Things that shouldn't piss you off, but do.

son of sam waterswung that skit be aired 30 years ago

certainly i'm too old to bask in the glory of remembering it
but this tidbit of knowledge hits me every time

now that i'm paying four bucks a month my piece of mind has improved

Damn, that took me right back to 16. Thanks Red!

Now I feel like I'm late for my paper route.

You are. By decades.

Though I still see houses with newspapers in the driveway around the neighborhood, so somebody's still getting them.

Once or twice a week everyone in our neighborhood gets newspapers tossed in the driveway. But they are really not news, just something that looks like a paper that surrounds advertising junk. I toss them without looking.

We have a lot of "newspapers" laying around our neighborhood, in peoples yards, the gutters, the middle of the streets. All because the grocery stores decided to start bagging their ads and tossing them in every single yard instead of just paying the postage like they used to. It kinda sucks.

Slow Pony!

I remember that one from my paperboy days. Every other week you’d get this extra stack of freebie papers. We were instructed to deliver them to any house that didn’t have a paper subscription.

I remember some guys would just dump their whole stack into a dumpster. I always delivered mine, because I was a little cuck for capitalism.

Things I own, that are still good or cool to own, that I no longer have a need for or room to display/storage...

It has been years since I've seen a paper in a driveway or yard--not even the weekly "faux" newspapers every community seemed to have.

My rule of thumb for leaving our late night gin rummy games in past years was "I have to be home before the newspaper is in the driveway."

bit o' trivia: Piece of Mind was the first album with Nicko McBrain on drums...coincidence?

secondary bit o' trivia part deux: that's his voice at the controversial start of Still Life

After lunch, went for a walk around the block. In the driveway was a newspaper, in its plastic bag.

Because of an overlay and the fold, I could only make out two letters of the title: PO. "Hm, I wonder why somebody dropped off a copy of the Post for me?"

As I walked along, I noticed all the houses had one. "Oh, I guess they're doing a promotion to try to get subscribers."

Turns out, it was a copy of The Epoch Times.

My two bins are right next to each other. One's lid is labeled Recyclables, and one Trash.

I went ahead and put it in the former, despite the fact that it clearly qualified for the latter.

epoch times is one of many newspapers produced by the falungong cult

they believe they can teleport to astral planes, levitate, cure cancer, communicate with aliens via esp etc

time magazine interview with their leader who lives in nyc

https://time.com/archive/6954898/intervi...

never was paid to ride a bike and litter on doorsteps

snow cone money came from moaning loans and working the ball fields

learned to drive a manual transmission behind the wheel of the very same white datsun 620 coach harris used to drag the infield between innings

we also chalked lines and moved mounds and bases to spaces appropriate for each age range playing the same ball game

now imagine all that while the purple rain soundrack plays in the background and everybody else jumps into the pool nekkid

You don't know what you missed. I had the worst paper route in my town--complete with a couple of customers who lived on a dirt road that was practically impassable every time it rained. On our off days (Saturdays) we had to go collect the monthly charge from our customers. It didn't take me long to realize that some jobs were better than others.

had to install a booster seat for a kid in my car today and watched an instructional video on it

got upset for 2 things that i had no business getting upset about

1 - the seat indeed just sits down without any installation so i felt stupid needing the video (but rather safe than sorry)

2 - found it beyond tilting the guide didn't have a child in the seat when they showed how to do it - i mean come on, why go through the hassle of making a video and then using a ghost runner - just demonstrate it how it is in the real world ffs

Sportsbooks giving boosts that end up in your wager being neutral EV.

Perfect

our local waste management company is quick to suggest if you foul a load of recyclables with a single wrong item the entire load will end up in the landfill

Recycling is basically a scam, so it really doesn't matter.

This, I just accept the fact that the recycling barrels are just like "separate garbage" that I put out at the curb every couple weeks, that keeps me from having to change my kitchen garbage can constantly. I mean sure the aluminum and maybe glass has a shot to be properly recycled, but I feel like 80% of my **** is plastic these days, and that's going nowhere but a landfill.

I take care in my recycling and follow our local rules. I go drop stuff off and I see people throwing the 80" tv box with Styrofoam into the cardboard dumpster and then throw a bunch of plastic bags in the regular recycle bin even though there are three separate signs saying NO PLASTIC BAGS. I can understand when people are lazy(stupid?) with their home recycling but you drove 20 minutes to get here and you still can't do it right?

I thought the recycle bin was for overflow.

i have a hunch some of you just can't wait to get started talking about compost