In my youth I thought draft beer gave me worse hangovers, in my somewhat mature years I realized it was much smoother and easier to over serve myself resulting in aforementioned hangovers. Now I've learned to quite enjoy it in moderation.
True storyThe fact that the Louvre heist didn't take place at dawn, but at the very reasonable hour of 9:30AM shows that even French jewel thieves have a better work-life balance than us.
I signed up for the executive business membership, so I could shop at 9, an hour before the rest of humanity. Low and behold it's WONDERFUL shopping in a mostly empty costco. Then I noticed just about everyone looks in the late 60's or older. I'll be 70 in March. Anyway, it was definitely worth the extra 45-ish buck$ to avoid the throngs of misguided careless dimwits....
I almost never go there and regret it every time that i do. I mostly do our house shopping after 11pm at a 24 hr place called Winco to avoid contact with other humans. They also make you bag your own which if you aren't lazy and/or stupid is muuuch faster. I'll smoosh my own bread, thank you very much.I signed up for the executive business membership, so I could shop at 9, an hour before the rest of humanity. Low and behold it's WONDERFUL shopping in a mostly empty costco. Then I noticed just about everyone looks in the late 60's or older. I'll be 70 in March. Anyway, it was definitely worth the extra 45-ish buck$ to avoid the throngs of misguided careless dimwits....
Then on Thursday, I'm coming out of Home Depot with $1000 worth of roofing supplies, tar paper, roofing rolls, tar, 8 sheets of 1/2" 4x8 plywood, 2x6's, etc and I have to slam the brakes on 700 pounds for a 20 year old that literally ran in front of me and stopped to answer the phone.
Un-effing-believable.... yeah, I yelled GTF out of the way asshat at him....
Pleasant tour in the UK..
LOL! I have seen at least 2 BBC articles about people traveling to those places!
I posted about it previously here: