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11 years ago @ The Toast - The Dark Is Rising... · 0 replies · +18 points

I have nothing to say except thank you, Sarah Evans, and I am mad with jealousy that you got to see these things from my favorite childhood books. When I saw the title, I almost wept a little.

Onward to Trewissick! I want to see the standing stones!

11 years ago @ The Toast - A Bug Flew Into My Ear... · 0 replies · +23 points

1. When I was about 5 years old, I had a terrible itching in my ear, and my mother didn't really believe me. She put sweet oil or mineral oil or something like that in there with a cottonball, and the next morning at breakfast she was semi-berating me for whining about my ear the night before. I pulled out the cottonball and two huge dead black ants fell out of my ear.

2. In college, I was sitting on the ground in a park for a while. When I got up to leave, I felt a pain in my butt cheek. I got the terrible sinking feeling of "oh my god there's a bug on me," went behind a tree, unbuttoned my pants and a huge unidentified bug (maybe a dragonfly or something similarly sized) flew out of my pants. It had crawled into my jeans and underwear somehow and bitten me on the butt 9 times before I released it.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +10 points

And it's almost half the price of buying it in person at a pharmacy!

11 years ago @ The Toast - The Welcome Wagon · 0 replies · +2 points

I have goosebumps. Samantha, you are incredible.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Wildly Inappropriate I... · 0 replies · +2 points

EXACTLY.

I had dinner with 2 friends recently who I hadn't seen in maybe 6 months but we are extremely in touch on Twitter and Facebook. It took a full half hour for them to move past the stuff we already knew about each other.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Wildly Inappropriate I... · 0 replies · +6 points

YES. This drives me crazy. I work at a tiny museum/nonprofit and we all eat together in the dining room of the old house we work in. My office is in the kitchen, and we all laugh and roll our eyes when my phone rings 26 times in succession during the noon - 1pm hour. I mean, I am OBVIOUSLY at lunch, it's 12:30.

Do any of them leave a message? Maybe one out of 50 leave a message. And then when they call back later they inevitably say, angrily, "I couldn't get ahold of anyone earlier!"

I haven't figured out the tactful way to tell them they are idiots and should never call a business during the lunch hour.

11 years ago @ The Toast - The Reincarnation of L... · 0 replies · +9 points

This is........obviously correct.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Cover Letters Written ... · 0 replies · +4 points

In college I worked at a haunted house and used a chainsaw to scare people, can I do that job again? (and get a living wage doing it?)

11 years ago @ The Toast - Only You Can Help: A D... · 0 replies · +7 points

I was at a baseball game the other day and a mallard couple landed in the outfield next to the left fielder. They just hung out for a little while, then flew straight at the left fielder's head, making him duck (haha) and everyone laugh. On the way out of the park at the end of the game, I saw a kid feeding them Cracker Jack. You can't EVEN tell me they didn't put on a performance in order to get Cracker Jack. I see through you, ducks!

11 years ago @ The Toast - Raising the Tone: Etiq... · 0 replies · +3 points

My call center job taught me that saying "no problem" implied that the customer did have a problem we had to fix, which was not the message they wanted us to convey. "You're welcome" and "my pleasure" were the only permitted responses. Call center jobs are awful but they do teach good phone etiquette, I guess.

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