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Waiting For My Ship To Come In? How About You?

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎03-04-2009 10:33 AM
This economy is really bad, yes?

I can bid 4 jobs and get none.

"They" use illegal labor and pay cash under the table.

It's been this way for years actually.

People circumventing the system by paying so many under the table and no taxes, no insurance.

"They" choose this way. This is the way of greed and low ethics.

Out here when someone gets caught without car insurance, the law impounds the car.

Funny part is, these people just get another car and never pay into the insurance system.

It costs less to get another car than pay for the car insurance. Of course if they do bodily harm to someone else and can't pay the bill.... Well what do they do? They just shrug it off and say, well they should have known about us uninsured drivers.


"The World Stresses Me Out... But I Won't Smoke"
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Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.