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Kloe_Rinz posted...

I believe in myself who believes in me. Just who the hell do you think I am?

You?

There are many folk who believe we are essentially cosmic coincidence. There are a myriad of reasons why folks believe in nothing. Although are you grouping atheists in or not? Some had bad experiences with the religion they were brought up in. Some just come to conclusion religion is myth. Not believing in religion, a god etc does not mean you believe in nothing, you do believe in something and thats god is not real and religion is a myth.

If they believe in nothing then anything can fill that void. There is a belief system they have and its absent a god or religion.

I talked to the clerk yesterday. She said they really cant say anything unless the customer has something to weigh since there is no scale in that line. My assistant (same one) agreed with the policy and said today it would lead to a fight, he said when he worked at a grocery store (he is close to sixty) you could tell customers to go to another line and folks had courtesy not to pull stunts like that.

I did pull out my boss voice at this point. I said I was hungry and wanted to eat since we paid for our food. I had a sense he was entering story time mode with the clerk. I told clerk I would be back Wednesday. We were really there just so I could get a hot meal and a large iced latte and a meal for today.

I am getting good with my boss voice with this assistant.

My grocery store has a cafeteria where if you buy a hot meal, a drink they make ie coffee latte, shake, donut you can have ten grocery items. So I go about three times a week for a hot meal and a large coffee latte with a few groceries.

I was with my assistant who just buys a drink and a hot meal. In front of us was a woman with at least 35 grocery items. She didnt take two items due to bags were open, one was chips the other fruit. In my 50 plus years going to this grocery chain have I ever seen a clerk put open bags on shelves. She also didnt buy a hot meal, a drink or donut.

The clerk said nothing to this customer about her abundance of items nor the open bags. I like this clerk and have dealt with her a lot since she started. I wanted to say there is a sign restricting what you can bring in line and I also wanted to say I would like to see security camera footage of how these bags got open, I cant imagine it was a stock person putting open bags on the shelf.

My assistant must have noticed I was angry. My concern was my hot meal of chicken and rice going cold. He whispered please say nothing.

While eating in the cafeteria he explained that the woman acted entitled. I said saying something would have been right thing to do. He said its almost impossible to win against folks thinking they are entitled and will just turn it around on you. They also feel no shame.

Would you have said something?

This is an utterly beautiful rendition of the song Demons.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t96ZsI7jFKk

I went to the grocery store and my assistant parked in a handicap spot since I use a Walker. As we were leaving I noticed in front of grocery store n the sidewalk was a throw away mask, on the way to the car I noticed three total cars on the ground in the parking lot. I usually notice one but three is definitely high and it was just one small part of parking lot.

That is so disgusting and lazy. Do folks see this elsewhere or is this a New England thing. About 80 percent do wear masks in grocery store.

Today at lunch I was talking to my assistant. We are both mid to late 50s. He said he used to teach but got sick of students behavior and their parents defending them.

I told him I have a retired teacher as a friend who taught for 40 years then the year she was slapped by a student she decided that was her last year.
This was 10 odd years ago. My assistant said if he had slapped his teacher his mom and dad would have killed him then apologized to teacher. I said my mom would have to.

We were both agreeing if we did something wrong our parents would take the teachers side thinking we did something wrong.

I told him in the early 80s I had a friend whose dad was a substitute teacher. A student cursed at him so he pushed the student against the wall, a teacher saw it and my friends dad was fired in five minutes.

I would not have dreamt of slapping my teacher since I knew my mother and grandmother would near kill me. In my retired friends case the mother said she must have instigated it and her child was on autism spectrum and her son was not to blame.

What happened? I cant believe my mother and his parents were outliers in taking teachers word. What was the cultural shift that changed it.

mustachedmystic posted...

I saw a US National Park Service employee smoking a corncob pipe a few weeks ago.

Corncob? Were they a parent to Lil Abner?

I am not talking about the water based pipe smoking but the traditional pipe smoking. The type where you put tobacco into the end and light it. I saw a person smoking a cigarette outside a store today and I realized I have not seen a person smoking a pipe for decades.

It used to be a stereotype of college professors smoking a pipe but that is a long gone stereotype.