lol, biscotti like the ones you received are typically hard, meant to be dunked in wine or coffee
yes, the tamales were good, just a different flavor than what I’d ordered
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Exactly, whenI returned them the store mgr was puzzled.
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Btw, the Mgr opened 4 boxes of the soft cookie I was trying to purchase and 3 were mis packaged.
Random.
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were the other 3 all the biscotti? did you get the pistachio cookies after all?
The 3 the Mgr opened all contained the wrong cookie. Hard small, crescent shaped pistachio biscotti instead of what the box implied: round chewy almond/pistachio cookies. I bought fruit with my credit instead.
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I don’t usually remember my dreams but last night I dreamt of buying Mexican beer by the case … specifically by some open topped cardboard box. The significance of that is unknown. I never got to drink any I just had some ordeal buying it. 
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A Ruth Orkin street pic from St. Patrick’s day 1949.
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I just read about her. At age 17 (1938) she rode her bicycle from LA to NYC in three weeks taking pictures along the way. I did some rough math to appreciate the accomplishment. I am not worthy.
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My favorite photographer!
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Ever have one of these days?
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One of the best things I have seen in a long time .After grocery shopping I stopped by the local pub for a beer . Before long a small white terrier came in with its owner. Hopped up on the bar stool and put his two little paws on the bar . I found out he was ordering the usual . A shot of whipped cream in a shot glass . Slurped it down with dignity and a smile. His name is Rover .
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The US is willing to accept 100k Ukrainian refugees. I’d like to see that number higher. I’d host a family if I can do the screening. Anyone done such a thing?
I had the weirdest experience at car dealership on Friday. Both the husband and myself looked at each other after three hours and said “WTF?”
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Well, now I think I want to know about it! LOL
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I copied my review below for you. I know the new norm is no pressure, but this was ridiculous.
I have given myself time to process the dysfunctionality of this dealership. On Friday, March 25 my husband and myself traveled almost two hours one way in order for me to purchase a 2022 Ford Escape. Upon arriving at the dealership at 10:30 a.m., I went to look at the Escapes. I was wanting Atlas Blue and wanted to look at the Titanium model that shown on their website. After 15 or so minutes, I determined it was not on the lot. A nice young man who said he was in training led us inside. No salesman EVER came out to meet us when we were on the lot. Rule #1 on car lots- meet them at the vehicle! Something like “Hello may I help you with an Escape today?” would have been nice. Anyway the salesman had to finish something on the computer and then came outside. Once I told him what I was looking for, he then began to mansplain how that was a demo and it was out and he had no idea of where it was. Yeah dude I got it cause I showed up in September '21 and was told the same thing. So I told him I wanted to look at the Atlas Blue SE and the darker blue model SEL. So I proceeded to test drive the Atlas Blue SE. Once we returned, we were asked to wait in their waiting area. So after about 30 or so minutes, we were shown to a dirty empty office. So he put a paper in front of with a “range” of numbers and said here is what we can do. First the numbers ranged from $779 to over a $1000. He then proceeded to explain “the deal” which was not a deal as they were not giving on new or on used. Now this is VERY important, we were approved by Ford Credit but this place did not care. He was steering us to a church credit union Yeah dude that sounds on the up and up. Ok so he took the paper and went back to refine some more. After another wait, he came back with another paper with a range of numbers and told me final payment was $689 a month. I don’t think so. I would not pay that for a John Deere tractor much less a #$%^b Ford. My husband asked for firm numbers and never got it. By this time it was 1:15 and both of us were done. Rule #2- don’t let them leave the office without making the deal. I have no words for how dysfunctional, disinterested, and disassociated this place was. I have wasted my time twice with this dealer and they will not get a third time. Here is what this place did not know. We had first been to First Bank & Trust and done an operating loan for our farms I had $250K in my farm account and could have bought the durn thing outright. But I was NEVER given a firm price. have done millions of dollars in land, cattle and equipment deals with John Deere and New Holland and have never encountered this level of dysfunction. This place had no one in charge and was disengaged. I guess I do owe them some gratitude. Their dysfunction kept me from buying a vehicle that wasn’t really what I wanted. So one star for that and one for actually getting to test drive.
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As I have said before, I have been told to my face that “you are a dirty ole farmer, get out and don’t come back” (yes this happened at a local business). So being put off and ignored was basically their way of telling me that they didn’t want my money. We were clean, no manure, no mud. He was wearing his Carhartt t-shirt and Carhartt black coat cause it was cold and I was in Talbott’s sweater and jeans so it wasn’t like we were Ma and Paw Kettle coming out of the holler or the Ledbetters rolling into town in their jalopy.
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Maybe the salesperson spotted Arnold 
sitting in your car.
Somewhere around 1990 the Acura NSX were just released so after mountain biking I stopped by a dealership at near closing on the drive home just to see one in person. I asked the salesperson about one when he met me on the lot. He looked me up and down and said, “What, did a rich aunt just die?”
I was actually in the market for an Accura (not an NSX of course) but he didn’t know that yet and I’d be darned if I was going to do any eventual business with him. So I asked for his card as I was leaving the showroom. He rifled through several desks and presented me with a card with the title Sales Manager. I asked him, “you’re the sales manager?” To which he leaned over to look at the card he gave me and said, “Um, yeah.”
The next day I called the dealership explaining it all to the General Manager. He was flabbergasted and said that person certainly wasn’t the sales manager but will handle him and would personally help me to buy a new car if still interested. Nice guy actually. I don’t know the rest of the story but the audacity of some is astounding. I’m not a people person but smart enough to keep myself professionally insulated from them.
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Well apparently the dealership called my husband to which he said “Her a$$ and her head are both still hot over this and you had better just leave her alone.” 
Bless his heart. Like I said, this place kept me from making a bad decision involving a lot of money so for that I grateful. Husband said if the sales department is like this, imagine the service department. 
We did get to buy something that day. We ordered corn seed, fertilizer and nitrogen for 30 acres of silage corn and a Polaris Ranger that will be here in 10 weeks. We also talked to our bull supplier and are going to buy two of his good bulls in a couple of weeks. We had money- I guess we just didn’t look like it.
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