Yes, as someone who lives in deer central, slowing the fuck down is deer avoidance technique #1. I cannot tell you how many people go screaming down country roads near me and then are shocked when they can’t react in time to avoid the deer. 

“If you want a friend, get a dog.” -Carl Icahn

If you’re open, you’re open. Schedule the deli staff until 10;15, 10:30, whatever you need to close/ clean the deli. I’ve worked retail where the closing staff schedule went 15 mins- 1/2 hour after closing. Hell, I worked somewhere that didn’t lock the door until 5 minutes after the closing time.

Thanks for mentioning scrambled eggs. A log of folks say you cannot do it. Well, I microwave scrambled eggs several times a week. Always nice and moist. It’s all in the timing if you want moist, fluffy eggs. You can’t just toss them in there and push the minute button a few times. You will only get very dry eggs if…

Microwaves don’t heat up water molecules. Microwaves cause any polar molecules to spin which in turn creates heat. This is not just water.

I don’t use a microwave b/c I tend to hate the way the results taste. Scrambled eggs in the microwave can be amazing though.

If we could get past the fear of irradiating food, we could probably save millions on food borne illness and wasted food.   Alas critically thinking skills are lacking.

The squirrels in my yard decapitated my fake owl...

No disagreement here, but I will say that this is a management problem. The store ought to have the deli hours posted and have schedules that give enough time for clean-up afterwards.  A lot of restaurants do this.

Nope. If you want to close at 9:30, close at 9:30. If you want to close at 9:55, close at 9:55. If you close at 10pm and I show up at 9:55, you’re still open.

Counterpoint: As a GenXer, I frequently (more often than not in fact) didn’t do homework either. When people passed their work forward, I just handed the pile to the front without contributing to it.

Kids have been “not doing homework” for as long as there has been homework.

How very 10-year-old of you.

So managers and people who work in jobs with high turnover rates are able to identify and directly communicate tasks to one another in a group. Additionally so customers may complain/compliment to management about a worker/experience. Basically they are for everything but the customer directly addressing the worker by…

as an indicator of who to blame if something goes to shit

I have an electric leaf blower.  It’s great.  I opted for corded as I have plenty of outlets and extension cords to get to all the parts of my yard.  The price difference was significant enough for me to pass on cordless.

Ban them nation-wide (and then world-wide) please!

Any tips for getting MY city to ban them though?

I was thinking “standing on the sidewalk outside the homes of city council members at 530 AM and just going nuts with a leafblower?

Why not ban lawnmowers?  They are just as loud.  

Cheese, wtf?

The only kind we like are Nature’s Path Buckwheat Wildberry. Slightly sweet, with the tart of the berries. You don’t even need syrup.