A.’s Comments (group member since Nov 03, 2008)

A.’s comments from the Runs with scissors group.

I have my moments.

I haven't really had this problem in the restaurants that I have been to. I usually base tipping on the status of my drink cup, while it is not 100%, the need to ask for a refill or not is a major concideration for me. I also base the gratutity on the speed of service and attitude of the server. Servers rely on tips not to add to a minimum wage salary, most servers do not even make $3.00 per hour, but to meet the cost of living. Here in South Carolina they make a whopping $2.30 per hour. Hard to live on that.
My theory is, in the cases you have mentioned, that in these trying economic times, the corporations have started to "push you out the door" in an effort to keep the income flowing. Suggesting dessert is a way to extract additional monies out of the customer. As the consumer< I know that this policy sucks but as the restaurantier, it makes perfect business sense.

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I had forgotten how much I enjoyed this story. I haven't read it since high school either and it was a fresh surprise like a visit from a childhood friend. Steinbeck paints beautiful scenes with his words, the fact that it is written in the vernacular of the farmhands puts me in the bunkhouse along with the ranchers. I feel their feelings thier hopes and dreams...and agonize with George as he ends Lennie's life.

Keep in mind the electric companies are there to make money...if they lose money they charge you. They don't give a darn about saving the planet...all they want is your MONEY!

Sponsoed by Seal-A-Squeal (tm)!
*CACKLE*

It is with friends that you can overcome the pain in you life.

The best tribute you can give to your dad is to remember the good times and forgive the bad...a hard thing to do, I know, but it helps with the healing. Kids don't come with owner's manuals and most parents do the best they can with what they have.

I guess I was in just the right mood to read it...I thought I was pretty insightful in spite of myself. After I wrote it, I was like...where did that come from?

I have finally finished this book. I do feel that this book does reflect the time it was written in, as a boy on the verge of manhood would not be able to wander through the city of New York at night in today's world. However, I do think it paints a very real picture of the uncertainty of approaching adulthood, of being torn between wanting to be protected by your parents but free to do your own things. Teens, boys more so than girls it seems, by nature are angsty things, just ask any parent of one, and I think that Salinger has captured that aspect of growning up with complete accuracy. We all question our place in this world and Holden uses these three days in search of his ultimately finding it, in the simplicity of a child's innocence.

Glad I was able to be there with you. I was, for me, a moment I was glad to have had. You're the onliest family I have and I am so proud of your achievement, probably more than you can ever know. Love you!

In other news...I have decided to read this book again....I don't remember it as I read it in high school as required material....equals Cliff's notes *snicker*

And since I read the latest group read books on a bus...thought I would backtrack to ones I have'nt done yet.

DJ...you have my deepest sympathies...I too lost my dad a few years back...we were estranged for over 25 years before I reestablished a relationship. I was very hard but for me it was worth it in the end. I am glad to have known him.

Finished this one on the bus...it is a fast paced adventure. I wanna live in the Hollows, maybe then people wont think I am wierd.

I am also waiting on "the list". Wanna see who gets theirs first?

Oddly enough...my library system ACTUALLY carries this book. Can't believe it...a book about witches here in the Bible Belt Buckle...I have already read it but I enjoyed it so much that it is worth another read.

I always get the kid who kicks the back of my seat for the duration of the film...I feel like giving them a Seal-A-Squeal (tm)brand plastic bag and telling them "Under no circumstance should you play with this." Knowing full well children do the opposite of what they are told, or they would'nt be kicking my chair.

You think that's bad? Try getting a snowflake in South Carolina...the whole freaking county shuts down and you can not buy bread or milk for miles in amy direction. Growing up in the snow belt in upstate New York, In a town that has set a record for snowfall, I have to laugh in a town where 3 inches is close to a natural disaster.

I read this book in High School. Don't remember much about it and haven't had time ro reread it. I do know that most of the books that were assigned reading in school, for me, were forgotten as soon as the classroom discussions and exams were over. I find that as I grow older and take the time to reread these classics, I find out that I wish I had taken the time to enjoy those books that I was assigned.

Seal-A-Squeal(TM)presents Playing With Fire!





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This was my first and soon to be only time I have read this book. I could not get into it and failed to see why it won the Pulitzer prize or why it is even listed as classic. While it was a fairly quick read, I had a hard time developing interest in the characters or their situation.