# (Old) Funny things you overheard in the MMP

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**Created:** [March 18, 2024, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-funny-things-you-overheard-in-the-mmp/998974 "2024-03-18T07:39:39Z")\
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> [@missred](#):
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> took Nelson to the dog park for a bit, using a blanket over the passenger seat. He really needed that, given that he _protected_ me yesterday afternoon and this morning from the concrete guys

I initially misunderstood that he needed the _blanket,_ because something something concrete guys, and … yeah.  
I thought maybe he rolled in wet concrete!

> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> I guess I’d better think about getting a ham for next Sunday.

Good call.

I mean, I knew today was Palm Sunday, but I’d be a little sad if I didn’t get one of those tiny little quarter spiral hams this week, and I sorta hadn’t made the connection.

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Speaking of ham, I ate a decent amount of rather varied solid fud today:

- two mini chicken tacos (there’s an employee-only stash in the freezer, and if you don’t think there isn’t a hidden stash of interesting yummies in pretty much every restaurant and diner out there, well … heh.)
- a single piece of perch (we got back in stock a new-to-me, supposedly better type that we apparently _used_ to carry, and well … there was an extra piece. Briefly. 'Twas quite nice.)
- a grape Popsicle (okay, that doesn’t count as food, but hey - appetite!)
- a chili pizza. So this one was new to me; **Sweet Manager** brought some of her mom’s homemade chili, and after some brief inner thought, decided to experiment. Small dough crust heaped with chili and shredded Cheddar, some diced onion … then she sorta half-tucked the edges of the dough up and around to hold it all in, and … went for it.  
Friends, it was wonderful. Very tasty chili (go, boss’s mom!) and the dough got really crispy and made a perfect crunchy texture contrast, like a whole lil’ bowl of chili served on its own personal cracker.

Now I need to keep up that eatin’ momentum on my day off, when I historically backslide.

… and speaking of food in general, a shout-out to my man in the red pickup who ordered the fried steak nuggets and a full slab of ribs.  
And nothing else.  
I was like, “You ain’t vegetarian, huh?”

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