# Scenes From a Second Grade Cafeteria (in two colors!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 4, 2004, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-from-a-second-grade-cafeteria-in-two-colors/267444 "2004-10-04T11:37:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-from-a-second-grade-cafeteria-in-two-colors/267444/101 "2004-10-06T16:08:36Z")
First things first, Happy Birthday, Lissla Second - There will be no snow in Iowa until I say I am ready. And that is not until December 23rd. ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-from-a-second-grade-cafeteria-in-two-colors/267444/102 "2004-10-06T16:21:42Z")
**HAPPY BIRFDAY, LIS!!** Hope you have a wonderful lunch! ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-from-a-second-grade-cafeteria-in-two-colors/267444/103 "2004-10-06T16:37:21Z")
Happy Birthday, **Lissla** ---
**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:** [October 6, 2004, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-from-a-second-grade-cafeteria-in-two-colors/267444/104 "2004-10-06T19:35:22Z")
Happy B-day, **Lissla**! I love that card you got - hubby’s b-day is coming up in a few weeks, hehehe… ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-from-a-second-grade-cafeteria-in-two-colors/267444/105 "2004-10-06T19:51:31Z")
Lunch was lovely- we went to a Greek restaurant, and Mum and I ate while Dad sat looking suspiciously at things. Dad doesn’t like ‘foreign food’. I came home and had a nap, and I’m going to finish the dishes before work. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-from-a-second-grade-cafeteria-in-two-colors/267444/106 "2004-10-06T19:58:32Z")
**Lissla** you were doing dishes this morning, then you went to lunch, and you still got dishes to do? Just how long has it been since you washed dishes? 😃 **Ashes[sup]2[/sup]**, I assume that since you plan on hiding in my suitcase and as such can’t be seen on board, you won’t be needing extra clothes. I’ll make sure ya get fed. I can cram shrimp and stuff in my pants pockets and bring it back to the suite. I can also get you your daily mai tai. Maybe the butler and you can entertain each other. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-from-a-second-grade-cafeteria-in-two-colors/267444/107 "2004-10-06T20:21:47Z")
**Swampbear** , I mean this in the nicest way possible; I do not want your pocket shrimp. I will however, gladly accept a cute butler, so choose wisely bub. You wouldn’t want a cranky stowaway to wrinkle your linen slacks right before you have dinner with Captain Stubbing. ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-from-a-second-grade-cafeteria-in-two-colors/267444/108 "2004-10-06T20:23:44Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Happy B-day, **Lissla**! I love that card you got - hubby’s b-day is coming up in a few weeks, hehehe… Ditto for me! Actually for my hubby’s birthday I will be inviting _my_ friends over and buying him a CD and a DVD that _I_ will enjoy. That way I can always say I did for him what he did for me on my birthday. Oh, and he is getting my favorite kinda cake, too. Yeah, I am kinda bitter. I should seek therapy, but it’s so much more fun to buy myself stuff and wrap it for his birthday ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-from-a-second-grade-cafeteria-in-two-colors/267444/109 "2004-10-06T20:25:20Z")
> [@welby](#): > > You don’t have any extra lust to give out by chance, do you? > > 😃 Only in the shower! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-from-a-second-grade-cafeteria-in-two-colors/267444/110 "2004-10-06T20:54:17Z")
I usually cook in quantity, and buy big things like whole hams to cook and freeze in portions. Today was cooking day. I’ve cooks a 12 pound ham, made hummus, and roasted a trayful of chicken pieces. We usually eat dinner at 11 at night, after Mr. Lissar and I get home from work, and we were too tired to do the dishes last night. Off to work. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-from-a-second-grade-cafeteria-in-two-colors/267444/111 "2004-10-07T12:25:48Z")
I found this waaaaaaaaay down on the second page. We got us a serioius case of MMP slackin’ goin’ on here folks! I am ashamed! **Ashes[sup]2[/sup]** I ordered a cute butler. But not too cute. Not burly either. Don’t want anybody to distract ACBG. He shall focus his attention only upon me. 😉 Last night he came over. I fed him homemade pimento cheese sammiches and he still wants to hang out with me. Course my homemade pimento cheese is the stuff dreams are made of, but if’n he still wants to be around me even when that’s all the food he gets (well, we did have chips) then maybe I done something right this time. Dessert was good too. -swampbear (ACBG laughed at my flowerdy shirts I bought for the cruise. I still like him anyway) ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-from-a-second-grade-cafeteria-in-two-colors/267444/112 "2004-10-07T12:58:37Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > I found this waaaaaaaaay down on the second page. We got us a serioius case of MMP slackin’ goin’ on here folks! I am ashamed! > -swampbear (ACBG laughed at my flowerdy shirts I bought for the cruise. I still like him anyway) Slacker here. Just how flowerdy are those shirts, **swampy**? Tell ACBG he’s lucky you didn’t gots any stripey teeshirts what has anchors on em and white clam-diggers… :eek: …or not. Speaking of appropriate clothing, I found out this mawnin’ that a big ol’ mountainy client is comin’ in tamorry and the powers-that-be want the workin’ stiffs to dress up in wintry-mountain-skier-type clothes for the day. Problem is **THIS IS EFFIN’ FLORIDA CASE YOU ARE GEOGRAPHICALLY-CHALLENGED!!!** Plus, mosta the workin’ stiffs around here don’t get paid enough scratch to take wintry-mountain-skier-type vacations, iffen you’re askin’. Since it would prolly be a career-limiting move to wear a flowerdy type shirt, I’m open to suggestions from the peanut gallery. And, no, I will not be painting myself sparkley-blue and trying to pass myself off as a nekkit snow sprite! Tupug (feeling :mad: ) ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-from-a-second-grade-cafeteria-in-two-colors/267444/113 "2004-10-07T13:25:46Z")
Well, you’re no fun. ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-from-a-second-grade-cafeteria-in-two-colors/267444/114 "2004-10-07T13:34:52Z")
> [@Lissla Lissar](#): > > Well, you’re no fun. It’s just that I don’t want hordes of children following me screaming **Sasquatch!! Sasquatch!!** ☹ ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-from-a-second-grade-cafeteria-in-two-colors/267444/115 "2004-10-07T13:56:04Z")
> [@Tupug Anachi](#): > > It’s just that I don’t want hordes of children following me screaming **Sasquatch!! Sasquatch!!** ☹ Thanks for the laugh. I am having one crappy morning. The teetoddler woke up screaming last night saying her cheek hurt. Four hours and no sleep later, we looked in her mouth, she has a HOLE in her tooth. I haven’t a clue how long its been there or how it got there. It wasn’t there at her last dental check up, and she brushes her teeth pretty regularly and I thought she was doing a good job at it. The earliest appointment I could her was at 11:30 this morning. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-from-a-second-grade-cafeteria-in-two-colors/267444/116 "2004-10-07T14:00:09Z")
We used to trade. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-from-a-second-grade-cafeteria-in-two-colors/267444/117 "2004-10-07T14:13:19Z")
**Puggy** just where in heck do the powers that be expect Floridians to find fer real wintry mountain skier type clothes? And why in heck would they think that somebody coming **to** Florida would expect to see an office full of people in such gear? I say, tell the powers that be that this is indeed the **dumbest idea ever!** and wear what you normally wear. This guy ain’t gonna show up in a parka and snow boots for Og’s sake! He, I’m sure, has enough sense to know that you just don’t wear such stuff in Florida, even in January. It’ll be mid 80’s in south Jawja tomorrow. It’ll be anywhere from 5 to 7 degrees warmer where you are. The idea is **dumb! dumb! dumb! dumb! dumb!** On top of that, it’s **dumb!**. So There **Puggy’s** Powers That Be! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-from-a-second-grade-cafeteria-in-two-colors/267444/118 "2004-10-07T14:38:30Z")
The powers-that-be live in multi-million dollar ivory towers, buy their antique furniture in Europe, have minyons to do their every bidding, and probably have whole antechambers full of chic ski wear. (Doesn’t everyone???) I was thinkin… :eek: I do got some bunny slippers and some snowflake Xmas ornaments. Maybe I could put em together and be the world’s oldest snowbunny??? 😃 **misstee** , glad to lighten your day. Poor little **teetoddler** ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-from-a-second-grade-cafeteria-in-two-colors/267444/119 "2004-10-07T15:29:28Z")
> [@Tupug Anachi](#): > > I was thinkin… :eek: I do got some bunny slippers and some snowflake Xmas ornaments. Maybe I could put em together and be the world’s oldest snowbunny??? 😃 I think you should wear the bunny slippers on your hands and the ornaments in your hair. If you have long hair, you could do pigtails with an ornament on each tail. Or, you could wear a fake cast on one of your legs, get a pair of crutches and sit around all day drinking hot buttered rum. You’d be a skiing accident. 😃 -swampbear (ever helpful) ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-from-a-second-grade-cafeteria-in-two-colors/267444/120 "2004-10-07T15:54:42Z")
But, but, **Tupug** , the people who are visiting are expecting Florida type clothes, it’s part of the charm of travel to exotic places! Ya all are just going to look silly pretending to be ski bunnies because you’ll get stuff wrong (hint: gloves, not bunny slippers, go on your hands). I say you dress completely Miami Vice and include socks instead of putting your bare feet in your shoes. Very wintery, Florida style. Okay **swampy** , with the inclusion of one tall, dark, and pleasing but not handsome butler, the deal is sealed. My daily mai tai schedule starts _now_. What? You think a public high school teacher couldn’t use a drink? I teach an elective! I should have gin in an i.v. drip. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-from-a-second-grade-cafeteria-in-two-colors/267444.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-from-a-second-grade-cafeteria-in-two-colors/267444.md?page=7)