I got exactly what was listed, and I don’t shop at a high end grocery story either. The only thing “premade” was the cup of soup and that wasn’t hot, it was potato soup out of a refrigerated section and I only got it because that particular potato soup is banger.

Unless you want to consider a loaf of bread premade :)

I’m a millennial and I know how to cook, but I absolutely hate it, and food is so expensive. I live alone, so either I eat the same meal for a week straight or seem to waste half the ingredients for a meal. I started using a restaurant that does a meal prep service and I can buy 10 dinners for ~$75. They’re all healthy-ish, give me dinners for 2 weeks, and all I have to do is take them from the freezer and heat them up in the microwave. In contrast, last time I went to the grocery store I bought 2 limes, 5 lemons, a loaf of bread, a cup of soup, and a bag of pretzels and it cost over $30.

That’s why it’s so dangerous to take nitroglycerin (a vasodilator given for angina and cardiac related chest pain) if you’ve taken ED drugs, because of the mechanism of how they also cause vasodilation. It can easily kill you. When we give nitro we always have to ask if patients have taken anything like Viagra in the last 24-48 hours and we always have to be clear that we’re asking because if you have and we give you nitro we could kill you, so please just be honest.

Hey why not, I’ll bite.

I’m walking through the woods next to a creek in a place I used to go as a kid. It’s deep in the woods, there’s not supposed to be anything around. I come across a porta potty tipped over on its side and half covered by brush. Weird, what the hell is this doing out here? I keep walking and start coming across abandoned digging equipment with badging on it that shows it belongs to the federal government. Everything is overgrown and no one is around, but it shouldn’t be here and I’m getting this really bad feeling because it’s been years since I was here but none of this stuff was here then and what was the government doing in the woods here, it’s just woods? I cross the creek and am walking on the other side, still next to it but up on a hill a little bit, still in the woods. The creek is gentle and shallow, only a few feet deep. I keep walking, and in the middle of the creek is a huge square, about 10 feet by 10 feet, with metal sides that are just high enough to keep the water from going into it. The entire bottom is a grate, and I can see from where I am at that it’s designed to raise up and below there’s a circular staircase going deep into the ground. Suddenly the bad feeling I have turns into pure terror. This is what the digging equipment was for, but what the hell did they do? Why is there a staircase in the middle of the creek? Where does it go? Why is it in the middle of these woods, where there’s not even a road or even a proper path anywhere close, and why not have it next to the creek instead of in the creek where it would flood anytime it rained and the water level rose? Part of me wants to go over and look down the staircase, and the other part of me wants to run away, because even though it looks abandoned, it just feels wrong and I’m so terrified for some reason. The dream ended with me wading through the creek to stand over the grate looking down the staircase as it winded down into the dark. I couldn’t see the bottom but I could hear machinery far below.

I don’t shop at Walmart, but last I looked they closed at 9 or 10. The grocery store closest to me is open til 11. It’s way more convenient to just go there, even if it is a little more expensive. I miss stores being open 24-7.

Work in EMS. Some guy tried to get my number while I was driving to the hospital with him in the passenger seat and my paramedic, his girlfriend, and sick baby in the back of the ambulance.