tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post2259968918427388838..comments2024-03-29T06:12:51.644-05:00Comments on Far Side of Fifty: March 13, 2012Far Side of Fiftyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07995757632158408442noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-64199303884161685512012-03-15T19:43:51.639-05:002012-03-15T19:43:51.639-05:00I am in total agreement with you about the time ch...I am in total agreement with you about the time change. I feel like I am having to haul out of the bed in the middle of the night. It's enough to make me consider retirement even more so I can be awake when I want to - - - not when I have to.<br />I guess people know how thick that ice is on the lake before they go out on it? It almost makes me nervous to see the pic of the truck on it. My thought is if there is some melting, caution is definitely needed.<br />Poor sweet Chance - - - no friend around, cold sore feet - - - life can be difficult.<br />At the grocery store, one time, I told the cashier and bag person that the bananas were not cheap but they were fragile and they needed to handle them gently rather than toss them down the belt. They looked at me like I was an old person who likes to complain. At another store, I mentioned to the manager that the young produce guy working the night shift needed to be more gentle with their bananas. He told me he would pass the word on - - - didn't do any good - - - the kid was still doing his heavy-handed thing next time I was there. Oh well - - - my produce shopping is done elsewhere now!Lyndahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12404589772713955710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-21707408743400516752012-03-14T12:24:16.247-05:002012-03-14T12:24:16.247-05:00DLS does mess with our minds and bodies. We have ...DLS does mess with our minds and bodies. We have people that go out on ice when it hasn't been frozen for two days. They just fall through and are gone. We don't drive cars onto ice down here and we aren't that frigid. Next week you will feel better but the whole week this week will be questionable.L. D. https://www.blogger.com/profile/02270923121962761209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-49001760874625807802012-03-14T08:00:02.728-05:002012-03-14T08:00:02.728-05:00I'm with you - from start to finish.I'm with you - from start to finish.thecrazysheepladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10835269631172344336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-33332544619319734712012-03-13T20:48:34.130-05:002012-03-13T20:48:34.130-05:00There are idiots all over the place who drive onto...There are idiots all over the place who drive onto rotting ice. You'd think the idiot gene would start to become rare!Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996243850279671523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-61231670739085351022012-03-13T19:40:53.866-05:002012-03-13T19:40:53.866-05:00I feel exactly the same way about daylight savings...I feel exactly the same way about daylight savings time. I used to work for the post office -- it ain't what it used to be, that's for sure. All of the letter carriers I worked with were great people stuck with lousy management and bad decisions from higher up the ladder. Now in their infinite wisdom, they will be closing the nearest mail sorting center, so to mail a letter across town, it will have to travel all the way to Kansas City (6 hours one way) and then come all the way back. Dumb dumb dumb. I wish they would leave the time alone. It was almost 80 degrees here in southern Missouri today.Leilani Schuck Weatheringtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04517660684870960794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-82858181444891477682012-03-13T17:20:48.123-05:002012-03-13T17:20:48.123-05:00Try this for the US Postal Service. The last two p...Try this for the US Postal Service. The last two packages I've mailed to my daughter in Texas, have been taken DIRECTLY to the post office, weighed on THEIR machine and stamped as per the machine. I've gotten BOTH of them back requiring more postage. How dumb is that?Cathienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-30697824018610017862012-03-13T15:19:56.095-05:002012-03-13T15:19:56.095-05:00You crack me up Miss Connie when ya were hopin'...You crack me up Miss Connie when ya were hopin' the idiot fisherman wasn't kinfolk! Heeeheheh! It really doesn't look safe out there.<br /><br />Poor Chance, he needs his own doggie goulashes! 'Think there's a market for 'em?<br /><br />I hear ya loud and clear on the baggers girl. I know they hate to see me comin'. If ya don't intervene they'll put every blasted heavy item in the same bag. What's with that??? <br /><br />God bless and enjoy your beautiful day...hit 80 here today.Nezzy (Cow Patty Surprise)https://www.blogger.com/profile/10175389676508928061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-29605518763212404132012-03-13T14:09:11.955-05:002012-03-13T14:09:11.955-05:00They do that here on the lakes too! I think they ...They do that here on the lakes too! I think they don't care how they lose money, is what I think! At our store, they always want to put like three things only in the bag and I would rather have them a little heavy rather than have a ton of bags. They either have the bags too heavy or they have to go to the extreme in the other direction! There is never a happy medium with grocers!lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01998455958377639450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-24481246913402815152012-03-13T14:05:33.921-05:002012-03-13T14:05:33.921-05:00I'm just the opposite. I too, have my reusabl...I'm just the opposite. I too, have my reusable bags that I take to get groceries. I would rather they be heavy and less of them than light and take more trips carrying them in. It takes me a month, at least, to get used to the time change. I do like the later daylight hours though. They could just leave that as it is.Just Stuff From a Boomerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13440903695801765867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-17089822857542063782012-03-13T13:24:50.885-05:002012-03-13T13:24:50.885-05:00Hi Connie, We just came home from the grocery stor...Hi Connie, We just came home from the grocery store. Amazing that you can go in with a good attitude and how quickly one bad cashier/bagger can change that! Big hugs to Chance!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-78732482393778174242012-03-13T11:40:34.495-05:002012-03-13T11:40:34.495-05:00I've been all off kilter, too, since they chan...I've been all off kilter, too, since they changed the time. I have never understood why they do this, to be honest. How arrogant of us to think we can move time around. We don't like it being 7am so let's make it 8am--tada! Poof! Grrr!<br /><br />And I will never understand why they apparently don't train baggers anymore. Or if they do train them, why they don't fire them when they won't do their jobs. Aren't there tons of people out of work? Shouldn't that mean we get better service because people want to hold onto their jobs? Nothing makes any sense anymore. Grrr! ;)Ritahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02043285884495492598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-32508773988032236492012-03-13T11:34:31.908-05:002012-03-13T11:34:31.908-05:00I hate change too......especially in my grocery st...I hate change too......especially in my grocery store. They revamped the whole store a couple of years ago and a couple of us cornered the poor manager and told him that if if ever happened again we were changing stores. He said we weren't the first ones that promised that.Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07183448760614051130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-41100418531811883132012-03-13T11:29:11.950-05:002012-03-13T11:29:11.950-05:00Wow, entertaining post, and interesting comments.
...Wow, entertaining post, and interesting comments.<br />Sure, DST takes a bit to adjust to, but I certainly like the lighter evenings. I try to go to bed an hour earlier that Saturday night, change all the clocks, and then just get on with my day the next morning, and try not to think about the time change.<br />I certainly liked doing most of our running clinic last night in the light compared to running it all in the dark for the previous 7 weeks. <br />The light affects my waking time in the morning, so I am glad for a bit more darkness in the morning right now, so I don't wake so early. Don't mind getting up really early when the weather is nice, but we aren't at that point yet.<br />Depending which grocery store I go to, I might have to bag my own. I find they will put more groceries in a reusable bag than a plastic bag. Sometimes they put a ridiculously small amount of groceries in one plastic bag, and I hate that, because I try to take as few plastic bags as possible. (Generally I have my own bags, but sometimes a person forgets)Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08938874724231860923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-68765418484605632022012-03-13T11:18:15.260-05:002012-03-13T11:18:15.260-05:00Take advantage of your mood and ask in a very loud...Take advantage of your mood and ask in a very loud voice for Eric to be your bagger. <br /><br />I have dreams of having a Viking funeral, for me, eventually not now, on our pond! I suppose that the county would have objections to that, maybe I'll make sure I die after the collapse of the government. <br /><br />My life isn't really run by the clock, I am nether the worker that waste time the next Monday or the boss that wants to fire them, I am just the really annoyed person that once again wishes that she could be in charge of the world. There would be no time change and your groceries would be bagged correctly - firing squad would come for the blondeshell. For me my bagger issues are Costco related: them - "would you like boxes?" me - "yes, please" Result: one box with three large light items in it and the rest of the fifty gajillion items just randomly placed in the cart around said box. Unlike the rest of the world, I do not park inside my pantry. <br /><br />Hey, glad to see that you are coming to the end of your snow so soon! We just received another unexpected frosting, we are pretty excited this morning - the grandboys are out to visit/work for two days, makes the snow even groovier! Easy to like around here, it will be gone by tomorrow and we will be back to our usual rain and mud.Lannyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16018584509455303394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-48350158127757538942012-03-13T10:18:30.221-05:002012-03-13T10:18:30.221-05:00It is nice to know that I am not the only one that...It is nice to know that I am not the only one that dislikes DST. I get up very early in the morning and go to bed early at night. I need the daylight in the morning not at night. As for the grocery baggers, I would rather bag m own than have those idiots bag for me.linda mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08203742811516417039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-92205080337951588882012-03-13T10:15:44.491-05:002012-03-13T10:15:44.491-05:00Thank God I'm not the only one! I hate DST......Thank God I'm not the only one! I hate DST...and I don't hate a lot of things. I've even thought of moving to the few states where they don't use it or does that even exist anymore? Who's bright idea was it anyway? Supposedly it was for the farmers well....for crying out load...animals can't tell time! My girls still want to be fed at the same time and go out....they don't need a clock to tell them when it's time for "din-din" and either do I! It gets hot here in the summer and you need to get up early to beat the heat if you have work to do outside so what do they do? Make it an hour later! DUH! My internal clock is too old to change! LOL! And don't even get me started about the grocery store fiasco! They load them up and here they do carry them to your car which I don't want! Who's going to carry them to the house if I can't carry them to the car...it's very patronizing! I can lift stuff but not from the ground and my arms are strong but not the hands with the RA so I put the heavy stuff like salt and dogfood bags on the seat of the cart and don't you know they load it on the bottom of the cart where I can't lift it from. I think everyone should be born old and then get younger...it would make for more understanding all the way around! LOL!Sam I Am......https://www.blogger.com/profile/17358633233189452832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-23565468772223167142012-03-13T09:19:02.438-05:002012-03-13T09:19:02.438-05:00We're blessed to live in a town that refuses t...We're blessed to live in a town that refuses to change the time. The whole province of Saskatchewan doesn't change either. Both areas are largely agricultural, so I guess maybe the farmers put their foot down at some point.<br />And hey- you're allowed to rant!Shirleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15454110560303310751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-59328928325719467432012-03-13T09:07:12.880-05:002012-03-13T09:07:12.880-05:00They want you to go up and down the aisle so you b...They want you to go up and down the aisle so you buy more things.<br />I despise the change to DST, too. Have since they started it.<br />Chance has things figured out. Good for him!<br /><br />Hope you all have a good day. ♥LindaGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12203719919661519350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-25146606087673141762012-03-13T08:23:26.398-05:002012-03-13T08:23:26.398-05:00Hilarious. I want to go to one of those Viking fun...Hilarious. I want to go to one of those Viking funerals (as an observer, of course).troutbirderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14087811292280881959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-8326936063725059382012-03-13T08:07:15.180-05:002012-03-13T08:07:15.180-05:00...and if they are using paper bags, the bag tears......and if they are using paper bags, the bag tears because they have made it so heavy...darn they little hides!! <br /><br />Changed the clocks...bedtime rolled around so early and it'll take me forever to catch up with the lost sleep...Judyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14414361079501574872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-77428040779227052472012-03-13T07:52:17.445-05:002012-03-13T07:52:17.445-05:00We bag our own groceries as Papa is very picky as ...We bag our own groceries as Papa is very picky as to how they get packed see he is what I call a master packer for trucks Shipping supervisor and has been for years and seems to bring that with him when it comes to packing anything lol ! The mornings will get lighter earlier soon then we will have lots of day light from early morn to later evenings ! Hey we are all aloud to be a cranky pants even I get like that its more fed up with things but then it gets sorted out and no more cranky pants for me ! We are having a early spring windows are open and all is good ! Have a good day !Country Gal https://www.blogger.com/profile/08693944554850315123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-40954493833766922542012-03-13T07:22:56.386-05:002012-03-13T07:22:56.386-05:00I wonder about those people who don't seem to ...I wonder about those people who don't seem to know how to bag groceries and it's supposed to be their job. I take a lady grocery shopping who can't drive any more, and I help to load her bags in and out of my car. I am amazed at some of the bags, how heavy they are, and she's just a little thing who couldn't possibly lift them!<br /><br />I wish they would just leave the time alone too, one way or the other. Makes no sense.DJanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07152183871573797791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-14925425289166910972012-03-13T06:38:18.261-05:002012-03-13T06:38:18.261-05:00Having just come back from the land of sunshine an...Having just come back from the land of sunshine and blue skies I feel slightly guilty at reading about your snow, ice and dark mornings. But I assure you that Spring is on the way - I have seen it, I know.Alan Burnetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01015127443616786425noreply@blogger.com