I get it. My father was the same. Their brains go a mile a minute, all with good intentions, until…
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It seems to me that lots of people are being diagnosed with that these days!
First diagnosed in 1798, but obviously not nearly as much as now.
Panic attacks were also not “a thing” when I was suffering them in the early 90s.
Yay for progress in medicine.
I remember asking my GP if my chest pains were psychosomatic or stress related. He said he didn’t believe in that. Told me to take anti-acids.
I also asked him if my low triglycerides (and husband’s high) were because I drank red wine (while he drank black cherry soda). “Absolutely no relation.”
We’ve come a long way, Baby.
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Wow!! You must give me your secret to such graceful aging! 
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That was the first time it was diagnosed, but not on me.
I hope you had a pleasant birthday 
and can’t wait to see your newest pizza pie!
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Thanks. Pizza tonight
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We made reservations to have dinner with a couple in their 80s. The hostess brought us to a hi top, said nothing else available. Didn’t occur to me to say no hi top when making the reservation. But, they didn’t ask, either. We left. By chance, we were able to eat at a very popular restaurant because they had a cancellation. Worked out great.
Other pet peeves are when wait staff at a steakhouse can’t give recommendations because they don’t eat meat. Same for seafood places.
And on the When in Rome theme, correcting my New England pronunciation of scallops. Drives me nuts.
Enough gripes for today.
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Dare I ask what they thought was “correct”?
I say scollups. As in all. They say scallips. As in Al.
Everywhere outside of New England pronounces them as scallips. That’s fine with me. Just don’t tell me what to call them while in my own back yard.
I must be on a roll. Companion ordered offal. Waiter called it oar full. Lest you think I’m easily offended, I smile and tip pretty generously
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Go old school. Write it in bare html. Hand design your logo pixel by pixel in mspaint.
Or even better, just have the whole thing be a scan of both sides of your take out trifold. Your address and phone is already there. What else do people need?
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Yikes! I’m not sure I’ve ever ordered them outside of New England. Interesting…
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Post a jpeg of the trifold to GeoCities or Angel fire. This is the way.
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I meant wait staff who aren’t from New England but end up working here. Possibly the same ones who work in seafood restaurants but don’t eat fish themselves.
Silly how this all started because my guests wouldn’t /couldn’t climb up to a hi top table.
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Not so. In fact, I, native Californian, have rarely heard that anywhere.
I first ate scallops in Boston with my English (from England) family, and so used to pronounce them the way they did… scoll-ups.
My friends who grew up in Boston continue to chuckle about that pronunciation, because all of them pronounce it scall-ips (as I do now).
So I don’t know that it’s quite as New England-vs-everywhere, as it may not be uniform in New England itself.
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Ive only heard it in New England as “ska-luhps”.
Not “lahps” or “lips”.
I’ve lived in California, Nevada, Washington, Oregon. Never heard scallips.
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