Mark Twain wrote a short story called “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven,” in which everyone, on arrival, gets a harp and a pair of wings. And everyone discovers they have no use for the harp or the wings, and discards them.
Went to a Thai restaurant we like a week or so ago. We’ve moved past the bit at the bottom that calculates your tips for you. Now they just have a couple of lines where you check off the amount you want to leave. And of course, the lowest amount is 18%.
They’ve been ratcheting up the “suggested” amount for years. When we saw a show last week, we got a couple of cans of hard cider. On top of the $12 per can charge there was a line for the “suggested” tip – for handing me a couple of cans.
There’s a blowback coming. People are going to say “screw you” and stop leaving tips entirely.
The word “successfully” is almost always redundant in a sentence. If she completed her quest, she was by definition successful; you can’t UNSUCCESSFULLY complete a quest.
This strip is brilliant. Psychotic Bucky riffing on Robert Frost’s classic poem, “Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening,” “the darkest evening of the year,” i.e. January 21. I share it on my Facebook page every January 21.
How would you UNSUCCESSFULLY attend 135 concerts?
Pro tip: you can almost always leave the words “successfully” and “unsuccessfully” out of a sentence without changing its meaning.