Re: Back to smoking...

Summer carpets? Is this where you roll the carpets up for storage with a bunch of cigarettes inside, to keep the bugs away due to the tobacco?

Maryann

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ilana Halupovich <ilana.halupovich@gmail.com>
Sender: tamson-house@googlegroups.com
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:14:52
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Subject: Re: Back to smoking...

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> On Jul 23, 2012, at 11:56 AM, Ilana Halupovich wrote:
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> > A piece of Soviet up-bringing: Grown-ups Are Always Right - except
> > when they are wrong, but only other grown-ups can decide. And you
> > never-never repeat outside something that you have heard at home.
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On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Malachi Kenney <kfringe@gmail.com> wrote
> That's the same structure we grew up with in New Jersey. I don't think
> it's wrong.

Except that it never ends. :-( I used to work not far from my mom
teacher's hose. My mom got daily reports (and comments) on my clothes.
I am a devoted follower of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series.
The main character, Stephanie Plum, is a bounty hunter and she lives
in New Jersey. The family dynamics (Hungarian mother and Italic
father) are hilarious - and remind me so much of *my* extended family.
<G>



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> > Except when it comes to smoking and drinking. And in later years -
> > chewing gum.
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On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Malachi Kenney <kfringe@gmail.com> wrote
> In my house, smoking was definitely under the umbrella of "shut up, kid."
> Despite that, I did horrible, horrible things to my father's cigarettes. As
> a fairly devout smoker myself, I now wonder how I survived that.

My parents don't smoke. I have several smoking relatives who go
outside to smoke. Used to have aunt who always gifted my father and my
brother with cigarettes. They were used to summer carpets.

--
ilana