Subj : Re: PING Question To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Tue Nov 12 2019 19:55:20 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 07-Nov-2019 13:55 <=- BM>>> Reminds me of an article I recently read and printed out for BM>>> my Mother on the anteroom to the Women's Rest Room. We had one at the BM>>> store and us guys would on occasion comment about a waste of space; BM>>> sometimes jokingly considered as a temporary storage area for the BM>>> Christmas Season overstock. Article went into the history and reason BM>>> why the anteroom was created and used. Made sense once started to be BM>>> explained. NB>>> And rarely seen nowadays except in theatres and such.... :) BM>> Right: everything (OK, 'everything') is figured in cost per square BM>> foot, and so the anteroom is a hundred or so square feet not making BM>> money and not a requirement like stock storage, etc. NB>> And probably not as useful/used anymore as it was at one time.... BM> Probably not. The article stated ladies wrote letters in there/some BM> of the anterooms (would suppose partially depends on the furnishings). It was a different sort of society then, too... :) BM> The one at the store where I worked was sometimes used by BM> breast-feeding mothers and to change diapers -- the cleaning crew would BM> sometimes complain-comment on soiled diapers left behind. Nowadays, there will be a fold-up changing station in one of the larger stalls, often a handicap-access one, or on the wall... and often not just in the women's but also in the men's, as they might be using it for changing their infant's diaper as well... BM> At one time there was a rocking chair in there: was a display chair BM> from Infant Furniture. Recall somehow someone managed to damage and we BM> had to remove. That's a shame.... That would have nice for a nursing mother... or even just to calm a fractious baby... :) BM>> upgraded/changed. ...Years later the register system did change: BM>> recognized a modified Ubuntu boot screen with the five dots on it. NB>> Obviously in the meantime, someone got educated... ;) BM> IMO yes. Not just because I'm a fan of Ubuntu but did verify (to me BM> and a few other semi-computer literate types) Ubuntu was a lot faster BM> on the same hardware compared to whatever Windows was installed. (And BM> not to be taken as a slam to Windows. Well, maybe a tiny one. ) Just an observation of reality... Windows IS slower... and takes up more computer space.... :) ttyl neb .... 586, 32Mb 40ns RAM, 4Gb 2ms HD. Now Windows will beat DOS! --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .