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    Last week Thursday, we had a thunderstorm roll in. One that darkened the sky enough to turn on all the streetlights at quarter to 11 in the morning.

    So naturally all us freight people decided to venture outside to spend part of our lunch break.

    Go freaking figure, it looks like a tornado could drop out of the sky at any minute and that's when everybody wants to go shopping. The store got really busy and people were still pulling in.

    As we were outside, a couple ladies approached from the parking lot. One said to us "Is there some kind of warning? She's (meaning the other woman) afraid of tornadoes."

    I told them "Well, if you see us running, try to keep up."

    As for the storm, it just produced a little wind and a lot of rain.
    Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.

    "I never said I wasn't a horrible person."--Me, almost daily

  • #2
    We had the same weather pretty much Thursday through Sunday morning.

    Saturday afternoon, I'm lucky I showered when I did. I got out of the shower and my apartment on the one side (where the bedrooms are) was as dark as it gets at night! It rained so hard, while I was in the bathroom getting ready, I could really hear the rain. One of my biggest fears is the power going out while I'm in the shower.

    One giant boom of thunder, and my downstairs neighbor's baby was wailing for hours.
    You really need to see a neurologist. - Wagegoth

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    • #3
      The rain would also attract the dumbbunnies to go to my store, as well. As would the snow. There were never enough dry mop heads to go around. Brilliantly, the mismanagers would demand we remove the mats and the fans as soon as the storms were gone, so that once again, when there was a storm, they couldn't be found.

      There was never really a quiet time at the Little shop of horrors.
      Customers should always be served . . . to the nearest great white.

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      • #4
        I will say this again. 2 raindrops or 2 snowlakes and my pizza place's phones go nutz. OOOOHHHHHHHH the world is coming to an end....... MUST HAVE PIZZZZZAAAAAAAA NOOOOOOOWWWWWW

        Enough said enough times
        I'm lost without a paddle and headed up SH*T creek.
        -- Life Sucks Then You Die.


        "I'll believe corp. are people when Texas executes one."

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        • #5
          Having spent 15 years in Florida, it never ceased to amaze me ....

          You live in a VERY hurricane, or at the least tornado/lightning, prone area of the country AND YET you have not learned to stock up?? Every single time the weather would get bad, EVERY SINGLE TIME!!, people would flock to the stores for ..... milk, eggs, and bread.

          HUH?

          If it's a hurricane, the least of your worries is milk, eggs, and bread. If it's a lesser storm causing a power outage, how the heck are you going to keep the milk and eggs cool? We twice spent an entire week (due to a hurricane - and yes we were thankful to be alive) without power in FLORIDA in AUGUST !! and we survived just fine (well other than being hot and stinking from no water for showers). Yanno why??? Cause we didn't buy milk, eggs, and bread. We bought candles, bottled water, canned food, and a can opener - AHEAD of the storm!!!

          Is it really that hard??

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          • #6
            Meh, I knew it was going to happen because of the popularity of the movie, but it just seemed too fitting that on the gloomiest weekend in a while (save for the weekends where it's been barely near average temps *coughAprilweekendscough*, every day of the weekend it either stormed or rained heavily......everyone flocked the mall and the movie theaters.

            Friday evening at the salon was pretty quiet, which was nice, though.
            You really need to see a neurologist. - Wagegoth

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            • #7
              Quoth Teefies2 View Post
              If it's a hurricane, the least of your worries is milk, eggs, and bread. If it's a lesser storm causing a power outage, how the heck are you going to keep the milk and eggs cool?
              My store gets the same dumbfuckery except with frozen food. Part of me is waiting for someone to get sick from trying to eat a raw frozen item (burger, chicken breast, etc) during a power outage and attempt to blame the store because "you didn't tell me I had to cook it!".

              Cold stuff will stay cold for a few hours if you don't open the fridge/freezer a lot, but I wouldn't wait very long to eat or cook what I can (assuming it's safe to use the gas stove).
              "I am quite confident that I do exist."
              "Excuse me, I'm making perfect sense. You're just not keeping up." The Doctor

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              • #8
                After the 2003 Hurricane stomped NS flatter than Saskatchewan, we had a couple of pounds of bacon in the freezer (among way too much else, MIL is a food hoarder), we fried the whole lot up on the bbq. BBQ is your friend during an extended power outage, at least until every retailer within 300kms is out of propane tanks. To say the province was unprepared for a natural disaster of that magnitude is putting it mildly.

                Ever since, all that has to happen is RUMOUR of bad weather and the grocery stores get mobbed for the trifecta of milk/bread/eggs, propane, and ice. And I just roll my eyes because I can make bread, even if I have to bake it in a can on the bbq. I don't drink milk, and eggs will keep for weeks if you can just keep them cool. It's BACON that's the problem. Gotta eat that up right away, because it won't keep. And I am... rather fond.. of bacon.
                What colour is the sky in your world and how high of a dosage do you need before it turns back to blue? --Gravekeeper

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                • #9
                  Oh yes, I remember the hurricanes in Florida. My house and my uncle's house lost power. But my step-mom's dad's house had power. It was nice to feel rich for a week.

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                  • #10
                    over here, you'd still be able to have a BBQ. ( we have wood/charcoal barbecues) Of course, you'd likely have a shortage of meat to barbecue.

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                    • #11
                      Quoth mharbourgirl View Post
                      we fried the whole lot up on the bbq.
                      What, put a pan on the grill, or put the bacon straight on the grill itself? (My bbq has a fairly useless gas ring on the side, suitable for a small pot, but it never occurred to me to put a pot right on the grill. Ought to wok just as well... typo left in for humorousness)
                      It's BACON that's the problem. Gotta eat that up right away, because it won't keep.
                      Being Jewish, I've never eaten the stuff, but I'd have thought it should keep fairly well. It's smoked, isn't it? Shouldn't that preserve it somewhat?

                      (OK, I've eaten kosher pseudo-bacon made from beef plate. I\think it's pretty good. How it compares to the genuine article, though, I guess I'll never find out.)

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                      • #12
                        A couple sheets of foil stacked on your grill, slap bacon on top, tada. Or just use a cast iron pan like my ex does. Or smoke it. He's fond of taking "a hunk of pig" and wrapping it in "more pig" (bacon) and smoking the whole thing.

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                        • #13
                          We get the same things when blizzards are called for in my area. I think it's the "we gotta stock up before we run out, even though we already have more than enough food to last us the week" mentality.

                          SC
                          "...four of his five wits went halting off, and now is the whole man governed with one..." W. Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing Act I, Sc I

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                          • #14
                            Quoth Shalom View Post
                            What, put a pan on the grill, or put the bacon straight on the grill itself? (My bbq has a fairly useless gas ring on the side, suitable for a small pot, but it never occurred to me to put a pot right on the grill. Ought to wok just as well... typo left in for humorousness)


                            Being Jewish, I've never eaten the stuff, but I'd have thought it should keep fairly well. It's smoked, isn't it? Shouldn't that preserve it somewhat?

                            (OK, I've eaten kosher pseudo-bacon made from beef plate. I\think it's pretty good. How it compares to the genuine article, though, I guess I'll never find out.)
                            Yep, just slap a frying pan on the grill and go nuts.

                            As for keeping bacon, if you buy a smoked side of bacon and keep it in a cool, dryish place it'll keep for a long time, but the stuff you buy pre-sliced in the store isn't so forgiving. It spoils pretty fast after the package has been opened, unfortunately.
                            What colour is the sky in your world and how high of a dosage do you need before it turns back to blue? --Gravekeeper

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                            • #15
                              Re: Thread title:

                              Kepten! Kepten! The neurons canna take it any longer!
                              I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
                              Procrastination: Forward planning to insure there is something to do tomorrow.
                              Derails threads faster than a pocket nuke.

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