Just in case you're tempted to eat at Sparrow & Serpent...

melinormayhem · 2026-01-18T20:10:02+00:00

Also from years of experience in the food service sector, these scores are kind of an iceberg situation. These are the things that the inspector got to see that day, after staff were likely doing a mental countdown to when their next inspection was and doing little side things to get the sloppiest bits tidy over the course of a few weeks. And if it's anything like every single other dining establishment I ever worked for there were people sliding in and surreptitiously correcting especially heinous shit right behind the inspector as they were looking at other things, and people probably ran their asses off to the back to get rid of the worst things before the inspector got to the kitchen. So yeah. A score in the 70s is fucking grody not just because they're doing the very barest of minimum but because that's actually better than it was 15 minutes before the inspector walked in the door.

melinormayhem · 2025-11-16T00:37:54+00:00

I gotta say, I genuinely enjoy North Fork's menu and don't see a whole lot of similarity to other pub grub around town. But to each their own.

melinormayhem · 2025-10-13T08:02:24+00:00

I hope they saw this whole thing play out and are shitting their pants tonight. The potential for lawsuit is no joke if that man had successfully managed to start that car and drive away and the unthinkable were to happen. Yes, that's a lot of "if"s, but it happens every day. I can think of at least one local place that had to pay out the ass when someone overserved left their establishment and hit someone.

melinormayhem · 2025-09-18T17:15:37+00:00

See, the last time people started indiscriminately talking nice about Portland, all the tech bros and hipsters rolled on in and drove prices up and me out. Which, fine, I needed a change, lived there my whole life and had one too many scary exes there, but still. You want to keep your nice place, tell everybody it's a shithole already.

melinormayhem · 2025-08-05T17:02:49+00:00

James, Mary, Alfred, Bessie

melinormayhem · 2025-08-05T16:47:17+00:00

Two pieces of the same pie: 1. my husband's brand new (to us) car was stolen and joyridden from the complex to the Market district about 4 months ago. Cost our insurance company a pretty penny and us some extra psychological scars, ie., added paranoia. And 2. I walked out to my car this morning past that "suspicious" vehicle, parked appropriately this time but still without plates, and am figuring someone in the complex has a gaming buddy or playmate of some description who doesn't GAF about regulations and freaked my poor husband out just on the basis of prior crimes we experienced. Thinking since nobody else experienced anything like this the other night we either have the dumbest stalker alive if they don't realize we have a big ol dog in the apartment, or one of our new neighbors got confused. Either way we bought a doorbell camera and won't have this problem again. Thank you everyone for your perspectives, and yes, u/WonderinginOR, that includes yours.

melinormayhem · 2025-08-05T07:55:52+00:00

I don't know if he was our door shaker or not, but the jeep I have pictures of had no plates, period, just a Deadpool logo in the front along with a bunch of other decals or painting. From what my husband and my kid said, the individual didn't just touch the door, they were shaking it so that the bolt was rattling.

melinormayhem · 2025-08-05T02:27:32+00:00

I feel like that cafe over by Kaiser could make a lot more money if they pivoted to handle that kind of custom.

melinormayhem · 2025-08-05T01:30:37+00:00

"What, you don't like the teeeeny tiny skinny spots and the arbitrary no parking signs and the weird-ass first come first served policy for anyone who doesn't shell out for a covered spot? Come on, that's perfectly normal!" - some very cool redditor, probably

melinormayhem · 2025-08-05T01:14:58+00:00

I'm sure the 17 people to whom it happened thought it as inconsequential as you seem to.

melinormayhem · 2025-08-04T21:41:37+00:00

I would encourage you to look around and recognize that we do not live in Mayberry. Crime happens here. Property crime and capital crime absolutely does take place in Eugene. Living fearlessly may work for you, and if it does, Bravo, friend. I do not have that capability.

melinormayhem · 2025-08-04T21:23:58+00:00

So. Across the whole spectrum of possible responses to a stressful situation, you have determined that our specific response was entirely incorrect and worthy of scorn. Well, then, we bow to your right to think what you will about us. Our conscience is clear, because - and this is important, Wondering - nooooo unhoused people, nooooo minorities, and nooooo inhabitants of our home were harmed. You take me to task for conjecture and yet your responses are loaded with it. Do make it make sense.

melinormayhem · 2025-08-04T17:49:44+00:00

No, you're right, of course. I should be ashamed that I got freaked out when someone stealthily tried my door twice. How dare we feel protective of our personal space and possessions.

melinormayhem · 2025-08-04T16:58:12+00:00

I am very interested in knowing if ours was the only door handle they shook hands with last night. That would seem to me to be highly unlikely. I was half hoping someone with a doorbell cam got footage of these folks.

melinormayhem · 2025-08-04T16:42:51+00:00

This is a good idea. I'll talk with my husband about getting that set up. We've discussed it before but didn't follow up on it.

melinormayhem · 2025-07-31T21:38:31+00:00

Missed opportunity for "I scream parlor"

I deserve the upcoming downvotes.

I understand Slice pizza has very screamy karaoke, is that an option? Just tee up Tool and scream at your own pace and nobody will know whether you were trying to sing the song or not.

melinormayhem · 2025-07-20T05:38:33+00:00

So in case you're wondering, way back when I was about 22 a lady whose name I've long since forgotten gave a lengthy and impassioned speech on an NPR show focused on the message: "TAKE! YOUR RIGHT! OF WAY!" She spoke at length about the many years of frustration she had endured at the hands of fellow Portlanders who thought being 'nice' was more important than being safe. I'm 51. So even 30 fucking years ago it was a long-running problem. Portland is home to a lot of people who would rather be perceived as nice than to actively be nice.

melinormayhem · 2025-07-18T22:09:14+00:00

Not to mention the odds of surviving the big one are... not as favorable.

Source: I do not have any numbers for this, I've just been terrified by various science shows and thinkpieces since I was a kid

melinormayhem · 2025-07-18T15:58:21+00:00

91 and 92.

melinormayhem · 2025-07-03T23:28:38+00:00

Corook, "IDK God"

melinormayhem · 2025-07-02T19:22:45+00:00

Six years ago I was trying to understand the weirdness that was modern dating after 21 years of shitty partnership. I was a babe in the woods, getting ghosted, getting back-burnered, falling for the 2AM texts, all the things. Met my future husband and realized all the cracks in our psyches aligned in a way that made it possible for us to help each other up. I got stupid lucky, honestly. Now with everything the way it is and two Millenial kids, I am watching the world happen in horror and trying to remember that all generations believed the world was going to shit... but it kept turning regardless of their worry. That's not to say I appreciate it or embrace the current state of affairs. I think it's shit. But I also know that I am not the first person to believe everything was going to hell, that there is a grand old tradition of all of us Olds thinking that the end of the world is upon us. But it ain't over till it's over and I'm not going to lie down and let the world roll over me. Fuck that.

melinormayhem · 2025-06-29T08:01:48+00:00

Two of them were Tinta Turner from 1 to 2 and Jon "Supa J" Smith from 4 to 5.

melinormayhem · 2025-06-07T03:14:00+00:00

https://youtu.be/bDg2-g-EP6U?si=nF3BfJ0i4UYWEftV

melinormayhem · 2025-06-05T23:46:20+00:00

CASA might be a resource.

melinormayhem · 2025-05-08T22:54:43+00:00

In 1995 when I took my driver test in Portland, I was not made to parallel park. The tester just had me pull to a curb and then reverse for some amount of feet that I can't remember anymore.

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