That’s not so clear cut. Cops get their fur up real fast if it looks like you could have pulled over already. Anything you say after that sounds like an excuse, not rationale. If they don’t want to stand exposed in a narrow spot, it’s their privildge to indicate you should move.

That is exactly what I was instructed to do at an airport, a small one but policed.

Thank you for implying I’m frugal; I’ve been called many things but never that.

I guess I’m too grey to edit anymore, but I was going to add that maybe the cast of Operation Mincemeat will move some British replacements to the front of my imagination, like Jason Isaacs. I get him mixed up with Timothy Dalton (76!) but at least he’s late fifties.

With some imagination, I think it’s already been set up by Rivers of London books. You know those are going to be movies soon, about five titles if it remains popular.

The thing that affects me personally is how the low end always disappears with change. My angle has always been DiY and to seek out the least expensive options that provide optimal comfort. I try to spend less but the world seems focused on earning more.

Just me. Never polled on that one.

I’ve had most of these but never deep-fried cheese curds. Good fast food ignores national borders but I’ve never seen it in Canada. We like cheese, we’re not that far from Wisconsin. The closest might be poutine but that’s a different beast and not always put together well at greasy spoons. Deep-fried cheese curds…

Recently had a local grocery customer panel thingy gathering information along these lines—or what I assumed from between the lines—and I had two conclusions that I expressed:

Exactly, so what’s the catch that stops them from putting “graham crackers” in the name? Really just marketing? I realize they use the term “graham crackers” straight up on their web site, but if you search “graham” you get nothing under products. If you search “Honey Maid” it returns all the graham cracker variants…

Maybe somebody had a really good arm?

I’ve never had a s’more. They look interesting. Your kin are obviously more advanced than my grocery-store clerk.

I can absolutely imagine some egghead researching that milk goes bad 20% faster in the door, but so what? Do you go through your fridge daily and throw out everything that has reached a labelled best-before date? Do you hang the door open while searching?

My workplace antagonism hasn’t ebbed.

I tried Alt-Newtons once but didn’t like them. The flavour seemed watered down compared to the texture, like having too much starch or gum for body.

Yes, I knew this because they’re right beside “Honey Maid” on the grocery shelf. Ask anybody under 30 to help you find graham crackers and you’ll have them reaching for their cell phone. I have heard them called “Honey Maids.”

Good thing it wasn’t a German potato masher.

Do you mean the mower or the Trabant? I stand corrected; just looked up online that a Toro 5-reel is 55hp. That’s, like, two Beetles.

I can’t believe it was only 70hp; loved torquing steering off the light. I think I’ve driven fairway mowers with bigger numbers. Guy that bought it wanted the engine for an airplane. More fun than a GTi because I wasn’t crushed by the repair cost if I bounced it off a curb.

If you got the Suzuki it seemed faster.