Handsome brooding vampire guy has to swoop in all sensitive mouth and overhanging forehead. How 'bout leaving some scraps for the homely-looking fellows who don't turn evil when they get some?

Doyle ,'Life of the Party'


Natter 70: Hookers and Blow  

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.


le nubian - Jul 18, 2012 6:35:24 pm PDT #14579 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

So, I got a big box delivered about 2 weeks ago. It has been sitting in my hall because it is non-perishable and while I thought I needed it 2 weeks ago, I have only been able to get to it now.

I unpacked the box and made sure my items were there and what do I see at the bottom of the box?

Two small envelopes that were next day delivery to OTHER PEOPLE!

!!!

Both were going to areas of the big hospital and looked like diagnostics and/or test results!

So I called FedEx and told them that I found packages addressed to other people in my box. What should I do?

She asked for the tracking numbers, which I gave her, and she said: "they have been looking for those packages" and I replied, "I bet" (these were next day, Saturday morning delivery for July 6th).

I told her I would bring them to my mailbox place tomorrow morning before noon. She said that is fine. I actually would have dropped them off at the hospital if they wanted me to. It makes me nervous that some poor souls have been waiting for test results and FedEx fucked up this badly.


javachik - Jul 18, 2012 6:40:34 pm PDT #14580 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

I've nothing against the prayer, and certainly nothing against being closed on Sundays. Hell, I actually wish more places were closed on Sundays for the sake of the workers and to just quiet ourselves down for a day.

But sending money to pro "family values" anti-equality organizations? Yeah, no thanks. But it's not as though anything on their menu would appeal to me, anyway.


Dana - Jul 18, 2012 6:43:14 pm PDT #14581 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

I love Chik-Fil-A, and it makes me very sad.


Nora Deirdre - Jul 18, 2012 6:45:30 pm PDT #14582 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

I'm with java on this one. It's not the Christianity that is problematic for me, it's the bigotry and discrimination.


§ ita § - Jul 18, 2012 6:50:39 pm PDT #14583 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Sometimes when I was unexpectedly admitted to the hospital, Kat would bring me a care package with clothes and trashy magazines and a toothbrush and at least once a baby, but she didn't leave the baby. I'm wearing the cherry pie pajama top she gave me right now because it's not constricting and comfortable when I have a bad headache and it made me think of that.

She's very nice.


Liese S. - Jul 18, 2012 6:55:20 pm PDT #14584 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Aww. She's a good'un, our Kat.


Kat - Jul 18, 2012 6:59:56 pm PDT #14585 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I totally would have left the baby, but I fear he'd make the headache worse not better. Is that hospital even still a hospital, ita?


§ ita § - Jul 18, 2012 7:06:32 pm PDT #14586 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Somehow they're trying to get money out of me without still being a hospital. Needless to say I'm paying them as slowly as I can manage because they don't exist, and maybe they'll realise that before I finish.

I guess he was in the portable stage, but not reliably quiet? Still cute though. I will give him that. Your kids are consistent charmers.

The cherry pie top does not go with the hot pink plaid pyjama bottoms, but hey. It is time to be self indulgent. And have more honey graham crackers.

And the True Lemon combined with the fizzy water makes it amazingly palatable. I'd have drunk the glass of water anyway, but I've startled myself how fast that went. I'm going to have another.


Liese S. - Jul 18, 2012 7:08:17 pm PDT #14587 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

True Lemon and fizzy water is totally like, my go-to drink at the moment. Which reminds me! I need to buy more fizz!


§ ita § - Jul 18, 2012 7:11:05 pm PDT #14588 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I have two bottles going, so I can go get a refill while one is still fizzing merrily, but I am slacking with that. Like, this week, maybe.

The drink tastes so tasty, and now that I can't find my proper juice mixes anymore--it's this or tea. All I drink at home.