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Discovering if it’s true love a waiting game
Upfront, I’ll tell you:
This is a column
that somebody out
there - maybe more than
one somebody - needs to
read.
Today’s
your lucky
day.
As is oft
the case,
women
both
young
and not
so young
- write
Ronda Rich
Dixie Divas
to ask for my advice. Since
I am my mother’s child,
I am happy to pontificate
and offer that which I have
learned in life. And even
that which I merely think I
have learned.
In Hawkinsville, droopy drawers deemed disorderly
They called me Len
Pants Falling Down.
This catchy moni
ker wasn’t bestowed on me
by my tribal chieftain, but
rather by
my chief
rival in
second
grade. She
meant
it as a
humiliat
ing slur, a
means to
degrade
me in
front of
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my peers in Mrs. Rodriguez’s
class.
It worked.
She would yell, “There’s
Len Pants Falling Down!”
Foot injuries come in various forms, types
There are all types of foot
injuries, ankle sprain
is one of the most
common. An ankle sprain
occurs when a ligament in
your ankle
over
stretches
or tears.
There is
also turf
toe which
is when
your foot
hits the
ground
your big
'or second
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toe joint can catch on the
turf, jamming a joint. You
can also develop a stress
fracture, which are hairline
cracks caused by extra stress
on the bones of your feet.
Shin splints are a pain
near your tibia and may be
from an inflamed tendon
or muscle that’s irritated,
along your bones, repeated
twisting often happens when
you make sudden side ways
movements. The bones get
forced beyond there normal
range of motion.
Symptoms: Pain is often
the first sign of a foot or
ankle injury, but the pain
does not always reveal the
cause of an injury; evalua
tion is needed. Physical exam
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One college girl wrote in
great distress. She had met a
guy with whom she quickly
became besotted. On their
first date, she gave in to
everything he wanted. Yep,
you know what I’m talking
about. Then, as is usually
the case, he brushed her off.
No calls. No replies to her
emails. No nothing.
“I read your book and real
ized I had really messed up,”
she wrote. “I knew when I
did it, I shouldn’t do it but
I couldn’t stop myself from
doing it.”
See, the trouble with
trouble is that it always
begins as fun. This I learned
from watching the Dukes of
Hazzard.
When I replied, I used my
version of a parable in which
Then all the kids would look
at me - my frame so slight
and squirrely that I couldn’t
find any pants that were able
to hug my hips - and they
would laugh.
Who’s laughing now?
Today, for young people,
being hipless is hip, there’s
droopy drawers galore, the
bootyless are ballyhooed,
and the meek shall inherit
the Earth.
As is my luck - I am no
longer young.
But in Hawkinsville pants
falling down are no laugh
ing matter - unless you find
passing laws about sagging
slacks funny.
Recently, the Hawkinsville
City Commission banned
droopy drawers, unanimous
of your feet and legs takes
your podiatrist a step clos
er toward pin pointing the
source of your pain.
Treatment can decrease
your pain; rest, ice, com
pression and elevation. Your
podiatrist may prescribe
medication.
T7*ollowing are some
Jl ligament and tendon
problems you may encoun
ter with your feet:
Plantar Fascitis is an
inflammation of the liga
ment that runs from the
heel to the ball of the foot.
The bottom of the foot or
heel may hurt when you
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I told the story of one of my
girlfriends. She remained
chaste until the day she mar
ried at 28. She was beauti
ful, exciting and personable,
all of which caused men to
flock to her. There was no
shortage of dates. She had
a set of core values and she
clung tenaciously to them.
Then came the day that she
started dating the world’s
biggest playboy. He was
notorious. While it’s easy for
a woman to get a reputation,
it’s hard for a man to get one
doing the same thing. This
is how bad he was: he had a
reputation.
“Uh oh,” I clucked. It was
obvious that she was smit
ten over the handsome thing
so I warned, “You’ve just
met your match.” I was all
ly passing an indecent expo
sure ordinance, making it
“unlawful for any person to
appear in any public place or
in view of the public wearing
pants or shorts below the
waist, which expose the skin
or undergarments.”
Violators can be fined $250
and forced to perform 40
hours of community service,
although the city has asked
police to issue warnings
before writing a citation.
“I think it’s a disgrace to
walk around with your pants
like that. You know, with your
underwear and all that,” said
City Commissioner James A
Colson in a Macon Telegraph
story. “There’s no sense in
wearing pants if you’re just
going to show your under
stand. The pain usually sub
sides after you walk a few
steps.
Tendonitis is an inflam
mation of the tendon or the
tissue surrounding the ten
don. You may feel pain when
you move your ankle or
when your heel moves from
side to side. The Achilles
and Peroneal tendons are
common sites for tendonitis.
If old injuries do not heal
properly,weakened tissue can
easily be re-injured.
This may lead to chronic
ankle strain. Your heel may
hurt below the ankle bone
and feel unsteady during side
to side motion.
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for dropping him right then
and there.
I figured he’d date her a
few times then disappear
when he found out how she
was. Or how she wasn’t. But
I was wrong. Miss Prim and
Proper tamed the wild cow
boy who dated her for four
years despite the fact that
all he got were hugs and
kisses.
Then he married her.
And for all the years since,
he has simply adored her. No
marriage is better or more
loving than theirs.
“I appreciate the story,”
she replied. “But with my
generation, I just think that
no guy is going to marry me
or any girl before he...”
I said a quick prayer
and hit the reply button. I
wear.”
Not wearing pants?
Another good idea.
The story further states
that the city commission
considered banning floppy
pants five years ago. A state
official reportedly told them
then, “if you can’t see crack,
(there’s) nothing you can
do,” which explains why so
many plumbers end up in
jail.
Other cities around the
country have also acted on
this epidemic. In Georgia,
the cities of Atlanta, Rome,
and Brunswick - apparently
tired of dealing with mun
dane issues like taxation and
street paving and wastewater
treatment plants and* such
- are also currently consider
Sinus Tarsi syndrome
occurs when a sprain does not
heal properly and abnormal
scar tissue forms. This scar
tissue presses against small
nerves which run through
the small space (sinus) where
your leg and foot meet.
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wrote:
“A guy who has to have
that in a relationship is more
interested in that component
than in you. What I promise
you will learn - Lord willing
that you live long enough
- is this: Intimacy eventu
ally fizzles down in a rela
tionship and what is left is
either the genuine affection
that a couple has OR noth
ing at all. A man who will
wait for that is the one who
will love a woman through
chemotherapy when her
hair is gone, her body is rav
ished and she’s throwing up
all over him. In a love that is
destined to last for decades,
you will have many bad hair
days (a shuddering thought)
and a time when your stom
ach is bloated bigger than
ing enacting legislation that
would make wearing pants
that are ill-fitting illegal.
Some would argue that
this type of measure infring
es on our rights to clothe
ourselves as we please. I beg
to differ. I say it doesn’t go
far enough.
For instance. I find tank
tops offensive. Why should
my eyes be forced to wit
ness a man’s, or European
woman’s, hairy armpits, and
arms, and back? A statewide
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your chest. You want a man
who will love you madly even
then.”
My girlfriend, a while
back, was horrendously ill
with food poisoning. She
was hurling violently, leav
ing remnants on the wall.
The former playboy trailed
behind her, holding his nose
and cleaning up the mess.
“Baby,” she mumbled,
weakly raising her head.
“Tell me you still love me.”
“Baby, I do,” he replied.
And then he promptly proved
it by going out into the dark
night to buy Gatorade.
Ronda Rich is the best
selling author of What
Southern Women Know
(That Every Woman Should)
and The Town That Came
A-Courtin’.
ban on tank tops would put
an end to this scourge, and
as an unintentional bonus,
prompt a mass exodus of
Florida Gator fans from the
state.
I also believe cities should
consider banning polyester
bell bottom pants - citing
people retroactively, going
back at least 35 years.
These kids today, with
their crazy clothes and wild
hair and loud music... sounds
vaguely familiar, doesn’t it?
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