The Gwampy Thread

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

and rifuah shlemah. and al nitilat yadayyim. and asher yatzar. and hamotzie.

 

not the same kind tho.

[reyler]

Meshuggenner! *throws crabapples*

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

says boreh pri ha'etz before tasting them.

 

better make jelly, kinda sour.

[reyler]

I used the one year of Hebrew school my mother bothered sending me to as a child to catch up on my sleep.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

not a gentile then?

 

couldn't tell.

 

i had 10 years. and insomnia.

[reyler]

My family was never particularly observant, except around the high holidays, and I stopped considering myself Jewish about nine years ago.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

i grew up with a christmas tree in the house but an unfortuante series of events sent me to orthodox yeshivah. ouch.

[reyler]

Mostly it was learning what was expected of me on Yom Kippur that finally did it.

 

Did they make you grow a beard? Or is that just the Hassidics?

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

i grew up in a hassidic neighborhood in an antireligious family and went to "modern" orthodox yeshivah.

 

just too long to explain. not a happy bunch of memories.

[reyler]

The beard was too long to explain, gotcha. I grew up in a black suburb - wasn't another Jewish household for miles - so I can't really relate.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

the hassidim treated us like worse than anyone, necause wewere jews not like them. they threw rocks at us, slashed out tires, tried to poison our dogs.

 

really not fellow travellers.

 

i'll explain it sober soem day.

[reyler]

Ahh, tribal territorialism, how I don't miss knowing anything about you.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

okies. no matter to me.

[reyler]

*was speaking to the concept, not you*

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

was representing the concept not me

[bad company]

Yeah glad I didn't grow up in that kind of neighbourhood

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

we get what we get. i have a good neighborhood now.

[bad company]

You deserve it, I think if you go through crappy times in some ways makes the good better

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

everyone goes through crappy times. it's teaching something. not sure what yet.

[bad company]

As long as you have someone there for you

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

i have good friends.

[bad company]

I know and I will try to be there if you need help

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

would you drive the bronco?

[bad company]

I would be able to, though you drive on the wrong side of the road

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

you only have to do about 40 mph, from what i recall. i'll try to avoid needing that kind of help. if i can help it.