Random Thoughts

[Remax gal]

I wish my husband enjoyed walking around as much as I do!! It doesn't matter where I am, I enjoy the walk, but it is much more enjoyable walking with someone! Just my random thought!!


Laura & Tom

[mandolindave]

Because when I come here, I find peoples own thoughts, feelings, or experiences…… not a bunch of regurgitated memes, and quotes ( random Facebook bashing )

[mandolindave]

Men are goal orientated…..ask Tom to walk somewhere in particular, instead of just walking around. Then tell him it is to save gas. Sorry….that wasn't random ………...at all.

[SteveSueMac]

SRV's version of the other Stevie's "Superstitious" is amazing.

I love this random thread!

"I love lamp!" (Anchorman).

[kingfisher24]

needs walking and so do i…keeps us from going in circles:roll eyes: chasing our tails

[switz]

The food industry lobbies got a special deal in the United States and pays servers just over $2 per hour in most states. Thus the restaurant owners are keeping the difference between that number and the minimum wage in their own pockets as pure profit at the expense of their employees. The servers have to hustle at a diner to clear even net the minimum wage hurdle after forced sharing of the "tips" with the entire staff. Their hours are rigged to preclude eligibility for any benefits like healthcare or profit sharing.

In my and my wife's experience traveling in Europe and Japan, the servers earn a living wage and in some countries tipping is not expected. We in the US have been hoodwinked into tipping to compensate for the wage theft.

[SteveH]

Originally Posted by richw46

Sorry, I can't let this go, I've know too many waiters. It's way off topic but I'm with Paula on this one. That $36 that you come up with is not just for the waiter you are face to face with, it's also the person who showed you to your seat, took your orders, made your food and drinks, brought your food and drinks, bussed your table, washed your dishes and did the set up for the next customer. All those people share the tips but you see very few of them and tip only the one that took your orders and brought you the bill.

This can vary by locale and custom but I have never known a server who gets to keep it all. I've know a lot of servers, none of them are living in mansions. Most are just struggling to pay their tuition, books, fees and buy gas to go home for the holidays. I've raised two of them.

That being said, I like the Beach Boys A LOT!

If this is in fact how the whole system works, it's really screwed up. However, I don't think it's like this everywhere because I have a couple of nieces that waited tables, and they told a different story.

[TCwheels]

Originally Posted by Secguru

Ring... Ring...

(On the phone) I'd like to order a pizza, with no anchovies?

(This end) No anchovies? You've got the wrong number. I spell my name Danger.

Nick Danger - Third Eye

As I read my name on my office door, regnad kcin....


WBCCI #7246
AIR #91367

[Arcticfox]

Holy crap that kid can play!


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[slowmover]

Originally Posted by switz

The food industry lobbies got a special deal in the United States and pays servers just over $2 per hour in most states. Thus the restaurant owners are keeping the difference between that number and the minimum wage in their own pockets as pure profit at the expense of their employees. The servers have to hustle at a diner to clear even net the minimum wage hurdle after forced sharing of the "tips" with the entire staff. Their hours are rigged to preclude eligibility for any benefits like healthcare or profit sharing.



In my and my wife's experience traveling in Europe and Japan, the servers earn a living wage and in some countries tipping is not expected. We in the US have been hoodwinked into tipping to compensate for the wage theft.

This.

[boondockdad]

I'm old enough to remember when this was a pop tune by 'When In Rome'

Sturgill's cover is much better...

http://youtu.be/-eWJmN8D820

[ROBERT CROSS]

Men shop....

Woman browse...

Bob

[Panama Red]

When my mother was shopping for shoes to match her dress for my brother's wedding, she and my dad started in the Altamonte mall (Altamonte Springs, Fl) First store, first pair of shoes were perfect. Perfect color, fit , style... She then tried on every other pair of shoes in that color in that store, then every other store in that mall, then every shoe store in three other malls in the surrounding area. Late that evening, they ended up back in that first store and bought that first pair. Why my dad hasn't killed himself already is beyond me...

She was shopping, not browsing. You don't want to see her browse. I hated when we went shopping for school clothes when I was a kid...

-Red, thankful for the wife he has...

[Paddledipper]

My favorite part of every thread is reading Red's ever changing signature line and laughing at his wonderful sense of humor. As in....

"-Red, lying about easy listening"

~ Joy, reading the threads just to see what Red is going to say in closing.

[ROBERT CROSS]

Life in reverse By George Carlin

"The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends.
I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time.
What do you get at the end of it?
A death.
What's that, a bonus?
I think the life cycle is all backwards.
You should die first; get it out of the way.
Then you live in an old age home.
You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch,
you go to work.
You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement.
You drink alcohol, you party,
you get ready for high school.
You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb,
You spend your last nine months floating...
Then you finish off as an orgasm."

[SteveSueMac]

I had never heard that routine before - makes too much sense :-)

[Panama Red]

Originally Posted by Paddledipper

My favorite part of every thread is reading Red's ever changing signature line and laughing at his wonderful sense of humor. As in....

"-Red, lying about easy listening"

~ Joy, reading the threads just to see what Red is going to say in closing.

I humbly consider it a service to my fellow travelers.

-Red, attention whore extraordinaire...

[terryV]

Originally Posted by ROBERT CROSS

Men shop....

Woman browse...

Bob

I think women shop, men just buy. We don't worry that another store has it for 10% off, we just buy it here where we first found it.

I gone into a couple of stores that didn't have what I was looking for, and then I went home. Nuff shopping for today.

[Ganado]

More randomness RE shopping

Men and women Differences

THis is easy. if you think of it as hunter gatherer society.

Men get together, drink beer, plan the hunt, kill the woolly mammoth. Any man who doesn't follow the plan dies.

Women gather the seeds and berries and run around in groups to keep predators at bay (thus going to bathroom together).

Talk to scare critters in meadow away, (why we can talk so much about what seems like nothing to men, I say to you men talking is an art form lol)

Shopping lines up perfectly with looking at every little detail because if you pick the wrong colored berry (aka shoes) you could poison the tribe.

We are never very far from our ancestors, especially while camping

[Panama Red]

My mother kills the wooly mammoth, skins it, guts it, quarters it, hauls it out, butchers it, smokes it and makes mammoth bacon from it's belly fat... Don't ever let her hear you refer to her shopping as "gathering berries"! She's a ferocious shopper, out for the kill and the thrill of the hunt.

-Red, craving mammoth bacon...