Thank you Lain!

Old British person here, I was always taught double quotation marks for speech and single quotation marks for actually quoting something.

Late Friday evening at the checkout there’s three of us in the queue. Guy at the front has two frozen pizzas, guy number 2 has a bottle of Vodka, guy number 3 (me), has a bottle of wine. None of us have used a divider, after all I’m not paying for his vodka and he’s not going to buy my wine.

We’re joined by a woman with a trolley full of chaos and she asks me if she can go in front as she’s in a hurry.

“Sure, but I’ve only got this” she sees the other two singletons and grumbles. Then she notices the lack of dividers and shouts “WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE???” and proceeds to SLAM down dividers between us.

From then on, I never use dividers, just to see who in the queue is likely to erupt.

I was looking to see if this had been posted! A fascinating and essential look at how our modern civilization came to be.

thank mr skeltal

I was 15 when I first got my glasses. I walked out of the opticians to the bus stop and was stunned that I could actually see and READ the number of the bus approaching from 500 yards away and not when it arrived at the stop.

I used to work in a large manufacturing complex and two of us would walk around with clip boards pointing and taking “notes”. If anyone would ask what was going on, we’d say we were carrying out random health and safety inspections.