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Thoughts on the Day

  • Southern Logic – When you order an unsweetened iced tea, the waitress assumes you’re diabetic.  Since this is the South, she will stay with you to chat about her daughter, who is diabetic, and how she always tries to make sure people don’t get sweet tea if they can’t have it.
    • She was confused when I politely refused the packets of artificial sweeteners she brought with my tea.
  • Compartmentalization – The act of segmenting things so that shitstorms within any given compartment don’t leak into the others.
  • I’m listening to an audiobook of lectures on 19th century European politics and diplomacy.  The professor sounds remarkably like one of my senior managers.  It’s a bit disconcerting.
  • Happiness is taking your youngest son out for pizza and ice cream after a bad day.

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  1. Sean D Sorrentino's avatar

    Sean D Sorrentino

     /  July 28, 2014

    What’s the audiobook called? I’m burning up the audiobooks in my car and that sounds interesting.

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    • Sean D Sorrentino's avatar

      Sean D Sorrentino

       /  July 28, 2014

      forgot to click “Notify me of follow up…”

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    • daddybear71's avatar

      It’s part of the Great Courses series – The Long 19th Century, European history from 1789 to 1917.

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  2. Odssyeus's avatar

    My father, who grew up picking cotton(the original work Americans just wouldn’t do), taught me to drink unsweetened tea. Though I think that might have had more to do with his Scotch nature.

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  3. MSgt B's avatar

    You shoulda been there when that guy from New Hampshire ordered iced coffee with his lunch in Decatur Alabama.
    That was a hoot.

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  4. Drang's avatar

    I’m reminded of the day when I was at Ft Devens when I forgot the warning about “regular” coffee in Massasooshits.
    I generally prefer coffee black, but sometimes I’ll add cream and sugar. Cream, no sugar is just… weird.

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  5. Old NFO's avatar

    Yep, taking the kids out makes it ALL worth it…

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