Good Timing

We have one of those honour system snack boxes in the lunch room at work. Basically, a box full of chips, candy bars and gum that you can buy for a $1.

This morning I saw a new candy bar I hadn't tried, that looked tasty (peanut butter Twix bar - It was worth the dollar, but not worth the seven WW points it cost me). I grabbed the bar, intending to pay later because I only had a twenty on me.

So now it's lunch time and I'm back in the break room. I look down at the box and notice it's getting pretty empty. I think to myself "Hmm. Better pay my debt, the guy's probably going to come in any time now". I pull the change box out and make change for myself, leaving the twenty and keeping $19.

I microwave my lunch and thirty seconds later the guy shows up to swap the boxes out. And I prevented myself from being a no-good deadbeat by less then a minute. Yay me.

Lakritz on Harper

Via Grog's blog, I read this short little piece from Naomi Lakritz and her opinion of Stephen Harper.

I don't like the good old boys club mentality of the so-called Calgary School of right-wingers who rub elbows with Harper. There's only room for the rich and for big business in their world. Women, the poor, the disabled, low-income workers and seniors don't figure in.

As evilscientist said in Grog's comments section, "You know you're in trouble as a Conservative when the Herald starts printing stuff like that".