Great piece deFries. Yes, the surge pricing sucks, but if you don’t like it….don’t use it. I am so sick of everybody complaining about higher prices on the most in demand night of the year. No matter how much Uber is on a given night, it’s still cheaper than a DUI.
I’m with you. I hate the people who stand directly in front of dumbbells while using them. It makes ME feel bad for trying to get whatever dumbbells I need, even though THEY are so rudely in the way.
Yeah the Reston/Fair Lakes area is pretty much all about that price now, at least the places I saw anyways. I am lucky that I have 920ish sqf, so it’s a little bit bigger, but I was surprised too.
I just moved out to Reston and my rent is $1500 a month for a 1 bedroom. This whole area is so damn high. I mean I’m not even in the Town Center and it’s still out of this world.
Great article Bernie. Some people might try and call you a snob for buying nicer things, but they really do pay for themselves. Plus, when you entertain, it’s nice to have plates and and glasses for people. Nothing worse to going to somebody’s place and all they have is the paper thin plates. Just imagine, those people use paper plates for their own self 24/7. I’m not trying to be a jerk, but come on!
I really hope that you don’t spend $12 a day at Starbucks, unless you’re also getting some kind of food product. All millennial jokes aside, that’s just throwing money away.
It’s also kind of weird to see a lot of old friends. You usually find that each year you have less and less in common. You can only sit back and talk about high school or (their) “the good old days” so much before it gets really boring.
And also, you can make your spotify music available offline and play it in the car that way.
I have potential answers to questions one and two.
1. Mitch was counted during the headcount, which means that the McCallister clan could in fact see him. Additionally, everybody seemed to ignore Kevin, so it isn’t odd that they did not pay him any attention. Lest we forget that not 12 hours before, he caused quite a stir at dinner.
2. I was actually thinking about this when I watched Home Alone earlier this week. I am not 100% up to date on the stock practices in the late 80s/90s, BUT, at one point in history, bonds that used to make timely interest payments actually came with physical coupons. The person that physically had that coupon and took it to the bank (I’m guessing) received the interest payment. I was thinking that stocks may have worked the same way. As in, the actual person that owned the sheet of paper labeled as “stock” may have been the rightful owner. I could very well be incorrect, but I think that may be plausible since I’m not sure when the stock market become as computerized as it is today. I have no theories on the odd nomenclature though.
2.1. Harry doesn’t strike me as being super bright, so he may have had a misconception of what a marketable security or whatever actually was.
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They might make him wear mittens
10/10 would let work remote
I was just kidding too! I’ll take my laps now
We can take this article, print a thousand copies of it, roll them up like a news paper, and swat you with it. Stick to science.
Great piece deFries. Yes, the surge pricing sucks, but if you don’t like it….don’t use it. I am so sick of everybody complaining about higher prices on the most in demand night of the year. No matter how much Uber is on a given night, it’s still cheaper than a DUI.
I’m with you. I hate the people who stand directly in front of dumbbells while using them. It makes ME feel bad for trying to get whatever dumbbells I need, even though THEY are so rudely in the way.
I moved to Reston. I can deal with a bad commute to go to Clarendon/DC for weekends since I have a 6 minute commute to work/gym every day.
Yeah the Reston/Fair Lakes area is pretty much all about that price now, at least the places I saw anyways. I am lucky that I have 920ish sqf, so it’s a little bit bigger, but I was surprised too.
This was the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. Great work Hickey
I just moved out to Reston and my rent is $1500 a month for a 1 bedroom. This whole area is so damn high. I mean I’m not even in the Town Center and it’s still out of this world.
Great article Bernie. Some people might try and call you a snob for buying nicer things, but they really do pay for themselves. Plus, when you entertain, it’s nice to have plates and and glasses for people. Nothing worse to going to somebody’s place and all they have is the paper thin plates. Just imagine, those people use paper plates for their own self 24/7. I’m not trying to be a jerk, but come on!
Don’t love close to downtown either. Gets you nowhere.
I really hope that you don’t spend $12 a day at Starbucks, unless you’re also getting some kind of food product. All millennial jokes aside, that’s just throwing money away.
I gotcha. Can’t go wrong with Dark Side of the Moon! Having actual CDs comes in handy sometime
It’s also kind of weird to see a lot of old friends. You usually find that each year you have less and less in common. You can only sit back and talk about high school or (their) “the good old days” so much before it gets really boring.
And also, you can make your spotify music available offline and play it in the car that way.
I love the work. When it is not Winter, I take a Town Center lap. I can just hear myself getting fatter sitting down for extended periods of time.
Much like you probably do in the morning, let it go man.
VT should be in the Belk Bowl. Close to VA. Hands down not going to LA the 26th.
I have potential answers to questions one and two.
1. Mitch was counted during the headcount, which means that the McCallister clan could in fact see him. Additionally, everybody seemed to ignore Kevin, so it isn’t odd that they did not pay him any attention. Lest we forget that not 12 hours before, he caused quite a stir at dinner.
2. I was actually thinking about this when I watched Home Alone earlier this week. I am not 100% up to date on the stock practices in the late 80s/90s, BUT, at one point in history, bonds that used to make timely interest payments actually came with physical coupons. The person that physically had that coupon and took it to the bank (I’m guessing) received the interest payment. I was thinking that stocks may have worked the same way. As in, the actual person that owned the sheet of paper labeled as “stock” may have been the rightful owner. I could very well be incorrect, but I think that may be plausible since I’m not sure when the stock market become as computerized as it is today. I have no theories on the odd nomenclature though.
2.1. Harry doesn’t strike me as being super bright, so he may have had a misconception of what a marketable security or whatever actually was.
What?