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my neighbor just came over

 
 
Rockhead
 
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Reply Sun 17 Jul, 2011 08:22 pm
@chai2,
mebbe he was checking wally out...
Reyn
 
  1  
Reply Sun 17 Jul, 2011 08:52 pm
@Rockhead,
I hadn't thought of that!

Oooooh! Shocked Laughing
Mame
 
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Reply Sun 17 Jul, 2011 10:04 pm
@Reyn,
And you say you're from Vancouver???

Sounds to me like a bluff. Who in the world needs 1 cup of salt, especially Kosher? I mean, is he salting a cod or something?
chai2
 
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Reply Sun 17 Jul, 2011 10:35 pm
@Mame,
Mame wrote:

Sounds to me like a bluff. Who in the world needs 1 cup of salt, especially Kosher? I mean, is he salting a cod or something?


oh god, I have been so blind...

chai2
 
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Reply Sun 17 Jul, 2011 10:38 pm
@chai2,
no wonder they looked startled when I ran in....it's all coming back to me now. Bill said...

salt?

no, I didn't say salt. I said...um...sugar. wow, who asks for a cup of salt? I meant sugar.
chai2
 
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Reply Sun 17 Jul, 2011 10:39 pm
@chai2,
there is none so blind as those who will not see.
chai2
 
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Reply Sun 17 Jul, 2011 10:41 pm
@chai2,
I feel like that poor wife in brokeback mountain.
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Linkat
 
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Reply Mon 18 Jul, 2011 07:34 am
I've "borrowed" stuff before - but usually I make my kids go to the neighbor and ask (reason 25 of why you have children) - stuff like vanilla (I was in the middle of making something and realized with horror I didn't have any vanilla. I've "borrowed" ice and conversely my neighbor has "borrowed" from us.

Granted I've never borrowed from the neighbor with tacky stuff.
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wayne
 
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Reply Mon 18 Jul, 2011 12:03 pm
Never had a neighbor wanted to borrow sugar, it's always 20 bucks.
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sozobe
 
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Reply Mon 18 Jul, 2011 03:17 pm
(How unusual is this, seriously? I have regular borrowing-type contact with my neighbors -- they borrow from us, we borrow from them -- and have lived only one place where I didn't have that sort of contact.)
saab
 
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Reply Tue 19 Jul, 2011 03:48 am
@sozobe,
I am glad I live where I do. There is a lot of borrowing back and forth, not only sugar, but books, help, china for parties, our guestroom, put something in the dryer if the neighbors is brooken down, help with children, driving somebody somewhere, good ideas the list is endless.
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chai2
 
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Reply Tue 19 Jul, 2011 05:58 am
@sozobe,
sozobe wrote:

(How unusual is this, seriously? I have regular borrowing-type contact with my neighbors -- they borrow from us, we borrow from them -- and have lived only one place where I didn't have that sort of contact.)


I never said we weren't back and forth with each other. I've just never had anyone borrow the cliche cup of sugar.

Actually, thinking about it, it's more like with Bill we exchange meals. Barbeque, stuffed salmon, pasta dishes.

With the neighbors 2 doors away, I go over there with davey crockett hats and hello kitty sunglasses, and they come over with books and videos.

The bf of another neighbor once gave me some homemade liquid fertilizer.
alex240101
 
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Reply Tue 19 Jul, 2011 06:08 am
Borrowing is better then taking.
Same end result. You will never see that sugar.

chai2
 
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Reply Tue 19 Jul, 2011 06:55 am
@alex240101,
alex240101 wrote:

You will never see that sugar.




damn! That's exactly what I've been afraid of.
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Reyn
 
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Reply Tue 19 Jul, 2011 09:05 am
Maybe you should try to borrow that cup of sugar back in a week or so?

He'll have gone to the grocery store by then.
Mame
 
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Reply Tue 19 Jul, 2011 09:44 am
@Reyn,
Does anyone ever return cups of sugar that they borrow?
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sozobe
 
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Reply Tue 19 Jul, 2011 09:47 am
@chai2,
Ah, I see.

We've had the cup of sugar go back and forth a few times, plus a bit of whatever the cup of sugar helped bake. (Hefty slice of cake, a few cookies.)

Borrowing is not quite the correct term, you're right.
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Reyn
 
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Reply Tue 19 Jul, 2011 12:45 pm
Laughing Do many people bake anymore?

Maybe that cup of sugar was borrowed to put into a gas tank somewhere. Wink
chai2
 
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Reply Tue 19 Jul, 2011 01:40 pm
@Reyn,
I like the way you think reyn. The old sugar in the gas tank trick.

Actually Wally likes to bake. He makes an extreme pound cake, in any flavor you want...Lemon, orange, anise, maple with nuts mixed in.

I can't bake to save my life.
Linkat
 
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Reply Tue 19 Jul, 2011 01:42 pm
@chai2,
I bake - I buy those cookie dough things that all you have to do is break them apart and bake. I rarely burn them.
 

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