No, if I do you a favor, you owe me a favor. That’s the way it works.
What would that entail?
Not speaking for** Lynn**, but knowing her and your problem…this is going to cost a LOT of very expensive dark chocolate and a goat. You really don’t want to know what its going to cost the goat.
I’m in! But be warned they are in the middle of nowhere.
I pit the range master at the indoor range where my ladies shooting club meets. It’s a nice indoor range with cheap fees, owned by the city…but run by the United Revolver Club, aka The Good Ole Boys Club. The range master seriously does not like any of the women who seem to know more than he does, even about their own weapon. Or the ones who dare correct him when he cites the law incorrectly.
We get that the range has it’s own strict rules (ex. no prepping magazines behind the firing line), and we will follow them, but don’t tell us something is “the law” when it’s not, and don’t get pissy when someone who actually knows the law corrects you.
And what’s with only being allowed to load 5 bullets at a time?
He figures you flowers of the feminine gland only have a one-in-six chance of hitting him?
Around here, snow forecasts result in people flocking to the stores to stock up on bread, milk, and bananas. Sometimes they go for toilet paper too.
Also, there are many drivers who mistake the brine (frequently mispronounced as “brime”) deposited by the DOT for a coating of ice or snow, and proceed to drive 20 mph below the posted limit. For some reason, actual ice or snow on the road does not typically result in a similar speed reduction.
Here, they buy bread, milk, eggs, and toilet paper. I figure there’s some sort of French toast snow bonanza going on.
But that they’re not very good at making French toast. Hence the need for bulk quantities of TP…
I saw a news story one time that claimed that the top sellers on these storm run-ups were what is already mentioned (bread/eggs/milk/tp) plus cereals and batteries and …
wait for it …
strawberry pop tarts!
I guess breakfast is the main thing on everybody’s minds.
Too many Rangemasters are idiots.
Was almost kicked out of one range for having an “automatic weapon” - I was two finger fanning the trigger of my Marlin Model 60 .22 to rapid fire it. Idiot then tried to claim I could damage the trap. :smack: Um no, a .22 isn’t going to hurt your precious trap no matter how fast I fire my whole 14 round tubular magazine. It’s not a fucking mini-gun.
Was yelled at by another “Range officer” (and I use that term loosely) to ‘sit down’ while firing my rifle so it would hit lower on the trap. I tried to point out basic angles that if the target remained the same height, me sitting down would result in hitting higher on the trap, but idiot boy wouldn’t hear it. :rolleyes:
Good grief. I’ve never fired a gun in my life and even I know that if he wanted bullets to end up at a point lower than where they started (while still hitting center target), he needed to get you a step stool.
Scary that they allow that sort of idiot a gun license…
Seems overly simple. I’m more used to I do you a favor, you do someone a favor, they do someone a favor, someone does me a favor, and depending on who the people involved are they’ll either reckon everybody is even, or that one person owes a smallish favor to a different person they’ve never met.
“Giving Tuesday”? Screw that. Everyone wants my money, but you’re not getting it today…
OK, charities, I get it. It’s the end of the year. You have to meet whatever goals have been set. You’re all hoping that I’ll be brimming with the Spirit of the Season ™ and will throw open my wallet and checking account. Good luck with that. Or maybe you’re thinking that I’m looking for some last minute tax deductions. Ah, it’s possible, although I don’t base my charitable giving on what I get back from Uncle Sugar. Or maybe you just think that I was a sucker once, so maybe I’ll be a sucker again, and that’s a logical assumption.
So, of the endless river of solicitations that are currently pouring through my mailboxes, physical and electrical, some of you may be successful. But I guarantee you this – mention the phrase “Giving Tuesday” and you won’t get a penny. This is the first year I’ve heard of this abomination, but I am frankly sick of bogus made-up “special” days where everyone tells me what to do. I’m not going to go shopping on Black Friday. And I’m not going to plan my giving around some bogus “Giving Tuesday”.
Gah! I can sympathize. You bite the tissue once or twice and it swells up and tries actively to get in the way of your teeth again, so you can bite it again and make the swelling even worse and so on and so forth. Only thing that works for me sometimes is to hold an ice chip or smallish cube against the spot. Numbing + takes down some of the swelling.
I got a good giggle out of this post. Thank you.
I prefer the favor owing system to be simple.
The favors themselves, however, can be rather complicated. For instance, I’m thinking that amorali’s child should somehow have to have a couple of my nephew’s Jack Russell Terriers with him/her when the child has to visit the ex. These JRTs and the child itself are secretly carrying loads of extra fine glitter, so that the ex, his girlfriend, and their home and vehicle will be absolutely FABULOUS in a few minutes. While loading the child itself with glitter would be good in and of itself, loading up a couple of Jack Russell Terrorists (no, that is not a typo) is even better. Those little dogs are very, very busy. And there’s no law against glittering someone, or their property.
I’m with you on this. Only my local NPR lady said, “Today is Giving Thursday” and I was so confused by the fact that it isn’t Thursday that I forgot to irritated by the “Giving” part. Thanks for reminding me. 
But she is a tiger, ya gotta hear her rooooooar:D
Spilled coffee all over my phone, now it only randomly decides if it wants to play audio or not. Blah. At least it works but I’m hoping it won’t decide it doesn’t feel like doing other things as well.
I think my contract is up so I can get an upgrade but this is just not the time of year to be spending on that stuff.
Speaking of copying foreign customs without understanding the context…
Today I took the day off and went to downtown Barcelona. At the door of a department store there was a Santa ringing a bell, Salvation Army-style, only it wasn’t from the SA or anything like that; dude is just part of the “Christmas decorations” :rolleyes: What, the muzaky carols aren’t bad enough, now we get a guy going clang, clang, clang with a hand bell that somehow can be heard all through Portal de l’Angel just “for decoration”? I’m glad the guy got a job but want to dunk the exec who came with the idea into the dirtiest part of the harbor.