Bertha Venation
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Fri Feb-20-04 02:51 PM
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just paid $7.20 for pasta salad, crab soup, and a soda - ask me anything |
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I'll start:
1. Are you an idiot who can't control her spending?
Yes.
2. Do you work at a place with a hideously-overpriced in-house cafe, and where, no matter where you go, you will spend $10 a day for lunch if you don't brown-bag it?
Yes.
3. Why then don't you take your lunch to work?
See question one.
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Fri Feb-20-04 02:52 PM
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Bertha Venation
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Fri Feb-20-04 02:54 PM
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Fri Feb-20-04 02:52 PM
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2. Have you tried crystal meth? |
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I swear you'll never have to worry about eating for a long time:silly:
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Bertha Venation
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Fri Feb-20-04 02:54 PM
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6. no, but I've tried crystal lite |
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Fri Feb-20-04 02:53 PM
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3. I spent $6.95 + tax and tip for a pile of gyro meat, rice, hummus, salad |
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and pita. :9
Lunch is my one treat for the day. Breakfast and lunch are usually home-cooked or at least home-prepared (even if it's opening a package.)
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Fri Feb-20-04 02:55 PM
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8. mmmmm, yum, GOPisEVIL. I LOVE middle-eastern fair... |
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I like to spend on lunch, too. Dinner for me can easily be a salad or even hot cereal on cold winter nights.... Just not so important anymore (and, I find I'm losing weight as a result).
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Fri Feb-20-04 02:58 PM
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10. That's the kind of lunch I miss. |
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Back home I could drive to anywhere in a 10-mile radius and get any kind of good, cheap lunch, and get back with time to spare. One of the things I miss about So. Cali.
Here I have to pay $180 a month to park my car two blocks from the office. I refuse to drive in this town if I can avoid it, so if I want a decent lunch, I have to walk to Georgetown -- but it'll cost $20. I can spend $10 in the cafe downstairs or the cafeteria across the street, or go cheap & eat hot dogs. I don't mind eating hot dogs but they are soooo bad for me; I have no business eating those.
So I should bring my lunch. I am too damned lazy to pack it.
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Fri Feb-20-04 03:01 PM
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14. Too bad I'm in a food coma right now, though. |
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Fri Feb-20-04 03:26 PM
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20. Oooh... gyros and hummus... |
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Two things I love, and haven't had in a really long time. You're making me hungry!
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Fri Feb-20-04 02:54 PM
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4. Are you in Bawlmer or DeeCee, Hon? |
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Fri Feb-20-04 03:06 PM
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16. Then that's 'bout right (n/t) |
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Fri Feb-20-04 02:55 PM
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7. It must have had gold in it! |
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My mother used to say that about expensive eats. :hi:
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Fri Feb-20-04 03:01 PM
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15. If she was talking about blue crabs, your mom was right. |
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Mmm.... Chesapeake Bay blue crabs . . . yummy.
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Fri Feb-20-04 02:55 PM
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9. Three questions: 1) What part of Washington, DC do you work in; |
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Edited on Fri Feb-20-04 02:56 PM by unidentifiedbassplay
2) why is your lunch so cheap; and
3) Do you have one of those little FreedomPay key-tag thingies that ovrdraws when you least expect it? and
4) Aren't you lucky if you answered "No" to Question 3.
On edit: typoes. Here, typisttypisttypist....
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Fri Feb-20-04 03:00 PM
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1. Foggy Bottom/Georgetown
2. Cheap? It's too damned much for my budget.
3. Nope.
4. I guess so . . . ? :)
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Fri Feb-20-04 02:59 PM
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12. That seems fairly cheep to me--but then i spend way too much on food |
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and am in NYC. well, also, i'm thinking "hey, crab soup--that sounds gourmet! Seafood! not cheap!" maybe if you'd said "minestrone" i would've had more sticker shock. or maybe i just really want some crab soup...
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Fri Feb-20-04 03:08 PM
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17. I hereby retract my lunch bitch, because I just tasted the crab soup and |
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I think I'm coming.
Oh. My. God.
This soup was made by Dom, the lovelorn chef of my country song ("Why Do I Have To Be Married and Why Do You Have To Be Gay?").
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Fri Feb-20-04 03:09 PM
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18. I'll have what she's having. |
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I figured someone would make some such reference.
Did you know the woman who spoke that line is Billy Crystal's mom? jes' a li'l trivia there fer ya....
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