start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

I think Iowa is the only state screwed over by that convention, although Alabama/Alaska comes close

Well, it should, right?

Alabama
Alaska

AK
AL

Maine----------ME
Maryland-------MD
Massachusetts--MA
Michigan-------MI
Minnesota------MN
Mississippi-----MS
Missouri-------MO
Montana-------MT

MA
MD
ME
MI
MN
MO
MS
MT

What's gabbneb's new name, he could add to this.

ah, yes, I had a moment of cognitive uselessness

I appreciate your analysis of this issue

But again, these two-letter abbreviations have been with us for awhile. Not sure why it's so hard for people to wrap their head around Nebraska being NE and Nevada being NV.

This was weird: When I was in Australia in December, my mother-in-law introduced a friend of hers who was in the shipping business. Oh, he said, he ships things all around the world! Arkansas! He knows all about it! All over the South.

Kind of a nervous fellow, and as he was leaving, he mentioned how he'll keep an eye out for our name next time he sees a shipping tag for Arizona. It wasn't until ten minutes after he left that I realized, man, he must really be in the shipping business. I doubt any other Australians would get those two states confused.

I hate when they ask you for your name for an order...then when they call out the food they just shout out the order instead.

get seven people who ordered the same shit all thinking it's theirs

Wondering why if I'm on what is supposedly the best bus service in town, 2 scheduled buses don't turn up, while I pass one with my service's number returning to the bus garage just before the first of those scheduled times.
Also why they choose to do this at the height of rush hour on a really wet day.

Clarification there, what I don't understand is why there's a bus returning to the bus station instead of not appearing because it's stuck somewhere on the route. As in you expect a non appearance to be because of the latter not the former. Roads can be at an apparent utter standstill for the hour or whatever of the rush hour. I think they do move intermittently.

In fact after having to wait for the bus we then got stuck in traffic for ages once it had started heading towards my destination.

The amount of packages the other two floors of this building get, that **I sign for** is starting to seem kind of nuts. I'm glad someone is here for them, and I recognize the problem of trying to ever get deliveries during the day, but these people don't even CHECK to see if we're going to be here, they just have things shipped and don't seem to make any effort to be home for them?

Like, if I get an email note that there's a UPS package coming, I know to be at the door by 7.15pm! What do they think is going to happen?? I should let their stuff be returned to a warehouse in the far reaches of Queens and see if they get more attentive.

One of them has afaict never once put her apartment number on the address so they ring all 3 bells every single time. And she's never, ever here.

There's an old warehouse converter to lux loft-style condo living that I considered renting a unit in a number of years back (and probably should have, I would have been right next to the inexpensive bar/restaurants) that has a FRONT DESK that is staffed during the day. It'd be awesome to have someone to sign for yr packages as part of your home.

So, long-standing local grocery chain Dahl's made some bad business decisions and, post-bankruptcy, have been bought by the Price Chopper chain. Or whoever owns that chain, among others, and they decided to humiliate Dahl's by renaming them Price Chopper.

So that sucks. But, on the bright side, Dahl's on Beaver Avenue, long known as BeaverDahl's, is now BEAVER CHOPPER

the price chopper chain based in schenectady, new york?

mh, there are luxury apartment buildings in NYC where there's even a refrigerated room, so your Fresh Direct home delivered groceries can be received by the concierge and kept the correct temperature until you get home.

About 5-6 years ago when I learned of these cruise ships of post-Ivy residence, they were...expensive, but not, like, 1% expensive. Just "daddy's money" expensive.

price chopper of kansas city, it seems

io, you would be disgusted to know the rent for the place advertised was under $1k, prob $850ish

also there is a roof deck where you can see into the neighboring minor league baseball stadium

There's a cheap grocery store here that boasts how it sells everything at cost! Just marked up ten percent!

You say, ok? But the rub is that all the prices displayed on the shelves are the cost price. The ten percent and then the whatever sales tax is added at the register.

If I just thought of it like I was ordering dinner and giving the cashier a really cheap tip, that'd be one thing. But I forget every time until the total is nothing like i pictured and I'm all goddammit this place.

Their ads are amazing.

http://i.imgur.com/KWF27dH.png

Located in the Old Wal-Mart

It's a brilliant alternative to old-fashioned "mark-ups"!

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8727/16827286978_75e78cd918_z.jpg

that seems like a really unpleasant shopping experience. like either you do math on every item uh one ninety three, add nineteen point three to that, or else you're like i'm getting this but i have no idea what it costs. ANNOYING!

lol peaceful oat goblins

I love this series. I think carl agatha showed them to me?

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7593/17015056065_546d577448_z.jpg

xp to plains:
it makes you think of a command economy, where prices are set and the ten percent is the allocation for the workers, or so they are trying to make you think

but really, it is like places with weird taxes when you're on vacation and you're away from home and have no idea what sales tax, vice tax, and VAT (what is this) will be until you get rung up at the cash register. then you sigh and figure you'll not have something from the minibar, to make up for it, fuck this city/state/country

lol business lamb and pond kings

manageable rainbow log

that seems like a really unpleasant shopping experience. like either you do math on every item uh one ninety three, add nineteen point three to that, or else you're like i'm getting this but i have no idea what it costs. ANNOYING!

I always think about the Dollar Tree cashier, standing there all day going "That'll be $2.14. $7.49 please. Just $1.07. You don't have change?"

And know how you find the cheap grocery store, the just-getting-started non-denominational church or charity drop-off center in a new town? Just keep your eyes peeled for the "Wal-Mart Drive" street sign.

I love this series. I think carl agatha showed them to me?

Yes and if you check your text messages, I asked you what the url was so I would post these here. Great minds etc.

Wow, is that "(tiny print) Plus a charge added at checkout! Plus some more charges!" stuff even legal? Seems like it would be not legal in the UK but I might be wrong.

Is their repeat custom entirely from people who never add up the total so everything looks really cheap at the shelves and then they're not even surprised at the checkout because they didn't bother keeping a mental running total? (PS I am a dumb Brit and found sales tax really confusing in the US so after a few days of being there I just totally gave up on trying to keep a running total, so this would get me for sure.)

I'm a bit annoyed because I bought something which was priced at 1.79 at the shelf today only to be charged 1.99 at the checkout, and I remembered that the exact same thing had happened at the same shop with the same item a few weeks ago, and I queried it that time, and it took like 10 minutes while managers were called to inspect my receipt and look at the shelves and give me a 20p refund, and I felt like a total asshole for spending ten minutes quibbling over 20p. So today I fell for it again and didn't say anything. Well done me.

Also I love Jesse/carl's ads, obv.

I grew up in a state with no sales tax, and it took me YEARS to get used to buying something only to have the price be higher than what it said on the sign.

The reverse of that is occasionally I'll go into places (liquor stores, mostly) that have price tags with the tax already figured in.

This is rare, so when I do hear "Yes, sir, that'll be exactly $6.95," I'm pleasantly surprised.

The airport short-term parking lot got hit with a mandate to start charging tax. They take out their frustrations now on the customers, asking for $2.17 now at the toll booth.

Round the shit up to $2.50, no one will care, airport.

I kill myself laughing whenever anybody posts ad from Apple Cabin. POND KINGS

Parking decks that look like they're about to slide over and fall.

I get that the tiers have to be slanted since most non-Romney buildings do not furnish elevators or stairs for automobiles. Still, they make me uncomfortable.

http://i.imgur.com/6n3Iwu7.png

Oh wow, there are many more Apple Cabin ads than I ever knew about!
http://liartownusa.tumblr.com/tagged/AppleCabin

WARNING: That link is SFW, but the rest of Liar Town is pretty risky.

Why is that parking deck also wavy?

Google maps image.

Tuna do-overs lol

Why is that parking deck also wavy?

As soon as I dedicated myself to a Google Image Search of parking garages, all I could find were the ones that played by the rules and had level tiers (usually with one of those spiral ramps in the corner that look pretty cool.)

So yeah, Carl's right. Had to go to Street View to find my biggest offender.

The cable company sent some equipment to my home address via UPS. UPS shows that it was delivered on April 1, signed by me (yet also "Left at: Other - Released"). My building has no doorman and people steal packages from the mail room all the time, as evidenced by the frequent notes raging at the landlords for not "doing something" about the thievery (??). Anyway, I neither signed for the package nor did I give permission for it to be left in the mail room.

I called the cable company and the guy said repeatedly, "I imagine you will be receiving the package today or tomorrow." After a lot of conversation it came to look like UPS returned the package to the sender, but updated the status w/ the wrong info.

So I'm going to the cable company's office to pick up the equipment, BUT the guy on the phone needed to know what had been shipped to me so he could tell them to have it ready. The only description on the order is "Digital Converter," but the guy said I had to specify exactly which kind of digital converter o it could be ready for pickup. The cable company doesn't keep records of exactly what kind of equipment they ship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LRUARifU0Q

Huh, I missed that episode.

The cable office was a VERY VERY LOUD PLACE but the two young women who helped me were super nice and very pleasant to talk to. Even when I turned really dumb and misunderstand clear and simple statements (e.g., when one said, "Patty is getting your new the converter. Be sure to send back your old one so you don't get billed for it," I turned to leave.) one of them said, "It's OK! You've got a lot going on!"

Plus I got to see lots of ducks and geese, including a Canada Goose sitting on eggs in its ginormous nest.

i hate when people call them canadian geese

what would you rather call them2

I guess they're technically "canada geese," huh! I've never heard anyone actually say "canada goose" when referring to the birds, just "canadian geese"

pardon my ignorance

you're excused this one time on this thread

I saw a goose drinking a Canadian Dry one time.

the Canada goose makes me extremely angry at least once a day