On Monday, Nov 10, 2003, at 22:47 US/Eastern, Ruth Budge wrote, in response to Linda Walton's:
trouble remembering which were the x and y axes when drawing a graph - untilThank you Linda, I *do* find it useful! For years, ever since I first started
someone explained to me that "x is a-cross".
using a lace-design computer programme, I've had trouble with the box at the
bottom of the screen which shoes the position of the cursor as an "x" or "y"
figure....never knew whether I was going this way or that way! I will be able
to remember that!
OK, I'm *still* clueless... :) A cross goes both north-south and east-west (up-down and left-right. Or vice versa; don't try to get me any more confused than I already am <g>). An X (which I do recognize as denoting a cross), *still* goes in *four* directions, if askew... So, how does it help for drawings, to know that a cross is also an X?
[...] my husband, who is having trouble with his memory, had left his entire handbag
In Poland, men (at least those my age and younger), carry shoulder bags, similiar to women's, though of a more military cut (many are simply police "report cases", but in colours). Here, I've never seen one. In fact, just tonight, DH left at my place a red-circled snippet in the NY Times which said:
While I was waiting to complete a sales transaction in the men's department at Bloomingdale's an elderly couple approached the counter near me. The woman started to search the bottom of her handbag, and handed her companion a roll of antacid tablets. She looked toward me and smiled as she said: "He did not marry me for better or worse. He married me for the things I could carry in my purse".
They walked away, both smiling.
The reason that Severn made an effort to mark it and put it at my place is that that's exactly how *we* function, too; whenever we are out together, he'll ask for Advil, toothpicks, scissiors, nail-file, Swiss Army knife (corkscrew), writing paper, whatever... fully expecting that I'll *have it*. And, quite often, he'll add a few things of his own -- "keep it for me, would you?". All *he* carries on a regular basis is wallet (back pocket of pants; a "dare you" to thieves, IMO <g>), pen (front pocket of jacket), hankie (front pocket of pants) and comb (inner pocket of jacket)... Car keys are a problem
It never occured to either of us to do it differently; it has never occured to me to object... I *do*, afterall, "schlep" the handbag with me at all times, laden to the gills with all sorts of "stuff"... What's an extra item or two? <g> Early on in our marriage, I *did* bring him from Poland a bag such as (young; I was young then myself <g>) men there used. He used it too, to lease me. But he, like your DH, kept leaving it behind all over the place, so we gave up; carrying a handbag and keeping track of it doesn't seem to be "second nature" to men the way it is to women :)
----- Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/
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