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Oh no I’m into it

If I had some ham, I could have ham and eggs, if I had some eggs.

I got one of those too! Did a vortex open from 1997?

Mariah Carey came up in conversation the other day, and my husband said "can most people even hum a Mariah Carey song besides All I Want for Christmas is You?"

And I promptly named a dozen 90s Mariah Carey songs because I was born in 1981.

Absolutely, I can sing them even

I went to a restaurant yesterday and when it came time to pay, she said it's cash only. I was like, what? Shouldn't you have told me? She said there's a sign outside. Okay. So I (amazingly) had enough cash to pay the check, and when I was done, I looked at the door and there was a sign saying cash only but it wasn't next to the door opening, and there were about 3 other signs on the door. I normally do read signs but I read the holiday hours sign and just didn't read the others.

My opinion is that they should have told me it was cash only when seating me. Wouldn't that have made sense?

(Also, merry Christmas!)

Something is wrong with the intersectional timeline and interdimensional topography. This afternoon I was searching for replacement bearings for the farm's 40 year old water well pump, when I discovered this:  In what universe does Monkey Wards still exist?  
  I'm pretty sure that in our world they went bankrupt and disappeared at least 20 years ago.
I consider this proof that time is not simply a flat circle, that it is in fact half a toasted bagel and we are all merely cream cheese smeared upon it's tasty surface.

The reanimated zombie corpses of several formerly massive companies rendered obsolete by technological innovations still shamble around as either online entities, and/or wildly disconnected brand names randomly licensed to unrelated cheap-ass products, often electronics. For example, Polaroid and  Bell and Howell still exist mainly in this trademark purgatory.

I can't speak for America, but Over Here Polaroid are back, baby!

www.polaroid.com/collections/instant-cameras

I miss Montgomery Ward, and Sears for that matter, simply because so much of their appliances and stuff was bulletproof.  I stumbled onto the zombie MW site because I am trying to see if their is any way to replace the bearings and rebuild our 50-60 year old cast iron well pump.  I replaced it a couple of years ago as a precaution when the pressure tank it used started to leak, and the brand new, top of the line replacement pump died after about a year.  It was still under warranty, so I returned it, dragged the old Monkey Wards one out of the junk pile and reinstalled it, and it ran perfectly until a couple of days ago, when it began occasionally making that horrible screeching sound that means the bearings are finally going out.   If I can't rebuild it, it means I will have to go and buy some new plastic and aluminum* planned obsolencense  piece of shit. 

*I started to use a term I have heard commonly describing the low quality metals  in many imported products nowadays, but it might be considered racist and xenophobic, so I changed it. I wouldn't have meant it that way, just that so many new products have no durability, but I changed it anyway. Domestically produced products of the same low quality would also be pieces of shit.

It's funny to me that it's within our lifetime that "made in Japan" went from suggesting "shoddy and poorly made" to meaning the literal opposite of that.