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Skriven 2007-06-26 19:48:30 av Barbara McNay (1:382/48)
     Kommentar till en text av Glen Jamieson
Ärende: BIRD NEST 654 70626
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 >  -=> Quoting Barbara Mcnay to Glen Jamieson <=-

 >>  BM> I had been living down here for quite some time before the cold began
 >>  BM> to be bothersome.  I'm glad I live here now, however, and not still in
 >>  BM> New England.

 >> It is even worse if you have been living in warm
 >> parts, and then have
 >> to migrate to more frigid lands.   Where in Texas are
 >> you?  My niece
 >> has taken me to several areas of the state.

 >  BM> I don't doubt that a bit.  The muscles stiffen, in addition to the
 >  BM> joints aching.  I did live for a time in Bellaire, within Houston city
 >  BM> limits, but now I live about halfway between Waco and Austin, near Ft.
 >  BM> Hood.

 > Austin would have been the closest to there where I
 > have been, and
 > walked all over and around the capitol building.

I have driven down there several times, but the traffic is much more hectic
there than it is here, though the gap is narrowing in that respect.

 >>> kitchen is little more
 >>> than a shelf against the wall or in an alcove, just big enough for a
 >>  BM> A kitchen in a small New York City apartment can be pretty much like
 >>  BM> this; I saw one that looked like a wall of folding doors.  You opened
 >>  BM> it up, and *right there* were the front of the stove, the
 >  BM> refrigerator,
 >>  BM> and sink.  There was no "in" the kitchen.

 >> Such luxuries!  In the back-blocks places I have
 >> stayed in, no fridge
 >> as food was always bought or picked from the garden
 >> that morning.

 >  BM> Such luxuries!  So many people live in places such that they can't,
 >  BM> for one reason or another, grow their own fresh food, and sometimes
 >  BM> have to travel for quite a distance to get food of dubious freshness.

 > Oh, those poor, deprived people who are forced to live
 > in such
 > conditions, in backward villages such as Boston,
 > Houston and Crofton!

When you stop to think about it, though, people who live in dense, vertical
cities would run into difficulties quite promptly if transportation broke down
and food couldn't be brought in.  Nor garbage taken out.

 >>> time, the dishes are placed centrally on the floor,
 >>> and everyone squats
 >>> around, helping themselves. (Note: this can be a
 >>> painful experience to an invited non-Asian!)
 >>  BM> I don't even like to think about it!
 >> Hehe!  It helps if locally brewed coconut wine is
 >> provided to ease the pain.

 >  BM> Even wine wouldn't enable me to sit down on the floor safely or
 >  BM> comfortably.

 > I'm not sure I could take it for long these days,
 > without having to be
 > helped to rise.

When you were a child, were you raised to squat habitually in the Asian manner,
or is it foreign to you, too?

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