4. “We booked an excursion to a water park but no-one told us we had to bring our own swimsuits and towels. We assumed it would be included in the price”
When I was a teenager, we used to hang out at this coffee shop that would put comment cards for complaints and suggestions on the table, and we'd make a point of filling them out with constructive criticism every time we went. Things like, "All the forks had the same number of tines. We found it tedious." and "Sometimes, my french fries are served on the right side of the plate, and other times, they are on the left. I feel like it means something, but I can't figure out what." Or we'd complain about completely unrelated things like the weather or ask advice on different types of hats for different shaped heads.
I'm not saying that's what it is, but I am saying that I would have done that.
Lisa doesn't carry her cell phone around when she is in the house! Especially since that time when all of Matlock's coworkers got the idea it was his cell phone and they'd call looking for him and it would make everyone all angry and confused, and I just stopped answering it as behavioral modification.
ETA: Weird. I can see the message sitting there but cannot open it for some reason.
Well, I also have video but cannot figure out how to post it. The Kitty just watched calmly the whole time this baby possum was eating her food. The same kitty that stalked and caught a bunny one time.
Also Hubby and I were outside the other night, and we heard a familiar creaking and cracking in the woods across the road and then all the power lines sparked and one fell down. It wasn't just a branch this time, a whole 40 ft pine tree fell down. I had to call the sheriff's dept to come direct traffic and everything
Oh, dang, guys. I totally got busted today. TLM's BFF came over and I was talking to him and he says, "Uh, nice hoody, Lisa," because I am wearing this hoody I found a long time ago with pictures of guitars and flames on it that I didn't know where it came from. I could swear I'd already asked him if it was his before I coopted it, but I guess not. So I am like Oh, you can have it back! and I start to take it off when I realize that underneath it, I am wearing an Ani DiFranco shirt that I also found and didn't know where it came from, although I suspect it was maybe my brother's. I'm pretty sure that the pants I was wearing were legitimately purchased, though, like I was some kind of Real Housewife or some shit.
Anyways, the guy said I should keep it, and also I'm probably going to build him a computer, and my standard labor charge is one hoody with flames and either skulls or guitars, depending on market prices.
Also, he's currently doing commercial plumbing, and was saying that he never wants to do residential work, because the residential plumbers he's met have all been giant dicks who talk all kinds of nasty shit about women and he doesn't want to be around that sort of thing.
He is a very good boy and I am proud of him.
Also, I would like to add that I am mad at livius drusus because now I am bonering over a bunch of office supplies because of her, which I was very specifically and pointedly trying to not do. Oh, god, they have these little notepads that are perforated on a grid so you can tear off tiny little sections in the size and shape of your choosing! And these ones that are little spiral memo books that snap open and shut so you can replace and move around the pages, and the covers say "Twinkle aqua drops jumped into your life&file" on them. hnnnng hnnnnng.
PS: I did finally get that message open, and would like go on record as AWWWWW!
When I was a wee lad, the family of my best friend had a gray cat. Joan (the Mom) would go out each morning to set a bowl of cat food on the front step for the cat.
I should mention that Joan isn't entirely conscious until she's had a cup or two of coffee.
So I was visiting one morning and Joan stumbled out to feed the cat. She took a bit longer than seemed necessary, but eventually came back in. As she was pouring her first cup of coffee, she mumbled something about how she had been petting the cat, which is why she'd taken so long.
After a few minutes, as the caffeine began to circulate through her system, Joan suddenly sat up and said, "Wait a minute ..."
We went to the front door and looked out at the front step. There, calmly eating the cat food was a large gray opossum. Apparently, it had been content to let a groggy human scratch it behind the ears in exchange for some yummy cat food.
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Once, in a Zoology class I was teaching, I mentioned that there are plenty of fish that can survive out of water for extended periods of time, and even breathe air. Some even come out of the water and roam around on land in search of food.
One of my students, a native Floridian, piped up that she was quite familiar with the phenomenon. She said that on rainy nights, Walking Catfish (Clarias batrachus) would sometimes show up on her family's doorstep and eat the cat food out of the cat's bowl.
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Oh, sorry. That's the voice activation feature. It just figures when it hears farting sounds, that means you.
Seriously, I have no idea why my butt is so lonely these days, but I've had more buttdials in the past month or whatever it's been than I'd had in the previous 20 years.
She said that on rainy nights, Walking Catfish (Clarias batrachus) would sometimes show up on her family's doorstep and eat the cat food out of the cat's bowl.
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"Her eyes in certain light were violet, and all her teeth were even. That's a rare, fair feature: even teeth. She smiled to excess, but she chewed with real distinction." - Eleanor of Aquitaine
A message for pea's butt: fax that possum pic into a post stat please thank you.
A message for pea: where exactly are these little notepads perforated on a grid so I can tear off tiny little sections in the size and shape of my choosing and these spiral memo books that snap open and shut so I can replace and move around the pages with covers that say "Twinkle aqua drops jumped into your life&file" on them?
YOU GET IN LINE I'M STILL WAITING FOR MOAR ABDORABLE PUPPY AND KITTY AND NOW THAT IT'S NATIONAL PIBBLE AWARENESS MONTHS ALSO PIBBLE PICTURES FROM ALL WHO HAVE PIBBLES IN THIS PLACE WHICH IS ALOT OF PEOPLE.
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how peas always butt dials.
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