OT - What are you doing right now?

Ybabpmuts

I had a newspaper route when I was 14 too. One time while I was delivering a paper to this one house, I saw two people in the window, with nothing on but each other, and they just kept fighting back and forth to cover each other ip in case anybody walked in I guess. After a while they got really really winded and just gave up trying, figuring they were so tired of fighting it anybody could see them naked and it wouldn't mattter

HeavyG

Legume said:

It's generational.  And lack of proper training.  Use of cash is a lot less common than it used to be. 

And use of cash is going to be a thing of the past  in not too many more years. The sooner we get rid of having to handle dirty crumpled paper and filthy coins handled by fingers that earlier may have wiped their drippy noses the better I say!
Then leave it to all the old boomers to sit on their porch in their rocker and bore all their grandkids with "Why back in my day we had to be able to count out change and handle money folks might have just pulled out from their sweat drenched brassieres. You kids are so spoiled these days. yada yada yada..."

Ybabpmuts

My sister Beulah had sweat drenched brassier in the summer of 98. I still have the shirt she wore that day because .. if she's not around for me to lay across her chest, the shirt is the next best thing. Some sisters are the best.

lousubcap

I will offer that cash is a means to avoid any foot prints in the sand.  Be careful what you wish for...,

Botch

HeavyG said:
And use of cash is going to be a thing of the past  in not too many more years. The sooner we get rid of having to handle dirty crumpled paper and filthy coins handled by fingers that earlier may have wiped their drippy noses the better I say!

In a way that's already happened.  I normally use a human cashier at the grocery store because they smile and are cute (and cueing in produce numbers and quantities used to be their job, not mine).  But now, with just a few items, I hit those "self-checkout" thingies and more and more of them accept CCs/AppleWallet/whatever, only.  I started using my CC a lot more during COVID, but still don't use my AppleWallet as I only carry my phone when I'm hiking or driving cross-country.  

Ybabpmuts

I very rarely carry cash anymore. Last weekend I went downtown (in my new town) to the sidewalk bakery/cafe and there was a little girl, maybe 8 or 9 years old, outside the door when I came out. She had a bucket in her hand and was asking for donations for something. She was so damned cute and asked for a donation, but what surprised me was she gave me the sales spiel and then said ... I take venmo or just plain cash. I got such a kick out of that. Luckily I had ten dollars in my wallet, which was in there for so long I didn't even know it. It's a good thing, I wouldn't know a venmo if it bit me in the butt.

HeavyG

lousubcap said:

I will offer that cash is a means to avoid any foot prints in the sand.  Be careful what you wish for...,

I get what you're saying. However, we now live in a world with cameras (public & private) everywhere. Everyone has their cell phone which is easily tracked. Bank withdrawals/deposits are easily subpoenable. Many police departments use license plate readers (as do some private companies). Facial recognition is widely deployed. Palantir is able to pull all kinds of data together for various "three letter agencies".

It's getting tougher to anonymously buy some parking lot beef.

Ybabpmuts

Last time I bought parking lot beef it tasted like turkey. I think I went to the wrong parking lot. The beef guy wasn't very good with his directions to be fair.
I could have sold it as beef with some kind of sauce but the fuzzy little misses stump is allergic to turkey and she balloons up and takes up the whole bed all night long ... and the constant wheezing... Oh dear lord the wheezing and wheezing 

fishlessman

Legume said:

Well, then maybe it would be good to put more money into education.

School near me bought seat cushions this year for the classrooms.  Maybe they have too much money

fishlessman

freshman year in high school 1978,  no cushions.  the teacher, brother alcide aka brother alchy, would sucker punch you from the left after indulging to much southern comfort all day. you went crashing over with the desk be careful for that after lunch

alaskanassasin

I still use cash all the time, save my change, the whole bit. Cash is king when making large purchases too, definitely will get you extras when paying for service.

MasterC

I gave a Kennedy half dollar at the drive in window and the cashier said they didn't except Canadian money 

fishlessman

i stopped using cash when they stopped giving back change during covid. the new hampshire toll would take a 20 for a 2 dollar toll and keep the 18 bucks worth of change.......

TheFishWhisperer

fishlessman said:

Legume said:

Well, then maybe it would be good to put more money into education.

School near me bought seat cushions this year for the classrooms.  Maybe they have too much money

Kids shouldn’t be comfortable in school.  I sat in a wooden desk and was assaulted by alcoholic teachers, but look at how I turned out.  

Legume

"it was good enough for me 60 years ago"

fishlessman

TheFishWhisperer said:

fishlessman said:

Legume said:

Well, then maybe it would be good to put more money into education.

School near me bought seat cushions this year for the classrooms.  Maybe they have too much money

Kids shouldn’t be comfortable in school.  I sat in a wooden desk and was assaulted by alcoholic teachers, but look at how I turned out.  

im perfectly fine with first graders pissing in their seats on cushions,  its a job opportunity for you to clean them  after all. everyone should have a job they can handle and be proud of. snot catcher, bed bugs, soaked in urine, what could go wrong in a grammar school.

TheFishWhisperer

fishlessman said:

TheFishWhisperer said:

fishlessman said:

Legume said:

Well, then maybe it would be good to put more money into education.

School near me bought seat cushions this year for the classrooms.  Maybe they have too much money

Kids shouldn’t be comfortable in school.  I sat in a wooden desk and was assaulted by alcoholic teachers, but look at how I turned out.  

im perfectly fine with first graders pissing in their seats on cushions,  its a job opportunity for you to clean them  after all. everyone should have a job they can handle and be proud of. snot catcher, bed bugs, soaked in urine, what could go wrong in a grammar school.

When it comes to what can go wrong in grammar school, I am patient zero.

lkapigian

fishlessman said:

freshman year in high school 1978,  no cushions.  the teacher, brother alcide aka brother alchy, would sucker punch you from the left after indulging to much southern comfort all day. you went crashing over with the desk be careful for that after lunch

I have a couple of these still that I snagged at a customers house

fishlessman

lkapigian said:

fishlessman said:

freshman year in high school 1978,  no cushions.  the teacher, brother alcide aka brother alchy, would sucker punch you from the left after indulging to much southern comfort all day. you went crashing over with the desk be careful for that after lunch

I have a couple of these still that I snagged at a customers house

those things would be a lawsuit nowadays......

mr patient zero, the whisperer, picked one up when the covid bidets became popular

lousubcap

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Battleborn

Just found out that my youngest daughter has me saved in her phone as “Landlord.”  I kinda like it. 

Ybabpmuts

Just left the pub downtown. When the bartender asked if I was done ... this is what my stupid brain came out with .


Bartender ... "You're done paul?"

Me. Yeah, to be honest I feel a burl in my pants. This morning I ran through a field of wildflowers naked and at first it was great, it was wildflowers across the bum wildflowers across the bum wildflowers across the bum but then I hit one burl ...

lkapigian

Loaded up on Oak, going to be a busy few weekends of cooks ( I know, I should stack neater )

alaskanassasin

A burl is a tree knot @Ybabpmuts

Ybabpmuts

Burr. Fat fingers

fishlessman

alaskanassasin said:

A burl is a tree knot @Ybabpmuts

you can remove a burr, a burl could cause some serious damage. not sure what really went on in stumps head at last call

nolaegghead

Testing the sharpness of my pocket knife.  Check.

fishlessman

nolaegghead said:

Testing the sharpness of my pocket knife.  Check.

sharpen....check.....repeat

JohnInCarolina

nolaegghead said:

Testing the sharpness of my pocket knife.  Check.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfggghQENsU

JohnnyTarheel

Battleborn said:

Just found out that my youngest daughter has me saved in her phone as “Landlord.”  I kinda like it. 

My granddaughter had her mom in her phone saved as Parole Officer