Was it flytrap?
This is the miniest of mini rants, but it’s still gently gnawing at me, so I’ll just share here.
So two friends and I go to lunch together the other day to a local joint I haven’t been to for quite awhile. It’s a bar, but they have a restaurant with decent food as well. Kind of an odd set-up, but hey, it’s Oregon.
I ordered a burger with fries, bun dry. If they have a “special sauce,” please put that on the side (I like to dip my fries in it). All customary accoutrements (lettuce, pickle, etc.) are fine except tomato. And bring ketchup and regular mustard, please.
The order arrives. Everything looks great – until I look at the bun, which has a smiley face painted on it with special sauce.
Without prompting, the waitress looked at me and said, “I told her you ordered it dry.”
I replied, “So I did, didn’t I? Please return this to her to try again. Thanks.”
So my lunch was delayed and my friends felt awkward starting their meals (with my encouragement!) ahead of me.
What kind of idiot cook decides to substitute their own poor judgment for that of the customer, who was specific in their order?
As I said, it’s a tiny thing, but yeesh, what is wrong with people??
Those are the best kind!
Besides, you were absolutely correct. You specified no sauce. They very intentionally gave you some sauce. I would have demanded a new burger. You were more polite about it.
My minii rant-
I am cold in my apartment. I don’t know why I should be cold. The thermometer says it is 60. I should be fine in my t-shirt and shorts. I have put on pajama pants, and a zipped-up hoodie. I am still cold. I am comfortable walking outdoors in colder weather. Either-
The thermometer is wrong.
There is an extremely localized cold spot where I usually sit.
I am experiencing a bunch of stress I am not consciously aware of.
I fear it is the last one.
Maybe it is a ghost?
I am not a board member, and he did not beat me into the house, he ran under the house as I mounted the front steps.
So much for Rumor, with it’s Idle Tongue.
I thought for sure this was going to end with “and the second one came out with a big gob of spit in the middle.”
I’m in chat with Anthem to get them to stop sending me paper invoices even though I’m set up on autopay with them. They send me a fat letter monthly with an enclosed return envelope for payment. At the top of the invoice it says “Notice of Automatic Bank Draft. Do Not Mail Payment.”
Chat tells me to go to settings and tell them to do it by email instead. I tell them that it has always been set to the email option, yet I keep getting paper invoices. “Joebert” says he’s working on it and to bear with him. It has been 45 minutes now. Good thing I’m retired and can keep on chat with him for as long as it takes.
ETA: after a long absence, Joebert came back into chat to tell me that he “actually found I was in paperless billing.” No duh.
ETA #2: and it ended with Joebert saying he’d “send a request to his team.” Whatever. I tried to save Anthem the cost of paper and postage, but sucks to be them.
You can bet this occurred to me. I looked my food over very carefully when it came back, for sure!
Is this not a message board?
Joebert or Joe Dirt?
I beg your pardon.
I live in the city now, so I took the last mouse I captured to a park lake a mile away.
It will take him three or four days to make it back.
Sooo, Hubster and I (mostly I) fiddled around waaayyy too long getting new cpap equipment. In the last week or two he’s begun a high pitched, squeeling, snore that is almost impossible to cancel out with other sounds.I have not had a decent night’s skeep in over a week.
I called the durable equipment company to replace his mask, hose, etc. Ah ha, says they, he needs a new script ’ cause it’s been 2 years since you ordered. 
i knew it had been awhile, but yowzers! So i right away call his doctor and ask them for a new script and then we wait. Today I called the doctor back, and the doctor hasn’t ok’d it yet. I don’t know what the hold up is. He’s been on cpap for decades.
Meanwhile I don’t sleep, and he’s probably having multiple episodes a night.
So tonight I went on amazon and bought a mask. It will be here tomorrow. No sleep tonight, but hopefully his doc gets around to sending that script before the amazon mask expires. Grrrrr!
I’ve been using a CPAP since 2005, and have had my machine replaced several times. When I turned 65 in 2017 and became eligible for Medicare I suddenly needed to jump through all kinds of hoops to get my equipment replaced, including having to have a new sleep study done. After five years I’m due to get a new CPAP, and I’m wondering how long that’s going to take.
My coverage includes a schedule for replacement masks, hoses, etc every three months. My equipment supplier sends out reminder notices if I forget to place an order when I’m supposed to (which I should be doing in another three weeks).
A neighbor used to have a problem with squirrels, so he’d humane-trap them and release them in the wild 10+ miles away.
A week or so later his wife complained that the squirrels were back… and they looked like the same squirrels.
So, he got out the humane traps again… but this time he sprayed their tails with a dash of orange paint before driving them 10+ miles away and releasing them into the woods.
A week later, he had squirrels with orange tails all around his trees and house.
I never thought of painting tails.
He hasn’t returned, and I’ve seen none of his friends for a month. Nicer houses down by the lake.
So the field mice live in a better house than you do??
There are rats currently in The White House. Why are you so surprised?
because that one won an election
If he moved into one of the rich guy houses around the lake, yes.
I doubt that Rich Guys have live traps. They have people for that.
I’m a little confused by this. My husband has started using a CPAP and his mask and hose just require regular washing and air drying. I should check with him on that, maybe he has replaced them and I just somehow didn’t notice.
I still sleep like crap because I have severe insomnia, but it’s a different crappy sleep that at least now I can only blame myself for!