TalkingRose

I somewhat had the opportunity while growing up but I was absolutely uninterested in the affair. I have never been big on large gatherings of people. Even the family gatherings that just counted what we would consider to be close family and maybe like one layer out were still much bigger than I was any kind of happy or comfortable with. As an adult, while I am sure it has made assorted family members sad, I have reasonably dropped off the family map.

As someone who spent multiple years working for Walmart, I can assure you they treat their employees like garbage. Many of the benefits available are *only* available if you work above a certain amount of hours. Which the bulk of their basic employees do not. At least at a local supermarket you are not just a cog in the wheel that they can pitch out the door anytime they want & just grab a fresh one. You exist as a person to them.

Oil! Y'all is in Ohio too. It is not purely South.

I had tuna noodle cassarole growing up (using egg noodles, not spaghetti) but as the recipe I know used cream of mushroom soup, which had dairy, to which I am allergic, I no longer consume it. Macaroni & cheese with tuna & peas on the other hand? Staple of my life. (Thankfully, after nearly 2 decades of *not* getting my mac & cheese, finally found a good dairy free brand)

Ford Escape, the only vehicle our household owns.

My maiden name had a vowel near the end that no one ever expected, so my life was littered with constantly correcting the spelling to people. *Really* looked forward to ditching that issue when I got married. ......the love of my life, other half of my soul who I would be devastated to be without - has a last name with a *different* vowel than people would expect. *deep sigh* STILL constantly correcting people's spelling of my last name. I just cannot win with that.....

The first (& amusedly only) time we heard our eldest cuss as a kid, he was....4? I think. He had been eating yogurt in his high chair, wanted down, wandered off....then returned about 5 min later, drags a stool over to stand on so he can peer over the edge & into his yogurt cup.... "Damn" Whole body droop. His cup was empty. Funniest part was then he just....put the stool away & slumped off to cuddle his puppy plush. Silly lad could have asked for more. Lol

I just had to card someone at work a few hours ago and discovered that they were born all of about two and a half months before I graduated high school. They then followed up this random, unknown to them bombshell by revealing that they went to the same *school* that I did. (I know that twist of conversation sounds kind of illogical but it was actually functional at the time.) My mind is like....but...that was not *drinkable age* ago.....? What? .......I graduated in 2000.

Bread. Good, proper bread - not factory made bs. Rich, crusty, warm from the oven is best by my count. :)

Deliciousness

Yup. 95% junk/spam/sales sheets but yup.

Very true!

Than I am glad it improved since I was in school, as at that point we lost at least one car of teens a year. Was only 1 kid one year, but the very next there was 3 in the one car & 2 in the one that slammed into them. Passenger in one of them survived for about a week if I recall correctly. It was tragic but also considered an angry normal. No one *wanted* it that way but the schools/whatever office decided snow days kept.....not calling snow days. So off into the ice & snow they went...

Pros - Far less deaths of children & especially teens in transit to & from schools in accidents caused by icy/sleet covered roads. Cons - I am sure, depending on who & where one is, the cons list would change drastically. Everything from tourism needing to *entirely* shift gears to societal life patterns changing. People get grouchy about change, irrespective of it being good or bad.

Cool!

Plus side, ranching bison is keeping them alive & around! They are tasty as well. I have heard of venison farms & spoken to a few people who more personally knew of them but never seen one myself yet.

It is sad, in some ways, to think of bison as "exotic livestock". They are *native* to this continent! So are the other two but at least bison are a cattle-adjacent. Lol

Speaking from a retail employee standpoint at a pharmacy - still in play, seeing several a week on average. 10 years ago, they were more common but they have been fading as so many places are forcing the whole "going digital come hell or high water" attitude.

>pepperoni is too spicy. I could not live without pepperoni. Poor them.

Growing up, I lived in the country and I don't think we really locked the doors when we were leaving for only like 10 minutes? The front door was always locked but that was because we never used it. We only used the door that went out into the garage. These days, I live in more large town/small city kind of location and the doors are constantly locked. Irrespective of being home or out- the doors are always locked.

When I was in school, which admittently was over 20 years ago, yes. Number two pencils was the pencil that one had to purchase with your school supplies every year. It stayed pencils through the entirety of my schooling all the way to my graduation. In my college year, which was 2 years later it was still predominantly pencils but there were one or two classes that encouraged the usage of pens instead. That's it though.

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Putting it in the dryer.

On the retail end of reality, while overtime is not generally a concern (I can hear corporate already panicking 🙄) one *can* get fired for some of the most ridiculous shit. Which boils down to believing one person over the other, bad management, etc but it still happens. Makes me glad my current store is union. To fire someone, they had to have broken actual rules & have actual proof they can give the union people. Or they will fight it tooth & claw. Where I work, I really cannot call off. We do not have the staffing. Partly due to lack of hours, which is corporate's call, not ours. Sick? Road covered in ice? Well, the last one I could stay home for but my drive is over 1/2 hour. If I lived in same town, I would been expected to be there anyways. Sick though you are expected to still come in if you are not bad enough to be in the hospital.........we are a *pharmacy* people! Argh!!! (They walked back covid protections so fast post-pandemic I got whiplash) After working for this company for 9 years, I have clawed my way to 3 weeks vacation.....and get argued with every year trying to use it. Obviously, I should just use little drips across the year, never actually getting a true break, all so they do not have the inconvenience of me actually using it....Store manager argues she does not really use *hers* so I do not actually *need* to use mine. Not all of us in shitty spots are loud but we definitely hurt. From what I can see in my life experiences, the shittier jobs that way tend to be lower down the ladder. I am happy for you that you can have such a rest from your job. :)

No cares whatsoever. So few cares that I can only keep track of the fact it is a February thing & that only because I work retail, so deal with it usually. I actually have the day off this year, so can avoid the idiocy this year. Yay!

My store manager & I (neither of us give 2 farts about the SB) got into a discussion earlier, having recalled that we think it is coming up...took a couple back & forths before we could agree we both thought it was in February... She was kind of wanting to order more things in for it but neither of us could recall *when* in February it was. She thought after Valentine's, I thought before.... We had to flag in a coworker who actually cares about football to ask. Found out it was tomorrow. We were just "huh. Guess we have what we have" *shrug* Coworker's over there, laughing at us.

The house I grew up in has a basement, 3 out of 4 buildings I have rented places in have had them. They are common, but not everywhere. Some places/conditions are not the best & some people just do not want them.

"You all" is the shortest translation. Indicative of a group of people, higher than 2, less than everyone present, also sometimes anyone associated with the person you are talking to in that specific context. Like....talking to someone who drives trucks for a living, asking them something about most/all truckers such as " do y'all do x thing?"

In America, (to add to what others say) snapping fingers at someone for their attention is rather akin to treating them like a dog. Largely as that is how many people here get their dog's attention, for good or ill. So snapping at people is viewed as a warped mix of you treating them like a hound you are calling to heel & a servant you expected to already be there. Impatient & rude. Cultural differences are wild, aren't they?

Ohio, at least the northern middle third.

And we all (retail slaves) thank you for it!

Why does no one ever seem to remember that when they started chucking around "millennial" it was for people born IN THE NEW MILLINIUM?! It started at 2000. When it really started being talked about as a label, anyone born IN 2000 was referenced as a "millennial". Not BEFORE. Gen X USED to include 1981. The 80's as a whole. ....given how much said Gen gets forgotten/ignored, it should not surprise me that society just....shifted it for no reason.

Yeah.....I was in my 30's before it occurred to me that I could buy them for NOT Thanksgiving & just....use them. Of course, now that they are in the house for non special reasons.....I end up just eating 1/2 the container.

Yes! Thank you! Every time I see a picture of him, there's something about his appearance that just kept tickling at the back of my head and I couldn't put my thumb on it. That's what it was.

Shaaaw.....you say that like it's past tense! The best part about being a cooking adult is I get first dibs. 😁 Mom would also hand me the mashed potato beaters, as she knew how much I love mashed potatoes. She will still give me the beater if I happen to be near, even now. I imagine if my sister was around too, splitting may have to happen but so far, not an issue. Lol

I am so sorry for you. That was very rude of them.

Valid

It translates as too long didn't read. It's a good indicator for either people that are way too lazy to actually read stuff or used as a marker to show a synopsis for the people that are too lazy to actually read all the stuff.

Lol They felt threatened & successfully drove you away!

My answer remains, unchanged from the first time it was ever posited to me - a hermit.

I managed to not damage myself on those. My clothes? Hell yes. But not my me. Saw other kids wreck themselves though.

I am so sorry you are dealing with all of that. Congratulations on finally hanging up on the bitch! Sounds like she has been royally deserving it for myriad years.

Exactly! Tis how it functions at our house.

It's an adjective to my husband & I. Usage varies depending on situation, tone, expression, added words.....lol. Keeping it OUT if my vocabulary at work has been an ongoing battle for decades. Fuck is not a happy adjective to many of the public.

See? This is why they died! When I think of thank you cards, I am beset by memories of my bio father, sitting with a flippin clipboard, every christmas, so he can record each present, from each person, so that each child could then write a thank you LETTER (notes were not going enough, there needed to be, at MINIMUM 2 paragraphs & if it was that short, they better sound good) for each item received. There was a type of tone we were to hit, appropriate things to say.....after writing it, we had to then submit them to him to check - then had to rewrite any he found "not good enough". There was nothing about "gratitude" learned from these exercises. I learned resentment I had mastered the fine art of bullshitting my way through these by like, 9. Incidentally, was super helpful in high school when you had to make a long paper out of very little info - already knew how to make filler words adults approved of....🙄

Hope the shot helps you!

If my left hip was HALF as ok feeling as my knees, I would throw a party. Ow.....

How do you DELETE it from the phone? My android won't let me delete it. I can force stop it but not actively get RID of it. I never use it. Never used it. Never will use it. I hate the fact it is even there. The phone put it there. I miss just having a cord phone & calling it a day.....

I would STILL have a flip or at least non-"smart" phone if I could but when my last phone died a watery doom a few years ago - NOTHING in my area was just a simple phone. 🙄