Yeah, I’ve wondered about that - the last place I used a reservation I got the distinct impression the front-desk folks didn’t “check off” the reservation party arrived; they just sat us (we tend to be early diners so perhaps the restaurant was relatively empty).

Lol! I started up Steppenwolf, scrolled down, and started up the video in your post and they ended at the same time.

“...Like, I bet getting to toot the truck horn yesterday was a reward for being “presidential” for 3 whole days...”

“...Maybe he got a word of the day calendar”

Indeed - this reminded me totally of the early 70s and electronics fun.

“The one and only time I’ve had food poisoning we think was traced back to some rice from a Chinese takeaway...”

Bento boxes - standard lunch boxes for gajillion of Japanese (and kids like mine...) - are unrefrigerated and full of rice, among other things.

Not being Asian but being a daily rice eater, I’d say “Nope”...

In western Fairfax county (VA) the 911 operator asks “Fairfax or Loudoun county” as soon as they answer; guess closeness between counties here can cause confusion.

“...they just call 911 out of pure laziness most of the time and tie up the lines...”

“...Secure artists who choose to work with him knowing what they should know by now...”

Everyone is woe-are-we-ing budget cuts to agencies but why isn’t ANYONE discussing the increase to the Defense budget!?

“...Why would you pass along an old, unreliable car to your kid? Do you hate them...”

“...Donald Trump accused our closest Ally of gross treason and an offence that could spell war. Well who gives a fuck...”

Launch a cloud of relatively-dinky drones against the AC. Each drone has, say, a 5 kilo copper-enhanced cone charge. The only mission of the drone is to dive into the AC’s catapult areas.

This is New York Humongous Damn Skyscraper City, right?

I learned this decades ago watching Draba in the original Spartacus.

“Trump strikes me as the kind of guy who reads...”

I have no proof of it however the context of the situation (undescribed here) and the loudness of the ring and the specialist’s reaction to it made me think =at the time= that it was a fake call; I did not accuse nor joke with the specialist about it.

My wife and I met with a medical specialist (doctor). He was quite late for the appointment (because he was viewing the records/imaging for the first time that he was meeting us about). His “fake call” app/service went off after about 5 minutes because he forgot to reset it.