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It sounds like she had a lot of fun in your home. I try to remember things like that when I'm feeling a loss like this.

When I was a kid, a neighbor was shot in his garage. There were definitely two stories that went around the neighborhood. One said suicide and the other said "cleaning his gun." One of those was repeated when kids were around. The other when they thought no one was listening.

Years back, I read was a very odd story about the Korean belief that falling asleep in a closed room with a running fan would result in death. This also seems to be a cover story for suicide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death

manipulation and guilt around money when I was younger

I feel that. I don't count pennies around friends, but I probably have a net positive of $5 from taking quarters from unreturned carts at Aldi. No regrets.

I will give you my cart for free if you ask nicely, but a loose cart is fair game in my book.

Also -The original post is a parody account.

It's a weird petrochemical fluid and some straws. You dip the straw and can blow a bubble that hardens on contact with the air. They come in colors.

They're not much fun, and have been disappointing children for decades.

hotel and meal vouchers

In the US? Not in the past decade. I usually get a link to an app that's like shitty Expedia for local hotels. You can race to compete for rooms with other stranded passengers while your partner tries to re-book the flight for the next day. "I'm sorry - all flights are full until next Tuesday. We can put you on standby, but there's a list of people ahead of you."

This probably goes hand in hand with the trend of providing sleepable bench seating in airports. For awhile they were doing the anti-homeless park bench design. You'll have to fight your fellow passengers for space, but it's better than the floor at DIA or ORD.

masks in the cabin aren’t designed to keep you awake. They’re just designed to keep you alive.

In that situation I'm perfectly fine with that. More than perfectly fine, in fact. Sounds like a feature I'd pay extra for (don't tell United).

Right? I think that gave him a reverse Uno card of some kind. Hmmm. That did seem to smooth over some things.

This is where it gets messy for me.

I'm in favor of letting the COVID release prisoners go. It seems unnaturally cruel to send non-violent offenders back to prison for the rest of their sentence if they haven't reoffended.

I would not have released this guy in the first place. "Non-violent" my ass.

True - and I think that drove a lot of his early popularity. His entire head is unfortunate and his name seems like a cruel joke. He embraced nerd things that are relative to my interests. Basic empathy and compassion kick in when you see something like that. From a first impression, he just seemed to have been dealt poor hand in life.

Then he started talking. Damn.

Oh? Sounds like someone wants my precious bodily fluids. You. Cant. Have them!

I honestly can't let this older one go. But no one seems to be talking about it lately.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Rich

https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1862257_1862325_1862324,00.html

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-shadow-of-marc-rich

Ah. COVID.

When the vaccine came out it was allocated in stages. Healthcare providers and the elderly were prioritized. As they should be. When it was finally available to the general public, the state released a website that helped you find the nearest pharmacy with doses. And it was guaranteed to be free.

I found one local pharmacy in a nearby village and we got our dose. They didn't ask for a copay, but did write down our insurance info. Two weeks later, we got a bill from United Health because we unknowingly used an out of network pharmacy for our 'free' shots.

Minor thing, but it's just an example of our garbage. I've never had a good experience with healthcare in the US. OK - scratch that. The time I needed stitches for a bad cut, the receptionist who was billing me whispered that "If you're any kind of 'medical professional,' you can remove them yourself and avoid another visit." Shit - I own stuff for sewing. That was good, although slightly painful advice.

Canada was wild, though. I visited a walk-in clinic for an abscess on my leg. No bill. I also visited the ER with chest pain. In both cases I felt like a criminal for leaving without giving them my credit card info.

Right. In that episode, Pakleds were snaring the Samaritans. Basically grifting their way through the universe by taking advantage of good Samaritans. OP is still not quite nailing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Good_Samaritan

I think they just have to do that weird thing where they put a fist next to their shoulder and frown.

ETA: Is that a frown, or is that just Blue Steel?

That's so charming! It's my absolute favorite thing today.

Where I grew up there was an urban legend about radioactive deer. It was pre-internet, the deer were legitimately weird, and they lived in the woods adjacent to one of the US's earliest nuclear research facilities. Everyone had seen them. The facility was active and well guarded. It seemed... plausible. Very plausible.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/argonne/4077627323 https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/july-2016/argonne-national-laboratory/

Yeah - I remember reading about how these signs were laughably easy to "hack" a few years ago.

I thought about it for minute when the city installed one down the street. Then I imagined the weird shame I'd feel when my neighbors inevitably caught me, so never tried it out. Actually, in retrospect, they'd probably have helped.

Ouch. "This place is a shit show," the judge said. (Not really, just fixed it for him).

I suspect that dead saves more money. Biopsies are expensive and United Health does not like to pay for them.

"2 Nazis in a car" is exactly my horrified emotion in the moment.

And it's true that I didn't word that correctly, but it happened 20 years ago so the words are not an exact quote. However, they do convey the gist of the conversation. And I really really wanted to make it clear that I'm not the original Nazi in the car.

I was getting a ride home from work with a colleague, which was nice of her because I usually took the bus. We had been friendly for some time, and I never understood why other people at work were creeped out by her. Sure, she could be cold and a bit intimidating in a stereotypical "immigrant from former eastern bloc country" sort of way.

I would compare her to a pretty, young, athletic and blonde Frau Verbissene. And she was not afraid to be comedically cutting. For example, one day I was mindlessly trying (and failing) to unscrew something and she walked up behind me and dryly said, "I am not native to North America, but in Europe we turn it to the left to loosen bolts." It's a little bit mean, but also funny.

But to the main point, it was that car ride when I found out she was a Nazi. OK - Maybe not an actual Nazi, but a big fan. She explained that in her country, <I'm paraphrasing this next bit, so her words> they had asked the Jews to leave, had tried to incentivize the Jews to leave, but the Jews would not leave. When the Germans came to her country, they fixed that problem.

"Oh. Shit. I'm carpooling with a Nazi."