I googled and found this:

http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/582612

Never heard of this expression in my life.

My my, I learn something new every day.


P.S. I actually DID learn something new from a friend I know for over 40 years. Tonight he phoned me and as we were talking he explained how he just got his new recliner. He said he sleeps on it. Till 4 a.m.

Then I said "oh, you wake up from the chair at 4 a.m. and then you go into your bed?" He said "No, I watch tv" I said "what do you mean, you watch tv, it's 4 oclock in the morning". He said "I always get up at 4 a.m.

I said "you do WHAT??" He said "I go to sleep at 11 p.m. and wake up in the chair at 4 a.m.." I said 'when do you use your bed?" He said "Oh I've NEVER used the bed"

I said 'what on earth do you do at 4 a.m. (he's a single man of 55), His reply: "Oh, I watch Batman and whatever is on"

Blew me away. I know this guy for 40 years and NEVER knew he woke up at 4 a.m..

I don't know anyone else who gets up and stays up at that time.

And this guy is diabetic and has neuropathy. But when I asked him if this was related to his getting up, he said "Oh no, I've ALWAYS gotten up at 4 a.m."

lol
Melody

No.. well, I don't know.

I can hardly stand to have even plain water touch my feet... so anything added to it is awful. We had some bath salts that I would assume are epsom salts (but am not 100% sure) and they irritated my feet.. burned them. Even Johnson's baby wash and shampoo burns my feet as it runs to the bottom of the tub.

I've asked my mom what the salts were and she wasn't sure either... but I looked up epsom salt and bath salts and they seem to be the same thing.

Wow, maybe it was the magnesium in the salts??

You poor thing. Many of us can enjoy a nice soak and you can't even enjoy that little pleasure. I feel for you.

Hope you have a nice calm pain free evening.

Take care, Melody

Bath salts are different in many ways from plain old epsom salts.

Bath salts contain many other ingredients, including fragrances and coloring agents.

http://hubpages.com/hub/Bath-Salt-In...ealth-Benefits

Often people use TOO MUCH... and that may present problems, where skin may be damaged.

One does not need fancy gizmos, bath units with heating units, or massage to get the advantages from epsom salts.

It is just not necessary to have additives either. Basically using epsom salts is inexpensive, easy and effective. All the "rest" is just window dressing IMO.

Haha echoes...mine is in the basement with gift boxes and a drop cloth on top of it.

Is that similar to Fifth Third Bank?

Bob's Pretty Good Bank & Drive-Thru Ammo in Lake Wobegone, where the motto is, "Never a Borrower nor a Lender Be."

I thought you were cussin' with me until I looked up Fifth Third... weird.

AFAIK, 'buck three eighty' goes back a long way to NYC (and I've never been there). I first heard it in a workplace in 1980, and it was ancient then. Funny how you hear something like that - a line from a movie, a phrase, or a punchline from a joke - that sticks and becomes an 'in joke' in your family or social circle, and you repeat it so often it becomes second nature. Then one day you stop and ask, "Where did that come from?" There are certain words, phrases, & lines I could say in certain groups that would have some people rolling on the floor and others looking around at each other in bewilderment, speculating, "Guess you had to be there," when those 'in the know' couldn't tell you where 'there' was anymore...