Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
My mom’s mom-I miss her very much. You could talk to her about anything and she was the kindest, gentlest person and always had cookies and would hide them down low and let me go looking for them. She had a perpetual cup of coffee in her hand and was a very good artist. She was a social worker at the VA for about 20 years and worked really hard to help make changes for vets. Here is what struck me the other day- the irony in life.
My brother died on his motorcycle because he gave his helmet to his passenger who needed a ride home and so he went without. It was one rare time he wasn’t wearing it. The accident was deemed passenger caused.
My grandma, who had Alzheimer’s had begun to fall a lot but loved to walk so they gave her a helmet to wear and that one time she wasn’t wearing it-she fell and hit her head and died from a brain bleed.
She sounds like a beautiful person.