Reserved a car at the airport. There aren’t any cars and the line is getting quite long.
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I don’t use my oven much
What is the purpose of preheating with the door cracked? Preheat the oven and the kitchen simultaneously?
Broken oven.
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I was at Costco, waiting to exit with my cart of stuff. They have two receipt checkers, left and right side at the exit. They usually have to wave people down to form two lines.
There was an old couple ahead of me. Guy pushing the cart, woman to his left, he was clearly in line to go to the person on the right. He was also not really paying attention, but since he was #3 on the right and only two people to the left, I went on the left side.
Well, I guess his wife was trying to get his attention to go into the left lane, and was upset that I “cut” in front of them. We literally got to our corresponding person within 2 seconds of each other, but I was just enough ahead that she took offense to the situation. She says loudly to her husband while looking at me “well, I am not sure how he doesn’t understand how a line works, we were ahead of him.”
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Next time she should drive.
Road rage in a Costco receipt checking line. Gotta love it.
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It was quite busy for a weekday afternoon, and they appeared to be in their late 70s, so I assume they are just retired and are generally clueless about how it works on a busy day.
But really, you think the time to make a lane decision is when you are #2.5 way from the door? In what world would you switching at that point help anyone out in the situation? It’s just fcking up the system everyone else understands, now go on your little way, I understand how lines work, and as an added bonus, I know there are two you can choose from.
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I’ve actually seen it* quite often**.
*no, I wasn’t involved
**more than once
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The Greek place I went to the other day is really stingy with the black olives: 2 for 1 salad!!!
Black olives are the cousins of raisins.
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I just made toast with PB and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar (which really belongs in the happy thoughts thread).
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It’s not me! I returned my car on time!
Next time I go to Maui I’ll wait to buy sunscreen at the Costco there.
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I am getting an error when attempting to cancel a subscription. The app and website are both giving errors. Sending an email to customer service produced a response of “follow these instructions to cancel,” which is what I tried originally. I will be absolutely furious if this doesn’t get canceled by 8/7, which is the date the next month is charged.
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Went looking for an actuarial paper. Not on the CAS website. Come to find out, it’s not a CAS paper; it’s from the American Statistical Association.
Contact the ASA, give them the specific title and author and the publication in which it was printed and the year. Yes, they can find it and get me a copy, no charge.
Get an email an hour later. 2 PDFs, one page each, like someone literally scanned it at a copier, and it’s clearly not the entire paper.
Write back noting it’s not the entire paper, there have to be more pages. Response back is “we’ll need to know which pages this paper is on to get them all for you. Oh, and we won’t be back in the office until August 12.”
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Would a university library have back issues?
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Or possibly even the main downtown branch of the public library.
The local grocery store is already putting out Halloween candy, and it’s still July!
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Eat early, eat often.
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It might, but I’d guess we’re talking major university. Probably not something at a local public library, even in a semi-major city.
I checked my city’s public library and they have AMSTAT News going back about 10 years. In order to actually access the articles I have to (locate and) input my library card number which was more effort than I was willing to expend, but it looks like they have it, at least relatively new-ish ones.