Mama Carol

Keep saying it girl!! Some people are more interested in proving themselves right. YES!! A government agency is telling you what you can and cannot do in your own home. Shout it from the rooftops. We have seen time and time again that what starts in California quickly becomes accepted elsewhere. As Barney would say "nip it in the bud".

You were probably in middle school when he worked there. It was before I met him and we've been married almost 36 years. Hmmmm. I thought that gentleman sold the stores he had well before he passed away. I am pretty sure he sold the one in Austell back in 1980s. I thought he sold the Dallas store maybe 10 years ago. We lost contact with him for the most part. Pretty sure she moved to Alabama a few years ago. Probably not the same person.

I didn't know the percentages of franchisee vs corporate owned stores. I knew the percentage was high for franchises. Hubby used to work, years ago, at the McD in Austell. It was owned by the same man who owned the one in Dallas. Those were his only two stores. As far as I know, the franchisee for the Burger King in Austell only had that one store. Sometimes that is all a franchisee has. Sometimes it is a LOT of them.

Contrary to popular belief, most fast food restaurants are owned by franchisees. They may say "McDonald's" on the front of the building but it's owned by an individual or a small corporation. The profit margins are tiny, around 8 percent. That's small for a profit margin. Telecommunications, OTOH, has a profit margin of over 80%. Franchisees are entitled to earn a living. This really irritates some people. When you take the money from the business owner, you're taking it from other businesses as well--accountants, clothiers, manufacturers, utilities. And also contrary to popular

The only thing that could have been better would be a good restaurant recommendation as well. There are LOTS of nice people out there.

That sounds like something my daughter, the cashier, would have said. She's not as patient as I am.

Have you tried Bud's Gun Shop, online? They might have what you want. I found a number of pistols on there that were cheaper even with paying the transfer fee. Also try Stoddards in Douglasville.

For you, TP, since you LOVE charts. BTW, it shows 42% of the air pollution comes from gasoline powered VEHICLES. That doesn't leave another 67% attributable to fossil fuel fired power plants.

Nitro is right about what you see coming out of the "smokestacks". "Unloaded" coal likely means they USED that much coal. Again, the emissions are cleaned before being released into the atmosphere. Same thing happens at a paper mill. Just because you "see" some white stuff coming out of the building does not mean it is a pollutant. By the time the power plants or paper mills are finished with it, you'd never know it was what the common misconception says it is. But TP, you brought up a good question. The pollutants are cleaned by "what" exactly? Is what is used to clean the emi

I have had a cashier point me to the 15 items or less lane and I refused to move. I told her I simply had too many items to feel comfortable going in that lane. I count very carefully. And I don't consider 4 cans of tomatoes as one item. That's four. I try to treat others the way I want to be treated. What really irritates me is to be heading to a check out with maybe 18 or 20 items and have someone with an entire buggy of groceries RUN to get in front of me. I had one run into my buggy trying to get ahead of me. I moved to another lane. I was pulling out of the parking

Yes, I did. We wanted to go that way here a few years ago and found we couldn't. That is where I learned to take off from a standing stop and go up a hill without rolling into a vehicle behind me.

How can it be that the emissions coming out of cars is harmful? Isn't that what the emission inspections are supposed to catch? Most of the people near Plant Bowen aren't concerned. I have a cousin who lives there and she says they aren't concerned at all. I would think a bigger concern would be the trucks and trains bringing the coal to the plant. When we were looking for a house, I could not tolerate being in one previously inhabited by a smoker. Hubby couldn't tolerate mold. When you have to eliminate those two things because of health issues, it cuts down a lot on possible

If you don't mind the ride down there, Fulton Industrial is a great area to take a new, beginning driver on the weekends. Curbs, parking lots, stop signs, railroad crossings, cul de sacs, you name it, it's in Fulton Industrial. We took all our girls there when they were learning. When I was learning to drive a straight shift, we didn't have the time to go to FIB so we went to Sunnyland Industrial Park, behind Home Depot/Target. That was a great area to learn driving a manual. Hubby made me go up the hill to the railroad crossing just outside the industrial park. He said once I did that s

If you think we will all be paying in the future, you're delusional. If people can't afford $200 a month NOW how can they afford $500 a month in the future? If you have no money, you have no money. You end up paying $25 a month or so for insurance while someone else ends up paying $800 a month. The problem is the person paying little may be the bigger user of health care while the one who pays the most may never meet a deductible. It's December 2. For about the 24th out of 27 years, I have not met my deductible as yet. Nor will I unless something major happens this month. Chec

Good!! Hope it's a reasonable level, too.

Not sure if they still sell it, but the place right at the county line on Macland, the lawnmower place, used to sell it. It's been a couple of years since I was there. If no them, try Tractor Supply.

We all will be paying more for our insurance. We will all be paying more for those who can't pay. I, am not OK with this. I pay enough already. Medical "people" don't make enough. Most doctors, if they are employed by a health system, such as Wellstar, only get a base salary of around $200,000 a year. That's not enough. CNA and PCTs who do the actual care in nursing home and hospital settings, make about $9.00 an hour. That is not nearly enough. Moreover, primary care physicians -- those who go into pediatrics, family and internal medicine -- earn barely more than the amount

The law exists but it is very limited in who and what is protected. Unfortunately, I suspect that it, like the Affordable Care Act, was written by the insurance industry and obviously favors them. When I was diagnosed in 1991 with what is now known as a genetic condition, I was reluctant to let the HR director for my husband's employer find out. She had access to my diagnosis and treatment and it just scared the crap out of me that she did.

If my doorbell rings at 3 a.m., it better be God. The night after we moved in, our doorbell rang about a half hour after we got in bed. Since we didn't know a soul in town, we couldn't imagine who it could be. Turned out to be the next door neighbor offering to help unload the truck for us. It was about 11:00. At night. We declined their offer.

Ask that they check his ferritin as well. Often, iron problems go hand-in-hand with fibromyalgia and thyroid problems.

Hubby was in pain management for a little over a year. The meds changed his personality. He realized it was happening so he went off them. Cold turkey. Gone was the morphine twice a day, the Vicodin four times a day, the two muscle relaxers. After about 10 excruciating days of withdrawal, he realized that he didn't hurt any more than he did when he was on the meds. And his old personality was back. He enjoyed life again. He still keeps Tramadol and Robaxin on hand for the times that the pain gets really bad. He got prescriptions for both in September and still has about 95% of the pil

Thanks Gomer. You're the best!

I had not checked the other topic to see if they had been combined. Yep, if you need two different things you needed two different topics. Could a mod check this please???????

Maybe it got combined with the one asking for a flooring contractor. Most tile setters, at least for floors, are flooring contractors. I saw it, too. So, I know it was there. Don't know what happened though. Only thing I can think of is it got combined with the other topic.

I worked for a short time for a man who owned a business down on Fulton Industrial. He said he was sitting in his office one evening after everyone else had left. He had a mirror on the wall across from his desk and it mirrored the parking lot and front door. His office window was coated so that nobody could see inside from the outside. He watched as a man jimmied the lock and came in the front door. He said the man opened the door to the reception area, went down the hall the VERY short distance to his office. When the man came in the door there was the business owner sitting with his .