I got 3 of the lady’s drink orders, then looked at the last woman of the 4, waiting for her beverage choice. After several beats, I suggested “Just water?” She looks back at me mortified, and says in a panicked tone, “DON’T YOU KNOW WHAT FISH DO IN WATER?!”
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I don’t know. Thanks to that algorithim, on the AV club I now know there’s a microparticulate filter mask that looked like it was knitted by a tribe high in the Andes (article about Burning Man). I didn’t know I wanted it, but better to be safe than sorry when civilization inevitably collapses. Plus it’ll keep your…
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My favorite was someone who pulled that about her HUSBAND. Who was just an effing professor at the very large university in town. But they were “well known for their dinner parties” that one of our owners had apparently even attended (which I think was supposed to make me feel impressed, but as the owners were…
“[Business Name], please hold” / “(Thanks for calling) [Business Name], please hold while I finish helping another customer”
My old favorite brewery/distillery in the world (they jumped to a different state, bah) did that for me once - glass just slipped out of my hand in slow motion. No questions, just put another in my hand and told me I didn’t have to help clean. A bartender also comped me drinks for an entire night when I forgot my…
I do as often as I can, because I find taking a certain amount of cash out from the credit union makes it a LOT easier to budget than swiping my card all the damn time. My Dad does the same about 90% of the time. Come to think of it, my Aunt (long time employee of a small restaurant) and Uncle (owns his own business)…
My Mom isn’t THAT bad, thankfully, but very annoyingly particular (not seated by the bathrooms, or the kitchen, or the front door, bacon crisp but not burnt, etc). My Dad/Brother/I have *perfected* the “seriously, we know it’s fucking stupid, we apologize, trust us that we will be absolutely no trouble and will tip…
I pass by one now 6 times I week and I still don’t know, or really care. But they picked a pretty stupid location in this town (if they succeed, more power to them, but I don’t think I’ve seen anything make it past 2 years...)
I’ve never seen one, but at some point I must have known they were a thing since I still to this day only store metal and Pyrex pans in that drawer JUST IN CASE since they can handle the heat. I think I got that weirdness from my mother, come to think of it. Heaven help you if you put away a plastic-handled frying pan…
BS.
Sheikh’s pleasure yacht?
Same!
1) I want to go to there.
We must move forward, not backward.
I don’t have kids, and breaking out the Gunter and BMO stuffed animals my brother bought me a few years ago for Christmas has been a godsend when friends bring their kids over for a visit. I don’t get parents who aren’t into it, unless they never really bother to stop and watch it with their kids and think it’s just…
I get that song stuck in my head on a regular basis.
BMO is so pretty and smart!
My brother and I sat down and made my Dad watch certain carefully selected episodes (my brother did the same to me to get me into it), and now he’s into it as much as we are.