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It'll be fine, I'm sure. Either he rehabs excellently and goes back to the grind, or he doesn't and gets placed into another job that pays more and he can hike on his own time.
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A friend used to test old mine sites in state parks for a living. He hiked 400 miles a year.
Lost it on the two steps out of one of the regional offices, and now he's stuck on a desk.
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Weirdest bit? I'm sure Burchett considers himself a fine southern gentleman (or pretends to be one) and the modern drinking straw was invented for the express purpose of that most southern and antebellum of drinks, the Mint Julep.
Before that men drank them with rye straws and fouled the whiskey.
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Probably 40% of the restaurants in the US do business with Sysco, the rest use US Foods or Gordon.
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Even in the late nineties/early naughties it was common for folks to carry two totally separate laptops. One for work, one that only had presentation files or meeting documents on it.
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That's not new. I saw it in finance and sales back in the 90s.
For the company I worked for it was more of a confidence check. Calling out the interviewer nicely on their mistake was worth a lot.
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They're trying to use Betteridge's Law on Gen X and totally failing.
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I was going to ask if you'd requested it.
That's how I got to see my great-grandfather's stuffed terrier, which had been donated in 1901 and had never been exhibited. They even did a bit about why they had the dog and how it had affected the Spanish-American war.
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Last one for me was being mistaken for an employee of a primary school in Devon, UK.
Lemme tell ya, that headmistress was a crabby granny. How many times can a person complain in a single day about children not wearing their socks properly?
Apparently the answer is twenty seven.
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A 16 year old buddy of mine spent a summer with family in Moscow not long after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Around August I got a crate delivered to my house containing two Soviet uniforms, three swords, and a letter:
"Delta says we can't fly with these, so hold on to them 'till I get back."
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Agree, and I once had a cat named Felix rm -rf the root filesystem of a Slackware box.
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Sometimes you can't get Yorkshire but you still want something familiar.
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That's known as the streetlight effect or the drunkard's search principle! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetl...