A friend of mine told me a couple of years ago that he had never eaten, even tried, a single shrimp until he started dating his wife about 25 years ago. That would make him 40 the first time he had shrimp. I was astounded, to put it mildly, in Toledo, just about everyplace that isn’t a fast food place has fried shrimp…

I lived in Las Vegas from ‘75 to ‘82, and the first Thanksgiving I was working at a gas station at night, and it was just miserable. We pumped the gas there, and by about 2am (12am start of shift), I was muttering about every damn car that came in because I would barely stop shaking from the last one I had to fill up.…

Back in 2000, I started working at my present job, and I worked alone most nights, and my main complaint was the damn music they had playing. At first, it was loud enough that people I was talking to on the phone could hear it, and after I complained for several weeks about it, they dropped the volume down to the…

My main beef with the self scans is the blast level beep almost all of them have when you scan something. If an old deaf guy like me flinches at every beep, it’s no wonder I see lots of babies and little kids start crying as soon as mom scans her first item. I muttered, “Turn that shit down!” to the attendant at…

I only have had experience in Chicago and agree, not good. Las Vegas was awful when I lived there from ‘75 to ‘82, but I don’t know if it’s gotten worse or better, my friends there disagree about that.

A family friend of ours had her oldest daughter doing everything. Piano lessons, she was OK, tap dancing (Just amazingly bad at it, so bad her grandfather told her “You really stink!”), soccer, gymnastics (worse than tap dancing), chess club, debate club, some sort of tutoring thing (she was the tutor). At the end of…

I don’t care about F1 at all, but if they had put Funny Cars and Top Fuel on the strip, as they talked about years ago, I would be there at all cost.

I’ve had both, and the extended cab, with either 3 or 4 doors, wins hands down. My main complaint, comfort wise with my just awful ‘77 Dodge Power Wagon, was I needed about an inch of seat travel backwards to be “perfect”. It still had the greatest seat ever, IMHO, but even after I swapped out the buslike stock…

There used to be a Challenger with the greatest paint I’ve ever seen around here. It was a Candy Apple that’s pretty close to the Mazda color, with a ton of metalflake in it. It was , IMHO, the best paint I’ve ever seen, and I’m an old guy. The first time I saw it was on a really great sunshiny Sat morning and when I…

As soon as I started reading the article, I thought, “Budget”. They totally ruined a trip I was on 43 years ago, and they just keep on making my putting them at the top of the “scumbag rental companies” list the correct thing to do. Them screwing me up back in 1980 has cost them a fair chunk of business over the…

One of my favorite trick or treat things to get is the little bags of Fritos this old lady in our neighborhood gave out for several years. Her family owned a candy and snack distributing company and she always said, “Everyone gives out the same candy every year”. I would trade my friends the stuff I hated, like the…

I had Geico in 1981 on my awful ‘77 Dodge Power Wagon. I was 25, and had my only accident to that point in ‘73, and had one speeding ticket for 10 over (35 in a 25 zone 2 years before, I could barely see “25" painted on the street). I bought a ‘79 Trans Am, and Geico cancelled me. It was a huge hassle to get coverage…

The only thing I know of that gives me heartburn is a banana eaten right before I lay down. WOW. It’s really bad. 3 or 4 Tums right before it and it’s no problem. 

If I was allergic to peanuts, it would be horrible. No Jif, no Spanish peanuts would just be awful. I knew one person growing up who was allergic to them and felt so bad for her. I’m allergic to all kinds of green stuff, like grass (take a blade of grass and drag the broken end across my skin and it looks like about…

You sound like a friend of mine, everything gives him heartburn. The doctor told him to take “some Tums” before he ate. How many does he take? One. I told him, “You deserve the heartburn!”. Fried stuff, fruit and juice, salty stuff, it seems that everything causes him to have it. He can only eat about half an order of…

Baby Ruth’s were always a “trade for something better” candy when I got them on Halloween. I don’t remember ever getting a Payday, even when the people were handing out full sized candy bars. But if I had gotten one, it would have been traded off too. I love peanuts, but I’m not really a fan of Snickers and similar…

Uh...no. Not at all true. I’ve done this a few times.

Some of the pics he puts up are really badly underexposed, so the food looks even worse than it actually does, and people still give him thumbs up on it and say how great it looks. At least he posts a lot of different stuff, he’s not stuck on one place like In N’ Out. Even when he posts food from a place I like, I…

Ranch is one of the forms of Devil’s Jizz.

I have a long time friend who started posting pics of his food, even awful looking burgers from fast food places, as soon as he got a phone with a camera on it. Seems like I’m the only one of his group of friends who doesn’t give him a thumbs up, or a comment like, “ Wow! Looks great!”. Half the stuff he posts I…