Had a talk with the kids at dinner about New Year’s resolutions but I guess the 6yo doesn’t quite grasp the concept because she went around the table and told each of us what SHE thinks WE should do better and…..you guys I think she might be onto something.
Jeffreys Bay in South Africa is famous for abundant seashells: the variety of colors, sizes and shapes, makes of it one of the most famous places for seashells collection
I love meeting very old people and asking them inane questions about the past.
It helps to know when stuff was invented. I asked my great grandma how it like was before traffic lights were common. She slowly turned to look at me, paused for a full 5 seconds and then said “bad.”
British poet Edward James, a leader of the surrealist art movement, was so smitten with his wife, Austrian dancer Tilly Losch, that when he saw a trail of her wet footprints up the stairs after her bath at Monkton House, he had them woven into the carpet.
The story of the Costco founder threatening the CEO to not raise the price of the Costco hot dog is quite an interesting one. In 2018, it was revealed that when current CEO Craig Jelinek approached the co-founder Jim Sinegal about raising the price of the hot dog, Sinegal told him, "If you raise the [price of the] effing hot dog, I will kill you. Figure it out."
This exchange has become somewhat of a legend and demonstrates the company's commitment to keeping prices low for their customers. In fact, the price of the hot dog and soda combo has remained at $1.50 since 1985.
To maintain this low price, Costco even went as far as to build their own hot dog factory in Los Angeles in 2009, and later another one in Chicago. This allowed them to reduce production costs and continue offering the hot dog at the same low price.
So, it seems that the threat of the founder was quite effective in keeping the price of the hot dog down. Who knew that a simple hot dog could be so important to a company's identity and customer loyalty?
My boyfriends mom just excused herself from the table and said “I don’t mean to be rude but if I don’t put on my nightgown now I will kill myself” and then went to bed