We stopped going to our local Olive Garden for workday lunches for the same reason.  You walk in the door, the place isn't even half full and they tell you it's a 15 minute wait.  As we walked back to our car on our way to Applelbee's for lunch instead we seek three or four wait staff headed in from the parking lot and...more

I read that one too quick.  At first I thought you ate 80 biscuits!

Many of you sound like my snobby little sister.  She wouldn't be caught dead eating at Red Lobster or Olive Garden.  But she just LOVES Capital Grille.  Talks it up so good.  "It's locally owned, you know."   Boy, did I ever have fun bursting her bubble when I told her the same company that owns Red Lobster and Oli...more

My wife used to shop at our local JC Penney store all the time.  Now she never goes.   Penney would send her something in the mail almost every day.  Sometimes two or even three mailings in a single day.  Like the article said, she always wait for the best deal before shopping.   It took Penney a long time to g...more

Software made in America?  Read the names on Adobe's Photoshop Elements credits on the About screen.   Although the companies may be headquartered in the US, much of the develompent work for commercial software products is done offshore.

"... it took 21 years to reach the first million miles, and another 15 to reach the two-million mark ..."   So that means he drove the last 1,000,000 miles in the last ten years.  That works out to over 270 miles a day, every day.  Hmmm...

Kraft Foods.  Kraft Snacks.  Problem solved.  Oh, wait, they want to have an international flair.  Kraft Snacks International.

Car tones!  (c) 2011 by Me

Like Kenny Rogers always said, "It's the wood that makes it good!"