Benne Wafer

More than 20 years but...

- Watching Buckskin Bill
- Keeping the quarter from the cart when we went to Superstore
- Getting ice cream from K&B for church fellowship lunch regularly
- The Flea Market on Florida next to the $1 movie (with the tokens)
- My dad taking us to New Generation and the Book Warehouse for hours
- My mom taking us to Hancocks fabrics off of Airline for hours
- My mom taking us to a discount clothing place near the old Belmont Hotel

As a teen a night on the town was regularly going to college and having dinner at On the Border or Macaroni Grill, seeing a movie, and then browsing books and music at Barnes and Noble until we had to leave to make curfew. Or Celebration Station. Tinseltown. We ate at the Hammond Aire DeAngelo's a lot.

Early 20s was the circuit of Ivar's, Zee Zee's, Southdowns, The Station, Cadillac Cafe, Superior, Thirsty Tiger, Red Star, Grapevine, Chimes, Serranos. I'm sure other places I am forgetting.

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I've been using the Scan & Go option in the app recently. Today they told me the register with the giant "Scan & Go" sign was for Spark drivers only. So which line am I actually supposed to use to check out then? The normal self checkout ones? Kind of defeats the purpose....

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I had the opposite problem a couple of weeks ago. Tried the scan and go for the first time and went to a normal self checkout (because it was Sunday after church and slammed). Some message came up that required an associate and the guy was a straight dick telling us we were supposed to go to that one specific checkout.

I would be gone pecan. Would not keep our kids away and coparent with their best interests in mind. Further I would do my best to accept the baby as a sibling to my kids and include them when I can.

But my marriage would most likely be no more. Cordial but complete disengagement outside of anything to do with our kids.

Oh we've totally branded one party two ways. :lol: In our old neighborhood we used to have a holiday party where the friends and family invite had no end time but invites to neighbors were for a "drop in" with a start and end time. :lol:

The registry thing is just really weird and of course I want to know where it is and price points. Hope the OP goes to this blessed event and reports back. :lol:

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She is also very trusting and sees the best in people.

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Hate to break it to you, she doesn't trust you. I get that they "made" her stay on the phone for hours but it didn't occur to her to drive to you? My husband is an hour away on the days he is in the office and I would have piled the kids in the car and drove to him LONG before I drove all over tarnation to multiple banks and bitcoin machines.

She needs to follow your local LEO social media pages. Ours post about scams frequently and always end with what they will not ever do: they will never call about warrants, they do not call to collect payment over the phone, they will never ask that payment be made in bitcoin or gift cards.

A good rule of thumb is if you can't directly pay your taxes with it (bitcoin, gift cards) it is a scam. Further, no government or law enforcement agency will call demanding payment for fines or whatever. They'll send a letter or knock on your door with full SWAT behind them, they simply are not calling and demanding restitution right away.

See if your agencies have a citizen academy for your wife to attend. I went through an 8 week course with our sheriff's office/corrections and learned so SO much about what they do and how they operate. Not one of those officers would be fussed if someone hung up on them to call the main line and check them out first. If she understood how they operate she would have been able to sus out that the call wasn't legit.

I'm sorry this happened to you but it wouldn't be a bad idea to just go over how these agencies operate because then she would have known there was zero chance they were legit.

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tony's, slap ya mama, and other cajun/creole seasonings are pretty common throughout the country now.

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Tony's has been in my area for a long time but I was surprised to see a whole dang display of Slap ya mama at Harris Teeter last week. Been able to consistently get Camellia beans locally for awhile too.

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Yes, they are. The responsibility of the student is to learn how to retain knowledge and understand its place in their chosen field of study. Just getting something spit out to them by a computer doesn't achieve the learning experience (other than just plugging a question into a computer, which a trained dog can do).

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Right? I've got an almost 15 year old that is getting ready for a drivers permit. For the last couple of years I have her navigate me home from different places, I randomly ask the names of the roads we are on, what direction we are heading in (which, as a woman, is not my strong suit :lol: ). I point out what roads run parallel to each other and roads we are coming up on. I quiz her on what direction neighboring towns and cities lay, I ask her what is in the direction we are driving towards (downtown, Target, hospital, Starbucks, mall, interstate, river, lake). All information she can get from navigation apps on her phone but I feel it is important for her to know the basics of where she lives without it. We've driven kids home from school who couldn't give us directions to their house without plugging it into navigation first.

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We are a long way from hurting.

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I feel like it is starting. There is a lot of talk among my friends about getting rid of services like lawn care, cleaning, and pool maintenance. A lot more fixing going on than buying new. A friend works for a children's theater company and enrollment for classes next year are way lower than they were this time last year. Summer camps are not filling up as fast. Pool memberships for the summer are down (both private and country club).

This year is the first in a long time that the bulk of my friends stayed home during spring break. None of the European tours, cruises, Disney, beach resort trips we normally see. It was a topic of dinner with friends last week, they saw it in their extended network too.

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Well these establishments can expect record sales

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That is exactly what happened when they rolled through our area a few weeks ago. They sat at a BBQ joint and the parking lot was so full that people were parking across the street and crossing over a six lane highway to get lunch. :lol:

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At least here in Atlanta, when a girl commits to a school (SEC or otherwise) her friends and mom coordinate a "bed party" and get the girl all that swag. More of a send off with some swag than a collection of game day attire.

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It is gaining steam all over due to social media. I am in some dorm mamas groups and these "bed parties" are all they are talking about right now. These will be the same moms that take over designing their kids' dorm room and spend an insane amount of money for some likes and validation online.

I think it is all stupid. :lol: