So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[Fading Fast]

Global warming & all that...........what used to be unusual has now become or will become the norm. Too late to turn back now.

Disagree, but won't discuss owing to the no-politics policy.

 

[LizzieMaine]

⇧ All good points.

One very small but great "tell" in NYC is how a person places his/her hand held shopping cart down. NYC is over crowded and space, everywhere, is at a premium, so hand held shopping carts are used a lot here and, usually, they are place in the front of the checkout counter after you put your stuff on the belt. They quickly stack and the convention is to put the arms "out" so that the next person can easily stack his, hers without having to move the arms out of the one already in the stack.

I have seen the following happen repeatedly. The person in front of me goes to put his/her hand-held cart in the stack only to be annoyed that the person before them didn't put the arms "out" so they (1) just put their's directly on top (hence, it is now at an odd angle, about to tip over and forces the next person to correct both carts if they want to stack theres and (2) they don't put the arms on their cart "out."

Most people "correct" the arms on the one on top and then put their's in the right way, but the people you describe do as noted above.

This is one of those things that will, one day, push me completely over the edge and cause me to go on a raging, explosive rampage of the like unseen since the day my mother, fueled by half a bottle of Allen's Coffee Brandy, hit a cop in the head with an ashtray. Only I'll be stone cold sober when it happens, and I probably won't crown a cop. Unless he forgets to fold the handles of his shopping basket the right way.

 

[Fading Fast]

This is one of those things that will, one day, push me completely over the edge and cause me to go on a raging, explosive rampage of the like unseen since the day my mother, fueled by half a bottle of Allen's Coffee Brandy, hit a cop in the head with an ashtray. Only I'll be stone cold sober when it happens, and I probably won't crown a cop. Unless he forgets to fold the handles of his shopping basket the right way.

My view when I feel the anger rising in me on stuff like this is to remind myself that (1) life is too short and (2) you can only control your behavior not others'. I don't want to go through life angry. On most days, that works and, honestly, letting stuff like that go helps me; otherwise, I'm angry and the person doing this stupid thing couldn't care less.

 

[Edward]

Does any one else fill out of it and general blues since Daylight Savings Time? I was really in a great mood before, with the sun going down around 7:00! Now it's 4:43.

Typically, the darker and colder weather, especially after the last couple of months being unseasonably warm, makes me feel finally, properly alive again for the first time since May. By Spring I'll be ready for it again, but I sure could live without the Summer.

Count me in, I would love to see daylight saving time scrapped. The problem the UK faces with that is Scotland because of their geographical location. Remember, we only have one time zone.

I've never credited those arguments re Scotland. They manage just fine in Scandanavia. Mind you, I wish we were on the same time as the rest of Western Europe.

Slightly different but equally annoying is the movable dates of Easter, I would love to see it fixed to something like the last weekend of March. You need a weekend so as to have Good Friday and Easter Sunday, so anyone object to a fixed weekend?

The Easter Act 1928 , given Royal Assent in August 1928, provides that Easter Sunday should always be marked on the Sunday following the second Saturday in April, thus it would always fall between 9 and 15 April. Sadly, this eminently sensible statute has never been brought into force.

 

[ChiTownScion]

I'm just sitting on my hands waiting for the scathing review on Yelp.

Best to have a rebuttal already written up, or have one of the Theatre Kids who witnessed the episode, ready to refute same. I find that people are generally fair minded when presented with believable fact.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Yeah, that's the plan. One of the Kids brought the whole matter to my attention when she noticed that the daughter was going upstairs, and told me that said daughter was a year behind her in high school. OMG LIZZIE THAT GIRL WITH THE HAIR IS JUST A JUNIOR! YOU'VE GOT TO DO SOMETHING! OMG! Said Kid was also standing in the stairwell with me when I drew the mother's notice to our regulations and the posted signs they smirked at as they toddled up the stairs.

The event was the third of four performances of "The Rocky Horror Show -- Live!" and it speaks well of our local nonconformist population that this was the only unpleasant incident over the run of the show. Well, that and having to clean up after each performance.

 

[Fading Fast]

Yeah, that's the plan. One of the Kids brought the whole matter to my attention when she noticed that the daughter was going upstairs, and told me that said daughter was a year behind her in high school. OMG LIZZIE THAT GIRL WITH THE HAIR IS JUST A JUNIOR! YOU'VE GOT TO DO SOMETHING! OMG! Said Kid was also standing in the stairwell with me when I drew the mother's notice to our regulations and the posted signs they smirked at as they toddled up the stairs.

The event was the third of four performances of "The Rocky Horror Show -- Live!" and it speaks well of our local nonconformist population that this was the only unpleasant incident over the run of the show. Well, that and having to clean up after each performance.

Good you have a witness - always helps.

Separately, RHPS - four performances, that one just keeps going. It ran in a movie theater in the town I grew up in for, what seemed to me as a kid, the entire second half of the '70s.

I believe I read once that James Cagney's "One, Two, Three" had / has (don't know if it is still going on) a similar cult status over in Europe - plays repeatedly for months in the same theater.

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

If she posts on Yelp go on yourself and point out that you kindly prevented the lady from committing child abuse, with which you could otherwise have charged her.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I'm hoping she'll have the sense to, after sleeping on it, to realize she was being an ass about it all and just let it drop. Even after all the abuse, we didn't chuck her out -- the director escorted her to good seats on the main level where she and her daughter got to enjoy the show. That's more than they deserved.

They made a point of giving me the stinkeye on the way out, but I don't know if that's because they were still sore, or because, as the audience was exiting, I was wearing a garter belt on my head.

 

[2jakes]

^^^^^^
I trying to visualize an image of a garter belt in that location without
much success.

 

[LizzieMaine]

 

[2jakes]

^^^^^

Someday I'm gonna take the Amtrak to Maine just to see
that gorgeous grin in person.

Not sure if the gal with the gold
hat was making a *victory* sign
with her fingers above your garter
hat or poking fun at you.
Nevertheless, I removed it.
Looks much better.

 

[swanson_eyes]

With a wind chill of 11º.
I would consider moving the heck outa there.

Seriously, what about grocery delivered to
your home to avoid the harsh conditions?

I don't for a few reasons:
--I'm just being wimpy about it. I live in WI, which I chose to do. I've endured actual temps below 0 (-17) several times. I should be able to deal with the 30s. It's just that we just came off some nice weather.
--Delivery costs extra. If I'm going to do that I may as well eat out instead of cooking to save money and thereby avoid creating dirty dishes.
--The store I went to (the only one that carries certain items) doesn't do delivery. In the midwest you have to put on your Big Girl Pants and do things yourself.

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

View attachment 60707

My god, that's such a turn-on!

 

[LizzieMaine]

One of the Kids asked me to bring in a garter belt for her to wear that nite -- they were all dressing up for the show, which is among other things a fetishization of women's underwear in all its forms -- but I think she was expecting, you know, a "garter belt." She took one look at it, in all its stretched-out industrial-strength glory, and went "Ew. You actually wear that?"

The show was all well and good for what it was, and the audience was satisfied. But I think in the interests of true equality there ought to be a similar type of show in which people of all genders and orientations flounce across the stage in jockstraps, belly-bands, and trusses.

 

[Bamaboots]

The show was all well and good for what it was, and the audience was satisfied. But I think in the interests of true equality there ought to be a similar type of show in which people of all genders and orientations flounce across the stage in jockstraps, belly-bands, and trusses.

Damn, Lizzie. Not that I disagree, but I'm pretty sure shows such as that are still illegal down here except in the gym locker room.

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

Interesting that what was once ordinary women's underwear is now fetish-wear. Or, as one lady friend told me: Ëvery woman looks better in a corset!

 

[Trenchfriend]

Just old-fashion simple "suspenders", the kids still wearing in the german 40's, like my father, too.

 

[Fading Fast]

^^^^^^

Geraldine Hoff Doyle would agree.

You're a gentleman as seen in your response and I know swanson_eyes was just having fun, but holy cow, I wasn't sure you were going to be able to pick yourself up off the canvas after that roundhouse to the jaw.

 

[Harp]

I have a large number of relatives and friends in the Chicago area who would strongly disagree.

Obviously White Sox fans.