Random Rants
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The first time I went to Moscow, shortly after the dissolution of the CCCP, I was quite nervous about how I would be treated by immigration. I had heard some bad stories. Entering, no issues. When I got to passport control on the way back, the large, not particularly attractive female guard, took my passport off me, hardly glancing in my direction. She proceeded to pore over my passport, and tap away at her keyboard for what seemed like ages, eventually she looked at me, and opened her mouth. My heart sank. Then her scowl turned into something loosely resembling a grin and said "You have the same birthday as me", handed me my passport, and motioned me through.....
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@GoodtimeJohnny brilliant
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@GoodtimeJohnny sometimes, a little attention and affection is all you need
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@Tago-Mago "a brite spot" in the day if you will!
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Semi-rant while I’m waiting on my wife to get ready so we can go meet one of her clients for an early-ish dinner and drinks.
Made a reservation a few days ago for tomorrow night at a Japanese/sushi place that’s supposed to be really good over on the west side of Atlanta. Wake up this morning to an email saying they canceled it. No call, no hey we can do 30 minutes earlier or an hour later, just canceled.
I booked it through an app tied to my Amex, so I called concierge. They couldn’t get anybody because the restaurant wasn’t open yet, but said they’d keep trying. Around 3:30 they call me back and magically my 6 PM reservation is back. Apparently the restaurant admitted they canceled it but wouldn’t really say why.
Maybe I’m paranoid, but part of me wonders if they needed the table for somebody else and figured if I didn’t complain, oh well. Who knows. Either way that kind of stuff annoys me. At least call the person before you just cancel their reservation. Props to Amex though, they handled the whole thing and got it fixed.
And yes, some may ask why I’m making anniversary plans only a few days beforehand. If you knew my wife, she wouldn’t even remember our anniversary if I didn’t remind her every year, so I’m actually doing pretty damn good here considering I’m usually the one who forgets everything. Sunday is our anniversary, so the plan is sushi Saturday night, Laughing Skull for comedy, then staying at our usual spot in Midtown. And yes, I double checked the hotel reservation and the tickets for the show.
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I fucking hate that crap. 'We've got someone who we need to suck up to, so who can we dump?". I'd have written them a shittomail and told them exactly why I was never going back and why they do not deserve my business.....
If we had taken an order and then decided that we needed that item for someone else and canned the order with no explanation, we deserve to never hear from the customer again and suffer all the attendant reputational damage.
"OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011
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I e got a pre Father’s Day family gathering tonight, the unwise idiots that is 1/2 my family decided it would be a good idea to book a place that normally would have been a good idea
However it’s Aussie rules finals season here and 10 min walk from the venue is the stadium and there is a game on tonight which has sold outI’m just going to start drinking now
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I couldn’t agree more with all of that. Normally I’d probably just write the place off too, but my wife really wants to try it and it comes highly recommended, so here we are.
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Anyone else have a wife that likes to photobomb your IH WAYWT pics?
IG - gratefuldenimhead (jeans and boots), Norseamerican (bicycles)
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Brilliant @Denimhead-0
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@tody She will sabotage any selfie I take
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@Denimhead-0 hahaha the best! Thankfully mine runs anytime a camera is out, but she talks shit from around the corner while it’s happening
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One of my silly things that I enjoy is reading about cryptids. One of favorites in the Flatwoods Monster of WV. Today is the 74th anniversary of her sighting and my wife accidentally did this to my hard to find ceramic lantern of her
IG: bluehandsslim
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@Jord it is but they dont ship so will take another trip to WV and they dont frequently have them. They’re made by hand in a tiny ceramic shop in Ohio and hand painted.
