Quite often, I tell them to put the teabag in the cup first, and then the water, which they then proceed to completely ignore.
She just... she just did the math.
Kaylee ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
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.
Tom Scola - Mar 03, 2006 5:50:01 am PST #1121 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Sean K - Mar 03, 2006 5:51:54 am PST #1122 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Quite often, I tell them to put the teabag in the cup first, and then the water, which they then proceed to completely ignore.
Talk about living dangerously. People take their tea seriously. Somebody could lose an arm that way.
Trudy Booth - Mar 03, 2006 5:53:03 am PST #1123 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
My one doorman has started close-talking. And today held me up as I was trying to LEAVE FOR WORK (you know those conversations you can't extract yourself from without feeling rude? and to someone you'll see every day?)
I may need to invent a boyfriend.
sarameg - Mar 03, 2006 5:54:25 am PST #1124 of 10001
My email seems to be backed up by 2.5 hours. Which is annoying enough, but spam is still being delivered (to a trashbox) efficiently.
Per usual, not a peep from IT about the problem.
Jesse - Mar 03, 2006 5:55:52 am PST #1125 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
ICompletelyON, Stephen Colbert was brilliant as usual last night. "Those cowboys sure admired each other's pistols!" Slashtastically delicious.
And Montgomery Clift!!
JZ - Mar 03, 2006 5:57:00 am PST #1126 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
From upthread a bit: One really, really nice thing about being a regular at a coffee-getting place? If you're unexpectedly short on cash, "your" cashier/barista/whoever will just wave you on through and say "Catch up on it next time." Or, anyhow, mine would, out in Berkeley. It was lovely.
Gudanov - Mar 03, 2006 5:58:35 am PST #1127 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Which is annoying enough, but spam is still being delivered
Come rain, hail, or snow the spam always gets delivered.
§ ita § - Mar 03, 2006 5:59:59 am PST #1128 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
When I order at Starbucks (which is rare) I do just use small, medium, and large. Can't be arsed to remember their words for it, and I have no patience to try.
sarameg - Mar 03, 2006 6:00:36 am PST #1129 of 10001
will just wave you on through and say "Catch up on it next time."
We did that in the bagel shop. We also had a regular who was a cop who apparently had a very um, stinky patrol. He'd stand in the doorway and call out his order because "I really can't inflict this on y'all " so we'd run around the counter to him. He was very funny.
tommyrot - Mar 03, 2006 6:04:15 am PST #1130 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
When I order at Starbucks (which is rare) I do just use small, medium, and large. Can't be arsed to remember their words for it, and I have no patience to try.
Yeah. Their insistance on using their own words annoys me.
ION, according to this if you make a much larger credit card payment than usual, the Department of Homeland Security must be notified: [link]
They were told, as they moved up the managerial ladder at the call center, that the amount they had sent in was much larger than their normal monthly payment. And if the increase hits a certain percentage higher than that normal payment, Homeland Security has to be notified. And the money doesn't move until the threat alert is lifted.