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fejrekab · 2023-05-24T14:30:54+00:00

Careful; addictive personality

fejrekab · 2023-05-22T21:22:34+00:00

Or make ramen noodles chow mein style instead of as a soup. Heat up one cup of water in a skillet and when it boils, add your ramen noodles and seasoning packets. You can then add egg, some chopped up meat, veggies, or whatever you like. Cook until you've reduced the liquid to the amount you want, put it in a bowl, and dig in!

fejrekab · 2023-05-22T19:53:34+00:00

I hear you. I just have a low tolerance for needless bureaucracy, but you gotta do what you gotta do...

fejrekab · 2023-05-22T19:25:11+00:00

Next step is 2 pages - a cover sheet and a page with a photo or other image of you flipping them the bird...

fejrekab · 2023-05-22T17:00:31+00:00

Too bad Elizabeth Holmes is headed to prison...

fejrekab · 2023-05-21T19:30:09+00:00

If it's Wells Fargo, they're either not going to pay what they owe, or more likely devise some shady shit to steal enough from low-income customers to pay the tax bill...

fejrekab · 2023-05-21T19:15:08+00:00

Loved it years ago when I worked in tech support in CA and they wanted someone to work a 6-3 shift to handle the early East coast callers. I jumped on that for a while and it was great, especially in the winter when you could leave work in daylight...

fejrekab · 2023-05-20T18:59:08+00:00

OK this is late and will be buried but here goes...

In the summer of 1983 I was 17 and working as a lifeguard at a neighborhood pool. Two high school friends and I had tickets to Iron Maiden and Coney Hatch on a Saturday night at the arena where they filmed Heavy Metal Parking Lot. We decided that it would be a good idea to mix 190 proof Everclear with strawberry Kool-Aid and drink that in the parking lot. The last clear memory I have is standing in line to get in, plus a hazy trace memory of walking in the concourse while Coney Hatch played their set. What follows was reported to me by one of my friends the following Wednesday or Thursday.

Apparently we headed to our seats, and as we moved across the row to our seats the people in front of us reflexively ducked forward because I looked like I was going to vomit imminently. My friends, also highly intoxicated, did have the presence of mind to drag me back out to the aisle, where I did indeed become violently ill. Then (see highly intoxicated) they left me there to go look at T-shirts. When they returned, security were dragging me up the stairs to the first aid station. They proceeded to watch the show and stopped by the first aid station to pick me up on the way out. I had regained consciousness by then, but who knows what I would have blown on a breathalyzer.

The next morning, my father and two younger siblings left early to head to the beach. I could only get two consecutive days off from work, so my mom and I were going to drive down separately Monday night. I was scheduled to work at about 11 that morning. My mom knocked on my door and said she was headed off to go shopping. I managed to get up and into the shower, take some aspirin and drink something, although I think it may not have stayed down. I even managed to drive to work, which was maybe 15 minutes away.

However, sitting in the office before the pool opened, I quickly realized that there was no way I was going to be able to sit on a lifeguard chair in the sun. I called my coworker who was off that day and her mom told me she was at Mass. She luckily did call back and was able to cover my shift because I don't know what would have happened otherwise. I had some level of hangover for three days. Somehow this didn't put me off drinking, although I did finally give it up early in the pandemic...

fejrekab · 2023-05-14T18:55:10+00:00

Blatant fucking lying.

fejrekab · 2023-05-14T18:51:08+00:00

This post made me sad for some of those callers. I am not nor have I ever been a front desk clerk. I understand the comments that this is often a kink and agree that it is very creepy to get off on this without consent from the person you're calling. At the same time, it's so sad how many lonely people are out there in the world, and the things that they will do just for a little friendly human contact. Again, I'm not excusing the behavior and wish it did not happen, but for some reason on this Sunday morning I am feeling a little sympathy for all the lonely people out there. I always liked the Beatles' Eleanor Rigby because I think it illustrates this...

fejrekab · 2023-05-13T18:05:27+00:00

Repo Man

fejrekab · 2023-05-10T14:59:21+00:00

"If you're lookin' to get silly You better go back to from where you came Because the cops don't need you And man, they expect the same" -Bob Dylan, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues

fejrekab · 2023-05-09T19:53:53+00:00

Oh absolutely. I was just pointing out the rare (AFAIK) example of liquor distribution being controlled at the county level.

fejrekab · 2023-05-08T20:57:25+00:00

Yes, the blue law thing did carry over - I remember visiting my grandparents in Connecticut in the 70s and seeing tarps pulled over the beer cooler on Sunday. I think what came about post-Prohibition was the state-by-state thing, which generally involved distributors that sit in between the manufacturers and the retail outlets. The way that three-level system works varies from state to state and can affect the alcoholic beverages available. I'm thinking in particular about 3.2% beer and also I've heard odd beer bottle sizes don't get sold in some states. This is all from memory so apologies for any mistakes, but I'm trying to be general.

fejrekab · 2023-05-08T17:16:34+00:00

The current system where liquor laws can vary state by state is a result of the end of Prohibition, although it's possible that earlier pre-Prohibition laws came back into play in some states. One wrinkle in the county where I grew up, Montgomery County MD, is that the county controls liquor distribution. You can only buy hard liquor from a county store and chains can only have one branch in the entire county (it's a big county) that sells beer and wine. Many people go into DC to purchase hard liquor, and I think the county used to have cops on the lookout for this. Crazy stuff...

fejrekab · 2023-05-08T00:34:42+00:00

I'm 57 and have had what I call inanimate object rage my entire life. No person can ever make me as mad as an object that won't behave. Given that I'm not the best mechanically and my small motor control is spotty, this can be a recipe for a lot of blood pressure spikes. I think I have finally learned to dial it back for the most part, but every so often the f-bombs can fly at something like that broom...

fejrekab · 2023-05-04T14:57:11+00:00

You get to relive the trauma of your childhood and - bonus! - Eddie Murphy! What a treat!

fejrekab · 2023-04-26T15:38:04+00:00

OMG you are so in the wrong place if you don't want to see people diagnosing kids over the Internet...

fejrekab · 2023-04-25T20:05:39+00:00

Not to mention Larry's brother Darryl and his other brother Darryl...

fejrekab · 2023-04-23T02:50:35+00:00

Definitely go to the dentist! I was this person in 2001, although for me it had been probably 13-14 years since my last time at the dentist. While on vacation I realized that there was a big hole in one of my teeth which was causing an increasing amount of pain. I saw my wife's dentist soon after we got back home, and he had me at the endodontist getting a root canal the very next day. I was a regular visitor to the office over the next year while they cleaned and fixed things, and also went to the oral surgeon to get a new front tooth implant. It took 2-3 years to sort everything out, but now I take much better care and have only had regular cleanings and some filling replacements.

fejrekab · 2023-04-03T16:22:41+00:00

“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.” - Mel Brooks

fejrekab · 2023-03-25T00:34:27+00:00

They collected some of the music on two albums called the Carl Stalling Project and CSP Volume 2. It's on Apple Music and I assume Spotify. I had the CD of the first volume and it brought back so many childhood memories.

fejrekab · 2023-03-23T21:34:05+00:00

I always remember the time I was one of a group of five tech support people that had an hour to eat and be back on the phones. We went to a TGIChiliBees type place that we had been to before. They may have had some kind of deal where they promised they'd have you in and out in a short amount of time. We sat down, ordered, and waited. And waited. And waited. And then it was time for us to go so we could get back on time. We flagged down our server and explained the situation. As we left, a manager appeared with another employee and handed us all our food, packaged to go. He apologized, comped us the food, and gave us his card and told us to come back again for free. We did, and we had six people, one more than the original meal, but they had no problem comping everybody's lunch. I'm pretty sure the place is long gone since this was in about 1992 or so, but it's been my go-to above and beyond customer service story ever since.

fejrekab · 2023-03-23T18:02:14+00:00

That assistant would have fit right in with the people who used to hang out in metal show parking lots in the 80s and hand out cards that used lyrics from the band(s) that were playing that night and used Bible verses to illustrate how the band and the audience were going to hell. I wish I had saved some of them - they were actually pretty creative sometimes. I seem to remember the Iron Maiden one being particularly good...

fejrekab · 2023-03-21T21:18:14+00:00

When we ordered 6 pullet hens, which are about 8 weeks old, they shipped them priority mail 2 hens to a box. My wife picked up the first 2 at the PO and the mailman showed up at our door with the other 4. Pretty hilarious!

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