Shockingly I read the catalog and didn't feel an urge to add to my order. I probably won't say that often...

Liz - are you feeling well tonight?

Aliens have taken our Liz and replaced her with a non-addicted person.

Haha, maybe I just ordered so many last year (and already this year) that I'm running out of irises to buy!

ooo never liz, there's always the current years' intros.

I just got my catalog. I may have to order and worry about placement later.

I have yet to get my catalog!

Want to borrow mine? I am in denial of more iris right now.....

oops..wrong thread

Leslie, When I used to live in Baltimore I was always being called for jury duty. But like you, I never served. As soon as they asked the question, "Have you ever been the victim of a crime?", I would answer quite truthfully, "Yes, I was mugged at knifepoint."

And I would immediately be eliminated. It was such a waste of my time, especially considering that my patients needed me.

Oh my gosh... that sounds terrifying Daisy .

Totally_Amazing said:Oh my gosh... that sounds terrifying Daisy .

Yes it does....are you going to tell us all about it???

Ok, Evelyn, My husand and I at the time were living in apartments off a major boulevard in Baltimore City, because he was attending professional school in the city, and I was also fulfilling an externship there. We decided to go out for pizza one evening. We went out to our car, and two guys flanked us at the doors to our cars. It was a swift and coordinated movement. The thief standing next to me had a knife pointed at me. I told my husband, "He has a knife," so he wouldn't try to resist. We gave up my purse and his wallet, and the thieves tore out of there in their car. It was starting to get dim enough that we couldn't get a license plate.

A second time in those apartments a juvenile stole items out of our storage locker. These included golf clubs, and a framed limited edition Doonsbury cartoon, autographed by the author. The juvenile was apprehended, police returned the framed cartoon, but the golf clubs were never returned. I had not realized they were missing when I made out the police report. The juvenile pled down, and got a virtual slap on the wrist.

The third time, in those apartments, one morning I went out to my car to go to work. It was up on cinder blocks. All four wheels had been stolen.

Then in a subsequent apartment, still in Baltimore, but on the other side of the city, I went into the hospital to deliver my baby, and when I got home, found that the hatchback window of my car (we had used my husbands car to drive to and from the hospital) had been totally smashed, and a set of metal wheel chalks and possibly other items had been stolen.

So, that's why, in addition to telling the court that I'd been a victim of a crime, I added, "And if he's been arrested, he's probably guilty!" Can you tell that I was pissed off in general about Baltimore City? Here we were, a couple of students, in hock up to our ears for our professional studies in an age when we got no tax break for it, intending to serve the health needs of Baltimore's aged, blind, toothless, and disabled, and this is what we were getting for our efforts!

Daisy ~ I am sorry that you had to experience that.

was that before the inner harbor renovations?

After.

After, I think. 1979-1987.

But we weren't living in the inner harbor area of Baltimore.

Daisy, I hope you are now living in a safer area!

Daisy, I hope you are in a safer area.