My annoyance of the day: I got on the elevator at my office building. A guy got on at the same time. He pressed his button, then remained standing literally six inches away from the button panel. I wasn't really caffeinated enough to form sentences yet, so I reached around him to press the button for my floor. He leaned forward so that his stomach brushed against my hand, then looked down and smirked at me. Freak.
I'd rather stay home and watch television. It's often funnier than killing stuff.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter 58: Let's call Venezuela!
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.
Hil R. - Apr 08, 2008 4:54:36 pm PDT #470 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
amych - Apr 08, 2008 4:56:23 pm PDT #471 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Hil, eww.
Jesse - Apr 08, 2008 4:58:20 pm PDT #472 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
You overtipped? I would have undertipped. I think that she brought back the five so that you would leave the whole thing. Me, I would have left everything but the five.
It was just the five! I just had one one-dollar bill in my wallet, so I couldn't leave that. Eh. Maybe I'll become a regular there and Crystal will love me forever.
CaBil - Apr 08, 2008 5:02:02 pm PDT #473 of 10001
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
I miss Firestar. In the midst of the Marvel Comic's Civil War event, where heroes were forced to register and give up her secret IDs to the government, she hanged up her mask and effectively retired.
Though there are rumors she may be in one of upcoming X-Men teams post Messiah Complex (a completely different massive crossover event)...
Tom Scola - Apr 08, 2008 5:12:11 pm PDT #474 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
I miss Firestar. In the midst of the Marvel Comic's Civil War event, where heroes were forced to register and give up her secret IDs to the government, she hanged up her mask and effectively retired.
Maybe she could cut a deal with Mephisto so that it retroactively never happened.
JenP - Apr 08, 2008 5:59:13 pm PDT #475 of 10001
Yuck, Hil.
Sean K - Apr 08, 2008 6:06:13 pm PDT #476 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Eeeeeew, creepy, Hil.
Kat - Apr 08, 2008 6:15:35 pm PDT #477 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
ok, Hil, that man? he's full of yuck. Seriously? What is wrong with people?
Steph L. - Apr 08, 2008 6:16:07 pm PDT #478 of 10001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
And remember -- we SAY NOTHING TO THE COPS!!!
We haven't even knocked over any major financial institutions, but already we have a Code of Honour.
We should come up with really kicky outfits, too.
But then I started talking to myself about how she needs the $2 more than I do,
I know this is about a waitress, but it reminded me that I got panhandled IN MY OWN DRIVEWAY yesterday. And not by The Boy, which would have been okay, since he lives there and I probably owe him monies of some kind, like rent or utilities or here's-some-money-for-eating-the-last-of-the-Oreos.
But no. As I pulled into my driveway, there were 2 people walking down the sidewalk (this is a standard neighborhood with average houses, dogs, kids, etc. -- your basic middle America), and once I stopped the car and opened my door to get out, the woman walked up the driveway and started talking to me, introducing herself and asking me if I wanted to buy a phone she had in her bag. (Uh, no.) When I politely declined, she asked me for money for bus fare.
I gave her a couple of dollars, because really, I had it (I often don't have actual cash in my wallet, thanks to the wonders of the debit card), and I didn't need it in the near future (i.e., I wasn't planning on buying anything in the next day or so), and my feeling is, if giving someone $2 isn't going to hurt me financially, I'm going to give it to them. I choose to believe that, at least some of the time, whoever panhandles me is going to use the money for a meal or bus fare. If it doesn't bankrupt me to do it, maybe it'll do some good, if only for one person in 10.
(I realize that if I lived or worked in an actual city, an actual thriving downtown, I'd have to sharply revise my panhandling rules. I get that.)
But even though I gave her $2, and it didn't bankrupt me, I'm still flabbergasted, not by the fact that I was panhandled, but that I was panhandled IN MY OWN DRIVEWAY.
It should be a slogan -- Northside: No, no, don't get up. We'll bring the panhandlers to your door!
tommyrot - Apr 08, 2008 6:22:35 pm PDT #479 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.
That reminds me of living on the south side of Minneapolis, where the panhandlers urinate on your bushes and then pass out from drinking too much generic mouthwash. Or the hookers give blowjobs on the porch of the house next door.
OK, each of those things only happened once in 3 years....
eta: There should be a PSA for panhandlers: Urinating on a guy's bushes makes him less likely to give you money....
eta²: And then there's the panhandlers who walked up to our car as a group of us got out, and then tried to pick up our suitcases (apparently to carry them to the door so we'd give them money). Um, no.
Oh, and there's the guy who stole my mail and demanded $10 before he'd give me the check he took....