This is a giant test post...
...of testing posts magnificence!via sendy
Amazingly, I did eventually find a grocery store. It was the most confusing grocery store I have ever been in. First of all, most of the signs were written in Spanish. I speak a little Spanish, but it did me very little good because there was no order to anything in the entire store. The shelves were packed with various foods and toiletries, but none of it was grouped into any sort of easily-recognizable category. The dry pasta was next to some random shampoo bottles and a box of Reese’s peanut butter cups. A few aisles down from that, there was more shampoo, but now it was accompanied by salsa and something called “energy balls” which appeared to be homemade chocolate balls with coffee beans stuffed into them, rolled up inside a plastic sandwich bag. Birds flew freely throughout the store and a centrally-located tank of live lobsters made the whole place smell like rancid seawater. It was like some horrific wonderland of confusion. I was never going to find juice and I was never going to be able to go home. I sat down in the middle of what appeared to be the “yellow things aisle” and began to weep quietly.
This is a hilarious and accurate description of every bodega in America, especially the ones in big cities. Only a girl from northern Idaho could have written it. Classic.
31 years and nothing has changed. Nothing.
Rachel Maddow- The more spills change_ the more they stay the same (via StartLoving3)
I would likely be arrested if I suggested on television that any children watching should promptly go to a wooded area with a gun and harm themselves. What’s the difference between that and Sandra suggesting we fill our mouths with Ritz Crackers, jam a can of Cheez Wiz in after and press hard? None that I can see.
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