ilovehorseyrides must've picked the race car bed ;)

(I love horsies too, it's SO adorable to see photos of people bottle-feeding a foal.)

"took all the chairs, put 'em in a chair museum"?

I like that blue tile... Much better than yellow!

...*A-hem*...Paging Dr. Lynne!! There are FAR too many erroneous comments here to be pure sarcasm.

(sry, can't help it- the completely random spam-style comments are hilarious!)

Silkster, you must have worked at a place that was small enough, or didn't lease from Xerox, and the place you got your stuff from would have been closed outright ...there were really enough people to move everything, and it wasn't deemed too expensive?? wow.

Does anybody ever find it "demoralizing" that those suffering severe Alzhemir's dementia need to be locked in to prevent *escape?
-In this case, escape= resident wandering off to who knows where, possibly to be found dead, killed, or disappearing completely.

The photo, on the other hand, has me wondering...are actual prison yards much bigger than this, and are the buildings pictured just coincidentally low enough that the roofs need to be slanted? I don't think I've ever seen this.

Ok, if you want my 2 cents, it does rather closely resemble rooms at the JD center my developmental psych class toured. Of course, according to the program schedule, the kids were hardly in the rooms during the day unless severe behavior warranted it.

...we needs us some more Lynne on this page, or less of the uninformed who could say that every darn broom closet in existence harbors sinister torment.

Eww. Blue, I might find tolerable...not red, green or that weird shade of yellow. I think the problem is that it's colored like that all the way up the walls instead of half.

LOL, the Civil War talk popping up around here :)p

Lynne, you be TOO good, and you'll up and swallow your own tongue ;)

I've also never gotten the impression that plastic-type products are biodegradable (unless specified) let alone flushable. I use the little trash containers in public restrooms.

The preschool kids I worked with were collectively known in the classrooms as "friends".

...For some reason, I see this kind of notice a LOT. Maybe some establishments post it as a precaution.

Uuhhh...? Yes, I may have felt a bit traumatized by the fact that when I was in 4th/5th grades, the public restroom in our hallway featured stalls with no doors...at least there were indeed partitions...and enough of a wall next to the door that provided some small privacy for the 2 stalls on that end.
No, I did not mind co-ed restrooms in college-there were stalls (with doors!) on all the toilets and double curtains on all the showers.
On the other hand, if I ever catch myself being the slightest bit suicidal, I'll think of restrooms with NO privacy, and that may very well be what keeps me from it.

Lynne has acknowledged the past abuses we now know about-it was due to severe overcrowding and understaffing as a result of underfunding. Lynne has made several greatly informative comments regarding current safeguards and making sure that residents of care facilities really are cared for.

Wow, this is a good one!

I dunno, it doesn't look insane to me.

Brightly colored shelves with not so much as chipped or peeling paint? That stands out so much it looks oddly out of place there.

It can't be too bad if all the building exteriors were preserved, I hope? Modern stuff has got nothing on classic architecture! The crummy thing about the Avalon/Danvers development was that it sat and burned/deteriorated for so long it all got demo'ed.

Interestingly and ironically, the passenger steamer Eastland suffered a fate similar to these boats. (poor top-heavy construction and being over capacity caused the rollover at the dock in Chicago)

Night: my claustrophobic panic would result from being in a submarine unable to surface.
Twug, in the case of drowning, I would hope to black out quick and not spend minutes prior fighting for air...or does that only happen from suffrocation due to something held over someone's face?
Wave pools? Yeah, I momentarily bumped my head on an inner tube trying to come back up at the Denver water park.

Lynne n Silkster- Lemme guess: you wouldn't watch Poseidon if we paid ya. BTW, that original screenplay/novel was based on the author's impression of how badly the original Queen Mary rolled in heavy seas.

...just don't tip the kayak.