I'm a selfish little pig

[TonyDonuts]

Wow, they really are everywhere.

Once upon a time, we had a blizzard in beautiful Mankato, bad enough that the city pulled the plows off the streets at 5:00AM. The wind and snow would cover the streets back up almost as soon as the plows went by, so the main streets didn't even begin to get plowed until around 10:00AM.

So I didn't get in to get the Hut of Pizza until noon, and the rest of my day people until later. We usually got people in around 8 to get dough prepped for opening at 11.

So we didn't bother setting up the buffet, because there were very, very few people about, and we didn't have enough dough to set it up anyway.

We had some thin dough, and some personal pans ready, but that was it. Everything else needed a couple hours prep time.

In walks Buddy and his Brood.

He was indignant that we didn't have buffet set up, and absolutely refused to believe that the arctic friggin' nightmare outside could possibly have anything to do with it. We were just being lazy, you see, we were just refusing to set up the buffet to make his children cry.

So he told us, he was going to Godfather's, where they know how to serve the customer.

And he left, and was back forty-five minutes later.

Incredibly enough, we were the ONLY pizza place open in town at that point.

And Buddy just couldn't understand it.

So I asked him, "Sir, could you get to work this morning?"

He was surprised, "Well, no, of course not! But what's that got to do with anything?"

"So what made you think anybody else could?"

Buddy didn't really have an answer to that.

[LillFilly]

I'm just... I can't...just wow.

What a cow!

People are the same way where I live. But guess who's car you'll see on the side of the road later?

[Talon]

What a cow!

And that is an insult to bovines everywhere.

[Pagan]

I think this is the photo CRML is talking about. We got it sent round work here i lil 'ol NZ this morning. Small world huh?

That and the reports from the "Scotsman" that I get daily have made me wonder if I really want to move there, seeing as I'm a born-and-bred southern New Mexico variety desert rat. I start looking for a sweater when the temp goes below 75F.

Those statues can cost up to 3,000 dollars USD and all she has to do now is just throw some decorations on them and bam, you got yourself some frozen corpse gods.

"So once more we slowly rolled him, to the pub where he lived and died, we went in to drown our sorrows, and we left the corpse outside.
When we stumbled out at sunrise, he was white as any sheet, there was Johnny frozen solid in the middle of the street.
So we covered him in concrete, and forevermore he'll stand a pigeon on his baldy head and a pint glass in his hand.
The passersby all give a shout to the Saint of Lager Lots,
"Please treat him as a Roundabout!" Yer man named Johnny Tarr!"

[firecat88]

"So once more we slowly rolled him, to the pub where he lived and died, we went in to drown our sorrows, and we left the corpse outside.
When we stumbled out at sunrise, he was white as any sheet, there was Johnny frozen solid in the middle of the street.
So we covered him in concrete, and forevermore he'll stand a pigeon on his baldy head and a pint glass in his hand.
The passersby all give a shout to the Saint of Lager Lots,
"Please treat him as a Roundabout!" Yer man named Johnny Tarr!"

I love Gaelic Storm. You just made my day by posting their lyrics.

As for the SC in the original post...wow. If she was so darned unconcerned about the amount of snow, she could've just driven her and her group's asses to a different place to eat.

[customersruinmylife]

This is kind of an update, but I never made it in at all tonight! There wasn't a single mode of public transport running in my town, not even a taxi would come get me! My dad agreed to give me a lift, we got half way down the street when the car spun and did a 180 turn. We decided that it wasn't worth going in.

The kitchen wasn't open at all because of this. I wonder if the SC went to try again for some food tonight I hope she did

[Pagan]

I love Gaelic Storm. You just made my day by posting their lyrics.

Have you gotten to see them live? I've been to see them twice here so far. Best show ever!

[firecat88]

Have you gotten to see them live? I've been to see them twice here so far. Best show ever!

Not yet, but they're going to be at the Rocky Mountain Irish Festival in August (along with The Elders, Enter The Haggis, Searson, and a bunch of others). It's a 5 hour drive from where I live, so I'm hoping I can get my parents to take me.

[Pagan]

Not yet, but they're going to be at the Rocky Mountain Irish Festival in August (along with The Elders, Enter The Haggis, Searson, and a bunch of others). It's a 5 hour drive from where I live, so I'm hoping I can get my parents to take me.

I've seen Enter the Haggis, too, at the now-defunct Rio Rancho Highland Games. They're good, too.

But, they don't have the hotness that is Pete Purvis.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

So it wasn't Alec Baldwin in drag?

If it was, the OP would be a rude, thoughtless, little pig.

I remember that little screed quite well.

[Broomjockey]

the car spun and did a 180 turn.

*contemplates crack about relative intelligences of cars and SCs*

[Ironclad Alibi]

... we got half way down the street when the car spun and did a 180 turn. We decided that it wasn't worth going in.

It is always best to heed such omens from The Powers That Be (aka Mr. Diety).

[RecoveringKinkoid]

The only thing better than Gaelic Storm is Gaelic Storm live.

Don't walk away when a customer is complaining? Why not just say "Never walk away, ever"? It's less wordy and means the same exact thing.

[brucetiki]

Ironically while half the world is freezing, it is boiling here - 42C/108F here today (third straight day over 40) and tonight is only going down to 30C/86F.

[Soulstealer]

Ironically while half the world is freezing, it is boiling here - 42C/108F here today (third straight day over 40) and tonight is only going down to 30C/86F.

That's the kind of words that will get you lynched by much of the Northern Hemisphere at the moment.