We sold tourist-y crap, mostly, but since we were connected to a university all of the cashiers were told explicitly that sales tax exemptions were only to be used in cases of purchases that were accompanied with a sales tax exemption form - and this usually only happened with teacher purchases.

When I worked in retail I had one customer insist that they didn’t have to pay tax on their purchase because (even though they were SHOPPING in my state) they lived in the neighboring state, which doesn’t have the same tax.

Ewwwwww. You have my sympathies. Real food onstage is the worst.

The boxed cake mixes available from grocery stores in the U.S. pretty much universally call for oil.

When you’re working a play on a budget and have a million things to do, making a cake from cake mix is the most economical choice in terms of both time and money. This actor effectively doubled the prop master’s workload, even excluding all of the time she spent trying to find a non-oil cake recipe that the actors…

Agreed. Beets taste like dirt that turns everything purple.

Jamie Layton’s story reminds me of a famous story I heard when I was working at a regional theater festival.

So....were the "Air Force" sons in Lawrence's story threatening to bomb San Francisco if this restaurant didn't give them a military discount? I'm trying figure out if they could have possibly meant anything else.

Holy shit.

I can see someone being unfamiliar with a brown bread and thinking that it was burnt, but has anyone ever seen light-colored breads toast/burn in a pattern before? Really? Other than the occasional Jesus or Virgin Mary cameo?

Also, the crust should be a delicious part of the pizza. If the crust isn't worth eating, then the pizza is not worth eating.

If it's square-cut, then that means that some slices don't have any of the crust, and why would anyone put themselves through that on purpose?!

Interestingly enough, I have also visited that hospital. I was kitten-bitten while volunteering at the animal sanctuary just outside Kanab.

I can't agree with that, but obviously there are two guys in Kanab that do.

Also, you should follow the Iron Sheik on Twitter if you haven't already.

That McDonald's in Kanab, UT. I've been to it.

Imagine how big a problem it would have been if you had married a crab!

I know. I've told him many times.

I know. Some Chinese food made him sick as a child (like, food-borne illness and hospitalization sick) and he's had an aversion to everything that could vaguely be considered Asian cuisine ever since. I keep telling him how much he's missing out on, but he just won't try it.

Also, my boyfriend constantly makes fun of me for not liking hot dogs when he has literally written off an entire continent's worth of food (Asia).