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The New Hobbit Hole

Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog

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To: RosieCotton
What REALLY annoyed me was that my other brother (not the "trouble maker" who was under-age) tried to lecture me on why the store was right and I was wrong to be offended!

You should tell your brother that it was not the store's decision to make that policy. It was made because the nanny state got itself involved and passed rules to require stores to adopt such policies or face some sort of punishment.

Most likely if it were up to the store they would have sold it to you.

BTW, when you start running the trailer a prompt comes up asking if everyone in the house is 21 or over......

28,681 posted on 10/01/2002 7:10:28 AM PDT by ksen
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To: RosieCotton
Once, when I was about 5 months pregnant with Matthew, Steve and I bought a nice box of chicken. It was what was left-over at the end of the day, so very cheap. But the size of the box was nice too...made for a couple of snacktimes.

Anyway, a few days later, I went to the deli to get another box of that chicken, even though I knew it wouldn't be on sale.

I asked the deli worker if she had a box of chicken the same size as the ones that sell at the end of the day. She started in on me like you would not believe. Said "Maaaaay'uuuuummmm, we don't sell that chikin for that price all daaaaaaayyyy." Like I was some kind of moron! She said a whole bunch of stuff, but I can't remember...I just remember she was very condescending.

Boy, I went off. I told her she was speaking to a college educated woman, not some high-school dropout that has to work behind a chicken counter. The manager came over and I told him that I didn't need some kid lecturing me about chicken prices (I was 32 years old at the time)...all I wanted was a box of chicken the same size as the ones they put on sale!

The manager gave me the chicken and we traded with that store for the entire time we lived there.
28,682 posted on 10/01/2002 7:10:55 AM PDT by 2Jedismom
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To: RosieCotton
So if I took my 13-year-old and my 3-year-old into that store I couldn't buy beer? Trust me, I look my age (sometimes a bit more).

I would have left everything on the counter, gotten the manager's name and walked out. I have a low tolerance for idiots.

I called Pizza Hut Friday night. We're regular customers so we're in the computer. For some reason though she needed the phone number, the address, the zip code, the pet's names....(okay, but it was still a lot of info). I was already getting annoyed when she asked me to spell my street name (it's a little weird, I spell it lots).

But then she said, "Bit of a hearing problem tonite, huh?"

To which I responded "EXCUUUUUSE ME?"

She back off and implied she was talking about herself. But still...

28,683 posted on 10/01/2002 7:11:08 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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To: Overtaxed; g'nad
Now where's the smelly dwarf?

Hopefully in the shower...

28,684 posted on 10/01/2002 7:13:15 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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To: Overtaxed; rightwingreligiousfanatic
Elves are leftist democrats

They're so in touch with their feelings...

28,685 posted on 10/01/2002 7:14:53 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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To: Overtaxed
Elves are leftist democrats

!!!! Everyone knows elves were Reaganites! Started leaving in droves when he left office.

28,686 posted on 10/01/2002 7:15:08 AM PDT by NewCenturions
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To: Corin Stormhands
I know he's around here somewhere....
28,687 posted on 10/01/2002 7:15:37 AM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: NewCenturions
Elves are on both sides of the fence and they run out when the fighting starts.
28,688 posted on 10/01/2002 7:16:55 AM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: 2Jedismom
"I was exhausted"

Of COURSE you were exhausted - what with all the medicines you've been fetching! And this is only the trailer release! Imagine what the movie will do?! (You and I both need to be in some kind of 'intervention' program)

28,689 posted on 10/01/2002 7:17:11 AM PDT by NewCenturions
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To: 2Jedismom; Overtaxed; RosieCotton
...all I wanted was a box of chicken the same size as the ones they put on sale!

When our youngest turned one we had a family birthday party. My wife makes a great North Carolina barbeque that cooks in a slow cooker for about 8 hours. But ours had broken so she borrowed one. Apparently it didn't get hot enough so the meat spoiled.

ANYWAY, it was Sunday, so she called Wal-Mart (this was before she started working for them) and asked for the 50 piece chicken special. She was told they need a 24 hour notice. So she asked what size boxes of chicken they had.

"Six pieces."

"Okay, I'd like eight, six-piece boxes..."

"You can have the 50 piece..."

Sometimes you just have to push a little extra.

28,690 posted on 10/01/2002 7:19:19 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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To: NewCenturions
LOL! This is true.
28,691 posted on 10/01/2002 7:19:45 AM PDT by 2Jedismom
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To: Corin Stormhands
I admire your decision to fight the classification of your son as "disabled." From what I understand schools get more funding if they have these sorts of "disabled" students.

We had an older couple over to dinner after church this past Sunday. He used to be a public school teacher, back in the '50's through '70's.

As a "reward" for doing an outstanding job the previous year our friend was transferred to a different school and was given the students who were, as the school called them, "retarded and learning disabled." The school had 30 slots for disabled students, guess how many they came up with? Yep, they came up with 30 students.

Anyway, to make a long story short, our friend told the students he didn't believe a bit of it. He held them to high standards, punishing where necessary (corporally in private), and praising abundantly (publically).

Those kids were the best academically in their whole system, as judged by the standardized tests that kids take.

So hang in there with Jr. Discipline where necessary, and praise where necessary. We love our kids. Too often that turns into permissiveness. If we really love our kids we will do what is necessary to help them perform to the best of their ability.

I'm sure you and the Mrs. do all of that, I was preaching to myself there for a minute, but you are more than welcome to listen in. ;^)
28,692 posted on 10/01/2002 7:24:00 AM PDT by ksen
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To: NewCenturions; 2Jedismom; All

Help yourself everybody, we're all going to need a lot of medicine in the next few months.....

28,693 posted on 10/01/2002 7:25:27 AM PDT by rightwingreligiousfanatic
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To: rightwingreligiousfanatic
After a handful of that, even Overtaxed will start hugging elves!
(I hope those are just Vitamins!)
28,694 posted on 10/01/2002 7:28:41 AM PDT by NewCenturions
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To: NewCenturions
And not only that, I had just washed my hair and I went to bed with it wet (we've been re-doing the bathroom and I couldn't find my blowdryer!) This morning, my hair looked like it was having a nervous breakdown!
28,695 posted on 10/01/2002 7:29:26 AM PDT by 2Jedismom
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To: ksen
If we really love our kids we will do what is necessary to help them perform to the best of their ability.

Yep. I went to bed feeling like a jerk last night. But I knew I couldn't back down.

28,696 posted on 10/01/2002 7:31:55 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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To: 2Jedismom
This morning, my hair looked like it was having a nervous breakdown!

Quick! Somebody fetch her conditioner...

28,697 posted on 10/01/2002 7:32:59 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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To: rightwingreligiousfanatic; NewCenturions
Help yourself everybody, we're all going to need a lot of medicine in the next few months.....

I don't do drugs.

28,698 posted on 10/01/2002 7:33:15 AM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: rightwingreligiousfanatic
I didn't know you were a Colombian dwarf.....
28,699 posted on 10/01/2002 7:33:21 AM PDT by ksen
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To: Overtaxed
Drugless sneak...
28,700 posted on 10/01/2002 7:33:31 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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