What’s with the carrots?
things that happened
🥕 Someone on Facebook was mad because their Keurig machine kept running with no coffee cups in it. Then they discovered their cat was turning on the Keurig machine just to warm its kitty butt.
🥕 The man who replied the Keurig Cat Problem post that his cat turns off his CPAP machine in the morning when it wants him to wake up.
🥕 “What none of them seem to know, however, is that the previous owner died 1) by cat attack and 2) wearing a terrible wig. WE SHOULD ALL BE SO LUCKY.” — from Stacie Ponder
🥕 The screenshot below:
🥕 On that note, if you experience something carrot worthy, please send it to me at grabthelapels@gmail.com and let me know if you want your name included or redacted.
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Turned off the cpap? Wow!
As you know, I got a big carrot about a week ago, in the form of a small bundle of first grandchild!
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I’m so excited for you! Wishing the little one a speedy development so they can go to Grandma’s house and have stories read to them.
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Oh how exciting Jeanne. Grandchildren are such fun!
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Turn off the CPAP is funny.
But I had to laugh at the Netflix one, and couldn’t you just pause it! That person is too young and has no experience of the old free to air television. The joy when video recorders appeared and we could record a show and fast forward through the ads or pause if we needed to make a cup of coffee or, as you Americans say, go the the bathroom!
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Or driving home at break-neck speed because a show was starting in a couple of minutes! There was also the excuse of leaving some place because you had to get home for a show, and people respected your time when you said as much
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Or sometimes they didn’t respect you because your priority was a show over them!
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Mum still gets the newspaper delivered, rolled in cling wrap and tossed onto the front lawn (by grown men). On behalf of paper boys everywhere I would like to remind readers too young to know better that we would fold our newspapers carefully and stuff as much of them as would fit into your letterboxes, on our bikes, in the cold and the rain, before dawn.
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It is funny to see the paper delivered by vehicle instead of a bicycle. And I do know Nick was NOT on his way to work before dawn. I hope you got some tips or gifts at some point for being so industrious.
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Or paper girls… I did this in Koonwarra when I was about 9 years old!
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Heck yes, Kim!
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We did too until we downsized two years ago … that was for Mr Gums not me! One person in our complex of 23 apartments still gets a newspaper delivered. I suspect it’s our person who still writes cheques but I’m not sure.
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🤣 Probably.
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Sometimes I see people delivering newspapers here but it’s always annoying because they’ll drive below the speed limit on the highway so that they can slowly lean out the window and toss newspapers onto people’s driveways. (Our highway is actually a 2 lane road with a speed limit that can go as low as 50km/h but it’s the only way to get around most of the time.)
We don’t have a TV so when we stay at hotels I love giving my kids the chance to experience that part of my childhood by making them brush their teeth during commercial breaks and yelling at them to hurry!😂
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Ha! You’re recreating for your kids the best kind of anxiety 😂
I do wonder where the young paper delivery folks on their bicycles went. I’m sure there’s a book about it; there’s a book about everything.
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Oh my goodness, the cats made me laugh!
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So mischievous! They certainly learn how to get their own way, don’t they?
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That last meme about the coworkers was one I made a screenshot of too! LOL
I still get a newspaper (Maryville Daily Times) and the post office delivers it! Which means that when there’s a federal holiday, there’s no print edition of the paper.
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The one day you have more time to sit down and read the newspaper, the newspaper doesn’t show up? Blasphemy.
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The post about youngsters not knowing about live television made me laugh! I fairly often have these moments with my students now. One of them wanted to write her dissertation about the impact of smartphones on the risk of eating disorders. She was initially going to look at papers dating back to 2006, and I had to explain that none of us had smartphones until 2008 at the earliest and they didn’t become ubiquitous until much later! I felt I aged many years in that conversation.
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Oh, Lou, that is a hoot. She was trying to research through our ancient scrolls of time (pre-Smart Phones, lol). I always wondered if the live TV joke lands with people who didn’t have siblings yelling, “It’s ooooon!” Do people even still do a run/tuck-and-roll into their living rooms anymore, or has that cherished tradition died?
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bahahaha THESE WERE SO GOOD. the Red Lobster one? Priceless. Actually no, the Spagethaway one was definitely the best though. I just love these so much.
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“Oh shit, fr?” I just love that response. There are some slang phrases that I 100% support, lol. One of my favorites is “I be in situations.”
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I think that’s what I loved so much actually, the response – oh shit fr? Love that so much
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