Wait! I knew I had this image in this system, and I just found it: an image of part of our lobby, tho not the part where the passenger elevator is, the part with the table always bearing a worldclass phal (the table you see always has cut flowers)... but you can see the CEILING FIXTURES in question! Re the big ones (there are little ones too in the other part of the lobby)....we hadda give the genius I unearthed one of the big ones to make the mold, cause one of the big ones got shattered)..but that was just the first of many, daunting steps....the big ones are 18" in diameter.

One more! just realized this image of part of the lobby shows the surveillance camera! Hah. I just indicated it in red....and, pretty sure it does not cover the part of the lobby where the table bearing the phals is! It's mainly focused on the section where the big service section is,the mailboxes,the package room. So....someone could steal a phal if the lobby attendant who also operates the passenger elevator was taking people up or down,as long as the thief did not leave the building via the main lobby doors....wherein he or she would be caught on camera.

Of course, getting into the elevator with one of our giant phals with empty table behind.....would be, well...immediately registered.:rofl: I already told the staff I was going to steal this one if Jimmy refused to give it to me.:lol:

I have learned not to even think about all those that get pitched, and all of them are really special.

I am positive, given I think we have an ongoing account with the guy up the street, no way do we pay what regular clients of his do. That would be bad business for this florist.

Wow, what a beautiful lobby, all we have is a mailbox:mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen:

Well, just because you paid it...doesn't mean that's what it's worth. I was simply trying to point out that you can and would find a similar (if not the same phal) and you don't have to pay $100 for it. If someone wants to pay that much...fine...but it's not necessary.

As for the $$$ situation of where you live/your building/and all that other stuff...look, I get how expensive it can be where you live. My husband is from NJ and we have friends and family up and down the East Coast and we regularly visit and spend time w/those friends. Hell, my husband just got back from DC last week! We also have friends in CA...another very expensive area of the country. So, yea, I get it, I get, I geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet it. I think we all do. What I don't get is why your Mother didn't teach you that droning on and on about these topics is really rather crass. Not to mention...tiresome.

So, YES, I was laughing and I was serious about that fact in my first comment. I honestly thought you were joking about that Diva/Goddess BS. Sorry...I won't make that same mistake in the future.

FWIW -- I am happy...very happy, actually. But, I will admit that ill mannered boasting really does rub me the wrong way. Sorry. You have my permission to call me old fashioned.

I paid nothing. The building pays. This is a famous, landmark building. Pre war. And, penny wise, pound foolish in some things..is not why it is. WITNESS THE EXAMPLE OF the project I was given to replicate/replace the shattered ceiling shade.

Jimmy is also famous in my City...and the sharpest, most meticulous manager/owner, best businessperson I know. And time is money: the vendor in question is literally half a block from us; am sure Jimmy cut a deal with him and everyone wins.

If you still don't get, given what I took the time to share about myself to illustrate it clearly, that my calling myself what I did in that exchange was sardonic and self abrogating and FUN.....that I am the ANTI diva of all time.....I give UP.

I am not the assaulter here (nor was I previously or ever), nor the one who doesn't get things clearly and accurately.

Finis.

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While I love this building just as if it were a living being and get and know every part....the lobby is kinda pretentious.

Which is why, I think.....the giant, also pretentiously presented phals are not that happy there.;)

Plus, at this time of the year, the lobby is like a meat locker freezing/no humidity. U think they like that? No, they hate that!:((

I only hope, when I get her, I don't discover all her roots are rotted. We all know, despite what is visible above, it's what you find when you knock it out and remove the medium....that matters.

We just make honest efforts, and, I think, that's the privilege. I hope I can save her!

If only.....

it seems certain people - and its the same old, same old with predictable comments - take great pleasure in what I call "sweating the small stuff "

Here's an article to help :
How to stop sweating the small stuff - CNN.com

if that doesn't help, then please unsubscribe from topics that upset your sensibilities ! It can be done !

JMNYC - I enjoy this thread. Don't get discouraged by the partypoopers. I don't care if your building management pays $1,000 for an orchid. Its their money, not taxpayers.

Blessings on you, you keen and emotionally healthy human in the Windy City!!!!!:biggrin::bowing

I just wish more humans would own that the foundational journey is....WITHIN. Again, it's the health of the roots that matters and impacts everything! In ALL species.

And God Bless....The Loop!:lol:

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Do people actually talk this way in NYC? Where I grew up this would get your butt kicked. Darn! Annoying is an under statement.

Wow. "We" often celebrate many voices, including heady, delicious, humor rich, loving, non necrotic, lfe affirming pas de deux with those we are close to. As was the happy case in this event.

Entirely normal if not ideal human energy in discourse/exchanges...opposite of software. Apparently too subtle and nuanced (or happy?) for some. Nobody I know personally or professionally....but, it seems....some.

Being as formal as High Mass is a no brainer.

But, the rich, life affirming dynamic in question, is one of the reasons everyone wants to live here despite the increasing costs.
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Edit: Making a quantum leap via your chosen username.....I will have to conclude and so, celebrate, at least, coming up, it seems you weren't precluded from celebrating the erotic (eros, from the Greek=lifeforce) and deliciously salacious offerings of Little Richard! So, there is hope!:D

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One more: i have shown and linked many colleagues and friends to this thread, and everyone at my end is boggled that anyone could fail to "get" the joyful essence of any part of this narrative. I mean it.

Forget ANYONE actually thinking I was being serious in representing myself as I did in my intial pitch....while Jimmy sat behind his uber Apple screen in the office grinning from ear to ear.

I am learning not to take for granted all the happy, healthy things I apparently do.