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I hate those dryer machines in ladies bathrooms in commercial establishments. You know the ones: Step One - Push Button. Step Two - Rotate Hands Vigorously Under Vent.

They forget Step Three - Wipe Hands on Pants, or Wave Rapidly In Air To Finally Dry Them.

Geez, these machines DO NOT WORK. What ever happened to paper towels? Or those disgusting endless roll of toweling that got grungier and grungier and never got replaced until it was pretty much black?

And trying to dry your hands with the quality T.P. in these bathrooms is simply an exercise in creating paper lint. No drying actually occurs.

I sound like I am channeling Andy Rooney, don't I.

Posted originally by Willieanne... it took up the better part of the page, and so I just took the liberty of compacting it a bit and putting it in the first reply!

Enjoy!

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Marti in Mexico

I just read this article about calories in various kinds of Easter candy -- I would like to summarize the results, and then since this is an advice column, ask my question at the end:

Peeps:

4 peeps = 130 calories. They are fat-free but high carb - 8 grams of sugar alone, adding up to 32 grams in a serving of four.

Jelly Beans:

Each individual bean is only around 5 or 6 calories.
The recommended 35-bean serving = 140 calories from 37 grams of sugar.

Cadbury Chocolate Eggs:

12 eggs = 190 calories and 8 grams of fat.

Cadbury Creme Egg:

The 1.2-ounce egg = 150 calories, 5 grams of fat and 25 grams of carbs.

Reese's Peanut Butter Egg:

All three varieties -- milk chocolate, fudge and white chocolate--have a calorie count of 180.
The fat content is 10 grams, double that of the Cadbury Creme Egg, with the white-chocolate egg the worst, at 11 grams.

Hershey's Hollow Milk Chocolate Egg:

One hollow Hershey's egg (4.65 ounces)= 570 calories.
Eat the four Hershey's kisses included inside and you're up to 660 calories and 41 grams of fat.

Large Chocolate Bunny:

The average seven-ounce rabbit = 1,050 calories
Smaller one-ounce bunnies = 140 calories

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What I want to know is --

Since I am supposed to be dieting (sorta kinda), what do you recommend as the best way to eat all the candy that I intend to on Easter and not feel guilt about it?

I had my gall bladder out in late 2006. You'd think by now that I would have it figured out -- what I can and cannot eat in order to keep my digestive system happy.

Some things are obvious -- no animal fat of any kind whatsoever, meaning no sausage, bacon, chicken skin or even chicken fat floating in the homemade soup -- no butter (learned that one the hard way) -- nothing too spicy, which is not a problem because I don't really like spicy food anyway --

So I am really careful to avoid things that I know are going to send me running for the bathroom (no further details are necessary or will be offered) --

But sometimes I have no idea at all what I ate -- my insides just go bloffo and I am miserable for a day or two afterwards --

I ate a little bit of Easter candy the last few days -- not a lot, a few chocolates and a few peeps -- I eat candy all the time, that should not bother me -- it may have been the leftover turkey-burger Helper yesterday (we make our Hamburger Helper with ground turkey), but it didn't bother me the first time I ate it, why the hell should it come back at me like that?

I really hate this -- all my life I have had somewhat of a funny stomach, but since having that G.D. gallbladder out I never know when my insides are going to turn on me --

Does it ever get any better (isn't a year and half long enough for things to settle down?)

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Some people really have too much time on their hands! (see first reply)

I smoked when I was young for a long time - who cares how long. Then I quit for 7 years. Met someone ... seemed like a good idea at the time (started again). 14 years later.. no cig X 2 days. Not as easy as it was 14 years ago. I really wish they weren't bad for you. I wish my skin didn't look like I smoke. I fear my insides look worse than out side. I used to be kinda cute, but I wish I never started back again.

Decided the other day, like the movie..???? so goes my memory "I'm gettin too old for this s--t." Gotta quit. I hate it when the thought hits me that I want a cigarette, I have to remind myself, that I don't smoke anymore. Thank God it doesn't take very long to go away.

If you're a grudge-bearing, petty, petulant old goat posing as a nubile, sexually-precocious young nymphet in order to get back at Eons for the age thing, and I catch you in any of my groups, I WILL block your ass. Be prepared for it. And know that I do so with the greatest of ease and the greatest of contempt. Go get a hobby, for God's sake.