Why wait in line?

[felinefan]

Tripod has never been big on grooming, and now she really isn't. I'll see her wash her face after a meal, but that's it. And believe me, she hates getting brushed and combed--I have to put an Elizabethian collar on her in order to keep from getting bitten. Her teeth are razor-sharp. If she doesn't barf up food in various stages of digestion, it's foam. I do have a tube of Petromalt, and gave her some yesterday. As for her eating habits, who knows what's on that kitty's mind....

You're lucky to have a wonderful wife, Zazu. I have a grouchy mom who questions everything I need. A couple of weeks ago, I got new glasses; the following week, I needed some loperamide, and she groused about that. And she grouses about what happens if I don't have loperamide, and desperately need it, and what occurs after that, if you get my drift (involves a plunger). It's like her needs come way before mine. She could've avoided all this by quitting smoking long ago instead of when she was diagnosed with COPD, and if she didn't put enough salt in her food to choke a toad, her blood pressure wouldn't be so high so as to produce an abdominal aortic aneurysm, which with the COPD means surgery is out, and a stent is a no-go.

[turkeyham]

The crowds at Disneyland has been very crowded. The crowdes are bad enough it looks like a mall had a $1 deal for a color tv. What I am getting at is that when you walk towards the Haunted Mansion and the SG have no idea how to walk. Zoombies on the loose!!

[Main Streeter]

I do buy something so I don't starve. :)

This sounds like me! I hate to go to grocery store. Lazy perhaps + I NEVER cook. My cooking is best described as burning. Like to eat but will not go out of my way or stop for a meal. Will eat at work because a friend brings lunch for 3 of us. If Subway, Rubio's, El Metate, & ColdStone weren't around I'd live on Vitamin Water on my days off. Never ate as a child because I wasn't forced to try anything I "thought" I wouldn't like. My Mom tried everything to make me eat. There are simply some people who don't care to eat meals 3xs per day. Many only eat when they want to. Doesn't make them abnormal. ;)

[Whazzup]

Tripod has never been big on grooming, and now she really isn't. I'll see her wash her face after a meal, but that's it. And believe me, she hates getting brushed and combed--I have to put an Elizabethian collar on her in order to keep from getting bitten. Her teeth are razor-sharp. If she doesn't barf up food in various stages of digestion, it's foam. I do have a tube of Petromalt, and gave her some yesterday. As for her eating habits, who knows what's on that kitty's mind....

You're lucky to have a wonderful wife, Zazu. I have a grouchy mom who questions everything I need. A couple of weeks ago, I got new glasses; the following week, I needed some loperamide, and she groused about that. And she grouses about what happens if I don't have loperamide, and desperately need it, and what occurs after that, if you get my drift (involves a plunger). It's like her needs come way before mine. She could've avoided all this by quitting smoking long ago instead of when she was diagnosed with COPD, and if she didn't put enough salt in her food to choke a toad, her blood pressure wouldn't be so high so as to produce an abdominal aortic aneurysm, which with the COPD means surgery is out, and a stent is a no-go.

Your Mom sounds a lot like Churchy's Mom and you're in the same type situation. (No offense, Churchy)

[Syndrome]

My cat Tripod has been getting picky lately.

Your post reminded me of our old cat Vinnie, God rest his alley cat soul, who loved one particular flavor of Fancy Feast. It was a gross smelling fish-in-jelly type of thing...yellow stripe on label, I think. He'd eat other foods but he'd just about die for that one. Mr. Syndrome got into a vendetta of "How many days in a row will he eat his favorite flavor before he gets sick of it?" I think the cat lasted two months before he finally turned his nose up at it.

Our current spoiled cat Farquaad adores raw ground beef...he goes insane when you say the word (Vinnie was a 'beef cat' too).

[turkeyham]

If you left instructions for SG to get in line, they would be very confused.

That reminds me, one day I was working on drive thru at Del Taco. The orders get rung up and placed on a wedge metal sheet. I approached the driver and told him the amount, the dork said, oh I did not order anything yet and starts to cuss me out. I started to take his order and he became an idiot. There were cars backing up on drive thru. So, i ring it up and he ays I want my food now. Big mistake, my best friend is a police officer and he and his captain heard the dork. The came through the kitchen and released me from my location. The police department handled it nicely. They called for back up and evacuated drive thru. Next all I hear is all employees, evacuate. We did. The driver was arrested. He had robbed a bank out in Westmister and came to the restaurant. :)

[Ms. Matterhorn]

If you left instructions for SG to get in line, they would be very confused.

That reminds me, one day I was working on drive thru at Del Taco. The orders get rung up and placed on a wedge metal sheet. I approached the driver and told him the amount, the dork said, oh I did not order anything yet and starts to cuss me out. I started to take his order and he became an idiot. There were cars backing up on drive thru. So, i ring it up and he ays I want my food now. Big mistake, my best friend is a police officer and he and his captain heard the dork. The came through the kitchen and released me from my location. The police department handled it nicely. They called for back up and evacuated drive thru. Next all I hear is all employees, evacuate. We did. The driver was arrested. He had robbed a bank out in Westmister and came to the restaurant. :)

Holy crap! How come you haven't told that story before?!!!!

[turkeyham]

That story occured when I was in my senior year in high school. The robbery was at a Bank of America on Golden West Street in Westminster near the movie theater and Church's chicken. In the Home Depo area.

Seal Beach has now changed. There is a Hampton Inn where the railroad tracks are.

That day after the evacuation, we were able to go back in 1 hour later. The drive thru was closed off. :(

[Belgarion42]

Seal Beach has now changed. There is a Hampton Inn where the railroad tracks are.

I don't think I'd want to stay at that Hampton In.. Maybe if it were *next* to the tracks instead.

[Belgarion42]

This thread (or at least the initial topic of it) reminds me of an old Dave Barry column I read this week. Here's just a sample:

1. If there's a line, you get at the end of the line, and you wait your turn.

2. You own ONE place in the line. You do NOT have the right to invite friends to join you in the line. This is rude to the people behind you, who got there before your friends, and will now have to wait longer. If you want to be with your friends, you can join them at the back of the line. And, no, it's not enough to ask the person immediately behind you if it's OK for your friends to butt in. This person does not speak for the entire line. Also this person pretty much has to say yes, but only because he or she, being less rude than you, wants to avoid confrontation.

EXCEPTION: You may invite an immediate family member such as your spouse or child to join you in the line. There are no other exceptions.

EXCEPTION: Halle Berry.

The rest of the article is at http://www.miamiherald.com/living/colum ... 96405.html