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'"

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?

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.

Why?

Because I always, always drop things otherwise.

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.

Psst. Burt Reynolds writes RPS. Pass it on.

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.

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?

The world is covered with germs -- money and door handles are much nastier than a hand.

I don't know your word, Susan, but I can see myself using it a LOT.

I put my bills and my change in seperate places so I dislike the hammock. It just makes it take longer for me to get out of the next person's way. That said, at the drive-thru taco shop place, I accept that the hammock is just about the only way it is going to happen and since they also give me taquitos, I'm good with the hammock.

Mostly I just don't like people in general though.

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'"