I have found that after I hit 35, whenever I start to feel old and like the world has left me behind, I can go to Swiss Chalet and be youngest person in the place by at least 2 decades.
It's like the freaking fountain of youth.
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People who fail to clean their sidewalks. Especially after it was been several days after a snowfall. That includes you, City of Calgary.
People who clean their sidewalks by simply throwing down some ice melting substance and who are too lazy to shovel off the wet congealed blobs that the ice melting stuff leaves behind. What a mess.
I get razzed by my friends quite frequently for defending Swiss Chalet. I think that the sauce is delicious, the chicken is good, and you can even have it all delivered to your door if you're not in the mood for dinner with octogenarians.
The best part is, my hair has been going grey since my late teens (I'm 34 now and there isn't much colour left!), so my friends say that is the reason I like Swiss Chalet, that I fit right in, that it is my "Swiss Chalet disguise", etc. They can suck on my chalet sauce-dipped (chicken) bone.
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WRGMG is my sister-in-law's bad run of luck. She has spend the past few months picking up the pieces after her husband decided that some skank was more important than seven years of marriage. So her and a good girl friend of her's decided that they'd go to Cuba for a week to kick off the new year, have a fresh start, etc.
On Friday night her dog chews her passport (it was left out after checking in) and damages it slightly, but I know that even a little damage could mean trouble. Passport office is closed anyway. So she shows up at the airport the next morning to give it a try, and they won't let her on. Her friend left anyway, hoping that they'd be able to meet up in a couple of days. So we spent Saturday trying unsuccessfully to get a new passport, but the passport offices are closed and even the emergency number says to call back during business hours on Monday. We tried the Harry Hays anyway, hoping for any sort of break - no luck.
Then we had a little fender bender right after, although there was no damage to my car, and it wasn't my fault. But why someone would think that a blind, erratic, quadruple lane change on a one-way was a good idea is beyond me.
So she got new passport photos, did the application, and was waiting at the Harry Hays at opening yesterday. Full credit to Passport Canada, they got her a new passport within about 5 hours, albeit at twice the price, but things were starting to look up. And then the death blow - her red eye flight to Toronto this morning was cancelled because of the weather problems there, so she won't make the connection to Cuba. She was hoping to salvage 4/7 days of the trip, but now it doesn't look like she'll get there at all.
Sorry for the novel, but can't this girl catch a break? In the big picture, a missed vacation and losing some money is frustrating but relatively trivial, but she needed this so much and was so looking forward to it. Perhaps there was cancellation insurance (the friend, currently in Cuba, booked it) - I don't know. But what a gong show.
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I don't think anyone in their right mind goes to Timmies because it's the Canadian thing to do. They like most fast food places put some addicting ingredients in their product that makes you feen for more like a crack head.
WRGMG is my sister-in-law's bad run of luck. She has spend the past few months picking up the pieces after her husband decided that some skank was more important than seven years of marriage. So her and a good girl friend of her's decided that they'd go to Cuba for a week to kick off the new year, have a fresh start, etc.
On Friday night her dog chews her passport (it was left out after checking in) and damages it slightly, but I know that even a little damage could mean trouble. Passport office is closed anyway. So she shows up at the airport the next morning to give it a try, and they won't let her on. Her friend left anyway, hoping that they'd be able to meet up in a couple of days. So we spent Saturday trying unsuccessfully to get a new passport, but the passport offices are closed and even the emergency number says to call back during business hours on Monday. We tried the Harry Hays anyway, hoping for any sort of break - no luck.
Then we had a little fender bender right after, although there was no damage to my car, and it wasn't my fault. But why someone would think that a blind, erratic, quadruple lane change on a one-way was a good idea is beyond me.
So she got new passport photos, did the application, and was waiting at the Harry Hays at opening yesterday. Full credit to Passport Canada, they got her a new passport within about 5 hours, albeit at twice the price, but things were starting to look up. And then the death blow - her red eye flight to Toronto this morning was cancelled because of the weather problems there, so she won't make the connection to Cuba. She was hoping to salvage 4/7 days of the trip, but now it doesn't look like she'll get there at all.
Sorry for the novel, but can't this girl catch a break? In the big picture, a missed vacation and losing some money is frustrating but relatively trivial, but she needed this so much and was so looking forward to it. Perhaps there was cancellation insurance (the friend, currently in Cuba, booked it) - I don't know. But what a gong show.
Ya...that is a string of bad luck. Things will get better for her.
I have to also give credit to the passport office. I lost my passport 3 days before flying to Mexico on Christmas day. I did the 24 hour passport application and if came in the next morning. I didn't think speed was possible with a government agency.
Oilers fans talking about their crappy team (in that stupid Edmonton accent) and using the players nicknames like they are linemates. "Just watch Hallsy and Ebs are going to make Team Canada, in 2018 Nuge, Schultzy, and Yaks will all be there. Did you see that pass Smitty made to Gags? Playoffs in 2015!"
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I've had an injury for the last 6 months that's prevented me from working, but I'm going to start again soon. Was thinking of changing industries, since if I have to work my way up from the bottom again it may as well be in an industry that pays better.
But anyways, it REALLY GRINDS MY GEARS when 'help wanted' ads don't have a salary/wage posted, or surprisingly common are ads that don't even mention what company it is.
But anyways, it REALLY GRINDS MY GEARS when 'help wanted' ads don't have a salary/wage posted, or surprisingly common are ads that don't even mention what company it is.
In my experience those are head hunters and you won't know the company until you interview.
WRGMG is my sister-in-law's bad run of luck. She has spend the past few months picking up the pieces after her husband decided that some skank was more important than seven years of marriage. So her and a good girl friend of her's decided that they'd go to Cuba for a week to kick off the new year, have a fresh start, etc.
So does that make the douchbag ex-husband your brother?
Get to go to my first Flames road game tonight in Phoenix and they get friggen owned!
That and I fell into the nationalistic trap of getting not one but two cups of Tim Horton's coffee at the game. It really is terrible coffee.
Doh, I hate when that happens. The other day I was turning into McDonalds, and then the Canadian anthem started playing in my head, and my hands starter stearing towards Tim Horton's, down the road. They always suck me in with that.
People who crank their music up on the train, especially in the mornings. It's never anything slow and relaxing either, but Latin dance or death metal. I'm uneasy around those people, because no sane person listens to that at 7am.
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Oilers fans talking about their crappy team (in that stupid Edmonton accent) and using the players nicknames like they are linemates. "Just watch Hallsy and Ebs are going to make Team Canada, in 2018 Nuge, Schultzy, and Yaks will all be there. Did you see that pass Smitty made to Gags? Playoffs in 2015!"
Every teams' fans do that. But Oiler fans are the worst at it, agreed.
Gags has also got to be the worst nickname in all of hockey. Makes him sound like some street walking man whore. That and Horcs.
"Horcs feeds it to Gags, where it's finished off by Yaks". Gross.
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