Huh. I mostly get annoyed when I'm asked for ID. Which happens a lot because of the sig wearing off thing. I mean, if I was buying a big screen and 7 playstations, sure. But I'm sure if I'm using a stolen credit card I'm going to be buying something other than a couple of shirts off the clearance rack or some cough syrup and toilet paper. It'd be a pain if someone stole my card, for sure. But the liability issue has gotten so much more pro-consumer in past years anyway that I'd as soon take my chances.

I hate this pain management guy. Sure he's cute & charming, but I still hate him.

The only thing that annoyed me lately was all the paperwork involved in buying cold medicine. I know it's the law and Walgreens has to do it, but really. Can I make meth with one bottle of cough syrup and 1 box of dayquil? And yet, I had to show ID, and give my name and address which they had to record in a book. I'm standing there with a huge box of Kleenex and cough drops. I think I'm using the medicine because I'm sick.

re: Indigo Children

Ms. Jackson compared people who do not recognize indigos to Muggles, the name used by J. K. Rowling in the Harry Potter books to describe ordinary people who have no connection with magic. "I would say 90 percent of the world is like the Muggles," she said. "You don't talk about this stuff with them because it's going to scare them."

"Enormous eye-roll" is a fear response?

I know the P.O. won't take "See ID" as a signature. I'm rarely asked for mine. Though the one time I was asked recently, I didn't have it, which sucked.

You know there are some days when I love my job so very much. Like today, when there is a live blues band in the office. I hope they're not done yet.

Oh, I forgot to mention - I have access to my money again. So either Comcast asked my bank to drop the hold on the $, or else the actual charge never went through and my bank's time limit on a hold expired, releasing the $.

Like today, when there is a live blues band in the office.

Cool.

Today a tennant's car alarm went off, directly outside the back wall of my office.

Cool.

So very. It looks like they're being interviewed, but all their stuff is still set up, so maybe we'll get more music in a bit.

ita, insent.

The SO does the "Check ID" thing, and still doesn't get asked all that much. Our PO does take the card without a fuss, but then, we've known them for years, so... Even at the bank I get fussy when I get asked for id, because I'm so used to knowing the tellers socially. It's a small town.

Meth is such a huge freaking problem out here, I'd rather see everything possible done to discourage it. I don't mind the Sudafed inconvenience. It's a horrible drug. (eta: Err, meth, that is, not Sudafed. Sudafed is a perfectly normal drug.)

Yay for the blues band. When I was working out of our apartment in Wichita, there was a blues bar just down the road, and I used to be able to open up the windows and listen to their sound check while I was working. If they were any good, then I would know to go to the bar that night. There were several other venues with live bands within walking distance, too, so you could stick your head out the window and decide which direction to go. It was fun. I miss that.

Thank goodness you've got your money back, tommyrot. That whole thing was just ridiculous.