Things that annoy me but shouldnt, part 2

The word "privilege." It is offically added to my list of buzzwords that should die a quick and permanent death.

 

I thought i'd get through this holiday without someone bringing up the fact that i dont have kids.

I was wrong

"You better hurry up because someone wants to be an aunt!"

"I guess we'll just call your dogs our grandkids..."

(Im the only one out of my siblings and cousins thats married.)

 

I have three kids, and now two grandkids. I love them all, but I think I would find it hard to choose to bring any more kids into this world, with all its trials and travails and ominous future. But then, I suppose every older generation thinks that way; if my parents had decided that, in light of the looming atomic age and Red peril, not to have kids, I of course wouldn't be here, and I, at least, think that would be too bad.

 

That's how it should work if you have a QR scanner app installed. I have tried many of them, and they don't work reliably. Some didn't do anything, others read the code but didn't take me to any information about the product the code was on.

Just pointing the camera at a QR code if you don't have a QR code scanner app installed won't do anything at all.

 

There should probably be a club for childless couples who endure these remarks: thou art legion.

No one ever bugged me about children, oddly enough, though we were married eight years before the first one arrived. I've always figured my family was so stunned that I found anyone willing to marry me that they didn't have brain cells enough left to concern themselves with my childless state.

 

I don't know what kind of phone you're using, but certainly any smartphone that's still supported will possess that capability. If you're using something from like 2010 then yeah it probably won't work.

 

If God had wanted us to bake pumpkins into pies, He would have made them taste like cherries.

 

Should you and I ever attend the same dinner, we will not be quarreling over who gets the last piece of cherry pie.

 

Or the last piece of pumpkin.

 

What if there is only sweet potato pie?

 

Hmm. Depends on who made it. I tend to regard sweet potatoes with suspicion.

 

Pumpkin pie is my second favourite, after pecan pie

 

peach, huckleberry (blueberry is like huckleberry but inherently less good), strawberry-rhubarb, pumpkin pie, key lime...chocolate cream and pecan are pretty good; apple pie is good when it's good but usually not worth it... Sweet potato is largely similar to pumpkin when it's done well: I give the edge to pumpkin but the variation within the pie types is usually larger than the average variation between them. I'm not really solid on lemon meringue and cherry but I think they're good. Blackberry is pretty meh.

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Sweet potatoes in all forms are on my never-put-them-in-your-mouth list, along with liver, brussel sprouts and tapioca.

 

Heresy!

 

Gastronomic comrade!

 

More like about 2018.

 

Where's that thumbs up icon when you really need it?

 

Silly questions.

"Is it raining?"
"No, there's a flock of birds urinating on your head."

 

I can do the sweet potatoes, brussels sprouts and tapioca. But I’m with you all the way on the liver.

 

My husband is a charter member of The Laramie Liver Lovers League. I declined to attend when invited to the annual dinner.

 

My husband liked liver too. He actually ordered it in a restaurant once.