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)
Substitute "books" for "socks" and see if your
feeling doesn't change a little.
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...
Perhaps that tagline of Ruth and Steve's, just a
little close to religious for my comfort, is a
propos here - our needs are few, but our desires
are endless, that being perhaps a paraphrase (and
though the point is taken, not true of many people,
who are content with what they have, but what did
Lao-Tze know?).
expecting a certain level of consistency, but realizing that whatever we
As people do seem to like to plan meals, and the need
for food is generally more acute, if you will, than for
new clothes or lawn furniture, that makes sense. Large
quantities of meat will always sell, and there's little
or no risk in stocking it - perhaps a little more regarding
produce, but not all that much.
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....
Printed coupon things are another issue - in the states
I frequent (Massachusetts, Maryland, California - when
something is advertised by coupon or otherwise, stores
are required to have adequate stocks on hand, and if they
run out, they have to issue rain checks that promise to
deliver the merchandise.
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....?
Completely different - she wants to keep top tier on
American, and I want to qualify for a better set of perks
on United. It would be child's play to coordinate flights
if we were flying the same airline. As it is, I arrive
and leave Hong Kong within three hours of her, and on the
way back, we arrive in San Diego six minutes apart, I via
Tokyo and Denver, and she via Dallas. That's assuming that
things work as they're supposed to.
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....
Classist, regionalist, intelligenceist, but not at least
prima facie racist.
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... ;)
Always. And the greatest of these is Luck.
Cinnamon sugar beaver tails
categories: Canadian, doughnuts, sweets, snack
yield: 25
1/2 c warm water
5 ts active dry yeast
1/4 ts white sugar
1 c warm milk
1/3 c white sugar
1 1/2 ts salt
1 ts vanilla extract
2 eggs
1/3 c canola oil
5 c all-purpose flour
corn oil
white sugar
ground cinnamon
Combine yeast, warm water and 1/4 ts sugar in a
mixing bowl. Allow to prove.
Add the 1/3 c sugar, milk, vanilla, eggs, oil,
salt, and most of the flour to the yeast mixture.
Knead to form a firm, smooth, elastic dough.
Place dough in a lightly greased bowl. Cover with
a warm towel. Let rise for 30 to 40 min, then
punch down gently.
Pinch off golf-ball-sized pieces of dough and
roll out into an oval on a floored surface. Set
aside, covered with a towel, until all dough is
used.
Heat corn oil in fryer to 385F.
Stretch the ovals into a beaver tail shape,
thinning them out and enlarging them as you do.
Drop individually in oil and fry until browned on
both sides, turning once. Remove carefully and
let drain on paper towel.
Mix sugar and cinnamon in a bowl and toss
pastries in the mixtture until both sides are
coated. Shake off the excess and serve warm.
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