Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 11-06-18 11:21 <=-

500 socks, eh... (G) That could almost turn into a nightmare... ;)

Not if they were all black!

Even then.... where would they all be stored.... (G)

In this way they have commonality with the salvage stores
(most of these in New England are out of business, except
Ocean State Job Lots, which has expanded past the Ocean
State to fill the vacuum). I don't understand the big box
stores, because what if you need (as I have) socks or belts,
and they don't have them? Doesn't that discourage one from
shopping there more often?

They figure that you'll be coming back for the other things they do have
in stock....

I suppose. For some maybe the uncertainty factor is
a draw rather than a drawback. Not for the likes of
me, though (nor probably for most other people who are
in general nonshoppers).

I suppose..... I guess we tend to take the uncertainty in stride...
expecting a certain level of consistency, but realizing that whatever we
are after might not be there after all... Food stuffs tend to be more consistent... and if they print out coupons for things, one knows that
that ought to be there, anyway....

That's a relief... :)

It was, especially as the original separation was at
least partially my own fault.

By not remembering you'd checked something, eh...

And not noting that I should have wandered by the bag
belt - I was focused on getting out of there and getting
my connection. It also didn't register that on this
airline I was a lowly Ruby member, and in order to get
into the lounge I'd have had to be a Sapphire (Lilli is
Emerald, which is fancier still). In order to maintain
that exalted status, she's going to Hong Kong at the end
of the year, so I figure I'll meet her there.

Sounds like a bit of travel fatigue there.... So you'll be taking a
different airline to Hong Kong, or is it just that you'll be starting
from a different point, and it's just as well to not try to coordinate
flights with her to get there....?

And then there's Weller's friend's dog story.... I imagine that there have been isolated instances of people being misled by the picture on
the label, in any case... but not a wholesale class of people doing so....

It's hard to know where the bulk of the truth lies.

True... Doesn't hurt, I suppose, to have the possibility to serve as a cautionary tale, either in making assumptions or in not being clear when providing information... ;)

I'm still not fully convinced that the urban legend
story about the Africans is all that racist. It may
be silly, but substitute toothless illiterate white
folks from Calabria/Appalachia/Uzbekistan, and you'd
get something of a similar idea and perhaps not racist.

Or perhaps just a different sort of racist.... But agreed, it is more a
tale of illiteracy, and of perhaps invalid expectations....

... Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.

That's true, but good luck can also be good luck.
One needn't be a hard worker to have good luck, and
sometimes failure is purely bad luck.

Quite true... on all counts... :)

Attributing success to good luck always has a bit of
truth in it, because there are more geniuses and
competent folks than the world needs. If Yo-Yo Ma
weren't there to soak up the limelight, there would be
a Zuill Bailey or Michael Curry to take up the slack.
By the same token, attributing failure to poor luck
often has a bit of truth in it, because there are more
incompetent folks and doofuses than the world can
assimilate.

Luck, skill, opportunity, or the lacks thereof, all play into the
situations... ;)

... My hard disk went on a diet and lost its FAT!

And now it's not too flippin' shabby?

Perhaps... ;)

ttyl neb

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