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Post by Trades on Mar 18, 2024 10:12:27 GMT -5
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Post by Trades on Mar 18, 2024 10:11:06 GMT -5
I have stopped drinking. Yeah, it sucks. It was my lifeblood. Wifne and I used to enjoy our mid-day glass of wine and then not get back into it until dinner and then all bets were off. Anyway, she's still at it, though recently went through some sort of "awakening" where she thinks if she walks five miles a day, she can still enjoy her wine without consequence. It doesn't bother me that she still has her wine at night while I'm sitting on the couch, drinkless. It also doesn't bother me that she'll ask me to go to the liquor store and get her some more. I can completely restrain myself without issue. When I'm focused on something, I don't lose focus. Quitting drinking and food portion control has lost me 44lbs since last June. Focus. Which brings me to yesterday. I leave the house to get her some wine and there's a Carvel a few stores down from the liquor store. I'm all "You know what, I'm gonna be the fun dad and surprise my kids with some flying saucers from Carvel." So I put the box on the counter and the clerk turns the screen around and there it is - "Tip" - and I'm all "WTF this guy put ice cream in a bag for me." Naturally skipped it, paid, and left, but it put me on high alert to see how often this bullshit comes up. congrats on the abstinence i am the same way, once i decide to do something that's that. i haven't said 'not touching alcohol' but i have a couple glasses of wine once or twice a month when we go someplace nice to dinner. very different from having a stocked beer/booze cooler in the woodshop and pounding hooch out of boredom, which i did for years. ok decades. not to be a dick but i don't understand all the rehab and help and despair people go through for quitting bad habits, just do it. ok yeah i'll be a dick they are weak people (with one caveat, opioids are satan, people need help getting off those). fire away anyone who disagrees. ps down 30 lbs since new years I am the same way. Able to stop anything whenever I have tried but I guess it is a brain chemistry thing. Some people are easily addicted to things. Assuming it is a brain chemistry thing.
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Post by Trades on Mar 18, 2024 8:32:49 GMT -5
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Post by Trades on Mar 18, 2024 8:30:50 GMT -5
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Post by Trades on Mar 18, 2024 8:03:54 GMT -5
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Post by Trades on Mar 18, 2024 7:56:56 GMT -5
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Post by Trades on Mar 18, 2024 7:44:54 GMT -5
The other day I was driving down this back road around dusk. Next thing you know a UFO lands in front of me and abducts me! Next thing I know I am back in my car at the same spot but it is 3 hours later and my ass hurt. Then as I was driving home, obviously shaken up, I saw a bigfoot and the mother fucker flipped me off before going into the woods. I was so worked up at that point I decided to stop and have a drink at the local bar. I would swear that the bartender is really Elvis. He didn't die! When I was paying that fat asshole turned the tablet around and it was asking for a tip! WTF!?!?
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Post by Trades on Mar 18, 2024 7:39:13 GMT -5
Enough with this tipping bullshit. So I have an infusion tomorrow, the protocol is I need labs done within 48 hours of the infusion or it does not happen. I go to a UNC sister location, UNC Rex in Raleigh, on my way to work. Quick and easy. I get these a bit easy and stop for a second cup of Joe. They are renovating the McDonalds I typically stop at so I slide over, reluctantly, to the Starbucks. I order my extra large dark roast. "Plain, no nothing in it, that's right, just the fucking coffee" After that exchange and charging me almost 4 bucks for a cup of coffee they want a fucking tip. They gave preset percentages and a "skip" option. They need to add a fuck off option as well. This way people like me can really tell them how we feel about this option. The way that started I thought you were going to say the phlebotomist handed you a tablet asking for a tip
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Post by Trades on Mar 16, 2024 8:39:32 GMT -5
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Post by Trades on Mar 15, 2024 20:21:44 GMT -5
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Post by Trades on Mar 15, 2024 15:57:13 GMT -5
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Post by Trades on Mar 15, 2024 15:15:18 GMT -5
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Post by Trades on Mar 15, 2024 15:14:50 GMT -5
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Post by Trades on Mar 15, 2024 14:45:02 GMT -5
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Post by Trades on Mar 15, 2024 14:22:57 GMT -5
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