I don’t know if it bugs you but TV in public places really annoys me. You are talking with someone and their eyes are constantly being distracted by the warm glow of the ever present TVs. If you have kids you will really know what I mean as they can’t pry their eyes away for a moment.
Enter TV B gone!! An universal remote that can turn off any and all TVs. I got mine here:
Last night we had dinner at a nice Vietnamese restaurant that had a few TVs blaring away in front of us. One press of a button later no TV. The staff eventually put it back on but you can just turn it off again.
What a pleasure!
Everybody’s kids say all kinds of words in really funny ways. We all have heard kids say pisgettie for spaghetti or efelent for elephant. Here are some of the ones that the kids in my life have said:
My family just got back from 2 weeks in Manzanillo, Mexico. We had a very pleasant stay and the resort we stayed at was really top notch. When we were there limes were available at each meal. I love limes. I love sqeezing them on fish, papaya, watermelon, beans, guacamole and all kinds of other things. After squeezing may pieces of limes I realized that all the limes that were presented in the dining room were from the outer two thrids of the lime.
Imagine a lime sliced into three part so you are left with two smaller ends and a piece in the middle that has a ring of peel around the edge. The small end pieces are a cup of peel with some lime inside. Perfect for squeezing the juice from. Where were these other larger more difficult to sqeeze middle middle pieces?
So I asked a waiter where these middle pieces where. He explainded that they throw these pieces in the garbage.
“Really” I asked, “What a waste.”
He said other places he worked at used these unloved middle pieces of lime to make lemonade. This to me seems more sensible.