# The Routine **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 24, 2015, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-routine/713502 "2015-02-24T10:37:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-routine/713502/21 "2015-02-24T17:28:34Z")
I’d ask the OP if you’re working towards any goal. Are you looking for a better job, paying off student loans, looking to start a family, putting money in the bank, planning to start your own business, writing a novel, etc? Is there something where you can say “Okay, I’m doing this now. But in X years I’ll be doing something else that will be better and the life I’m leading now will lead to that.” ---
**Author:** ![MorphinePoet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morphinepoet/32/7315_2.png) [@MorphinePoet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MorphinePoet)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-routine/713502/22 "2015-02-24T17:38:58Z")
I’m no longer under that impression. I am very well aware that things can happen without a reason and that a person whose work has come to nothing must take defeat. Or not. I’m open to all options. And this job I’m currently working is the “better job” I’ve been wanting for the last four and a half years when I worked a much worse job. It’s just that I’m not particularly crazy with joy about it because my life has been struck by a bereavement very recently. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-routine/713502/23 "2015-02-24T17:42:34Z")
Dude, you have got to sober up and get over yourself. Or not. 😉 p.s. I’m sorry for your loss. ---
**Author:** ![MorphinePoet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morphinepoet/32/7315_2.png) [@MorphinePoet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MorphinePoet)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-routine/713502/24 "2015-02-24T17:53:14Z")
Thank you Quicksilver. : ) ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-routine/713502/25 "2015-02-24T19:04:48Z")
I reckon you won’t be able to keep up that routine too much longer. Either you’ll develop emphysema, cirrhosis, or God forbid, a horrible dry cleaning accident will leave you with only three shirts in the rotation, thereby throwing the whole thing ass-over-teakettle. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-routine/713502/26 "2015-02-24T19:29:52Z")
> [@MorphinePoet](#): > > I don’t go with any shirts; there are criterion. Criteria is plural; criterion is singular. And what about leaving your shirts at the office, wearing a T-shirt to work, and then pulling a fresh-laundered and boxed shirt out of your desk drawer like they do in the movies? ---
**Author:** ![SmellMyWort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SmellMyWort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmellMyWort)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-routine/713502/27 "2015-02-24T19:34:08Z")
Do you answer the door for the dry cleaner and the food in your boxers? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-routine/713502/28 "2015-02-24T19:35:12Z")
I’m somewhat surprised to learn that alcohol is available in the UAE. ---
**Author:** ![MorphinePoet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morphinepoet/32/7315_2.png) [@MorphinePoet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MorphinePoet)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-routine/713502/29 "2015-02-24T19:40:23Z")
Corkboard: Well, I do have an extra shirt from Banana Republic that I didn’t tell anyone about. It’s a part of my contingency plan. gigi: Thanks for that; I must have mixed them up. I’m not a native English speaker. SmellMyWort: Not only do I do that, but last night the dry cleaner guy arrived when I was shaving the back of my head with a trimmer, and I couldn’t get the hairline straight even with the use of two mirrors, so I had him do that for me right at the door, and yes, I was in my boxers. Chefguy: Don’t be. Everything but human rights is available here. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-routine/713502/30 "2015-02-24T20:38:51Z")
> [@MorphinePoet](#): > > Chefguy: Don’t be. Everything but human rights is available here. I spent about five months in Cairo, where alcohol is readily available, but somehow I had the idea that places like Saudi, Iran, UAE, etc., were more hard line. I see that while it’s tolerated in the UAE, that there is zero tolerance for driving after drinking, or for creating any sort of public disturbance, and that residents must have an alcohol “license”. I seem to remember that the Marines at the embassy in one of those countries (probably Saudi) had their booze sent in via diplomatic pouch, and that the empty bottles were shipped back out of the country via the same method. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-routine/713502/31 "2015-02-24T21:54:34Z")
> [@MorphinePoet](#): > > … Everything but human rights is available here. Well phrased. Welcome to our message boards, by the way. Feel free to share pictures of your cats. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-routine/713502/32 "2015-02-24T23:00:43Z")
> [@MorphinePoet](#): > > gigi: Thanks for that; I must have mixed them up. I’m not a native English speaker. I was just glad for the attempt. Most folks just use “criteria” all the time. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-routine/713502.md?page=1)