dammit, when the hell will the state of NY give me my money
Pro tip: Panera caters. So do some kind of team meeting, have the company pay. Order extra and take it home. Win win.
They have some kind of lemon cookie. Straight crack, order some of those.
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You had me until:
It isn’t very tart, it’s a mellow lemon flavor with powdered sugar on top. It’s not as good as the cobblestones they used to carry, however.
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So then you really didn’t get the drink for free.
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He did, but then he perpetuates the destructive activity of tipping.
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Don’t get me wrong. I’m a tipper. I jus think it’s odd to tip at a fast food joint. Or, for any to go food. (Except during the lockdown)
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Yeah. If a drink is $2.50 and I tip an extra dollar, it’s more like 60% off I guess.
NC slacking too…
well, NY finally gave me my money back.
I think my bitching yesterday finally pushed them to do the right thing
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My parents usually drive down from Utah to Phoenix through Flagstaff, but they saw that there was a fire in that area, so they went though Vegas. Now they are stuck in the middle of nowhere because of another fire.
Looking at the map, they could go back up to I40 and over to flagstaff - the fire is to the north, so they should be fine. Their cell reception is crap though…
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They got moving again. Looks like they are past the problem area.
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Holy jeepers buddy ahead of me in the Costco gas line up. Could you move any slower.
Reminds me of when I was making cookies with my 1 1/2 year old. He was sitting on the counter and was covered in flour. My wife walked in and said “could you possibly have any more flour on you?”
He looked at her, reached down, grabbed some flour and put it on his leg.
Yes, yes I can.
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We took our kids to get ice cream and play at the school playground tonight after dinner. A couple was there with their dog, who was unleashed. The playground has a no pets sign. When we got there, they were the only other people there.
Our kids started playing and running around and the dog was chasing them, at one point tried to nip one of them. It was playful, but my husband pointed out that they really should have their dog leashed in this situation. She claimed the dog DIDN’T lunge at our kid, and she knows because she trained her. He told her that he was watching them and saw that she was looking the other way and couldn’t possibly have seen what happened.
I think most people would apologize and leash their dog, especially since that’s the law where we live AND they were breaking the playground rules.
Instead, the woman started telling my husband that he was a miserable human who must hate his life, and our kids hopefully won’t turn out like him. The dog proceeded to continue chasing our kids and tried to bite them three more times. The situation kept escalating. The woman claimed she had permission from the principal to bring her dog there, apparently they’re neighbors. Even if true, which I doubt, the principal doesn’t own the property outside of school hours and doesn’t get to change the rules for friends.
The guy who was with her told my husband that as long as the dog doesn’t bite anyone, it’s perfectly legal. He took a few legal classes in college, so he’s an expert. Dogs can’t be prosecuted, he said, so there’s nothing wrong with a dog lunging at someone if they don’t actually bite them. That’s when my husband pretended to call animal control (I’m not sure why he didn’t actually do it, honestly) and my oldest son was obviously feeling embarrassed (he hates seeing confrontation even in movies) so we left.
It was truly bizarre how much the woman dug in her heels as opposed to just admitting that she didn’t have control of her dog and maybe the playground belongs first to children.
And I hate confrontation almost as much as my son does, so if it were possible to melt from embarrassment, I’d be one with the asphalt right now.
Edit: Oh, and my younger son channeled his inner neighborhood watch narc and went over to the playground sign that said no pets and was telling the couple that the sign DID say that and they were breaking the rules. Only funny part of the whole thing.
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Did either of you think to say, “if you don’t leash your dog, I’m going to do something & you’re not going to like it” and then film the rest of the encounter?
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You should contact the principal and see if he or she really said that. And let him or her know that if someone gets bit, he might get dragged into court to explain why he was telling people they can bring their dog.
(OK, maybe not the last part. You don’t want the principal to hate your kid.)
I went to the supermarket yesterday afternoon, and when I rolled my cart full-o-stuff to the checkout counter, I noticed the clerk was wearing a “I’m a new employee” badge. Or really, I didn’t notice until it was too late. I was her second “real customer” and omigod was she slow. She had to call a manager for help 3 times. Once, the item probably should have had a bar code on it. The other two times she needed help looking up the produce code for something. It turns out that “scallions” are alphabetized under “o”, for “onions, green (scallions)”, and that the store carries at least three types of acorn squash, with different codes.
Even when we weren’t waiting for the manager (and I had to suggest she could process other groceries as we did that) she was slow and clumsy. She was incredibly anxious, and kept apologizing. I smiled, and assured her it was fine, and we all need to learn stuff. Because… well, that’s true and getting cross would not only have crushed her, it would also have made her even slower. But it meant I got home without enough time to get something for supper before my bridge game.
At least the game was on-line, so I threw a frozen thing in the oven, and pulled it out and ate it during the game. I muted myself to chew, but hope I didn’t annoy the other players too much. Sigh.
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