She should have gotten the refund. I'll give her that. But calling 911 was just stupid. She could have taken this up with a manager and dealt with it on the spot or made some phone calls to someone higher up than the manager on duty. Making emergency calls over something like this is just incomprehensibly moronic.
Red Shirt just cracked me up. I don't know that even the biggest geeks in my life would be caught dead with any of these, but Red Shirt...that's just funny.
Not bad. After three years my husband can only manage to say "y'all", "ten" and "g-damn" convincingly in my Southern accent. And she certainly did better than Michelle Ryan as the Bionic Woman. :P
carye1... I don't necessarily disagree with what you are saying. We should never get so complacent that we stagnate progress in any area of science or technology.
However, I have to wonder why gadgets and convenience are the things we use to measure happiness. I'm pretty well connected. I'm married to an IT guy, so we have gadgets galore because that's his "thing". However, I could care less about those things. I don't let being overly connected stress me out. I can switch things off when I don't want to be easily accessible. Likewise, I can turn them on if I want to be. The things that define my happiness have nothing to do with the fact that I can talk to my sister on a web cam from five thousand miles away so much as the fact that I am close to my sister and the rest of my family. I have the best husband a woman could ask for, two awesome dogs, good friends, a positive outlook, and I do what I want when I want. I'm not rich, I'm not poor, but when it comes right down to it, I keep the stresses of living to a minimum by shrugging most of them off and moving on to more important things.
I agree with Byrd Brain here. This isn't a very practical design if you want to enjoy the milk with the cupcake. Sure, you can dunk cookie into the milk, but then you're stuck with cupcake all around it and hard to access.
Looks pretty, though. I'm not a huge fan of Oreos, but an Oreo cupcake sounds somewhat appealing.
Big difference between kids climbing trees and this. A baby has no control whatsoever over his safety. He is entirely dependent on his caretakers for that. I am the first person to say that kids today are soft and missing out on some of the fun and sometimes risky things I did as a kid. That is vastly different from some idiot getting behind the wheel of a car and putting themselves, their children, and other people on the road in unecessary danger.
The whole "it could be worse" attitude really misses the point. The child isn't being beaten and raped, no, but that doesn't take away the complete diregard for common sense his mother has shown. That's like saying that a serial killer isn't so bad because he donates to charity.
BenJCarter, my brother in law dropped his phone in the snow and had it exposed to sub freezing temperatures a few weeks ago. Certain functions were okay on it, and others were not. Once he warmed it up and let it dry out completely, it was as good as new. Not necessarily BS.
Backatcha Patricio! I feel for the person that just doesn't get it. I don't even like hot girls in bikinis, being a girl myself, but I celebrate all that makes us special in Florida, including that. :)
And now, I am hungry. You realize, it's nearly impossible to get gator tail, cheese grits, or fresh catfish in England, right? Gator tail is an exotic delicacy here, cheese grits a mystery, and catfish a bottomfeeder that I believe they think only the French would eat. ;)
And just to clarify my saying "letting this woman and her kids die in a fiery crash while she is breast feeding..." doesn't mean not giving them medical attention or anything unethical like that.That would be even more wrong. ;) It just means that the stupid can seal their own fate.
Actually, Dog Droppings, that would be more in line with selective breeding, which is all sorts of wrong. Natural selection would dictate letting this woman and her kids die in a fiery car crash while she is breast feeding so that her brand of stupidity dies out on its own naturally.
I'm all for preserving historic buildings, but there's nothing wrong with adding to them if you are keeping in the spirit of the period the building was built in. And if the city dragged this out at this guy's expense for two years just to turn him down, they got exactly what they deserved. I only hope that it's a sex shop of the raunchiest sort.
However, I have to wonder why gadgets and convenience are the things we use to measure happiness. I'm pretty well connected. I'm married to an IT guy, so we have gadgets galore because that's his "thing". However, I could care less about those things. I don't let being overly connected stress me out. I can switch things off when I don't want to be easily accessible. Likewise, I can turn them on if I want to be. The things that define my happiness have nothing to do with the fact that I can talk to my sister on a web cam from five thousand miles away so much as the fact that I am close to my sister and the rest of my family. I have the best husband a woman could ask for, two awesome dogs, good friends, a positive outlook, and I do what I want when I want. I'm not rich, I'm not poor, but when it comes right down to it, I keep the stresses of living to a minimum by shrugging most of them off and moving on to more important things.
Looks pretty, though. I'm not a huge fan of Oreos, but an Oreo cupcake sounds somewhat appealing.
The whole "it could be worse" attitude really misses the point. The child isn't being beaten and raped, no, but that doesn't take away the complete diregard for common sense his mother has shown. That's like saying that a serial killer isn't so bad because he donates to charity.
I think this is a great story.
And now, I am hungry. You realize, it's nearly impossible to get gator tail, cheese grits, or fresh catfish in England, right? Gator tail is an exotic delicacy here, cheese grits a mystery, and catfish a bottomfeeder that I believe they think only the French would eat. ;)