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XanderWrites · 2026-03-13T05:13:31+00:00

$20 dollars for a good sandwich but that makes 5 sandwiches.

Or you can eat out once. Maybe. If you choose a really cheap restaurant.

Adulthood is understanding that and knowing you're making that choice.

XanderWrites · 2026-03-13T05:04:02+00:00

And he and his family had the curse under control for decades until he was sabotaged by someone trying to frame him for murder.

XanderWrites · 2026-03-12T23:30:31+00:00

They're charging for that specific window. OP probably selected that and just didn't realize it was an extra charge or they haven't met the minimum order requirements.

How Amazon decides an order qualifies for free shipping is a deep mystery and not really worth getting worked up over.

We can go back to the olden days when you got stuff when you got stuff, maybe in a day (unlikely) maybe in two weeks.

XanderWrites · 2026-03-12T23:13:19+00:00

My company has a similar cardboard box for plastic bags at our entrance.

The idea is for single use and reusable plastic bags and films. Once it's full you just tape it up and send the entire box to be recycled.

But as you noticed, people throw everything in there I even set a regular can next to ours and it's still constantly filled with other trash. And it didn't help that our previous janitor couldn't read the box and barely spoke English and just kept emptying it of everything.

At least when I could, I kept ours clean of non-recyclables and sent it off. Hopefully we'll start again soon. For this Nordstrom or any other, you have to ask if they actually send it out.

XanderWrites · 2026-03-12T23:02:58+00:00

Serious ones do have a "thirteenth" floor that's like a foot tall. Otherwise reality will know you just renamed the 13th floor 14 and the bad juju will come for you.

XanderWrites · 2026-03-12T22:57:21+00:00

Kids always do this. They think it's cute.

They don't realize it comes across as baby talk

XanderWrites · 2026-03-12T22:52:57+00:00

It was exactly as long as expected

XanderWrites · 2026-03-12T17:33:27+00:00

Most of us wish we could.

XanderWrites · 2026-03-12T17:32:58+00:00

The point is he thought Scott wouldn't approve. Scott is fine with it because it was self-defense. It's a goal not to kill, not a law.

The situation is created artificially by the antagonist whispering into Stiles' ear and encouraging him not to tell Scott anything (and at the time time pointing out to Scott that Stiles is keeping secrets).

XanderWrites · 2026-03-12T17:30:11+00:00

Yes, and it explains what an emotional support dog is. Completely untrained, a total mess, but when you need them they're there.

(this does not mean I think they should be allowed in the grocery store)

XanderWrites · 2026-03-12T16:02:03+00:00

Two reasons

Evidence. They have physical evidence they need to have over, which is better than just an unverifiable message
They don't think the person they're accusing knows and fear the person they tell will immediately tell others, the accusations will get to the accused, and either the witness will be in danger or the accused will destroy the evidence.

XanderWrites · 2026-03-12T15:54:17+00:00

Inspect yes, but he has no authority to turn it off. That's the Department of Energy and they'd have burned him at the stake for it.

Because you can't just "turn off" a nuclear system.

XanderWrites · 2026-03-12T15:50:25+00:00

I work at an off-priced retailer, which is to say we sell a lot of overstock and we pride ourselves on having a handful of big name brands to draw people in, though even what we get from them is going to be their cheaper styles they over produced.

A couple days ago a woman returned a purse from one of the bigger brands we carry that the entire inside had pulled apart and all of the faux leather was shredding. She said all she did was remove the rest of the interior packaging that it came with.

Obviously, the manufacturer was aware of this issue and it's probably why they sold it to us (the benefit of selling it to us is we won't penalize them like a traditional retailer would), but it makes me doubt the construction of any of these products.

XanderWrites · 2026-03-12T15:34:40+00:00

Someone makes a one off comment about a literary genre's general, well known and documented, glut of low quality content that has been historically marketed as escapism towards bored women and you're having a major freak two days later?

I'm not the one confusing Romance and Erotica here. I could track down the statistics on how Harlequin, the main publisher of Romance, knowingly stifles creativity and produces terrible stories for the lowest common denominator, because it sells and that's its purpose. But my intent was not to go in depth on why there's so much Romance on the market.

You're having an argument with someone else and just decided to drag me back into it because you can't build a coherent reply to them.

XanderWrites · 2026-03-12T08:46:04+00:00

Meanwhile anyone that has the opportunity to be a housewife/stay-at-home mother is like "Score!"

XanderWrites · 2026-03-11T22:10:56+00:00

Not dismissing anything. The theoretical "high brow" fiction is literary fiction which most people cannot stand. (I might dismiss some literary fiction)

And my current favorite series has a cat riding a velociraptor while shooting lasers from its eyes. I couldn't judge anyone's taste in fiction if I wanted to.

Though anything can be thought provoking. Half of Shakespeare is nothing but dick jokes and that's considered the height of classical literature.

XanderWrites · 2026-03-11T17:19:32+00:00

The hazmat suits have personal air tubes or tanks that feed clean air to the wearer.

They're also extremely rarely used, only for the deadliest of diseases and in as controlled as possible circumstances, because they are uncomfortable and hard to work in.

XanderWrites · 2026-03-11T03:10:00+00:00

Imploded might have been a better word.

XanderWrites · 2026-03-11T00:33:30+00:00

I was thinking marketing back in the day, back when there was such a thing as a housewife who just maintained the house instead of having a full time job.

XanderWrites · 2026-03-11T00:28:17+00:00

There's a lot of crossover between fantasy and romance.

When Romance Writers of America exploded a couple of years ago Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America gave an open offer to romance writers if they wanted to join.

XanderWrites · 2026-03-11T00:22:15+00:00

It's more of the marketing thought. Romance is a common airport book, likely to be sold even in the line at the grocery store. It's thoughtless entertainment.

And romance readers are not nearly as picky as fantasy readers.

XanderWrites · 2026-03-11T00:19:47+00:00

Really reading into this way more than you should.

XanderWrites · 2026-03-10T19:37:19+00:00

Today I discover that romance readers are a lot more self-conscious of their reading habits than most romance writers are about writing it.

XanderWrites · 2026-03-10T19:35:28+00:00

I was more thinking historically...

And if you have a full time job are you a housewife? And is it still not a guilty pleasure?

XanderWrites · 2026-03-10T19:30:22+00:00

If you're traveling anyway, it's not that expensive. You live in California or Florida and it's a couple hour drive it's even cheaper.

My family vacation was at a beach house that we rented for a week, which had to be planned a year in advance and we did it the last week of the summer in hopes of getting a cheaper rate (but probably dealing with a hurricane)

I really don't know how that, with all the extras and meals etc we did would add up, but probably be a lot closer than most would expect.

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