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wfudkn said:
I think one or two of you live in Dallas. Any recs on dinner, preferably not too far from University Park? I'm heading there on Thursday for a funeral (fuck you cancer) and need something for that night. I grew up in Dallas but haven't lived there since '93 and haven't been since probably '02, so I really have no idea where anything is.
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Sorry to hear that my man. How do you feel about French? Toulouse on Knox is pretty good. Highland Park Village has several average options like Honor Bar. There is also a strip next to SMU that has a bunch of places.
 
cookoutdeac said:
i think of it as you can spend money to get that time back for yourself..

eg insta-carting the order so you don't have to spend time in store dealing with general populace, then just going on a better and longer walk that's not bounded by the need to get somewhere
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We started ordering groceries during the pandemic and that has carried over. I pick them up every Tuesday. It costs money obvi, but saves us both a good bit of time.
 
cookoutdeac said:
god i wish going to the grocery store were as fun as doing quests

instead its just an hour of dodging mouth breathers and waiting in checkout lines w/ people who are incapable of assisting the cashier in any capacity, would rather spend money to avoid that AND get my time back to do what I want like play Skyrim instead
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People who have a giant cart full of 75 items in the self checkout are absolutely triggering the fuck out of me lately.
 
Also Harris Teeter now will regularly only have 1-2 checkout lanes open even during busy hours because nobody wants to work. THANKS JOE BRANDON
 
cookoutdeac said:
i think of it as you can spend money to get that time back for yourself..

eg insta-carting the order so you don't have to spend time in store dealing with general populace, then just going on a better and longer walk that's not bounded by the need to get somewhere
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We do a pick up order; saves a least an hour a week not having to be in the store. Trade-offs are that sometimes you get produce you wouldn't have picked yourself, but overall its a huge benefit for us to continue with it until the summer farmers markets start back up.
 
Time is money is relevant to people that wait in line for Black Friday sales for hours at a time.
 
When we were at the store last week to grab a few items there were at least 8 employees wandering around and they had one checkout line open with 10+ people in line, and then the four self checkout spots. I was triggered for sure
 
leftcoastdeac said:
We do a pick up order; saves a least an hour a week not having to be in the store. Trade-offs are that sometimes you get produce you wouldn't have picked yourself, but overall its a huge benefit for us to continue with it until the summer farmers markets start back up.
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The produce is usually terribly selected.
 
We've been blitzing through the Thug Kitchen cookbook lately. Some tasty options that are pretty healthy.
 
dartsndeacs said:
I mean it’s pretty remarkable to me how little people value their time. Usually it works out to spending $5 to save like 30 minutes
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I kinda get this and it's a calculation I make from time to time but then I also end up on instagram watching comedians make jokes about sex for 30 minutes and it's pretty clear I don't really value my time that much after all
 
deacfan78 said:
What about those people that wait in line at Costco to save maybe $0.10 per gallon? I'll just go pay a couple extra dollars and be in and out in less than 5 minutes.
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yeah, i definitely do this calculation and never get costco gas
 
Wakeforest22890 said:
The constant mental negotiations with myself regarding life in six minute increments and the value of those six minutes is a major reason I GTFO the legal world. And the partner who I got assigned to who loved to regale me with tales of how back in his day he was HAPPY to bill 3k hours a year and sleep on his office floor and didn't understand why I couldn't reschedule my wife's birthday dinner to spend another six hours working on our securities fraud filing
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Nobody wants to work anymore
 
Deacsfan27 said:
The produce is usually terribly selected.
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They also make a lot of mind boggling substitutions. We paid $100 for a year of unlimited pickup at Harris Teeter during covid but it’s just gone way downhill. They don’t even reach out anymore when an item isn’t available.
 
my main beef with the grocery delivery/pickup apps is that it seems like a classic example of a race to the bottom

and now i gotta go to the grocery store with a bunch of people staring at their phones and bumping into everything now
 
TownieDeac said:
Nobody wants to work anymore
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Yeah it was a little frustrating overall as the managing partner who I was hired to work for had personal issues ongoing and wasn't in the office as much. Around the same time a new partner came on board with his own corporate business book (not an area I was interested in practicing in nor one that ever came up during the interview process) and as the low man on the totem I got assigned to him. Oh well all's well that ends well. Now I drink fun wine and spend my day making social media posts while counting bottles in the basement. Best of all: more time to talk to you nerds
 
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