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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BadgeBunny" data-source="post: 1302336" data-attributes="member: 1242">You know, I was a single mom with 3 teenage boys when GC met me -- 1999. I literally lived from paycheck to paycheck (all three jobs' worth). You remember, OMG!! It's Y2K ... On New Years Eve GC called me to see "if I was ready ..." <img src="/images/smilies/shocked.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":shocked:" title="Shocked    :shocked:" data-shortname=":shocked:" /> I was (no joke) at Buy4Less buying a six pack of beer and some mascara ... Everyone in the store was looking at me like I was daft ... That was the first time I had experience something even closely resembling a "panic run".When I told him what I was doing he was mortified. <img src="/images/smilies/image1341.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":brick:" title="Image1341    :brick:" data-shortname=":brick:" />He told me he was at home, he had "stuff ready" (whatever that meant, cuz I had no clue at the time) and that if anything bad happened I was to lock my doors and he would be there as soon as he could. <img src="/images/smilies/shocked.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":shocked:" title="Shocked    :shocked:" data-shortname=":shocked:" />Thankfully, I am not the same woman I was when he met me ...<img src="/images/smilies/new/pms2.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":pms2:" title="Pms2    :pms2:" data-shortname=":pms2:" /><img src="/images/smilies/new/sunbath.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":sunbath:" title="Sunbath    :sunbath:" data-shortname=":sunbath:" />OK ... I think we got the down payment then ... I have enough to put with yours and make a 5 dollar bill, and a bullet (9mm, of course) in the bottom of my purse. <img src="/images/smilies/new/hug3.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":bighug:" title="Hug3    :bighug:" data-shortname=":bighug:" /></blockquote>

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