Craigslis... Again

OK, so I was giving away something on Craigslist the other day and I got a whole bunch of e-mails. This didn't surprise me cause hey, its free. who doesn't want free stuff. I offered to meet people downtown if they wanted or they would have to come pick it up in Crystal City. Some people said they wanted it and then backed out for some reason or another. But some of these people were askin me to like meet them 20-30 min from my place. I'm like I'm not gonna drive an hour out of my way to give you something FREE. I hate to be a dick to people that don't deserve it but these people are asking me to take a lot of my time to give them something for free. The way I look at it is that I am doing them a favor by offering something for them that they can use. I could sell it, I could throw it out. But no, I am trying to help someone else out and give them something that I don't need anymore. Would it be that hard for them to come meet me in downtown. I might add that downtown is totally out of my way home, but its not too far out of my way, if its close to the metro its cool. I don't mind going a few min out of my way during my commute, but to drive like 40 min isn't worth it to me - id rahter throw it out. ok anyway thats all I got.

If someone is giving something out for free on Craigslist don't expect them to do you a favor to deliever it to you. They are already doing you a favor by giving it out for free.

Im kinda drunk so this post prob makes no sense and has a lot of typos.

-DCR

Bathroom Etiquette

I read a post this morning about talking on the phone while in the bathroom and it got me thinking about all the things that people do in the bathroom that bother me.

- People who talk to you. It's one thing to have a conversation going when you walk into the bathroom and just keep talking a little, but the people who come in and start talking to you while you're pissing... just don't do that.

- The people who can't seem to shut the water all the way off. Its not difficult, turn the knob till its off.

- Leaving paper towels on the floor. If one falls, pick it up. Don't cause your laziness to make the bathroom look like shit for everyone else.

- How hard is it to stand close enough to the toilet so you don't piss on the floor?

- What’s up with the people who just rinse their hands off and don't use soap? Are you trying to trick people into thinking you wash your hands? At least the people who walk right out aren't faking anything.

- OK, I realize that you may not like your job, but don't leave for 20 min everyday and go sit on the toilet and read. (A guy I used to work with did this)

- When there are other options, don’t use the urinal next to someone. That’s like off limits.

- Don't touch someone while they are peeing. (this hasn't happened to me, but I'm sure someone has done it)

- When you finish reading your paper after you shit please take it with you or throw it out. We don't need your newspaper making the bathroom messy.

- FLUSH. Especially when you take a shit. Its not tough, and its fuckin gross not to.

- Don't talk to the person next to you in the stall, and don't carry on conversations with people outside the stall when you're takin a shit.

- Please stop making those weird noises. Gross.

-DCR

Random Blog

I found this blog today on DCblogs.com. It is one of the best and funniest blogs I have ever read. It's tough to read it at work and not laugh my ass off, but that might be a dead giveaway that I',m not doing work considering the shit that I have to do today isn't funny at all... I think I'll have it all read by the end of the day. Whoever writes it is one funny fucker.

Craigslist

I recently discovered the Rants and Raves section on Craigslist. It is one of the best time wasters I have come accross. Its almost better than FARK for wasting time. OK thats all I have for today.

Addition To My Apartment

When I was a kid I always remember wanting a pool table, but never really had a room big enough for it. Or I guess enough money to get one either… Just recently me and my roommates rearranged the apartment and found that we had a lot of free space in our living room and we thought it would be a good idea to get a pool table. Within a week, after lots of browsing on Craigslist, we had a pool table. Its pretty nice one, 3 piece slate, about 7 ft long. The only problem with it is that 3 of the bumpers are kinda dead – Which isn’t a big deal because it’s not all that expensive to replace them. We’re having a “party” towards the end of September so we’ll need to get them replaced before then, but they don’t hurt play that much for now.

I have to say though that even after having the table for a few weeks – I still haven’t gotten any better. I know how to play, where I need to hit the balls and all that, I just can’t seem to carry it out. That’s ok because I can play for free whenever I want. Someday I’ll get better…

This past weekend me and one of my roommates played about 12 games of 9-ball and then decided to go out to the bars. Got to this one place which has a bunch of pool tables – sure enough, we played pool. Not really sure what the point of going out was if we just did the same thing that we could have done at home. For free. I guess that playing new people and just hanging out in a bar is more fun that sitting home playing pool. It’s just so damn expensive to go out. $3 for a pint of Miller Light, while not awful, isn’t a great price considering you can get a case for $15. Just the price of going out I guess.

One of my favorite places to go out is this place in Adams Morgan called Asulym. It’s a really laid back place (no dress code at all). But the best part of it is that you can go on Sat nights at 5 and get a pint of High Life for 25 cents. It goes up 50 cents every hour ‘till it reaches $3. But by the time that happens I’m usually drunk so I don’t need much more. I enjoy going there to pregame and then heading somewhere else. It’s like the only place I know of that its cheaper to go out and drink than it is to stay at home.

On a totally unrelated note – the stores around me seem to have stopped carrying Coke Zero. This is kinda disappointing to me because now I’ve gotta either drink Diet Coke or go around and find a store that sells my Coke Zero. I think I’ll find a store that sells it, cause Diet Coke tastes bad.

-DCR