Posts tagged "variety"

Revisiting Trademarks

Recently a saw an article come across my feed that Notepad++ was now available on MacOS. Turns out that was partially true. TL;DR; Trademarks are incredibly important to the success of open source ...

Causing Hiss-terics

Read Causing Hiss-terics Me: "Buying stuff for your cat?" Kid: "No." Me: "Oh. Okay. Um… whose cat are you buying these for?" The kid gave me a really intense look, confirming that I was still visib...

The Taste Beyond The Pine-Apples

Read The Taste Beyond The Pine-Apples I’m at a pizza restaurant with my grandparents. Grandpa: "What do we want on the first pizza?" Grandma: "Sausage and pepperoni." Grandpa: *To employee.* "Sausa...

Someone’s Getting Fired… Somewhere

Read Someone’s Getting Fired… Somewhere Caller: "You're gonna get fired." I nearly caused an accident because where did THAT come from?! ALL of my previous reviews have been great, fantastic, stell...

Thauma-Trauma

Read Thauma-Trauma Woman: "My SON drew this thing upside-down, and now it doesn't WORK right. You need to share your LEARNINGS with everyone so we don't waste our TIME with you!" Read Thauma-Trauma

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Read Me: Hey, my prescription is wrong. It’s not 10mg of it’s 10mg of . They’re the same class of medication but the dosing is different for . Pharmacy tech: *deer in headlights* Let me see the me...

Taco ‘Bout Ambition

Read Taco ‘Bout Ambition Me: "So, what do you want to do when you get out of here?" Student: "I'm getting tacos, maybe a torta." Me: "No, I mean when you graduate." Read Taco ‘Bout Ambition

Seeing Is Not Believing

Read Seeing Is Not Believing Caller: "Hello, I need to schedule my husband for an appointment today at... oh, let's say noon." Me: "Unfortunately, there are two problems with that." Read Seeing Is ...

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Read I’m the author of this story (Laundry Academy, [https://notalwaysright.com/time-to-open-a-laundry-academy/335339/]. Our daughters have reached a point in their growth when they can share certa...

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Read In the kitchen, preparing supper. Me: Ah, shoot. I should’ve asked (brother) to pick up cheese. Mom: We have string cheese. Me: I finished that. Mom: We had a lot of string cheese. Me: I didn’...

Terminal Heat

Read Terminal Heat Years ago, I was the top contact for Point-of-Sale support for a high-end hotel chain in the US. One day, I got a call from our San Diego location. They were setting up six bar t...

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Read I work in police dispatch as a civilian. I had the pleasure of working the nightshift on New Year’s Eve. The city I work for allows the use of fireworks without a permit for New Year’s and our...

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Read This was in 2002, when I was in the middle of a stint of teaching English in a small town in Japan through the JET Program. On this day I was teaching second graders the phrases “He likes” and...

You Can Have Your Cake And Eat It… But Do It Far Away

Read You Can Have Your Cake And Eat It… But Do It Far Away Me: "Sorry, that one isn't gluten-free." Customer: "What? Why? That's discriminatory!" Read You Can Have Your Cake And Eat It… But Do It F...

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Read I just overhead my husband on the phone talking to his friend. He forgot the name for Neo Citron, so he told his friend that he took some “Flu Powder.” I had visions of Harry Potter and wonder...

[dVerse] May 5th - Names I Did Not Answer To

Names I Did Not Answer ToBy midnight,all my old selves had gatheredoutside the locked door.Restless came first,barefoot, carrying a suitcasefull of unsent apologies.Then Ebb Tide,who knew exactlywh...

Confusion Warranted

Read Confusion Warranted Customer: "Oh! I'll get this one! It comes with a one-year warranty, the other only comes with twelve months!" Read Confusion Warranted

Who Knows That You Blog

Kev Quirk wrote a post about who knows that you blog (as a response to Forking Mad on the same topic). Kev writes: I'm similar to David and Alex - I'm not forthcoming with the fact that I have a bl...

We Have Faith In That Being A Very Bad Idea

Read We Have Faith In That Being A Very Bad Idea As a park ranger, I see a tourist enjoy a small geyser do its thing. He then walks past the sign and a small rope to place his face directly OVER th...