I hate the popcorn at the movie theaters and when I went to the movies a lot, a long time ago, I used to bring my own, and buy the bucket so they couldn’t cry about it. I did buy drinks there and sometimes Raisinettes and Junior Mints, but the popcorn bucket, even at $5 back then, was worth it. A $20 one would just…

I was so...underwhelmed when I first tried INO. It was OK, not “wow”, and I’ve never had fast food be worth more than about a 20 minute wait, which was about the wait was at Culver’s when the first one opened up here. They destroyed the business at McD’s next door, and Wendy’s was almost as bad for about 2 months. Ther…

I know someone who took Archie Bunker’s side most of the time. He just didn’t seem to understand the show, and when people goofed on him for thinking that way, he got very upset. Now he believes Nazis are left wingers, because Fox told him so. Jeez.

It’s really sad that some places just seem to forget that fries are probably the most important side on the menu. There used to be a place that made fantastic fries and sadly, it’s gone now, the fate of so many places I used to love. There was a place for many years where they made the greatest potato pancakes I’ve…

I had a friend who raved about it, so I got one. You’re being too nice about it, it was just disgusting. He was with me, so I just handed it to him, and he finished it and said, “How could you not like it?”. I realized then, he’s insane. I tried those hot fries at Wendy’s, and they aren’t much better. I don’t get the…

If it wasn’t safe, a 68 year old friend of mine wouldn’t be alive today. I’ve known him since he was 7 and I was 6, and he has always eaten soup this way. It started just because they didn’t have a microwave back then, and he didn’t want to mess with heating it up in the middle of the night (He was sleepwalking at…

At this point I’m kind of sitting there waiting for the (hopefully) whacky killings to start. And every episode, I seem to add at least one more person to my “Hope they die in a horrific way” list. Gator, Roy, Lorraine, Eye Patch, they are at the top, with Roy being the last one to go.

Between the changes they’ve made to the fries, buns (I have no idea what they did to them to make them just not taste right a long time ago), they lost me, forever. I don’t care about sauce, I just care about non-sauced burgers and fries, and once in a while, a vanilla shake.

It’s puzzling to me that ZF can make a truly great 8 speed, but the 9 speed is crap. 

Sunday mornings here are the opposite, the grocery stores and places like Sam’s Club and Costco are just slammed on Sun morning. I get off work at 8am Sun for the week, and that’s a convenient time to hit the stores on the way home. First I hit Meijer’s or Kroger, and that stresses me out, crowded as hell and idiots…

My dad would take corned beef, which was fine (but not a favorite of mine), and put it on the crappiest white bread (The super cheap store brand, he asked for it specifically) and put not one, not two, but three different kinds of mustard on it (Yellow Plochman’s, Grey Poupon, and some almost black stuff that even…

Yeah, I have a ton of Morricone’s stuff on my car’s USB stick in the “Movies and Classical” folder. I have a lot of movie music in there. 

I replaced my ‘10 R/T with an ‘18 Scat Pack, and if it was wrecked, I would buy another SP to replace it. I love the thing, dumb as it is. 

Why an instrumental (Not counting the wierd chorus stuff) needed to be sanitized, like “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” theme was what made us wonder what was up with the format. I remember the first time I had a DVD of TG,TB, & TU and a friend and I were watching it and he was shocked that the Hugo Montenegro…

I worked at our family’s Army/Navy store back about 50 years ago. My dad was the owner, along with his 2 brothers. The Manager, “Ed” was a real prize, I don’t understand how he was even hired, let alone kept on until he was 70+, but he was. One of the things that annoyed the shit out of us was his insistence on…

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.