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Cake day: August 2nd, 2023

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  • Where I grew up, driving school was mandatory before being eligible for a license.

    I ended up going to two. The first one, the instructor advocated disregarding caution and just trusting in the universe to take care of you (not exactly how she phrased it). At one point some state representative came in; the instructor, apparently forewarned, told the class that she would be teaching differently the day the representative was there and that we shouldn’t comment on it.

    When my mom found out, she took me out and put me in a better known school, then demanded a refund from the first one. The instructor sent her a copy of her contract, highlighting a phrase that was something like “no refund under any conditions.”

    A few months later, that school was no longer open.




  • For what it’s worth, this also works well if you want to lie to yourself about how much weight you’ve gained.

    That’s probably not the healthiest approach, though.

    As an alternative, I once was wearing a no name brand one of these at work and it simply broke. I spent the rest of the day with an extension cord tied around my waist. It was also adjustable and, as a bonus, all of my customers of the day got a kick out of it.





  • 6-7 is a thing kids say these days, apparently. Like 69, 420, etc.; except so far as I’ve seen 6-7 is the height of a popular basketball player, a reference to a rap song, or possibly both.

    I’m not going to attack it because I’ve made plenty of dumb references, but I don’t know enough to justify this one. My kid is too young to say this and I have no other connection to modern youth culture.

    I’m not sure how the numbers connect to the image.








  • The part of that book I remember after all these years is that at one point his parents were like “fine” and moved in with him. I read it when I was young enough to not realize it was fictitious, but that part always seemed odd to me.

    I didn’t know (until I opened your wiki link just now) that there were sequels.