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Andrea Delden

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Andrea Delden • upvoted an item 2 days ago

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My own grandmother specified which of the children and grandchildren should get which of the family recipes, and somehow felt the need to include commentary about why certain decisions were made. One recipe was this Prohibition era recipe for beer which I knew my uncle, also a home brewer, wanted, but she left it to me, with the comment that "I know you wanted it, Teddy, but she has the second-best penmanship of the girls and will make you a copy." And then like eight pages later, in among the specific descriptions of her vast collection of romance novels (really,) was a line: "And [specific Jude Devereaux title] to Spidey, who will please subtract about half the hops before she copies the beer recipe for her Uncle Teddy so that any of us can drink it. Our Jon had his IPA last summer and just about died." Uncle Jon just about burst into tears laughing and Uncle Teddy had long since left the room because he has no f***s whatsoever to give about romance novels. Uncle Jon, of course, was still in the room because there was also still Yuengling. And no, I have no idea how she got this will done. My guess is she wrote it herself and the law students who come to her independent-living building signed off on it. It was...elaborate, that's for sure. Total value of the estate was well under eight thousand dollars, so it was mostly a funny last letter from Grandma.

Andrea Delden • upvoted an item 1 week ago

30 Unbelievably Strange Encounters With Random Strangers That These People Just Can't Forget About

Nothing weird about that at all. I'm pretty sure that if I'd been in a completely pointless war in which I'd seen all my 20-year-old buddies shot dead, become addicted to heroin, or both for no reason that anyone could explain, and then came home and had to watch the next generations waste their youth in the exact same way, AND THEN ended up having to deal with fat c***s who work 9-5 juggling order forms for frozen beefburgers deciding they could borrow some country points by interrupting me whenever they felt like it to tell me they "appreciated my service" as though my entire surviving cohort wasn't starving on the streets hiding under bins because of untreated PTSD, then I too would have developed a robust "Pay up or f**k off" approach to those timewasting milquetoasts.

Andrea Delden • upvoted 26 items 1 week ago

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in the dollar store by the hollywood theater in portland oregon, (its like 20 miles from my house) i was buying some soda when i saw a guy in a "vietnam veteran" jacket. i, being the patriotic m**********r that i am, said that i appreciated his service. then he said "that will be $100". i thought he was joking. he was not. i did not have $100, and i said to him as much. he said "well give me anything you have." i gave him five cents, as i only carry what i need to buy stuff on me, and that was the change. he just walked away without thanking me. it was weird as all hell.