Always keep at least three days worth of drinking water in your home, a gallon per person per day. So many emergency situations, large or small, can make water unavailable or unsafe. Having filters is also helpful, but you need actual full bottles on hand. For less plastic, go with the big bottles, you can drink from cups. And OP could have washed pits and crotch at least using some of his drinking water, since it’s not citywide so he could buy more on the way home from coffee.
That one made me snort!
Honestly, it’s a huge unexpected step from “meet for coffee” to “come shower in my apartment.” Or depending how you worded it, you could sound like you’re just trying to bail on getting together. Just because you’re not lying it’s not necessarily believable, especially in a dating context. Maybe try again when you’re done dealing with this and clean again.
Well, Huntsville Alabama has Space Camp and has been integral to US space exploration. Or so I’ve heard, haven’t been there myself.
Honestly, as someone who’s spent a lot of time in emergency departments, it depends a lot on the hospital and the time of day. Sometimes they’re packed and sometimes they’re almost empty. (At those times it’s very important not to invite disaster by mentioning how quiet it is.) Having an Urgent Care in the same place for Triage to divert people into helps a lot as well.
Let’s stop calling them super. “The grotesquely wealthy” is more accurate.
Play a compilation of song covers at exactly 135 BPM so I can do my treadmill without losing my center or my step.
Work the laundry machines, and set a separate timer because the app notifications are unreliable.
Text to check that my kids are alive and assure them that I and their dad are also not dead today.
Order grocery delivery.
Listen to birds and learn their names (Merlin)
Be part of the earthquake alert system (MyShake)
Wordle/ Quordle/ Waffle
Yes. If I have to wait in the ER, I try to think of it as a sign that I’m going to be okay.
Extremely fast service, or people suddenly starting to be really really nice to you, means something very bad is going on.
But since money interferes with logic in so many ways it seemed necessary to mention it.
The Onerous Bloated Billionaire Boondoggle
I picked up a phrase today, “the grotesquely wealthy.” How pathetic the squabbles of the grotesquely wealthy.
Agreed! I plan on using “the grotesquely wealthy” from now on, it conveys my visceral opinion of them.
That part is normal in US emergency rooms as well.
I own and live in a condo, and sometimes call it an apartment., because condo sounds bougie to me. Especially because I happen to know the building was built as apartments and converted later. Lots of people rent condos as well, so they have a landlord, the owner of the unit. Anyway, you can usually say apartment to give the idea it’s a multifamily dwelling.
FDNY indicates it’s in the US, so they’re googling: “What’s the nearest hospital that’s in my health insurance network?”
Also notice how the long distance, chaotic distribution, and heavy aid boxes force families to self-select their strongest person, who would also be most able to put up a fight to defend their family. Then the IDF is gunning them down when they’re in the chute, leaving starving women and children that are easily disposed of.
Crazy recognize crazy
I like the point about climate change, if you could trick the genie into agreeing that once you set up your new home you get to stay there. Then pick a spot on the cusp of frigidity. So it will gradually get into the double digits at least.
I’m not saying it was any actual kid, that’s just the only reason I could imagine being possibly justified.
Great! If you haven’t already, shower and text her you’re clean and available, although of course you understand if she’s busy right now.