2 thoughts on “#1440 Pockets”
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Llywenna
She’s lucky it wasn’t a sandwich, or a half eaten petrified apple, or a handfull of cigarette butts, or dog treats that used to be the soft chewy kind but the dog whined for anyway and happily crunched one up when it fell on the floor, or any of the other things I’ve found digging through closets to try and figure out where the smell was coming from. I never mentioned the various coins and bills stashed in pockets though, cleaning fee 😉
Jerry W
Congratulations! GREAT fun, being a grandparent.
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6 thoughts on “#1439 Taxes”
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Ale-Eight-One Ohmu
Due to workplace incompetence, I had to repay some unemployment benefits. I mailed them a couple of hundred minuscule amount checks. Even overpaid with the last couple so they would have to send me a refund. (Insert Statler and Waldorf laugh here).
Llywenna
A tax ‘refund’ means you gave the gov’t an interest free loan.
We don’t have to worry about that, we’ll probably owe $6000 or so this year 🙁 and they’re not getting it until the…very…last…day.JW
If I recall correctly, here in the Netherlands, we don’t have the pay if the difference is that small (nor do they, if it a small difference in their favor). It saves a bit of hassle.
I suppose it might be satisfying to retaliate by making tax-collectors lives harder, but ultimately that just costs more, which is then passed on to the taxpayers. And it’s not like they get paid on performance anyway, so whether they count a hundred pennies or do more worthwhile work, they get paid the same.
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Ale-Eight-One Ohmu
SPITE DOESN’T HAVE TO FOLLOW LOGIC!!! FACE THE WRATH OF MY SPITE SMITE!!!! MY ENEMIES SHALL TASTE MY PETTY REVENGE!!!!
Llywenna
Up here the tax form says a difference of +/- $2 isn’t paid or charged. People have made millions skimming off ’rounding errors’ of a fraction of a penny and if they owe me a single cent, I want it !!! Once upon a time I got a government cheque for seventeen cents and I still have it, I’m pretty sure it cost more to print and mail than it was worth and I hope I’m screwing up some ledger somewhere and affecting a manager’s bonus by not cashing it 🙂
Becky
YESSS! SPITE!!!!!
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8 thoughts on “#1438 Mix Tape”
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Ale-Eight-One Ohmu
I have at least 4 such devices. And if I had won that Ebay auction for a “Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind” Laserdisc, I would have bought one of those doorstops to play it.
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SurlyQueen
I have a total of five: my current boombox has two(!), I still have my walkman, my car’s old enough that it has one, and Xena inherited my brothers old Playskool one! I never had Laserdisc, but I have a VCR out in the garage somewhere (though I would be very surprised if it still worked).
Daemongirl
We have several boxes of cassette tapes (originals and mixed tapes) but no devices on which to play them. I know there are environmentally safe methods of disposal, but we’re not quite ready to toss them out. I worry nostalgia is the gateway to hoarding…
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SurlyQueen
I didn’t save most of my cassettes, having bought a lot of the same albums on CD when they switched over. I still have the ones where I recorded my friends and I goofing around and some of the storybook ones I had.
Llywenna
We still have an 8-track player and tapes, now I’m tempted to dig it out.
The nice thing about cassettes is it keeps people from stealing your tunes 🙂-
SurlyQueen
My parents skipped 8-track so I never had one growing up. We went from vinyl to tape then on to CD. I’m kind of afraid to play my old cassettes because of how old they are. I’m worried they’ll start to fall apart, so I need to figure out how to digitize them!
Thorfinn
I recently inherited a tape player and has been listening to all the tapes I recorded from the radio back in the late 80’s/early 90’s (yeah, I’m ooold).
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SurlyQueen
That’s great though! I know I recorded songs from the radio that way, but I’ve never run across any of my old mix tapes (I DID find the ones of goofy phone calls I’d made with a couple of my friends chatting. Complete *gems*)
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2 thoughts on “#1437 Survey”
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Potatamoto
Don’t blame the aquarium staff…ever since that time Tory McClure visited, they can’t be too careful.
NateyC
They’re just making sure no random water spirit possessed you while you were there. Standard aquarium procedure. You never really know where the creatures are coming from sometimes
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3 thoughts on “#1436 Baby”
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Llywenna
The dog was driving us crazy licking herself constantly until her coat was very literally soaked and dripping with slobber, turned out it was a burr right next to her skin that somehow missed getting brushed out for a week o.O
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SurlyQueen
Oh no, poor baby! Hunter just overgrooms sometimes -_-;
Jerry W
Letting her outside to live a normal life probably would have the same effect …
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2 thoughts on “#1435 Easter”
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Ale-Eight-One Ohmu
I thought April Fools were people in the upper south who put away their winter coats in April, forgetting that there has been snow on the ground on Derby Day (1st Saturday in May).
Llywenna
I’ve seen snow in July…I almost cried…and then again in Sept.
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2 thoughts on “#1434 Lick”
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Ale-Eight-One Ohmu
I’ve seen cats have a negative reaction to Arby’s beef with Horsey sauce. Maybe a light application would cure him?
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SurlyQueen
We may have to resort to something like that because, spoilers, the baby onesie we see later hasn’t really worked out.
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2 thoughts on “#1433 Bless You”
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Ale-Eight-One Ohmu
No. In my family we say “OH MY GOD, RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!!” Everyone in the family is….armed and dangerous? Butted and dangerous?
Becky
I also bless burps. Because, why not?
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2 thoughts on “#1432 Temperate”
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notStanley
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cone-of-silence/
Was the car allergic to vanilla ice cream?
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SurlyQueen
This actually makes a LOT of sense, (the vapor lock thing, not the ice cream flavor thing!) The car does tend to stall more frequently when I have to make a lot of stops with little time in between starts!
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