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1. about 16 hours ago on Luann

   Luann should call Gunther to tutor Alan!!

2. about 16 hours ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   Yes – Humpty Dumpty – Those stores have been gone from Oklahoma for many years. I don’t remember Oklahoma ever having a Piggly Wiggly – at least not in the Oklahoma City area.

3. about 16 hours ago on Luann

   Unknown information about a guy that Bernice is “interested” in. Anyone would do the same with their BFF!!

4. 1 day ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   (couldn’t post it all at once!)

   Though it’s hard to picture a modern grocery store without carts, shoppers at the time were hesitant to embrace them. The option caused anxiety for men, who saw wheeling a cart as effeminate, and women bristled at the similarities between a grocery cart and a baby stroller.“Instead of giving up, [Goldman] hired models of both sexes and different ages to push things around in his store, pretending to be shopping,” writes Wired. The gimmick ended up paying off—a good reminder that influencer marketing is nothing new

   Double U,(x2) dot thetakeout dot com-slash-history-of-the-shopping-cart-invention-timeline-design-1849814030/

5. 1 day ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   Actually – It was in Oklahoma City -- The modern shopping cart was invented by Sylvan Goldman, a grocer from Oklahoma City. According to the Oklahoma Historical Society, “While living in California, Sylvan and [his brother] Alfred were intrigued by a new type of grocery store that offered all products under one roof—the supermarket. The brothers returned to Oklahoma in order to bring this new way of shopping to their home state.”

   While running the Humpty Dumpty grocery chain in the 1930s, the problem Goldman encountered with the new large-format stores was that grocery baskets still limited the amount of products customers could pick up as they walked the aisles. He started fiddling with the design of the basket, eventually landing on a potential solution when he placed it on a folding chair

6. 1 day ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   And the hourly wage was $1.25!!

7. 3 days ago on Pickles

   MeYowwl !!

8. 7 days ago on Luann

   “deliberately withholding that fact when he asked her to meet up with him,”

   Scared, rushing to get a sick woman and five kids in a car, trying to determine the best way to handle the situation, probably while driving — Sometimes you just don’t have the luxury of thinking a solution all the way through to the end. Maybe Mom is passing out and he is trying to keep her conscious while rushing around, herding kids, carrying Mom to the car. I guess I am the same push over as Bernice in giving him the benefit of the doubt in his “ulterior motive”!

9. 7 days ago on Luann

   “What’s really going on is “taking advantage of an acquaintance and her host family”.

   A son is worried about his Mother and is taking her to the emergency room — There are five children under 12 who need someone to care for them in an emergency situation. Asking a friend to help, when you apparently don’t have any other family or friends close by to help – I don’t see that as taking advantage. Also, I would not consider Tara “close” family or friend, and Piro probably doesn’t have the trust in her that he does in Bernice.

10. 7 days ago on Luann

    “It’s not their responsibility to provide help.”

    It is an emergency situation. Piro came up with the best solution he could think of at the time. He’s not asking them to become foster parents.