other than order coffee using starbucks lingo
December 8, 2009
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@moweezle says:
speak Russian.
Harsh, I know. But, isn’t Hebrew/Arabic enough??? The sad thing is that I hear more Russian everyday than any other language….. BUT I”M NOT GIVING IN!!! hehehehehe
(I love Russians though, don’t get me wrong :)
@nateonamission says:
ok, this maybe weird …
shop at GoodWill, Value Village, 2nd hand stores for clothes. I will not wear other people’s clothes. I just won’t do it. It’s gotta be brand new.
@gritandglory says:
i can’t do it either, nate!
@mjdagenhart says:
…walk on the left side of people I’m walking with.
@hannahruthie says:
…walk on the right side of people I’m walking with.
@gritandglory says:
wait… wha?! do you both just instinctively switch? do you say something when you do, or do you just silently reposition yourself??
i’m intrigued! :)
@bahava says:
haha! I do that too. I walk on the left side of people. Most of the time I’ll silently reposition myself. Although, I do have a few friends that laugh with me about it and so sometimes I say something to them about it. Like with one friend, Chelsea, she even knows I like it better so she’ll even move for me! :)
@gritandglory says:
i wonder if i have a preference… i’ll have to pay attention to that…
@mjdagenhart says:
Yep, it’s instinct. I’m pretty sneaky about it. Most people don’t notice (my brother just found out about this over Thanksgiving). It’s simple: I open the door for the other person or let them go through first so I can pick my side. There are often other things around that I can use as a “reason” for moving. But if there isn’t, I just silently move behind the other person to the other side. Most of the time, they’re too busy talking to notice.
But once, the person followed my movement and ended up spinning in a circle and getting dizzy.
My best friend moves for me a lot of the time. She’s even trained her boyfriend to walk on the left side of her, because her right is my side. (He didn’t appreciate that very much)
@gritandglory says:
makes me wonder if i would’ve noticed on my own if i spent time with you. hmmm…
@mjdagenhart says:
Dang. I guess we won’t find out now. How ’bout you forget I ever told you? ;)
y’all there is a reason to avoid the outside position…
A good gentleman all ways walks on the outside ;-)
http://www.trivia-library.com/a/why-men-walk-on-the-outside-of-a-woman.htm
@gritandglory says:
are you a good gentleman?? ;)
just a sec, i’ll ask my wife…
whew! she says yes. guess i’m okay for now.
@gritandglory says:
hee hee! really it got me wondering how observant to things like that i am. i’d like to think i would’ve noticed. i’m not the “too busy talking” type. (at least i don’t THINK i am!)
@mjdagenhart says:
Haha! Maybe you fall into the “too busy listening” category.
@gritandglory says:
then i definitely would’ve done the same as the person who spun in a circle to follow you with their eyes/ears!
@mjdagenhart says:
Then I’d have to be prepared with a video camera this time!
. . . go the speed limit.
@cassgirl says:
Yeah Becca!!!! REBEL like me!!
@gritandglory says:
ha ha ha! me and my lead foot agree!
Just got home from HELPING A FAMILY FROM MY CHURCH, and on the way home I got pulled over by a state trooper while going 88 mph.
OOPS.
Kind of negates the ‘good thing’ I was doing early tonight. Sigh….
Right now I’m committed to driving slowly. At least for a month. :)
@gritandglory says:
oh. my. dang.
how bad were the damages?? (ticket-wise)
Well, it’s at least $200, but I have to call tomorrow to find out if they will bump it up to $400. Since it’s a 65 mph zone they have the right to double my fine.
Dang. Hard lesson to learn.
@gritandglory says:
oh my dang.
ouch.
fight it. my standard answer is 88? yeah sure i thought it was kilometers, so like that is like 55 miles an hour. I mean how were you to know?
text!!!!!!
@gritandglory says:
oh shame! you’re missing out! :)
Y? U may thk it g8, I h8 it! MayB I lurn 2mrw. lol
Oh no, it’s happened. I have gotten OLD. “These young ‘uns and their newfangled contraptions! Just pick up the phone!!” Not even 45 years old yet. Sigh. (lol)
@gritandglory says:
well… one of these days, when you start texting… i hope you text me! :)
@nateonamission says:
Txting is so easy! :) I can’t imagine not being able to txt. I txt more then talking these days. txting is close to my heart. haha. well, maybe that’s a stretch.
…use the left door when entering or exiting a building.
@gritandglory says:
i love that i learned something new about you.
oh, and… why!?!??!?
Confession: In the busyness of the day I missed the word “learn” in your initial post. My comment was based on the fact that I hate it when people enter or exit a building using the wrong door. Sorry for the bazaaro comment! I’ll be sure to read next time :-)
use the self check-out! What? I’m going there to spend my $ and now they want me to work for free?
do farmville on facebook. :0
@mallyflip says:
AMEN!!!
@chrystieecole says:
Or Fish Town or Mafia Wars or whatever else there is out there…
@gritandglory says:
LIKE! :)
play Mouw.
If anyone else has tried to play this card game, you’ll know what I mean. “You just gave me 5 more cards, don’t expect me not to yell at you.”
I would be the one laughing and giving you just *one* more! LOVE this game!
do origami.
@christielici0us says:
Play Euchre.
My husband loves the game, as do all of his family members, so when we have get-togethers, they end up playing for hours on end. I’ve tried to learn to play, and it just seemed really boring to me. I’m not a fan of card games anyway, except UNO! ;]
@gritandglory says:
i’d kick your ace in euchre. good thing you don’t play.
Tweet! The Twitter is amazing for some, but I am afraid it will become an addiction, so I am just staying away all toether.
@gritandglory says:
smart woman!
@bajanpoet says:
… TO LET THE ENEMY WIN.
Not a fun light hearted answer, but it is the truth.
Right now, I’m CHOOSING to draw my line in the sand.
@bajanpoet says:
lol I just read it. again. I had forgotten that the line was I REFUSE TO LEARN HOW TO…. I thought it was I refuse to….
so I was thinking of I REFUSE TO LET THE ENEMY WIN…
although
I REFUSE TO LEARN HOW TO LET THE ENEMY WIN probably works too lolol
@Nomadstacey says:
…iron. I can always throw it on the ‘de-wrinkle’ cycle in the dryer if it’s wrinkly. It’s just not worth it to me to have crsip, starchy clothes because a. it’s not comfortable b. i feel like a victorian housewife and c. knowing me i’d burn the clothes.
@gritandglory says:
i will deliberately NOT purchase something if it looks as though it’ll need to be ironed.
i’m THAT lazy.
use Quicken. Even though it would bring joy & delight to my husband, and he’s worried he’ll get hit by a bus and I won’t know how to use it. I maintain if he gets hit by a bus, I’ve got much bigger problems than Quicken.
This is funny though, trying to think of something just kept bringing to my mind all kinds of things that I WOULD like to learn. Playing guitar, sewing, cooking a turkey, speaking Spanish, memorizing verses, wire wrap jewelry making…I’ll probably think of things all day!
@gritandglory says:
yeah, i’d agree that quicken would be the least of your worries!
and i love that you started brainstorming all the things you’d like to learn. you optimist you!
I’m with Stacey on the ironing thing.
I also refuse how to learn to deep clean. I am certainly neat but need someone else to come in every few months and REALLY clean.
@gritandglory says:
oh i’m totally with you on the cleaning!
my husband would say I refuse to learn how to upload pics off my camera…. cause I have to keep asking him how to do it…
I’m with Taylor, no Farmville or any other Facebook games.
Learn how to properly parallel park. I did it once when I was a teenager to get my drivers license and hit another car and failed. The second time I tried there where no cars around :) So…now if there are any other cars around…I’m out.
@gritandglory says:
i don’t think i’ve parallel parked since my road-test either. scares the bajeebers out of me.
@mallyflip says:
learn how to NOT make noises…. I have been awake for not even an hr and I know that I have made at least 15 noises. :]
@gritandglory says:
ha ha! i love that we have this in common.
play golf. Well, I would if it involved shopping. I’m an indoor cat, really.
@gritandglory says:
i like you more already! i’m SO an indoor girl!
@traceepersiko says:
spend the day shopping, or shop more than one store, let’s be honest
listen to Christmas music 24/7 the month of Christmas
drink coffee, reallllly don’t like it.
@gritandglory says:
but then there was that one black friday…
BW
@gritandglory says:
there are some funny ones here! you guys have been making me smile all morning!
Thought of a couple more:
- Play Bunco. I’ve done this exactly once, and it was beyond, beyond, beyond boring to me. No offense to any Bunco players here, but snnoooooooozzzzzzzzeeee……….
- Ski. Too gun-shy about causing serious damage to my limbs!
@hannahruthie says:
At my youth group we have an event called Bunc-fro…basically, it’s bunco but the person who gets a bunco gets to where a fro until the next person gets a bunco. It’s really fun because we play with about 50-70 people.
I swear, every time I hear “Bunco” now, I’ll think “Bunc-fro.” That helps…… (a little). :)
@gritandglory says:
ha ha ha! this little dialogue cracked me up!
Drink black coffee or tea without sugar or milk and honey. Or aquier th taste for beer or wine. If it doesn’t taste good the first time its not gonna taste good the second or third time and besides its not like beer has any health benefits!
Become insensitive to racist jokes! Even the little ones bother me. I think this is one area that is good to be sensitive too and I shouldn’t have to feel bad for feeling sensitive about this.
eat with chopsticks the correct way. i like my unique style…..and it still gets the food to my mouth.
@tamhodge says:
me too!!! however, i do use them to hold up my hair :)
Me too!!! I’m glad I’m not the only one :)
@gritandglory says:
i refuse to learn to eat with chopsticks at all! i like to eat too much to work that hard.
pass me a fork and let the shoveling begin!
@tamhodge says:
download most things onto my computer. i just dont get it. i tried to learn, once, and got mad. ive been known to call brent home to deal with downloads for me.
@cassgirl says:
Eat black licorice
ice skate
perm my hair again
have eggnog
with you on the black licorice!
@gritandglory says:
black licorice and eggnog make me want to throw up.
@cassgirl says:
So I scratch eggnog and black list off the Alece shopping list huh?
@gritandglory says:
absolutely! (love you!)
@cassgirl says:
I don’t think as much as I do…
I cannot wait until I am able to squeeze you for real. (it will make my year/decade)
Love you!
@cassgirl says:
Dang! holy cow… a Heidi typo
suppose to be
So I scratch eggnog and black licorice off the ALece shopping list huh?
@gritandglory says:
you know i speak “heidi”!
@cassgirl says:
Ok fill me me in on this speaking “heidi” You have typos in your speech? or is it the the “holy cow and dang it” THat I stole from you last year… LOL
@gritandglory says:
just that i totally understood what you meant!
@cassgirl says:
hearts speak a thousand words when they are attached…
@bahava says:
settle for anything less than God’s immeasurably more than I can ask for or imagine.
like the smell of licorice (twizzlers…red and black…red vines are okay though)
like eating egg plant (i tried for a year…it didn’t work out between us..)
@mjdagenhart says:
…watch anything besides Friends as I go to sleep.
…have a caffeine-free diet.
…cook for myself.
@gritandglory says:
friends? every night??
@mjdagenhart says:
Yep. I once tried to watch The Big Bang Theory instead…that was disastrous. I was not pleasant the next day.
I wish I knew how many times I’ve seen the entire Friends series.
@chrystieecole says:
Sit with my back to the door. Can’t stand it. Won’t ever do it.
@gritandglory says:
interesting…
@christielici0us says:
Ooh, I have the same issue. My hubby gets so frustrated when a hostess seats us in a restaurant because I practically race for the seat facing the door. I don’t know why, though…
@JewelzSightings says:
Spiritually… I simply refuse to learn how to comform….
On a physical aspect…. I simply refuse to learn how to…
bungee jump, parachute jump, like roller coasters…..
@dg4G says:
…be “street”
…play organised sport
@gritandglory says:
“be street”??? is that an aussie saying?
@dg4G says:
See, i’m so not “street” that I’ve probably not even used the right word…
I just meant using words like “yo” and “holla” – few things could be more foreign to me… :D
@gritandglory says:
aaaaaah!
i can’t pull off “ghetto” very well either!
@dg4G says:
ghetto…of course…
d’oh
@gritandglory says:
i think you speak it more than i do. because you were absolutely right about “street”!
http://street.urbanup.com/310652
@dg4G says:
Thing is…I’ve called it “street” since the 1980s…when the very unstreet Pet Shop Boys referred to it in a song.
Further proof of how unstreet I am…I like PSB a lot.
Last night at LGO, Jenni told me the way I sat down after being out of the room was “kinda street”. I have no idea what that even means.
@gritandglory says:
i don’t know if i’ve ever even heard PSB. yikes!
“i have no idea what that even means” – ha ha ha!
@dg4G says:
PSB weren’t all that popular in the US – though they did have a few huge hits there in the late 80s.
Think posh English semi-spoken-singing over polite electronic pop music.
I know the duet they did with Dusty Springfield was huge in the US.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn9E5i7l-Eg
text using misspelled/shorthanded words. Don’t ask me why but I simply cringe at the thought of typing out “b4″ or “2mrw,” etc. Just can’t do it.
@dg4G says:
um…you just did…haha
I am so with you sister … just feels like bad grammar to me. Gotta write it all out! :)
@gritandglory says:
oh me neither!!!!
live with cats.
I house sit my cousin’s six cats when she goes on vacation. That experience has taught me that I would rather live in a coal mine than with cats.
with you on this one, ed!
@hannahruthie says:
That’s how I feel about living with dogs. They are so dirty and slobbery. I just can’t stand it.
@gritandglory says:
i always get all chuckles about you cat-sitting for six cats. that’s gotta be some serious payback for somethin’!!
(i hate cats too.)
@nateonamission says:
me too. (I live with 4 of them, in a house that is less than 1000 sq ft.)
diet and exercise :(
[hmm...interesting. i'll have to think about this one...did you have an answer? i haven't read any of the other ones so as to be creative on my own]
@gritandglory says:
you should read through them. it’s so funny!
drink or like coffee. regardless of the amount of creamer or sugar. it ain’t my cup of tea.
like ketchup.
conform.
@gritandglory says:
“it aint my cup of tea” — ha ha ha!
@PrudyChick says:
I refuse to learn to like Onions. They come from the pit of …..
@gritandglory says:
you can say hell at the Grit!
@PrudyChick says:
LOL
… responed politely when told ” I just don’t think whites should marry blacks.”
…ski. I know I’d kill myself.
…live my life without music! :)
@gritandglory says:
oooooh! amen on the music thing.
(I’m gonna be in columbus next week!)
@gritandglory says:
speaking of ordering coffee with starbucks lingo…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31457-2004Oct14.html
@mjdagenhart says:
“And when that happens, people, the terrorists will have won.” hahaha
@gritandglory says:
ha ha! wasn’t that brilliant?! and seriously “grande supremo” put me over the edge!
@mjdagenhart says:
Haha me too!
And the headlines with poor choices of words are still making me smile. I think “Midwest storm blamed for Wisconsin” is my favorite.
@gritandglory says:
all chuckles over here!
(i’m loving the ongoing banter on here tonight. so fun!)
@mjdagenhart says:
(Me too! I’m glad I took the night off to relax like this :) )
@gritandglory says:
love you, marisa!
@mjdagenhart says:
Love you!
@nateonamission says:
“Unfortunately, we consumers, like moron sheep, started actually using these names. Why? If Starbucks decided to call its toilets “AquaSwooshies,” would we go along with that? Yes! Baaa!”
ahahaha :)
use a pogo stick.
Didn’t work out too well when I was 8.