Does anyone prefer to get their change back in a bill-hammock? You know when the person at the register piles the change onto the bills and holds the bill by the two short edges?

Drives me absolutely nuts. Drive thru people are notorious for it and I've lost count of the times I've ended up with my change scattered over my lap and the floor of the car or worse on the ground outside my car.

I also hate people who stand by the card slider/cart area and rearrange their pocketbook completely, tidying their hair and itemizing tax deductions after they are rung out, preventing me from moving my cart forward and filling it and/or sliding my card.

This drive me nuts. And I tend to get paranoid about taking too long myself so I try to get everything secure, then organize it once I'm out of the aisle.

People tend not to run into me with their carts, but I often encounter pairs of people who have their carts parked side by side, blocking the aisle while they're looking at the shelves. How hard is it to move your cart past the person already stopped, and then walk back to whatever it is you want to browse over?

This is why I was so disappointed when the local grocery store stopped being 24 hours. I loved going shopping at 2 am when the only thing I had to watch out for was stockers.

Hate the hammock. Hate doing the Bump with the shopping cart behind me. Always have ATM card at the ready, and pre-swipe and punch, when I can.

Today was so very depressing. Bah. I want my officemate back already.

Guess I'll go make dinner.

I've never encountered the hammock. It sounds dreadful.

What I despise violently is when people loiter at the subway station stairs. You're on the STAIRS. You're in NEW YORK. What is WRONG with you?

Sorry, sara. Hey! You can help me. What should I get at the Sarajevo Fast Food place by my house? I don't know what any of it is.

And I realized why I give people coins on top of the bills, because I just did it multiple times -- it's because I have the money ready before they are ready, and that's how I'm holding it. I think the most successful transactions were when I kind of slid the coins off the bills into the other person's hand. I know this from a study I did.

I don't know why your interest in him makes me laugh so hard.

I totally laughed out loud on the street just now when I walked by a phone booth ad. CRISS ANGEL MINDFREAK!!! He'll freak your mind.

We captioned the pilot for this a couple of years ago and kept showing clips to each other in the office and asking in shocked tones if anyone could possibly take it seriously.

I actually prefer getting the coins on top, because I can slide the coins into the right part of my wallet without dropping the bills, but getting bills into my wallet while cupping coins in my hand is difficult and leads to dropping stuff.

Deconstruction of the next Doctor's wardrobe.

Hmm. I approve.

What I despise violently is when people loiter at the subway station stairs. You're on the STAIRS. You're in NEW YORK. What is WRONG with you?

WALK LEFT/STAND RIGHT! It's not that freaking hard, and it may save you from getting pushed down the escalator by me.

Oy.

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"Indian Railways is the responsibility of Lord Vishwakarma. So is the safety of passengers... It is His duty, not mine. I have been forced to don His mantle," Laloo said before a section of media persons at the CM house here late on Thursday evening.

The minister said he is merely a medium of the God... He has put a picture of Lord Vishwakarma in his office. "I keep telling Him whatever accident or incident takes place on the tracks is His responsibility," the rail minister said.