Subj : Re: Various Things To : Barry Martin From : Daryl Stout Date : Fri Jan 06 2023 08:05:00 Barry, BM> Where do you think 'dirt' came from?! The Good Lord created it. BM> Some have used a switch -- that stick. Or a belt or strap. Strip 'em and whip 'em!! As the Proverbs note: 1) Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child. But, the rod of correction will drive it far from him. 2) Do not withold discipline from a child. For, if you beat him with a rod, he shall not die. I got more than my share of spankings growing up (I think my brother got more )...but I consider myself better for it. Nowadays, they say "You can't spank them...it'll ruin their self esteem". BM> Feet over there in the corner.... Or the sculpture of winter precipitation in the shape of two walking things..."two feet of snow". BM> So we're back to belly up to the bar, feet in the corner from that BM> explosion?! Sort of like the mess in Congress right now, where they can't get enough votes to get a speaker. The Republicans are in disarray, and the Democrats are absolutely giddy. One Congressman said "these folks are getting high on the smell of their own farts". I head they were going to do so a study on second hand flatulence, but they couldn't find any volunteers. BM> Actually ended up free: I sent a check (that's how old it is!!) to BM> register and it was returned, I think by the family of the developer BM> and a note which between the lines indicated he may have died. I use MultiMail, although when I was on the 32-bit system, I ran OLX. BM> If the restaurant needed that extra 20% then their posted prices were BM> too low in the first place. That's true. I ordered over $200 worth of groceries yesterday, but that should last me the rest of the month. I had ordered 2 orders from an area Wendy's earlier this week, on 2 separate days. The first order was great...the second one, the iced tea tipped over in the bag, soaking the food. In the future, I may not order a beverage. I was going to order from Subway, but it would've been $15 more. BM> Doubt if it will work because of taxes. Sure, can round up or down but BM> in the long run even that doesn't work out because the displayed amount BM> is only to two decimal points and the actual math is to I don't know BM> how far. Occasionally the register would say the customer owed 1› on BM> an even exchange - I never made them pay (one cashier would try to make BM> her customer pay and I'd get involved. "But my register wil be short a BM> penny!" "Do you count the pennies at close?" "No." "So...." "But BM> I'll be short!" "But you don't count them."). They probably want to embezzle the extra, and say there was "a voided ticket". I think that happened several times while I was working at a local Burger King over 40 years ago. The franchise owner required the employees to take a polygraph test...but they had to sign a statement saying they weren't being forced into doing it. Yet, if they refused to take the test, they were fired (sounds like coersion (sp?) to me). There was also a policy that if the cashier had "cash shortages", the amounts came out of their paycheck. Yet, one of the managers was dipping into the drawer, embezzling stuff, and the blame fell on the cashier. The franchise owner set up a 2 week suspension without pay, and unfortunately, I fell under that hammer. Now, if I counted the drawer at the start, and did every transaction, then I'd take responsibility for the drawer. It never occurred to me that a manager might be dipping in/embezzling things. Well, 3 days after the suspension began, it was payday, so I walked in to get my check, and the owner asked where I had been. I replied "2 week suspension without pay for cash shortages...your rules"...and was heading out to my car to leave. He said "Consider the suspension ended; I need you". To me, that spoke volumes...that he felt I was not guilty of embezzlement. BM> Now if the register said the customer was owed a penny I always gave BM> them the penny, along with a comment of this being their lucky day or BM> something similar. Receipt said they were owed money. :) GIGO -- garbage in, garbage out. Computers and cash registers aren't smart...they only think they are. BM> Which is how the credit card should also be treated IMO. Yes, nice to BM> make a large purchase because have the credit and pay back over time BM> with a _reasonable_ interest for extending credit. I don't consider BM> 23% much less 29% interest reasonable. And, they'd raise it higher if they could. This inflation balloon is going to burst sooner more than later...and it'll make the stock market crashes of 1929 and 1987 look like child's play. BM> I guess it's "goodie for him!" then. As long as I have power, internet, food, and drink, and the Post Office Box mail can wait 2 weeks between pickups, I can stay home. BM> Which beats buy a new (as in replacement) car, though with several of BM> those thousand dollar bills in a shorter period of time might be better BM> to apply that bill money towards the new car. I remember when a new car was around $2000...now, it's 15 times that (approaching $30,000 in some cases). BM> I'm thinking warm and then it sticks to the skin better! Besides the sticky glitter, there was the "nasty fart spray". McCauley Caulkin (from Home Alone) visited the inventor of the original Glitter Bomb (a former NASA scientist, who became the victim of a porch pirate one day), and had "an updated plan for him". The inventor was ecstatic. The new and improved fart spray was so nasty, that McCauley lamented "I think I just ate a turd". :P BM> Not such a tough guy now! Good dog. :) BM> It was a little foggy here Monday morning -- remember half-joking with BM> myself the fog was the left-over smoke from the fireworks the night BM> before. Tuesday (yesterday as I write this) was also somewhat foggy in BM> the morning and then really got foogy in the afternoon -- visibility BM> was maybe a third to half a mile. They were talking about the BM> possibility of snow showers in the evening but that didn't occur. BM> Maybe some tonight but accumulating only on grassy surfaces as the BM> ground is warm. In some areas, both fog and smoke led to chain reaction highway crashes, from the lowered visibility. They confirmed 3 tornadoes in Arkansas from this past Monday. BM> ... Odd headline: Man Struck By Lightning Faces Battery Charge. I carry no electrical charge, and can be handled safely. See tagline below. Daryl .... Chain Lightning: For when you can't stop with one bolt. === MultiMail/Win v0.52 --- SBBSecho 3.15-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (454:1/33) .