Near Violence at the Mall...

I have on a $12 pair of clearance jeans, a $2 shirt from Old Navy and last year's flip flops! I'm so hot I sizzle. ;-) By the way when I worked downtown, I rode MARTA everyday. I survived and lived to tell about it. I think I am missing something about MARTA, it's not that bad.

I'm glad to see I'm not the only bargain shopper around. ;-) I went to a conference in Atlanta last year and we took Marta from the airport into town. I thought it was funn. There were four of us though. Not sure if I would want to do it alone.

I have a dream that one day in the near future, a person's paycheck will be directly related to the amount of goodness they cause...


--a paraphrased snip-it of a guy I heard the other night on the radio.

I have a dream that one day in the near future, a person's paycheck will be directly related to the amount of goodness they cause...


--a paraphrased snip-it of a guy I heard the other night on the radio.

This is a grayt SJ. :clap_1: I think we are all very rich!

You ARE hot gttbm! I agree I used our TARC system downtown to work when I was at my old job. I saved a bunch of money and made some really nice friends. Not so bad really.

You are sweet to say that. I figure by the time I dig in the yard, play with the dogs, and from time to time have a little guy that uses my clothes as a napkin expensive clothes are a waste on me. I'm happy as a lark with my bargain clothes. :clap_1:

We used MARTA all the time. It sure beat walking 3 or 4 blocks to your car. Driving around in Atlanta to a meeting. Paying to park, if you could find it, then walking another 3 or 4 blocks to the meeting. Sure saved time, $$$, aggravation, not to mention taking your life in your hands driving in Atlanta traffic!!!!! Talk about scary!

I'm glad to see I'm not the only bargain shopper around. ;-) I went to a conference in Atlanta last year and we took Marta from the airport into town. I thought it was funn. There were four of us though. Not sure if I would want to do it alone.

I love shopping for a bargain. I get so excited when I find one! :clap_1:

I was with a friend of mine in the 5 Points MARTA station one day. They had just opened the line down to the airport. We were yapping so hard, we accidentialy hopped on to the wrong train. We had no choice but to stay on the train since it went straight to the airport from there. When we got to the airport, we planned to hop off and get on the North bound train to go back. We ended up having to get off, take 2 transfers to 2 buses, due to a problem on the North bound tracks, to get back to the 5 Points Station to get back to our office. :funn:

You are sweet to say that. I figure by the time I dig in the yard, play with the dogs, and from time to time have a little guy that uses my clothes as a napkin expensive clothes are a waste on me. I'm happy as a lark with my bargain clothes. :clap_1:

We used MARTA all the time. It sure beat walking 3 or 4 blocks to your car. Driving around in Atlanta to a meeting. Paying to park, if you could find it, then walking another 3 or 4 blocks to the meeting. Sure saved time, $$$, aggravation, not to mention taking your life in your hands driving in Atlanta traffic!!!!! Talk about scary!



I love shopping for a bargain. I get so excited when I find one! :clap_1:

I was with a friend of mine in the 5 Points MARTA station one day. They had just opened the line down to the airport. We were yapping so hard, we accidentialy hopped on to the wrong train. We had no choice but to stay on the train since it went straight to the airport from there. When we got to the airport, we planned to hop off and get on the North bound train to go back. We ended up having to get off, take 2 transfers to 2 buses, due to a problem on the North bound tracks, to get back to the 5 Points Station to get back to our office. :funn:

A funn little adventure for ya. My Mom lived in Acworth for 5 years. I loved to visit and go downtown but the driving scared me to death! On one particular trip tp Stone Mountain I thought for sure we wouldn't make it back alive. Sam and Dylan have a brick with their name on it in Centennial Park so I need to get back so I can show it to them. It's been a while. Now that we visit Sowal we take 65 and not 75 so who knows when it'll be.

so if someone literally grabbed my arm, would I be allowed to punch them in the face? or at least shove them so they fell?

so if someone literally grabbed my arm, would I be allowed to punch them in the face? or at least shove them so they fell?

You can do whatever you want as long as you are willing to suffer the consequences. It might be said that you feared for your life, when grabbed because normal people don't grab you by the arm while shopping. Could make for a great self defense case if you killed the guy grabbing you. I believe that by definition, you could have the person charged with battery for something as simple as grabbing you by the arm in a violent way. Spitting on someone is also a battery. If I were going through a rowdy group of protesters and I was grabbed, I guarantee you that my natural reaction would be to defend myself by whatever means necessary. I am generally a very easy going guy, but if I fear of danger, a little switch is turned on, and I am ready to roll in the yard. After taking self defense classes, I wouldn't be going for a fist to the face, but rather a poking out of the eyes and such. I don't play around like that.

You right. I am poor by some people's standards, but I am rich is so many other ways, and too me that is more than any material things in life. I have good friends, a good family and much love all around me. I don't need much else. ya, Lynne!!!!!

Based on what I was fortunate enough to be a part of in March at GBSP, I'd say you are a billionaire.

Based on what I was fortunate enough to be a part of in March at GBSP, I'd say you are a billionaire.

;-) you too!!!!!!!

So here's mine and Beach Jacket's fashion tip. You buy one really nice piece at Neiman's. Then you pair it with stuff from Old Navy. It then immediatelty looks like it's all from Neiman's, and you look like a fashionista. I just recently did that with a Cynthia Steffe jacket from Neiman's. The linen pants they showed with it were $298, and the t-shirt was $198. Oh, and the gold flats were about $400. No way! So I went to Old Navy, bought a $29 pair of linen pants, a $15 t-shirt, found a $20 pair of flats, and BINGO! Who could tell the difference?

Or she'll buy a pair of Todd's loafers, everything else will be from Old Navy or Gap, and she gets the royal treatment when she shops because the salespeople notice the Todd's loafers.

Not that getting the royal treatment when we shop is our goal in life ... it means jack sh** compared to other matters ... it's just that it's a diversion from Mom's Alzheimer's and other personal issues. Hopefully you all understand where I'm coming from.

And BTW my mother worked in downtown Atlanta and took MARTA every day until she was forced to retire due to health problems. I can't begin to enumerate the scary experiences that she had on MARTA. Maybe it was a function of her coming in from the southside of Atlanta. And if I did reveal her experiences, again, it would be politically incorrect. But I promise you, these awful incidents happened on MARTA. The only time I feel safe on MARTA is on July 4 when it's full of people going to/from the Peachtree Road Race.

You are sweet to say that. I figure by the time I dig in the yard, play with the dogs, and from time to time have a little guy that uses my clothes as a napkin expensive clothes are a waste on me. I'm happy as a lark with my bargain clothes. :clap_1:

We used MARTA all the time. It sure beat walking 3 or 4 blocks to your car. Driving around in Atlanta to a meeting. Paying to park, if you could find it, then walking another 3 or 4 blocks to the meeting. Sure saved time, $$$, aggravation, not to mention taking your life in your hands driving in Atlanta traffic!!!!! Talk about scary!



I love shopping for a bargain. I get so excited when I find one! :clap_1:

I was with a friend of mine in the 5 Points MARTA station one day. They had just opened the line down to the airport. We were yapping so hard, we accidentialy hopped on to the wrong train. We had no choice but to stay on the train since it went straight to the airport from there. When we got to the airport, we planned to hop off and get on the North bound train to go back. We ended up having to get off, take 2 transfers to 2 buses, due to a problem on the North bound tracks, to get back to the 5 Points Station to get back to our office. :funn:

I didn't know we were talking about bargain shopping!!!

So here's mine and Beach Jacket's fashion tip. You buy one really nice piece at Neiman's. Then you pair it with stuff from Old Navy. It then immediatelty looks like it's all from Neiman's, and you look like a fashionista. I just recently did that with a Cynthia Steffe jacket from Neiman's. The linen pants they showed with it were $298, and the t-shirt was $198. Oh, and the gold flats were about $400. No way! So I went to Old Navy, bought a $29 pair of linen pants, a $15 t-shirt, found a $20 pair of flats, and BINGO! Who could tell the difference?

Or she'll buy a pair of Todd's loafers, everything else will be from Old Navy or Gap, and she gets the royal treatment when she shops because the salespeople notice the Todd's loafers.

Not that getting the royal treatment when we shop is our goal in life ... it means jack sh** compared to other matters ... it's just that it's a diversion from Mom's Alzheimer's and other personal issues. Hopefully you all understand where I'm coming from.

And BTW my mother worked in downtown Atlanta and took MARTA every day until she was forced to retire due to health problems. I can't begin to enumerate the scary experiences that she had on MARTA. Maybe it was a function of her coming in from the southside of Atlanta. And if I did reveal her experiences, again, it would be politically incorrect. But I promise you, these awful incidents happened on MARTA. The only time I feel safe on MARTA is on July 4 when it's full of people going to/from the Peachtree Road Race.

Beep, beep, beep....how much was the jacket????

But I promise you, these awful incidents happened on MARTA. The only time I feel safe on MARTA is on July 4 when it's full of people going to/from the Peachtree Road Race.

Right, but don't you sleep with a gun by the bed? Could it be said that you don't feel safe even in your own house?

BTW, the color of one's own skin doesn't make them do the things they do. ;-)

Right, but don't you sleep with a gun by the bed? Could it be said that you don't feel safe even in your own house?

BTW, the color of one's own skin doesn't make them do the things they do. ;-)

You win.

I didn't realize that I was competing. Pls tell me what I won.

I didn't realize that I was competing. Pls tell me what I won.

Now what does J Crew do to hurt the trees that the hippies are so mad about?

Now what does J Crew do to hurt the trees that the hippies are so mad about?

apparently they make catalogs out of paper, which really seems like a waste of postage in my opinion. No one mentioned that the hell raisers were hippies though.

apparently they make catalogs out of paper, which really seems like a waste of postage in my opinion. No one mentioned that the hell raisers were hippies though.

Nobody else would spend their Saturday complaining about something that silly.

I always trash direct mail. I don't get it. I only open invites and checks.

You right. I am poor by some people's standards, but I am rich is so many other ways, and too me that is more than any material things in life. I have good friends, a good family and much love all around me. I don't need much else. ya, Lynne!!!!!

I have on a $12 pair of clearance jeans, a $2 shirt from Old Navy and last year's flip flops! I'm so hot I sizzle. ;-)

Amen sista's. :clap_1:
It's not the clothes, but the woman wearing them.

All you ladies could wear a dish towel and your beauty will shine through.

That being said, I have made more money than I ever imagined doing what I love, but I would give anything back to get the moments I lost while doing it.
So, now I am poor and happy.

I have a friend (who BTW is a really nice person and humanitarian - rich in money, family, friends, and the things that really matter) who frequently does her exercise walking in head-to-toe Burberry -- I mean, shoes, pants, shirt, jacket, hat, and probably underwear. That just doesn't make sense to me. Some of that stuff (like the jacket) is dry-clean only. So does that mean she has to dry clean that jacket several times a week? I just don't get it. It looks ludicrous. I just want to say something to her, but I don't have the nerve.

I got it! SHE MUST NOT SWEAT!

Thanks for the offer, but I don't care to learn any of the details of politically incorrect thoughts on mass transit is Atlanta.

Ditto!!!

...and you are a legend around here, BR!!!!

Okay, let's see here...my shorts are extra old from Sam's Club, my shirt is from the outlet mall, and my hoodie is sarafunn's from high school. I be stylin'!!!

And you are bootiful!!

And I am wearing a skirt I got from the second hand store down the street, pair of Walmart sandles, and a shirt I got from an online discount store. AND, I drove to work on my 1998 Dodge Grand Caravan that has about 140,000 miles on it. Oh, and it has a dent in the side of it where I hit a pole in the school parking lot about 3 years ago. I have NEVER been in a Neiman Marcus store. I don't wear a diamond watch, actually don't wear a watch at all. IF I lived somewhere where there was mass transit I would use it. God, I have a good life. I am happy healthy and POOR!!!!!

That's all that matters!!

I have on a $12 pair of clearance jeans, a $2 shirt from Old Navy and last year's flip flops! I'm so hot I sizzle. ;-) By the way when I worked downtown, I rode MARTA everyday. I survived and lived to tell about it. I think I am missing something about MARTA, it's not that bad.

I'm going shopping with you!!:clap_1:

Some post should not be read imo! But you guys saved the day!