Patty O

Patty O

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Mr. Mayor, Just curious...Are there any companies supplying jobs in your town or surrounding area? How do your folks earn their living? Are they mostly production workers, blue collar, white collar, are you a college town? Wondering who supports the employees of your town. Patty-O

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Do I detect an attitude that this mayor-ing thing is about you??...the way I see it, you are there to do the will of the people, not lead them into your way of thinking. It's obvious you were elected. If you piss too many people off, they can "de-elect" you during the next mayoral election. In all seriousness, this isn't about you, never has been. You have a responsibility to you constituants to do what's best for them with their approval. It's not a game. It's an honor bestowed on you by y

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I understand your need to intitiate "progress" in Mayberry, but you are a "come-here" not a "from-here." Your predecessors were wise in not wanting the trappings of city life. There is a lot to be said for maintaining a small town w/o commercial development. It tends to destroy the charm and beauty of small town life, even though it may have an economic benefit. I challenge you to poll the citizenry, and see if indeed their idea of progress is the same as yours. Not criticizing. I'm a small

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Sept. 9, 2003 To Amend, or Not to Amend?….That Protection Order… So, Mr. Insignificant had “his knickers ripped,” as he is so fond of saying when anyone falls flat on his face. It gave him that secret satisfaction that someone else was having a rough time, or better yet, got caught doing something he/she shouldn’t have been doing. Hmmmmm???? It looks like he got what he so fervently wished on others and it is about high time his mean doings came to light! Yeeeeeehawwwww! H

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August 10, 2003 My husband’s journal….it just buggered the crap out of me as to what it all meant. Now, I know… maybe. It appears CC was jealous of my past….how he found the names, I’m not sure….was it from my journals I’d kept for years? Nothing explicit in those journals, only my reactions and observations and the events of my poor boring little life! Did he go through my pictures in the storage room? That wouldn’t have given him names, or did he find my letters and car

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Aug. 20, 2003 Wed. Secrets Interesting….what makes a person squirm? Truth revealed, or the threat of the truth being revealed is a powerful incentive to strike at the bearer or the receiver of that truth. Funny thing, truth comes to us in strange and unexpected ways: the chance encounter with a friend whose conversation makes you blink!…What!?? what did she say???….wait a minute!! What DID she say? !! Well, she unwittingly spoke the truth about an event involving “him”.

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The Story of the Invisible Chicken "Chickens in the bread pan pecking at the dough; Granny, does you dog bite...?" ----Charlie Daniels An angry man can look like many things; however, if a guy is 5 foot nothing, got a bad case of the "Little Man Syndrome," and thoroughly pissed because his wife finished the job he started, i.e., 3 years of spousal abuse he initiated. One should attempt to maintain a dignified demeanor, don’t you think? But, NOOOOOOOOOOOO! He wanted rev

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Sept 12, 2003 Dear Bubba, Praise the Lord! You are outta jail on the work release program, and Ima Jean Sweeney is one happy woman! Hope your biscuits were good, darling. HeeHeeHeeee! Old Ima Jean called me today to tell me the good news: You all are getting married! I’m just thrilled to death! We talked about many things, or should I say, she did most the talking about the dresses she wants us to wear, shoes, food, wedding cake the location and such. I have to s

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August 11, 2003 For an old woman going through a hideous divorce, I’m doing fine! Don’t have any discretionary funds, but there are other folks willing to entertain me and come to my house for dinner and TV. So, life ain’t so bad……no it ain’t! Afterall, the military takes care of dependents to a small degree, so it’s not nearly as bad as it could be. My spirits are up, my house is clean, I’ve made any number of improvements and repairs my husband just wouldn’t do, and the yard

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"I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell.." ---Matchbox 20 "Unwell" Aug 29, 2003 She didn’t know what was going on with this guy, her old man, her husband….he didn’t like anything she did, didn’t agree with anything she brought up in conversation and did all he could to demean her intelligence and personal projects. In other words, this guy was a DIVA, the epitome of the word! Put a halter dress on him and a pair of high heels and Wheeeeeeeeee!! Snap! Snap! Snap

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Oh, dear man, one day you will understand, not all women are that way. I find in my maturity that adult, supposedly grown-up guys can be, and a lot are, just as bad. It's nice to have the steady person, i.e., my guy, my girl, but hey, there's so much eye candy out there! It makes asses of us all. I'm not sure if that behavior is genetics or just poor form. God! I wish I knew, luv.

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November 5, 2005 Dear Diane, Well of all the things! I went to the attorney’s office today to do what? Oh, yeah! That deposition thing that is supposed to take place on November the 17th…preparing for those hard questions Mr. Passive-Aggressive’s attorney will be throwing at me like sharp pencils being thrown in a classroom. But, no, my dear, this didn’t take place, because my “husband”, and I use that word with the utmost contempt, is dragging his feet. The court date has

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October 30, 2003 The World Series & Gifts From the Groom The last month I’ve been “eat up” with baseball. I LOVE baseball! The playoffs were wonderful…I rooted for the Atlanta Braves, but they lost in the playoffs. I rooted for the Cubs…they lost. I rooted for the Redsocks…they lost. I rooted for the Marlins and finally, by God, my team won not only the playoffs, but the World Series! Great, great games! I haven’t slept a full night in more than a month, but now I’m catc

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Oct 17, 2003 OK! So, my husband has lost his mind entirely. Oh, yes, he has just lost it! It can only be said "I love my wife and I want to come home," was about the weirdest thing I'd heard since we parted company. My attorney relayed the message to me from my husband. I don't get it, don't care. It ain't happening. So, I arrived home Tuesday to find a huge cardboard box delivered by UPS on my front porch. God, it was a heavy mother! I struggled to lift it into the

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November 13, 2003 I feel like I’m living in a Hitchcock film…it appears nobody believes me. I’m not crazy most of the time. Just a lot pissed off. He lied to me about his adulterous relationship and I punched him in the mouth. I confess; I did it! No point in lying. I hit him a glancing blow in the mouth. Didn’t draw a drop of blood, didn’t break the skin and no telltale bruise was left on those lying lips. And he had the gall to have me arrested for assault after he knocked me do

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