MM, I've got a recent experience for you--but I need to type it all up in a relatively coherent manner.
I've finished the book and handed it off to DH. He smiled at me and said, "That was fast."
Um, yeah. It's that good.
Saffron: You just had a better hand of cards this time. Mal: It ain't a hand of cards. It's called a life.
'Trash'
Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Cashmere - Jul 09, 2007 11:51:17 am PDT #7202 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Connie Neil - Jul 09, 2007 11:52:19 am PDT #7203 of 10001
brillig
Oh, and MM, you'll also be getting a few "The Hatred of the Lazy CS Person for the Desperate Person on the Phone" stories, illustrating how people who are only in it for beer money for Friday night indulge in penny ante sadism on the callers.
Allyson - Jul 09, 2007 11:53:58 am PDT #7204 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I'm compulsively vanity googling.
ChiKat - Jul 09, 2007 11:54:43 am PDT #7205 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
I already sent MM my favorite CS story, but I have another series that's pretty good, too. Are you aware of how many men use 1-800 numbers for free phone sex? I used to work for the reservation line for a hotel chain and we had regulars call trying to engage us in phone sex. After the shock wore off, it was fairly amusing. Especially on slow nights when we'd put the guys on speaker phone.
Allyson - Jul 09, 2007 11:57:58 am PDT #7206 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
ChiKat, that was common the whole time I worked retail, because retail is mostly young woman who have to answer the phone by saying their name and being polite.
I wrote an essay about it called The Pantyhose Man.
One perv called scared me so bad I called the cops. I was working alone in a Payless shoestore and I was 18. The man said he was going to come and see me when i got off work.
Freaked me right out.
Polgara - Jul 09, 2007 11:58:12 am PDT #7207 of 10001
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
I'm compulsively vanity googling.
Are you the one who keeps jacking up the stats on my knitting blog?
shrift - Jul 09, 2007 11:58:32 am PDT #7208 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I should dig up some good CS stories for MM. There was that one time some dude called me from Brazil to argue with me about Corn Pops. And the dude who melted his laptop keyboard. And the porn. Oh, there was so much porn.
Steph L. - Jul 09, 2007 12:00:56 pm PDT #7209 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
There was that one time some dude called me from Brazil to argue with me about Corn Pops.
Aye, dios mio!
Allyson - Jul 09, 2007 12:01:29 pm PDT #7210 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Probably. I think I've looked myself up about 8 times in the last two days.
shrift - Jul 09, 2007 12:05:24 pm PDT #7211 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Aye, dios mio!
More like, "Oi, deus meu!"