Quite a few years ago, I found a $20 on the ground just outside the Harvard Square T-station. I walked to the nearest church, and put it into the poor box.
A couple of years ago, I found two folded-up $20 bills on the floor near one of the checkouts in the supermarket. I asked the people standing nearby if the money belonged to them, and they were all honest enough to say that it wasn’t theirs.
So, I turned it in at Customer Service, just in case someone went there to claim it. However, I’m not sure how honest the chick at Customer Service is.
Let me clarify . . . I buy the paper plates and plastic cutlery with my own money
In the past, I even did the coffee . . . I bought the machine AND the coffee with my own money, cleaned it every afternoon and set it up so that hot coffee would be ready at 6am, which is the begin of the workday
Several guys would drop by in the morning, grateful to get a cup of hot coffee
Everything was good for several years . . .
But then some guy decided he no longer “approved” of the coffee machine OR the coffee, because it apparently didn’t meet his “lofty” standards . . . and he threw it all away
That same guy then proceeded to complain coffee wasn’t ready at the begin of the workday, when he was still apparently in need of a dose of caffeine
Needless to say, I have nothing to do with the coffee nowadays
I’m a keurig fan myself. Everybody can choose their own k cup. The wife likes hazelnut that I cant stand. With our high mineral water, they only last a couple years though. I keep a brand new one in the box on the shelf for when it clogs up. $50 a year is all.
So buy a new one but keep the k pods yourself and sell them fir a dollar to those ungrateful fools.
*Disclaimer: The following statement does not mean I am “better than you” in any meaningful way*
I learned, on regular news by the way, that those K-cups, which I used to use, contain chemicals for preservatives that could pose long-term health issues.
As for the regular-Joe vs Hazelnut coffee debate, we just make a barako of one one morning, and the other the next. Monday = Hazel, Tuesday = Joe, and so on.
Long ago I figured that whatever was in the coffee I was drinking couldn’t hurt me more than what was in the mug which may get washed once a month. Or the residue on my hands from all the brakeclean, grease, antifreeze, or whatever else I may be handling or breathing. Did you know we are supposed to wear respirators when soldering?
We have friends who have eliminated that issue. They’ve installed bidets in their house and no longer use toilet paper. Instead, they’ve gone to washable/resuable absorbent wipes to cut down on paper waste. They’ve also eliminated paper towels from the kitchen. I sure hope they can keep the kitchen and bathroom laundry separated.
Agree. I actually chastised staff for doing it wrong. Must be the way they were brung up, but I can never remember mom, dad, or grandma ever mentioning it.
I prefer mullet paper, partly because that’s how it was always hung in the house I grew up in, and secondly, in a narrow stall I don’t like the beard against my leg when I’m in the number two seated position.
because that’s the way I roll 