Charlie

A 22 year old "daddy"?

Does anyone else here use TePe Interdental Brushes? My periodontist strongly recommends them, and I find them more effective than flossing in most cases.

Looks like the "map me" function shows his real location in South Philly and not the standard default to City Hall.

That's what it looks like.

Years ago in NYC I hired a new escort, and went to his place. As I was starting to undress, he suddenly grabbed me by my undershirt and ripped it from my body. Shocked, I said, "What the hell are you doing?!" He stopped, looked at me confused, and said, "Wait! Aren't you the guy who told me he liked to have his underwear ripped off?" Duh--NO!!

This is probably the only reference I have ever seen on this site to "Feathers"! I had forgotten all about it. Does the place still exist?

I don't think I have put on a pair of long pants since May.

One of my high school classmates died in her 40s in a one car crash into a bridge abutment, with no witnesses. It was described as an "accident," but I had had a long conversation with her a month before it happened, and it was clear that she was seriously depressed then, so I have always wondered about the "accident."

By yesterday, New Balance already had new ads on Tennis Channel featuring Coco.

We were made for another!

But I did write about the checkout on the other thread! I don't like to do the self-checkout, but I do prefer to do my own bagging (I so rarely have a bagger who does what I would consider a good job--items logically organized and neatly packed--that I will congratulate a bagger who does it well). As I mentioned in the other thread, older shoppers like myself find the interaction with the check-out clerk more pleasant than the impersonal self-check-out machines. A survey of shoppers found that younger people were more like to use the machines than older people were.

I didn't see the match with Shelton or the meeting at the net, but BSR is pretty sensitive to the dynamic between pro tennis players, and if he says the meeting at the net was "frosty," it probably was.

The handshake is pretty much obligatory in tennis, and Novak is normally very friendly during the meeting at net, whether he has won or lost.

A rare advertiser who uses the "map me" function to show where he actually lives rather the default location at City Hall. (BTW, if you are unfamiliar with Philly, it is a safe neighborhood)

I shop twice per week on my way home from my morning tennis match, because the Von's supermarket near my tennis club (which is 8 miles from my home) has its own gas station, and if you have a Von's/Safeway account, your purchases get you a discount on gas (sometimes as much as 60cents/gallon), which I can do when I leave the store. I do all the food shopping for my household, and since we are pretty regular in what we eat--and we almost never eat out anymore--I buy pretty much the same staples every time. I don't pay much attention to price--I buy what I want, and the bill at check-out doesn't vary much from one shopping to the next. If I am bored and want to get something different, I may stop first at the Trader Joe's near the Von's to pick up a couple of special items. If I discover between shoppings that there is something else I forgot or need, I go to the supermarkets (Albertson's or Stater Brothers) closest to my house (1/2 mile) to buy it. I bring my own shopping bags/containers, and do most of the bagging myself, but I don't do the self-checkout. There was an interesting article in a local paper recently about the fact that older people (that's me!) prefer personal interaction with the checkers to the impersonal checkout machines.

The cock certainly looks larger in some photos than in others--any photoshopping going in in the ones where he is laughing?

Things like height, weight and cock size can be quickly checked upon meeting; age is more problematic. I don't mind if someone shaves a couple of years off his advertised age, but when a "27" turns up looking like 45, or vice versa, it is bound to be disappointing for the client, who usually hires with certain fantasies he expects to satisfy, and they almost always include the age demographic of the provider.

When I was a young man, I was told by my first partner that he was taught by a French chef that green salads should always be tossed with the maker's bare hands; he never said anything about washing the hands. (Of course, this was before scientists had discovered the existence of germs.) We have a green side salad with dinner every night, and I always rip apart the ingredients with my bare hands, but usually remember to wash my hands first. BTW, how many people actually wash the ingredients first?

I managed to see the first two sets of the Medvedev/Alcaraz semi-final yesterday. I will go out on a limb and predict that Medvedev will beat Djokovic in tomorrow's final; after all, he was the last player to beat Djokovic at the US Open, and that was also in the final.

I haven't used the tub since I was a child, except when I wanted to relax my muscles in a jetted tub, rather than take a bath to clean myself. I need the shower anyway to wash my hair, and using both the shower and the tub seems like a waste of water, especially during our endless drought in SoCal.

I was given my first dog, a little black terrier mix, when I was 9 years old. She was an unclaimed stray, picked up by my father's cousin, the official dogcatcher in a small New England town, whom we happened to be visiting. We took her home and had had her for only a couple of weeks, when we realized she was pregnant; one night she gave birth to a litter of six puppies, underneath my bed. None of the pups looked like the mother, and within a month one of the surviving pups was bigger than she was. That began a stretch for me of seven decades of living with dogs. I have owned all kinds of dogs, from purebred showdogs, purchased from top breeders in the dog show world, to mutts with unknown histories, adopted from a variety of public and private shelters. Their images ranged from a brace of sleek 75 lb. Greyhounds, to a blind old 10 lb Miniature Poodle. Their colors ranged from solid black to solid white, and all kinds of variations in between. I acquired them at various stages of their lives, from puppyhood to one 9 year old, whose elderly owners had died. No two had exactly the same temperament, but they all had their own lovable characteristics. They were as diverse as the men I have slept with. Some dogs prefer their own beds, others would rather share yours. At one point I had to have a bed built to accommodate my partner and myself, and two adult Greyhounds, who liked the warmth of human companions on cold nights. My partner and I now sleep in separate rooms. During the day, our current canine companion usually positions himself somewhere he can keep track of both of us as we settle down or move around in the house, to make sure one of us can't leave without him knowing it. At night, he always starts the night in one of our beds, but at some time during the night he usually leaves and goes to the other's bed, and occasionally returns eventually to the first bed. We have never figured out how he decides where to start and when to move, because he has no discernible pattern, and never shows any particular favoritism to one of us or the other, except at mealtime (I feed him). One of our elderly neighbors recently passed away suddenly, leaving a sweet old dog. Luckily, he had a friend who was willing to take her. Unfortunately, we are finally reaching the age when my spouse or both of us will probably end up in an assisted living facility (perhaps in the sky), so if he passes before then, I would be reluctant to get another dog. If we go first, however, we have nice younger gay neighbors who love our dog and would be happy to take him, so we have given them power of attorney to do so. If you have a loved companion animal, it is something that is worth thinking about when you are making legal arrangements.

South Philly

His interests are basically "one note Johnny," and he has only one photo, that reveals very little. Perhaps "upscale" is meant to suggest the Marquis deSade.

"And our next contestant in the obedience trials is...."

Because of the unlimited tie-break between Spectrum and Disney, I have not been able to watch any of this. Cute as Ben is, and much as I like his father, I still would be unlikely to bet against the Djoker, since up to now Ben has been basically only a two tournament wonder.