I think this is to limit hand contact with customers, and (presumably) cut down on germ transfer.
But the germs are on the money! Money is filthy.
Zoe: Yeah? Thought you'd get land crazy that long in port. Wash: Probably, but I've been sane a long while now, and change is good.
'Shindig'
Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Cashmere - Aug 01, 2005 10:10:06 am PDT #4653 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
Susan W. - Aug 01, 2005 10:10:26 am PDT #4654 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
DH wants me to ask the hivemind this question:
There's a word for the misguided belief that life was better when you were younger and that things today don't hold a candle to the wonderful things of yesterday.
Example: Despite the fact that Kate's brand new fridge was larger, more energy-efficient, lighter, and cheaper than 40-year-old icebox it replaced, she spent an hour in the lunchroom prattling on about how much better her the old fridge was and how long it lasted and how modern fridges are meant to only last five years because they're built by cheap foreign labor where her old fridge was built by hardworking Americans. After an hour, Rafael finally shut her up by pointing out her Dodge Colt was imported entirely from Japan.
I know it ends in -ism. That's all I remember.
P.M. Marc - Aug 01, 2005 10:10:45 am PDT #4655 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I like the hammock.
Also, pass the brain bleach after I share the pain from Salon's gossip section:
His string of failed romances has made Burt Reynolds wonder if he might have been better off gay, the '70s star told Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show" last week. Who would he take for a lover? None other than country superstar Willie Nelson. Reynolds said, "Willie ... is just about the nicest man I've ever worked with in my life, and when we worked together, I thought ... if [we'd hooked up], we'd still be 'happily together'"
§ ita § - Aug 01, 2005 10:10:54 am PDT #4656 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think this is to limit hand contact with customers, and (presumably) cut down on germ transfer.
No way I'm dirtier than the money. Which they just handled when I gave it to them.
eta:
I like the hammock.
Why?
Madrigal Costello - Aug 01, 2005 10:12:17 am PDT #4657 of 10002
It's a remora, dimwit.
My annoyance is more with the customers behind me who shove the carts right into me. And if the have stroller carts or their kids in the baby seat, they shove even harder.
P.M. Marc - Aug 01, 2005 10:12:38 am PDT #4658 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Why?
Because I always, always drop things otherwise.
§ ita § - Aug 01, 2005 10:13:35 am PDT #4659 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Because I always, always drop things otherwise.
It's the flip for me -- I find the change falls off the bills easier than it falls out of my cupped hand.
shrift - Aug 01, 2005 10:19:14 am PDT #4660 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Psst. Burt Reynolds writes RPS. Pass it on.
JZ - Aug 01, 2005 10:20:05 am PDT #4661 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
My annoyance is more with the customers behind me who shove the carts right into me. And if the have stroller carts or their kids in the baby seat, they shove even harder.
People actually do that? Poke you from behind with their carts? On purpose, or just out of complete and utter cluelessness and indifference to the fact that when they go out in public they're in close proximity to other actual humans? 'Cause, either way, blargh.
DavidS - Aug 01, 2005 10:20:57 am PDT #4662 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
There's a word for the misguided belief that life was better when you were younger and that things today don't hold a candle to the wonderful things of yesterday.
Codgerism? Curmudgeonism?