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We have played the Lego games series and the Sonics are proving to be too difficult for him. Any other suggestions?

I have some blackberries at home and I don't know what to do with them. They are kind of too tart to just eat. If I put a little bit of sugar on them will they make their own juice, like strawberries will?

Or, do you know of a quick thing to make with them? I don't want to make a pie.

Thanks

With the economy being so bad, are you now more likely to boycott businesses with bad or poor customer service?

I'm getting so sick of businesses with the attitude that THEY are doing ME a favor when I frequent them. Their customer service reps are a joke, they never want to help, they are quick to get an attitude or they just act like zombies doing their jobs-no eye contact, no smiles, nothing.

I'm now making it a point to call businesses and tell them about poor or rude service I had. If they don't fix the problem, I stop going to the business or any of its chains. I figure that if everyone did the same perhaps we would start getting better service. Maybe companies would start paying a decent wage and get decent employees. Right now they only care about the bottom line, maybe if we started affecting that bottom line things would change.

Do you agree? Are you now boycotting businesses? Or does it not bother you and you figure it's just the way things are?

I would like to find one that isn't too crowded. I'm willing to drive up to an hour and a half away from the city. I've read a little about Elk Neck State Park. They say they have a river you can go swimming in, that sounds great, but is it too crowded.

Thanks for any information you have. Even if it's about a crowded beach I just want to know the different places to swim at. (a place where there is some nice scenery or places to go on a light hike, would be great, too.)

I just wanted to see where everybody stands on this issue. I mean pigtails on someone well over 21. Not in college, not young at all.

And if you say no, it's not okay, Is it ever okay, i.e. when doing outdoorsy things like hiking or at the pool? Or should pigtails only be worn by the under 21 crowd?

My job used to provide sodas for all employees. For about the last nine months sodas have been disappearing at a rapid rate; someone was taking them home. Our bosses held a meeting and asked that we be considerate when drinking them, no taking them home and try to limit the amount consumed. Another thing is that people were opening a soda, then just leaving it, and then they'd go get a different one. I agree that the privilege was totally abused. So now, management decided to stop providing sodas.

What would be a good way for the employees to raise money to buy our own soda? Should we rotate, having one person buy soda one week, then another buy soda the next? We only have about 6 or 7 regular employees. Does your company do anything similar?

I mentioned the thief because I want to know a good way to let them know that they CAN NOT take any sodas home, or I will kill them, j/k. But seriously, how can we stop them for stealing sodas again if we do start buying them?

I had to go to a mid-sized grocery store today to pick up a money order. I parked in the parcel pick up located directly outside the store. The store used to not let you take carts out in the parking lot, so you had to park there to load your groceries. You can now take carts to the parking lot, but the parcel pick up lane remains.

It was 7 a.m. and no one was in the grocery store and I knew there would be plenty of room for anyone who might have been inside and wanted to load their groceries in their car from that area.

Some guy was standing by the door and started hitting on me (in a nice way). I smiled and kept walking into the store. The store's whole side by the parcel pick up is floor to ceiling glass. So I could totally see my car and I was probably about 10 feet away from my car.

The man followed me in and started joking that I would get a ticket. The cashier had started waiting on me by that time and asked where I parked. I told her and added that my son was in

This is something that has been driving me crazy for a while. You go to a website and they tell you your password must contain an uppercase letter, a lower case letter and a number. What? And it's usually for some stupid website where you wouldn't give a crap if someone was in your account.

If I feel as though my password is secure, that should be enough. Who else hates this, too?

I have so many, but I always enjoy reading more.

Yesterday I posted a question about a situation at my job. We hired 2 new people and one accused the other of sexual harassment. I think the guy is creepy and flirty at times, but it didn't bother me. The other woman claims he touched her, nothing like that ever happened to me.

I have knowledge that this woman who is accusing the man of sexual harassment is a BIG exaggerator. I've caught her exaggerating 4 to 5 times, not about anything crucial, just random stories. She embellished a story about me once and after that I started scrutinizing everything she said.

Now the woman is giving management a he goes or I go ultimatum. I don't want to get involved. Just because she likes to embellish stories doesn't mean that she wasn't harassed. My boyfriend said that I should probably tell management about the times she's embellished stories.

She'll change the way things happened in her stories or add things that never happened, the things she said weren't vicious, just weird.

I work in a small office. We just hired two new people about 2 months ago a man and a woman. Well the woman was telling me how the new hire man was creepy and would leer at her etc. I didn't say anything about it to management, I figured if she wanted it told to them she would tell them.

Today the woman told management the man was sexually harrassing her. Inappropriate comments (she told me about those), touching her (I had no idea about that), etc.

The guy is creepy and he does hit on me, too. But I don't consider it sexual harrassment. When he hits on me I think, 'yeah, right, whatever.' and I blow it off. Management asked if I had seen anything or heard anything. I told them what she the new hire told me, but I didn't tell them about me. I don't think I should have to because I don't consider it a big deal. My coworker thinks I should speak up.

I figure the guy has dug his own grave and doesn't need my dirt on his coffin.

Your opinion?

I'm looking to learn more about the Catholic Faith, does anyone know an easy to read book with good, basic information? Something with a light, fun tone would be excellent.

I work at a Catholic Church and there are a lot of things I don't know and I'd like to have at least basic information.

Thank you.

I work at a job where most of the employees are hourly; I'm salary. I'm not part of management, my job just happens to be paid by salary and I do work in the business offices. Most of the hourly people have been leaving a little early lately, about a 1/2 hour, and getting a friend to punch them out.

I always stand around and wait by the timeclock with all the people who have to punch out and we walk out together, so I've of course noticed what's going on.

Today there is a memo out stating that anyone caught punching someone esle's timecard will result in both employees being fired.

I feel like everyone is going to assume I snitched to managment, since I'm the only person who doesn't punch out. By the time the hourly people leave I'm the only salary person left. So, of course it's going to seem like I told. Should I just say nothing or should I say I don't know how management found out. I feel like defending myself is going to make me look guilty.

What should I do?

For Mother's Day, I told my boyfriend I didn't want anything, my son is only 3 so it's not like he can do anything on his own for me. On Mother's Day my best friend called at about 10:00 and said happy Mother's Day. I told her she was the first one to say it, my boyfriend pipped up and said that he said it. I asked him when and he said when we were in still in bed. Then I asked him what I said in return and he said I didn't say anything.

Well, I think it is obvious that I didn't hear him. I stated again that I didn't hear him and he said "well, I said it." I think it sucks that he didn't at least say it again. He didn't do anything at all for me on that day. I didn't want anything material, but I could have used at least a happy Mother's Day that I could actually hear or he could have helped my son make a card or breakfast in bed or ANYTHING. For Father's Day I got him a hard to find Video game. He always spaces on days like this, am I wrong to be a little t'd off?

For Mother's Day, I told my boyfriend I didn't want anything, my son is only 3 so it's not like he can do anything on his own for me. On Mother's Day my best friend called at about 10:00 and said happy Mother's Day. I told her she was the first one to say it, my boyfriend pipped up and said that he said it. I asked him when and he said when we were in still in bed. Then I asked him what I said in return and he said I didn't say anything.

Well, I think it is obvious that I didn't hear him. I stated again that I didn't hear him and he said "well, I said it." I think it sucks that he didn't at least say it again. He didn't do anything at all for me on that day. I didn't want anything material, but I could have used at least a happy Mother's Day that I could actually hear or he could have helped my son make a card or breakfast in bed or ANYTHING. For Father's Day I got him a hard to find Video game. He always spaces on days like this, am I wrong to be a little t'd off?

I'm noticing a lot of people just hang up the phone, certainly at work. I find that really rude. Is it rude? Or am I just being uptight?

I had noticed that men hung up without saying goodbye a lot, now I'm noticing more women doing it, too.

My co-worker walked by and plopped money down on my desk. I asked him what it was for and he said he was buying me lunch today, wherever I wanted to go.

At first I thought he was joking, but he is actually serious. I thought long and hard about what I wanted to get, but I wanted only what I brought from home for lunch.

Do I give the money back? Do I offer it back? Or is that rude?

I was just reading a question about working with women. And all these women answered that they hate working with women, blah, blah, blah.

What? I don't even understand that. That sounds as stupid to me as a white person saying "I hate working with white people." What kind of sense does that make.

To all you women out there that thinks like that: You don't know ALL women. I'm not silly, I don't gossip and I'm not a hater. And none of my women friends are like that either.

Maybe you guys just need to hang around a better class of people and stop making all women look stupid with such ill-thought-out statements.

Why would someone want to make their own kind look bad? To make themselves look better? Like: 'oh guys, look at me, I'm the cool girl who hates all other women.'

If you are a women who says you hate women because they don't get along. Doesn't that make you a women that is hard to get along with? And doesn't that make you part of the problem?

Lately I have dealt with the rudest, most unhelpful 'customer service reps' ever. It's like they don't even attempt to be helpful or nice anymore. Well, that is an exaggeration. I do run across some nice people now and then, but most of them-oh boy.

And the mistakes these companies are making. I was billed incorrectly 5 times! by one company. Then they had the nerve to get an attitude with me for calling so much.

I'm not a rude person and I always understand that the person I'm talking to probably didn't create problem.

Is this just happening to me? Am I just running into some jerks. Or is this decline in service appalling to anyone else?

I'm having a debate with someone over this.

If you found a hair in your food; it's for sure not your hair, would you continue to eat the food? And think "well, it's just a hair, everyone loses multiple ones a day."

Or

Would you be totally done with it and throw all of the food out. Even if you already ate half of it, you don't plan on eating any more. And the very thought that you ate any of it makes you sick.