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Carp Dime: New Tales from Old Navy: A Missed Opportunity
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A view of life through sarcasm-colored glasses. Saturday, November 29, 2014. New Tales from Old Navy: A Missed Opportunity. It's nine hours of my day and I'll get some extra money out of it. Oh, and the powers that be provided free food and beverage for the break times. Not too shabby. Well, I'd like to tell you that I unbridled my tongue and spewed forth my brand of brutal honesty. It would have been a perfect opportunity, right? Probably, but would it have really mattered? If you morons would stop show...
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Carp Dime: Omelet Shoppe Confessions: Freebie
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A view of life through sarcasm-colored glasses. Saturday, March 15, 2008. Omelet Shoppe Confessions: Freebie. After a long wait and several walking trips around the dining area, I sat at a table with two of my roommates, Mark and Dereck, and our friend Kristy. Gertie took our orders and (eventually) brought us our extremely greasy food. Being the good Bluefield College (a Baptist institution) students that we were, we said a prayer for the food. But our prayer was interrupted. At this piont, our laughter...
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Carp Dime: Cujo
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A view of life through sarcasm-colored glasses. Monday, October 27, 2014. Judging by the last time I used the "Read Anything Good Lately" tag on the blog, one would assume I had not picked up a book since December of 2012. Maybe I figured, if the Mayans were right about the end of the world, why read anymore? Try as I might, I can't erase that one from my memory. You can keep your Jane Austen. Which was published just a few years ago. Keep your pants on, people! So anyway, Cujo. You don't often hear abou...
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Carp Dime: Starting Over
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A view of life through sarcasm-colored glasses. Thursday, January 01, 2015. Hey gang. Here's the thing. I've started a new blog. Now, don't look at me that way. Please, this is hard enough for me. I don't know if I can handle the guilt trip in your eyes. It's not you. It's me. It really is me. This new blog can be found over at The Confusing Middle. And bookmark the new address. But you can keep coming back here if you want to know my thoughts about books and movies. And if you've enjoyed my atte...Just ...
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Carp Dime: Legends of the Bank Teller: Episode XIV
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A view of life through sarcasm-colored glasses. Saturday, April 12, 2008. Legends of the Bank Teller: Episode XIV. I try to be a patient person. Though, according to Yoda, there is no try. There are situations that I face where I am either patient or not. And if I'm having difficulty being patient, I fake it pretty well for the sake of the customer. Because, as we all know, the customer is always right. Why did I apologize to this woman? And why does the bank charge that kind of money? New to Carp Dime?
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Carp Dime: You've Got Questions
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A view of life through sarcasm-colored glasses. Thursday, January 09, 2014. I asked for questions tonight on the Facebook and the Twitter. I was hoping it would go a little better than the last time I asked for questions here on the blog. Back then I received exactly one question. As I begin this post, I've only received one question. But it's a quality question, so let's get started. Rachel asks, " Desert Island Movies. What 5 movies you'd bring with you on a deserted island and why? Or is it VHS? Just ...
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Carp Dime: Three Shades of Gray
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A view of life through sarcasm-colored glasses. Thursday, October 23, 2014. Three Shades of Gray. I guess I need to come up with new aliases for my friends when I write about them on the blog. The Charlatan hasn't lived in Charlotte for years. Subway hasn't actually been a sandwich artist for will over a decade. And, as of this past weekend, the Other Single Guy isn't single anymore. Thankfully, it turned out to be not so big a deal. None of the guests laughed or made inappropriate comments when the ...
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Carp Dime: Ten Years Ago...
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A view of life through sarcasm-colored glasses. Wednesday, December 10, 2014. Ladies. Gentlemen. Carp Dimers of all ages. Welcome to my tenth anniversary blog post. Ten years ago today, I wrote my very first blog post on what used to be called "The Single Guy." That very first blog post was called Self-Titled Debut. And it was about my life at that point, as a single man at age 24. I guess, in the last decade, not much has changed. Then again, maybe a lot has changed. Well, I did keep that promise for a ...
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Carp Dime: Carp Dime
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A view of life through sarcasm-colored glasses. Saturday, November 01, 2008. But if you've been reading my blog in the last year, you'll notice that there's not a lot of mention of the trials and tribulations of the single guy. I don't date, so I can't do a lot of writing about those particular pitfalls. I don't really emote too often, so love doesn't really enter the equation either. So what have I been writing about? If she, in fact, meant to say carpe diem. Whatever its meaning, it is now the title fo...
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Carp Dime: Gone Girl
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A view of life through sarcasm-colored glasses. Monday, February 09, 2015. Sometimes, books come along and I have no interest in reading them until I found out just how popular they are. Then the peer pressure gets to me and I have to pick them up. That's how it happened for me with the Harry Potter. Book four in that series was near its release before I first picked up Sorcerer's Stone. This is your last chance. If you haven't read or seen Gone Girl. Okay you were warned. I knew there would be a huge tw...