What temperature is your AC set to?

[JuanHamm]

Well?

[Monkey_Driven]

74

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[tree_]

74/75 DURING DAY
72/73 DURING NIGHT

[Chris_H_2]

Don’t have one, don’t need one

This reminds me. One of my pet peeves is when I go to a restaurant, order a menu item, ask that they not include something, and have them respond that whatever I ordered doesn’t come with whatever I asked them to exclude. So it goes like this:

Me: my daughter will have the burger, but please no mayo.

Server: the burger doesn’t come with mayo.

Me: looks like you solved for a problem that you didn’t even know existed.

Server: [blink blink] [blink blink]

[Jorge]

Don’t have one, don’t need one

This reminds me. One of my pet peeves is when I go to a restaurant, order a menu item, ask that they not include something, and have them respond that whatever I ordered doesn’t come with whatever I asked them to exclude. So it goes like this:

Me: my daughter will have the burger, but please no mayo.

Server: the burger doesn’t come with mayo.

Me: looks like you solved for a problem that you didn’t even know existed.

Server: [blink blink] [blink blink]

Just say "OK" like a normal person

[Chris_H_2]

Don’t have one, don’t need one

This reminds me. One of my pet peeves is when I go to a restaurant, order a menu item, ask that they not include something, and have them respond that whatever I ordered doesn’t come with whatever I asked them to exclude. So it goes like this:

Me: my daughter will have the burger, but please no mayo.

Server: the burger doesn’t come with mayo.

Me: looks like you solved for a problem that you didn’t even know existed.

Server: [blink blink] [blink blink]

Just say "OK" like a normal person

i will do no such thing.

[Chris_H_2]

Don’t have one, don’t need one

This reminds me. One of my pet peeves is when I go to a restaurant, order a menu item, ask that they not include something, and have them respond that whatever I ordered doesn’t come with whatever I asked them to exclude. So it goes like this:

Me: my daughter will have the burger, but please no mayo.

Server: the burger doesn’t come with mayo.

Me: looks like you solved for a problem that you didn’t even know existed.

Server: [blink blink] [blink blink]

Just say "OK" like a normal person

you ever hear of Magdalena Bay? my daughter and I caught them at pitchfork Saturday. They were really good.

[spike]

74

[lennytheweedwhacker]

73

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Don’t have one, don’t need one

This reminds me. One of my pet peeves is when I go to a restaurant, order a menu item, ask that they not include something, and have them respond that whatever I ordered doesn’t come with whatever I asked them to exclude. So it goes like this:

Me: my daughter will have the burger, but please no mayo.

Server: the burger doesn’t come with mayo.

Me: looks like you solved for a problem that you didn’t even know existed.

Server: [blink blink] [blink blink]

Just say "OK" like a normal person

i will do no such thing.

They’re probably telling you so that you know correctly next time to not ask. Or they’re not sure if you know how to read a menu.

[tree_]

yeah sorry chris but that's a pretty dick thing to say... pretty dick thing

[JuanHamm]

I'm with Chris. The server doesn't need to correct you.

[tree_]

78

cause nobody is home except the dog and he can handle it

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I'm with Chris. The server doesn't need to correct you.

I see it more as advising than correcting. Could depend on tone and delivery, but that’s a different discussion.

[tree_]

I'm with Chris. The server doesn't need to correct you.

you don't know it was a correction.. i'm with lenny, he was just stating a fact so maybe next time you don't have to request "no mayo".. how many restaurants even serve boogers with mayo? not many i bet.. and like, the waiter probably hates mayo so he was like.. "dooooooon't worry about us.. we don't don't do that kind of thing here" only to have you act all snooty on him

[tree_]

also, we don't know if on the menu every ingredient was listed and he was like.. "if you had read the menu we wouldn't have to be doing this right now"

being a waiter is hard. just give the guy a break ffs

[Chris_H_2]

if the burger doesn’t come with mayo, what’s the point of telling me it doesn’t come with mayo if I already don’t want it?

and tree, I think you’re giving the server too much credit. I doubt very much she is educating me so the next time I come to the restaurant in two years I’ll have learned my lesson not to engage in verboten colloquy about mayo.

[Chris_H_2]

I'm with Chris. The server doesn't need to correct you.

I see it more as advising than correcting. Could depend on tone and delivery, but that’s a different discussion.

she was pretty dismissive.

[tree_]

if the burger doesn’t come with mayo, what’s the point of telling me it doesn’t come with mayo if I already don’t want it?

and tree, I think you’re giving the server too much credit. I doubt very much she is educating me so the next time I come to the restaurant in two years I’ll have learned my lesson not to engage in verboten colloquy about mayo.

yeah you're right.. she should just keep her stupid trapper shut and say "yes sir" if anything at all

it doesn't so much bother me that this happened, shit happens in real time... but you come on this board telling us all about it, expecting us to be outraged by this over-talkative waitress who doesn't know her place in the world