So you know

Stolen from kathrynt:

Gary Heavin, who owns Curves, contributes 10% of the profits of that business to organizations allied with Operation Save America, the successor to Operation Rescue. OSA and OR are fairly militant anti-abortion organizations that, among other things, promote the soundly discredited notion that having an abortion increases the risk of breast cancer.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/04/20/DDGLU4ULFV1.DTL

http://www.operationsaveamerica.org/articles/articles/decline-pp-central-tx.htm

Why I Hate Going To Home Depot

Solarbird guh
Solarbird must. not. strangle.
<deleted> snugs SB!
<deleted> says "who are you not strangling?"
Solarbird sends openly ** EVERYONE **
Solarbird went to home depot.
<deleted> says "Ah"
Solarbird managed to get out of there with two new lenses for the hallway's overhead lights. ** But it was a fight. **
<deleted> says "erf"
Solarbird sends openly ** It started when the scanner wouldn't let me put down the burned-out lightbulb. As soon as I put it down, it locked up the scanner and wouldn't let me do anything until I picked it back up again. **
Solarbird sends openly ** So I held on to it while I tried to scan the new lenses, which promptly shattered in my hands as I lifted them onto the scanner surface. **
<deleted> says "Why were you scanning them?"
Solarbird sends openly ** It was the self-serve line. I was scanning them to enter the price. Because that's NORMALLY a better experience at Home Depot, because their cashier system sucks so hard. **
<deleted> says "Ah"
Solarbird sends openly ** So I went back and got two new ones. (The others really shouldn't have shattered regardless, but they did, but Home Depot didn't charge me for them even after I said I'd pay, which was the one nice thing.) **
Solarbird sends openly ** I get back, already just not. amused. and scan the first one - but now I don't have anything to put in the bag. So it won't let me scan the second, because I haven't _put_ anything in the bag, and therefore must be a complete git. **
Solarbird sends openly ** So I try to fool it into letting me scan the next thing, and it bitches, and the chequer at the centre asks whether she should scan it, and I tell her that I can scan it just fine, I just need it to let me _do_ it, and then it does, but then she intervenes from there and puts it into "assistance needed" mode. I cancel out of that and scan the second one, and as I'm trying to pay, she keeps telling me to stop, that she needs to take it off. "But I don't _want_ it off!" "But you scanned it twice!" "There's TWO OF THEM." **
Solarbird sends openly ** And I'm thinking, LEAVE ME ALONE AND LET ME GET OUT OF YOUR HELL STORE **
Solarbird sends openly ** Finally she gets it and says, "...oh! Okay!" and I pay and leave. **