ChickenLadyLovesLife

Abusers with unearned redemption arcs

This reminds me of when alleged democratic senator John Fetterman castigated his fellow democrats for even mentioning that trump had 34 felony convictions, saying that we were "supposed to be the party of forgiveness". Bitch, you can't go around forgiving people who don't even attempt to apologize, let alone people who keep doing the thing they're not even apologizing for.

In my world, an apology is just a promise to keep doing whatever it is they're apologizing for. I don't want apologies, I want the shit to stop.

I grew basil in a pot outside a few years ago. One day I was picking a few leaves and the plant bit me. I was like WTF? I was reasonably certain herbs do not bite. This happened a couple more times until I noticed it was actually a praying mantis living in the plant, perfectly camouflaged.

I went to a Hooter's once a couple of years after 9/11. I noticed that their hottest wing sauce was called "911" and as a joke I called the waitress over and showed her the menu and said I was pretty offended that Hooter's would name a wing sauce after our "sacred tragedy". She got all wide-eyed and insisted they were named after the emergency phone number, and then ran off and got her manager to come over. The dude apologized left and right and comped our whole table and gave me $200 in Hooter's gift certificates. At that point I didn't think I could safely admit it was a joke without getting my ass kicked, so we thanked him and left.

I still have the gift certificates somewhere. I didn't not use them because I was ashamed of myself -- Hooter's food just sucks so bad I never happened to go back.

Yeah, I got laid off when I was 52 and became a school bus driver (I now make about 1/6 of what I made as a mobile apps programmer). I'm not exactly "retired" but that is what I tell people.

Some fun chopstick facts: most chopsticks in the world (including China) are made in Georgia (the US state, not the country) because of the ready availability of cheap pine. One of the major reasons pine is so prevalent in Georgia (and in the US South in general) is slavery: cotton plantations in the pre-artificial fertilizer era tended to exhaust the soil after a few years, leaving pine trees as the only profitable crop that can be grown on much of the land.

I stopped for dinner once at a Chinese restaurant in Mississippi run by people actually from China. I (white guy) used chopsticks and our server just stared at me wide-eyed for most of the meal. She said I was the first white person she had ever seen using them, and she'd been working there for years. That is Mississippi for you.

I didn't have the heart to tell her I'd learned to use them eating at Japanese restaurants.

Don't be so diacritical.

I'm a school bus driver. Our director of transportation is in my phone as "Patti Busboss". I genuinely have no idea what her real last name is.

Fun Eiffel Tower fact: for the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, Eiffel offered to build a duplicate of his Parisian tower built four years earlier, but twice as tall. Chicago went with the Ferris Wheel instead, saving us from Eiffel Bueller's Day Off.

Meanwhile, I never even knew what an em-dash was until I started reading about AI. I always just used hyphens in the same way. Now I use em-dashes and everybody thinks I'm AI -- oh the ironing.

The constitution isn't even legible any more since trump has wiped his ass with it so many times.