Subj : Bits & Bobs [1]
To : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Fri Jan 17 2025 14:02:01
Hi Dave,
RH> scouting until a couple of years ago; he never married or had kids. I
RH> think it was when they changed the program to let girls participate
RH> that he decided to get out; he doesn't like women in charge of
DD> Regular old misogynist, ain't he? I have always believed that gender
DD> should not be a factor in employment or mlife in general (except for
DD> family, that is). I've been at the Zone for nearly 20 years and the
Shouldn't, but the old "guys rule" mentality is hard to break.
DD> best boss I ever had was a woman. I was so impressed with her that I
DD> told her one day "If I were 40 years younger and you weren't already
DD> married .... "Besides being a joy to work for she was a genuinely nice
DD> person. And drop dead gorgeous, I've stayed in touch and tried a time
DD> or three to entice her into coming back to AutoZone. But, she's happy
DD> catching babies in the Labor & Delivery department at a local
DD> hospital.
She's found her niche. One of my friends down here worked in Labor and
Delivery for about 10 years, was finally transferred but she missed
working with new moms/babies. There is something special about seeing a
new life coming into the world and the new parent's reactions.
RH> Root beer making--takes me back years. My folks did it from time to
RH> time; I think the last time they did it was in 1967. Got harder to find
RH> the caps and root beer extract in their small town and they didn't do a
DD> 8<----- SHIFT ----->8
RH> I never even lit up a cigarette to try, the smell of the burning
RH> tobacco (and chemicals) was enough to turn me off. For a time I was on
DD> My grandfather smoked a pipe and the tobacco/smoke was quite aromatic.
DD> Very much more so than cigarettes. Still, I was a hard-head. Couldn't
DD> tell me anything because I already knew it all.
RH> Fresh, curing tobacco tobacco smells really good; when we lived in
RH> Swansboro (mid 70s to early 80s), NC was still growing a lot of it. We
RH> could smell it in the curing barns in late summer. It's when they add
RH> stuff to it--went thru Winston-Salem in 1977, whole city stunk like a
RH> burnt cigarette--that it stinks so bad. Pipe tobacco isn't usually as
RH> bad as cigarettes for the smell but given a choice, I'll avoid all of
RH> the above.
DD> Me too. When Illinois outlawed smoking in offices and enclosed public
DD> spaces nearly all of the saloon and restaurant owners had much
DD> weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth. But,it opened up new vistas
DD> for me as
DD> there were some pretty decent places I wouls have gone to for meals
DD> but for the excess smokiness. It all played out in the end.
Typical reaction it seems. NC didn't outlaw it until shortly after we
moved up here in 2009. Nice to walk into a restaurant and not have to
specifly "non smoking, as far away from smoking as possible". Over the
years we walked out of a number of places that tried seating us really
close to the smokers.
DD> Dennis has a round, fat inhaler he hits twice a day then gargles. I
DD> can always tell when he's dne his inhaler. Him gargling sounds like
DD> an Opera singer warming up to warble. Bv)=
RH> Ever ask him when his debut at the Met is scheduled for?
DD> He wouldn't "get" it. Some days he can be pretty thick. Bv)=
