This was an interesting factoid, but not as useful as I had hoped.

Yes! I used to like Pleasures, too. But it's more noticeable than I think I want.

This sounds great - just ordered it.

Thanks all.

Hope you like it. Would be interested for you to post your opinion once it arrives.

All,

I have yet to receive my Aussie casino chips just fyi.

Love this gimmick

A little positivity in here is a nice change of pace.

ok but do you know who GCD son is and why.

Grilled Cheese Dog duh

I don't have a clue.

One of 27o's sons used to get grilled cheese sandwiches at Five Guys, making him grilled cheese disappointment son.

I suppose you know that 27 is fairly virulently anti-GSD. If he is for some reason anti-grilled-cheese then I for one am starting to see a somewhat serious issue. Perhaps it has to do with the letter G?

YouAreLoved gets a from me.

GCDS>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>GSD

I think a good grilled cheese requires one slice of swiss and one slice of cheddar/american.

I've got ham as the best addition, you should heat the ham on each side for few seconds in the pan before adding to the sandwich. It eliminates moisture and heats the ham.

I think grilled cheese is one of the few spots where bacon isn't great, exception to this is if we're dealing with cheddar. I could also see pepper jack being fine but I never have. Perhaps low sodium bacon would be better as well, because the saltiness is the main detraction - perhaps maple bacon with a cheese that pairs well... I'm glad we had this chat.

Maybe apples in some form ...

I watched a car, driven by an old, with a disabled placard, drive past an open handicapped parking spot and park in a regular spot a few slots down. I've seen handicap cars parked in normie spaces before, but had never actually seen it happen. Without seeing it, you can't be sure that it wasn't a case of all handicap spaces being full, right?

I was pretty tilted, and was seriously considering saying something, but when the driver got out, he was... not spry, exactly, but doing ok. And it occurred to me, maybe he has really bad days, and needs closer parking, but today he's doing great, and doesn't want to take that one spot in case someone really needs it. That thought hadn't crossed my mind before.

Am I getting soft in thinking of this somewhat convoluted justification and feeling some empathy for the crippled old? I'm obviously not alone in getting pissed when seeing that HC sticker parked in a normal spot when there are plenty of HC spots open, right?

Snarky post deleted. Empathy is a great thing, embrace it.

LFS,

Until that day, the only reason I'd been able to think of for someone with a placard to park in a non-reserved spot was that when they showed up, all the spots were full. I'd never actually seen it happen, though. I thought that passing up spots reserved specifically for you was basically just a middle finger to everyone, a domination of a scarce resource out of ignorance or spite or some other petty motivation.

Whenever I see something stupid, I generally chalk it up to stupidity or selfishness. Occam's razor and all. And I still think it would be a mistake to see something unusual and think, "Ah, that person is exceptionally thoughtful," because people just aren't. But in this case I was able to both see the opening situation and watch the actor afterwards, and I had a different thought. So I was curious if my normal reaction was overly cynical, if my new reaction was overly empathetic, or something between.

PS - if you've got three urinals, the farthest reserved for the boss, and every time you walked in the bathroom he was camped in the middle urinal, you not only wouldn't be annoyed, but couldn't relate? Let's pull together your canonization papers.

I saw it, I saw it...

I do think your typical reaction is overly cynical, and I don't think those situations are analogous.

And that is why I deleted the snark, I'm far far far from perfect. I think the appearance of the empathetic reaction is a wonderful thing. I am personally much happier when I feel that way. I am definitely more than capable of finding fault in everything in the world around me and resenting all of it and am absolutely miserable when I'm living that way.

It's also completely possible that it was Mrs Old who earned the handicap parking privilege and he didn't want to abuse the fact that he was only driving her car.

I'm not sure if you're alone, but it's a pretty small room.

Many disabled people park in regular spaces when they are feeling good enough to walk the extra 20 yards and/or don't want to take a space which might be needed by someone worse off than they are.

RDH - even though you've explained your reasoning, I still don't understand it.

It would never even occur to me to get the slightest bit upset at a person not using a handicapped space.

Yah that's some above-the-rim judging right there.