Yes, this. The artificial slowness of the self-checks is a PITA if you’re reasonably competent.

Sing it!

Also, little-known fact: The checkouts can be set to be faster or slower depending on what corporate thinks the customers in a particular store require. I worked in retail grocery for over a decade and one of my great frustrations about using self-check is that in some stores they are horribly sloooow, so much…

Plus, when stores don’t hire baggers, some of those labor savings get passed on to the customer

I've bought a ton of stuff from Woot over the years and I've never gotten anything I needed to send back. From what I've read, if it's actually broken, they'll refund you the return shipping cost but you're on the hook if you just decide you don't want it.

I've bought a ton of stuff from Woot over the years and I've never gotten anything I needed to send back. From what…

Some years ago, I worked as the office manager for a chain restaurant location. Occasionally, I got “volunteered” to help out in the kitchen or on the floor (silly me, I thought I had gotten out of those jobs and moved into something where I stayed clean and didn’t get sore feet) by the store manager who was an epic…

Congrats on your acceptance! Go, you!

You’re on the side of the angels. Well done, you!

Ex-Boyfriend needed to spend some time in my house/car. My kids learned when they were still in single digits that the rule is, “Driver picks the music, passengers STFU about it.” To be fair, this bites me in the ass sometimes, too, because my husband’s taste in music is often indifferent while I’m highly opinionated…

My teacher encouraged discussing relationships, too. Plus she was pregnant and she told us it was unplanned (she was married, though, so that made it un-scandalous.) This was in the U.S. but it was 40 years ago, which goes to show how far we’ve regressed during that time. *sigh*

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Don't want it? Don't buy it. Otherwise, it appears that as of now, 363 readers disagree with you and put their money…

Hot pastrami on a toasted garlic bagel with cheddar cheese and spicy mustard.

Well said!

In a long-ago job, I used to score those kinds of tests. There actually is a result that says, essentially, “The candidate has sussed out the test so don’t hire him.”

Wikipedia is not a source of quality information. I love open source software, but an open source dictionary is intrinsically flawed.

My voice came with a name: Mom.

Method: Tapering off, mostly

Oddly enough, when I went on Wellbutrin for depression, it was the only time I craved cigarettes after years of being smoke-free. This was well before it was re-branded as Xyban, so I just chalked it up to, “Huh. That’s weird.”

Yeah, the Ava code didn't work last week either.

Yeah, the Ava code didn't work last week either.

Yeah, I totally had to check the date yesterday when I saw the Amazon Dash Button.