So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[Zombie_61]

Yup. We've discussed this some already, but it's an ongoing problem. I often find myself putting the supermarket carts others have left in parking spaces in the cart returns. I'm no model citizen, but for my own sake I try to actually do something about little irritations rather than merely complain about them. Putting the carts where they belong might take a while to catch on, but we gotta start somewhere, and we gotta be persistent.

I do the same thing. Also, more often than not I'll try to find a parking space near the "cart corral" so I won't have to walk too far to put it there after I've emptied it.

I understand it to a degree--people get tired, or they're just lazy--but I've seen people walk farther to put their empty cart in the wrong place than they would have walked to put it in the right place. The people who really bug me are those who make the effort, then give up at the last moment and leave the cart just outside of it.

 

[2jakes]

So Trivial...

When I signed up, instead of using a mug shot of my kisser for avatar
I went with this instead:

And this became my face profile!

 

[tonyb]

^^^^^
And when they aren't analyzing faces, they're writing fortune cookie fortunes and the greeting cards you find on the bottom shelf at Rite Aid.

 

[2jakes]

And when they aren't analyzing faces, they're writing fortune cookie fortunes and the greeting cards you find on the bottom shelf at Rite Aid.

Welcome to BOOK!

 

[LizzieMaine]

Hey, now. My first professional writing job was writing fortune cookies -- $250 to write 100 different fortunes, which even now are probably sitting in an abandoned warehouse somewhere in Ventura.

 

[2jakes]

 

[ChiTownScion]

Or...

 

[2jakes]

Or...

 

[LizzieMaine]

Some of them weren't too far from that, actually. THIS RESTAURANT IS UNDER SURVEILLANCE. PLEASE LEAVE YOUR WAITER A MARKED BILL.

 

[Edward]

I have no idea, unfortunately. She spoke once of changing her name, but I'd have no idea what she picked if she did. When I knew her she was untraceable... she didn't have an entry in the university directory and her email wasn't even reverse searchable... which is the highest level of security for that directory I ever saw. Everybody was in the directory (you had to opt OUT) and there was no way to opt out of reverse searching by yourself... you had to go to an office and plead your case, with documentation. I know this based on personal experience of my own.)

It all sounds to me like she was either in, or taken into, the Witness Protection Programme. Even by then it surely wasn't so easy to disappear that completely.

Hey, now. My first professional writing job was writing fortune cookies -- $250 to write 100 different fortunes, which even now are probably sitting in an abandoned warehouse somewhere in Ventura.

That could be a lot of fun....

Some of them weren't too far from that, actually. THIS RESTAURANT IS UNDER SURVEILLANCE. PLEASE LEAVE YOUR WAITER A MARKED BILL.

Heh, exactly. See, I think there's a business opportunity in that - "Misfortune Cookies", which all predict something unpleasant or nasty.... The hipsters would be all over 'em.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Alas. We were thirty-five years ahead of our time on that project.

 

[sheeplady]

It all sounds to me like she was either in, or taken into, the Witness Protection Programme. Even by then it surely wasn't so easy to disappear that completely.

This was before the Internet and social media really took off. A couple of the people I know from college are untraceable as far as the internet... if you aren't in a profession where they list you online, you don't have a landline, don't own property, specify your name be hidden on utilities, and stay off social media, you can be pretty hard to trace for the average individual. Not for someone in the government or who's a real sleuth, but the average person couldn't find you.

Go higher and you can change your name and social security number.

 

[Fading Fast]

Hey, now. My first professional writing job was writing fortune cookies -- $250 to write 100 different fortunes, which even now are probably sitting in an abandoned warehouse somewhere in Ventura.

You have had some off-beat jobs. Let me state upfront, you are one of the smartest people I've even known and you are incredibly hard working. There is probably nothing you can't do better than I could except this one thing: I think I could have been a better career coach for you than you have been for yourself as I believe, with just a little work from me, you'd be running the world or at least have had some amazing jobs. That said, your theater job - challenges and all - seems to fit you very well (at least I know "your kids" and the theater management is lucky they have you).

 

[LizzieMaine]

I did enjoy the fortune cookie project, for what it's worth -- I got to eat the rejects, and at that time a steady food source was much appreciated. That was the same time I was picking gourmet mushrooms in the woods north of Santa Barabra and selling them to, among other places, the Reagan Ranch, where they were served to HM Queen Elizabeth II during her royal visit. If I'd realized the Queen was going to eat them I'd have been more thorough in cleaning them.

 

[vitanola]

Some of them weren't too far from that, actually. THIS RESTAURANT IS UNDER SURVEILLANCE. PLEASE LEAVE YOUR WAITER A MARKED BILL.

Were YOU the one who wrote my most puzzling fortune? "You will file your teeth in the presence of someone nervous"

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

Hey, Lizzie, I hear you Mainers just had a labor dispute determined by the presence (or absence) of an Oxford comma. That must be a first. As for your gourmet mushrooms, tomorrow being St. Patrick's day, I am reminded some Irishmen would have paid you to slip in some Death Caps among the good ones, cleaned or not.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Hey, Lizzie, I hear you Mainers just had a labor dispute determined by the presence (or absence) of an Oxford comma. That must be a first. As for your gourmet mushrooms, tomorrow being St. Patrick's day, I am reminded some Irishmen would have paid you to slip in some Death Caps among the good ones, cleaned or not.

I worked with a guy in radio who, whenever I'd read any news item about the Queen, would stand up in the other studio where I could see him thru the window and bellow "GET THE F*** OUT OF IRELAND!" His name, need I say, was "O'Donnell."

That comma thing cracked me up when I saw it in the paper this morning. Somewhere, E. B. White is pumping his fist in the air in solidarity with those milkmen.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Were YOU the one who wrote my most puzzling fortune? "You will file your teeth in the presence of someone nervous"

Most of the fortunes that weren't gags I cribbed straight from the Book of Proverbs, translated into Charlie Chan dialect. It was a very, very different time.

 

[tonyb]

I worked with a guy in radio who, whenever I'd read any news item about the Queen, would stand up in the other studio where I could see him thru the window and bellow "GET THE F*** OUT OF IRELAND!" His name, need I say, was "O'Donnell." .,,

My great friend, the recently departed Dennis Francis McGuire, would have found a soulmate in your Mr. O'Donnell. He wouldn't touch what he called "Protestant whiskey," meaning the swill made in the North.

I won't live long enough to stop missing him.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Kale. The word "superfoods," people who think the word organic on something suddenly makes it better. Keep in mind that the government does not regulate the word organic. Also lead, arsenic, & hemlock are all organic, too.