching that has car racing aka associated with NASCAR aka associated with rednecks. /some of my best friends are rednecks so don't be offended you rednecks.
The animation is way overrated!
By watching Cars I'll improve my writing and I'll quit posting here hence you won't have to read another huge list by me.
Puff doesn't really want it since he couldn't think of a long list of crappy reasons for wanting it like I did, plus everyone loves lists like they love lines.
When I was three and riding with my dad in his VW, he had to come to a sudden stop. I'm not sure how it happened because, like, I was only three, but I have an inch-long scar on my nose. My parents told me that my nose was nearly ripped off, and that the small scar on the side of my nose once went almost all of the way around. The doctor who stitched me up did a terrific job and, until I tell you that it's there, you probably won't notice it. I'm not making this up... It really happened and I have the scar to prove it.
When I was about 5, I jumped over the rim in the above-ground 30" deep pool my parents had bought us, and I kept my face from hitting the bottom by jamming my hand on a wind-up metal sea-plane. I came up and watched as my hand turned from wet with a red streak into nearly solid red from hand to elbow. Mother went a bit hysterical, then pulled herself together and took me to the hospital. Seven stitches on that one.
When I was 7 and riding my bike on the sidewalk, a neighbor came zooming out of his garage and down his steeply inclined driveway, knocking me over and cutting a deep gash in the top part of my foot. I walked home leaving a trail of bloody prints of my right foot. I was pretty calm about it and asked my dad to get me something to stop my foot from bleeding. He asked me, "Do want a band-aid?" I said, "No... I don't think we have any band-aids big enough." My grandparents were there at the time and I never saw such confusion as everybody tried to do everything at once. Fourteen stitches.
When I was 11, I went through a glass shower door, getting slashed both going in and pulling myself out. I even got another one when I sat down to recover from having been sliced and diced. I screamed bloody murder. Mother, cooking in the kitchen, sent my youngest sister to see what was wrong. I was naked and I did not want my sister to see me naked, so I stuck my arm out the door. It was sopping wet with blood and there was a large shard of glass protruding from it. My little sister went ape-**** and ran through the house, shrieking like she'd just been branded. My mother decided that she had best investigate in person. When she got there, she went white as a klansman's hood and looked like she was going to lose it. She didn't, though, and started wrapping towels around the wounds that did not have obvious pieces of glass sticking out of them. She sent the middle sister across the street to get the help of the retired Marine Colonel. He came at once--I had somehow splattered blood on her leg, so he caught the sense of urgency despite my sister's self-reported incoherence. They carried me out to the street naked. I was less mortified by the blood streaming from seven large wounds on my body than by having my nakedness paraded before the entire neighborhood and my naked butt put on the grass. He ran across the street to get his Lincoln with white leather seats. He put me in the back seat and told my mother to sit with me while he drove to the hospital. I tried to make light of the situation, saying, "I guess I'm gonna miss football practice tomorrow." My mother did not understand and asked me to repeat it. When I did, she stuck her head out the window and barfed. Some people have no sense of humor. That was 117 stitches on the outside with a large number of things stitched up on the inside. In removing the stitches on my back, the doctor (who had not done the neat, careful stitching of the others) left part of one stitch in my back. I kept complaining about the itch until my mother took me back to see a doctor at the hospital. He probed around a little, finally found the small bit of stitching and pulled it free, coated with a yucky yellow-brown layer of necrotic tissue. For some reason, I still frequently have an itch there 38 years later.
By the way, the Marine would not even let my parents pay to have his car cleaned. A real class act, he was. Pretty much every Marine I have met has been that way.
Since then, I fell down a trail at Scout camp (7 stitches), caught one of those old metal fans as it toppled (5 stitches), and blew off getting stitches in a cut on my face, leaving me with a mildly roguish scar near my eyebrow. I also have burn scars on my legs and a large, deep-puckered scar from back surgery. The scars from my vasectomy are too small to worry about, and most people don't even notice them at all. The same for the scars from having my wisdom teeth removed, although I have never had anyone ask to see those, whereas some women do want to see the vasectomy scars. Given that some women are fascinated by my vasectomy scars, I have tried the pick-up line of, "Hey... Wanna see my vasectomy scars?" It worked once, even though she'd already seen them. Some women are just fixated on testicle surgery, I guess.
So. That's why I think you should give me the Scars movie. Hopefully, when I think of the klutzy things I have done and all of the little reminders that life has written on my flesh, it will help to give me a sense of humor about it all, and not blow it out of proportion.
Kids who have lost their hair and who will likely never regain it--especially young girls whose identity is frequently smurred by the modern trend of wearing jeans and unisex shirts--are likely to be the butt of other children's cruelty. Their self image becomes ugly and unfamiliar.
They want your hair. From my research, it does not make a huge difference in the availability of wigs. You can apparently buy 100% human hair extensions for under $40. On the other hand, having long hair is fun. You can say words like "smurred" and no one will look askance at you.
It only costs you a little shampoo, and the sudden transition from long-haired to short-clipped is fun, too.
IF your resume has been sitting on your to-do list forever, or IF you know that it, in its current form, isn't doing you a bit of good with employers and IF you know yourself and that you can't just read a resume book or two and poof! yours is done to perfection, then save yourself the grief and get it done right.
Definitely DO take referrals. And check that the writer is a specialist in YOUR specialty if your referrer isn't in your industry. It’s like a good mechanic, once you find a good one, you pass the word around. This one sounds great. I wouldn't necessarily refer my resume writer because he was pretty weird, but it still got the darn thing off my to-do list, it’s much better than what I had, and I DID get a better job with it.
This is the type of thing that I SAVE my money FOR - so I can afford to have the important things done by professionals. Like, I wouldn't go to the cheapest dentist, know what I mean? Meanwhile I put banana peels and coffee grounds in my garden to save a little cash on fertilizer...
My cousins & I used to make these scary shrunken apple heads when I was a kid.
Although my member is already enormous, I'd sure like to have the video Cars. I'm sure it includes 'Vettes, Lambo's, Maybach's and probably a Rolls Drophead Coupe ot two, just to give the old boy some aspirations.
THat one may be honest enough to be a winner. Caro, I'm really sorry. I got laid off when I first came to the US, on my birthday. It sucks.
I just got 'terminated' from my government job of 2.5 years without explanation by a letter. Yes, that's right, they sent me a letter. I did not get asked in for a meeting, nor did I get a phone call -- all I got was a lousy, certified letter.
It's a sad story. I mean, c'mon, I'm a poor, underpaid, yet over-worked college student and I just got terminated. A free movie would definitely right all those wrongs, don'tcha think?
hahaha.. i'm sorry, the fact that some one thought the liquid actually passed through the drivers license is really really funny! i've tried it with two different sized glasses and if done correctly it still works great, minus a lil bit of dripping at the opening. all you do is put ur drivers licence or credit card(preferably something with a smooth surface) on top of the water shot flip it upside down without spilling and put it directly on top of the other shot glass, then slide the drivers licence back about 1mm, such that there is a very small opening between the two glasses. if done with equally sized shot glasses, the surface friction in the fluid will stop liquid from just spewing out. if you want to be honest say that 99% of the liquid must be transferred., and its best to have a little bit more water in the once shot, than the whiskey.
cheers
Turns out that Cadbury Eggs are shrinking, but Cadbury wants to blame it on you getting fat. Ha!
The reason people are saying Google Desktop is evil is because when it index's your files it sends a list of the keywords it finds back to google so they know what kind of ads to show you. They do the same thing with Gmail. All emails are scanned and keywords are saved for advertsing purposes.
So for those who think google isn't evil dont be so sure. The company is a great company, but some of the things they do are evil.
A great substitute for google desktop is copernic desktop search. Indexes tons of file formats and is pretty fast to search and displays the entire file right there in the results window. Pretty awesome...
Public service site about lock bumping and how to protect yourself against it!
http://www.LockBumping.Org
Basically, you have a less leverage because you can't threaten to leave or disconnect. I would mention the deals the other service providers are offering right now, see if they can cut you some slack on the price. They will usually give you at least 1 year at a discount (after that, you are already a customer and can haggle). And don't pay the installation fee. It's a rip off. I hooked mine up myself, I bought the self-install kit. If it goes wrong, Comcast will send a serviceman out to fix it for free. At least, several of my friends have got that deal. Good luck Damien.
The thing is if you go to a mechanic, unless they are a personal friend or its a real easy fix, they are going to charge you the going rate. Bill's idea is good in that you want someone with the experience to diagnose the problem. Some mechanics will charge the exact time they worked on it, others will charge the exact book time for the repair, even if it took half the time.
It seems the question you were originally asking if there are any tricks to get a cheaper price from a mechanic or dealer. In most cases, avoid the dealer, they usually charge a premium price. The work usually is decent but some are crap. The real advantage is most usually will not charge beyond the book time, even if it takes longer. The best mechanic I know runs his own shop pretty much solo, but he is not the cheapest. If you get to know him though he tries to give the best price he can. The thing is that a mechanic's time and knowledge is all he has. If they give away too much of that it costs them money. Then there is the incredible investment they need to make just for the tools to do the job. If you have ever worked on cars you also notice the physical abuse to your body. Some repair jobs are easy, most are not. So you not only are paying for time and knowledge, but you are paying to not beat yourself up with a repair that will take you 3 times as long as the professional.
The cheapest route is to DIY as much as possible, then use a mechanic for the things you can't do. This will vary with your abilities. Having knowledgeable friends can be a big bonus if they know what they are doing. In your particular case, you own a Honda. They are well supported on various online boards, some more than others depending on the model. One of the big ones is honda tech, if you search you can find others. I would post what the issue is with much detail, watch out for jerks, but be very nice to the people there. They could save you big bucks. Not only can they help diagnose, but there are many tech write-ups on how to do many types of repairs.
Yan had it right. The question you have to ask ultimately is, how much is it worth to you? I have access to my old school's student autoshop, and I have a friend who knows about cars. Especially mine since he has the same model Honda. So I spent 12 hours two Saturday's ago swapping the transmission. It was rough, but the money saved was well worth it. Most people do not have those kind of resources. So for an older car learn as much as you can and do what you can yourself. Keep track of the money you spend on it and compare it to the price of a payment for a new car. If you start spending too much on the old car, its time to dump it. If you reach a point where you can do many of your own repairs, getting a decent used car is a better bargain. That said, Honda's are popular, especially the older ones, so keeping them running on the cheap is possible.
Why would someone enter such a drawing? Because, for the first time, I'd be happier with the runner's up prize. Heh.
Those are great ideas! I make an apple prune compote and it lasts forever in the fridge - it's great on yogurt or oatmeal, with cheese plates, as a side to a meaty dinner, and so on. I don't have the recipe with me now, but it involves baking about six apples and a bunch o prunes with brown sugar and water in a dutch oven for a couple of hours.
I am a headhunter for IT and engineering professionals and read hundreds if not thousands of resumes each week. If you are going to hire a resume writer, make sure it is someone who is familiar with your field of work. I usually spend at least 30-60 minutes rewriting resumes before sending to the client. Unfortunately, quite a few of theses were "professional" resumes that they paid good money for. Check out your local state or city job service. They often have free classes on resume writing. Ask people who are in your field to review your resume. Check out other people's resumes, either samples on the web or from books. When you talk to a recruiter or HR person ask them how you can improve your resume. I am not saying resume writers are bad, I am just saying before your spend your hard earned money, make sure you are getting your money's worth.
Love a story like this.
I've been without cable service for about two years now. I stopped watching television, and have been leeching WiFi from a coffee shop across the street ever since I canceled my account with Comcast.
I will, however, be shopping for dedicated high speed internet service in the near future (I'm basically tired of the weak signal, lack of control over security, slow speed, etc.) and articles like this are a huge boost to my confidence in knowing I'll have at least SOME control over what I'll be paying.
Anyone have any good ideas on how to first approach Comcast to set up an account and get the best possible deal?
Keep up the good work, Paul!
I need you to give me Dead Man's Chest immediately. Do it. NOW. I have such a case of the hots for Captain Jack Sparrow, and have worn out my copy of Curse of The Black Pearl, by watching it and creating various fantasies in my mind's eye (Aye!) about the two of us in various states of pillaging and plundering our booty (booties!) together! I have worn out my fantasies with this version of the movie, and to not give me Dead Mans Chest would be depriving a 40-ish single woman, in her sexual prime, of new material and future orgasms! Perish the thought!
Keira Knightley, nuff said.
I'm simply fascinated by the melodious squeaks that are produced by rubbing your finger over the labeled side of a DVD. It warms my heart so...
By giving me the movies, you are contributing to the world as a whole. My happiness from the squeaky fun shall pass on to others, and from there, it shall continue further and further until we achieve world peace!
Please, let us heal the world. Give me them squeaky disks.
I would very much like Pirates 2 because I never got to see all of it at the theater. My boyfriend and I went to see it at a theater we had never been to before. The nice thing about this theater was that it had a bar. We spent some time at the bar before going in to see the movie. We must have been drinking too much because we walked into the wrong movie and never realized it. We accidentally walked into an earlier showing of Pirates which had already been playing for an hour. Seeing that the movie had started we figured we had only missed the first few minutes or so. Throughout the movie we were very confused since we had missed the events of the first hour. I kept wondering why Keira Knightley was dressed up like a boy (???). It was still great though! We left the theater happy and didn’t realize anything was wrong until the next day when we were talking about how “short” it had been. Not a very crazy story but it made us laugh our butts off afterwards. We don’t get out much really.
This is a great article - and it actually resonated with me in a way that money articles never normally do! As it is about punching kittens I wonder what that says about me...
But I also loved the lunch money example - really good stuff. Thanks!!
I'll take cars off your hands, no one wants to see it but I'll destroy it for you.
Plus it's also taking up precious space in your house.
The plastic wrapper is also dangerous to small children.
No one else can possibly enjoy a movie about a car.
You don't want to get associated with rednecks by watching that has car racing aka associated with NASCAR aka associated with rednecks. /some of my best friends are rednecks so don't be offended you rednecks.
The animation is way overrated!
By watching Cars I'll improve my writing and I'll quit posting here hence you won't have to read another huge list by me.
Puff doesn't really want it since he couldn't think of a long list of crappy reasons for wanting it like I did, plus everyone loves lists like they love lines.
When I was three and riding with my dad in his VW, he had to come to a sudden stop. I'm not sure how it happened because, like, I was only three, but I have an inch-long scar on my nose. My parents told me that my nose was nearly ripped off, and that the small scar on the side of my nose once went almost all of the way around. The doctor who stitched me up did a terrific job and, until I tell you that it's there, you probably won't notice it. I'm not making this up... It really happened and I have the scar to prove it.
When I was about 5, I jumped over the rim in the above-ground 30" deep pool my parents had bought us, and I kept my face from hitting the bottom by jamming my hand on a wind-up metal sea-plane. I came up and watched as my hand turned from wet with a red streak into nearly solid red from hand to elbow. Mother went a bit hysterical, then pulled herself together and took me to the hospital. Seven stitches on that one.
When I was 7 and riding my bike on the sidewalk, a neighbor came zooming out of his garage and down his steeply inclined driveway, knocking me over and cutting a deep gash in the top part of my foot. I walked home leaving a trail of bloody prints of my right foot. I was pretty calm about it and asked my dad to get me something to stop my foot from bleeding. He asked me, "Do want a band-aid?" I said, "No... I don't think we have any band-aids big enough." My grandparents were there at the time and I never saw such confusion as everybody tried to do everything at once. Fourteen stitches.
When I was 11, I went through a glass shower door, getting slashed both going in and pulling myself out. I even got another one when I sat down to recover from having been sliced and diced. I screamed bloody murder. Mother, cooking in the kitchen, sent my youngest sister to see what was wrong. I was naked and I did not want my sister to see me naked, so I stuck my arm out the door. It was sopping wet with blood and there was a large shard of glass protruding from it. My little sister went ape-**** and ran through the house, shrieking like she'd just been branded. My mother decided that she had best investigate in person. When she got there, she went white as a klansman's hood and looked like she was going to lose it. She didn't, though, and started wrapping towels around the wounds that did not have obvious pieces of glass sticking out of them. She sent the middle sister across the street to get the help of the retired Marine Colonel. He came at once--I had somehow splattered blood on her leg, so he caught the sense of urgency despite my sister's self-reported incoherence. They carried me out to the street naked. I was less mortified by the blood streaming from seven large wounds on my body than by having my nakedness paraded before the entire neighborhood and my naked butt put on the grass. He ran across the street to get his Lincoln with white leather seats. He put me in the back seat and told my mother to sit with me while he drove to the hospital. I tried to make light of the situation, saying, "I guess I'm gonna miss football practice tomorrow." My mother did not understand and asked me to repeat it. When I did, she stuck her head out the window and barfed. Some people have no sense of humor. That was 117 stitches on the outside with a large number of things stitched up on the inside. In removing the stitches on my back, the doctor (who had not done the neat, careful stitching of the others) left part of one stitch in my back. I kept complaining about the itch until my mother took me back to see a doctor at the hospital. He probed around a little, finally found the small bit of stitching and pulled it free, coated with a yucky yellow-brown layer of necrotic tissue. For some reason, I still frequently have an itch there 38 years later.
By the way, the Marine would not even let my parents pay to have his car cleaned. A real class act, he was. Pretty much every Marine I have met has been that way.
Since then, I fell down a trail at Scout camp (7 stitches), caught one of those old metal fans as it toppled (5 stitches), and blew off getting stitches in a cut on my face, leaving me with a mildly roguish scar near my eyebrow. I also have burn scars on my legs and a large, deep-puckered scar from back surgery. The scars from my vasectomy are too small to worry about, and most people don't even notice them at all. The same for the scars from having my wisdom teeth removed, although I have never had anyone ask to see those, whereas some women do want to see the vasectomy scars. Given that some women are fascinated by my vasectomy scars, I have tried the pick-up line of, "Hey... Wanna see my vasectomy scars?" It worked once, even though she'd already seen them. Some women are just fixated on testicle surgery, I guess.
So. That's why I think you should give me the Scars movie. Hopefully, when I think of the klutzy things I have done and all of the little reminders that life has written on my flesh, it will help to give me a sense of humor about it all, and not blow it out of proportion.
If only I had the motor skills to catch a launched beer without putting my own eye out.
A tragic story. I will certainly think about it, although I can make no promises until the deadline is here.
Kids who have lost their hair and who will likely never regain it--especially young girls whose identity is frequently smurred by the modern trend of wearing jeans and unisex shirts--are likely to be the butt of other children's cruelty. Their self image becomes ugly and unfamiliar.
Enter "Locks of Love" http://www.locksoflove.org/
They want your hair. From my research, it does not make a huge difference in the availability of wigs. You can apparently buy 100% human hair extensions for under $40. On the other hand, having long hair is fun. You can say words like "smurred" and no one will look askance at you.
It only costs you a little shampoo, and the sudden transition from long-haired to short-clipped is fun, too.