I just want to catch your attention -----

[Heather Shay]

[Jackie C.]

Let me check protocol here. Men are usually the ones telling us to smile, and that's considered insensitive. Is it OK if another woman does it? Does anybody have a copy of the manual handy? I lost mine.

 

Hugs!

[Carolyn Marie]

"Smile" by Charlie Chaplin is one of my favorite songs.  Hearing it always makes me "smile."  Thanks for the reminder, Shay.

 

Carolyn Marie

[KymmieL]

2 hours ago, Jackie C. said:

 Is it OK if another woman does it? Does anybody have a copy of the manual handy? I lost mine.

 

Hugs!

Jackie, you lost mine too. I loaned you mine because you lost your copy now losing mine too. now we need to find two copies.  LOL

 

Kymmie

[Heather Shay]

page 63 - and I quote - "it is perfectly fine for one woman to ask another to smile. After all men put us through it is nice to be given a reminder from time to time." 

[Heather Shay]

both expressions - smiling and crying - are both valid and totally appropriate and 100% all right to experience and feel the feelings of happiness and sadness expressed through smiling or crying. ??

[Susan R]

Thank you @Shay for your outward positivity here on our forums. It has been very refreshing and does help counter some of the pain and struggle that is reported periodically.

 

*hugs*

Susan R?

[Jackie C.]

2 hours ago, KymmieL said:

Jackie, you lost mine too. I loaned you mine because you lost your copy now losing mine too. now we need to find two copies.  LOL

 

Kymmie

 

Drat! Now I'm TWO copies of the handbook in the hole and STILL waiting for someone to teach me the secret handshake!

 

Hugs!

[Heather Shay]

@Jackie C. - That's on page 106 - and being you seem to have a problem keeping your hands on a copy - I'm locking up mine.

[Elizabeth Star]

Manuals? Secret hand shakes? Someone’s holding out me. There’s probably a membership card too. ?

[Heather Shay]

ADD a secret decoder ring

[Elizabeth Star]

I knew it. 

[Heather Nicole]

Pretty hard not to smile after reading this whole discussion! lol! 

[Jackie C.]

2 hours ago, Shay said:

ADD a secret decoder ring

 

Did you mean to say "And" Shay? Though an ADD secret decoder ring would explain a lot. Mine must have gotten distracted in the mail.

 

Hugs!

[KymmieL]

1 hour ago, Jackie C. said:

Mine must have gotten distracted in the mail.

 

Hugs!

I think the horse carrying mine died. darn pony express. Or  the aliens took it.

 

Let me get this straight, you use the secret decoder ring to tell you the secret knock that is used that one time. It changes every time.  then after your inside you have to give the secret handshake.

 

This so confusing. Why can't we just go back to the DNA scan that was so much simpler. Stupid progress. LOL??

you gotta have some smiles everyday.

Kymmie

[Heather Shay]

And a decoder ring.... I'm using it right now to decipher all the posts on this thread. Too bad you don't have yours... You should see what the magic ring has to say....