A Church Key is a bottle and can opener. One end is like a hook (for bottles), the other end is pointed (for cans). Every household had one and some of us kept one in the car (although some more inventive sorts found you could use either the seat belt strap or the door latch to open a bottle).

With the advent of twist off caps and electric can openers, it's no wonder people don't know what a church key is any more.

Just one more thing lost to innovation.

Still, I keep one in the silverware drawer, alongside my corkscrew, just in case.

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I was amazed last night at work. I asked a lot of people the same question and no one knew the answer:

Do you know what a church key is?

It must be an age thing. Another bit of language lost.

You're leaving. It fills my heart with sadness and I'd beg you to stay, but I know there's no changing your mind.


I'll miss you, beautiful.

My new walking shoes arrived today.

Found an old thumb drive containing my pics from my old computer.

The sun is shining.

I received a very nice message in my inbox here.

All in all, a nice start to my day!

Have you ever noticed that people no longer associated with something (a place, a person) are the first to criticize?

Is it from bad experience, or jealousy?

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Decal seen in the back window of a van I was following in traffic:

I'm not drunk, I'm just avoiding potholes.

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I was recently re-aquainted with a lady I've known for over 35 years. She was 18 when we met. We had a brief fling, then I met her sister and was engaged to her briefly. No hurt feelings from the first young lady - she thought we would be a good match, so she set us up. The first sister now lives in Nashville, the second in a small town in Kentucky. I'm friends with both on Facebook and chat with each occasionally.

The second sister is down to earth. The first? I always considered her to be "out there" a bit. She considered herself a White Witch in the old days, now she's just an artist. lol

Yesterday she posted that she had lost her precious prescription sunglasses and was in a dither. She claims life is hardly worth being happy without them and asked for prayers (I'm not kidding) that she find them soon.

My only comment was that, with the shape of the world today, she should consider herself lucky it's her number one worry. She didn't get it.

Sometimes reality is more amusing than anything Hollywood can come up with.

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What's your favorite food in the whole world? The food that makes your mouth water at just the mention of it? Just one thing, not a whole meal. Something you could eat every day?

Mine is ham.

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After a week of having to use an old computer (my other one fried), I'm back.

New computer arrived to day. Hooked it up, downloaded my essentials (Anti virus, quicktime, itunes, etc.).

Now I just need help to regain my documents, music and old photos from the last computer. I knew it was fried when I couldn't even sign on. A guy at work (engineer) says he knows how to recover those things. I'm going to ask him to write it all down for me tonight. There are some important things there that I really need!

Fingers crossed.

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It does not bode well when people you trust are back stabbing you in your dreams.