Oh Dear Sweet Double Meat

Dear Subway,

I was at your location # 37717 just before noon today, which is out of my way but I was in a different neighbourhood. I go to subway every wednesday because the turkey breast sub is on special for 2.79 - and I always get the same thing - turkey breast, 6 inch, double meat. I am always charged the 2.79 plus one dollar extra for the meat, and tax.

Today was no exception but I was charged $5.03. I asked "can't you give me the special price and then just charge me for the double meat?" she said she did that and started to go on to the next customer.

I said "no, that doesn't make sense, it should be about $4 or less". She proceeded to show me the receipt which showed no detail. Then I walked her through the math and she just looked perplexed - then said "I don't know, it's not taking it".

Now I know that I was only overcharged a dollar, but that dollar amoutns to being overcharged 25% of the total correct meal cost. And a dollar is a dollar. In my opinion, she should have at least offered to give me the dollar in cash and then tried to get help from some one to fix the register charge later.

I think it is wrong to charge some one the wrong price and then just give an "you're SOL look" and not try to fix the situation. Please respond, I do not want to quit being a loyal customer.

PS, the rest of the staff was incredibly friendly and efficient.

From a Puffkin?

HAPPY ST PATRICK'S DAY!!!!!!!!

Pick that shit up!

It's 2007 in an educated prosperous city and people still littler. I just got out of my car at the local Subway (mmmmmmm.............does anyone else giggle when they ask for double meat?) and I almost stepped on a half full Starbucks cup. I looked around and there were cigarette butts and napkins all over the place, with a garbage can steps away. Who does that? It's our city, it looks pretty much of the time, why make it ugly? I just don't get it? It boggles my little mind!

I once saw a family eating fast food in the parking lot and when they were done they just opened the car doors and threw their garbage on the ground and then drove away. People are pigs.

I NEED A DRINK

One of my co workers has the worst work ethic ever! Right now she's sitting at home probably watching reruns curled up with her dog, while she files for temporary disability and leaves me doing her job while she gets paid!!! I am livid. I hope I have a stiff drink waiting for me at home. Oh ya, and I'm still pms'ing!!!!!!!!

Australia's Next Top Model???

So last night I stumbled on Australia's Next Top Model which seems to be franchised ANTM because it uses much of the same wording and similar graphics, but lacks the big headed Tyra - and dare I say I almsot missed her? Her Australian counterpart is much less, if at all full of herself and therefore not as fun to hate.

So if ANTM didn't bug me enough, the ladies on the Australian version are even hotter and skinnier and they all already look like super models and I can't believe any of them would have a hard time getting contracts. One girl was almost kicked off for looking like she has an eating disorder, although honestly I'm not sure what made the judges focus on her amongst the other rail thin gazelles on the show.

Why do I watch this crap and do this to myself???

Daylight

It was still dark when my alarm went off this morning. I love it! It's officially close to summer - I can already see myself on a warm summer night sitting outside with a beer and a frisbee. Today is beautiful - almost like a summer day. I hope the weather gods aren't just playing a cruel joke on us and giving us great weather only to dump another 2 feet of snow on us in a week or so.

I love living somewhere with seasons. While I think beach life is definitely for me - I would miss winters. If nothing else, winters are a good excuse to curl up with someone special or a blankie, and eat a bowl of piping hot chili while watching a movie. Skiing, cashmere, mittens, snowflakes....... It would be tough to live somewhere where it's always too hot to eat chili.

I'm hoping to do a lot of camping this year. Gus is planning on running the Pikes Peak marathon (because he's insane) so we'll be spending a lot of time up in the mountains so he can train. Beer, fire, my dog, turkey hot dogs, whiskey........aaaahhhhhh.

I'm sitting at work dreaming of the better things I could be doing.

Memories

People will come and out of your life no matter what. Some of those you need, some are just fat (not physically), some you think you can't live without, but you always do. It's amazing how a romance starts. Amazing how when you meet special people everything is different. How you can feel after two days of being together, that this is the person you want to be with forever, the person you want to fight for and you won't give up for anything. Amazing how you can travel on a greyhound across country just to get to know him better, and he can move back to the other side just to be with you and help you. How you can spend weeks on a farm with his grandparents, helping prepare meals, cleaning, watching way too much of the food network, feeding mamma kitty who's going to die any day... How memories of digging holes, mixing cement, setting poles and building a fence for the too-old horse in 90 degree weather with mosquitoes swarming around you stay with you - of how good a shower felt like and meal tasted after all that work. It's amazing how these memories stay even long after there is nothing left between two people.

I got a call today from the last person who broke my heart. He had been in stage of reclusion for the past 2 years or more and has recently gotten out of it. The difference in his voice is amazing, almost like when we first met - like he has life again. He called asking me to call his grandma, who will probably not remember me or be able to talk to me a month from now. What do you say to someone?

She smoked for decades, until she was diagnosed with emphysema. But it was too late and lung cancer was already on the horizon for her.

I think about her husband. They are in their 80's and have been together since 16! She was a cashier and he started writing letters to her - and they married a couple of years later. They had their first child before 20 years of age. While he is no young pup himself, he still has a lot of good years in him - but how good? What do you do on a farm all alone? How do you deal with the memories of building the farm, and home, from scratch together, and working utnil you have the best strawberries in the state? Raising children who built a farm next door to live in while their children grew up? Children fighting over who gets to ride in the ATV next? Sandwiches on the porch? Mamma kitty's slow decline? The stained glass window from the local church? The cows which all have names and hide the new calves in the grass for days? The sign above the sink that says "I Love To Cook With Wine - Sometimes I Even Put It In The Food" that you see every time she's cooking, glass of wine in hand?

I can't imagine all those memories and the person who wrote them all with you being gone. Not on a trip, not running errands, but forever.
I'm going to call tonight, but I have no idea what to say and I'm scared. But I guess I'm not the one who anything to be scared of right now.

My Love Hate Relationship with Top Model

ANTM is back – which is great because I was running out of stuff to rant about….and watching Tyra Show, just isn’t worth it. So let’s begin this by saying that Tyra gained some weight before this season which was probably filmed about 2 months ago. I’m guessing about 20 extra lbs. And it is pretty obvious on the show that they are hiding it with strategic wardrobe, hair, and props. It seems she has lost this weight since then if her show and her recent interviews are any indication.

Oh, Tyra, Tyra, Tyra……..

About a month ago pictures of her were printed with her new padding to which she was horrified that she was being called fat and went on a TYRade (har har) of interviews where she appeared thinner, and upset about being called overweight and lastly….about the pressure put on women to be skinny who should all feel beautiful in their variety of shapes and sizes. Now Tyra, if it’s ok to be overweight the why doth protest so much? Why do interviews and covers trying to desperately prove you’re still thin? You could argue career and image because you have an image as a model, but you’re more of a sub par Oprah now anyway….

Let’s combine this with the many shows she has done on increasing self esteem and self acceptance and the camp she runs called - very humbly - TZone to improve girls’ self images – and you get complete inconsistency and a confusing message to anyone struggling to deal with a little somethin’ extra.

Now my favorite Tyra sound bite ever (well so far anyway) was a month ago when she was promoting this season of ANTM. I believe that she said she was so happy that there would be two plus size models on the show and she had fought for that for so long rather than having “just the one token plus size model”. You just called her a token! Now you have two tokens? Yay! You get these poor “overweight” beautiful girls and throw them in with a bunch of waifs and give them the hope that they could be a top model?

Both girls last night expressed how they wanted to revamp the industry and prove that it can happen. Hello? For that to happen, all the designers and all the elitist fashion bourgeois would have to suddenly lose their aversion to body fat – naga naga nagannahappen.

It’s painful to watch. But oh, so delicious.