Comments on: Black Friday

By: Michael L. Moore

Michael L. Moore — Sat, 16 Jan 2016 14:50:59 +0000

Our electric oven died on Christmas Eve morning a few years ago, 9 or 10 hours before our pastor was due to come over for her annual meal with us. The stove top still worked, but on Christmas day we had to bake our leg of lamb at church (a block away) and truck it back to the house when ready. Christmas Eve is always pierogies and borscht and non-oven items, except for baked Brie, which changes its state the wrong way when microwaved (think tasty cheese-flavored grease, with raspberry jam on top.) But it’s ok if the pastor’s a chow hound and laps up Brie grease like a new delicacy….

By: Allie

Allie — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 20:50:56 +0000

GARY!!!!

By: Kim

Kim — Sun, 29 Nov 2015 13:58:44 +0000

I deeply love the earnest professionals of this world. Other people that I love: the guy at the coffee cart who is always cool and kind, and makes sure I don’t miss my bus. I love the clerk at the gas station who always asks me how I’m doing, and always means it. I love the old men at the local hardware store who were either all fired or retired after the store came under new ownership. They didn’t help me much because they’re all a little bit sexist, but you could tell that they cared a lot about hardware. And now they’ve got some 19 year-old who clearly doesn’t give a shit.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Sat, 28 Nov 2015 20:12:50 +0000

Our fridge died something like three days before christmas last year, so I know these feels very well. (It got fixed and did not require appliance-buying. We did have to deal with a dead 70-y.o. furnace for a full month though!)

Also, a real person named Gary for real! DEEP HILARITY