What's making you a tad apprehensive today?

[jimhelm]

I might have talked her into having her husband come get her. we'll see

[DanaC]

Gods, I hope so.

Ive seen a bunch of stuff recently that says women in particular won't necessarily get the really dramatic symptoms. Way better that she get checked out than not.

[classicman]

Damn Jim - you seem to be in the right place at the wrong right time lately.

[DanaC]

I just ordered a Chinese takeaway online using the HungryHouse portal.

I ordered from the wrong fecking restaurant. I'd been flipping bout between menus and reviews and thought I was ordering from the one that got great reviews...

No. I have now read the reviews for the place I ordered from and they really aren't good. I am slightly apprehensive about what is going to turn up in the guise of sweet and sour chicken.

[jimhelm]

you CANNOT fuck up sweet n sour chicken.

That's like getting a bad blow job.

[DanaC]

Well, let's just say I've been bitten in the past...so to speak.

[classicman]

Originally Posted by jimhelm

That's like getting a bad blow job.

One word - teeth.

[jimhelm]

Oh, I enjoy a bit of a nibble to get things tingling....

•spoken in to my phone

[DanaC]

"That really wasn't what I meant when I asked if you swallowed....."

[Griff]

Originally Posted by classicman

One word - teeth.

Wait, chickens has no teeth.

[classicman]

In that case - BEAKS!

[DanaC]

Carrot is at the grooming parlour. I stuck around peeking through the window to see how he was when left and all seemed fine. Though, prior to my leaving he was a little disconcerted by the groomer feeling under his belly for lugs...and looked at me with such imploring and, yes, shocked expression as I left him that my stomach did a lurch.

Anyways. that was two hours ago. Am expecting a phone callsometime in the next half hour to say I can come collect him. I'm apprehensive at how he might be feeling right now. And I had to make a real effort not to let him sense that I felt like a traitor as we went off in the car for what he could only have expected to be a happy adventure.

I'm slightly apprehensive about how he'll look. I stressed that I don't want him cutting really short. I love that he looks like a little bear and don't want to lose that quite yet. He'll lose that bear look as he gets older soon enough.

It's almost certainly fine. He's almost certainly fine. I can't wait to get the call.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Keep calm and carry on.

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Keep calm and carry on.

What if you don't have a choice ?

(@ our local newspaper Wikipedia)
Albertsons LLC is an American grocery company founded and based in Boise, Idaho.
In July 2014, it acquired Safeway Inc for $9.2 billion.[5]
The newly merged company has more than 2,400 stores and over 250,000 employees,[6]
which makes it the second largest supermarket chain in North America after The Kroger Company,
which has 2,424 stores.


Haggen Food & Pharmacy is the largest independent grocery retailer in the Pacific Northwest.
Haggen, Inc. began in 1933 in the midst of the great depression ...in downtown Bellingham, Washington.
Haggen, Inc. announced on February 17, 2011 that ... had sold a controlling shareholder interest to The Comvest Group.

In late 2014, Haggen agreed to purchase and rebrand 146 West Coast Safeway and Albertson's locations over the next year, including at least 20 in Oregon, as part of anti-monopoly requirements following the Albertson's-Safeway merger. This increases the chain's locations from 18 to 164, and its employees from about 2,000 to about 10,000.

(@ our local newspaper the Review)
Albertsons is closing its store on South State Street, the company said Wednesday,
leaving only one supermarket in Lake Oswego's downtown core.
<snip>
With the closing of Wizer’s in 2013 and the pending closure of Albertsons' State Street location,
there will be only one grocery store left in downtown Lake Oswego — Safeway,
located on A Avenue between Fourth and Fifth streets.

If you cannot see where this is heading, the answer is in signature line below.
... and we can all sing along with Ernie Ford

[xoxoxoBruce]

I can not only see, I expect where it's going. It's going the way of the nation, following the walmart blueprint of buying or any and all competition. That way you have no shot at voting with your dollars, even if you're one of the few who still gives a damn about your neighbors and community. The only thing with the power to stand up to these godzillas is the federal government, but they own that. In 2016 they'll install Romney or another Bush, and the conquest over the citizens will be complete.

But, but, but, power to the people, man. Rise up against the oppressors.
Yeah right, what people, two thirds are living paycheck to paycheck...

In 2010, Mississippi and Tennessee had the largest share of workers earning wages that put them at or under the official poverty threshold for a family of four, at 33.7 percent and 32.8 percent, respectively. The District of Columbia and Alaska had the smallest share of workers in this category, at 11.6 percent and 17.5 percent, respectively.

Wow, DC wins with only 12% making less than poverty level money. That's if they're working at all.

But Obama is going to give us free collage so we can climb out of the swamp and fight back.
Oh yeah, that will work, get edumacated, acquire more debt, and still be making zip.

An analysis of the education and training levels projected to be necessary for the labor force of 2020 shows that jobs will not require a significantly greater level of education or training than workers currently possess. Therefore, a simple increase in the share of workers with a college degree will not ensure that tomorrow’s economy generates better and more equitable outcomes than today’s economy.

Ok, I'm old but that means I've seen a lot. I've see the decline of the good people of the United States to steer the government to do good things.
I've seen the fat-dumb&happy let themselves be brainwashed into blaming labor unions, commies under the bed, foreigners, non-whites and non-Christians, for all the boogiemen they've never seen, but are convinced are out there lurking in the dark.

Reagan was proof the trickledowners were taking over, and the reelection of Bush II sealed the deal. The election/reelection of Obama just demonstrated the White House is a dog & pony show to distract the peons while governorships and legislatures, federal and state, were being bought. That's where the power is, and they don't owe you shit.