Today I Learned

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FukkitI'mdrinking. I just needed an excuse, anyway.

"Fuck you, Day."

"Yebbut, fuck you first."

Aaaand I'm sizzlin'.

[fargon]

You need a bowl.

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Yebbut, I wanted a bottle!

I now know this day is a conspiracy.

The ƒucking liquor store is closed.

The ƒucking liquor store is closed.

Why is the ƒucking liquor store closed?!

No! I don't like the other liquor store, and I don't like the shithead that owns it, either. So, it looks like Ima drive to the next damn town or Ima be dry today.

Aaaaaaand I'm sizzlin'.

Although it's becoming comical as to just how wrong today can go. I guess we'll see. Not much choice, is there?

[xoxoxoBruce]

If I go to the Aston Burger King and order a chicken sandwich, fish sandwich, fries, and onion rings it's $14.88. But at the Brookhaven Burger King a couple miles away the same order is $3 cheaper.

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Today I Learned about the 1976 Chowchilla Kidnapping, in which 26 school children and their bus driver were kidnapped from Chowchilla, CA, and held in a quarry in an underground moving van after being driven around in two vans for 11 hours. After several hours, the bus driver and several of the children escaped and found a quarry security guard, who called police.

Most interesting to me, was the observed impact of the event on the children:

A study found that the kidnapped children suffered from panic attacks, nightmares involving kidnappings and death, and personality changes. Many developed fears of such things as "cars, the dark, the wind, the kitchen, mice, dogs and hippies,"[18] and one shot a Japanese tourist with a BB gun when the tourist's car broke down in front of his home.[19] Many of the children continued to report symptoms of trauma at least 25 years after the kidnapping, including substance abuse and depression, and a number have been imprisoned for "doing something controlling to somebody else."

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

If I go to the Aston Burger King and order a chicken sandwich, fish sandwich, fries, and onion rings it's $14.88. But at the Brookhaven Burger King a couple miles away the same order is $3 cheaper.

I got a Bacon King at the Spring City Burger King today. It was over $8! Just the one sammich!

I was desperate, but still.

(When looking for rentals, our rule in Brookhaven is, we are not going to live anywhere south of the Giant.)

[xoxoxoBruce]

That doesn't leave very much. You do realize Edgemont runs NW to SE.

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

If I go to the Aston Burger King and order a chicken sandwich, fish sandwich, fries, and onion rings it's $14.88. But at the Brookhaven Burger King a couple miles away the same order is $3 cheaper.

If you ever worked at a Burger King you would not eat their food. I doubt that you would work there, but you might know someone that does and you could ask them.

[xoxoxoBruce]

If their kitchen practices turn you off you couldn't have lived with my first wife.

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There are some fine neighborhoods back there. It's just hard to know where to stop. The transition to hood is really ambiguous on that road.

(Also my commute gets worse as home moves too far south)

[xoxoxoBruce]

Just above Giant is Dutton Mill Rd and then Middletown Twp, but the line slants so there are a couple streets on the other side of Edgemont. There are a lot of nice hoods southwest of Giant over to Creek Road, as far south as Brookhaven Road.

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I was the same way about working at Sonic. Didn't eat from a Sonic for over a year after I got fired.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Worse than school lunches?

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Doesn't working in pretty much any restaurant in the USA make you want to cook from scratch at home forever? Even where I work we have doubleplusgood people working in the kitchen prepping the food, but we have counter staff who are too stupid to understand hygiene rules or just don't give a shit. :/

Back in the Old Country, I worked in Fish n Chip shops when I was a student and we all were ON IT, even when we thought no-one was looking. But if you fucked up and go the place in trouble with the health inspector, you would never get a job in food service again. Here, no-one will give a reference for fear of getting sued, so if you get fired for serving a customer a home-grown poop patty in place of the burger they ordered, no-one else is going to know and you can walk straight into the next place....

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Today I learned about squat cobbler lobster. I learned about squat lobster.