Hello

[American Infidel]

I'm also a grandma, but about 10 years older than Shelle. :D I'm originally from Indianapolis and moved to Tulsa about 30 years ago. I'm busily working toward moving back to Indiana; hopefully this year. Both of my sons and granddaughters are back there. I also have a brother and his family in Bloomington, Indiana.

I retired 4 years ago from Boeing where I worked for 7 years. Prior to working at Boeing I worked for many years as a legal secretary. After working all those years for lawyers, I'm not terribly fond of them. :D I only worked for two that behaved like normal human beings and I think that's because they had military careers before they became lawyers. I really liked the legal work but not many of the jerks I had to work with. :D

I love to read and do as much of it as possible. I've been a bookworm since childhood. I like to walk but with all the debris from our ice storm still in abundance around our neighborhood I'm unable to do much of it right now. I also enjoy watching old movies on tape or DVD.

Politically I'm a Conservative and I'm currently registered as an Independent. I was a Democrat when I was young and foolish but when the Democrat party took a lurch to the left I became a Republican. When the Republican party took a turn to God's knows where I became an Independent.

When I was growing up my folks told me to never discuss politics or religion if you wanted to keep your friends. I've gone against their advice and I discuss politics, but I won't discuss religion. No way, no how! :D

[Muser]

Greetings, AD! We recently moved to Texas after having lived in Indianapolis for 8 years. Loved living in Indy (especially at racetime!), and miss it very much. Good luck with your goal of moving back to Indiana.

[shelle39]

Welcome AI, you may be 10 years older then me (I doubt it, your to young :) ) I'll bet your oldest granddaughter isn't 22 years old either. I still can't believe she did that to me, she is supposed to be a baby. Where did time go?

Welcome to the board :clapper:

[American Infidel]

Greetings, AD! We recently moved to Texas after having lived in Indianapolis for 8 years. Loved living in Indy (especially at racetime!), and miss it very much. Good luck with your goal of moving back to Indiana.

Thank you, Muser. I've missed Indy for nearly 30 years but because my elderly mother didn't want to move back into the long, cold winters I stayed out here with her. She came out here 40 years ago in an employment related move. I moved out here after a particularly nasty divorce 10 years later. She passed away last September so that's why I'm planning to move back. No family here any longer so there's no reason for me to stay.

Maybe by next year I'll be posting from Indiana. :thumbsup:[hr]
Welcome AI, you may be 10 years older then me (I doubt it, your to young :) ) I'll bet your oldest granddaughter isn't 22 years old either. I still can't believe she did that to me, she is supposed to be a baby. Where did time go?

Welcome to the board :clapper:

I have a granddaughter 21 years old and one 7 years old, Shelle. There's an age span of 8 years between my two sons so that helps to explain why the girls aren't closer in age. The youngest son wasn't in any hurry to have children either and they strug it out a few years before deciding to have one. :D

[PatrickHenry]

My! This is a chatty intro thread!

Thanks for sharing those things with us, American Infidel!

And thanks for coming to Democracy Forums. This place is well managed and cheerful, despite the awful things happening in the world around us.

I credit the site administration and staff with that!

My momma died last October at age 90.

[American Infidel]

My! This is a chatty intro thread!

Thanks for sharing those things with us, American Infidel!

And thanks for coming to Democracy Forums. This place is well managed and cheerful, despite the awful things happening in the world around us.

I credit the site administration and staff with that!

My momma died last October at age 90.


My mother was 87 when she passed away last September.

[BoogyMan]

Greetings American Infidel and welcome to Democracy Forums! :)

[Keith Hamburger]

I retired 4 years ago from Boeing where I worked for 7 years. Prior to working at Boeing I worked for many years as a legal secretary. After working all those years for lawyers, I'm not terribly fond of them. :D I only worked for two that behaved like normal human beings and I think that's because they had military careers before they became lawyers. I really liked the legal work but not many of the jerks I had to work with. :D

Welcome.

My cousin is a lawyer in Tulsa. Perhaps you worked for him. I would expect that he would fall into the category of one of the jerks you worked for, however. I haven't spoken to him at all since our grandfather's funeral over 10 years ago.

I grew up in Oklahoma and have a lot of fond memories of there, myself. After 25 years in Colorado I really miss all of the water.

Keith

(I'm a grandfather, myself. But, from what I recall of Shelle's introduction I'm probably 10 years younger than she is.)

[shelle39]

I retired 4 years ago from Boeing where I worked for 7 years. Prior to working at Boeing I worked for many years as a legal secretary. After working all those years for lawyers, I'm not terribly fond of them. :D I only worked for two that behaved like normal human beings and I think that's because they had military careers before they became lawyers. I really liked the legal work but not many of the jerks I had to work with. :D

Welcome.

My cousin is a lawyer in Tulsa. Perhaps you worked for him. I would expect that he would fall into the category of one of the jerks you worked for, however. I haven't spoken to him at all since our grandfather's funeral over 10 years ago.

I grew up in Oklahoma and have a lot of fond memories of there, myself. After 25 years in Colorado I really miss all of the water.

Keith

(I'm a grandfather, myself. But, from what I recall of Shelle's introduction I'm probably 10 years younger than she is.)
My first born granddaughter came into this world when I was 38, I asked my son why he couldn't at least wait until I was 40 to be a grandma, he said "Lucky I guess".

[Easy90]

Howdy AI...Welcome from (you know where).... The whole gang is back...almost!
(homie)

[Keith Hamburger]

My first born granddaughter came into this world when I was 38, I asked my son why he couldn't at least wait until I was 40 to be a grandma, he said "Lucky I guess".

Well, my wife is a bit older than I am. I have a step-daughter that's only 9 years younger than me. She hasn't provided any children, seeming to prefer women to men as it were.

My stepson, on the other hand, who is a couple years younger than his sister, made me a grandfather at 32.

The only one I have that can be directly blamed on me (the son of my son), however, wasn't born until I was 42.

Keith

[Lucky13]

Hey AI...
Hail, Hail...the gangs all here.
Glad to see you on board.
pat

[sam]

Hi AI, goood to see you. Just dont go bringing 'Arthur'.....I seemed to have been able to avoid him for a few weeks.

[cronic]

Hello and welcome AI.. nice to meet you

[lily]

Welcome AI........I don't know where you all came from......but I'm sure glad you decided to join us!

[ECW]

Welcome.

[American Infidel]

I retired 4 years ago from Boeing where I worked for 7 years. Prior to working at Boeing I worked for many years as a legal secretary. After working all those years for lawyers, I'm not terribly fond of them. :D I only worked for two that behaved like normal human beings and I think that's because they had military careers before they became lawyers. I really liked the legal work but not many of the jerks I had to work with. :D

Welcome.

My cousin is a lawyer in Tulsa. Perhaps you worked for him. I would expect that he would fall into the category of one of the jerks you worked for, however. I haven't spoken to him at all since our grandfather's funeral over 10 years ago.

I grew up in Oklahoma and have a lot of fond memories of there, myself. After 25 years in Colorado I really miss all of the water.

Keith

(I'm a grandfather, myself. But, from what I recall of Shelle's introduction I'm probably 10 years younger than she is.)



About 99% of lawyers fall into the category of jerks, Keith. Working for them makes you go :scared: for a long time and then :dizzy: if you don't get away soon enough. :D

Thanks for the welcome.

[AnnEsthesia]

I must work for different attorneys. I like 90% of them.

[American Infidel]

I must work for different attorneys. I like 90% of them.


Good for you. I'm not one to take abuse in any form, so that's probably why I don't like most of them. I think law schools must have a required course that teaches lawyers how to treat their secretaries like dirt and verbally abuse them.

If your lawyers don't act like they are God's right hand man, treat you like you're the scum of the earth and verbally abuse you on top of it, then you are indeed one fortunate woman. I didn't met any like you in all the years I worked for lawyers. Not even when I belonged to the local legal secretaries association.

I don't believe it's just an Oklahoma "thing" either, because I had a good friend who also worked for lawyers in Louisville and she though they were jerks too. Then I have another one who works for lawyers in Indianapolis, and she reports the same.

What am I to think except that they are pretty much the same all over the country? There are probably more who fall into my description than who fall into yours.[hr]

[AnnEsthesia]

Nope, 90% of the attorneys I have met are very nice, very friendly, and very good to me. But then again, I do not 'work' for them. I work for the bar association, not the attorneys themselves. However, it is rare for one to be mean, nasty or rude to me. Most of them are polite, friendly and quite generally happy when I speak to them and those that are not are easy enough to calm down and derail their anger.

I do not think I am lucky. 90% of our members I truly like. :)

But of you feel better disparaging a whole profession based on your own personal feelings about the ones you know, far be it for me to stop you. I will just politely disagree based upon MY experience with them.

[American Infidel]

The big difference is that I worked for them and experienced all the things I related.

You do not work for them so they have to be nice to you. Otherwise, they'd reveal their jackass behavior to the bar association membership. Most of them keep their nasty dispositions well hidden from the public and the employees of their associations.

[AnnEsthesia]

I dunno. They are always quite nice to me in social settings as well. But whatever. It really is pointless to argue the point. I disagree that attorneys are any more or less nasty or what have you than any other segment of the population. Maybe they do suck as bosses, but that does not mean they are horrible human beings. But you are welcome to your opinion, even if I happen to disagree.

[American Infidel]

And you yours.