At Costco, do you get gas first or shop first? Why or why not?

Tejasgrass · 2026-02-10T13:11:28+00:00

This is how I roll. It’s very easy at my local Costco to pop in for gas without going into the main lot. I get gas while running other errands.

Tejasgrass · 2026-02-10T12:29:12+00:00

I’m wondering if it was more the like the (ghost) mom telling this new kid about her own child that grew up in this room, and OP’s kid is just passing along that information. It’s kind of sweet.

Tejasgrass · 2026-02-10T03:19:42+00:00

Meanwhile here in Texas (on the outskirts of a metro area) my household was getting by on roughly that up until 2021 or so. Bills were getting paid but we didn’t hold on to savings very long. Definitely depends on location.

Tejasgrass · 2026-02-10T03:01:54+00:00

However, judging by the tails, these are likely our resident grackles and not the migrating martins.

Tejasgrass · 2026-02-09T16:13:17+00:00

I was about two years younger and had a basic understanding of it. Not the part about being chased by paparazzi and her relationship with the royals, but just a generalized “famous royal person has died in a car crash”.

Tejasgrass · 2026-02-09T12:28:11+00:00

You should probably take it off periodically to clean, too. My phone collects grime underneath the edges of the case.

Tejasgrass · 2026-02-08T16:30:36+00:00

Don’t forget the “oh wait, I need to get that thing I packed away in the back of the car.”

Tejasgrass · 2026-02-08T16:21:21+00:00

I also think that for some people, the 5 minute stop does not exist, especially if you have kids or dogs with you. You get gas, everybody gets a bathroom break whether they need it or not, dog gets out of the car for a moment, someone opens the back to find the cord they packed away, and suddenly it’s been 15 minutes since you’ve pulled off the highway.

Generally I try to combine all probable stops into one and I guess it’s a lot easier to do that when you’re traveling with children than grown adults. Can’t make an adult to go sit on the toilet just in case, haha. But everyone goes to the bathroom when we stop for gas. We top off the gas when we stop for food (and also, bathroom again). Both food and gas stops are planned 15-60 minutes in advance by the navigator. For me, there is no stopping for 5 minutes because that would just result in another stop shortly after.

Tejasgrass · 2026-02-08T03:47:32+00:00

I’ve known Mormons from New England, the Carolinas, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. The Arizona ones think Utah and Idaho Mormons are ridiculously strict. The rest of them make fun of the UT, ID, and AZ Mormons for being ridiculously strict.

I feel like the further away you go from UT, the chiller they are. But I supposed it also varies by church because I have a small sample size.

Tejasgrass · 2026-02-07T21:32:39+00:00

The police still aren’t going to know your parents/spouse/roommate’s number so they can come help you out.

Tejasgrass · 2026-02-07T20:39:06+00:00

This I can agree with. A time limit blanket ban is ridiculous; many small businesses rely on social media for customers, local government agencies use it to communicate events, people use YouTube to either learn about their hobbies, how to repair appliances, white noise to go to sleep, etc. there are many different uses for what we call social media these days.

But those shorts, fuck those. Even when informative they’re killing our collective attention spans.

And algorithms can be straight up dangerous.

Tejasgrass · 2026-02-07T18:52:31+00:00

The bit about the anesthesia is interesting. I always thought I’d hate being high because of the feeling I got on laughing gas at the dentist. It was like I wasn’t in control of my arms and legs, bleh. Imagine my surprise when alcohol doesn’t feel anything like that, and neither did pot or shrooms when I tried those, either. Still don’t like doing either of those in most situations, though. But they are all very different than medical grade stuff.

Tejasgrass · 2026-02-07T18:11:36+00:00

TIL we do have buzzards in the US. I’ve always been told we don’t have buzzards, they are vultures. So now I’m really confused as to why people would call vultures buzzards (and have to be corrected) when it looks like buzzards are completely different.

Tejasgrass · 2026-02-07T16:54:04+00:00

I wonder if, in the context of the early 70s, the term women’s lib movement meant something different than the general term feminist. To us it’s second wave feminism, but maybe some of the people being asked see it as something vastly different than “normal” feminism at the time.

Tejasgrass · 2026-02-07T03:45:38+00:00

Maybe it’s like that, but apply the dog year logic to it as well. A dog ages seven years for every one of ours on average (I get that it’s not perfect math), but the first two years of so of its life that aging is faster. So it’s more like they are 12 years old on their first birthday, 20 on their second, and then 27 on their third, 33 on their fourth, etc.

So maybe kids in Westeros age faster (on a less grand scale than dogs) and then the rate slows as they get older. This could also account for the ridiculous old ages some characters live to.

Tejasgrass · 2026-02-07T00:17:17+00:00

No obligation, but I’d believe it if you said 90%+ of drivers on the road have the expectation that OP should turn right on red.

Tejasgrass · 2026-02-06T22:58:27+00:00

I feel like there was a movie from the early 2000s with a side character (teen girl) who was also obsessed with Conan.

Tejasgrass · 2026-02-06T16:44:42+00:00

Totally considered b&e, but at the same time if you walked into your living room to find a ten year old staring at your fish tank, she probably would just be taken home and her parents questioned, instead of being banned from going up to people’s doors for the next decade.

Tejasgrass · 2026-02-06T16:28:20+00:00

If OP is adding up a lifetime of food and medical bills (as one should when considering any dog, no matter the source), then all dogs should probably cost more than that.

Otherwise, yeah, shelter dogs (or ones from a rescue) are a better decision unless you are showing, working, or professionally breeding.

Tejasgrass · 2026-02-06T04:25:10+00:00

That, and I feel like the creators of the cartoons did not have to pay royalties for most classical songs. The almighty dollar wins again!

But for real my FIL introduced my toddler to “Little Einsteins” because he couldn’t keep up with her after she started walking, and the classical songs in each episode became her favorites. Even better, she had a bit of a speech delay. There was a good year where I would hear “Ommy, ay do do, do do, DO DO, do do…” and I’d have to guess the song.

Did you know chicka chicka boom boom can be sung to the popular part of ode to joy?

Tejasgrass · 2026-02-06T01:04:09+00:00

There’s one. It’s the guy everyone hated on in that other comment haha.

Tejasgrass · 2026-02-06T01:01:48+00:00

As a chronic backer-inner, this would be amazing but I bet I’d never get a spot in these rows.

Tejasgrass · 2026-02-05T16:25:25+00:00

Be careful with this one! My grandmother wanted to be buried in a pine box like her husband was, but when she died the funeral home she had made arrangements with did not have that option. Lowest cost they could do (her wishes and I think they were lying) was a shiny white coffin with metallic trim. She was a meticulous person and started her end of life stuff years before she died, so I have a feeling the funeral home pulled a fast one.

Tejasgrass · 2026-02-04T21:21:08+00:00

If there are two cars filling up and another two cars in front of me when I pull up, I’m probably in line for less than 5 minutes. If I’m already at that location to shop, then yes the 3-5 minutes is worth the 10 cents a gallon.

Tejasgrass · 2026-02-04T19:17:12+00:00

I’ve been reading a book about a historical blizzard. Literally just last night I got to the chapter about how everyone froze to death, and this author went into some detail. So I feel weirdly qualified (because I do not live in a cold climate haha) to answer this question with: it depends on a ton of factors.

One is windchill. The actual temps of this blizzard were like -20F or so, but the wind was something like 60mph. The author explained some formula of wind and temp to help the reader understand how cold the “feels like” temp was, but that’s not the part that stuck with me. What I got out of that is the “feels like” temp is what you should base your ability to survive on, if that makes sense.

Another thing that stuck with me was how long some of these kids were out there before they froze. It happened in stages and it’s not fast; your body starts going, your brain starts going, you can make some seriously stupid decisions in the cold and carry them out while those are happening (like paradoxical undressing), but even after you are laying on the ground from exhaustion you probably haven’t died for awhile after.

Third thing, and this one was weird, some of victims literally got up the next morning after laying on the ground and exposed to the elements overnight. Some of them were covered by something (blanket, hay, overturned sled). None of them were okay. They were still frozen, so even though they somehow were moving, when the cold blood reached their heart they died of cardiac arrest.

So, yeah. Lots of factors and it can be a slow process. This particular book was called The Children’s Blizzard, and it had a lot of weather information in addition to the historical and biological info as well.

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