'll be more effective.

I would just be very cautious about thinking you can generalize this to what people living on $3/day in food stamps could reasonably do. Sounds like you have used a lot of gas money shopping for bargains— on the south side...

Just a side note: being “good with details” is something I’ve really worked at over the years and I’m so flattered when you say I am “good with details” because I pale in comparison to so many...

Tay, my thoughts exactly. Especially the bit about being able to praise/complain about your server by name. Much more effective than, "Um, that guy, over there, in the white shirt...no, not that white shirt..."

i’ve been prretty clear all along in my comments that i think hung is a pompous ass...so i was genuinely surprised – and pleased – to see his ‘human’ side emerge a little bit tonight. the way he...

I think it’s better to send flowers before or after the event – the last thing a harried hostess wants to deal with at the last minute is scaring up a vase, clipping stems, etc. - and it’s not like they can be...

Wegman’s has the same effect on smaller towns in the U. S. The larger Carrefour’s are really like Super Wal Marts and go a long way towards hurting (perhaps fatally) smaller towns in France. Still, Carrefour is an...

time with interesting people eating baloney and crackers. Courtesy doesn’t expect champagne and caviar, just a relationship that’s not one-sided. Courtesy simply expects that people reciprocate, in whatever manner is...

on the side thing is just a way we invented to keep the oversauced pastas from flinging. Good luck on your paper.

, aisles are convoluted and narrow, and the arrangement of goods is haphazard at best. I can vouch for PW Markets. The down side is that there are only seven of them (I think) scattered around the area, but I love mine in the...

this: "Music, if that beautiful word must be allowed to fall so low as to denote the strummings and squealings of Orientals, is supposed to have existed in Japan since mythological times ... but (its) effect is not to soothe, but...

EMM glad our side bar was deleted by the mods, sorta silly. But to this thread, you should have approached the manager and the manager should have comped the whole meal. Regardless of the business of the resto you were still a...

worse when the pan turned into a screaming column of flames and my fist instinct was to BLOW ON IT! You can imagine the effect. (Have you seen backdraft?) I certainly know better, but I think I was nervous about damaging her...

as B. anthracis (anthrax) and B. cereus (another soil bacteria that causes food poisoning). Bt secretes a toxin that is lethal in insect guts, but has no effect on humans. Others, like pyrethrins (an isolate of the crysanthemum...

the smell of sweet-roasted peanuts sold on manhattan corners. turns my stomach to walk by the carts....incense has the same effect. i just hope i can hold my breath long enough to get by