What about a thick rubber band or hairtie that goes around the trigger as well as the neck of the bottle? Then you pull on the other side of it.
Good one.
IANA pet person. My brother has a huskie. Drives him nuts walking the dog around town where any- and every-one will talk to his dog and nobody will talk w him, the human who can talk back.
Good on ya for pushing back on human stupidity
I’m going to steal this. Let me know where to send the royalty checks.
I broke out another tired old chestnut last night at dinner. While perusing the menu “Oh they have soup Du Jour! That’s my favorite!”
It is too late. The party (today) was a great success, although, as expected,my kids abandoned their costumes early.
As a pragmatic creative director I was expecting that once they hit the swimming pool there was no chance of the skunk outfits returning. So, about an hour.
The joy in making them was all about interacting with my kids, while keeping contact adhesive off the workspace. I laid the plan, the kids riffed off that and made their own designs.
The fart spray was my idea, but it was really, really hard to implement. There are all sorts of directional pulls, and modifying the “push” button on the spray proved very complex, mostly related to the fact that it needed (really needed) to be almost absolute verticle force. None of my prototypes managed that.
My son, age six, spent at least an hour after I eventually gave up, trying to work it with cable ties and duck tape, but he doesnt have my understanding of mechanics.
But, irritatingly, he had a toy, a spray container where the “button” is a hammer head. I only learnt about today when it fell out of his bag.
The plastic “nail lifter” end of the hammer would be perfect.
Next time, I will do more research
I’m listening to King Crimson’s “Red” with my cousin, and my uncle stops for a second and asks what the album is. So I tell him. To which he replies “And you like that better than music, huh?”.
Damned if he didn’t then say it over to every member of the family at least once, like he’d dropped the greatest zinger of all time. As if we hadn’t all heard that one a hundred times already…
But huskies can talk!
He he. Another prog fan here. I feel your pain.
Umm, please don’t.
The store I work in allows dogs, and we love having them come in. And many of us do tell the pups how cute/beautiful/handsome they are AFTER having said hi to the people walking in with them. It is really uncomfortable to have the man on the other end of the leash respond that way, even when I know it’s a joke. It’s only a bit less cringy if it’s a woman (our store is all women on staff).
Ok I’ll give this quip a pass then. Thanks for the insight.
I’d honestly rather not have someone approve and my dog. Once they’ve approached, all bets are off as far as my response.
But what if we approve of your dog … ?
Heh. Too many typos today. That’s what I get for not watching football yesterday.
(A friend texted me yesterday afternoon. Their power was out and he was looking for somewhere to watch the game. I told him we didn’t plan on watching it. In fact our tv remote control was chewed up last year by our dog and hasn’t been replaced yet. I hope he found a way to watch)
After working at a college library for several years, I recently started working at a public library. We tend to have a lot of older users, and I’ve noticed how flirty some of the men are. That of course didn’t happen at my old job, since most college students aren’t interested in a middle-aged woman.
When someone wants to use a computer and doesn’t have a library card, they can get a guest pass by showing a photo ID and providing a phone number. More than once, after asking for someone’s phone number and recording it in the log book, one of these guys will say to me, “And you can call me any time!”
“Great! My cat is sick, and I’ve been looking for someone to call at 3 a.m. when I’m upset about it.”
Oh god no. If a man is being creepy to a woman, the worst response for the woman is to try to out-creep him. That’s likely to go very badly.
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I hope it was clear that I wasn’t actually offering that as serious advice!
We ate at a local Mexican place that we like. The one waiter always waits on us because he and I have had a few beers together at different times.
When we got home I asked my gf if she knew our waiter’s name. She admitted she did not. I feigned surprise and said, “No way!” She assured me she did not know his name and I repeated, “No way!”
After several back and forths I explained that his name is Noe which is pronounced Noway (sort of).
Did she hit you? Even in jest? She shoulda.
She groaned (after laughing).