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[Qinella]

This is a place for everyone to get that trifling bother off your chest. You know, the one you've been afraid to express publicly due to fear of comparisons to African children. Nothing is too petty. If it hurts, however so slightly, we are here for you, sisters and brothers.

I'll go first.

When I was growing up, we did not have a potato peeler in the house. I was raised to believe that such instruments did not in fact exist at all, so when I moved out and did my own shopping, my eyes did not recognize them in the aisles of stores. It was not until I moved to Korea and one had been left behind in my apartment that I came to realize the joy of assisted peeling. Thitherto, I had spent my entire life peeling potatoes with a small knife. Horrible, I know.

Who is the next brave soul to bare their wounds for communal licking?

Q.

[huffdaddy]

I have a can of tuna sitting in my kitchen with the pull tab broken off.

[jajdude]

Damn man, that is funny. A knife works fine, but I guess the peeler is even better.

Here's mine:

It took me a while to realize that only "Buy the Way" and then, only some 'Buy the Way' stores sell Hoegaarden.

A few exceptions may exist, but I am unaware.

Otherwise it's the regular OB etc.. crap local stuff.

Sad I was indeed, but also pleased to have this little pocket of knowledge.

Ah, bittersweet, thus wisdom can be.

[captain kirk]

I was tense and in a hurry to get somewhere in the morning. Tugged too hard while tying my laces and SNAP. I get even more tense! The end was frayed and the eyelet hole too small. Even with tweezers I couldn't encourage the frayed end (once I tied a knot to make the broken lace once again a whole) through the hole.

I considered using a knife point to 'drill' the hole larger but, after climbing to a mountaintop (in my mind) to gain an overview of the dilemma, simply refused to fight that little hole anymore. And skipped it going on to the next, which was of adequate diameter to allow the frayed lace end to pass.

Whew!

[huffdaddy]

[Qinella]

[OiGirl]

I had finally gotten both the fluorescent bulbs to light (problem with the starters, I think, not the bulbs...) but now one has gone out and the other is flickering. I don't have a stepladder or chair to stand on and had to go up to the roof to get this nasty old one the landlord keeps up there. Thank goodness I hadn't yet taken it back up there!

[jajdude]

Ah, 'tis a beautiful thread, long may it run.

I had holes in my socks, and they always appeared at the ankles. Being the lazy slob I am I wore them anyway for distances not to be bragging about.

So earlier this day I found a seller who was a kind-hearted old bird, she gave me socks a'plenty for a nice price. I feel glad that the next few months will have me nicely socked.

[cbclark4]

I have to wear glasses to read now.

cbc

[rockstarsmooth]

i have been back in korea for 7 weeks and i just got furniture yesterday. until saturday, i would use my bed pillows and the stairs to my loft to make a chair. i had nothing but a bed, in the loft and thus not available as a couch. now i have a table, 2 (!) chairs, and a yo. my life has gotten immeasureably better.
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