So anyway...
Aug. 25th, 2020 09:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rain_gryphonSo, that whole "green energy" thing is really fashionable and sexy, and makes everyone feel all virtuous and superior. Until, of course, you actually have to start sitting in the dark. You might miss a TV show!! You can't even run the AC!
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The small tractor's engine has siezed. Out of action until next week, it appears. The sorrow is upon me.
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This prior weekend was to have been the one where I'd chance eating out again. The State Fair (where even without the risk of contagion, the food is bad for you), and the long-delayed Indianapolis Five Hundred. I was quite looking forward to eating a massively overpriced bratwurst with mustard and onions at the Speedway, watching everything come to life, as the Parade of Bands passed by. Both of those fell through, of course. I've waited six months, and I'll prolly wait another six now.
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Some of the current advertising promotions that are being run are... desperate-sounding. Subway, in particular, is running their usual "$5 footlong" deal, except that this time, you have to install their app on your phone, AND you have to buy two sandwiches to get the price break. I understand that they want people to come back, but dragooning you into hauling along a bonus customer AND installing the app is just a bit much. I'll pass. Maybe when they run the deal again next summer, provided that it's under the normal terms, I'll eat there again. I'm just not feeling much of a sense of loss.
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The small tractor's engine has siezed. Out of action until next week, it appears. The sorrow is upon me.
*****
This prior weekend was to have been the one where I'd chance eating out again. The State Fair (where even without the risk of contagion, the food is bad for you), and the long-delayed Indianapolis Five Hundred. I was quite looking forward to eating a massively overpriced bratwurst with mustard and onions at the Speedway, watching everything come to life, as the Parade of Bands passed by. Both of those fell through, of course. I've waited six months, and I'll prolly wait another six now.
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Some of the current advertising promotions that are being run are... desperate-sounding. Subway, in particular, is running their usual "$5 footlong" deal, except that this time, you have to install their app on your phone, AND you have to buy two sandwiches to get the price break. I understand that they want people to come back, but dragooning you into hauling along a bonus customer AND installing the app is just a bit much. I'll pass. Maybe when they run the deal again next summer, provided that it's under the normal terms, I'll eat there again. I'm just not feeling much of a sense of loss.
