How times have changed and how things that once were OK are not and no longer carry the same feeling or intent. When you think of the word “woman” and do you automatically think bitch or hussy, baggage or bit? According to various traditional dictionaries, synonyms for “woman”, which came as a bit of a shock, and possibly more insightful on why certain generations use words such as these to describe a woman. Today at my place of work a gentleman came up to my counter and said "Hello Beautiful" to me. Now, this customer does come in several times a week and is not a total stranger when I'm at work but still. He is in his 50-60s he works either in construction or as a big rig driver, not that any of this is very relevant but it is a generational thing I have noticed amongst folks that speak like that. "'Hello, gorgeous'; 'hi, honey bun or sweetheart, can you get me a coffee?' No man would ever be called sweetheart, ever, in the workplace," T...
Today Chris and his Uncle are going to see Tom Petty in concert at the Rexall Place. They have been waiting for this concert since Christmas when Chris found out about it and booked the tickets. The concert started at 7:30 and lasted till about midnight, after they got home we went to the roof top and sat and shot the breeze. As I’ve mentioned before our apartment is an inferno all day long so sitting on the roof was a good idea. Soon we all headed to bed, he stayed at our place because his drive is over an hour home and I had gotten them beer for when they got back from the concert, so we were being safe all around.
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