I stopped going to a regular place in this neighborhood because my bagel guy attempted to get chatty.
Same with Starbucks in my building. He's a nice guy and all, but now that I've started bringing my own I get shit from the barista for never going in. Thankfully there's two more Starbucks on the block for when I have to get coffee.
I know more than one person who regularly gives a fake name in this kind of situation, for one reason or another.
I'm not sophisticated enough to give a fake name, but I almost always give the name of the other person when there's two of us. Not that it's so hard to pronounce, but it's so easy to mishear. (File this under 'Names, More conversation about our.")
So, what some people will do for high-speed internet access...
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I always give a fake name (usually Elizabeth, my middle name) when ordering pizza, etc. Or my husband's. My real name never works.
I would use my middle name, but it's pronounced "Extra Mayo"...
Actually "Love Monkey" may not be cancelled after all.
Oh, that would be good! I liked it.
Speaking of names, my mother emailed me (and my sister, brother and husband) last night to suggest we name the Armadillo after my father. Whom she divorced acrimoniously in 1982, and with whom neither I nor any of my siblings has a close, or in some cases even good/any relationship, and who had a name I wouldn't wish on my kid (Toby). AND whose name would clash horribly with the Armadillo's last name.
My mother is nuts.
Not for the first time, flea, your mother is insane.
Wow, flea, that is weird!
Mothers tend to be nuts, don't they?
A conciliatory move, or something? An attempt, even without involving him in person, to include him in the family?
Dude, maybe this story has already been posted, but whoa...
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The AP has a video of the briefing about Katrina that Bush listened to, and he tells the local officials that the feds will be there for them right away. I supposed he probably believed that, but he sure as heck didn't do anything to make it happen. Also, Mike Brown doesn't seem as clueless as he has been made out to be.
I haven't seen much about this story in the regular news, but then my news in mostly cnn.com and I might have just missed it.
Seeing the video is more of a whoa factor than reading about it. They knew the levees were in trouble and they knew that the superdome was likely to become a secondary disaster.
