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Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Monday, December 13, 2010 - 7:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Dogdoc, I got my great nieces Abby and Madi Happy Meals the other day. The "girl" toy was a Hello Kitty Watch. Abby's meal had Chococat, and Madi's had Superbunnies. They are SO cute!!And they were in a simple, easy to open plastic bag. I think you should go to Micky D's and get yourself a couple of spares!



Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

Monday, December 13, 2010 - 2:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
Thanks Huk, they are cute but I would never be able to read the time! I need large print.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Monday, December 13, 2010 - 2:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Actually, the watch faces are pretty big, and the digital readout is good sized. Oh go on, splurge on some junk food and get a watch! I double dog dare ya

Wargod
Moderator

07-16-2001

Monday, December 13, 2010 - 2:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Dogdoc, we probably bought watches from the same dang company cuz I just went through the same thing a couple weeks ago. Luckily, Darren walked in just as I started to go at the packaging with a knife and took over. He still had to use the knife, but at least he didn't cut anything off (a big possibility with me, lol.)

Have you seen Barbie Dolls lately? They're secured with like 700 pieces of wire and thread...even the hair is tied down! We've gotten to the point when we buy a toy for a kid for a present, we take the toy out of the packaging first and then toss the toy into a gift bag cuz it's so hard to get them out. Kids don't want to sit and wait for their toys to be rescued, they want to play with them!

Debra
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11-20-2003

Monday, December 13, 2010 - 2:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Debra a private message Print Post    
I was just at the Dollar Store and they had a tool for hard to open plastic packages. It made me think of you all.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Monday, December 13, 2010 - 2:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
They have dynomite at the Dollar Store?

Debra
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11-20-2003

Monday, December 13, 2010 - 3:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Debra a private message Print Post    


Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, December 13, 2010 - 8:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
LOL Hukd, why not, they have practically everything else at the dollar store!

Biscottiii
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05-29-2004

Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - 3:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Biscottiii a private message Print Post    
What never fails to make me laugh, at the Dollar Store, every time while standing to pay I look over and THERE is the 'Home Pregnancy' test kits. Yep, for a dollar.

Seriously, who would take any such test kit finding SERIOUS? Well, unless they were made in China.

Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - 5:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Prisonerno6 a private message Print Post    
I suspect the dollar pregnancy kits are some thing like "pee on thus stick and wait nine months. If a baby appears, you're pregnant."

Mack
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07-22-2002

Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - 5:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mack a private message Print Post    
I have a gripe! Mrs. K asked me to mail a package for her yesterday so I went to the Post Office around 9 AM. I was actually surprised that there were only 15 or so people in line in front of me and there were three clerks. It started out good but then a lady, four or five people in front of me, went to a clerk with a couple of sacks of presents...yes, I mean presents, not boxes. She had wrapped them in Christmas gift paper and put ribbons and bows on them. She wanted to mail them that way! She'd very carefully printed the address for each gift on the tiny gift card for each present. She actually throw a fit when they wouldn't take the gifts. The supervisor and two clerks got involved and the whole line came to almost a total haul. It didn't get any better when the next lady in line wanted to mail two large packages that were in the right kind of boxes but were sealed with painters tape! It was coming off while she was standing in line so no way was it going to stay on during handling. She said it was the only tape she could find and was put out that the clerk handed her a roll of priority mail tape and asked her to reseal the packages. She wouldn't step out of line to the side and stayed at the clerk's station resealing the packages. Up until then it looked like I'd be in and out of the Post Office in twenty or so minutes. Turned out to be an hour!!!

Alwayzmovin
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11-06-2003

Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - 6:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Alwayzmovin a private message Print Post    
Mack, Welcome to MY world! Oh the stories I could tell....

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - 6:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Mack, it's people like that who make me refuse to travel this time of year. (People who, for some reason after all this time, don't understand what "no liquids" means or "remove your laptop".)

That one, though... pretty much almost takes the cake!

Pippin04
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10-26-2007

Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - 7:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pippin04 a private message Print Post    
Yes the people in line are a pain but the clerks and the supervisor should have removed them from line and kept the other customers moving. I do not understand staff sometimes. It is like when you are in the store and the clerk takes a call when you are standing right there The person on the phone gets better and faster service then the person in line.

Wargod
Moderator

07-16-2001

Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - 7:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Bisc, you need the dollar store pregnancy test kit after buying the dollar store condoms. I like the dollar store (planning a trip there this morning for some stocking stuffers) but there are some things I just wouldn't buy there.

Karuuna
Board Administrator

08-30-2000

Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - 11:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
My gripe: my office/warehouse is in a U shaped building, (warehouse/truck unloading in the middle, parking around the outside of the U). We have two units at one end of the U. For the last few weeks, a woman who works at the far end of our side has been parking in the space furthest from her office, but in front of our spaces. There is no reason I can see for this. There is no designated parking, but there is plenty of parking at her end, including a double row of spaces in the front.

So I left her a friendly note on her car, asking her to park closer to her own end, "out of courtesy." But I'm left wondering why you have to ask people to be courteous!! Grrrr.

Pippin04
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10-26-2007

Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - 12:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pippin04 a private message Print Post    
Karuuna, I am not sure about this woman. But I used to park in the last place in the parking lot at work. Sometimes that walk was the only exercise I would get all day.

Dfennessey
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07-25-2004

Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - 12:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dfennessey a private message Print Post    
Pippin I was thinking the same thing, maybe she is doing it for excersize.

Karuuna
Board Administrator

08-30-2000

Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - 12:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
That's a good point, Pippin, but it's not even a block. In our complex, parking has always been problematic, and anyone who's worked in this complex for any time at all is aware of that. It's kind of an unwritten rule to not take the spaces in front of someone else's office space. And if she wanted to walk, she could park on the side of the building where there IS double parking space, and walk from there.

Thing is, we have deliveries going in and out all day, and so my own staff parks on the street, in order to leave the spaces open (so people don't have to carry stuff from the street). So it's frustrating that someone a) disrespects the courtesies that everyone gives at the complex and b) ignores that the reason the spaces are open is because my own staff parks on the street to be courteous to the delivery people. Argh.

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - 1:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
I completely understand your frustration. People who work out in our plant park in front of the administration offices here all the time. Drives me BATTY!

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 11:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Today's gripe is... idiot old people who have no business driving, and who insist on driving really REALLY slowly, and making turns WITHOUT TURNING THEIR SIGNAL LIGHTS ON WHEN SOMEONE IS RIGHT BEHIND THEM. Stoopid old man.

If I ever get to be that old and stoopid, someone please put me (and everyone else) outta our misery!

Dfennessey
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07-25-2004

Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 12:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dfennessey a private message Print Post    
Costacat it never fails that on my way to work I always get behind this old man doing 30 mph in a 45 mph in the left lane.

Mack
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07-22-2002

Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 12:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mack a private message Print Post    
Ah yes....farkels and doobers. Farkels are relatively young drivers, though usually in their 40's and 50's, who drive like 80 year olds. All farkels are pre-doobers. Doobers are old drivers who really make the case for if you're too young to drive then there's probably a point where you're too old to drive. I worked this up years ago and my wife now calls me on her On-Star phone to tell me she's stuck behind a farkel or a doober.

Happymom
Member

01-20-2003

Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 12:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Happymom a private message Print Post    
All farkels are pre-doobers.

LOL!

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 1:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
OMG I am so going to steal that, Mack. LOLOL!!!