July 2010
24 posts
Walking in to my CVS is usually accompanied by a homeless person’s request for money or a school kid’s solicitation of $7 M&Ms. On this particular night, it’s a homeless women who says “I just want a hot dog. I sleep outside.” While CVS does not sell hot dogs (that’s probably her line outside of…
You are better than I, she would have lost me at “I just want…”. That probably makes me a horrible person.
I didn’t realize how much I loved Harris Teeter until we had to shop at a Giant a while back and when the time came to load the groceries on the conveyor belt we were all like “wtf, conveyor belt?” because at HT you just give your cart to the checker and he pulls the groceries straight from the cart and then into the bagging area. And the samples every Sunday rock. Also they give out free steaks and ice cream* on holidays.
*it’s a truck out front that grills steaks and gives you a small portion and the ice cream is a single scoop or a mini ice scream sandwich. Well beyond “sample size”. Fuck yeah.
See if your local IMAX screen is the real deal or not.
Interesting ride on the metro 90 minutes after rush hour. It’s just as packed as it is at 8 AM but now it’s about 80% tourists coming from Vienna where I guess hotel rooms are cheap and plentiful? They’re so adorable with their maps and fanny packs.