What’s on your mind?

Respectfully_Declined · July 17, 2022, 1:38pm

wholetthedogsout:

Parking lot quiet as we rolled into target after some rain. Not much rain just enough to wash the air and the sky. I had an evil evil plan. I talked cdc into applying for a target cc so he could establish some credit history. He is very smart and does not like the idea of going into debt. For example his car is a beater but paid for. Got approved for the card np and proceeded to the evil cell phones. No one around. He asked at the service desk and were told to push some button. We tried it and some college age dude came running up to push that button again. The sign by the button said someone would respond within one minute. I smiled at Kyle and said they seriously make you do that? Kyle who can’t wait to go back to college helped Cdc pick out a 400.00 unlocked phone. An android I think. I try to stay out of these things. To make this about food “too many cooks spoil the broth”. Kyle told cdc he would receive a 100.00 gift card which he could use to buy a new sim card. I would get cdc’s 200.00 phone. Kyle also informed us that we could get a price check discount as well. This is where I started having fun. Kyle used the word “challenge” so like any normal person I inquired if swords would be involved in this challenge. He said that he had three years training in mixed martial arts but was highly amused by the idea of a physical challenge. We talked about what video games he liked. We had to think about it so he had to do some side work. I did not like seeing him run that way if we needed him and had to push that button of doom again. We came up with a plan that if we pushed the button we would wait thirty seconds and then push it again ourselves. He really liked that idea. Cdc took the bait but alas the gift card deal did not work. The nice manager helped but nope. She offered us a fifty dollar card but we Respectfully Declined with absolutely no hard feelings. Cdc picked out a pair of jeans. That goodfellow brand just seems to always resonate with him. I got some rice, frozen food and mumble mumble a dress mumble. Target had closed all the registers by then to force customers to use self check out even though the late night employees had turned on music and were holding a limbo contest. Wow they could really go low. It was incredible to watch. We had to pay at the service desk because of paper cc sheet we were given when he was approved. And it wouldn’t scan. The same manager was summoned who had not been able to hook us up with the 100 beans. Nope. She tried and she tried. It was like four minutes to closing and I was digging in my heels. She was sweet and nice and I was politely ranting. Is that even a thing? Finally to shut me up and get us to leave, after jokes about getting arrested because I had opened my monster drink and taken a few sips she offered us ten dollars reduction on our items if we paid with a different card. Then she said fifteen and I was like sold. I told cdc to use my costco card and it was all good. Something passed between that nice manager and I during the last of the negotiations. We were both breaking the rules and we knew it. Some of the limbo dancers had even stopped to watch our game. I used to love the trading aspect of my card game so this was fun. The manager and I practically shook hands. But I Still don’t have a cellphone. Someday.

I’d like to buy a paragraph, Pat.

Let’s see. Vanna, are there any paragraphs?
JACKPOT There are three.

(Just joking!!! Jeez)

bbqboy · July 17, 2022, 1:45pm

You just won a vacation in Pennsylvania!

Respectfully_Declined · July 17, 2022, 1:49pm

Woot woot.

I’ve always wanted to see the fourth largest ball of twine in the upper northeast!!

Lambchop · July 17, 2022, 2:24pm

Yeah, psych ward may be apt & also an analogy to a bargain bin in a store where people rummage through to find random stuff, and others disgorge some of their own cart items to said bin, so who knows what will turn up?? From soup to nuts to??

Respectfully_Declined · July 17, 2022, 8:00pm

You were right. They were there.

Respectfully_Declined · July 17, 2022, 8:18pm

Very few people support law enforcement more than I do but this failure just sickens me. If anyone replies please do so judiciously to remain within the site’s boundaries.

Attribution: WSJ

wholetthedogsout · July 17, 2022, 8:32pm

Sweet. I am considering using the little wood docking bays as cutting boards. Making lamb shanks and want to add some garlic cloves. #butwhataboutthemittens

Lambchop · July 17, 2022, 8:33pm

It’s truly awful beyond words. All respect to those doing tough jobs in horrifying situations - but what a breakdown of leadership, and perhaps complacency in planning and setting protocols for active shooter events in this case. RIP to the lost.

wholetthedogsout · July 17, 2022, 8:36pm

Mostly nuts here. Busy fitting Respectfully for his new straight jacket now. He looks very handsome in it. Pics later.

wholetthedogsout · July 17, 2022, 8:38pm

Unbelievable but there it is. Protect and serve my ass.

wholetthedogsout · July 17, 2022, 8:39pm

Smartas

wholetthedogsout · July 17, 2022, 8:57pm

Listen you. Penna is the most rural of the lower 48 as Alaska likes to call us all. Huge, tremendously varied, conservative, religious,rolling green gentle hills and farmlands. One of my favorite lines in any song: " The corn is as high as a elephant’s eye,
An’ it looks like it’s climbin’ clear up to the sky." The song was written in Bucks County and is why I love this state of insanity. My dad did not sing much but he had a decent singing voice and I can hear it right now as I am transported back in time to a hot morning where he sang it to me while he was pushing me on my swing at my grandparent’s farm. “Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin’” We still have the state store system for hard likker though.

wholetthedogsout · July 17, 2022, 9:06pm

I am a complete waste of human flesh as I just woke up ahem recently. I have lamb shanks to cook but I think I will go type to badger about that. Anyhow this is Christmas in July for me. Weeps tears of joy as I open every precious present err post here. Thank you all so much. The last time someone surprised me by giving me shit was when you hoped my little red plastic handle thingies melted. I still maintain that you are the best so far at play fighting. I am overcome with gratitude. Thanks for all the fish. Oops wrong quote. Thanks for all the shit.

Respectfully_Declined · July 17, 2022, 9:11pm

wholetthedogsout · July 17, 2022, 9:46pm

Librarian already owns me. He brought me to my knees with his reply to my post on food memories. It was a post about warm memories at the five and dimes and the little pet shops they sometimes had there. He typed and I am still trembling as I recall this: that was one of the weirdest posts I have ever read." He gets me. Can a person be a month? If so just for this year I get to be July. #julyisdressedupandplayinghertune

bbqboy · July 17, 2022, 10:09pm

Wait. Oklahoma was actually about Pennsylvania?
That’s cool
So everything’s up to date in Kansas City is actually about Pittsburgh?

gaffk · July 17, 2022, 10:22pm

Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh in the west, Philadelphia in the east and Alabama in between.

linguafood · July 17, 2022, 10:30pm

Pennsyltucky.

gaffk · July 17, 2022, 10:32pm

Yep. Another term of endearment for my home state.

Respectfully_Declined · July 17, 2022, 10:34pm

This board is home to some brilliant people. Haha