^ Love this turn of phrase.
Often vacation rentals come stocked with scratched and flaking non-stick cookware too. Amenities, you know. 
And that’s why I also travel with a pan and a couple of knives when we can drive to a rented vacation house.
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Welp, I was a lawyer and had insurance , so yeah, I don’t blame you.
When I worked as an engineer I had a project where I was flying in Sunday nights and back out Friday nights for about 18 weeks. I was staying at a Residence Inn that had, to be charitable, EasyBake Oven level pots and pans in the kitchenette. Immediate warping/bowing with modest heat.
Heading into week 2 of 18, I convinced the hotel manager that as a returning weekly guest, she should get me a decent (but cheap) set of pans from JC Penney or some such. She was really nice and that hotel was very well managed.
Always wonder if she took them home after my stint ended.
This was up in CheeseLand WI - ShoutOut Greg - @DaBadger where the groceries were wonderlands of cheeses.
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Resourceful!
For many years running, we had the amazing privilege of renting a house from friends for 2 weeks in the summer on Martha’s Vineyard. They don’t drink wine and we do, so we kept a set of inexpensive sturdy wineglasses in a high kitchen cabinet that they never used. It was the end of an era when we got the wineglasses back because they were selling the house.
We still have the friends, the glasses, and years of happy memories.
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❤❤❤❤❤ Imho this is a complete sentence
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Happy Pennsylvania Day to all of you who celebrate 
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Had to look it up. Strange backstory on the date being in July rather than December.
They’re (finally!) dead, Jim. (Or at least I hope they are!)
These wasps were stubborn little assholes and weren’t dying like they were supposed to do. The deck nest was sprayed last Friday by a professional, although from the ground vs. up close on the deck. They were still there, although in much smaller quantity. So she came back to get access on to the deck to re-spray and dig out the nests this morning. Here’s the detritus from the front porch light and the deck light.
I’ll sweep everything up tonight and put it out for the trash, and then make sure I spray inside the lights on a regular basis next year.
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Yay!
The other week Mrs. P was watering the flowers on the deck, and all of a sudden she started screaming and flailing around with the hose spraying the windows. She got a mean bite from a bald faced wasp and a swarm of them were around her. Luckily, she was able to get the stinger out of her arm and put some cortisone cream on it to prevent any swelling. She took a closer look behind a trellis that contained thick green leaves from a wisteria vine. There was a huge bald faced wasp nest the size of a soccer ball! I guess she got too close to it. We had no idea there was a nest there. We called an exterminator, and for a well spent $100 he sprayed the nest from the deck and below the 2nd floor deck. Several hours later the wasps were gone, and the next day Mrs. P smashed the nest and knocked it down to the ground level.
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Um. Bitch is not a word? WTF.
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It is, as are mammy, nappy and chink. But you can’t use those, either.
I’d never think of using (or trying to use) any of those, whereas I grew up learning that bitch is a perfectly acceptable term for a female dog 
Is that no longer the case? What are they called now?
But “Boho” and “hobo” are a-ok 
The latter is a derogatory term AFAIK.
Really, F the SB sometimes.
And “chink” is something that happens to armor sometimes.
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YIKES! Those are one of the more aggressive stinging insects! Glad it was only a single sting and she got the stinger out.
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Thanks. Yes, those are some aggressive wasps.
I am truly amazed that such small insects can create these large nests out of pretty much wood pulp, (from chewing on weathered wood), and saliva.
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i don’t get it. Halp!
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That yellow goop looks suspiciously like a slice of American cheese that’s been melted in a microwave.
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