Comments on: If you hate me and orphans, don’t read this http://killingbatteries.com/2007/06/if-you-hate-me-and-orphans-dont-read-this/ Leif Pettersen's battery-powered rise to the zenith of travel writing rapture Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:37:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Leif http://killingbatteries.com/2007/06/if-you-hate-me-and-orphans-dont-read-this/comment-page-1/#comment-15352 Leif Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:09:53 +0000 http://killingbatteries.com/2007/06/if-you-hate-me-and-orphans-dont-read-this/#comment-15352 Thanks all for the birthday wishes. I didn't get to enjoy it for long, I started working on the afternoon of my b-day and have been going at it pretty much non-stop since. Gemma – I'm not much of the home wreaker type. Maybe a dirty weekend in Chisinau? And I am on the same page with you on the materialism. I was into a mild form of it when I owned a home and had a real job. Nothing spectacular (I had an economy car and a pretty pathetic wardrobe), but the makings of it was there. In retrospect keeping tabs on all that stuff was such a pain in the ass. If I can swing it, I'd like to never own a car again. Talk about a distraction, especially in Minnesota where the snow requires you to move your car every 12 hours all winter or you get towed! But perhaps you've noticed the sudden increase in materialism in Romania? Since personal loans became possible suddenly there's fashion and 300 euro cell phones and non-Dacia cars everywhere! The change in only three years is shocking. I'm afraid we Americans are teaching people to live beyond their means. Italy is similar. You must admit that the attention to clothing, accessories, cars/motorcycles is pretty ridiculous. Obviously these are mostly young people without families to worry about, but I wonder if this generation will follow their parents and eventually spend their money on more important things? Bread and onion sandwiches become tiring very quickly… Thanks all for the birthday wishes. I didn’t get to enjoy it for long, I started working on the afternoon of my b-day and have been going at it pretty much non-stop since.

Gemma – I’m not much of the home wreaker type. Maybe a dirty weekend in Chisinau? And I am on the same page with you on the materialism. I was into a mild form of it when I owned a home and had a real job. Nothing spectacular (I had an economy car and a pretty pathetic wardrobe), but the makings of it was there. In retrospect keeping tabs on all that stuff was such a pain in the ass. If I can swing it, I’d like to never own a car again. Talk about a distraction, especially in Minnesota where the snow requires you to move your car every 12 hours all winter or you get towed!

But perhaps you’ve noticed the sudden increase in materialism in Romania? Since personal loans became possible suddenly there’s fashion and 300 euro cell phones and non-Dacia cars everywhere! The change in only three years is shocking. I’m afraid we Americans are teaching people to live beyond their means. Italy is similar. You must admit that the attention to clothing, accessories, cars/motorcycles is pretty ridiculous. Obviously these are mostly young people without families to worry about, but I wonder if this generation will follow their parents and eventually spend their money on more important things? Bread and onion sandwiches become tiring very quickly…

]]> By: Gemma http://killingbatteries.com/2007/06/if-you-hate-me-and-orphans-dont-read-this/comment-page-1/#comment-15340 Gemma Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:10:30 +0000 http://killingbatteries.com/2007/06/if-you-hate-me-and-orphans-dont-read-this/#comment-15340 Dear Leif, You are very funny and, from your words, you don't sound like a bourgeois. A bourgeois is somebody who, as soon as he can put the money together, buys himself a SUV or an Alfa Romeo, trying to make mr.next door die of envy. A bourgeois is somebody who buy costly, flashy clothes, forgetting that the children need a correct alimentation amd medical check ups. If you came to work in Italy, which is the only country in the UE that allows anybody to come and work there( they call us the push overs of the UE), although we have so much unemployment, you would not go back home and speak ill of the Italians. You would do like the Italians do, first think about your family, buy an apartment, take care of the health of your family with a good alimentation and right medicaments in case of need and last, if you can afford it, buy yourself a car. I could not buy a car, let alone a SUV, although I have been working for 30 years, because my priorities are different from other people's and I am sure your priorities are the same as mine: you would not feed your children onions and bread, so that you can buy a flashy car and wear flashy clothes. Not everybody is rich in Italy, as I am sure you know very well, even though in this blog we pretend they are, and for the non rich the priorities are different than those of other nationalities. Print this letter, please. You are extremely good looking, funny and a good catch for the right woman. What else can I say? If you are willing, say the word, I will divorce my husband, who is old anyway, and marry you. It takes only 15 days to get a divorce in romania Dear Leif,
You are very funny and, from your words, you don’t sound like a bourgeois. A bourgeois is somebody who, as soon as he can put the money together, buys himself a SUV or an Alfa Romeo, trying to make mr.next door die of envy. A bourgeois is somebody who buy costly, flashy clothes, forgetting that the children need a correct alimentation amd medical check ups. If you came to work in Italy, which is the only country in the UE that allows anybody to come and work there( they call us the push overs of the UE), although we have so much unemployment, you would not go back home and speak ill of the Italians. You would do like the Italians do, first think about your family, buy an apartment, take care of the health of your family with a good alimentation and right medicaments in case of need and last, if you can afford it, buy yourself a car. I could not buy a car, let alone a SUV, although I have been working for 30 years, because my priorities are different from other people’s and I am sure your priorities are the same as mine: you would not feed your children onions and bread, so that you can buy a flashy car and wear flashy clothes. Not everybody is rich in Italy, as I am sure you know very well, even though in this blog we pretend they are, and for the non rich the priorities are different than those of other nationalities.
Print this letter, please. You are extremely good looking, funny and a good catch for the right woman. What else can I say? If you are willing, say the word, I will divorce my husband, who is old anyway, and marry you. It takes only 15 days to get a divorce in romania

]]> By: elfin http://killingbatteries.com/2007/06/if-you-hate-me-and-orphans-dont-read-this/comment-page-1/#comment-15263 elfin Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:02:12 +0000 http://killingbatteries.com/2007/06/if-you-hate-me-and-orphans-dont-read-this/#comment-15263 [START EDIT BY LEIF] I don't know what these comments are in reference to and since they don't touch on the subjects of how funny I am or how good I look for being a 37 year old geezer, I'm editing them. Leif [END EDIT BY LEIF] [START EDIT BY LEIF]

I don’t know what these comments are in reference to and since they don’t touch on the subjects of how funny I am or how good I look for being a 37 year old geezer, I’m editing them.

Leif

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]]> By: Romeo http://killingbatteries.com/2007/06/if-you-hate-me-and-orphans-dont-read-this/comment-page-1/#comment-15225 Romeo Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:19:14 +0000 http://killingbatteries.com/2007/06/if-you-hate-me-and-orphans-dont-read-this/#comment-15225 [START EDIT BY LEIF] I don't know what these comments are in reference to and since they don't touch on the subjects of how funny I am or how good I look for being a 37 year old geezer, I'm editing them. Leif [END EDIT BY LEIF] [START EDIT BY LEIF]

I don’t know what these comments are in reference to and since they don’t touch on the subjects of how funny I am or how good I look for being a 37 year old geezer, I’m editing them.

Leif

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]]> By: elfin http://killingbatteries.com/2007/06/if-you-hate-me-and-orphans-dont-read-this/comment-page-1/#comment-15189 elfin Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:41:23 +0000 http://killingbatteries.com/2007/06/if-you-hate-me-and-orphans-dont-read-this/#comment-15189 [START EDIT BY LEIF] I don't know what these comments are in reference to and since they don't touch on the subjects of how funny I am or how good I look for being a 37 year old geezer, I'm editing them. Leif [END EDIT BY LEIF] [START EDIT BY LEIF]

I don’t know what these comments are in reference to and since they don’t touch on the subjects of how funny I am or how good I look for being a 37 year old geezer, I’m editing them.

Leif

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]]> By: anne marie http://killingbatteries.com/2007/06/if-you-hate-me-and-orphans-dont-read-this/comment-page-1/#comment-15165 anne marie Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:59:39 +0000 http://killingbatteries.com/2007/06/if-you-hate-me-and-orphans-dont-read-this/#comment-15165 And we knew you before you became the next Bill Bryson. Many happy returns. And we knew you before you became the next Bill Bryson.
Many happy returns.

]]> By: Romeo http://killingbatteries.com/2007/06/if-you-hate-me-and-orphans-dont-read-this/comment-page-1/#comment-15161 Romeo Wed, 13 Jun 2007 01:40:51 +0000 http://killingbatteries.com/2007/06/if-you-hate-me-and-orphans-dont-read-this/#comment-15161 Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday!

]]> By: Romeo http://killingbatteries.com/2007/06/if-you-hate-me-and-orphans-dont-read-this/comment-page-1/#comment-15160 Romeo Wed, 13 Jun 2007 01:38:33 +0000 http://killingbatteries.com/2007/06/if-you-hate-me-and-orphans-dont-read-this/#comment-15160 http://outremer.romeochi.net/2007/06/12/romania-blogging-heaven/ If you know of a blogger consistently funnier than yourself, please correct me. http://outremer.romeochi.net/2007/06/12/romania-blogging-heaven/

If you know of a blogger consistently funnier than yourself, please correct me.

]]> By: Natalie http://killingbatteries.com/2007/06/if-you-hate-me-and-orphans-dont-read-this/comment-page-1/#comment-15076 Natalie Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:57:14 +0000 http://killingbatteries.com/2007/06/if-you-hate-me-and-orphans-dont-read-this/#comment-15076 Happy Birthday!!! And although I cant make it to NYC to get drunk, I will definately check out the charity. Happy Birthday!!! And although I cant make it to NYC to get drunk, I will definately check out the charity.

]]> By: Sheila at Family Travel http://killingbatteries.com/2007/06/if-you-hate-me-and-orphans-dont-read-this/comment-page-1/#comment-15064 Sheila at Family Travel Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:51:27 +0000 http://killingbatteries.com/2007/06/if-you-hate-me-and-orphans-dont-read-this/#comment-15064 Ewww, TMI on the dental info....:) Ewww, TMI on the dental info….:)

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