# (Old) Everybody's hiding under a rock in the MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [March 25, 2024, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-everybodys-hiding-under-a-rock-in-the-mmp/999328 "2024-03-25T10:51:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2024, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-everybodys-hiding-under-a-rock-in-the-mmp/999328/281 "2024-04-01T00:21:37Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > **JtC** , looked at the Flagstaff AMTRAK station on Virtual Railfan, doesn’t look that bad, but out in the open lands it might be too slick to drive safely. Be careful. Thank you for looking, they closed the I40 shortly before our decision point so we came down through Heber instead. It started snowing pretty hard at the summit, but the road stayed open and we are home now. VBC will be going to the vet tomorrow, she is still wheezing and she has dried blood at the corners of her mouth. I’m worried that her extraction got infected and I need her to stop wheezing. The car is unloaded and all of the random trash one accumulates when living out of a car for a couple of weeks has been gathered up and discarded. GG wants to velcro himself to both of us but hubs and I won’t stay in the same room so he is constantly having to run back and forth between us. I think he missed us. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2024, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-everybodys-hiding-under-a-rock-in-the-mmp/999328/282 "2024-04-01T00:39:02Z")
Church was wonderful as always. He is risen. My church friend invited me over, and her dad, her son’s dad, and her brother and his kids were there. Ham, cheesy potatoes and corn. She even gave me some to take home. A lively debate on Joel Osteen was had. Tomorrow, I will call the field manager to see wheres my check. Tues I start my new job. Its not to go above 48 this whole week. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2024, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-everybodys-hiding-under-a-rock-in-the-mmp/999328/283 "2024-04-01T00:42:16Z")
He’s skating pretty close to the limit there. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2024, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-everybodys-hiding-under-a-rock-in-the-mmp/999328/284 "2024-04-01T00:59:25Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I think it would have to be Episcopal. I think they’re (one of) the most liberal. Generally, IME, yes. Also some Evangelical Lutheran and some United Methodist Congregations. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2024, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-everybodys-hiding-under-a-rock-in-the-mmp/999328/285 "2024-04-01T01:06:06Z")
Yabbut… With Lutherans I wouldn’t be able to not think about [_Davey and Goliath_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davey_and_Goliath). ---
**Author:** ![Kitten\_Mitten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b782af/32.png) [@Kitten\_Mitten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitten_Mitten)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2024, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-everybodys-hiding-under-a-rock-in-the-mmp/999328/286 "2024-04-01T01:09:18Z")
**Are we having FUN yet???** Yes, everyone who is not a Duke alum and enjoys college basketball is overjoyed. Congrats to the **Wolfpack!** and Thank You!!! > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > If I were to start going to church, I think it would have to be Episcopal. I think they’re (one of) the most liberal. Based on my daughter’s church, I concur. Unfortunately the Other School just beat Michigan State for the right to go to the Frozen Four. Shucks. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2024, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-everybodys-hiding-under-a-rock-in-the-mmp/999328/287 "2024-04-01T02:50:57Z")
The usual Sunday stuff. Naps, cocktails, laundry, Spot hornking on the newly vacuumed floor > [@Kitten\_Mitten](#): > > **Are we having FUN yet???** > Yes, everyone who is not a Duke alum and enjoys college basketball is overjoyed. Congrats to the **Wolfpack!** and Thank You!!! _ **WOLF!** _ > [@Kitten\_Mitten](#): > > Unfortunately the Other School just beat Michigan State for the right to go to the Frozen Four. Shucks. Shucks.(the Hurricanes’ coach went to Michigan State) {{{{ **JtC** and **VBC** }}}} Glad you made it home. > [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](#): > > one catholic, one baptist, and one Jew live in this house, so we’re not really into celebrating holidays. And Easter is no different. Festivus is non-denominational. Just saying. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2024, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-everybodys-hiding-under-a-rock-in-the-mmp/999328/288 "2024-04-01T03:04:28Z")
A new MMP tomorrow! I pity the fool. See you guys next month.😉 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2024, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-everybodys-hiding-under-a-rock-in-the-mmp/999328/289 "2024-04-01T03:34:33Z")
I did like one line in the sermon. The pastor said, ‘Some of you are here because of drugs. Someone drug you down here.’ ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2024, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-everybodys-hiding-under-a-rock-in-the-mmp/999328/290 "2024-04-01T03:47:14Z")
Gotta say the final eight in the hockey playoffs went wrong. Cornell beat UMaine. I haz sad, but Cornell is kinda my adopted next team, then they lost. Boogers. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2024, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-everybodys-hiding-under-a-rock-in-the-mmp/999328/291 "2024-04-01T04:13:07Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#): > > the road stayed open and we are home now. Whew! I just got caught up here and when I saw your first post about I-40 being closed, I thought, _JtC is stuck here in Albuquerqueand I missed the chance to have her over??_ I’m glad you made it home safe and sound, and I bet the kitties are over the moon! > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > If I were to start going to church, I think it would have to be Episcopal. I think they’re (one of) the most liberal. The Unitarians are your best bet. Everyone else has their knee-jerk reactionary contingent, but as I understand it, the UUs don’t even necessarily expect you to believe in God. This kind of thing is what drove me away from (Methodist) church. It wasn’t even the pastor; it was a group of right-wingers who had a heavy presence in the church council. From pushing for our preschool to expand into elementary so that their grandkids wouldn’t have to go to **gasp** a heathen _public_ school to writing and singing a song during worship that bashed, among others, the ACLU, they made the church environment so hostile and insular that I (and people like me) stopped wanting to be there. > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > So I hid in the peaceful lower level. I think that may become my new favorite place! Shortly after my FIL moved in with us, I set up a kind of secondary living room with a TV and loveseat upstairs in the guest room, just to have a place to sneak away to and watch the many shows I enjoy that was too lowbrow out had too much violence or profanity for his liking (basically, anything that wasn’t a PBS documentary). > [@swampbear](#): > > I love company comin’ and goin’. My favorite time of any party is that moment when everyone’s just left and the dishwasher is going. I don’t know about you, but my house is still cleaner right then than it was before I started getting ready. > [@SuntanLotion](#): > > Tues I start my new job. Hurray! I’ve got my fingers crossed that this one will be decent! > [@Kitten\_Mitten](#): > > Unfortunately the Other School just beat Michigan State for the right to go to the Frozen Four. Shucks. I’m sorry for your…er, their loss. My son-in-law’s parents are sad today. He and my daughter, who are both also MSU alums, never did care about sports or school spirit, so they’re unconcerned. > [@dogbutler](#): > > Spot hornking on the newly vacuumed floor It was nice of you to prepare him a congenial place for it. Younger Daughter is over two-thirds of the way to MI tonight, and she’s tucked up safely in her motel. It’s so kind of her to keep her neurotic parents calm with frequent updates! I keep thinking of all the trips Mr. L and I took in our youth. There were at least a couple of times when we didn’t even think to tell our parents we were going! Who’d have thought I would turn out to be more paranoid than my own mom? ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2024, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-everybodys-hiding-under-a-rock-in-the-mmp/999328/292 "2024-04-01T06:36:36Z")
Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave. Spot is sacked out on the couch. > [@InternetLegend](#): > > Who’d have thought I would turn out to be more paranoid than my own mom? To be fair, when we did road trips and dumb things, our parents only had a vague feeling of what was going on. These days parents can watch the livestream on their phone. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2024, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-everybodys-hiding-under-a-rock-in-the-mmp/999328/293 "2024-04-01T10:11:12Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!” and that’s pretty much how he went out too I survived the holiday and started another year’s descent into geezerdom… I remember when I was the youngest one here waaaay back when survived easter cleanup didn’t take as long as we had it organized this year but I miss the days when all I had to do for a holiday was show up … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-everybodys-hiding-under-a-rock-in-the-mmp/999328.md?page=14)