I've lived on the earth for 41 years and the east coast for 286 days and in this house there is no gendered domestic work but tonight when I found out that you have to "debeard" mussels and that the mussels are alive it instantly became a husband job.
@LegitDocBrown@pathsforppl@mommypedals Totally agree. This is the easiest route from my place on the south end to downtown, and I never take it because cyclists and pedestrians (and other cyclists) are on top of each other the whole way.
Maritime weather in a nutshell --
Me: (standing in the sunshine with the hose, trying to decide whether to water the grass seed) "Eva, can you check the p.o.p. in your weather app?"
Eva: (running for the patio door/shouting over the sound of hail pounding the deck) "0%"
The first two people to call and wish me a happy birthday this year were my banker and my real estate agent if anyone's wondering what it's like to be an introvert as an adult.
Seed lending libraries. Bike repair. Home delivery. Garden tools on loan. Homework help. Vinyl records. Senior social club. Recording studios. What do all these things have in common? They’re available at public libraries. Books too. Take a look. https://t.co/LQmQZ69tMj
The STORE makes less than $4 profit. Loblaw warehouses, which supply all Loblaw Company stores by contracts forbidding external purchases, charge stores far more than they purchase the items for: Loblaw upcharges between the warehouse & the store AND between the store & consumer
Also worth noting is the fact that when I started with the company in 2004 the training videos all proudly showcased the ways we cut our overhead costs to ensure our profit was $1 on every hundred. They've cut more store-level overhead since, but raised prices to get 3% extra
Shooting down UFOs seems a bit rude and violent, yeah? My personal strategy is to stun them, capture them and then make new lifelong friends. This nonlethal stun ammo doubles as snacks (to demonstrate goodwill)