# (Old) Make Me Proud! In the MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [February 17, 2025, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-make-me-proud-in-the-mmp/1014414 "2025-02-17T10:50:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 320
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-make-me-proud-in-the-mmp/1014414/320 "2025-02-23T18:14:11Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > my contract has to lay off 10% of our staff (about a dozen people), per our customer’s direction. I fear this will happen to my daughter - she’s not been on the job for a year yet, so pretty low on the totem pole… > [@Misnomer](#): > > I love that show. 🙂 Not me. Too glib and too many explosions, gunfights, and suchlike. But he mostly watches it in his office and if he happens to turn it on in the living room, I have a tablet to entertain me. I just finished making up several snack bags of nuts for him. He can’t be bothered to look up the serving sizes on the packages - to him one bag of pistachios is one serving. So he’s now got pistachios, peanuts, and almonds in convenient baggies. I’ll limit him to 2 per day. The object is to get more fiber and less sugar and calories into his diet. We’ll see how this works. It irritates me that he won’t learn portion control for himself, but it’s a battle not worth fighting. I know that much about him after 41 years… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-make-me-proud-in-the-mmp/1014414)._