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Buying Insulin Online?

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Well, we do like to have a chat, amongst people with a common interest!

(Oh how amusing it is to me, to type that phrase having had a mother who At All Costs, refused to acknowledge the commonality of anything being reflected upon herself - don't say that Jennifer, it sounds common, don't wear that, you'll look common, don't back-comb your hair, it makes you look common, don't wear cheap shoes, buy cheap anything ever, shudder ...)
 
Well, we do like to have a chat, amongst people with a common interest!

(Oh how amusing it is to me, to type that phrase having had a mother who At All Costs, refused to acknowledge the commonality of anything being reflected upon herself - don't say that Jennifer, it sounds common, don't wear that, you'll look common, don't back-comb your hair, it makes you look common, don't wear cheap shoes, buy cheap anything ever, shudder ...)
Oh yes, I think it mostly came from my grandmother rather than my mother, all that plus "we don't eat in the street, that's common" - though when at the seaside on holiday it was OK for icecreams! - and when ITV started, we didn't watch as "only common people watch that". Not something we hear now, thank God!
 
I hear you both, my mother had her own list of what was common!
 
Once year regular as clockwork we had fish and chips from the fish and chip shop collected and paid for by my dad, always took him a while since mama must have plaice, which you always had to wait for, then brought home and put on the plates which she had had to turn the oven on to warm up so that was a B nuisance, cos obviously you may NEVER put hot food on cold plates. Not 100% certain on cold plates, but although the chip shop was far too common to do more than once a year - were cold plates? Probably. Rest of the year home cooked plaice chips and peas every Tuesday without fail. Why Tuesday? because the wet fish shop in West Brom had a fresh delivery on Mondays when the shop closed all day. Wouldn't countenance 'fish on Friday' - heaven forfend anyone might imagine we might be Catholic. And eating in the street - common as muck - sister and I plus parents always had to sit down to eat ice creams. If nowhere suitable to sit = no ice cream.
 
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