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<blockquote data-quote="dreamer" data-source="post: 123761" data-attributes="member: 1697"><p>BBK< this is SOOO weird, becuz me and husband still smoke, and we cannot do so here at home anymore, we have begun going out to eat in Wis? LOL. so approx oncce a week to every 10 days or so we trek just that lil bit over the border and we have found a couple very cute tiny diners just outside of the big resort town. SO just after I posted we headed up there for dinner. Got there and I was being my usual VERY chattery self....with the owner of the lil place. How wild, turns out altho this lil diner is north and west of me, and the mall where this occured is WAY south and east of me (5 hours many times since I do not drive tollways etc) - imagine my surprise in conversation when she said she lives down in Tinley Park in IL! She COMMUTES to her lil diner up in Delavan Wis!!!!! She had not heard what happened, and she freaked cuz..her kids go often to that shopping center! YIKES! </p><p></p><p>Ah yes, I used to bring food, but, I had some difficulty for a time getting things in and out of car etc....and son really eats very little besides hot dogs, milk and pizza.and the gas station has hot dogs SO cheap-----and the milk is fresh and I do not have to worry about it (the hotel seldom has a fridge) LOL- so, I wimp out, and I kinda "diet" and he has his gas station hot dogs.....we do spend a LOT of time by hotel pool and he does bring his Gameboy......</p><p></p><p>It just is not "safe" anywhere, is it? </p><p></p><p>You know? The Browns Chicken Massacre? Thats the town I grew up in and LOL- our wedding was carry out catered from THAT Browns. My childhood neighbors son was one of the victims, the police in charge, the chief, was a childhood dear friend of mine.......</p><p>My husband grew up 3 doors down from where ST Val Day massacre happened (altho he had not yet been bnorn at that time, LOL) </p><p></p><p>ANd the Fox River Grove train-bus crash? My best friend went to that school 5 years before that, rode that bus, and the bus driver of that bus is-was best friends with my charge nurse boss at the time of the crash. </p><p></p><p>So many sad tragedies involve so many people and it can really get to ya sometimes. I know it is unrealistic to get nervous, but at the same time, it is so easy to begin to get nervou and paranoid. </p><p></p><p>Used to be when my kids first began to go to docs in the city, I used to have to take the LONG train ride from our far out suburbs in....and then use els etc becuz I was too nervous to drive in the city, haveing been born and raised in outter suburbs. But that was such an ordeal, and I got "caught" a couple times depending on public transport with kids that wound up too ill to handle public transport- and I started to get nervous about being in the big train stations etc so much.I did finally begin to drive to the city and in the city. (BUT while I used to drive tollways and such in chicago, I no longer can do that, it is just way too much way too fast at me) </p><p></p><p>I guess we just have to learn to Be Careful. So sad such thngs happen. SO very sad. I guess there are no guarantees.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dreamer, post: 123761, member: 1697"] BBK< this is SOOO weird, becuz me and husband still smoke, and we cannot do so here at home anymore, we have begun going out to eat in Wis? LOL. so approx oncce a week to every 10 days or so we trek just that lil bit over the border and we have found a couple very cute tiny diners just outside of the big resort town. SO just after I posted we headed up there for dinner. Got there and I was being my usual VERY chattery self....with the owner of the lil place. How wild, turns out altho this lil diner is north and west of me, and the mall where this occured is WAY south and east of me (5 hours many times since I do not drive tollways etc) - imagine my surprise in conversation when she said she lives down in Tinley Park in IL! She COMMUTES to her lil diner up in Delavan Wis!!!!! She had not heard what happened, and she freaked cuz..her kids go often to that shopping center! YIKES! Ah yes, I used to bring food, but, I had some difficulty for a time getting things in and out of car etc....and son really eats very little besides hot dogs, milk and pizza.and the gas station has hot dogs SO cheap-----and the milk is fresh and I do not have to worry about it (the hotel seldom has a fridge) LOL- so, I wimp out, and I kinda "diet" and he has his gas station hot dogs.....we do spend a LOT of time by hotel pool and he does bring his Gameboy...... It just is not "safe" anywhere, is it? You know? The Browns Chicken Massacre? Thats the town I grew up in and LOL- our wedding was carry out catered from THAT Browns. My childhood neighbors son was one of the victims, the police in charge, the chief, was a childhood dear friend of mine....... My husband grew up 3 doors down from where ST Val Day massacre happened (altho he had not yet been bnorn at that time, LOL) ANd the Fox River Grove train-bus crash? My best friend went to that school 5 years before that, rode that bus, and the bus driver of that bus is-was best friends with my charge nurse boss at the time of the crash. So many sad tragedies involve so many people and it can really get to ya sometimes. I know it is unrealistic to get nervous, but at the same time, it is so easy to begin to get nervou and paranoid. Used to be when my kids first began to go to docs in the city, I used to have to take the LONG train ride from our far out suburbs in....and then use els etc becuz I was too nervous to drive in the city, haveing been born and raised in outter suburbs. But that was such an ordeal, and I got "caught" a couple times depending on public transport with kids that wound up too ill to handle public transport- and I started to get nervous about being in the big train stations etc so much.I did finally begin to drive to the city and in the city. (BUT while I used to drive tollways and such in chicago, I no longer can do that, it is just way too much way too fast at me) I guess we just have to learn to Be Careful. So sad such thngs happen. SO very sad. I guess there are no guarantees. [/QUOTE]
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