But, but, but ... that’s stepping outside the aura of Whole Foods!

To coin a phrase, there are mistaken people on both sides.

I thought you might clear that up somewhere in this thread.

Best wishes for your newborn and you—hang in there!

The spikes provide literal “traction” for your back while the pain they induce takes your mind off your broken spine.

So, ten years later, how’s the psych career going? (Very well, I hope.)

/s

“vague steering”

I find that to be the weirdest thing. Why use the term “plaid” for a trim option when there are no crossbarred patterns anywhere? Hey, plaid is my favorite color, but it’s a strange world where trim packages go (conceptually) from bronze to silver to gold to platinum to—plaid.

You forgot to ask how much for the privileges of adding TruCoat and an extended warranty.

Just reading your comment I could feel that you had him at “unsprung mass.”

NG units are actually official state militias that are reserve components of the federal armed forces, but operate under state authority unless they “go Title 10.” (The NG originated in colonial regiments organized on December 13th, 1636, making the Guard the oldest federal uniformed armed force in the United States an…

“More than 100 [Illinois Army National Guard members] are now ready in the Prairie State [i.e., Illinois] in case there is a violent response to the announcement about possible charges against the officers in Louisville, about 300 miles from the Windy City, the Chicago Tribune said.” — New York Post

Why have a plaid interior when you can wear it?

“Where’s the plaid?”

Sounds to me like you experienced a genuine theophany.

In a sense, you’re saying if we were to look a gift horse in the mouth, we could avoid a bunch of unwelcome veterinarian’s bills.