Also, I don't know if you realize the amount of deep damage that can be done by a cat peeing or marking the floors and walls. Enzyme washes only do so much. Carpets are the least of the issue. Subfloor often need replacing, drywall replaced and repainted, molding, too. It can add up to thousands with one incident even with a fully trained adult housecat - they can get nervous or feel the need to mark and you can't stop them once they get it in their mind to do it even if they've never done it before. Then, after that, there is a high chance the cat will go back and do again - ask me how I know.

BTW, service animals require an Rx from a doctor that has been treating g you mentally already and will continue to treat you and you will need to get that Rx renewed every year.

I love cats - even my little calm marking one, but consider moving to a place where they commonly allow animals already. Don't ruin a decent tenant/landlord relationship over a cat you don't already own.

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I live with my family, they have lived here for 25 years

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Also the inventor of the Shaq-a-Roni.

Happy birthday!

I witnessed one of those two backboard busters at Brendan Byrne Arena when I was a kid. I remember complaining to my dad about how long it was taking to replace the backboard and clean the court. It was also the day I became a huge fan of Shaq.

Birthday buddies!

it's cool, i shall die alone then

That’s a chapter of my life where I’d prefer not to bump into ghosts of the past. So I shall stay anonymous

shit, odds i know you or at least have seen you.

Omg I miss intrinsic. I was a mall rat in the early 2000s there. Spending hours trying on clothes with friends, stocking up on metal albums at hot topic. being chased out of stores just cause I dressed goth. Good times.

oh this is amazing . i love this stuff

There is a current search to find a time capsule that was put in the 60s somewhere under the mall. If it gets found you can see pics from back then. Here’s the article: https://patch.com/new-jersey/longbranch/bp--help-solve-the-mystery-of-the-missing-monmouth-ma5461ff93c4

Passing by Newark? Just off 78 and 22 is Do Mario, 223 Wright St, Newark... Wholesaler but also open to the public. Great quality & prices... They'll cut it how you like it. Often need to buy large size on some cuts.

i'd love to get some pictures of bridgewater commons from its heyday in the late 80s/early 90s, especially when they had each level kinda themed in terms of how fancy the stores on that level were (commons collection, etc. i wish i remembered what the other ones were called) and the three story escalator that they took out when they built the new elevators, etc.

oh wow thanks! bingo, i didn’t know about it!

I miss tripping on hallucinogens and wandering the mall. Those were fun times lol. let me check my livejournal for pics of the crew hanging in/outside intrinsic across the various places it was located.

I think so. It was across from the store Wet Seal or a store like that and there was a cookie place next to it also, maybe Famous Amos?

Move to NYC! It’s a great experience, easy to get around and secretly you want to do it, go for it!

Was this the place near A&S, now Boscovs?

I miss Monmouth Mall in its heyday. I loved the little telephones that were attached to those fake trees that children could use to listed to a story or the playground in The Children’s Place. I was a mall rat back in the early 90’s. Back when they had an arcade and pet shop.

There’s a group on Facebook called “Monmouth Mall Memories” that has good vintage pictures

Edit: bun n burger pic from group https://www.facebook.com/groups/589220704966354/permalink/673417846546639/?mibextid=W9rl1R

The geometrically superior food torus

My wife is a elementary school teacher in Hudson County. One story I remember is that a kid repeatedly would hit the teacher and when the teacher went to the principle about the kids actions her question to the teacher was well what did you do to the kid to get that reaction.